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With the 125th anniversary of Buckhorn, Montana, on the horizon, it’s the job of straitlaced marshal Leroy Baggins to keep the peace during the four-day celebration. But his focus is distracted when private security owner TJ Walker arrives to help with the event. She's clearly someone who doesn’t play by the rules, a loose cannon who pushes him outside his comfort zone.

Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universities themselves. In What Universities Owe Democracy, Ronald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, argues that—at a moment when liberal democracy is endangered and more countries are heading toward autocracy than at any time in generations—it is critical for today's colleges and universities to reestablish their place in democracy. For those committed to democracy's future prospects, this book is a vital resource.

New Testament scholar J. Scott Duvall and Old Testament expert J. Daniel Hays help Christians consider how their lives can be integrated into the story of the Bible, thus enabling them to live faithfully in deep and important ways. Living God's Word: Audio Lectures explores the entire Bible through broad themes that trace the progression of God's redemptive plan.

The Galaxy Unit was relatively new to the force; it had been set up two years previously, specifically to work with cases of child abduction and murder. All of the team worked well together, handling over 30 cases at any one time. The hardest to deal with by far were those children who were taken completely randomly, by strangers for sexual exploitation, trafficking, or sometimes, to replace a lost child. These cases were rare and up until now, Rocco could count the cases she’d personally headed up, on one hand. All that was about to change for all of them, forever.

H Is for Hell is the eighth book in an epic series of 26 horror anthologies. In this book, you will find a collection of 13 horrific tales from some of the most talented independent horror writers on the scene today. Each tale brings to life a different vision of Hell, each unlike anything you have heard before. H Is for Hell will take you to the depths of the Underworld, and you may not return unscathed.

Liarte con alguien en una boda nunca trae nada bueno. Los que practican esta curiosa actividad conocen las reglas: romper el hielo, echar un polvo y despedirse. No esperan salir de allí con una relación. Es lo que hay. Dylan Sparks conoce esas reglas. Está familiarizada con el protocolo. Y tiene el mejor sexo de su vida con un completo desconocido en la boda de su exnovio. A Reese Carroll no le importan las reglas. Quiere algo más que una noche con Dylan. Y Dylan lo encuentra demasiado adictivo como para que él salga de su vida sin más.

The last of his clan to come home to Big Sky, Montana, Laramie Cardwell wasn't planning to spend the holidays chasing an elusive cat burglar. He's stunned to discover that the masked, black-clad figure he tackles to the snowy ground is a woman. After a distracting and sizzling kiss, she flees Laramie, who's knocked senseless by the culprit. Even though he manages to hold on to the stash in the melee, the sexy thief single-handedly steals Laramie's heart!

Billy Silver, a low-life, self-downtrodden junkie, needs some cash to get his next fix.

Scare Street is proud to present 14 diabolical new tales in this bone-chilling collection. Each ghastly short story unleashes a new nightmare, ripped from the depths of your psyche. It’s almost as if this book has a mind of its own; a monstrous, disturbed mind, a mind full of dark dreams, and twisted nightmares.

A body hanging from the infamous History Tree and a wrongful murder charge unraveled Maura Antrim and Brock McGovern's teenage love. Now grown up, Maura is again tangled up with Brock, and they’re back in Florida, where that devastating murder occurred. With two women missing and Brock now an FBI agent, the pair are determined to help investigate the new crimes and uncover the truth of what really happened twelve years ago…and see if their passion has withstood the test of time.

Digital connections permeate our lives - and so do data breaches. Given that we must be online for basic communication, finance, healthcare, and more, it is remarkable how difficult it is to secure our personal information. Despite the passage of many data security laws, data breaches are increasing at a record pace. In Breached!, Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, two of the world’s leading experts on privacy and data security issues, argue that the law fails because, ironically, it focuses too much on the breach itself.

La gestión del tiempo es una habilidad fundamental que te permitirá disfrutar de una vida plena y feliz. Gracias a 7 reglas sencillas y probadas descubrirás cómo establecer metas, priorizar tareas, delegar responsabilidades, planificar con anticipación, aprender a decir "no", acabar con la procrastinación, maximizar tu productividad, reducir el estrés, ... y en definitiva, encontrar un equilibrio entre tu vida personal y profesional.

The planet is ravaged by violent storms and failing crops and much of the world is now uninhabitable. Amidst a world of hungry and desperate people, the Department of Environmental Justice have been tasked with finding and executing those who have denied climate change.

¿Sientes que no estás satisfecho con tu vida?¿Te resulta difícil disfrutar del momento presente?¿Estás atrapado en un torbellino continuo de pensamiento negativos, estrés y ansiedad? Tranquilo, no estás solo. Millones de personas están pasando o han pasado por tu misma situación. La buena noticia es que tiene solución. Existe un camino para recuperar la paz mental y disfrutar plenamente de la vida: aquí y ahora.

Jesse James and many other Old West outlaws were much more than just wild cowboys. As author Daniel Duke—the great-great-grandson of Jesse James—reveals, James and other infamous outlaws were part of a larger organization, centuries old, that has affected U.S. history from the small, rural streets of early America to the highest levels of the nation’s government, with continuing influence to this day.

Meeting people from other religions is an incredible blessing and a unique challenge. As Christians, what do we need to know about their beliefs to effectively interact with them? And how can we share about Jesus with sensitivity for someone's relationship to their current faith? A compilation from some of today's top religion scholars, The Popular Handbook of World Religions is a clear and insightful guide to understanding and conversing with followers of the world's major belief systems.

Some people might dream of inheriting a hotel somewhere as picturesque as Buckhorn, Montana. To Casey Crenshaw, though, her late grandmother’s property is a white elephant to be sold as quickly as possible. The place has been boarded up for years, and locals have murmured about ghost sightings ever since a young woman was murdered there. But it’s not the imaginary ghosts that worry Casey - it’s the flesh-and-blood man who’s throwing a wrench into all her plans. Finn James intends to find out what really happened at the hotel years ago.

¿Y si te dijera que tu habilidad para establecer objetivos es el secreto para conseguir todo aquello que siempre has soñado?¿O que tu vida personal y profesional pueden ser exactamente como tú decidas que sean?¿No te gustaría tener el poder para alcanzar todas tus metas?

Somehow Ford Lancaster seemed to turn up just when Rozalyn Sawyer needed him most. And as much as she hated to admit it, she couldn't help but want more of his steady presence…his smoldering kisses. Rozalyn was sure a crime had been committed against her family, but was her desperate search for the truth based on fear or madness?

Em A sabedoria do agora, Daniel J. Siegel, médico e professor de psiquiatria, apresenta sua prática pioneira e inovadora de meditação baseada na ciência. A partir de um estudo aprofundado sobre o tema, ele nos fornece instruções práticas para dominar a Roda da Consciência, uma ferramenta poderosa que ajuda a desenvolver um cérebro mais saudável, a cultivar o foco e a reduzir o medo, a ansiedade e o estresse na vida cotidiana.