I might be spoiled, but I'm bored and there are games I want to play…Carter and I are successful in business. We're also best friends, former step-sibs, and remorseless heartbreakers. But after a kiss-and-tell session about our latest conquests, I realize we've nailed every desirable single in the city. So I'm proposing a bet.The first one to get someone to say "I love you" to them before summer wins.It'll be so much fun watching Carter cha...

I crossed a powerful man and now he wants to rent me for a week.Getting through life is hard enough when you rely on picking pockets and hustling pool, but it's a businessman from out of town who throws a wrench in the works. In my defense, it's Mardi Gras, we were all just having a good time and, well, a girl's got to eat!But Logan doesn't see it that way. He thinks I owe him, so he plans to take payment from my body.The thing is, he's so ...

They turned me into the faithless mistress they knew I could be and I was fine with that.Until I was sold.One night of trying to save her boyfriend's brother from a gang of criminals turned Anna's life upside down. A year later, she's let go of her past and embraced her present – kept in a luxurious penthouse by a callous billionaire to satisfy his desires.But someone else wants her, someone who will stop at nothing to posse...

50 Medieval Historical Novels surveys the medieval past as it has been repeatedly reimagined across romance, adventure, Gothic fantasy, chivalric chronicle, religious allegory, and nationalist historical fiction. Ranging from Arthurian legend and crusading narratives to courtly intrigue, outlawry, and imagined reconstructions of feudal society, the volume places canonical medieval texts beside later works that transform the period into a site of ethical conflict and popular entertainment. ...

This book provides an important study of a short-lived government making foreign policy in the shadow of an impending general election. It considers Britain's relations with the United States, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

"Moving . . . Readers will nod their heads in sympathy with this guy who breaks the rules for all of the right reasons." — The Bulletin of the Center for Children's BooksA Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the YearIndiana Too Good to Miss State Reading List 2018Timothy is on probation. It's a strange word—something that happens to other kids, to delinquents, not to kids like him. And yet, he is u...

Restless pioneers surrounded the border of what would become Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, on September 22, 1891, with the goal of staking prime land. The crowd was diverse and not always well-behaved, but chaos eventually turned to order. Businesses opened quickly, and towns were established. Tecumseh would be designated the county seat, but it would not be long before Shawnee would steal it away and even have aspirations of becoming the state capital. Shawnee and Tecumseh would become t...

Blast off to deep-space adventure and hijinks!Things are not so stellar for Mike Stellar. He is stunned when his parents inform him that he has only eight hours to pack before they move to Mars. Despite the fact that he suspects his parents are involved in a major sabotage plot; that the only person who believes him is a girl who won’t shut up; and that his mother’s assistant seems to be spying on Mike’s every move, Mike is dealing with the same things that every eleven-ye...

Kate and Tam meet, and both of their worlds tip sideways. At first, Tam figures Kate is your stereotypical cheerleader; Kate sees Tam as another tall jock. And the more they keep running into each other, the more they surprise each other. Beneath Kate's sleek ponytail and perfect façade, Tam sees a goofy, sensitive, lonely girl. And Tam's so much more than a volleyball player, Kate realizes: She's everything Kate wishes she could be. It's complicated. Except it's not. When Kate and Tam mee...

H. P. Holt's The Mounted Police of Natal chronicles the formation, operations, and legacy of one of South Africa's most distinctive colonial institutions. From their early deployment during the Zulu War to their involvement in the Boer conflicts and frontier policing, the mounted police played a complex role in both enforcing imperial authority and managing relations with indigenous communities. Holt, drawing from official records and firsthand accounts, presents the corps not mer...

Camping overnight in a draw on the newly released lands of the old XIT Ranch. Will Gantry suddenly feels an odd and welcome sense of belonging. He becomes friends with Dan, a deputy sheriff, a beautiful woman and a young boy. He begins to make solid plans that include an old cowboy named Pete and the Professor.Will decides his idea of wandering down to Old Mexico can wait, maybe forever.#cowboy #western #frontier #historical #wildwest #hero #romance #family friendly #Texas

It's time for the boss fight, but the boss isn't home.Fred and his friends charge into the city of Watergate to confront the evil wizard Blackleg. But instead of a big battle, they find an empty house. Maybe they should have made an appointment.Now our heroes are left with a mystery. Where did Blackleg go? Was he murdered? By whom?Fred is a fighter, not a mystery-solver-guy. Fortunately, his friends are here to help:Nightshade,