Life gets complicated for Steven and Rikki. The story begins with their almost fairy-tale wedding. It’s a great celebration with family and friends and appears to be the beginning of a beautiful life together for them. It does, however, bring with it some unforeseen problems. Steven’s dominant attitude and Rikki’s stubbornness make for some serious head butting and misunderstandings. Daniel (DJ) an old friend of the family arrives for the wedding and immediately catches the eye of Rikki’s ...

The Marking is a standalone book in a series of stories taken from the Case Files of International Investigations and Protection Services Inc. The IIPIS office receives a mysterious and anonymous phone call concerning a young girl, unconscious and badly abused lying in an abandoned warehouse. The agency partners, Rob Henderson and Heath Barton investigate and decide to take the girl back to their premises, so they can find out what happened, before they bring the police into the situation....

This book addresses topics related to the impact of invasive species including biosecurity, demographics, species diversity and food security. It is meant for researchers, upper-level students, and policy makers and provides a factual basis for the underlying science and a discussion of that information with respect to current and future impacts and possible solutions. This book explores the nexus of climate change and biological invasions, resulting impacts (biological and economic) and a...

Drawing upon his experience in teaching this material over the past twenty-five years in forty countries, Ron Man provides a rich and deep examination of biblical worship, drawing principles out of a rigorous study of the text of Scripture. He also writes as a practitioner, from the perspective of one who served as a church worship pastor for twenty-two years. Features distinguishing this book from other similar studies include: 1) a tracing of the foundational Revelation and Response patt...

Escaping to a small town was a way to find herself. But never in her wildest dreams did she expect them.Isabella Reed runs to the only small town containing good memories from her childhood. Her inheritance in one hand and a plan to open her own business in the other. All she needs for her new start. Until a bad fall risks it all.Academic Dean Ben Landry and Doctor Caleb Bishop share everything. But the moment Ben heard about the town’s newest resident, he ...

In this masterpiece of intellectual fiction, Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann takes you to a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community devoted to sickness that becomes a microcosm for Europe's prewar society.Young Hans Castorp planned a three-week visit to his tubercular cousin, only to find himself mysteriously drawn to the isolated mountain retreat. As his stay stretches from months to years, Hans falls under the influence of the remarkable residents: the humanist Settembrin...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H.: The Rainbow Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Mon...

Zach Freeman is a cop with a single obsession. Lee Hastings is a free wheeling, high class prostitute who thinks his life is just fine until Zachary comes along and threatens to turn it upside down.Zach doesn't care about Lee's life or anything else for that matter. He wants to nail the guy who was involved in the death of a little girl, a guy who is one of Lee Hastings' clients.Lee Hastings is about to be given a choice…help Zach put his client away, or face the consequences. Lee realises...

The Posers is a series of two separate stories about love at first sight and playing roles.In 'Jackie', Jackson agrees to help his best friend get through a family holiday by posing as his girlfriend, and then meets the man on his dreams.In "Mercy" a former porn star agrees to help someone make their ex jealous by posing as someone's boyfriend and finds he's the odd man out.Both Jackie, and Mercy discover that true love accepts nothing less than the truth, and honesty begins with oneself.

Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using...

This volumes includes eight stories by Thomas Mann:Death in VeniceTonio KrögerMario and the MagicianDisorder and Early SorrowA Man and his DogThe Blood of the WalsungsTristanFelix Krull

Finally learn the secrets behind casting strong fire spells and making them work faster and more effectively than ever before!Do you feel like your candle spellcasting is not as strong as it could be?Do you feel like your fire spells aren't as fast and effective as they could be?Fire magic can be extremely powerful but use the wrong techniques and your fire spell will be as useless as a glass hammer which means you may even do more harm than good to...