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Just a Sketch
by A. J. MarcusLeo Caldwell's life can be summed up in two words: ho hum. His job at a tech-support call center offers little in the way of excitement and outside of spending time with his two best friends, Felix and Julie, his social life is nonexistent. When Felix decides it's time for the three of them to try something new to spice things up, they go all out... and take a drawing class at the local library. But that's when everything changes. Leo meets Aud Sorenson, owner of Bright Thoughts Gallery and resident art teacher at the library. When Aud gets to know Leo and his friends, he feels an instant connection with the cute and geeky Leo and asks him to pose for a sketch. As sparks fly between them, Aud discovers he has a stalker who's willing to do anything he can to make sure Aud is his and his alone. Aud and Leo hope their blossoming feelings will be enough to see them through the chaos that erupts around them.
Moose Fever (Mountain Spirit Mysteries #3)
by A. J. MarcusMountain Spirit Mysteries: Book ThreeColorado Parks and Wildlife Officer Brock Summers and his fiancé, wildlife rehabber Landon Weir, are preparing for their wedding when someone starts killing moose along a creek in the northern part of Teller County. As the moose casualties rise, human bodies turn up, and the case is taken over by the sheriff's office. When a Forestry Service Ranger is killed, the service joins the hunt. All signs point to one of the many photographers who have been taking pictures of the moose. Then Landon discovers a small piece of gold in the creek and they believe they have a motive, but they're still lacking solid suspects. Bullets fly as they seek to track down the perpetrator while trying to get everything wrapped up in time for their marriage.
Soul Survivors
by A. J. MarcusConrad O'Shea thinks he's experiencing past life regression when he's thrown into the body of the Mongol warrior living two thousand years ago. While riding with his lover, they battle Turks with disastrous results. Back in his own time, memories of the passion the two warriors shared drive Conrad to try again--and again--to find his soul mate and bring them together in the present.
The Archer's Arrow (Ren Faire Romances)
by A. J. MarcusA Ren Faire RomanceFormer Olympic archer Robin Lockwood quit competing and now runs an archery booth at the Ren Faire. He enjoys his unencumbered life with few attachments but lots of casual friends. Traveling across the country from fair to fair adds spice to his life. John Aquitaine found acting in college and started a comedy show with his good friend, Pete. They are the "Perfect Princes," and it helps John escape real life. The gypsy lifestyle lets him keep people at arm's length until an arrow nearly hits him and he meets the handsome Robin Lockwood. The flame between them sparks quickly, but the relationship is slowed when John's dark past catches up with him. John's Uncle Fred, the source of his horrible memories, appears at one of the Perfect Princes' performances, and it upsets John so much he needs Robin to rescue him. Their love is tested again as Uncle Fred plans to finish what he started when John was a child.
The Falconer's Lure (Ren Faire Romances)
by A. J. MarcusA Ren Faire RomanceWatching birds of prey soar gives Garret Nicholson a sense of peace. It's exactly what he needs after his recent break-up. His ex never understood Garret's work with the raptors, but the birds have been part of his life for years. Garret spends his time between The Sky's the Limit Raptor Rehab Center and his dad's falconry show at the Hawkwood Fantasy Faire, trying to prove to himself and his father he has what it takes to be a great falconer. Trevor DePalma is in awe, but he isn't sure whether the man or the falcons fascinate him more. Watching the birds perform at the Faire gives Trevor the first taste of joy he's had since his father threw him out two years ago. Bonding with Garret over their mutual love of birds, Trevor eagerly learns all he can, and Garret proves a willing teacher. But as feelings grow, Trevor worries how Garret will react when he learns Trevor is homeless. Life on the street is growing more dangerous for Trevor and his friends. Garret offers him safe space to find his feet. As the world crashes around them, Garret and Trevor will need each other's support in ways they've never imagined.
The Jouster's Lance (Ren Faire Romances)
by A. J. MarcusA Ren Faire RomanceDale O'Toole, aka Diederik, the Demon Duke of Denmark, takes his Renaissance festivals seriously. He has been on the jousting circuit for five years and enjoys his gypsy lifestyle, traveling to faires around the country. It's fun and he has good friends. Austin Renfro has worked in a pirate gift shop at the Colorado Renaissance Festival for several years but has a life outside the medieval fantasy world. When Austin spies Dale during the first joust of the season, he knows he must find a way to meet him, even if the jousters and royal cast don't normally associate with the working class. Their first chance meeting causes more than a little embarrassment for both men, but they don't let that stop them. They try to let their budding love find its place while keeping it from becoming common knowledge. But when a particularly conservative knight catches them in flagrante, it's bound to cause problems. After all, jousts are dangerous....
The Satyr's Song (Ren Faire Romances #2)
by A. J. MarcusA Ren Faire RomanceWith nothing to lose after getting booted from the Dallas Symphony, concert flutist Adrian Mylonas follows a friend's recommendation to take work as a satyr at Scarborough Renaissance Festival. While playing his pipes, Adrian spots a man unloading elephants. Ed Costa has lived his whole life running elephant rides at various festivals around Texas. He inherited the job from his father, and is teaching the family trade to his five-year-old son Eddy, who is the center of Ed's life. He likes the life he leads, but he begins wondering if he's missing out because he doesn't have someone special to share it with. The songs of the elephants and the colorful life of the faire capture Adrian's imagination, and as he gets to know Ed, the rugged man sets his heart free. He begins to think he could leave his careful and sophisticated life behind for new music, new habits, and new love.
Throwaway Card
by A. J. MarcusHugh Lafoux managed to survive the Civil War, but came out of it scarred for life and with an intricately crafted metal leg. Since the war ended, he's wandered aimlessly, looking for the next card game and easy sex. He boards the Bayou Belle in Saint Louis, expecting a nice easy ride down to Memphis. But he runs afoul of Big Al Shank, the owner of the Belle, and ends up beaten and thrown overboard into the dark river. Former slave Cotton Freeman spends most of his time hunting alligators along the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee. While looking for larger gators north of town one night, Cotton unexpectedly fishes a man out of the water. As Cotton nurses Hugh back to health, they realize a mutual attraction, and their love grows. But when Big Al Shank returns to destroy them, love might not be enough to win the battle.
Economics and the Business Environment
by A. J. Marijs W. HullemanEconomics and the Business Environment is directed at students who will be taking up managerial positions in trade and industry or in government. The economic environment of European companies is central to the book giving students a good impression of recent developments within the European economy. The theories described enable students to: calculate how much competition firms within a particular business sector are exposed to analyze the current economic position of a particular country and make exchange rate prognoses gauge the effect of the economic environment on business sales and profits. Complicated analyses and mathematical models have been avoided as much as possible. Instead, diagrams and graphs illustrate the causal relationships between economic factors, making this book an ideal primer for those needing the basics of economics for their business degree.
Lady In White
by A. J. MatthewsAs a world-renowned ghost hunter, Martin Grey has tackled many harrowing cases and faced many vengeful spirits, but spending Thanksgiving weekend with Claudia's daunting family may be one challenge too many. Between evil spirits haunting the corridors of an old psychiatric hospital and the mysterious woman Claudia's sister keeps seeing, Claudia and Martin are facing their toughest case yet. Lady in White by A. J. Matthews is a welcome addition to this romantic suspense series.What's scarier than ghost hunting? For Martin, it's meeting Claudia's branch of the Clan Mackenzie for the first time.When Claudia brings Martin home for Thanksgiving dinner, he gains firsthand experience of how family tensions can affect even the most joyous occasion. Just when it seems Martin has soothed Claudia's overprotective father, her sister Caroline confesses that she's seen a ghostly lady in white, plunging Martin and Claudia into the dark world of the Daniels LaRoche hospital, a mental health facility with a shadowed history. Martin soon finds that there's an evil presence at the old hospital, one so powerful that even he may not be able to vanquish it.Distracted by family squabbles and the saintly Caroline's increasingly strange behavior, Claudia and Martin have their work cut out to preserve their relationship and get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the Lady in White.Content Notes: Hot, Paranormal, Ghosts, Spirits, Hauntings, Suspense, Contemporary
Mr. Grey and the Hotel Ghosts
by A. J. MatthewsIf you like your hotels haunted and your ghost hunters hot, you've come to the right place! A. J. Matthews spins an intriguing tale of romance and suspense in Mr. Grey and the Hotel Ghosts. Digging up the past has someone in the present very nervous. A mystery shrouded by secrets and danger looming around every corner ... if hotel owner Claudia MacKenzie and the sexy Mr. Grey don't find the answer soon, they may become the next permanent hotel guests.When she has to sell a haunted hotel in New York City, Claudia Mackenzie hires the best advisor around - British ghost hunter Martin Grey. Expecting a super-nerd, what she gets is a tall, handsome guy with a sexy accent who plucks all the right heartstrings!Together they tackle the mystery of the Chestnut Mansion Hotel, a mystery that leads them back in time to witness a bitter family feud, murder, and the theft of an heirloom. As events unfold it soon seems it's not only ghosts they have to worry about! A real-life enemy is on their trail. Can their growing closeness give them the strength to face the danger?Content Notes: Hot, Paranormal, Ghosts, Spirits, Hauntings, Suspense, Contemporary
Mr. Grey and the Spirit from the Sky
by A. J. MatthewsGhost hunters and romantic partners Claudia Mackenzie and Martin Grey are back for more in Book 2 of A. J. Matthews' Mr. Grey series, Mr. Grey and the Spirit from the Sky. From secretive employees to vengeful ghosts, Claudia and Martin will have their hands full as they search for answers to the strange happenings at a beautiful Catskill resort.Hired to investigate the unusual goings-on at the Knight's Lodge, Claudia Mackenzie and Martin Grey quickly discover that not everything is what it seems. Between the naughty antics of the resort's staff, ghostly gangsters out for revenge, and an undercover US Treasury investigation, life is about to get very interesting for the spook hunters who are still trying to adjust to their new relationship.As secrets are revealed, things start to heat up at the Catskill resort and Claudia and Martin soon realize that danger comes from both natural and supernatural forces.Content Notes: Hot, Paranormal, Ghosts, Spirits, Hauntings, Suspense, Contemporary
The White Room
by A. J. MatthewsAfter a breakdown leaves Polly Harris fragile and afraid, restoring her husband's childhood home in Maine to its original splendor would be the best thing for her. But then the nightmare begins--their son Brian nearly drowns playing with a mysterious playmate, and Polly hears whispers no one else can.
Unbroken
by A. J. MatthewsKiera Davis, tormented by terrifying blackouts and dark visions, is plunged into a nightmare when, one by one, her friends and enemies begin dying and at each murder scene witnesses report seeing a woman who resembles her.
The Art of Madness (The GearWitch Investigations)
by A. J. MayallPhoenix McGee became a detective to show the world he was mature and reliable, capable of running his own life and business. It&’s just a shame he can&’t adult his way out of a paper bag. Being attuned to the clockwork nature of the universe and able to bend the fundamental laws of reality comes with the bonus that his powers don&’t show up under any scans, leaving him in a loophole where he can use his powers without legal restriction…or protection. On the verge of losing everything, he takes on a simple case of suspected adultery, something to keep the lights on and the creditors at bay. Little did he suspect his life would become a chaotic whirlwind of false leads, uneasy alliances, mob ties, and a woman who punches with a sedan. Bodies pile up as he struggles to keep things normal for himself and his assistant, Suzette DiMarco. Phoenix will need his wits if he plans to solve the case and save himself, his livelihood, and everyone around him…because cosmic powers don&’t pay the bills.
Applications of Tensor Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by A. J. McConnellThis standard work applies tensorial methods to subjects within the realm of advanced college mathematics. In its four main divisions, it explains the fundamental ideas and the notation of tensor theory; covers the geometrical treatment of tensor algebra; introduces the theory of the differentiation of tensors; and applies mathematics to dynamics, electricity, elasticity, and hydrodynamics.Partial contents: algebraic preliminaries (notation, definitions, determinants, tensor analysis); algebraic geometry (rectilinear coordinates, the plane, the straight line, the quadric cone and the conic, systems of cones and conics, central quadrics, the general quadric, affine transformations); differential geometry (curvilinear coordinates, covariant differentiation, curves in a space, intrinsic geometry of a surface, fundamental formulae of a surface, curves on a surface); applied mathematics (dynamics of a particles, dynamics of rigid bodies, electricity and magnetism, mechanics of continuous media, special theory of relativity).
Aesop’s Fables
by Ann Mcgovern A. J. McclaskeySixty-seven familiar and not so familiar fables from Aesop, including the tortoise and the hare, the frogs who wanted a king, the lion who fell in love, and the donkey who danced on the roof.
Employers and Labour in the English Textile Industries, 1850-1939 (Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement #19)
by J. A. Jowitt A. J. McivorFirst published in 1988. This collection of essays examines aspects of labour and industrial relations history in the textiles sector of Northern England during the mature phase of industrialisation before World War One and the period of retrenchment during the interwar economic recession. There are chapters on wool, worsted, silk, cotton spinning and weaving, and cotton finishing. The volume includes contributions by historians interested in employers’ organisations and management strategies, labour, trade union and women’s history. As such it provides a broader framework in which relationships between capital and labour are analysed. The book also incorporates some of the recent research on particularly neglected areas of social history, most notably on women workers and on the industrial relations policies of employers in textiles.
The Lamp of Learning: Two Centuries of Publishing at Taylor & Francis (Routledge Library Editions: Publishing and Printing)
by W. H. Brock A. J. MeadowsOriginally published in 1998, when for two centuries Taylor & Francis had been committed to the publication of scholarly information. Ever since the launching of the Philosophical Magazine in 1798, the publishing company run by Richard Taylor and later by William Francis has specialised in the printing and publishing of scientific periodicals and books. Both founders wrote original scientific papers, and through close involvement with the scientific societies of London, and dedication to the business of scientific communication, both nationally and internationally, developed a high reputation for the quality of their publications.With the proliferation of periodicals and information generated by learned societies at the turn of the twentieth century, Taylor & Francis also became pioneers in the field of abstracting journals. This pioneering spirit remained at the time with the company at the forefront of the development of on-line electronic journals.Taylor & Francis publishes books and periodicals in the fields of science, engineering, social science and humanities yet continues to publish many of the early journals, including the Philosophical Magazine, whose current aims have evolved to meet the needs of modern physicists.The company had grown dramatically in the previous 15 years, being transformed from a small family business into a thriving international company with publishing offices in the UK and the USA (now in 14 countries worldwide), yet it was still one in which leading scientists were shareholders and directors.The story of the development of Taylor & Francis in this book is much more than an isolated account of one small company – it throws light on the whole process of scientific communication during the previous 200 years. In this bicentenary edition the story of the company’s growth into a significant academic publishing player was brought right up to date within the context of late twentieth century publishing innovation and expansion. Today T&F continues to go from strength to strength.
Sacred Light: Holy Places in Louisiana
by A. J. MeekRenowned photographer A. J. Meek takes the novitiate on an inspired visual journey with eighty-eight color photographs of the interiors of churches and synagogues located in south Louisiana, mostly along the lower Mississippi River valley. Tourists may crowd the famous European cathedrals such as Notre Dame in Paris and Westminster Abbey in London. Yet the splendors of local churches in America all too often remain cloistered and unheralded. Meek's beautiful photographs correct this oversight for Louisiana, a state that features a great many beautiful and long-standing holy places. Often incorporating long exposures and select framing, the images in the first section of Sacred Light encompass altars, chancels, and sanctuaries. The second section contains photographs of statues representing deities, angels, madonnas, and saints, often seen with intense color derived from stained-glass windows or artificial light. Light itself is the subject of the third and last section. In several photographs, light is transformed by a window into a kaleidoscope of color on a wooden pew or pulpit chair. Other times the light seems to radiate a living presence of its own. Additionally, the book includes an essay by Louisiana State University art historian and liturgical space consultant, Marchita B. Mauck. Sacred Light also contains photographs of some of the church and synagogue restoration projects after Hurricane Katrina. Meek relates that the now-famous storm of August 2005 was the shadow he was looking for that defines blessed light. He places emphasis on restoration, not destruction, as a testimony to the resilience of the human spirit.
Barrier Unknown
by John Glasby A. J. MerakThe logical outcome of the space race, and the preliminary step towards the Moo, was the manned satellite, the Big Wheel moving in a stable orbit about the Earth, integrating the data necessary for a landing on the Moon, and eventually acting as a fuelling station for the Lunar rockets. After several failures, the station is ready, but even there, danger exists, unseen, unheard, invisible and terrible. Forced to exist in the belt of cosmic radiation surrounding the planet, men die within weeks from aplastic anemia. Seeking a solution to the problem, Doctor Paul Russell is sent up to the satellite and here learns of the two men fro the previous crew who vanished without a trace after spotting an unidentified spaceship in orbit further out from Earth than themselves.
Dark Andromeda
by John Glasby A. J. MerakEarth was threatened with attach from the huge space-fleets of the Hundred Suns of Andromeda - an attack that the Terran Fleet could not hope to defeat.Only one chance remained to prevent Earth's destruction, and that was the chance that a skilled and experienced saboteur might just have time strike his blow before the enemy could launch the attack.It was Captain Blair whose mission this became, and it was his ace-saboteur who raced against death in planet after planet, as the zero-hour approached when Earth would face the attacking fleets of DARK ANDROMEDA.
Hydrosphere
by John Glasby A. J. MerakThe Colony on Rigel IV had been founded seven hundred years earlier but for the past six centuries, they had been forced to exist on the bottoms of the great oceans of the planet, kept there by the tremendously potent weapons of the alien star-race which had swept down out of space and wiped them off the land masses of the new world.Kerrel Stevens found himself trapped in one of the Shells, unable to remember how he came to be there, aware only that for some strange reason, he held the secret which could release these people from their terrible existence, but that his memory and all of the knowledge which could help in the struggle against the aliens had been erased from his mind.In the Shells, he finds what he is seeking - others like himself, different from the people who had become used to this life on the sea bottom, where science had gradually given way to superstition and witchcraft - and this chance meeting provides the key which unlocked the amnesia in his mind. For him, it opened the doorway to the surface of this strange, impossible planet, plunging him breathlessly towards the stars- and the unbelievable secret which spelt destruction for the alien star-race.
No Dawn and No Horizon
by John Glasby A. J. MerakAll the known planets had been conquered and colonized. Pluto was the last - as far as man could go into space. Beyond the frozen planet lay an immeasurable gulf of light years which no man could cross in a single lifetime. But one man kept trying to find the answer.
The Dark Millenium
by John Glasby A. J. MerakPlanet Earth was finished, its surface seared by nuclear heat, its great cities obliterated, its billions of inhabitants dying or dead. Only a few pockets of survivors remained. For all but a few it was only a matter of time. Then into the poisoned atmosphere of Earth there flashed a mysterious craft from somewhere deep in space. It landed, a small number of Earth people were taken aboard, then the craft disappeared into the great void. During the dark millennium which followed a strange experiment was conducted. When it was complete, another space craft took off for Earth...