You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
998 A.D. Desperate to flee Greenland, beautiful Yngveld Sveinsdatter buys a Viking ship and its captive crew, unaware she is sailing into dark and dangerous waters... Thomas Lachlan, half-Viking, half-Irish, arrives in Greenland with a crew of battle-hardened men on a mission to locate one Yngveld Sveinsdatter and bring her to Ireland to marry his military commander. But a treacherous betrayal finds Thomas, his men, and his ship sold to the very woman he seeks. Now the mission turns deadly: Thomas must retake his ship, or he and his men will die. And as a forbidden passion grows between Thomas and Yngveld, they must choose: will their passion lead them to a triumphant love … or to a soul-destroying dishonor and death?
When an innocent beauty is kidnapped by a virile stranger on her way west to an arranged marriage, she hardly expects to fall for her part-Indian, part-white captor.
Life on the Western Frontier in 1866 is dangerous when you're a beautiful woman... Alone and pregnant, Amberson Hawley believes the man she loves died in the War. When a wealthy man begs for her hand, she accepts, not knowing his true character. Justin Harbinger fulfills his vow to return to the woman he loves. But when he finds her married and with a baby in her arms, he wants nothing to do with her or her disloyal ways. Running from a faithless marriage, can Amberson find true love with Justin again, or will he leave her to fight the harsh ways of the wild west alone?
For years their families had been fierce enemies, and now Chance had found a way to exact revenge. He would hold the lovely Haina for ransom, humble her proud Indian spirit, and take his fill of her young body. But when Haina refuses to submit to him, Chance realizes that only everlasting love would bring her to the point of surrender.
Want to learn how to create great user experiences on today's Web? In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors' years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo!, and Netflix, these best practices are grouped into six key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available today. With an entire section devoted to each design principle, Designing Web Interfaces helps you: Make It Direct-Edit content in context with design patterns for In Page Editing, Drag & Drop, and Direct Selection Keep It Lightweight-Reduce the effort required to interact with a site b...
"This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the...
On a collision course of desire… Ferocious warrior, Fighting Wolf, will destroy anyone who challenges his right to possess the beautiful woman he’s captured. Lovely Sarita will risk life and limb to free herself from slavery by the one man who has taken her captive, and now threatens to steal her heart.
The Complement FactsBook contains entries on all components of the Complement System, including C1q and Lectins, C3 Family, Serine Proteases, Serum Regulators of Complement Activation, Cell Surface Proteins, and Terminal Pathway Proteins. Domain Structure diagrams are incorporated to clearly illustrate the relationships between all the complement proteins, both within families and between families. The FactsBook also includes the cDNA sequences, marked with intron/exon boundaries, which will facilitate genetic studies. - Includes the cDNA sequences, marked with intron/exon boundaries, facilitating genetic studies - Presents detailed structural information including cDNA and gene structure fo...
We've all had them, those special dates with someone brand new, someone who just might be the yin to our yang, that vital missing piece of our lonely heart... So goes the eternal gamble, the endless game of romance roulette, in which we earnestly wear our hearts upon our sleeves in the thin hope of discovering our soulmate and lay bare our inner selves to find all-elusive true love. But, for some, that potential soulmate can very quickly become the Devil in disguise, and, boy howdy, how attractive and inherently deceitful those nefarious facades can be! Here, we deliver for your delectation twenty-one such tales - read them with caution, and thank all that is heavenly it's not you on these particular Dates from Hell...
Nominated for ten UK book awards, Theresa Breslin's hit novel tells of how two young boys - one Rangers fan, one Celtic fan - are drawn into a secret pact to help a young asylum seeker in a city divided by prejudice. Now adapted for the stage by Martin Travers, the play has already been produced to great acclaim at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre. Graham and Joe just want to play football and be selected for the new city team, but a violent attack on Kyoul, an asylum seeker, changes everything when they find themselves drawn into a secret pact to help the victim and his girlfriend Leanne. Set in Glasgow at the time of the Orange Order walks, Divided City is a gripping tale about two boys and how ...