After witnessing the devastation done by the Boston and Paris terror attacks and being critically injured in the Brussels bombing, Mason Wells was left with third-degree burns, emotional scars, and a shaken spirit. How could a merciful Father let evil prevail? Why had Mason been saved? What did God want from him? This miraculous true story will change how you see your own struggles and teach you the true power of forgiveness, perseverance, and faith.
Trevor Maxwell Coyote shifter with an attitude Covert operator Trusts no one, especially his devastatingly beautiful new partner Alina Bosch Former CIA, newest operative on the covert team Hired to spy on her partner Motto: "Never be deceived again." Coyote shifter Trevor Maxwell is teamed up with CIA agent Alina Bosch to catch a killer. But when the mission becomes much more dangerous than they expected, they're going to have to ignore the attraction between them and learn how to trust one another to come out on the other side... X-Ops Series: Her Perfect Mate (Book 1) Her Lone Wolf (Book 2) Her Wild Hero (Book 3) Her Fierce Warrior (Book 4) Her Rogue Alpha (Book 5) Her True Match (Book 6) Her Dark Half (Book 7) What People Are Saying: "Just as fresh and fun as the first."—Booklist for Her Rogue Alpha "Sexy, smart and suspenseful—Paige Tyler just keeps getting better!"—HELENKAY DIMON, award-winning author for Her Fierce Warrior "X-Ops action continues and gets even better."—Fresh Fiction for Her Rogue Alpha
Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance. TOXIN ALERT Tactical Crime Division: Traverse City by Tyler Anne Snell After a deadly anthrax attack on Amish land, TCD’s biological weapons expert Carly Welsh must work with rancher Noah Miller to get information from the distrustful members of the community. But even their combined courage and smarts might not be enough against the sinister forces at work. COWBOY UNDER FIRE The Justice Seekers by Lena Diaz Following the death of her friend, Hayley Nash turns to former cop Dalton Lynch for help. Dalton finds working with the web expert to be an exercise in restraint—especially when it comes to keeping his hands to himself. CRIME SCENE COVER-UP The Taylor Clan: Firehouse 13 by Julie Miller Mark Taylor can put out a fire, but Amy Hall is a different kind of challenge. He’s determined to keep her safe—but she’s just as certain that she doesn’t need his protection. As they hunt down an arsonist, will they trust each other enough to surrender…before a madman burns down their world? Look for Harlequin Intrigue’s December 2020 Box Set 2 of 2, filled with even more edge-of-your seat romantic suspense! Look for 6 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Intrigue!
A winsome, beautifully written, page-turning read of a modern spiritual journey. This is the colorful story of one man's religious path that begins with a fundamentalist Baptist childhood to an adolescence in emergent church spirituality. He moves on through hipster years as a house painter and musician, then marries and enters a seminary in Wisconsin. After years of wearing a black cassock and preparing to be an Anglican priest, and his final bold decision of joining the Catholic Church, Tyler Blanski's tale does not reject suitors of religion, but seduces them. An Immovable Feast is a profound love story told with humor, wisdom and bite. A fresh breeze blows through it, one that perhaps hasn't blown through Christian conversation in a long time. Blanski reminds us that religion is not dead because it is not mortal. It is the liturgy of heaven...on earth.
Engaging education policy from kindergarten to college Author Tyler S. Branson argues that education reform initiatives in the twentieth century can be understood in terms of historical shifts in the ideas, interests, and governing arrangements that inform the teaching of writing. Today, policy regimes of “accountability” shape education reform programs such as Common Core in K-12 and Dual Enrollment in postsecondary institutions. This book reopens the conversation between policy makers and writing teachers, empirically describing the field’s institutional/historical relationship to policy and the ways teachers work on a daily basis to carry out policy. Federal and state accountability policy significantly shapes classrooms before teachers even enter them, but Branson argues the classroom is where teachers leverage disciplinary knowledge about writing to bridge, partner with, support, and sometimes resist education policies. Branson deftly blends policy critique, archival analysis, and participant observation to offer the first scholarly treatment of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Washington Task Force as well as a rare empirical study of a dual enrollment course offered in a high school. This book’s macro-and-micro-level analysis of education policy reveals how writing teachers, researchers, and administrators can strengthen their commitments to successfully teaching their students across all levels of education, while deepening their understanding of the ways education policy helps—and hinders—those commitments.
All 8 parts of this chilling, high-octane FBI serial available in this box set! Special Agent Lara Grant has finally put her life as an undercover agent in the Moretti gang behind her and started a new assignment in New York City. Until a dramatic sniper attack leaves Lara's face — and real name — all over the media. In the blink of an eye, her cover is blown, her identity exposed. Then a woman's body is found, branded with the ritual Moretti tattoo. Someone knows who Lara is…and exactly how to make her pay… This box set comprises: Tough Justice: Exposed (Part 1 of 8) by New York Times bestselling author Carla Cassidy Tough Justice: Watched (Part 2 of 8) by Tyler Anne Snell Tough Justice: Burned (Part 3 of 8) by Carol Ericson Tough Justice: Trapped (Part 4 of 8) by Gail Barrett Tough Justice: Twisted (Part 5 of 8) by Gail Barrett Tough Justice: Ambushed (Part 6 of 8) by Carol Ericson Tough Justice: Betrayed (Part 7 of 8) by Tyler Anne Snell Tough Justice: Hunted (Part 8 of 8) by Carla Cassidy
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Paige Tyler delivers a red-hot paranormal romantic suspense filled with: a fierce shifter who thinks he's too dangerous to love a determined scientist who sees the hero beneath a remote mountain town with secrets of its own and nonstop action that'll keep you on the edge of your seat! Tanner Howland is a feline hybrid—a blend of human and shifter—and a survivor of DNA experiments disguised as science. Knowing he can't fully control his ability to shift, Tanner escapes deep into the forests of Washington State, leaving behind the one woman who treated him as a person and captured his heart. Heartbroken and determined to find out the truth behind the lies she's been told, Dr. Zarina Sokolov tracks Tanner into the wild. But locals have been disappearing and no one is safe. The only way to protect Zarina now is to embrace the dangerous instincts Tanner fears so much. Can he learn to control his animal impulses, or will he lose himself—and the woman he loves—to the beast within? BONUS CONTENT: The ebook includes a second full-length novel, Hungry Like the Wolf, Book 1 in Paige Tyler's sizzling SWAT series!
The first blow has fallen in the war against the Notandi. As the fragile peace in the Kingdom of Meridius begins to fracture, the demons’ counterattack could shatter it. Yecats Ratiug, also known as the Creator’s Vassal, has committed his life to ridding his homeland of the demon scourge. One man alone is not enough in such a crusade, and he finds assistance from an unlikely ally – a group that has been considered a myth for generations. To the north, Relyt and his companion Prince Mason have fled the slavers of Chelawin, seeking a way home. But it seems that not even royalty can escape the cruel whims of fate, as they are forced to survive in a blood-soaked land unfamiliar to either. Within the walls of Harmagin, Nagol spreads his ideas and gathers allies to his side, preparing for the inevitable arrival of his father to claim bloody vengeance for their exile. His faith in the cause is tested as he is confronted by the idea that his enemies may not be who he thought.
The seventh novella in a fast-paced, addictive romantic suspense series featuring a female FBI agent determined to bring down a crime ring. Trust has never been easy for Special Agent Lara Grant. Life taught her a hard lesson as a child, one she’s never forgotten. But now, when the betrayal is so close to home, Lara is pushed to the very limit. As the players finally move into position, it’s time to go all in, or go home. It doesn’t matter that fear is shaking her very core, it doesn’t matter that everything she has . . . her team, her new family . . . is on the line. What does matter is that there has always been one truth about Lara Grant: when her back’s against the wall, she comes out guns blazing. And at last her target is in her sights . . . Part 7 of 8 in the chilling, high-octane FBI thriller TOUGH JUSTICE from New York Times–bestselling author Carla Cassidy and authors Tyler Anne Snell, Carol Ericson and Gail Barrett.
Tavistock Square is a tale of roads taken, roads not taken, roads missed and last acts. The novel is a series of parallel narrations in which two long-lost lovers, Rebecca Janus, an American woman of a certain age, who comes at last to live in London, and Sydney Turner, a London actor and painter, almost twenty years her junior, make their way towards a longed-for reunion with unexpected and devastating consequences.
From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches comes the ultimate history of the World Series—a vivid portrait of baseball at its finest and most intense, filled with humor, lore, analysis, and fascinating behind-the-scenes stories from 117 years of the Fall Classic. The World Series is the most enduring showcase in American team sports. It’s the place where legends are made, where celebration and devastation can hinge on a fly ball off a foul pole or a grounder beneath a first baseman’s glove. And there’s no one better to bring this rich history to life than New York Times national baseball columnist Tyler Kepner, whose bestselling book about pitching, K, was lauded as “Michelangelo explaining the brush strokes on the Sistine Chapel” by Newsday. In seven scintillating chapters, Kepner delivers an indelible portrait of baseball’s signature event. He digs deep for essential tales dating back to the beginning in 1903, adding insights from Hall of Famers like Reggie Jackson, Mike Schmidt, Jim Palmer, Dennis Eckersley and many others who have thrived – and failed – when it mattered most. Why do some players, like Madison Bumgarner, Derek Jeter and David Ortiz, crave the pressure? How do players handle a dream that comes up short? What’s it like to manage in the World Series, and what are the secrets of building a champion? Kepner celebrates unexpected heroes like Bill Wambsganss, who pulled off an unassisted triple play in 1920, probes the mysteries behind magic moments (Did Babe Ruth call his shot in 1932? How could Eckersley walk Mike Davis to get to Kirk Gibson in 1988?) and busts some long-time myths (the 1919 Reds were much better than the Black Sox, anyway). The Grandest Stage is the ultimate history of the World Series, the perfect gift for all the fans who feel their hearts pounding in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game Seven.
Demented Stability follows the perspective of Vincent W. Nash, a serial killer who is trying to figure out why he does the things he does while trying to battle his greatest opponent yet, Westley Roth. While being pursued by military operatives and his own mind.
This 116-page report presents the results of an investigation by the Utah Geological Survey of land subsidence and earth fissures in Cedar Valley, Iron County, Utah. Basin-fill sediments of the Cedar Valley Aquifer contain a high percentage of fine-grained material susceptible to compaction upon dewatering. Groundwater discharge in excess of recharge (groundwater mining) has lowered the potentiometric surface in Cedar Valley as much as 114 feet since 1939. Groundwater mining has caused permanent compaction of fine-grained sediments of the Cedar Valley aquifer, which has caused the land surface to subside, and a minimum of 8.3 miles of earth fissures to form. Recently acquired interferometric synthetic aperture radar imagery shows that land subsidence has affected approximately 100 mi² in Cedar Valley, but a lack of accurate historical benchmark elevation data over much of the valley prevents its detailed quantification. Continued groundwater mining and resultant subsidence will likely cause existing fissures to lengthen and new fissures to form which may eventually impact developed areas in Cedar Valley. This report also includes possible aquifer management options to help mitigate subsidence and fissure formation, and recommended guidelines for conducting subsidence-related hazard investigations prior to development.
New South Wales government administration increased four-fold during the first six decades of the twentieth century with population growth and greater community expectations. Employment of staff for this burgeoning administrative corps and teaching service became the responsibility of the Public Service Board. The Board exerted rigid centralised control over every aspect of administration. The result was a moderately efficient, loyal and conformist bureaucracy structured around fixed routines, where innovation was not encouraged.
Julie Ann Walker's Black Knights Inc. meets the Black Dagger Brotherhood in this high-octane shifter romance filled with alpha wolves, red-hot romance, and thrilling action from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Paige Tyler. The Dallas SWAT team is hiding one hell of a secret—they're a pack of alpha werewolves. They can take down threats no one else can handle without breaking a sweat, but SWAT team commander Gage Dixon wasn't prepared for the intense heat investigative journalist Mackenzie Stone can bring with a single look... Mackenzie never backs down from a story when her gut tells her something is up. And the fact that Gage Dixon has handpicked his perfect team of officers and keeps everyone else at a distance doesn't sit well with her. They must be hiding something...and she's determined to find out what. Keeping Mac at a distance proves impossible for Gage. She's smart, sexy, and makes him feel alive for the first time in years. But she's getting dangerously close to the truth—and perilously close to his heart... Can he protect his wolf brothers and be honest with Mac at the same time, or will she expose the truth of who's really keeping Dallas safe? Praise for Hungry Like the Wolf: "Hot, action-packed, and sexy as hell. Paige Tyler burns up the pages and I couldn't read it fast enough."—Sara Humphreys, award-winning author of Vampire Trouble "Filled with action-packed passion."—Publishers Weekly "Total fun...[Tyler] playfully brings to life werewolves who might just find a humanitarian use for their strength and skills."—Booklist "Hungry Like the Wolf is a great read for those of us who love an action-packed adventure with sexy shifters in uniform."—Tome Tender
Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530 in order to explore the forms, rhythms, and cultural significance of the practice. Three case studies demonstrate how excommunication for debt facilitated minor transactions in an age of scarce small-denomination coinage and how interest-free loans and sales credits could be viewed as encouraging the relations of charitable exchange that were supposed to exist between members of Christ's body. Lange also demonstrates how from 1500 or so believers gradually turned away from the practice and towards secular courts, at the same time as they retained the moralized, economically irrational conception of indebtedness we have yet to shake. The demand-driven rise and fall of excommunication for debt reveals how believers began to reshape the institutional Church well before Martin Luther posted his theses.
This work is a fascinating guide to one of Latin America's most stable and progressive nations, examining the country's development, unique features, and the challenges Costa Ricans face in the 21st century. Costa Rica: A Global Studies Handbook offers readers an authoritative tour of a remarkable country, tracing its historical development from pre-Colombian inhabitants and Spanish colonization through rising prosperity in the mid-19th century to current struggles to define itself economically and politically. Costa Rica combines narrative chapters on the nation's history and the current state of its political, social, and cultural institutions with alphabetically organized entries covering important people, places, and events in its development. Throughout, the authors, drawing on extensive research and their own experiences, highlight the many ways Costa Rica is different from its neighbors, as well as the challenges the country faces in the 21st century's globalized world.
Typography, Referenced is the single most comprehensive volume covering every aspect of typography that any design student, professional designer, or design aficionado needs to know today. In these pages, you'll find: —Thousands of illustrated examples of contemporary usage in design —Historical developments from Greek lapidary letters to the movie Helvetica —Landmark designs turning single letters into typefaces —Definitions of essential type-specific language, terms, ideas, principles, and processes —Ways technology has influenced and advanced type —The future of type on the web, mobile devices, tablets, and beyond In short, Typography, Referenced is the ultimate source of typographic information and inspiration, documenting and chronicling the full scope of essential typographic knowledge and design from the beginnings of moveable type to the present "golden age" of typography.
Pop-culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ+ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you Binge, his New York Times bestselling collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays. For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to reveal in his first book: experiencing a legitimate rage blackout in a Cheesecake Factory; negotiating a tense standoff with a White House official; crashing a car in front of his entire high school, in an Arby’s uniform; projectile vomiting while bartering with a grandmother; and so much more. In Binge, Tyler delivers his best untold, hilariously side-splitting moments with the trademark flair that made him a star.
Turn on the radio or take the time to flip through the stacks of used CDs at your local Goodwill or thrift store. Google ?rock ?n? roll music, ? even. Better yet, visit any public place that plays popular music from the last 50 years or so as the soundtrack to your Saturday afternoon grocery-shopping, clothes-buying or indie record store-scouting experience and you?ll find that no matter where you go, there's an ever-enduring presence that since the late 1960s has been a mainstay in the world of pop culture and popular music: a former blues band turned rock ?n? roll atom bomb called Fleetwood Mac. Though much of the band's popularity stems from their work in the late seventies and eighties, from an era when gas was 50 cents a gallon and singers were their own songwriters, there's a reason why the band has been able to maintain their status as rock ?n? roll royalty even more than 50 years after making their debut as a London-based blues group. His name is Lindsey Buckingham.
This book discusses WWI-era music in a historical context, explaining music's importance at home and abroad during WWI as well as examining what music was being sung, played, and danced to during the years prior to America's involvement in the Great War. Why was music so important to soldiers abroad during World War I? What role did music—ranging from classical to theater music, rags, and early jazz—play on the American homefront? Music of the First World War explores the tremendous importance of music during the years of the Great War—when communication technologies were extremely limited and music often took the place of connecting directly with loved ones or reminiscing via recorded images. The book's chapters cover music's contribution to the war effort; the variety of war-related songs, popular hits, and top recording artists of the war years; the music of Broadway shows and other theater productions; and important composers and lyricists. The author also explores the development of the fledgling recording industry at this time.
Avariety of short fiction stories taking place in the rural U.S., particularly Vermont, between the colonial days and early 2000's. Fighting hunger, clearing the land to make suitable for the plow, log drives, collecting maple sap, and harvesting crops for livestock, and being sustainable through all this and hunting game to provide a necessary supplement to everyday life was the focus of those who came before us and a staple which has held on in modern life for some. Ian Ogden, Phil Frazier, Harland Grigsby, Sherman Walters, Quinn Dexter, Hawk Labrie, Glenn True, the Baker's, the Gibson's, and many other of these characters bring out this way of life through many generations. Stealing and back-stabbing, love and caring, a river rescue, an attack on a hunter, wars and natural disasters, and the everyday challenges of country life on its people are present in these pages.
Introduces the European immigrants who came to North America as explorers and settlers, their interactions with native people, and the wars that ultimately led to their independence.
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