This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It examines changes to tick distribution and the evidence that climate change is responsible. The eff...

'Holycowboy Levi & Tessa just stole my heart. I am a sucker for a small town grumpy/sunshine trope and add in a nanny who is the town rogue and WAM BAM, Levi swooped in, conquered and swept me off my friggin feet!' Reader Review, 5*---JOB SEARCH: Hideaway Springs, CORESULTS: 1Single-dad rancher seeking live-in nanny for 9-year-old boy. Must have experience, be playful and not lo...

A Barefoot Bay NovelWhen running is all you've ever known . . .Caught between fight and flight, Zoe Tamarin has always picked flight. Since she was rescued from a nightmare childhood by her great-aunt Pasha, they've been on the move, never staying in one place long enough to risk exposing their precarious past. But now that they've reached the sun-baked shores of Barefoot Bay, Zoe may have to stay and fight-for her aunt's life . . . and for a love she ran from years before.

A provocative, timely, and deeply-researched history of gun culture and how it reflects race and power in the United States

What if Beauty tricked her sister into taking her place with the beast?Henri needs a pretty wife to help his business associates overlook his disfiguring scars and eye patch. Conveniently, the father of the most beautiful girl in Provence owes him an enormous debt and agrees to allow Henri to court her as partial payment.When Celeste is tricked into going to Henri’s home in her sister’s stead, she believes she’s only there to be his housekeeper. Thrilled to leave Marseille ...

Viola is a career oriented nurse whose life is turned topsy turvy by a recent break up with her girlfriend Trina and then the introduction of a sweet talking burn victim named Rachel. While one relationship in Viola's life is falling apart, she's forced to wonder if she's been selling herself short as she gets closer and closer to Rachel.But Rachel isn't as perfect as she seems. She has a bad girl past that's catching up with her fast and the longer Viola stays in her life, the gre...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes Loving, a tender, faith-filled conclusion to the beloved Bailey Flanigan series that explores love, trust, and the courage to follow God's plan.Bailey Flanigan has finally achieved her lifelong dream of performing on Broadway, but her heart is still divided. Torn between her longtime friend Cody Coleman and movie star Brandon Paul, Bailey seeks God's guidance to discern where her true...

An asteroid impacts Earth, forever changing life on our planet. Only the object wasn’t an asteroid …For thirty-two years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma of time and space that predicts humanity will perish on December 21, 2012 (the winter solstice). Julius believes that certain mysterious sites: the Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, the giant desert drawings of the Nazca Plateau, the temple of Angkor Wat, the Pyramid of the Su...

Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native AmericansIn this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing how these ideas evolved, and drawing from history, the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as:“Columbus Discovered America”“Thanksgiving Proves the I...

All Amberlyn Darksky has ever wanted is to be normal. But what if normal is everything supernatural and legendary? Amber has never been ordinary. She has a gift, the ability to see memories through simple touch, and for her its a curse. Especially when she has to relive her mothers death the night she was born, through her fathers eyes. Leading a sheltered life for years under his constant watch has her yearning for freedom and her acceptance into Cyprus Falls University gives her just tha...

Finding out he's a father is life-changing enough. Only now the four-year-old daughter Garrett Miles never met is coming to live with him. Turning to Libby Carter for guidance could be the ideal solution. Garrett thinks Libby is great, and she seems to like him and the idea of sharing child care. But there are some things the single mother isn't sharing.Libby fled with her son to Desperation to escape her abusive ex. She's hoping the close-knit Oklahoma small town will be the place ...

Evan's a D&D geek who coded his dream domme Lady Seraphine, a leather-clad queen with a whip and a smirk. One whiskey-soaked night, his basement blurs, and he's chained in his own dungeon, her voice purring commands he can't resist. She's real now cruel, curvy, and riding him raw teasing out his dirtiest fantasies as she breaks him, body and soul. Tech or magic, dream or glitch, he's hers drooling, begging, lost to the mistress he built. Dare to roll the dice?