Peach is a highly valuable temperate fruit crop with significant consumer demand and nutraceutical benefits. This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage on sustainable production processes for peach and nectarine. The latter is a natural mutation of peach that lacks fuzzy skin. It includes fundamental information to help reduce production risks for growers, improve fruit quality, and increase potential market returns, whilst addressing current emerging issues such as climate c...

Join lovable Mina Starsiak Hawk from HGTV’s hit show Good Bones as she brings her signature humor and heart to this warm and welcoming story about families of all shapes and sizes. Gather around for this celebration of diversity and acceptance as you are reminded just how wonderful it is to be part of your own unique family.Strong families, like strong houses, have sturdy foundations built on trust, love, and a whole lot of TLC. And like houses, no two fam...

I wonder, when did humanity lose its common sense?In our politically correct society, there is no room for tolerance, patience or empathy. These are the words of a man at the end of his wits. Be Right Back, Gone Adulting, are the memoirs of a man who, in every aspect of his life, cannot fathom the utter nonsense that plagues humanity. This therapeutic collection of cartoons humorously explores all that society has to offer and shines light on what we the people have blindly accepte...

She doesn’t need love. She’s getting cats. Lots of them.She absolutely doesn’t need a sexy alien making her think of happily ever afters...Elise doesn’t need a man, she has enough with her job and ensuring her brother, the President, stays out of trouble. Or, at the very least, doesn’t get humanity into an intergalactic war it can’t win.She doesn’t have time for herself, never mind love, so when sexy alien Cade turns up in the bar s...

**Companion / slice of life story to “The Dragon Queen’s Fake Fiancé”**She’s made the list, and checked it twice…Cadeyra the White has finally found her soulmate in Sawyer Stone. The guests are invited, the chapel prepared for the Dragon Queen’s Christmas Wedding, because sometimes the best Christmas presents aren’t under the tree.

She escaped his medical bay for fries. Now the galaxy's most possessive healer is taking her off-station himself…Delilah Sawyer has always been the disaster… the impulsive one, the broke one, the woman nobody chooses. Waking from a coma on an alien space station should convince her to take life more seriously, but escaping medical for a free burger seems perfectly reasonable. Unfortunately, her terrifyingly handsome and sexy alien doctor disagrees.When Kell...

He's the lone human male in a sea of lethal alien warriors. He's either gifted or suicidal...Kidnapped by aliens, rescued, and now on a secret base in a system he can't even pronounce, Major Jay Stephens has given up on a wing and a prayer... he's now on kicking butt and taking names. Especially when it comes to the alien AI who's risked everything, even her 'life' to protect him.The only problem... she's gone and gotten herself a body. Beautiful and delica...

Colony widow, desperate mother, reluctant mate…Her kids needed doctors she couldn't afford. The Latharian Mate Program seemed like Eira's only way out. Walking away from her husband's memory and their family home gutted her, but the space station offered what the colony couldn't—a fighting chance for her children's health.Being matched with the station's intimidating Lead Engineer—a warrior with combat honors who's already raising a daughter of his own—wasn...

Death's big business. For Laney, it's a full-time job.Reaper extraordinaire, Laney Larson, is stuck in small-town Liberty. One, there's way more paranormal activity going on than normal for a little town like Liberty. And two, a sexy as hell cop called Troy.When the proverbial hits the fan and they get wind of a demon break-out from the third hell, a prison even the demon king himself won't set foot in, what's a reaper to do but strap on her blades and help...

She’s pregnant without nookie. Someone lied to her about the birds and the bees.Being kidnapped by aliens isn’t so bad, especially as it allows Jess to be close to a certain handsome healer. She thinks he’s more interested in his tests and her genetic code than in her as a woman, until a hot encounter proves just how wrong she was.When Laarn is called away to the battlefield, she gets treatment from the automated systems in his lab. Button-mashing alien tec...

She’s behind enemy lines. Being claimed by an alien warrior is not on her agenda.When talks with the Lathar start to fail Dani finds herself in a situation every soldier dreads… a diplomatic mission. Alone on the alien ship without backup, she must play nice, rescue a VIP, and somehow get them both back to her own ship without causing a diplomatic incident that could result in the annihilation of the human race.She didn’t count on one hot as hell alien warr...

Tall, blond and handsome has been tailing her for months.But born a warlock and trained by a demon, Beth Roark isn't a woman to be put off her game by a pretty face, not even when he almost catches her on her last job, the last job, the one that will fund her retirement from a life of crime. One soul-stealing kiss and she's gone, but he's not that easy to get rid of. And neither are the bully-boy wolves who first hired her to steal for them and now want her head on...