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Together Again
Peggy Bird
Deputy DA Margo Keyes is looking forward to this trip with as much enthusiasm as she'd have for a root canal. There's the Philly summer heat, the high school reunion she'd rather avoid, and the speech she'd be giving as a last-minute stand-in for her boss. Mostly there's facing high school crush ...
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Second Chance Sister
Linda Kepner
Louis and Bishou are together at last! Bishou has left America behind, and is ready to make a new life on the island and give her beloved Louis the normal, ordinary life he has missed. Louis longs to be a husband and a father.On Reunion Island in 1969, Louis Dessant, now a convicted felon, strugg...
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Unveiled for the Persian King
Linda Skye
Darius, King of Persia, has many beautiful women in his harem-but none entice him more than his latest prize: Myrine of Scythia. The princess's overwhelming beauty and provocative dances fill him with lust-and his desire is matched by her own boldness.Myrine has been given to the new king as a tr...
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How to Misbehave (Novella)
Ruthie Knox
What woman can resist a hot man in a hard hat? RITA finalist and USA Today bestselling author?Ruthie Knox kicks off her new Camelot series with this deliciously sexy original novella, in which a good girl learns how to misbehave . . . with all her heart. ? As program director for the Camelot Comm...
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Solving the World's Water Problems
Colin Chartres
This Element is an excerpt from Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water Problems (9780131367265) by Colin Chartres and Samyuktha Varma. Available in print and digital formats. The ""Blue Revolution"": how to overcome the emerging global water crisis that will l...
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Climate Change and Water Supply
Samyuktha Varma, Colin Chartres
This Element is an excerpt from Out of Water: From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water Problems (9780131367265) by Colin Chartres and Samyuktha Varma. Available in print and digital formats. Understanding, preparing for, and mitigating the most probable impacts of climate cha...
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The Truth About Negotiating with Someone You Hate...or Love
Leigh L. Thompson, Leigh Thompson
This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Negotiations (9780136007364) by Leigh Thompson. Available in print and digital formats. How to negotiate successfully with people you can't stand—and people you can't resist. You will almost certainly have to negotiate with some people who have path...
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Silver Clouds, Dark Linings: A Concise Guide to Cloud Computing
Stephen G. Bennett, Archie Reed
The Executive's Strategic Guide to Driving Maximum Business Value from Cloud Services ? Cloud services represent a fundamental shift in how individuals, enterprises, and governments conduct business, interact, and use technology. If used effectively, they can increase business agility and focus...
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Investing in Coal: The World's Workhorse
David F. Dittman, Elliott H. Gue, Yiannis G. Mostrous, YiannisYiannis Mostrous
This Element is an excerpt from The Rise of the State: Profitable Investing and Geopolitics in the 21st Century (9780137153879) by Yiannis G. Mostrous, Elliott H. Gue, and David F. Dittman. Available in print and digital formats. Coal: Understand it, respect it, profit from it. Investors all too ...
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When Passion Lies: A Rouge Paranormal Romance
Jk Beck, JK Beck
Tiberius is a vampire dedicated to protecting his kind - and the secrets of the shadow world. Now, as his quest to become head of the Alliance draws within reach, a shattering new threat puts him to the ultimate test. It forces Tiberius to turn to the woman he both loved and lost, the lover he st...
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Second Best (Storycuts)
Rachel Seiffert
A young Polish woman has left her son to work as a temporary farm hand across the German border. The prospect of a few weeks' wages is not her only motivation for crossing the border, though. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Field Study.
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Rattlesnakes (Storycuts)
Irvine Welsh
Madeline, Eugene and Scott are three young, beautiful Americans, engaged in a love triangle and enjoying their free and drug-fuelled youth. When they have a car crash in the desert they are forced to wait for assistance. But events spin out of control when they are found instead by a young Mexica...
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The DOGS of Lincoln Park (Storycuts)
Irvine Welsh
Three young women - competitive, bitchy and moneyed - have lunch together at their favourite Korean restaurant every Friday. When the friendly chef from the restaurant moves into the same building as one of the girls, she strikes up a friendship with him. But the disappearance of her dog sparks s...
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The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read (Storycuts)
Susan Hill
Beekeeper and odd job man Mart May is befriended by a curious and lonely boy whilst tending to errands around the prestigious home of Lady Burnett. As the two begin to bond, the boy, James, discovers the secret of Mart's illiteracy and - startled and concerned - takes on the task of teaching his ...
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Need / Moving Messages (Storycuts)
Susan Hill
In 'Need', Biddy longs to escape the noise and claustrophobia of the travelling circus she calls home, the chaotic family she shares her cramped quarters with, and the teasing, intimidating presence of Little Midge - the neighbour boy who spies on her. The lack of a plan and her attachment to the...
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Sand / Elizabeth (Storycuts)
Susan Hill
In 'Sand', sisters Clara and Lizzie recall an extraordinary childhood trip to the beach with their surly mother who, coming across a wailing boy, had calmly handed him her handkerchief; the sacred relic which she kept in her purse at all times, and which had belonged to her beloved late father, w...
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Bactine / Giganthomachy / Pills (Storycuts)
Donald Ray Pollock
In 'Bactine', a toothless layabout takes a break from nursing his crippled uncle and spends the evening abusing solvents with an acquaintance. The fumes only serve to exacerbate his dismay, though, and a trip to an all-night coffee shop causes some unpleasant recollections to surface. In 'Gigant...
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Holler / I Start Over (Storycuts)
Donald Ray Pollock
In 'Holler', when his wife throws him out, Tom shacks up with the family of a casual girlfriend. They leave it to him to bathe, shave and keep a jug of wine within a straw's reach of their disabled patriarch. In 'I Start Over', retirement has not been living up to Big Bernie's expectations-not t...
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Dimitroff (Storycuts)
Rachel Seiffert
When Jochen left his father behind in East Germany he carried his resentment with him. This lingering antipathy intrigues and confuses his American wife, Hannah. When a tentative reconciliation is broached and the family travel to Germany, she embarks upon a pilgrimage with the old man. The two w...
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Dog-Leg Lane (Storycuts)
Rachel Seiffert
A young couple find their attempts to move to a new flat thwarted when their three year-old son rebels against the idea of leaving the only home he has ever known. It is as difficult to will a connection to dissolve as it is to force one into being. Part of the Storycuts series, this story was p...
