Life gets complicated for Steven and Rikki. The story begins with their almost fairy-tale wedding. It’s a great celebration with family and friends and appears to be the beginning of a beautiful life together for them. It does, however, bring with it some unforeseen problems. Steven’s dominant attitude and Rikki’s stubbornness make for some serious head butting and misunderstandings. Daniel (DJ) an old friend of the family arrives for the wedding and immediately catches the eye of Rikki’s ...

The Marking is a standalone book in a series of stories taken from the Case Files of International Investigations and Protection Services Inc. The IIPIS office receives a mysterious and anonymous phone call concerning a young girl, unconscious and badly abused lying in an abandoned warehouse. The agency partners, Rob Henderson and Heath Barton investigate and decide to take the girl back to their premises, so they can find out what happened, before they bring the police into the situation....

Library of Masterpieces—100 Books to Read in a Lifetime offers an ambitious cross-cultural canon of enduring literature, philosophy, drama, and narrative art. Moving from classical epic, tragedy, and political thought to the novel, Gothic romance, detective fiction, modernist experiment, children's literature, and existential reflection, it reveals how literary forms continually remake questions of power, desire, faith, justice, memory, and freedom. Monumental epics, psychologically intric...

Drawing upon his experience in teaching this material over the past twenty-five years in forty countries, Ron Man provides a rich and deep examination of biblical worship, drawing principles out of a rigorous study of the text of Scripture. He also writes as a practitioner, from the perspective of one who served as a church worship pastor for twenty-two years. Features distinguishing this book from other similar studies include: 1) a tracing of the foundational Revelation and Response patt...

Do you put 110% effort into your training sessions and still see no improvement? Are you looking for a simple guide that summarizes the best habits used by today's top athletes?The truth is… some of us train our hearts out and see little improvement. And some of us are just getting started, and don't know where to begin.This book is for athletes from ALL LEVELS of experience—from your first few steps to your last stroke in an Olympic swim.You might be looking for mo...

Escaping to a small town was a way to find herself. But never in her wildest dreams did she expect them.Isabella Reed runs to the only small town containing good memories from her childhood. Her inheritance in one hand and a plan to open her own business in the other. All she needs for her new start. Until a bad fall risks it all.Academic Dean Ben Landry and Doctor Caleb Bishop share everything. But the moment Ben heard about the town’s newest resident, he ...

Zach Freeman is a cop with a single obsession. Lee Hastings is a free wheeling, high class prostitute who thinks his life is just fine until Zachary comes along and threatens to turn it upside down.Zach doesn't care about Lee's life or anything else for that matter. He wants to nail the guy who was involved in the death of a little girl, a guy who is one of Lee Hastings' clients.Lee Hastings is about to be given a choice…help Zach put his client away, or face the consequences. Lee realises...

Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using...

Thomas Mann regarded his monumental re-telling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus, telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over Egypt. As Joseph is saved from the well and sold to Egypt, he adopts a new name, Osarseph, replacing the Jo- element with a reference to Osiris to indicate that he is now in the underworld. This change of name to account for changing circumstances encourages Amenhotep to change his own name to Akhenaten. How Mann manages to pu...

The Posers is a series of two separate stories about love at first sight and playing roles.In 'Jackie', Jackson agrees to help his best friend get through a family holiday by posing as his girlfriend, and then meets the man on his dreams.In "Mercy" a former porn star agrees to help someone make their ex jealous by posing as someone's boyfriend and finds he's the odd man out.Both Jackie, and Mercy discover that true love accepts nothing less than the truth, and honesty begins with oneself.

She was my darkest dream and now she lived next door. There was nothing to stop us from being together except…For years, she took care of us, picking up for the loss of Mom Evans. Cooking and cleaning for my friends while sending me care packages. Most of all, she offered a shoulder for us to lean on. It wasn’t required or demanded of her. She did it out of her own sense compassion and care.I never told her how much it meant to me. The routine, the order th...

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."Thomas Mann's acclaimed novel, The Magic Mountain, is a dizzyingly rich novel of ideas in which a Swiss sanatorium becomes a microcosm of pre-First World War Europe, playing with the elasticity of time, engaging in philosophical dialogue and ideological discourse, and blending personal growth with historical tragedy.Hans Castorp, a young German engineer, arrives at a luxurious Alpine sanatorium to visit h...