Download or read book Harlequin Medical Romance March 2020 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Annie Claydon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Medical Romance brings you a collection of three new titles, available now! Enjoy these stories packed with pulse-racing romance and heart-racing medical drama. This Harlequin Medical Romance box set includes: WINNING THE SURGEON’S HEART by Annie Claydon Single mom paramedic Hannah wants to win the “Hospital Challenge”! How can she when she’s distracted by her partner, sexy surgeon Matt? CONVENIENTLY WED IN PARADISE by Meredith Webber Their idyllic Thai island wedding’s all business, but nurse Kenzie and charming A&E doctor Alex’s intense chemistry is anything but. THE NURSE’S ONE NIGHT TO FOREVER by Janice Lynn Surgical nurse Riley’s done with love, so she makes a vow: her thrilling connection with heartthrob surgeon Justin is for one night only…

Download or read book On the Commodity Trail written by Alison Hulme and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the journey of eight bargain store objects, Alison Hulme reveals the complex story behind society’s simplest and cheapest commodities. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, On the Commodity Trail explores the colourful and fascinating histories of everyday objects.Along the way, we observe raw materials on municipal rubbish dumps in China, newly re-made products in the world’s largest wholesale market, and take a journey across the seas, to bargain stores in Europe and North America, arriving finally in the homes of consumers. Weaving together narratives from the people we meet at different parts of the commodity chain – waste peddlers, wholesalers, store owners, and shoppers – the book examines the places and people at the heart of these localized yet immense global networks.Unlike other investigations of commodity chains, this study does not chart a straightforward trajectory from production to consumption. Instead, it demonstrates that the low-end commodity chain is one of constant rupture in which products are made and re-made, blurring the dividing line between producing and consuming.An ethnography of material culture as well as an examination of commodity culture at a time of economic downturn, this deeply-engrossing book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of commodity chains and consumer culture.

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Download or read book The Nurse s One Night to Forever written by Janice Lynn and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One shy nurse… One liaison of a lifetime! When surgical nurse Riley King shares an unexpected night of passion with heartthrob surgeon Justin Brothers, she vows that their intense connection is for one night only! Riley’s not looking for a relationship—she’s been there and been left at the altar to prove it. But there’s more to Justin than meets the eye… Can she let her past go and allow herself to risk her heart? “...Ms. Lynn has delivered a marvellous and extremely engaging read in this book where the chemistry between this couple is off-the-charts….” —Harlequin Junkie on Friend, Fling, Forever? “…it’s a story that encompasses plenty of emotion that I could feel along with the characters…. Both the main characters were engrossing and I loved every interaction between them…the romance shows how good these two are together….” —Harlequin Junkie on A Surgeon to Heal Her Heart

Download or read book Grandma I Want to Die written by Nancy Kay and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

Download or read book Urban Regeneration and Neoliberalism written by Clare Kinsella and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of ‘home’ in Liverpool over phases of ‘regeneration’ following the Second World War. Using qualitative research in the oral history tradition, it explores what the author conceptualises as ‘forward-facing’ regeneration in the period up to the 1980s, and neoliberal regeneration interventions that ‘prioritise the past’ from the 1980s to the present. The author examines how the shift towards city centre-focused redevelopment and ‘event-led’ initiatives has implications for the way residents make sense of their conceptualisations of ‘home’, and demonstrates how the shift in regeneration focus, discourse, and practice, away from Liverpool’s neighbourhood districts and towards the city centre, has produced changes in the ways that residents identify with neighbourhoods and the city centre, with prominence being given to the latter. Employing Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and field as mechanisms for understanding different senses of home and shifts from localised views to globalised views, this book will appeal to those with interests in urban sociology, regeneration, geography, sociology, home cultures, and cities.

Download or read book Deep in the Alaskan Woods written by Karen Harper and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something deadly lurks outside your door . . . First in the Alaska Wild series from the New York Times–bestselling romantic suspense author. Alexandra Collister came to her estranged cousins’ B&B in Falls Lake, Alaska, looking for a fresh start. The surrounding forest can be harsh and unforgiving—luckily, rugged wilderness tracker Quinn Mantell offers to be her guide. Still recovering from a toxic previous relationship, Alex is wary of getting too close, but when savagely deep claw marks appear outside her bedroom window, keeping her distance from Quinn is no longer an option. Then a body turns up exhibiting the same ruthless slash marks, and Alex knows it isn’t a coincidence. Something sinister is lurking in the woods around Falls Lake, turning Alex’s fresh start into a brutal game of survival. The murky veil of forest offers more threats than answers. Can Alex and Quinn find the killer before darkness falls for good? “Karen Harper has absolutely outdone herself with the research necessary to make her latest book Deep in the Alaskan Woods as powerful as it is . . . a wondrous visual experience. Karen Harper invites you to join in Alex’s adventure. Use caution. Dangerous elements abound.” —Fresh Fiction

Download or read book A Call for Kelp written by Bree Baker and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth book of the popular Seaside Café Mysteries, A Call for Kelp, Everly Swan's mission to help her aunts with their beekeeping project takes a nasty turn. It's sink or swim for Everly with her most bizarre case yet! Hitting all the sweet-tea spots, this series is: A delightful Tea Shop and Café Culinary Mystery The ideal cozy beach read Perfect for fans of Laura Childs and Kate Carlisle Everly Swan is busy as a bee running her beachside iced tea shop, and the small island of Charm, North Carolina is abuzz—Mitzi Calgon, an iconic Hollywood actress, is in town! Everly's great-aunts are making a documentary about beekeeping and Mitzi has agreed to help. Aunt Clara and Aunt Fran are determined to save endangered honeybees but soon find themselves in a bind when Mitzi turns up dead. Soon, reporters and fans swarm the island, muddying the water and disrupting the peaceful lives of the townspeople. Everly's never been good at minding her own beeswax, so she starts following her own leads and combing through the evidence. Then there's the mystery of Detective Hays—ever since their kiss under the mistletoe, he's been acting distant. And he's annoyingly determined to keep Everly away from the case. With her beekeeping aunts' reputations on the line, the sleuth will stop at nothing to crack the case. But when she receives a cryptic warning to "Bee Careful", Everly realizes that she's gotten herself into a really sticky situation... From beekeeping and baking to sniffing out clues, the newest seaside café book from Bree Baker is dangerously sweet—just make sure you don't get stung by this tea cozy's surprise ending! INCLUDES DELICIOUS FOOD AND DRINK RECIPES

Download or read book 2021 written by Драб Н. Л. and published by Нова Книга. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Посібник розроблений для підготовки школярів до зовнішнього незалежного оцінювання з англійської мови. Учні можуть самостійно підготуватися до виконання тестових завдань. Матеріал посібника укладено відповідно до чинної програми з англійської мови для середньої школи. Посібник містить 20 комплексних тестів і ключі до них. Посібник може використовуватися як для самостійної роботи, так і для класної роботи, індивідуальних занять з учителем.

Download or read book Murder in Lavender Silk written by Karen Sue Walker and published by Laragray Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happy Murder to You! It’s Max’s 30th birthday, but with her busy bridal shop, she barely has time to celebrate with her friends, her father, and her boyfriend, Detective Jason Cruz. When the night of her father’s gallery show ends in murder, she’s going to be even busier making sure he stays out of jail. As she sorts through the clues, Max starts to doubt even those closest to her. Will she figure out who she can trust before it’s too late? The latest in the Bridal Shop Cozy Mystery Series can be read as a standalone, or start with the first in the series: Murder in White Lace. This series has been called "charming" and "delightful" with an unexpected twist in each book.

Download or read book My Life with Boris written by Naina Yeltsina and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant memoir, Naina Yeltsina, the wife of the first president of Russia, recounts the compelling story of her life, from her earliest childhood memories and the time when she met and became engaged to Boris Yeltsin, her companion of over fifty years, to the birth of her daughters and her experiences as First Lady of Russia. Always shy of the limelight, and rarely giving interviews when her husband was in office, Naina Yeltsina provides the reader with a glimpse into her personal life, whilst offering at the same time a behind-the-scenes look at the epochal events that unfolded around her, including the first Russian presidential election, the August 1991 coup and the fall of the USSR. Rich with intimate details and full of anecdotes, My Life with Boris is the chronicle of a life lived at the very heart of twentieth-century history.

Download or read book Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing E Book written by Elizabeth M. Varcarolis and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2017 AJN Book of the Year Award winner, Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Communication Approach to Evidence Based Care, 4th Edition, offers the perfect balance of essential nursing interventions and clinical content. It incorporates a reader-friendly style, and an emphasis on therapeutic communication and evidence-based practice. Perfect for shorter psychiatric nursing courses, this streamlined psychiatric text includes need to know information and key DSM-5 content you need to pass your course and prepare for the NCLEX®. A neurobiology of the brain teaching tool provides a visual depiction of how the disorder affects brain function — and what drugs are used to treat it. Additionally, this new edition includes Giddens Concept boxes, Integrative Care boxes, updated clinical disorders chapters, and new use of nursing diagnosis language International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) which smooths your transition into practice, as this is a common language shared with many electronic health record documentation systems - Neurobiology of the brain feature provides a visual depiction on how the disorder affects brain function and what drugs are used to treat the disorder. - Applying Evidence Based Practice boxes throughout the clinical chapters pose a question, walk you through the process of gathering evidence-based data from a variety of sources, and present a plan of care based on the evidence. - Vignettes describing psychiatric patients and their disorders add more practical application to the chapter material. - DSM-5 diagnostic criteria identify medical diagnostic criteria for most major disorders. - Applying Critical Judgment introduces clinical situations in psychiatric nursing at the end of all chapters with thought provoking questions that engage critical thinking. - NEW! Integrative Care boxes address alternative therapies to treat psychiatric illnesses. - NEW! Giddens Concept boxes at the beginning of each chapter tie to the topics discussed in that chapter. - UPDATED! Clinical disorders chapters such as Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorders and Somatoform Disorders, and many others reflect the latest evidence-based research and practice. - NEW! ICNP nursing diagnosis language smooths your transition into practice, as this is a common language shared with many electronic health record documentation systems. - UPDATED! Cultural Considerations sections include more updated and relevant material, whenever possible in the clinical chapters, and address cultural considerations with various patients and appropriate care.

Download or read book Don t Stick Your Dick in a Blender written by Jonathan Roseland and published by Jonathan Roseland. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women are dangerous. Good, yet naive, men routinely wreck their lives because they “stick their dick in a blender” — having sex with the wrong kinds of women. STDs, unplanned pregnancies, false accusations, mental health headcases, and divorce make chasing skirts a dangerous game. While lesser men retreat from the pursuit of women into the pixel-powered pleasure world, you have faith that your hunt for a virtuous woman will be fruitful. You can’t take a time-machine back to a more decent age to find a marriageable woman. You’re not ready to give up on your genetic purpose and start banging sex robots, but you’re tired of the transient, meaningless flings with mediocre women. You’re likely underestimating just how risky sex, a relationship, or marriage is with the modern woman. But you’re also underestimating just how rewarding it is to win the commitment of “a nice girl” — a truly feminine woman, not at war with the natural order — and intertwine your essence with hers. "Don’t Stick Your Dick in a Blender” is an irreverent, politically incorrect exposition of the state of dating in the current year. And a playbook of counter-intuitive approaches, advanced social dynamics lifehacks, along with filtering strategies for avoiding the time-wasters and inglorious skanks. How to meet a nice girl… Meeting a wife-material woman - Yes, it’s still possible! Dating post-COVID-19 - The global pandemic/plandemic has changed the game, you must adapt. The truth about marrying an exotic foreign woman - Is it for you? Online dating - Navigating the digital minefield of fakers, flakes, liars, and scams. Mindset demystified - Deprogramming the mainstream (and counter-culture) mindsets that cost you love. Dating abroad - How to do it without getting royally screwed. Avoiding the friend zone - Advanced persuasion and sexual signaling methods. Seducing a virgin - Why this really matters and how to do it... Eliciting yielding Yin energy - Inspiring a woman to adopt your values. Cultivating her devotion - Get laid like a “lover” and get respect like a patriarchal provider. Tantric “sex hacks” - Up your bedroom skills with an arsenal of holistic biohacks (both ancient and cutting-edge) for life-changing sex. Losing your virginity - Perhaps you’re a frustrated virgin or “Incel” disappointed with all the crappy advice about how to lose your virginity. 33 steps are broken down for meaningfully losing your virginity. And in these pages, you’ll get the “red pills” on dating, sex, and the fairer sex without the hopelessness and cynicism. You’ll learn about the four red flags of a “blender” — deal-breakers that should make you back away slowly from a woman. You’ll learn what qualifies as a virtuous woman who you might have a future with. And, why there’s a lot of reasons to be optimistic about finding love and even getting married one day. This book is also a story of hope and redemption, the memoir of a reformed pickup artist who “enjoyed the decline” all the way from America and Colombia to Ukraine and found edifying joy and meaning between the voluptuous thighs of a beautiful Bulgarian woman on the edge of Europe.

Download or read book Feminism Self Presentation and Pinterest written by Emily S. Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism, Self-Presentation, and Pinterest: The Labor of Wedding Planning argues that Pinterest, which has been largely criticized for perpetuating vapid stereotypical gender roles, is actually a dynamic digital curation tool that facilitates meaning-making around the important cultural event of the Western wedding. Emily S. Johnson, through a thorough examination of how aspiring brides use the platform to plan their weddings, found that Pinterest is a unique platform that offers brides the opportunity to construct their own wedding identity by engaging in creativity and exercising voice and agency during planning. Even if the content they are consuming does support tenets of patriarchy or gender roles, brides are able to make their own choices, rather than having their goals determined for them through societal or familial norms and expectations. The platform integrates both the online and offline “labors” of wedding planning as brides create meaning through the curation process and connect with the self as they execute their planning. Overall, Johnson argues that, far from the stereotypes of fantasizing about dream weddings and luxurious lifestyles that may be unrealistic, Pinterest gives brides increased ability to make their own, specialized vision come to life. Scholars of women’s studies, gender studies, communication, media studies, cultural studies, and rhetoric will find this book particularly useful.

Download or read book Cupcakes and Killers written by L.C. Turner and published by L.C. Turner. This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One poisoned cupcake just might close this bookstore’s doors forever. Enjoying the success of their small town bookstore Read Wine, Trixie, Cora, and Sally can finally focus on other aspects of their lives—like planning Cora's upcoming wedding. As the friends prepare for the big event, they discover someone in town is poisoning baked goods and they are being served at the bookstore. This is not a good look for their business and they need to act fast before their customers disappear. Can they discover who the culprit is and get their friend down the aisle? Only time will tell. The Read Wine cozy mystery series is perfect for fans who love clean mysteries set in a small town with plenty of laughs and clues along the way!

Download or read book A Year Like No Other written by Ruth Patrick and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money was already tight for UK families living on a low income before the COVID-19 pandemic, but national lockdowns made life much harder. Telling the stories of these families, this book exposes the ways that pre-existing inequalities, insecurities and hardships were amplified during the pandemic for families who were already in poverty before COVID-19, as well as those pushed into poverty by the economic fallout it created. Drawing on the Covid Realities research programme, and developed in partnership with parents and carers, it explores experiences of home-schooling, social security receipt and government, community and charitable support. This book sets out all that is wrong with the status quo, while also offering a powerful agenda for change. Also see ‘COVID-19 Collaborations: Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic’ (Open Access) to find out more about the challenges of carrying out research during COVID-19.

Download or read book Deadly Mountain Pursuit written by Carol J. Post and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s her only chance to survive… Lethal Legacy Showdown by Carol J. Post Andrea Wheaton thought her parents’ tragic deaths were accidental—until she’s attacked during a burglary at their home. Now she’s also being targeted. Her ex-sweetheart Sheriff Deputy Bryce Caldwell insists on protecting her, though she refuses to trust him again. But with a killer closing in, can she and Bryce uncover her family’s secrets before it’s too late for them both? Grave Peril by Mary Alford Jamie Hendricks always believed her late father was innocent of murder…and now her uncle claims to have proof. But when she arrives in her hometown, her uncle has vanished—and someone wants her dead. Jamie’s ex-boyfriend, CIA agent Gavin Dalton, is the only person she trusts…even if he believes her dad killed his father. But can he help her uncover a deadly conspiracy that goes deeper than anyone expected? USA TODAY Bestselling Author