Indulge in the passion of the past with these short, sexy and scandalous eBooks!When Kate Anderson heard her young cousin complain about the man she was expected to marry, Kate never imagined it would be Harry Le Clere, Lord Godridge!For one season in Edinburgh, Kate and Harry had shared their first[...]
Kameron Ballan, heir to the Laird of Ballanclaire, has no respect for his father's titles and treaties. They've gotten him naught but trouble - and a betrothal to a sickly Spanish princess. So when his latest peccadillo gets him transported to America to subdue the restless colonies, he's ready to p[...]
This book covers the statistical models and methods that are used to understand human genetics, following the historical and recent developments of human genetics. Starting with Mendel's first experiments to genome-wide association studies, this book describes how genetic information can be incorpor[...]
Eleven-year-old Solomon loves to run! The great athletes of the Ethiopian national team are his heroes and he dreams that one day he will be a gold-medal-winning athlete like them, in spite of his ragged shorts and bare feet. When his grandfather announces that he's going to take Solomon to Addis A[...]
Get thoroughly up to speed on Android programming, and learn how to create up-to-date user experiences for both handsets and tablets. With this book's extensively revised second edition, you'll focus on Android tools and programming essentials, including best practices for using Android 4 APIs. If y[...]
When Lady Andrena MacFarlan helps escaped Highland-galley slave Magnus "Mag" Galbraith elude men hunting him, she inadvertently sets in motion her father, Andrew's, long-laid plan for reclaiming the chiefdom stolen from him nearly two decades ago by his traitorous cousin, Parlan Pharlain. As Andrena[...]
Lachlan MacKenzie's world ended when Annabelle, his daughter, was murdered. And ever since then, the Dragon Laird of the Black Isle's life has been joyless, a mere act of survival....until Lord Sinclair appears at his door with an offer. Sinclair believes that Annabelle is actually alive and will [...]
This book provides a complete and comprehensive reference/guide to Pyomo (Python Optimization Modeling Objects) for both beginning and advanced modelers, including students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, academic researchers, and practitioners. The text illustrates the breadth of the mode[...]
After her father and brother disappeared, Lady Jane Lennox is managing Bellhaven Castle. Nonetheless, her aunt has invited six suitors to compete for the right to her hand ? and to protect Bellhaven's towers of cool, pink-gray stone. Among the six is Nicholas Kincaid, the one-time object of Jane's a[...]
Claire Elliot has two weeks to win the heart of Jules MacIntyre?and then break it. To save her wards from a vicious blackmailer, she dares to enter the laird's castle, claiming to be the wife he?d recently wed. But no such wife exists The brooding Jules invented a bride to silence his well-meaning,[...]
Handsome Alexander MacLean enjoyed his intoxicating flirtation with lovely Caitlyn Hurst . . . until she embarrassed him in front of the entire ton. Orchestrating Caitlyn's attendance at a fashionable house party, Alexander plots her downfall. But to his fury, her charm and wit thwart his plan to ru[...]
Praise for the Kilts and Quilts series "Griffin's lyrical and moving debut marks her as a most talented newcomer to the romance genre." ---Publishers Weekly Starred Review "Patience Griffin gets love, loss, and laughter like no other writer of contemporary romance."-Grace Burrowes, New York Times be[...]
Set in a dream-like European city reminiscent of Barcelona, along a boulevard teeming with artists who perform as living statues, comes the beautiful and frightening story of a man running from his past, a woman consumed by grief, and the forces that pursue them both.New to the city, Harry is drawn [...]
Discusses what motivates extremists and examines groups from the far left and far right of American politics[...]
Laird Hamilton has been hailed as the world's greatest big-wave surfer. His first book, "Force of Nature," allows readers a rare glimpse inside the unique philosophy that has created his circumstances, and not the other way around. After all, this is a man whose biological father abandoned him short[...]
To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti, comes Laird Barron, an author whose literary voice invokes the grotesque, the devilish, and the perverse with rare intensity and astonishing craftsmanship. Collected he[...]
Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us. Donald Miller, geologist and academic[...]
The first three volumes of "The Best Horror of the Year" have been widely praised for their quality, variety, and comprehensiveness. Now, for the fourth consecutive year, editor Ellen Datlow has explored the entirety of the diverse horror market, distilling it into the fourth anthology in the series[...]
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with hardboiled noir, espionage, and a scientific bac[...]