Lieutenant Commander David Allen Winston’s (Win to his friends) meteoric rise through the ranks in the US Navy is nothing short of astonishing. At just thirty-two, Win is the youngest officer to be promoted to the rank of Lt. Commander. Everything changes in an instant when his only sister is murdered in a botched mob hit in her own nightclub. In his utter despair he is plunged into a dark spiral which leads him down a menacing path to vengeance. Taking unauthorized time off from the Navy ...

This book describes community ophthalmology professionals in South Asia who demonstrate social entrepreneurship in global health to help the rural poor. Their innovations contested economic and scientific norms, and spread from India and Nepal outwards to other countries in Africa and Asia, as well as the United States, Australia, and Finland.This feminist postcolonial global ethnography illustrates how these innovations have resulted in dual socio-technical systems to solve the pr...

Soul Qualities: The Art of Becoming With Study Guide lists forty spiritual principles, tools to cultivate the fruits of the Spirit - wisdom, peace, courage, forgiveness, patience, love, kindness, humility, purpose, faith, gratitude, and mindfulness are the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Soul Qualities – the qualities of the Spirit, are cultivated in the mind and heart through practice by walking in the Spirit. Soul Qualities is a life journey toolbox that includes the book Soul Qualities: The ...

Some pursue heroism, others are thrust into it. Superheroes. They live among us, some hidden in plain sight, others as well-known celebrities. All carry a burden and a purpose: to destroy the evils of this world and keep the common man safe from harm. But evil is a strong thread that refuses to be cut. How much sacrifice will be demanded to destroy that which seeks to destroy us, and are there enough heroes to do the job? Experience a collection of ...

Every secret has a key.As a child worker of the December Mining Corporation, 18-year-old Jett’s plan has always been to earn a life outside the mines by selling her body—a plan she’s nearly fulfilled until she reluctantly takes on a new trainee from the outside world.The daughter of a government historian, and bartered into the slave trade by her own mother, Fiona is an outsider with a strange wealth of knowledge, and a secret worth dying—and killing—for. W...

Engineers designing technologies and systems produce problems when they do not account for existing biases in society. Designers have a mandate to make technologies efficiently, economically, and ethically. This textbook is written for both students and practicing designers, engineers, researchers, or artists who want to create more ethical designs; it aims to help readers understand how race is implicated in technology design. Learning from historical and contemporary case studies of engi...

Volume 3 in a new series of short stories by New York Times bestselling author H.M. Ward that takes place in her Sexy Ferro worldWhen billionaire Sean Ferro crosses my path it's my job to destroy him. His crimes are horrific and there's no way I'm letting him walk away from them. Whether he wins or loses in court is irrelevant. I'll destroy any chance he has at a happy life when this is over, whether he lands in a jail cell or not.The arrogant bastard is mo...

So…you'd think after banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark's life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and almost dying, Zoey Redbird would catch a break. Sadly, a break is not in the House of Night school forecast for the High Priestess in training and her gang. Juggling three guys is anything but a stress reliever, especially when one of them is a sexy Warrior who is so into protecting Zoey that he can sense her emotions. Speaking of stress, the da...

Enter the dark, magical world of the House of Night series by bestselling authors P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, a world very much like our own, except here vampyres have always existed.“You’re changing, Zoey. And I’m not sure what you’re changing into.”Bloodlust is rising at the House of Night, and dark forces are pulling fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird into a game where loyalties shift and the lines between friends and enemies blur beyond recognition...

The Living Dead 2 has more of what zombie fans hunger for — more scares, more action, more... brains! Experience the indispensable series that defines the very best in zombie literature with original stories by Kelley Armstrong, Karina Sumner-Smith, Carrie Ryan, Jamie Lackey, Genevieve Valentine, Brian Keene, Simon R. Green, David Wellington, David Barr Kirtley, Matt London, Joe McKinney, Walter Greatshell, Bob Fingerman, S. G. Browne, Jonathan Maberry, Mira Grant, Marc Paoletti, cherie pr...

Nora Roberts - the World's Greatest Storyteller.Kadra is a warrior - a demon slayer from another world. With her highly tuned senses and Amazonian physique she was born to fight, and lives only to protect her people. That is her duty - something she accepts without question, just as she accepts she will always be alone.But when the king of Demons escapes through a mysterious portal, Kadra must follow - and finds herself in modern day New York. This strange and dangerous cit...

If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to know? This is the tantalising premise of THIS IS HOW YOU DIE, the brilliant follow-up anthology to the self-published bestseller, MACHINE OF DEATH.The machines started popping up around the world. The offer was tempting: with a simple blood test, anyone could know how they would die. But the machines didn't give dates or specific circumstances - just a single word or phrase. DROWNED, CANCER, OLD AGE, CHOKED ON A HANDFU...