The Man Who Crossed Worlds (Miles Franco Book 1) by Chris Strange (Cheeky Minion) (137 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

All freelance Tunneler Miles Franco wants is a bit of freedom and a couple of bucks to rub together. So when the cops haul him downtown for smuggling people between worlds, he'll take any chance he can get to stay out of the pen. And funnily enough, the cops have just the job for him. A mysterious interdimensional drug lord is staking his claim on Miles' city, and the cops need Miles' expertise to cut off the drug lord's supply before it starts the biggest gang war in the city's history. But snooping around in gang business is a ...

Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Union of Renegades (The Rys Chronicles Book 1) by Tracy Falbe (Falbe Publishing) (80 Reviews)    Price verified 17 minutes ago

In this opening novel of The Rys Chronicles you'll meet a man scarred by bad deeds who answers the call of a heroic cause. An unconventional heroine will tug at your sympathies as she bravely faces adversity with all the strengths and vulnerabilities of her womanhood. And overarching it all are the rys. Their magic makes them superior to humans, but they are not above employing humans in their deadly schemes. Union of Renegades begins the love story between Dreibrand Veta an ambitious military officer and Miranda an escaped slave. ...

Genre: Fantasy

Her Brave Wolf (Marked by the Moon Book 1) by Kestra Pingree (687 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

She's smitten by a wolf. Gwendolyn Laney was just an ordinary park ranger until the day she was bitten by a wolf, a wolf that can turn into a hot-as-sin man. There's some kind of magic drawing her to him. Maybe someone more sensible would be worried, but not Gwen. She knows she belongs with him. He can't have a human. Nickolas Sipe is the Alpha of Blue Pack. He has a duty to all of his wolves, and that duty means keeping humans away. Humans have no place in the pack. They're the ones to blame for wolf-shifter misfortunes. It ...

Genre: Romance

Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War (Central European Studies) by Mate Nikola Tokić (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian separatists. Operating in countries as widely dispersed as Sweden, Australia, Argentina, West Germany, and the United States, Croatian extremists were responsible for scores of bombings, numerous attempted and successful assassinations, two guerilla incursions into socialist Yugoslavia, and two airplane hijackings during the height of the Cold ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Harold B. Lee by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (58 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Harold B. Lee, eleventh President of the Church and an Apostle for over three decades, bore humble witness from a full heart "that God lives, that Jesus is the Redeemer of the world." With conviction born of years of service he said, "My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonement of the Savior of all mankind, who has given us the plan of salvation which will lead us into eternal life, where God and Christ dwell." The journey home to our Father in Heaven was a central focus of ...

Genre: Religion & Spirituality

Savage Hunger by Shelli Stevens (Shells Bells Publishing) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Sienna Peters is a scientist trying to get ahead in the field. But her world is sent spinning when she discovers a secret shapeshifter species being held in the lab where she works. Realizing the horrible things being done to them, she's compelled to free the creatures. Warrick Donovan is a federal agent on a mission who just found more trouble than he bargained for. Unfortunately, trouble comes in the form of Sienna Peters, the younger sister of his close friend. Now not only does he need to save her pretty butt, he needs to ...

Genre: Romance

Mergeworld: Book One by Mason Elliott (54 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Two college friends wake up to their city under attack by hordes of ravening monsters. An interdimensional cataclysm jumbles half of Urth with half of a magical world called Tharanor. After the Merge, both mixed-up dimensions plunge into Chaos. On Urth/Tharanor, medieval buff David Pritchard battles to help lead the defense of the city... when he's not chasing after the hot new wizard girl in town. On Tharanor/Urth, wild west maven Mason Tyler and his shooting gear fall into a lake of Wild Magic. He rises up, in a reality where ...

Wolfkind by Stephen Melling (148 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

WOLFKIND In Los Angeles the question on everyone's lips... "Who is the Invisible Assassin?" The elusive hit man who has the authorities baffled, the general public intrigued and the local gangland highbrows hiding behind razor wire and hi-tec weaponry. With the city's second most powerful crime family slaughtered, Joshua Grenire is pressed into action by his mentor, Max Barlow: hunt and kill the assassin. Though burdened by social inexperience and the crushing responsibility of his mission, he is at the same time buoyed with ...

Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Revisiting Migrant Networks: Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets (IMISCOE Research Series) by Elif Keskiner (Springer) Price verified 10 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 ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Why we should read by S. P. B. Mais (3 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

The life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer by Isambard Brunel (10 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

The Salish Sea: A McClintock-Carter Crime Thriller (The Salish Sea Series Book 1) by Susan Lund (Amazon Digital Services) (1,697 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

A girl with no name... Penny doesn't remember much about her childhood and what she does remember isn't all that great. She and her mother moved too many times to a series of cheap motels. There were too many men visiting her mother and none of them were her father. As for him, all Penny knew was that her father was rich and dead. She was found abandoned on a deserted beach on the Salish Sea when she was four years old, and didn't even know her own name. Shunted from one foster home to another, she struggled to overcome the ...

Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Exile by Glynn Stewart (1,812 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

A shackled Earth, ruled by an unstoppable tyrant An exiled son, and a one-way trip across the galaxy A perfect world, their last hope for survival Vice Admiral Isaac Gallant is the heir apparent to the First Admiral, the dictator of the Confederacy of Humanity. Unwilling to let his mother's tyranny stand, he joins the rebellion and leads his ships into war against the might of his own nation. Betrayal and failure, however, see Isaac Gallant and his allies captured. Rather than execute her only son, the First Admiral instead decides ...

Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Watcher - Book One of the Watcher Series by AJ Eversley (269 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Hunt the Bots. Avoid the Carbons. Stay alive. Sawyer's life is simple, if not easy. Her home might be in ruins, but she can protect what's left of it. A city destroyed by the bots -- that's home. Humans have been hunted, but Sawyer is one of a few who have turned the tables. She's a Watcher. Taking out the bots one by one. Protecting what's left. It's the carbons she needs to be wary of. Faster and stronger than humans, they're dangerous. But Sawyer's smarter. That will keep her alive. At least, that's what she believed. But the ...

Genre: Children's eBooks

Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Light Chasers: A Novel of Lasniniar (The World of Lasniniar Book 1) by Jacquelyn Smith (WaywardScribe Press) (13 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Valanandir's throat spasms as he tries not to choke. He spits out a salty mouthful of seawater and grips some nearby rigging one-handed as the ship rocks beneath him. Under skies devoid of moon or sun, Valanandir fights for his life alongside his Sea Elf crew. But his ship already burns like a funeral pyre in the middle of the storm-tossed ocean. ... And far more than he realizes depends on his survival. Lose yourself in the thoroughly imagined World of Lasniniar with this first novel in the epic fantasy series by the author of ...

Genre: Fantasy

Wizard of Abal (The Archimage Wars Book 1) by Philip Blood (19 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

Nicolas is a wizard... and he is kind of an ass. Yes, you heard me! Worse, he is so angry he forgets to use the brains the Silent Mother gave him, back when she created this crazy universe. But, as you will eventually discover, there is a reason for Nick's bad temper and lack of manners. Join this once powerful wizard as he begins a journey of discovery, redemption, and growth that will take him to the craziest places in the universe. However, to begin with, Nick has a problem; a mage stole his memories. Now, as just a regular guy, ...

Genre: Fantasy

Find Me: YA Paranormal Romantic Suspense (Immersed Book 1) by Francesca Riley (Ocean Echo Books) (489 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

A magical love. An ancient curse. To free him she'll give her very soul. Skye Sebastian knows he's dangerous. Years after a childhood trauma seventeen-year-old Skye reluctantly returns to the seaside town of her greatest happiness and darkest terrors. But the sensitive young artist is stunned when she meets an alluring boy who has long haunted her dreams. Ignoring her inner warnings Skye deceives her friends, spending more and more time with the enigmatic young man. When his true origin and destiny are revealed she searches for a ...

Genre: Teen & Young Adult

At Any Price: A Billionaire Auction Romance (Gaming The System Book 1) by Brenna Aubrey (Silver Griffon Associates) (14,483 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

"This is one of 13 romance novels that should be on every woman's bucket list."--Bustle.com I had the craziest idea when I decided to auction my virginity online. I have reasons for it. Good reasons. My mom's hospital bills, for one. My medical school tuition, for another. By day, I'm a student and popular gaming blogger, but my dream is to become a doctor. This auction could free me from a crushing pile of debt and give me the cash I need to make my dreams a reality. And honestly, I'm also looking forward to cashing in that ...

Genre: Romance

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Digital Health Care in Taiwan: Innovations of National Health Insurance by Po-Chang Lee (Springer) Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book introduces the National Health Insurance (NHI) system of Taiwan with a particular emphasis on its application of digital technology to improve healthcare access and quality. The authors explicate how Taiwan integrates its strong Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry with 5G to construct an information system that facilitates medical information exchange, collects data for planning and research, refines medical claims review procedures and even assists in fighting COVID-19. Taiwan's NHI, ...

Genre: Medical eBooks

Decoding Your Dreams Part Three: Dream Interpretation Books (What Does Your Dreams Mean Book 3) by Tella Olayeri (8 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

God has never ceased using dream and visions to guide, instruct, and warn us. We pray but God answer us through dreams. We hear the word of the Lord through dreams. Dreams are the most common way God speaks with us. Unlike the early Christians, today's believers often treat dreams, like junk mail. This is wrong, This book bridges the gap. It will introduce you to how God speaks through dream and visions. This book is a hope builder; a Christian reference book for interpreting dreams. It will give you hope to learn and hear God's ...

Genre: Religion & Spirituality

Regiment of Women by Clemence Dane (11 Reviews)    Price verified 17 minutes ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Biomineralization: From Molecular and Nano-structural Analyses to Environmental Science by Kazuyoshi Endo (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 52 minutes ago

This open access book is the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Biomineralization (BIOMIN XIV) held in 2017 at Tsukuba. Over the past 45 years, biomineralization research has unveiled details of the characteristics of the nano-structure of various biominerals; the formation mechanism of this nano-structure, including the initial stage of crystallization; and the function of organic matrices in biominerals, and this knowledge has been applied to dental, medical, pharmaceutical, materials, agricultural and environmental ...

Genre: Science & Math

The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr (2 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

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Genre: Religion & Spirituality

Consequences: Book 1 of the Consequences Series by Aleatha Romig (8,577 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Book #1 of the bestselling Consequences series: From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes a suspenseful thriller about secrets and deception, passion and love, choices and consequences. Every action has consequences. Waking in an unfamiliar bedroom in a luxurious mansion, Claire Nichols is terrified to discover that a chance encounter led her into the cruel hands of her abductor, Anthony Rawlings. Claire has no understanding of why she's there, but it's been made abundantly clear -- she is now his ...

Genre: Romance

The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller (2 Reviews)    Price verified 52 minutes ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Charles A. Beach (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Just One Fake Date: A Contemporary Romance (Flatiron Five Fitness Book 1) by Deborah Cooke (1,619 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Straight out of college, five friends with a dream joined forces to build success. Ten years later, their exclusive fitness club, Flatiron Five Fitness, is the hottest destination in Manhattan. People flock to F5F to get fit, to get lucky, and even, to fall in love. The founding partners have been immune to F5F's romantic spell -- at least, so far... Tyler McKay has a plan... And it doesn't include a serious relationship anytime soon. Between his day job and being a partner at Flatiron 5 Fitness, he's busy investing in the future. ...

Genre: Romance

What An Earl Wants (Scandalous Ladies Book 1) by Shirley Karr (896 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

What's a lord to do? Benjamin, Earl of Sinclair, is living in chaos. So many of his well-trained servants are pairing up and running off to be wed that his friends begin calling him The Matchmaking Earl. Fortunately, his talented new secretary, J. Quincy, begins setting the household to rights. But imagine Sinclair's surprise when he discovers the "J" stands for Josephine. His favorite employee is a lady in disguise! Jo desperately needs this position, and never actually lied about her gender... though she didn't expect Sinclair to ...

Genre: Romance

The Isles of Scilly Their Story their Folk & their Flowers by Jessie Mothersole (10 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Of North Blood Drawn (Magen Book 1) by C. J. Watterson (Corvids Press) (187 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Thousands of years have passed. An ancient prophesy has not been fulfilled, forgotten and misunderstood... Born without telepathy, Magen is exiled by his people, the mythical "North Ice-Islanders". He becomes ensnared in the Seatons' long-running interplanetary war with Es'stus. Other, more ancient forces are watching. A spy is sleeping. Expect a motley crew, action, witty banter, romance and some provoked thoughts. Magen's arrival doesn't go unnoticed. The Seaton Guard conscript him and the enigmatic Marshal Damoclus, guessing his ...

Genre: Science Fiction

Bound by Earth: The Nature Hunters Academy Series, Book 1 by Quinn Loftis (1,114 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Tara Thompson cannot be injured. Since the night her parents died in a tragic accident, she hasn't felt pain of any kind, not so much as a papercut. And she has no idea why. Though her body healed quickly, her heart and soul took its time. Luckily, a loving foster mom and an unwanted best friend stepped in to speed up the process. Despite Tara's best efforts, her new BFF, Shelly Smith, just wouldn't go away. By their senior year, the girls were thick as thieves and would probably become thieves if Shelly had anything to say about ...

Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 23) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) Price verified 9 hours ago

For some, the connection between Jews and athletics might seem far-fetched. But in fact, as is highlighted by the fourteen chapters in this collection, Jews have been participating in-and thinking about-sports for more than two thousand years. The articles in this volume scan a wide chronological range: from the Hellenistic period (first century BCE) to the most recent basketball season. The range of athletes covered is equally broad: from participants in Roman-style games to wrestlers, boxers, fencers, baseball players, and ...

Genre: Sports & Outdoors

Mishpachah: The Jewish Family in Tradition and in Transition (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 27) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) Price verified 7 hours ago

Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives-sometimes also close friends." As accurate as such definitions are, they fail to capture the diversity and vitality of real, flesh-and-blood Jewish families. Families have been part of Jewish life for as long as there have been Jews. It is useful to recall that the family is the basic narrative building block of the stories in the biblical book of Genesis, which can be interpreted in the ...

Genre: Religion & Spirituality

The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Gerhar Hauptmann (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Genre: Science Fiction

Next Year in Jerusalem: Exile and Return in Jewish History (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 30) by Leonard J. Greenspoon Price verified 9 hours ago

Next Year in Jerusalem recognizes that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition. The fourteen papers in this collection examine this phenomenon from different approaches, genres, and media. They cover the period from biblical times through today. Among the exiles highlighted are the Babylonian Exile (sixth century BCE), the exile after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple (70 CE), and the years after the Crusaders (tenth century CE). Events of return include the aftermath of the ...

Genre: Religion & Spirituality

Who Is A Jew?: Reflections on History, Religion, and Culture (Studies in Jewish Civilization Book 25) by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 47 minutes ago

Jewish identity is a perennial concern, as Jews seek to define the major features and status of those who "belong," while at the same time draw distinctions between individuals and groups on the "inside" and those on the "outside." From a variety of perspectives, scholarly as well as confessional, there is intense interest among non-Jewish and Jewish commentators alike in the basic question, "Who is a Jew?" This collection of articles draws diverse historical, cultural, and religious insights from scholars who represent a wide ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Invisible Justice (Justice Series Book 1) by Kim Jewell (151 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Book #1 in a series about teenagers that were tampered with as babies - injected with a combination of drugs that were designed to leave them with super abilities. Over time the teens start to find each other, form a team, and search for answers and the man who did this to them. Likened by readers to X-Men and Heroes, Invisible Justice is a contemporary take on teenage super heroes. Sam Dixon is a fairly typical teenage boy - great parents, active school life, pesky sister - with a nice life. That is until it is turned upside down ...

Genre: Children's eBooks

Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant by Hugh S. Fullerton (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Time After Time: A young adult 1980s time travel novel by Sara Crawford Price verified 9 hours ago

Megan Gallagher has only ever seen her mother as neurotic and overworked. When a Whitney Houston song at the 80s dance sends Megan back to 1987, she discovers her teenage mom dressed in all black and sneaking liquor in the bathroom. After preventing her mom's drunk car accident, Megan realizes she has one month to get her teenage parents to stop partying and learn enough about her family's secret to get back home. Too bad the much cuter teenage version of her history teacher is such a distraction. With time running out and her ...

Genre: Teen & Young Adult

Teaching the Empire: Education and State Loyalty in Late Habsburg Austria (Central European Studies) by Scott O. Moore (2 Reviews)    Price verified 12 minutes ago

Teaching the Empireexplores how Habsburg Austria utilized education to cultivate the patriotism of its people. Public schools have been a tool for patriotic development in Europe and the United States since their creation in the nineteenth century. On a basic level, this civic education taught children about their state while also articulating the common myths, heroes, and ideas that could bind society together. For the most part historians have focused on the development of civic education in nation-states like Germany, France, and ...

Genre: History

President Trump’s First Term: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 5 by Robert X. Browning (Purdue University Press) Price verified 9 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 ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Eva and Otto: Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler by Tom Pfister (Purdue University Press) (22 Reviews)    Price verified 17 minutes ago

Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910-1991) and Otto Pfister (1900-1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans -- Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic -- who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment ...

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users (Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences) by Suzanne M. Ward (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and ...

Mage's Apprentice: A Young Adult Fantasy (Mages of New York Book 1) by Sean Fletcher (Epic Worlds Publishing) (378 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

A human thief with no magic, apprenticed to the strongest Mage. What could possibly go wrong... Aspen is a Norm. A human. And in the supernatural boroughs of New York City, that's a quick way to wind up dead. Or worse. She didn't plan on becoming apprenticed to one of the strongest members on the Council of Mages. She really didn't plan on taking part in a deadly magical competition against Isak, her handsome, aggravating, dangerous opponent. Yet as much as Aspen hates it, something sinister is going down in the magical boroughs ...

Genre: Teen & Young Adult

Letters of George Ade (The Founders Series) by Terence Tobin (Purdue University Press) Price verified 7 hours ago

George Ade, one of the most beloved writers of his day, carried on a lively correspondence with the most colorful of the great and near-great. George M. Cohan, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, John T. McCutcheon, James Whitcomb Riley, Finley Peter Dunne, Hamlin Garland all received letters from the Hoosier humorist. Ade's keen observation, compact and straightforward style, and understated humor mark his correspondence, as well as his immensely popular newspaper columns, books, and plays. His friendships were so diversified ...

Genre: History

Exploring the C-SPAN Archives: Advancing the Research Agenda (The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research) by Robert X. Browning Price verified 4 hours ago

Exploring the C-SPAN Archives is a collection of path-breaking research studies that use video drawn from the C-SPAN Archives. The book, based on the papers presented at a November 2014 conference, includes chapters that explore issues in presidential debates, minority representation, the presentation of the first ladies, stem research, and innovative ways to analyze video. The book is divided into five parts: Part 1 consists of an overview of and common scholarship using the C-SPAN Archives and how this research advances the ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos (4 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Genre: History

We Could Be Heroes (The Descendants Basic Collection Book 1) by Landon Porter (Paradox-Omni Entertainment) (23 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Formerly released as 'Welcome To Freeland House' Scientific experimentation in the twentieth century caused later generations to give birth to a new breed of human gifted with the genetic potential for superhuman feats, both mental and physical. In the United States, the Psionics Training and Application Academy was founded to train the most powerful of these psionics and the Enforcer Corps was created to stop those who used their powers for ill purposes. But the Academy had a more clandestine agenda, one that has recently been ...

Genre: Fantasy

Something’s Gotta Give: Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2011 by Beth R. Bernhardt (Purdue University Press) Price verified one minute ago

The theme of the 2011 Charleston Conference, the annual event that explores issues in book and serial acquisition, was "Something's Gotta Give." The conference, held November 2-5, 2011, in Charleston, SC, included 9 pre-meetings, more than 10 plenaries, and over 120 concurrent sessions. The theme reflected the increasing sense of strain felt by both libraries and publishers as troubling economic trends and rapid technological change challenge the information supply chain. What part of the system will buckle under this pressure? Who ...

Awakening: A Sarcastic & Steamy Opposites Attract Vampire Romance (The Promiscus Guardians Book 1) by Brianna West (971 Reviews)    Price verified 47 minutes ago

I have a power every Dark creature wants. Lucas is the Guardian who vows to train and protect me. But what if falling in love puts everyone at risk? Izzy is on the fast track to nowhere. Being ordinary really blew sometimes. That's until she decides to stalk a couple hotties one night and earns herself a nice little head bash by a very sexy but seriously uptight guy named Lucas. Here's the kicker, he's a supernatural creature proclaiming to police the Light and Dark to keep humans safe. And Izzy, well, she isn't the human she ...

Genre: Romance

Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru by Ilana Johnson (University Press of Colorado) Price verified 10 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 ...

Genre: History

Secrets: Web of Sin One: Sparrow Webs 1 by Aleatha Romig (4,323 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

I'm Sterling Sparrow, kingpin of Chicago. I rule the world you see and the one good people pretend they don't. Nearly two decades ago, my father showed me a photograph -- a girl with golden hair and light brown eyes -- and told me that one day, if I proved myself, the girl would be mine. Seasons turn to years and years pass. Chicago is now mine. It is time to claim my queen. "Araneae McCrie, I'm Sterling Sparrow, and you're my queen. I get what I want and I want you." By New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig, the twisted ...

Those Dale Girls by Frank Weston Carruth (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Transforming Education for Sustainability: Discourses on Justice, Inclusion, and Authenticity (Environmental Discourses in Science Education Book 7) by María S. Rivera Maulucci (Springer) Price verified 4 hours ago

This book investigates how educators and researchers in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts, connect concepts of sustainability to work in their fields of study and in the classrooms where they teach the next generation. Sustainability, with a focus on justice, authenticity and inclusivity, can be integrated into many different courses or disciplines even if it is beyond their historical focus. The narratives describe sustainability education in the classroom, the laboratory, and the field (broadly defined) and how the ...

Genre: Education & Teaching

Kepler One: The Choosing (Kepler One Series Book 1) by TP Keane (77 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

The radiation on Earth is killing everyone Zoe Ruthland cares about. After winning the Lottery, she is the only tier five citizen given a chance to start over on a new planet. Seen as unworthy, a criminal, many want her to fail. Zoe must survive training, and the other cadets, to secure her place on the Kepler One spacecraft. But something sinister lurks behind the Government's plans to save humankind and Zoe has no idea that she is an integral part of it; that she is chosen for another reason. FREE ON SMASHWORDS.

Genre: Teen & Young Adult

The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Kerby (1 Review)    Price verified 52 minutes ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Jātaka Tales: Volume 3: Folk Tales of the Buddha's Previous Lives (Jataka Tales) by Eric Van Horn (18 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

The J?taka Tales are the Buddhist equivalent of Aesop's Fables. They are morality stories. In the Buddhist cultures of that time, these were the stories that children grew up hearing. They were the popular entertainment of their time. Families would gather together in the evening after the day's work was done and share these tales. And it is from these stories that people learned about the standards of conduct for followers of the Buddha. Like Aesop's Fables, the main characters in these stories can be a king, a merchant, a ...

Genre: Religion & Spirituality

Being Human during COVID by Kristin Ann Hass (University of Michigan Press) Price verified one hour ago

Science has taken center stage during the COVID-19 crisis; scientists named and diagnosed the virus, traced its spread, and worked together to create a vaccine in record time. But while science made the headlines, the arts and humanities were critical in people's daily lives. As the world went into lockdown, literature, music, and media became crucial means of connection, and historians reminded us of the resonance of the past as many of us heard for the first time about the 1918 influenza pandemic. As the twindemics of COVID-19 and ...

Genre: Politics & Social Sciences

Dancing Days (The Helicon Muses Book 1) by Val St. Crowe (Punk Rawk Books) (217 Reviews)    Price verified 22 minutes ago

When Nora Sparrow was a little girl and Owen Asher told her she was special, she believed him. But Nora's fifteen now, and she's too old to believe in magical happily-ever-afters or mystical otherworlds where she can create all day long and do what she likes. Sure, there are inexplicable things about her and Owen, like that trick he can do with his eyes that bends people to his will or the fact that storm clouds gather if she ever does one creative thing, but... Special? Her? She doesn't even want to be special. She only wants to ...

Genre: Fantasy

Holding Mia (Rockers' Legacy Book 1) by Terri Anne Browning (1,235 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

They call me the rocker's princess, some even call me the dance prodigy, but none of them knows the real Mia Armstrong. Now that dancing is no longer my future, I don't know either. All I want is the opportunity to find out, to have some time to try being just a little normal. To discover who this new girl is. I fought for the chance to go to college on my own. Without the guards overshadowing my shot at a real college experience, drawing unwanted attention and making it impossible to learn new things about myself. My goal was to get ...

Genre: Romance

Storm of Arranon by R E Sheahan (134 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

A forbidden birth. A remarkable young woman. A marauding alien society. The battle begins. A hostile alien force invades Korin and Arranon, needing the abundant natural resources of both worlds to survive, destroying every living thing in the process. Forced to expose her abilities and reveal her forbidden birth, Cadet Erynn Yager's guarded web of secrets begin to unravel. On an unfamiliar planet of eternal winter and predatory wildlife, the mysterious living consciousness of Arranon intervenes, leading Erynn on a mystical ...

Genre: Teen & Young Adult

Taunting the Biker (Biker MC Romance) Book 9: Biker MC Romance (The Biker Series) by Cassie Alexandra (649 Reviews)    Price verified 8 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 ...

Genre: Foreign Languages

Bad Faith: A Kansas City Legal Thriller #1 (Kansas City Legal Thrillers) by Rachel Sinclair (Tobann Publications) (526 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

A transgendered youth accused of a brutal murder... An attorney on the brink of self-destruction... Attorney Harper Ross is at the end of her rope. Her former client, John Robinson, who she walked on a technicality, went on to kill again. John's second victim was a young, vibrant mother of two. After suffering with the devastating guilt about the evil that she unleashed back onto the street, Harper retreats to her old haunt, a bar called Charlie Hooper's, as she confronts her old demons. Before she has a chance to completely ...

Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Peaceful Slumber (Soul Connection Book 1) by Nikki Lynn Barrett (367 Reviews)    Price verified one hour 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 ...

Genre: Romance

Mediaeval Tales by Various (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Killing Tomorrow (Evolution's Path Book 1) by Peter Hill (71 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

"Author Peter Hill is a visionary storyteller. With a background in law enforcement and screenwriting, he brings us a narrative that's every bit as prescient and authentic as tomorrow's headlines. He does it with razor-sharp prose, and he isn't afraid to tackle ambitious themes here: feminism, globalisation, environmentalism." There is a fine line between genius and insanity. In this dangerously overpopulated world, terrorism and fanaticism reach boiling point. Against a background of terrorist plots, political intrigue and ...

Genre: Science Fiction

European Lobbying: An Occupational Field between Professionalism and Activism (Routledge Studies in Political Sociology) by Christian Lahusen (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Lobbying is an integral part of the political reality of the European Union and a highly competitive and dynamic field of interest groups. This book takes a systematic look at lobbyists in order to broaden our understanding of the staff entrusted with the responsibility of influencing European politics. Who are the European lobbyists? What are their professional backgrounds, career patterns, practices, and beliefs? The study uses a sociological framework to explore the professionalisation and professionalism of the field across ...

The May Day Murders by Scott Wittenburg (2,374 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

The tranquility of Smithtown, Ohio is shattered when David Bradley arrives home to find that his wife has been raped and murdered by someone who left no clues behind except the words "May Day" painted on her body. Reporter Sam Middleton is determined to help police find the killer of his ex-wife's friend as they learn that another Smithtown woman has been murdered. Who will the next victim be?

Algorithms for Big Data: DFG Priority Program 1736 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 13201) by Hannah Bast (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This open access book surveys the progress in addressing selected challenges related to the growth of big data in combination with increasingly complicated hardware. It emerged from a research program established by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as priority program SPP 1736 on Algorithmics for Big Data where researchers from theoretical computer science worked together with application experts in order to tackle problems in domains such as networking, genomics research, and information retrieval. Such domains are unthinkable ...

Genre: Computers & Technology

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie) Hay, Marie (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Genre: History

Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton (3 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

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Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era: Contexts, Companies, Connections (Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics) by Niels P. Petersson (Palgrave Macmillan) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 17 minutes ago

This open access book belongs to the Maritime Business and Economic History strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series. This volume highlights the contribution of the shipping industry to the transformations in business and society of the postwar era. Shipping was both an example and an engine of globalization and structural change. In turn, the industry experienced and pioneered, mirrored and enabled key developments that led to the present-day globalized economy. Contributions address issues such as the ...

Genre: Business & Money

Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel Williams (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

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Paris and the Social Revolution A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in the Various Classes of Parisian Society by Alvan Francis Sanborn (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Rogue Star: Frozen Earth (A Post-Apocalyptic Technothriller) by Jasper T. Scott (Anthem Press) (2,832 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

A DEAD STAR IS HEADED FOR EARTH... THE SHIFT IN EARTH'S ORBIT WILL UNLEASH A NEW ICE AGE... AND THIS SUMMER WILL BE OUR LAST. THE NEWS BREAKS Logan Willis's life is falling apart: he lost his job and found out that his wife is cheating on him all in the same day. Thinking that his world has ended, Logan checks into a hotel and turns on the TV to see that he's not far wrong -- radio telescopes have detected mysterious signals coming from inside our solar system, and the source is moving toward us at over 500 miles per second. The ...

Genre: Science Fiction

Vistas in Sicily by Arthur Stanley Riggs (4 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Genre: Nonfiction

Quranic Wisdom by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan (85 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

According to the Quran, a person's life has been divided into two phases: the pre-death period and the post-death period. The present life is only temporary and is meant as a test. Depending upon our performance in this test, we shall be judged in the eternal life after death. The Quran aims to make one aware of this reality and help one lead one's life in this world in such a way that one is rewarded with Paradise in the life Hereafter.

Genre: Religion & Spirituality