Entangled in Them: A Dark Reverse Harem Romance (Dirty Twisted Love Book 1) by Marissa Farrar (Warwick House Press) (494 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

I've been given to three men as payment for a job... But what if they don't want me? The day I'm shoved into an apartment, landing at the feet of three men, my world changes. Dillon, Kodee, and Ryan. They're more than just business partners... I can tell by the subtle touches, the eye contact, the way they press up against each other. The last thing they're expecting is a woman coming into their lives. But now they have me, and while their connection excites me, I've brought danger into their home. I haven't only been given as ...

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It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Revisiting Migrant Networks: Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets (IMISCOE Research Series) by Elif Keskiner (Springer) Price verified 17 hours ago

This open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks often obscure the reality, for example confounding ties with co-ethnics and 'strong ties'. This open access book addresses key questions about the role of networks in migration contexts, particularly in relation to how migrants and their descendants, access the labour market and ...

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Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson (2 Reviews)    Price verified 16 hours ago

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Bamboo Tales by Ira L. (Ira Louis) Reeves (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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State of the Union Address by William Jefferson Clinton (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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Jesus of Detroit by Maysam Yabandeh (10 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

In a modern world plagued by hatred and violence, Jesus, a compassionate Black man, rises to ignite peace and spread the healing power of forgiveness and compassion. His growing popularity pits him against established religious institutions that will stop at nothing short of crucifixion to silence him. As he grapples with defending the authenticity of his mission, complications from a haunting romance challenge his beliefs.

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The Smart Set Correspondence & Conversations by Clyde Fitch (2 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

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Dealing with the Devil (Steele-Wolfe Securities Book 2) by Vicki Tharp (JPC Publishing) (12 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

An anonymous hookup is a great way for Jericho to exorcise his demons... And the woman in his sights might be an angel in disguise... An angel with a sinful body and a dirty mind. Arriving at his new job, Jericho never expects to find the woman there. He should steer clear, but he can't get Cassie out of his head. Even if he's the worst man for her. Jericho is far from perfect, but Cassie doesn't need perfection. She needs honesty. Even though Jericho discloses a big secret, there's more that he's hiding. If Cassie's gambler ...

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Novelsmithing, The Structural Foundation of Plot, Character, and Narration by David Sheppard (Tragedy's Workshop) (43 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Novelsmithing, The Structural Foundation of Plot, Character, and Narration provides the beginning novelist, or perhaps even the experienced novelist who has lost his way, with a discussion of the underlying structure and methods of novel writing. Nowhere else can the aspiring author learn the skills necessary to achieve the organic unity of the novelist's divine trinity: character, conflict and theme, so necessary to a fine work of literature. He will also learn the art of narration, how to lock the conflict, resolve the conflict, ...

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Betrayal (Infidelity Book 1) by Aleatha Romig (Romig Works LLC) (8,979 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

One week. No future. No past. No more. Alexandria Collins has one week to live carefree -- no ghosts of her past or pressures of her future haunting her. Reinventing herself as "Charli," she is knocked off her feet by a sexy, mysterious man who brings her pleasure like she never imagined. With her heart at stake, she forgets that decisions made in the dark of night reappear in the bright light of day. "Some of my tastes are unique. They aren't for everyone. I understand that." Lennox "Nox" Demetri is wealthy, confident, and ...

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President Trump’s First Term: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 5 by Robert X. Browning (Purdue University Press) Price verified 17 hours ago

C-SPAN is the network of record for US political affairs, broadcasting live gavel-to-gavel proceedings of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and to other forums where public policy is discussed, debated, and decided--without editing, commentary, or analysis and with a balanced presentation of points of view. The C-SPAN Archives, located adjacent to Purdue University, is the home of the online C-SPAN Video Library. The Archives has recorded all of C-SPAN's television content since 1987. Extensive indexing, captioning, and ...

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Anecdotes & Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb by W. R. (William Robert) Roe (3 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

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Love Me Dead (Lilah Love Book 3) by Lisa Renee Jones (Julie Patra Publishing) (1,595 Review)    Price verified 16 hours ago

Women are dying. The killer wants to play a game with Lilah Love. Lilah doesn't play games, she doesn't submit to demands. The love of her life, her ex-lover, that isn't so ex at all, Kane Mendez, knows that all too well, but like the hero, or perhaps criminal that he is, he'll try to play the game for her. But this killer isn't playing with Kane, demanding Lilah step up or more blood will be shed. Lilah claims her role on the game board, and she'll do it to save lives, but she isn't happy. And when Lilah isn't happy, someone is ...

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Love in a Small Town (Pine Harbour Book 1) by Zoe York (4,710 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Are they one late-night hayride away from tumbling back into a very bad idea? Olivia Minelli needs a one-way ticket out of Pine Harbour. It's too small for both her and her ex-husband. So when a new job falls into her lap, she grabs it with both hands. When this contract is complete, she'll have enough money saved up to leave town for good. Which means settling some unresolved business with the only man she's ever truly loved, once and for all. Rafe Minelli knows he won't get a second chance at what he once had with his ex-wife. ...

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Dangerous Reunion (Class of '92 Book 1) by Rory Chambers (Porterlance Books) (552 Reviews)    Price verified 16 hours ago

Addison gets more than she bargains for when she flies back home with her best friend to attend her twentieth high school reunion. She is reunited with her high school crush and quickly finds herself tangled up in more trouble than she can handle. This book is a novella, and the first book in a 3-part series. Other Books By Rory Chambers include: Dangerous Reunion (Class of '92 Series, #1) Surviving Las Vegas (Class of '92 Series, #2) Secret Obsessions (Class of '92 Series, #3) Class of '92 Series (Box Set, All 3 Books)

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Human Rights Standards: Hegemony, Law, and Politics (SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics) by Makau Mutua (SUNY Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

How are human rights norms made, who makes them, and why? In Human Rights Standards, Makau Mutua traces the history of the human rights project and critically explores how the norms of the human rights movement have been created. Examining key texts and documents published since the inception of the human rights movement at the end of World War II, he crafts a bracing critique of these works from the hitherto underutilized perspective of the Global South. Attention is focused on the deficits of the international order and how that ...

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Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru by Ilana Johnson (University Press of Colorado) Price verified 5 hours ago

Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse North Coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory. Many volumes on this region are limited to one time period or civilization, often the Moche. While Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru does examine the Moche, it offers a wider thematic approach to a ...

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Reckless at Heart (The Kincaid Brothers Book 1) by Zoe York (1,594 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

He's a grumpy silver fox who's about to become a grandfather, and she's the sunshiny young midwife who wants babies of her own... Owen Kincaid knows how hard it is to have a kid when you're still a kid yourself, and eighteen years after the fact, the paramedic watching his daughter go through the same thing. The last thing she needs is him falling for the new woman in town -- her midwife. Kerry Humphrey finds her new client's father... unsettling. He's tall and brooding and always there, hovering in the background of appointments. ...

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The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of AbanoTales from the German of Tieck by Ludwig Tieck (6 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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Ruined: An MC Romance Novel (Ruined (MC Romance) Series Book 1) by T.O. Smith (Independently Published) (208 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

Three sexy, tattooed, alpha presidents... and she's at the center of them all. The one man who always promised to love me - to take care of me - ruined me. Joey? He's my hero. Joey saw me - broken, barely surviving - barely breathing - and he taught me how to breathe again. He gave me a purpose. But we were oil and water. And Joey? He was the oil - trapping me, smothering me. But I love him - I love this man with every fiber of my being. He's made me promise to keep him with me because without him, I'm not living. I'm dying. And ...

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Taunting the Biker (Biker MC Romance) Book 9: Biker MC Romance (The Biker Series) by Cassie Alexandra (649 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Written by USA Today Bestselling Author Cassie Alexandra. Book one is free right now - Resisting the Biker. We all have weaknesses. She's... mine. Charlie is spoiled, conniving, and used to getting her way. She's a gorgeous, hot mess. One who doesn't take rejection well and fights dirty, like her father. Did I mention that her old man is connected to the Cartel? I don't need that in my life. I have a daughter to raise and another woman who needs my protection. The only problem is, every time I'm near Charlie, I lose my fu*cking ...

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Peaceful Slumber (Soul Connection Book 1) by Nikki Lynn Barrett (367 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Scott I was somewhat normal once. Until I died. It was only for a few minutes, but ever since then, I can see ghosts. The first time I see her is in the cemetery, wearing a blood stained wedding dress. No one else knows she exists. I have no idea how to help her or why I chose to, but she's here now. The one person who makes me feel alive for the first time in ages is a spirit trapped in her own version of hell with no recollection of her life or death. Zelda It sounds like the start of a horror novel or something. I'm the ...

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Obsessed: A Police Romance: A Kidnapping Rescue Romance Book - perfect blend of romance, suspense, and police procedural. by Laura Peterson (2 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

I'm good at three things -- being a cop, playing video games, and knowing my way around a crime scene. Solving puzzles? That's my lifeblood. But this? This is personal. She's missing. A brilliant pathologist who got under my skin, and now she's just another beautiful blonde who's vanished. See, I've solved impossible cases. But Dr. Peggy Scott? She's different. There's another beautiful blonde too, cold on a morgue slab. I have to ask -- are these cases connected? Time's ticking, and every second that slips through my fingers ...

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Mary Jones and Her Bible: An Adventure Book by Chris Wright (White Tree Publishing) (29 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

The true story of Mary Jones who saved for six years to buy a Bible of her own. In 1800, when she was 15, she thought she had saved enough, so she walked barefoot for 26 miles (more than 40km) over a mountain pass and through deep valleys in Wales to get one. That's when she discovered there were none for sale! You can travel with Mary Jones today in this book by following clues, or just reading the story. Either way, you will get to Bala where Mary went, and if you're really quick you may be able to discover a Bible just like Mary's ...

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The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker (1 Review)    Price verified one minute ago

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Midnight Masquerade (Dungeon Singles Night Book 1) by Anya Summers (S & G Books, LLC) (786 Reviews)    Price verified 16 hours ago

Sophia is in trouble. Again. Maybe it's the masks. Maybe she needs to feel something other than regret. Whatever the reason, she is either daring... or foolish... when she trades places with another submissive, and ends up spending the night in her mysterious boss's bed. He doesn't recognize her, but now she's had him, she knows one taste of his dark love will never be enough. Gabriel Ryan has one firm rule: don't sleep with employees. Even though he's infuriated beyond measure to discover Sophia in his bed after a night of ...

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Trump’s First Year in Office: The Awakening by Tom Ersin (GraniteWord.com) (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

Traditional Republicans made a deal with the devil. The devil had other plans. On Inauguration Day 2017, no one knew the depths of havoc to which the White House would descend. Traditional Republicans thought President Trump would mature into the job. The rest is histrionics. In the last months of the 2016 campaign, my wife and partner, Norma, canvassed for the Democratic Party. She always has paid attention to current events, but what motivated her to volunteer this election cycle was the threat of a Trump administration. ...

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Illicit Temptations (The Tempted Series Book 1) by Janine Infante Bosco (262 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

"Mickey has made it on my list of 'guys you can't help but fall in love with' and Janine Infante Bosco will continue to be on my 'Top Authors' List!" - Julie Reveles, I Love Story Time Blog Broken, lost, and alone. That's all I was before New York's most notorious gangster recruited me. Now here I am, following in my father's footsteps and breaking my mother's heart. And I'm torn between the only life I've ever known and the possibility of something else. Because the only beacon of light in this dark world is the one woman I ...

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A Modern Mercenary by Hesketh Vernon Hesketh Prichard (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

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Heir Untamed (Latvala Royals Book 1) by Danielle Bourdon (Wildbloom Press) (8,024 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

Author's note: This is the first book of an 11 part series. The saga plays out over all 11 books, culminating in the final installment, Darkest Hour. Desperate for work to avoid eviction from her Seattle apartment, photographer Chey Sinclair accepts a rare opportunity to travel abroad and photograph Latvala Royalty. Encountering the Royals for the first time, Chey experiences an instant attraction to Mattias, second in line to the throne. He's charming, confident -- and taken. During a horseback ride to clear her head, Chey finds ...

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Jean-Christophe à Paris. English by Romain Rolland (1 Review)    Price verified 16 hours ago

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Japanese Electoral Politics: Creating a New Party System (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies) by Steven Reed (Routledge) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

The old Japanese single-party system collapsed in 1993, but a new system has not yet fully evolved. Following the most significant party reform in Japanese history, this book analyses the most recent national elections, examining voter behaviour and how it is influenced. It provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese politics from 1955 to 1993 and a detailed historical study of events leading up to the 1996 and 2000 elections, before presenting statistical analysis of the elections themselves. The authors then look to the future, ...

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A Black Adonis by Linn Boyd Porter (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

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Torment (Savages and Saints Book 1) by C.M. Seabrook (858 Reviews)    Price verified 16 hours ago

A scream sticks in my throat, but my reflexes work perfectly. I hit the intruder with the only weapon I have - my vibrator. "OMG. THIS. BOOK! Amazing start to this new series! This book had it all and I couldn't help fall in love with the characters. This author has managed to get me hooked to another great series again. It got steamy, teary, angry, and swoony from page one. Not to mention major LOL moments!" ~ Reviewer Six years he's been gone, and then he falls straight into my bed. Literally. And I know my torment is only ...

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The Singing Man A Book of Songs and Shadows by Josephine Preston Peabody (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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State of Grace: A time-slip paranormal vampire romance (Resurrection Book 1) by Elizabeth Davies (1,694 Review)    Price verified 16 hours ago

She has months to live. He's existed for centuries. When fate pulls her into his time, can they find a passion for the ages? Present day. Grace Llewellyn is scared. Thrown into a tailspin by the discovery of a terminal brain tumor, the twenty-seven-year-old pilot heads home to the mountains of Wales to spend her final days among family. And the stricken woman fears it is close to the end when her late-night walk turns into a terrifying hallucination of a sword fight and a beautiful stranger with sharp teeth. Ancient Britannia. ...

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New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century by Pablo Baisotti (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified one hour ago

New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century proposes new visions of global cities and regions historically considered "secondary" in the international context. The arguments are not only based on material progress made by these metropolises, but also on the growing social difficulties experienced (e.g., organized crime, drug trafficking, slums, economic inequalities). The book illustrates the growth of cities according to these problems arising from the modernity of the new century, comparing ...

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Internationalizing "International Communication" (The New Media World) by Chin-Chuan Lee (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

International communication as a field of inquiry is, in fact, not very "internationalized." Rather, it has been taken as a conceptual extension or empirical application of U.S. communication, and much of the world outside the West has been socialized to adopt truncated versions of Pax Americana's notion of international communication. At stake is the "subject position" of academic and cultural inquirers: Who gets to ask what kind of questions? It is important to note that the quest to establish universally valid "laws" of human ...

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De La Salle Fifth Reader by Christian Brothers (2 Reviews)    Price verified 47 minutes ago

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Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective by Michael Butter (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world. Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists, and politicians, not least because conspiracy beliefs have the potential to negatively affect adherence to public health measures. While most of this focus has been on the United States and Western Europe, this collection provides a ...

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The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Gerald Stanley Lee (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement by Wolfgang Seibel (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

This open access book is about mismanagement of public agencies as a threat to life and limb. Collapsing bridges and buildings kill people and often leave many more injured. Such disasters do not happen out of the blue nor are they purely technical in nature since construction and maintenance are subject to safety regulation and enforcement by governmental agencies. This book analyses four relevant cases from Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Germany. Arguing that, while preventing disaster through public oversight is essentially ...

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Nailing the Hit Man: A Bounty Hunter Romantic Suspense (Lipstick and Lead 2.0 Book 1) by Sylvia McDaniel (Virtual Bookseller, LLC) (103 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

The Redhead with the Gun Won't be Denied Jennifer McKenzie Delgado along with her cousins own the fourth generation of Lipstick and Lead. Together, they are determined their business of bounty hunting will continue. The problem is they hold a million-dollar bond on a bail jumper who is nowhere to be found. With the bond in default, they have ten days before the money is due and they lose the company. Once again, Carson Lopez is mistaken for his criminal twin, Christopher, but this time by a beautiful, sexy, bounty hunter. Also ...

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Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement by Hazel Price (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

Increasingly, academics are called upon to demonstrate the value of linguistics and explain their research to the wider public. In support of this agenda, Communicating Linguistics: Language, Community and Public Engagement provides an overview of the wide range of public engagement activities currently being undertaken in linguistics, as well as practically focused advice aimed at helping linguists to do public engagement well. From podcasts to popular writing, from competitions to consultancy, from language creation to community ...

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Protecting What's Mine: An Opposites Attract New Adult Romantic Suspense Novel by Jennifer Sucevic (178 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

There's nothing wrong with a harmless little crush, right? And who better to crush on than the gorgeous man next door. The one who would never look twice in my direction. Except he does. The first time he pins me in place with his dark gaze, I'm rendered speechless. The first time he lays his hands on me, I melt. And the first time he takes me, well... I fall to pieces, wondering if I'll ever be the same again. Everything about him screams danger. And yet I'd be lying through my teeth if I didn't admit that was part of the ...

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Youth without Representation: The Absence of Young Adults in Parliaments, Cabinets, and Candidacies by Daniel Stockemer (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

Officeholders in contemporary parliaments and cabinets are more likely than not to be male, wealthy, middle-aged or older, and from the dominant ethnicity, whereas young adults have an insufficient presence in political office. Young adults -- those aged 35 years or under -- comprise a mere ten percent of all parliamentarians globally, and three percent of all cabinet members. Compared to their presence in the world's population, this age group faces an underrepresentation of one to three in parliament and one to ten in cabinet. In ...

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International Impacts on Social Policy: Short Histories in Global Perspective (Global Dynamics of Social Policy) by Frank Nullmeier (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 minutes ago

This open access book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies and domestic factors have shaped the dynamics of social policy in various parts of the world at different points in time. Each chapter highlights a specific type of interdependence which has been identified to provide us with a nuanced understanding of specific social policy developments at discrete points in history. The volume is divided into four parts that are concerned with a particular type of ...

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Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class: New Voting Patterns (Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century) by Line Rennwald (Palgrave Macmillan) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the class basis of social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the working-class vote is strongly fragmented and social democratic parties face competition on multiple fronts for their core electorate - and not only from radical right parties. Starting from a reflection on 'working-class parties' and ...

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Governing Social Protection in the Long Term: Social Policy and Employment Relations in Australia and New Zealand (Global Dynamics of Social Policy) by Gaby Ramia (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

This open access book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present day, focusing on the relationship between employment relations and social policy. Utilising longstanding and more recent developments in historical institutionalist methodology, Ramia investigates the relationship between these two policy domains in the context of social protection theory. He argues that treating employment relations as dynamic, and as inextricably intertwined with changes in the welfare ...

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Rope by Holworthy Hall (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation by Abigail Leslie Andrews (University of California Press) Price verified 5 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What becomes of men the U.S. locks up and kicks out? From 2009 to 2020, the U.S. deported more than five million people -- over 90 percent of them men. In Banished Men, Abigail Andrews and her students tell 186 of their stories. How, they ask, does expulsion shape men's lives and sense of themselves? The book uncovers a harrowing carceral system that weaves together ...

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Crash and Burn (Wildfire Hearts Book 1) by Savannah Kade (Griffyn Ink) (506 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

He knew he wanted her from the first moment he saw her. Unfortunately, so did a serial killer. Sebastian Kane felt that visceral punch to the gut the first time Maggie Willis walked into his fire station. But his hesitation cost him dearly and new-in-town Maggie is already dating fellow firefighter, Rex. But even his loyalty to the brotherhood can't keep Sebastian away when danger is on Maggie's doorstep. Or maybe already inside her house... How can Sebastian keep Maggie safe when she's determined to catch a dangerous predator? ...

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Don’t Say we didn’t Know by Amos Gvirtz (81 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

The Israeli - Palestinian conflict - a new approach! This book is formulated with the understanding that on both sides of the Israeli - Palestinian conflict there are people who want the same thing: peace and protection of human rights. This fact is also what inspires the author to address some very moral questions and raise constructive and productive explanations about: Why don't people want to know about their own country's crimes? Why do Human Rights and Peace movements' activities evoke such strong opposition? This book ...

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Cowboy in Her Courtroom: A Sweet Contemporary Romantic Suspense (Romancing Justice Book 1) by Kathy Zebert (Words in Color Publishing) (1,239 Review)    Price verified 17 hours ago

A romantic cowboy. A sunset kiss. Everything is perfect until he's charged with murder. Callie Fletcher just wanted to sit on the terrace of her favorite hot spot and watch the sunset over the Texas Hill Country. A table for one, a glass of pinot and the best view in Austin. When Dominic Jaxson, a gorgeous, wealthy cowboy, charms her into sharing the view, the sunset gets even more magical. Months of sunsets later, their affection blooms into love, with dreams of a future together. Never does Callie imagine that this caring and ...

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The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon by Mayne Reid (9 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish (16 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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"The Pomp of Yesterday" by Joseph Hocking (3 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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The Missing Bride by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (28 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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Someone Like You: Escape with this perfect uplifting romance (Swept Away By You Book 1) by Tracy Corbett (Canelo Escape) (170 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

'Another delicious romance from Tracy Corbett. It's fun, quirky and delightfully romantic.' Rosanna Ley, author of From Venice with Love What happens on holiday doesn't always stay on holiday... When mousy factory-worker Lilith Monroe meets gorgeous Will Taylor on holiday, she reinvents herself as Lily, a risk-taking costume designer extraordinaire. What's the harm in a few white lies when she'll never see Will again? Back in England, Will can't stop thinking about Lily. When his events company needs a costume designer last ...

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The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne (9 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

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Merciless Vows: A Dark Mafia Arranged Marriage Romance (Blood and Thorns Book 1) by Faith Summers (Bliss Romance Publishing) (1,278 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

When I was sixteen, a gypsy fortune-teller told me my future held darkness and death. She was right. But what she didn't tell me was I'd lose all my memories and I wouldn't recognize the devil when he came to steal my life. Lucca Dyshekov -- the Bratva assassin they call Merciless -- rose from hell and turned my world upside down. On our wedding day, he taught me real monsters aren't the ones who hide in the dark. They're the ones who stare you in the face and steal your soul. On a quest for revenge, he takes me and unearths ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Parental Life Courses after Separation and Divorce in Europe (Life Course Research and Social Policies Book 12) by Michaela Kreyenfeld (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) economic conditions, (2) parent-child relationships, (3) parent and child well-being, and (4) health. Through studies from several European countries, the book showcases how legal regulations and social policies influence parental and child well-being after divorce and separation. It also illustrates how social ...

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Once a Myth (GODDESS ISLES Book 1) by Pepper Winters (4,603 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

5 x USA TODAY BESTSELLING DARK ROMANCE SERIES! From New York Times bestseller, Pepper Winters, comes a new Dark Romance Series, Goddess Isles. For those who loved Monsters in the Dark, Indebted, and Dollar Series, you'll LOVE this one! "There was a boy once. A boy who wasn't strong enough to save me when I was taken." There was a girl once. A girl called Tess Snow who sat with me in the dark, waiting to be sold. There was an owner once. An owner who bought me, entrapped me, and made me his unwilling goddess." Eleanor Grace is a ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Island (Deceitful Destiny Series Book 1) by S.E. Rose (207 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

A story of hidden truths, unexpected romance, and international crime from USA Today bestselling author S.E. Rose that will have you on the edge of your seat! He promised himself he'd leave his dark past behind. She swore she'd never love again. But rules are about to be broken -- and their hearts will lie in the balance. Single mom, Laura meets a sexy, mysterious man on her trip to Scotland. But what she doesn't know is that he is running from his past, and it's about to catch up with him. Can broken hearts be mended? Can a ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Phonological Augmentation in Prominent Positions (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics) by Jennifer L. Smith (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Phonologically prominent or "strong" positions are well known for their ability to resist positional neutralization processes such as vowel reduction or place assimilation. However, there are also cases of neutralization that affect only strong positions, as when stressed syllables must be heavy, default stress is inserted into roots, or word-initial onsets must be low in sonority. In this book, Jennifer Smith shows that phonological processes specific to strong positions are distinct from those involved in classic positional ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Socializing Development: Transnational Social Movement Advocacy and the Human Rights Accountability of Multilateral Development Banks (Soziale ... by Leon Valentin Schettler (transcript Verlag) (1 Review)    Price verified 16 hours ago

As Multilateral Development Banks increasingly gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social movements pushed to hold them accountable for their human rights impact towards communities. Leon Valentin Schettler presents a novel causal mechanism of movement advocacy towards MDBs, combining disruptive and conventional tactics. Systematically comparing the evolution of human rights standards and complaint mechanisms over the last three decades, he reveals how the combination of 1) declining US hegemony, 2) ...

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Dare to be Loved (Patronus Book 1) by Stacy Lee (6 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Dare to be Loved --Patronus Book 1-- 312 est pages For readers 18 and over due to explicit scenes dealing with sex and other mature topics. Marked from birth... Predestined to be his... Marnie has had an eventful life starting with a car crash that killed her mother at four, an uncle that abused her, her fear of anyone male, a friend that decides he needs her in ways she doesn't want to be needed, to being lost in Yellowstone without food or water. When she finds a man tied up and being beaten by creatures she has never dreamed of ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Severed Angel (Severed MC Book 1) by Ava Manello (KBK Publishing) (841 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Eve lived a very boring, very vanilla life with her boyfriend and two year old daughter. After the douchebag left her, leaving her a penniless single mum, her best friends wedding in Australia came at just the right time. She's missed her childhood friend, Teresa moved to the Aussie sun with her widowed father when the girls were 18, meeting her biker lover out there and now Eve is set to be her Maid of Honor. Instead of having the much needed break she's looking for, she witnesses a crime that puts her life in danger. Her dream ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

The Spanish Habsburgs and Dynastic Rule, 1500–1700 by Elisabeth Geevers (Routledge) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 19 minutes ago

Providing a novel research methodology for students and scholars with an interest in dynasties, at all levels, this book explores the Spanish Habsburg dynasty that ruled the Spanish monarchy between c. 1515 and 1700. Instead of focusing on the reigns of successive kings, the book focuses on the Habsburgs as a family group that was constructed in various ways: as a community of heirs, a genealogical narrative, a community of the dead and a ruling family group. These constructions reflect the fact that dynasties do not only exist in ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Dirty Hearts: A Bad Boy Mafia Romance (Gangsters and Dolls Book 1) by Khardine Gray (Bliss Romance Publishing) (294 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

From USA Today Bestselling author Khardine Gray comes a sexy, delightfully devilish, seductive second chance Mafia Romance. Be prepared to take a walk on the dark side. Claudius Rule #1 of being mafia boss- Trust no one. Rule # 2- Keep your friends and enemies damn close. In the underground world, friends and enemies could be the same thing. Don't let them know who you love... My story started out with a guy who liked a girl. She looked like an angel to him. I was the guy, Ava the angel. But... my life turned into this ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Coal For Kiera: Christmas of Love Collaboration (A Santa Claus, Indiana Story Book 1) by E.M. Shue (57 Reviews)    Price verified 16 hours ago

From award winning author E.M. Shue comes a modern take on a classic Christmas story. Coal Going back to the town I grew up in near Christmas wasn't what I wanted to do. Santa Claus, Indiana celebrated the holiday year around but was worse at this time of the year. Only one reason could make me go back there and I hated him. But the angel that served me had me thinking I could give the town another chance. I had one taste of her, and I was willing to sacrifice everything to protect her, even my freedom. Keira I hated this town and ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Saving the Preacher's Daughter (Dogs of Fire: Savannah Chapter Book 1) by Piper Davenport (1,148 Review)    Price verified 32 minutes ago

18+ for language and sexual situations. Preacher's daughter Willow Miller's idyllic life is shattered in a matter of seconds. In the midst of a devastating heartbreak, she's forced to evaluate everything she thought she believed in and make a choice... the man she thinks she knows or the man who sets her heart aflame. Finn 'Dash' Lloyd doesn't "do" good girls. He's a newly patched member of the Dogs of Fire Motorcycle Club, and he's enjoying all the perks that come with it. But when he finds himself thrust into the unwanted role of ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Control Switch On: A True Story—The Untold Story of the Most Powerful Man in the World—Ryan Moran—Who Shaped the Planet for Peace by Ira Teller Esq. Pharm.D (11 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

Hitch the ride of your life with Ira Teller as he journeys into the mysterious realms of science, invents the Psi-control Switch-the most advanced technology in existence-and teams up with Ryan Moran-the singularly most powerful man in the world. ______ Ryan Moran-a seemingly simple man in cowboy boots, who drinks, smokes, and womanizes-proves himself to be one of the world's most brilliant minds, and together with adventurer Ira Teller endeavors to change the course of world history. ______ Will Ryan's first real love, Erika, ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Her Wild Coast Outlaw: A Small Town Age Gap Military Romance (Wild Hearts Book 1) by Dakota Davies (Savage Creek Press) (552 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

I've got one chance to get her back... or fail the only mission that's ever mattered. I came back to Storm Harbor for a simple job gathering intel for my best friend's security company, but my rule to keep business separate from pleasure goes up in flames when I meet my target's niece, Petra. She's all innocence and sweet curves and way too good for me, which is exactly why I should resist her. In my world, distractions are deadly. And yet, when she opens that sassy mouth of hers and refuses to stay out of trouble... my resolve ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Deathless & Divided (The Chicago War Book 1) by Bethany-Kris (439 Reviews)    Price verified 16 hours ago

Lies and love. This is how a war starts. A life for a life. That's the mafia way. Damian Rossi owes his life to a man who is ready to collect. That payment comes in the form of an arranged marriage to the daughter of another leading family in the Chicago Outfit. He's ready to follow through, even if that means making sure Lily knows she's his. Lily DeLuca isn't being given a choice. Forced home to marry a man she doesn't know and back into a life she'd rather forget, her world is full of half-truths, buried pain, and uncertainty. ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Grey Squirrels London by S J House (Story House) (21 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

A B.R.A.G.Medallion HonoreeBorn under mysterious circumstances, Grey, Pocket, Roots, Dew, Nuts, and Titch are not your ordinary squirrels. Using a tourist map and led by the charismatic Grey, the teenage squirrels embark on a breathtakingly hilarious adventure as they make their way from London's Greenwich Park to Hyde Park to meet the Wise Owl.But the squirrels are not alone. As time ticks and darkness beckons, they are being stalked by the dangerous Rat King and his vicious sewer army.What is the secret of their origins? What did ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Gender in Focus: Identities, Codes, Stereotypes and Politics by Andreea Zamfira (Verlag Barbara Budrich) (1 Review)    Price verified one minute ago

This book deals with the interplay between identities, codes, stereotypes and politics governing the various constructions and deconstructions of gender in several Western and non-Western societies (Germany, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Cameroon, Indonesia, Vietnam, and others). Readers are invited to discover the realm of gender studies and to reflect upon the transformative potentialities of globalisation and interculturality.

Genre: Foreign Languages

Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 2): Comparing Consular Services and Diaspora Policies (IMISCOE Research Series) by Jean-Michel Lafleur (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This second open access book in a series of three volumes examines the repertoire of policies and programmes led by EU Member States to engage with their nationals residing abroad. Focusing on sending states' engagement in the area of social protection, this book shows how a series of emigration-related policies that go beyond the realm of social security address the needs of nationals abroad in the area of health care, unemployment, family benefits, pensions and economic hardship. In addition, this volume highlights the variety of ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis (IMISCOE Research Series) by Jean-Michel Lafleur (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 17 hours ago

This open access book looks at the migration of Southern European EU citizens (from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece) who move to Northern European Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom) in response to the global economic crisis. Its objective is twofold. First, it identifies the scale and nature of this new Southern European emigration and examines these migrants' socio-economic integration in Northern European destination countries. This is achieved through an analysis of the most recent data on flows and profiles ...

Genre: Foreign Languages