He was my brother's best friend… but my brother was never the problem. Everything else was.SloanHave you ever felt such a pull to one person that you cannot control yourself around them? Just one mention of their name and a fire ignites deep within?Well I, Sloan Barton, had that connection... with my brother's best friend.You see, I was in love with Wesley King long before I ever knew what love was. Always tagging along, adm...

The first night I met Parker Cole, he insulted me within five minutes of opening his gorgeous mouth.Between the banter and nicknames thrown at each other, a spark ignited that lingered well beyond that evening.Our next encounter was a night full of masked pleasure and fun, with no expectations. Well, maybe one… for him to stop being such a jerk.Now, much to his disapproval, he's my new boss.As time passes, his presumably impenetrable walls s...

As kids, we had an unexplainable bond. One I don't think we even understood back then.Over time, the pull between us developed into something we could no longer ignore.We were reckless, we were impulsive, we were… everything.Until it all came shattering down.Now, he's a single father, and I'm the estranged best friend who's still hopelessly in love with him—Eli Barton, America's favorite baseball pitcher and the man I walked away from.

This book marks the 10th anniversary of the Routledge journal Transnational Cinemas, and its renaming to Transnational Screens.The introduction reflects on the changing ways in which film is produced, distributed and consumed with the emergence of streamed content providers. Each chapter expands on previous scholarship and interrogates key areas of transnational cinema. Taken together they revisit key concepts of transnational cinema; explore the relationship betw...

MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics represents one of seven volumes of technical papers presented at the Society for Experimental Mechanics SEM 12th International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, held at Costa Mesa, California, June 11-14, 2012. The full set of proceedings also includes volumes on Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials and P...

23 very well-known people from the arts, sport, and business worlds talk about how dyslexia affected their childhood, how they were able to overcome the challenges and use the special strengths of dyslexia to achieve great success in adulthood. Darcey Bussell CBE, Eddie Izzard, Sir Richard Branson, Meg Mathews, Zoe Wanamaker CBE, Richard Rogers, Benjamin Zephaniah, Steven Naismith, Lynda La Plante CBE, Sir Jackie Stewart OBE, Sophie Conran and others share their stories, and their advice.

No longer preoccupied with the East-West divide, contemporary foreign policymakers now have to confront regional conflicts, peace-enforcing and humanitarian missions, and a host of other global problems and issues in areas such as trade, health, and the environment. During the Cold War a widely-shared consensus on national interest and security in the United States and western Europe affected news reporting, public opinion, and foreign policy. But with the end of this Cold War frame of ref...

Struggling with newfound sentience and desperately trying to repair itself, The Indescribable Joy of Destruction is a ship trying to find a new home. In a galaxy torn apart by generations of civil war, that isn't an easy task. Tired of being used as a killing machine, it has a huge decision to make: hide and save itself, or help other artificial intelligences achieve freedom. Unable to make the decision alone, it revives the sole human aboard - the enemy officer who crippled it.Com...

Cian Donnelly is my Da's bitter enemy. He's also the man who won me—and my virginity—in a single hand of cards.Now, he's come to collect.Except I'm tired of being a pawn in a game I have no wish to play. Maybe it's time to make my own rules. The only thing I have to lose is my heart.CW: Attempted SA (not by hero)

One minute you’re a nerdy bookworm… and the next? You’re a damn Fae Slayer in training! Say what?I’ve always hated surprises, so the day I discover I come from a long line of successful Fae Slayers takes the bloody cake. My family expects me to just give up my normal life and my position at a prestigious college to attend some kind of Slayer Academy and follow in their footsteps? Yeah right. Only, I don’t have a choice.Now, instead of worrying abou...

Three wolf-shifting predators want to claim me as their mate.I believe in medicine. In science. In logic.So when I wake up in a house hidden deep in the woods, with three strange men standing guard,I should be kicking and screaming and cussing up a storm.But a pulse of attraction thrums through my veins and drowns out the voice telling me to run.These men say they’re part man, part wolf. And they want me as their mate.Yeah ri...

Twenty-three year old, Amari Hawke, is thrust into the world of two-soul shifters when she is injured and kidnapped by trackers outside the veil, beyond the safety of her homeland. Unable to remember her past, she trusts no one and relies on instinct to survive. As her awakening approaches, the first time she will transition into her animal, she must evade rogue shifters trying to capture her.Now free from the King’s Army, powerful dragon lord, Jaxon Blackthorn, seeks a peaceful li...