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When Matthew Caldwell leaves school, his journey to tomorrow appears to be mapped out. He is engaged to be apprentice to Tom Schofield, the blacksmith in the Norfolk village that has not only been Matthew's home but his whole world. But destiny has other plans for the lad - plans that involve seduction by a string of older women, apparitions induced both by strong home-brew booze and visitations from the spirit world, Spanish treasure and skul...

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Mr. Hyde was fit to be tied! Rugged Austin Hyde was up to his brawny biceps in a bizarre situation. His mad scientist brother had gone and appropriated Austin's "assets" to impregnate a tycoon's widow at his fertility clinic. Worse, rumor had it that the elegant Candice VanAusdale might be making a baby simply to inherit big bucks-without having a clue the kid would be his! Mr. Hyde was fit to be tied, but not tied down by a web of lies. Yet h...

Gifted with a mysterious antique necklace, Joanne Dunstan is magically thrust back in time, launching her on an incredible journey. Finding herself in the Scottish Highlands of 1626, she faces challenges and horrors never imagined. She also discovers friendship, honour, and love-with an arrogant Scottish Laird. Laird Connor MacKay suffers no fools. A warrior with a bitter past, he keeps his enemies, and demons, at bay. Joanne's mysterious arri...

In a country torn apart, Brandt Michaels serves the Union. Behind enemy lines, he expects the danger of Confederate skirmishers and swamps. Instead, he finds himself bewitched by a beautiful woman, igniting his passion beyond anything he's ever known. But he soon learns her coy games are only a distraction, as she secretly devises a deadly trap for his capture. Elizabeth DuBay is determined to teach that Yankee a thing or two. Denying her attr...

Out-of-work reporter Mallory Aikins dreams of a Prince Charming who will whisk her away from her family's poverty to his mansion on the hill. Instead, she's stranded in the tiny town of Sagebrush, watching her chance at a new start in Palm Springs evaporate in the New Mexico heat. But her reporter's curiosity is piqued by sexy, mysterious, motorcycle-riding sheriff Drummond Wolfe. Mallory is determined to find out his secret, even if it threat...

Mysterious dreams of a life in Renaissance Italy draw Louisiana antique shop owner Renee Martin to Venice at the start of the city's famous Carnevale. There, she literally meets the man of her dreams, Patrick Jordan, a handsome art gallery owner from Houston. After she purchases a topaz pendant from a local shop, her life begins to parallel with startling similarities that of Renata Briana, a young sixteenth-century Venetian woman the original...

As you leaf through these pages you will find a new kind of trivia. You've played games at home before, and made teams in your local pub for prizes. You've guessed while watching your favorite sports team, and argued with your friends about the right answers. You have never seen a trivia game like this before. This is not Trivial Pursuit, it is trivia perfection. If your topic is state capitals, then you will find clues like "Homer Simpson's ...

Reprint. Paperback.156p. In China as elsewhere, alchemy is a doctrine aiming to afford an understanding of the principles underlying the formation and functioning of the cosmos. The alchemist overcomes the limits of individuality, and ascends to higher states of being, he becomes, in Chinese terms, a zhenren or Authentic Man. Chinese alchemy went through a complex and not yet entirely understood development along its twenty centuries of docume...

The Swine Flu: What You Need to Know" is the first book covering the 2009 outbreak of the Swine Flu. It contains an easy-to-understand history and pandemics in general and the Swine Flu in particular, as well as information on signs, symptions, diagnosis, and treatment. Special sections cover how to protect children and what supplies should be kept in your house, in case the pandemic shuts down work and shopping.

With a prologue by Melchor J Antu

This new and faithfully restored edition of Lord Lytton's infamous and foundational science fiction classic, sometimes known as 'Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, ' is the story of a young, well-to-do American thrillseeker on his final adventure. Befriending a local mining engineer during his travels around the world, they descend together into a perilously steep pit discovered while expanding the mine, that is sure to bear them all manner o...

The explosive increase in information and the miniaturization of electronic devices demand new recording technologies and materials that combine high density, fast response, long retention time and rewriting capability. As predicted, the current silicon-based computer circuits are reaching their physical limits. Further miniaturization of the electronic components and increase in data storage density are vital for the next generation of IT equ...

P. Anthony (Tony) Burnham has practiced employers-side labor and employment law and Human Resources in Southern California and internationally for over forty years. In representing multi-national, mid-sized and smaller employers, he has become aware of all the incredible transitions taking place in employment, business and with individuals. These largely irreversible changes are being driven by increased globalization, technological advances a...

Baily Bumble Bee celebrated the beginning of her summer vacation the only way she knew how. She expressed her joy in the way that she flew. Baily did not know that the Council of Flying Things had passed laws regulating how creatures could fly. While Baily was exercising her freedom to fly, she was seen by a Blue Jay who reported her to to the Council of Flying Things. The wise Owl sent policemen, the wasps, to find Baily and bring her before ...

This is a humorous book on marriage, showing how a guy can live with a woman, by teasing, joking, pulling pranks & small capers, to forever keeping her wondering what-in-the-heck he might do next & usually can get away with it all, as long as he smiles & says "The devil made me do it !".

Wind of the Spirit is the autobiographical spiritual journey of Gene Vosseler spanning five decades -as a poet, minister, political activist, friend of freedom, and valiant defender of the faith. As Gene likes to say, Wind of the Spirit is an extraordinary journey by an ordinary man. Yet, when you read Gene's sermons, his freedom messages or any of his many poems, you will recognize that Gene's dedication, and inner wisdom is extraordinary. Yo...

This book brings Einstein's general relativity into action in new ways at scales ranging from the tiny Planck scale to the scale of immense galactic clusters. It presents the case that Einstein's theory of gravity can describe the observed dynamics of galaxies without invoking the unknown ¿dark matter¿ required in models based on Newtonian gravity.Drawing on the author's experience as a lecturer and on his own research, the book covers the ess...

In this collection of highly personal essays, Dean Hulse recalls his life growing up on the family farm in North Dakota. He remembers with affection his life in the 1960s and 1970s, when the farms and small towns were thriving but then moves on to deal with the breakdown of these communities as industrial agriculture began to take over.

Hannah was but a young Jewish girl at the tender age of seventeen, when she and her younger sister got caught up in the horrors of Nazi Europe. She watched as her poor but lovely village was raped and destroyed by the invading Nazi war machine. In 1943 Hannah fled her village and her family never to see either again. She took her younger sister and escaped to hungry vowing to her mother that she would always protect and never leave her sister....