A child is born. A secret awakens. A life hangs in the balance.Harriet Gordon and her husband are eagerly anticipating their first Christmas together—until a newborn baby is discovered nestled in the nativity scene of the Convent chapel.The infant is unharmed, but the mother is nowhere to be found. What begins as a desperate search to reunite mother and child quickly spirals into something far more sinister.As Curran delves deeper into the ...

A dangerous alpha in rut.Only one omega is willing to help him.For a price.Kane Marrick is the arrogant Head of Security, and he’s the only man standing between Serah and her chance to expand her business and make a living on her own.As a single omega, everybody thinks she should do what she’s supposed to do: find a mate and get pregnant.But Sarah wants to cling to her independence. And she would hav...

A unique collection of the finest Golden Age mysteries – puzzling whodunnits that have entertained and delighted readers for centuries.With Edgar Award-winning Otto Penzler as guide, delve into an irresistible collection of the finest Golden Age American whodunits, including household names and master storytellers, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen and Mary Roberts Rinehart, as well as

Hahmood's latest case gets completely out of hand when the girlfriend of a local young man comes to him for help.Young Toby has fallen in with bad company and joined them to rob a bank. And not just any bank: one that holds the wages for the local railroad company.Tens of thousands of dollars are up for grabs, but when the robbery goes horribly wrong, the gang boss decides to get to the reasons why.Soon, an inevitable confrontation with Hahmood will take place. In t...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

A prosperous nation abandons the impoverished. A world of love and wonder besieged by a hateful cult. An uncharted paradise bears a terrible curse. To bring the lands together, she must tear herself apart.When Ana Blufelt, arguably the most powerful spellslinger in Tabaria, is offered a divine quest promising vast riches, she can't resist. Setting out with her three fellow mercenaries to what appears to be a blissful paradise, success is almost certain.Almost.Meanwh...

The Laws of Life is a memoir full of life-changing stories and life-changing skills. This book will give you all the laws you need to overcome anything, achieve the impossible and live your life with purpose and joy.Phoebe shares the stories of her life with wit and humility and teaches us all how to live with greatness, no matter our circumstances. She shows us how to throw away our victimhood and instead step into our own epic wisdom, power and life mastery.Take your life...

On a sweltering South Carolina night, young Donny de Mone waits proudly at the Summerville station to welcome his father home, while the crowded platform hums with uneasy life and even the animals seem to sense danger. When a weary old Black man begs for food and shelter on his way to his dying daughter, Donny's kindness establishes the story's moral center: compassion, dignity, and quiet courage. Then the earth convulses in a devastating earthquake, hurling Donny to the ground and reducin...

This volume will focus on the locations in which pharmacy was practised and how practice varied with location. The emphasis will be on chemists’ shops in the community and the emergence of chain pharmacies after 1880. It will also include primary sources illustrating the practice of pharmacy in military and naval hospitals, in prisons dispensaries, and in a wide range of voluntary and municipal hospitals and sanatoria, drawing on both national and local archival sources. Relevant sources w...

This volume with focus on the broader roles of pharmacists beyond the supply of medicines and the dispensing of prescriptions. It will cover their various roles in public health and describe their involvement in dentistry and optics. It will explore the responsiveness of pharmacists to outside developments, including the invention of photography and the promotion of health-related electrical apparatus. Finally, it will consider the role of pharmacy in empire and its lasting legacy.

This volume will focus on the professionalization of pharmacy and its separation from medicine in the mid-nineteenth century. Themes which will be covered include women and pharmacy, pharmacy education, and the emergence of pharmaceutical institutions, including ones representing pharmacists employed in minor institutions. It will also consider the emergence of professional regulation in pharmacy.

This volume will focus on the products that are the most closely associated with pharmacy and on their commodification during the course of the century. It will include material relating to the sourcing of both natural and synthetic medicines which will help to illuminate processes of drug discovery and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry in Britain. Other topics addressed will include the invention of new dosage forms, the development of pharmaceutical technology, and the growth of pr...