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A missing treasure. A cursed property. Will Ellie’s bed and breakfast turn into a dead and breakfast on opening weekend? Excited to restart her life after a bitter divorce, Ellie Byrne plans to re-open her aunt’s old bed and breakfast with a murder mystery weekend. But when she finds out the property possesses a cursed treasure that has robbed all previous owners of their lives, she worries her fresh start may lead to her death. Threats abound and when a body turns up, Ellie’s convinced the curse is real.

At a Victorian dinner party in Richmond, London, the Time Traveller tells his extraordinary tale of humankind's future in the year 802,701 AD. It is a dystopian vision of Darwinian evolution, with humans split into an above-ground species of Eloi, and their troglodyte brothers.

How are Christians to understand and undertake the discipline of psychology? This question has been of keen interest to Christians because of the importance we place on a correct understanding of human nature. Psychology can sometimes seem disconnected from, if not antithetical to, Christian perspectives on life. How are we to understand our Christian beliefs about persons in relation to secular psychological beliefs? This revised edition of a widely appreciated Spectrum volume now presents five models for understanding the relationship between psychology and Christianity.

In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. By a choice of vows each undertakes to stay with the other through the good times and the bad. And most probably there will be plenty of both and much in between. But the union of marriage comes in many shades and hues, some balanced, some destined to last a lifetime and others set to fizzle out or stumble to an ill-mannered conclusion in separation or divorce and, of course, death.

O lume in care incredibilul devine realitate, o lume in care tenebrele acopera orizontul, in care macabrul, teroarea si nebunia invadeaza cosmosul - lumea stranie a lui H.P. Lovecraft. Volumul de fata reuneste douasprezece texte celebre ale maestrului literaturii fantastice, de la primele povesti despre cosmaruri si nebunie (Veneticul), la cele grotesti (Dulaul), culminand cu teroarea extraterestra din Chemarea lui Cthulhu, imbinare de suprarealism clasic cu elemente science-fiction.

În munţii nebuniei relatează, punînd în joc întregul arsenal macabru tipic lui Lovecraft, o expediţie dezastruoasă organizată în Antarctica în 1930 şi descrie descoperirile lugubre făcute de membrii săi. După ani de tăcere, geologul William Dyer de la Universitatea Miskatonic din Arkham, conducătorul expediţiei, hotărăşte să aştearnă totul pe hîrtie cu speranţa de a-i salva de la o moarte sigură pe alţi exploratori care se pregătesc să pornească într-acolo.

Diego is distracting. He shows up in my yoga class with his smokin' hot bod and enough brawn to set the world on fire. Cue the melting. He oozes the rugged hero vibe, rides a motorcycle, and flies planes in the wilds of Alaska. He's all man and then some. I came to this small town for a fresh start, and I don't need to be rescued. Except maybe if Diego's the one doing the rescuing, I wouldn't mind at all. I've got it all under control until he kisses me. I'm not just melting, I'm aflame, and my heart's in free fall. There's only one man I want to catch me.

There's only one rule: Hands off. That's my personal rule when it comes to Fiona Blake. She's uptight, delectably distracting, and she works for my family. Once, just once, I break my own rule. After that, she becomes my secret. When the past she's running from finds her in Fireweed Harbor, I'll do anything to protect her.

When Max Stone saunters back into Catamount, Maine, he sends Roxanne Morgan's world spinning sideways. He's just as broody and smoldering as ever. And, he wants another chance. Max's feelings for Roxy haven't faded. She's everything he remembered and more. They were only seventeen when they fell in love, and Max's life was sent careening away from Catamount—the birthplace of mountain lion shifters. As Roxy faces her fears about what it means to maybe love again, Max kicks up dust over the mystery behind his father's death.

High in the mountains of Colorado, mountain lion shifters hold rare power among mountain lions and humans, able to live in both worlds at once. Secrecy has kept them safe for centuries. Daniel Hayes returns to Painter, Colorado, after learning he's a shifter, a secret kept from him by his parents after his brother died. Daniel encounters the breathtaking Sophia Ashworth by chance. The lion in him wants her with a force he can't deny.

Heath Ashworth is a mountain lion shifter from a family whose roots go back to the birth of shifters. A grumpy former Marine, he stumbled and lost his way after a car accident where he barely escaped with his life. His grueling recovery led him down a path he never imagined. After he tangled with the shifter smuggling network, all he wants is to make it right again. Now he's trying to live up to the man and shifter he once was.

SOS is the culmination of my work since 1966, when my wife, Noel, and I moved from Melbourne, Australia, to Houston, Texas. My initial goal was to begin a four-year clinical pastoral education program (CPE) at the Institute of Religion in the Texas Medical Center. The long-term dream was to develop a parish-based lay pastoral education program to equip laypeople to serve with their ordained pastors in the pastoral ministry of the parish. Until the midnineteenth century, pastoral care was the province of parish clergy, for which few were adequately equipped.

»Am Tag kommen sie. In der Nacht bleiben sie. Am Morgen verschwinden sie.«Das Paradies wird zum Alptraum! Anna und Phil freuen sich auf einen entspannten Urlaub. Doch dann taucht ein Mann aus Annas Vergangenheit am Strand auf... Nur kurze Zeit später vergisst das Paar alles, was am Strand geschehen ist. Spielen ihre Sinne verrückt oder hat das Wasser eine Tat hervorgebracht, die niemals entdeckt werden sollte?

Ihren Romeo hat Julia noch nicht gefunden. Ganz im Gegenteil, sie hat eher ein Händchen für die falschen Männer. Doch die Geburtstagsfeier des extrem attraktiven Footballer Hunter Mitchell, auf der sie für einen Cateringservice arbeitet, toppt alles. Sie bekommt gleich zwei Angebote für "ein Casting", die sie dankend ablehnt, erliegt danach allerdings dem Charme des Gastgebers. Das lässt sie eine epische Nacht erleben, die nicht nur wegen Hunters Verführungskünste unvergessen bleibt, sondern auch weil ihr kurz darauf der Job gekündigt wird.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. The zenith of Empire is bookended by two catastrophic wars that slaughter vast swathes of humanity. And yet authors manage to record and create fragile libraries of humanity, its talents, its dreams and increasingly its nightmares.

Wenn das Leben wie eine Schachtel Pralinen ist, sollte man in Sachen Ehe besser Diät halten – oder nicht? Summer hat ein Problem, ein dickes Problem. Woher soll sie nur auf die Schnelle einen Ehemann nehmen? Leider hatte sie beim Vorstellungsgespräch vor lauter Nervosität behauptet, dass sie bald verheiratet ist, denn die Frau ihres Chefs akzeptiert nur Ehefrauen als Assistentin. Aber hey, wofür arbeitet sie eigentlich in Vegas? Nirgendwo sonst kann man sich doch so leicht einen Ehemann aus dem Hut zaubern.

Die Söldnerin Ghost lebt am Limit. Der Anruf ihres Dealers verspricht einen Job, der sie zurück in den New Babylon Megaplex führt, wo Seelen in Chrom gewogen werden und holografische Geishas überhöhten Göttern gleichen. Dazu muss sie nur die Netrunnerin Amy töten. Rein. Kugel in den Kopf. Raus. Absolut easy. Doch die Götter des Cyberspace haben andere Pläne. In einer total vernetzten Welt, mit Neuroprozessoren im Schädel und durch Implantate übers Limit getunten Körpern schicken sie Amy und Ghost auf einen Höllenritt zwischen Realität und virtuellem Pantheon.

Find an ancient crystal that tore the world apart. With it she can finally join the Explorer's Guild and follow in her grandfather's footsteps. The only problem? Rayne's never been an Explorer before, and there is a lot to learn. Oh, and the Frost Dragon, that's a problem too.

Two broken souls. One twisted thread of fate. Echo is a heartbroken nymph trying to believe in love. Narcissus is a confused mortal, trying to avoid love. The fates conspire to weave their fates together but this is not a love story, it is a tragedy that will echo through the ages.

Every family holds secrets it's true. But all is lost,if not for you...When Violet discovers a box filled with her late grandmother's trinkets, an alchemy book, and a mysterious map, her curiousity gets the best of her. But the alchemy book has taken on a life of its own, and suddenly Violet's world and everyone she loves are frozen in time. With no choice but to Journey into the Unknown Violet must unravel long-buried secrets hidden within the alchemy book to save her world. Now, the only way out, is in . . .