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It's been five years since Shane MacPherson stepped foot on his clan's lands. Still haunted from years at war and the painful ache of loss, duty has called once again . . . and with it, his obligation to claim his place as the new laird of Clan MacPherson. But when Shane encounters a lass—a Valkyrie in both temperament and foul tongue!—in trouble, he puts title and duty aside to defend her . . .

A blizzard pounds upstate New York. The wind moans and the never stopping snow...and blood...piles up. The weather forces strangers from different walks of life to shelter from the storm as a monstrous creature crashes their festivities. The being inhabits the bodies of the slain like a malicious virus. This isn't a night for Santa and children's smiles as evil delivers a whole new meaning to a "night before Christmas!"

Al centro di molti casi di DOC c'è un'ansia intensa. Quest’ ansia può essere collegata a un evento traumatico passato, a uno stress continuo o anche a una predisposizione genetica. L'ansia tende ad essere persistente e continua, con la persona che soffre raramente si prende una pausa.

EXPECTING BETTER overturns standard recommendations for alcohol, caffeine, sushi, bed rest and induction, while putting in context the blanket guidelines for fetal testing, weight gain, risks of pregnancy over the age of 35, and nausea, among others. Oster offers the real-world advice one would never get at the doctor's office. Knowing that the health of your baby is paramount, listeners can know more and worry less. Having the numbers is a tremendous relief - and so is the occasional glass of wine.

Multiple times a day, in cities across the US and beyond, a simple yet powerful message is repeated by the well-meaning, the ignorant, and the bigoted: “don’t go”—avoid at all costs those Black and Brown disinvested neighborhoods that have become bywords for social disorder and urban decay. This book is a collection of intimate stories that uncover the hidden influence of both subtle and overt “don’t go” messages and the segregation they perpetuate in Chicago.

Virtually anyone who has ever watched a profound movie, a powerful TV show, or read a moving novel understands that entertainment can and does affect us in surprising and significant ways. But did you know that our most popular forms of entertainment can have a direct physical effect on us, a measurable impact on society, geopolitics, the economy, and even the future itself? In You Are What You Watch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walter Hickey proves how exactly how what we watch (and read and listen to) has a far greater effect on us and the world at large than we imagine.

The man who bought me is sinfully gorgeous—a tatted-up wall of muscle who assures me that I'm safe with him. He can't let me go. Not yet anyway. He and his brothers need my help to find someone. I agree to help them, not having any idea it's going to lead us into a nest of vipers. If their venom doesn't get me… his will. Lines blur between the two of us, and I no longer feel like it's all for show. Because the truth is, Danil owns me… every single part of me. It turns out being owned by the Bratva boss isn't such a bad thing after all.

Fights over history are at the heart of most important constitutional disputes in America. The Supreme Court's current embrace of originalism is only the most recent example of how lawyers and judges try to use history to establish authority for their positions. Jack M. Balkin argues that fights over constitutional interpretation are often fights over collective memory. Balkin shows how lawyers and judges channel history through standard forms of legal argument that shape how they use history and even what they see in history.

Dave and his friends have to save a badlands town from Mad Mulligan’s gang.

After getting hit with betrayal, lies, and loss, I've bloodied my hands and crowned myself the queen of the Caprioni family. I may sit on the throne, but it doesn't mean matters within the family have gotten better. The writing is on the wall, and I'm damn tired of being the mouse in this game the founding families are playing. Allies are appearing to help expose the truth of what's really going on behind the scenes, exposing those who thought they could hide from me.

Say hello to eighteen-year-old Artie Morrison. We first meet Artie on the night of his high school graduation party. While excited about moving on to college in the Fall, Artie is still facing trepidation due to his best friend Cody’s sudden disappearance two weeks earlier. While fighting off those angst-ridden feelings, Artie’s mood finally swings to the happy side of the street when an unexpected visitor shows up to his graduation party.

In this uproarious satire, the author takes you on a wild ride through the pristine yet perilous paradise of the Gulf Islands, where entitled tourists run amok and chaos reigns supreme. From mistaking local wildlife for exotic pets to attempting to haggle with Mother Nature herself, these city slickers stumble through one laugh-out-loud escapade after another, leaving locals shaking their heads in disbelief.

This literary romp guide leads us through the madhouse we call modern society. A no-holds-barred satirical thrill ride exploring the ironies and inanities of everything from therapy culture to social media to identity politics. No corner of our shared psychosis is left unexamined through a kaleidoscope of incisive wit and dark humor.

Escape to a magical world filled with fantastical creatures, spine-tingling adventures, and burning hot romance, with Beth’s trademark humor, emotional and epic journeys and beloved characters. There’s a lost prince, hoping to stay lost. Another prince, desperate to be found. An ancient creature, banished from his own kingdom, willing to do anything—even find his own happily ever after—to save another.

When he invited me to join him for a drink, I thought Alessandro was an ordinary guest at my family's hotel. I didn't know I belonged to him until he told me right there in the restaurant. I thought I had a say in the matter. But when I stood up to leave, it just earned me a sore bottom for the plane ride to New York, where our wedding was already planned for the next day. But I was soaking wet for him before he even walked me down the aisle.

When Rob of Loxley finds an injured nobleman’s son in the forest, neither he nor his sister Marion understand what befriending young Gamelyn could mean for the future of their beliefs. Already the ancient spirits of the Old Religion are fading beneath the iron of nobleman’s politics and the stones of church subjugation. More, the druid elders warn that Rob and Gamelyn are cast as sworn adversaries, locked in timeless and symbolic struggle for the greenwood’s Maiden.

Home & family struck down by Church edict, Rob is taken by the old druid master into the deeps. He emerges with a new name & purpose: Robyn Hode, leader of a band of tight-knit outcasts, claiming the ancient Shire Wode and wielding the Horned God’s vengeance with deadly arrows. Also escaping Loxley’s destruction, nobleborn Gamelyn has returned from Crusade with his own new identity and purpose—but no absolution. When the two boyhood lovers next cross paths, a brutal game of foxes and hounds ensues, pitting Templar assassin against Heathen outlaw.

In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother who’d had to drop out of Howard University. She was working at Washington, DC’s Rape Crisis Center when she got a letter from a man in prison saying he wanted to learn how to not be a rapist anymore. At first, she was furious. As a survivor of sexual violence, she wanted to write back pouring out her rage. But instead, she made a different choice, a choice to reject the response her trauma was pushing her towards, a choice that set her on the path towards developing a philosophy that would come to guide her whole career.

Human Geography For Dummies introduces you to the ideas and perspectives encompassed by the field of human geography and makes a great supplement to human geography courses in high school or college. So what is human geography? Human geography explores the relationship between humans and their natural environment, tracking the broad social patterns that shape human societies. You'll learn about immigration, urbanization, globalization, empire and political expansion, and economic systems, to name a few.

One night is all it took. Passion ignites when a laird who has sworn off love meets a chambermaid in disguise at a masquerade ball. But can there be a happy ending for two people from such different worlds? A heartwarming rags-to-riches romance set in Medieval Scotland.