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Alexis Silver has always defied convention: In the 1920s, she tried to attend college. Oh, by the way, she’s also a mermaid. When a well-to-do woman hires her to find her missing adventurer brother, Alexis feels like she’s landed straight in the middle of the sort of action movie they just don’t make anymore. The man’s trail leads all over the globe, but she suspects he’s not dead - yet. An international mining conglomerate evidently wants whatever the missing explorer has found, and they’re more than willing to kill anyone who gets in their way. Even mermaids.

Raised in a gilded cage, Emala was given everything she wanted from the very day that the Master rescued her mother from execution. Born of a maternal lineage in which human brides were mated to the clannish northern Ragoru triads, Emala grew up listening to her mother’s stories of the Ragoru, though she never expected to follow in her mother’s footsteps. She didn’t fantasize about a triad of mates to shower adoration on her, but a simple life in a village far away from the Master’s watchful eye.

Carl Ramsey se encuentra entre las manos un acorazado abandonado y un centenar de veteranos de la Armada terrestre dejados a su suerte. Con una Armada que será más feliz fingiendo que no existen, lo más lógico parece convertirlos en un imperio criminal. Claro que cuando el 95 por ciento de tus empleados tienen un expediente penal limpio y sus instintos les dicen que sigan las reglas, es probable que te encuentres algunos baches en el camino al delito.

Mountaintop, the last known refuge of humanity, faces a new cataclysm, and only exiled Icelyn Brathius can stop it. But to do so, she must give up all she loves and journey to an accursed, legendary tower in the middle of an unforgiving desert. Can she endure the nightmares and secrets she confronts - and accept what they teach her about herself?

Establishing a Research-Friendly Environment: A Hospital-Based Approach is a unique book that helps clinical nurses conduct or participate in research that leads to better health care in hospitals. Each chapter includes an introduction, working definitions of key concepts, and resources required for success. The text also features numerous case examples that serve to highlight research done by nurses and health professionals in the field.

Before the events of Stolen Moments, Justin Blackthorne. was a man with very different tastes....A man with a past that kept him moving forward. Take a glimpse into the journey that finally brought him to Kentucky, and a little pie stall one lazy August afternoon. Strap in, it’s going to be a wild ride.

«Blackjack, aquí Espantapájaros. Por fin lo he encontrado. Vamos a ser ricos». Carl Ramsey recibe un mensaje de una antigua camarada de escuadrón con una pista sobre el rescate de su vida: un acorazado de ARGO. La nave de la Armada terrestre Odiseo no solo representa más dinero del que la tripulación del Mobius haya visto nunca, sino que puede proporcionar respuestas a lo sucedido con la última nave en la que Carl sirvió durante su tiempo en la Armada.

They say to keep your friends close, but your enemies closer - boy, were they wrong. Jared Bradshaw. The richest kid in our town. Outrageously handsome, obscenely wealthy, and the ladies man that everyone wants. Those sharp, penetrating eyes and muscular body haunt every girl. I can't stand him and his pathetic crew. They made my life a nightmare, and I want nothing to do with them. But Jared has other plans; he's caught me in his sights. He just won't leave me alone. He's chasing after me, and I can't escape him. A hunky soccer player, Brandon, gets me in a way that nobody else does.

Aliens exist and humans are on the endangered species list. So when I save the life of a kid, the last thing I expect is to be thrown onto an alien jail on a planet where the jailers are at war with the inhabitants. All I have to do is figure a way off this hellhole and I look to one being who might help me. He’s one of the most dangerous prisoners here, even though he looks like a sexy angel. But he’s not like anyone I’ve ever met before…stirring desires in me that I can’t, shouldn’t act on. Yet he might be my only chance to escape.

When Savannah Carter takes a job as a personal assistant in upstate New York, she never expected to be working for a man like Wade Hart. With his sparkling green eyes and devious smile, he is a man she both hates and adores. When their professional relationship becomes more intimate, Savannah is ecstatic until she hears a phone call that changes everything.

There is evil in the woods and it wants you dead. They warned us not to enter, but we didn't listen. The call too strong to ignore. And now there is no one left to save us. Beware, these things within the forest will rip out your heart and devour your soul. You will tremble as they revel in your madness, taking everything from you and leaving you with nothing. Delve inside this anthology of what truly lurks within the shadows of the trees.

The entire planet is at risk of being overrun by the dead, and millions of people have succumbed to the Z-Strain Virus. The humans who have outlasted this zombie plague will prove to be ruthless killers willing to do anything to survive this post-apocalyptic world. Abbigail Norrington sets off with her three children and their dog to find safety at the family cabin. They soon discover that Abby's dead husband had an unimaginably violent past that leads them to uncover dangerous secrets about the government.

Cuando la tripulación del Mobius acepta como pasajero a Bryce Brisson para ganar dinero fácil, se ve inmersa en sus negocios con la enemistada familia de Tanny: la Familia Rucker. Y además, Tanny ha agotado el suministro de drogas que necesita para mantener su fisiología mejorada de marine. ¿Traicionará Carl a la familia para conservar su paga, o se lanzará de cabeza a una trampa que no estaba diseñada para él? Si juega mal sus cartas, se arriesga a enemistarse con los gánsteres más despiadados de Marte.

Destiny Delaine has had enough. As daughter of a former high-ranking general who now served as the ambassador of Earth and a socialite mother, she has been reared to be the proper young woman and helpmate. Her parents had her life all planned out, right down to her arranged marriage with one of the planetary representatives under her father. No one asked her what she wanted. Determined as too fat and too old for the mate index, she decided to take her own destiny into her hands.

Obsession. Betrayal. Love. The deadly combination for Cosima and Blake. Blake Hardwicke. The bane of my existence and I'll be damned if I give him any of my attention. He's nothing more than a bully, teasing me to the point of tears when we were young. He won't ruin my freshman year for me. He doesn't own me. He'll be damned if he tries.

Mort lleva décadas huyendo de la Congregación, que ha intentado capturarlo, y ha fracasado una y otra vez. Sin embargo, un nuevo adversario intenta reclamar la recompensa por Mort. Alguien que ha hecho los deberes y ha encontrado las debilidades en la armadura del mago. El Mobius se convertirá en un campo de batalla que llevará a Mort a un callejón sin salida: para salvarse, solo tiene que matar a toda la tripulación; si quiere salvarlos a ellos, la única salida es la rendición.

John Sebastian Marlow Ward was a British author who published widely on the subject of Freemasonry. In this handbook, he takes the mason, step-by-step, through the third degree ritual, attempting to highlight lessons, as well as explain the underlying symbolism which was encountered. He covers questions, passwords, the opening, the symbolic journey, secrets learned, the tracing board and many more facets of the masonic raising ritual.

The main characters are Dr. Mark Ransford, his two wards, Mary and Dick Bewery, and one Dr. Pemberton Bryce - an assistant to Dr. Ransford. Bryce makes unwelcome advances to Mary Bewery and Ransford, after having warned him against these advances, dismisses Bryce. Bryce sets out to make Mary his own while suspecting Ransford and implicate him in the murders. A surprising twist toward the end of the story.

Eighteen-year-old Darren Robertson is spending his senior year at the top of the social hierarchy with best friends Dex and Dimitri. He has a great car, great friends, popularity, and is co-captain of the basketball and soccer teams. Everything a high school senior boy could want. Or is it? Sam Vanwaylen, awkward, shy, quiet, and not in the dating scene, has deemed him invisible it seems. Why is it when she's around, Darren turns from being suave and confident into a nervous wreck?

To save his family.... A boy must be quick. But can he survive the game? Twist’s parent’s died in a prison colony. He has to save his sister from the same fate. But to escape, Twist will need allies, and all of his speed and wits. He and his crew must do the impossible.... And defeat the children of the ruling class within the world of The Game.