In this classic vampire thriller, a serious, staid grad student embraces her darker side to escape her abductors—and a deadly conspiracy.Toronto graduate student Ardeth Alexander lives by her schedule. There is no room for excitement in between classes, papers, and research jobs. She is known for being responsible, dependable—and perhaps a little boring. But all that changes during a routine morning walk when she is abducted by two thugs.Blindfolded and taken...

In this sequel to The Night Inside, a vampire couple's relationship is tested by the modern world as a mysterious stranger hunts them down.With a dark embrace from five-hundred-year-old vampire Dimitri Rozokov, Ardeth Alexander left behind her mortal life in Toronto. Now they are attempting to forge a new life in Banff, Alberta.—and They share an unspoken agreement not to feed on humans and hunt wild animals off the beaten paths of the national park instead...

An Informative Guide About PC Hardware For Beginners This book covers several topics including: - How To Choose A Monitor For Your PC - Why LCD Monitors Are Better Than CRT - How to Select A Hard Drive For Your PC - Hard Drive Size – Why It’s Important - Hard Drives - External versus Internal - Choosing A DVD-ROM Drive and so much more! Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading devi...

A classic fairy tale gets a horrifying, adult twist, in this suspenseful romance by the author of The Night Inside.Twenty years ago, Simon Donovan, an antiquities scholar, wronged Sidonie Moreau, his former research assistant—and she has not forgotten. Threatening to expose him, she demands he come to her remote mansion in the mountainous north to repay his debt. But she wasn't expecting his son, Matthew, a struggling painter, to take his place.Matth...

Along with bar rooms and bordellos, there has hardly been a more male-focused institution in Texas history than the Texas Legislature. Yet the eighty-six women who have served there have made a mark on the institution through the legislation they have passed, much of which addresses their concerns as citizens who have been inadequately represented by male lawmakers.This first complete record of the women of the Texas Legislature places such well-known figures as Kay Bailey Hutchiso...

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In Opening to Oneness, Zen teacher Nancy Baker offers a detailed path of practice for Zen students planning to take the precepts and for anyone, Buddhist or non-Buddhist, interested in deepening their personal study of ethical living. She reveals that there are three levels of each precept: a literal level (don't kill, not even a bug), a relative level that takes moral ambiguity into account (what if it's a malaria-spreading mosquito?), and an ultimate level—the paradoxical level ...

Stop trying to become “better” by suppressing or hiding parts of yourself, and learn what it means to be fully human with this accessible guide to the core ethical teachings of Zen Buddhism.In Opening to Oneness, Zen teacher Nancy Baker offers a detailed path of practice for Zen students planning to take the precepts and for anyone, Buddhist or non-Buddhist, interested in deepening their personal study of ethical living. She reveals that there are three le...

One Hundred Years of Fighting argues that for a century the Equal Rights Amendment has been highly contested, divisive among women, and symbolic of drastic social change and an expansion of government power. In the 1970s, women of the Old Right joined with women of the New Right to defeat the ERA, using the novel method of rescission to defend tradition. Contrary to the standard portrait of the ERA as coming very close to being ratified (needing only three more states), One Hu...

Greed, revenge, and general mendacity leave Sheriff Brick Walls and his deputies on new and dangerous encounters in this second book of the Brick Walls series. Upon becoming sheriff of Medina County, Texas, Brick Walls begins a new phase in his life. Being an Iraqi War veteran, Brick had looked death in the eye numerous times. And now his new career as sheriff of the county, which he grew up in, once again puts him in harms way. Who is stalking Brick, and is it related to the suitcase full...

Selected for the Notable Social Studies 2022 ListNamed to ALA Notable Children's Books 2022In this Own Voices Native American picture book story, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making.Musquon must overcome her impatience while learning to distinguish sweetgrass from other salt marsh grasses, but slowly the spirit and peace of her sur...

This collection by Teresa Palomo Acosta—poet, historian, author, and activist—spans three decades of her writing, from 1988 through 2018. The collection is divided into four parts: poems, essays, a children’s story, and plays. Each work addresses cultural, historical, political, and gender realities that she experienced from her childhood to the present.The plays, set in the Central Texas Blackland Prairies where Acosta was raised, provide a unique Latina vision of memory, identity...