Volume One contains 80 paintings, descriptions, and the stories and methods behind the paintings.

Cierra Cantrell has had little experience with men after a painful experience in her life left her too insecure to discover and free the passionate woman within.After following the advice of her mother, Cierra agrees to accept family friend Isabella Duvall’s offer for help in obtaining a marriage of convenience.When Isabella’s gorgeous brother Ryker —shows up, Cierra can’t stop dreaming about him. With nothing left to lose, Cierra walks headfirst into the unknown. But thing...

*New Edition* A seductive story of passion, secrets and deception-a warm, cozy, deliciously decadent, quirky and fantastic read!Eve's got secrets. Doesn't everyone?Some secrets are meant to be kept. Others are dangerous enough to destroy everyone who discovers them.Eve Lafoy has learned that protecting her heart is safer than trusting it. But when a dangerously irresistible man enters her life, the attraction between them threatens ...

Return to California's glamorous Bay Area for a seductive second-chance romance where irresistible chemistry, supernatural mystery, buried family secrets, and a touch of magic collide with a love neither Lavender Lundy nor Flint Ambrose DeVille ever expected.Flint Ambrose Deville and Lavender Ann Lundy discover a love that's as electrifying as it is unexpected, yet danger brews in the shadows of their Silicon Valley Lives.Nicholas La Cour, haunted by his fa...

With the establishment of optometry as the primary eye care profession, and significant reforms under way in health care, the opportunity exists now to add value to an independent eye care practice for both the doctor and the patient. The favorable geographic distribution of optometrists in rural and urban locations lends well to the evolving trends of health care in America. Ease of access to care without having to travel long distances lends well to the economics for patients.The...

The events of 1968 are often seen purely as a student revolution, but impacted on every aspect of French society – theatre, film, sexuality, race, the countryside, the factories. This volume explores the full diversity of this extraordinary upheaval, and shows how 1968 continues to reverberate in France today.

A long way from Montana Territory, Falcon MacCallister is back east, visiting his family, with Buffalo Bill Cody by his side. When the government asks both men to take a break from being famous to get back to fighting, Falcon and Buffalo Bill head west-into a hornet's nest of trouble.A renegade Indian has followed his vision of bloodshed on a once peaceable territory. A land baron uses the slaughter as an excuse to clear out a valley. And the U.S. Army, trying to keep the peace, is...

When his magical multistring duar snaps in half, Jon-Tom the spellsinger sets out on a journey that will take him all the way back to...America!Jon-Tom has been trapped in a strange land of talking owls and wizarding turtles for a year now, his sole consolation that in this universe his musical abilities have inadvertently made him something of a sorcerer. But when an encounter with some burglars leads to him snapping the magical duar that channels his power, he finds himself an or...

Bounty-hunter turned "businessman" Rafe Kingston is the fastest gun in the west... and the last person you want to see on your doorstep. So you can imagine how the O'Brien brothers feel when this vicious vermin shows up at their ranch with a letter, signed by a U.S. Senator, claiming he's the rightful owner of their land.Not only does Kingston have a legal document, he's got five of the meanest an blood-thirsty gunslingers to ever draw a breath backing him up. That's six ruthless k...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way wind energy systems are analyzed and monitored, creating a smarter, more efficient renewable energy sector. By integrating machine learning algorithms and predictive analytics, AI enables operators to forecast wind patterns with greater accuracy and proactively detect faults before they impact productivity. These intelligent systems not only enhance energy output and operational reliability but also reduce maintenance costs and enviro...

They ride after sundown. Black robed figures with skulls for faces, terrorizing the town of Recoil like the horsemen of the Apocalypse. If the sheriff hopes to defeat this hellish band of outlaws, he'll need back-up.Enter Colonel Shamus O'Brien. The seasoned ranch hand and patriarch has fought off more than his share of horse thieves and marauders. But he's never seen anything like these ornery devils. They torch the town without warning, killing and destroying everything in sight....

In Age of Myth, fantasy master Michael J. Sullivan launched listeners on an epic journey of magic and adventure, heroism and betrayal, love and loss. Now the thrilling saga continues as the human uprising is threatened by powerful enemies from without—and bitter rivalries from within.Raithe, the God Killer, may have started the rebellion by killing a Fhrey, but long-standing enmities dividing the Rhunes make it all but impossible to unite against the common foe. And even if the cla...