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2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family's ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother's birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin, believed that they had scattered the pieces of the Montglane Service around the world, burying with the chessmen the secrets of the power that comes with possessing them. But Alexandra arrives to find that her mother is missing-and that the Game has begun...

DAS GESCHENK fesselt, zieht mit den ersten Kapiteln in den Bann! Manch eine Szene lässt die LeserIn an eigene Erfahrungen lächelnd erinnern, vielleicht sogar wütend werden oder zustimmen. DAS GESCHENK ist eine sehr einfühlsame Beobachtung des Beginns und der Entwicklung einer Beziehung zwischen zwei Frauen und die Besonderheiten, die es vielleicht nur bei Frauen geben kann! In diesem Fall noch mehr, da eine der beiden, Angst vor wirklichen ...

An accessible overview of dynamic ways that public libraries are using social networking to reach their teen patrons.

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Contains Edwards' most mature and persistent attempt to judge the validity of the religious development in eighteenth-century America known as the Great Awakening.

General editor: v. 3-6, John E. Smith, v. 7 edited by Norman Pettit, v. 8 edited by Paul Ramsey, v. 9 transcribed and edited by John F. Wilson, v. 10 edited by Wilson H. Kimnach, v. 13 edited by Thomas A. Schafer, v. 15 edited by Stephen J. Stein, v. 18 edited by Ava Chamberlain, v. 19. Harry S. Stout, general editor, v. 20 edited by Amy Plantinga Pauw, v. 22 edited by Harry S. Stout and Nathan O. Hatch with Kyle P. Farley, v. 24, pt. 2 edited...

Perhaps best known for his iconic paintings and sculptures of LOVE, also featured on a U.S. postage stamp, and HOPE, created in support of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, Robert Indiana (b. 1928) has been living and working in Maine since 1978. The Star of Hope, his year-round home and studio on the island of Vinalhaven, is a former late 19th-century Odd Fellows lodge listed on the National Register of Historic Places. "Robert India...

The colonists who settled the backcountry in eighteenth-century New England were recruited from the social fringe, people who were desperate for land, autonomy, and respectability and who were willing to make a hard living in a rugged environment. Mark Williams' microhistorical approach gives voice to the settlers, proprietors, and officials of the small colonial settlements that became Granby, Connecticut, and Ashfield, Massachusetts. These p...

This work provides an assessment of the crucial roles played by the Union and Confederate navies in the Civil War. From Craig Symonds, author of the 2009 Lincoln Prize award-winner Lincoln and His Admirals, comes a fascinating look at the era when American naval power came of age.

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An expert analysis of current U.S.-Russian relations as they play out in central Asia in the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11.

The popularity of Kabbalah, a Jewish mystical movement at least 900 years old, has grown astonishingly within the context of the vast and ever-expanding social movement commonly referred to as the New Age. This book is the first to provide a broad overview of the major trends in contemporary Kabbalah together with in-depth discussions of major figures and schools. A noted expert on Kabbalah, Jonathan Garb places the "kabbalistic Renaissance" w...

With its use of football stories, "Gridiron Leadership" provides a fresh, new approach to capturing and understanding the concepts and practice of leadership, strategy, and execution.

This updated edition of the award-winning volume is a contemporary guidebook for understanding and using personal power in organizational settings of all kinds.

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A multi-layered reading of the many roles conservative Christian activists play in America's political culture. It provides a level of context and perspective on the relationships among contemporary conservative Christian activism, the media, and politics in the United States.

This work is the first interdisciplinary compilation of entries related to the crime victim to encompass the breadth of the 70-year-old discipline of victimology.

Subtitled, "A True Tale Of Forbidden Love In Catherine The Great's Russia".

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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him. As Heathclif...