Download or read book Nefarious Intentions written by Paul John Hausleben and published by God Bless the Keg Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder Mystery! Detective series! Crime-drama! Homicide Detective Lyle Odell returns once again in a new adventure! In fictional and very gritty, Mohawk City in upstate New York, the respected and prominent, intellectual, and popular educator, Doctor Rochester Gilding, is the victim of a horrific homicide. In his own home, on a seemingly calm and placid autumn Saturday afternoon, a brutal killer slashes his throat, and then, in a fit of rage, plunges a military knife into the skull of Doctor Gilding. To offer up the ultimate challenge to Detective Lyle Odell, the victim lived a hidden life. On the surface, Doctor Rochester Gilding was wealthy, popular, intellectual, professional, handsome, and charismatic, but when Lyle Odell begins to poke around in the victim’s life, he finds that Doctor Gilding lived a hidden life full of darkness and questionable behavior. Since Doctor Gilding lived in a tight-knit and crowded community of townhouses, and he apparently offended everyone equally, the potential suspects are limitless. Homicide Detective Lyle Odell assembles his elite crime-fighting team to track down the ruthless killer. With the aid of Sergeant George Grundy, Captain Connor Moore, Crime Scene Investigation genius, Sergeant Oliver Crump, and with newly recruited Officer Miles Bradford and with the strategic addition of a few brave civilians, Odell goes on the hunt to bring the killer to justice before he can kill once again. When the initial trail leads to a series of dead-end of clues, Detective Odell moves to the offensive in order to lure the killer out of his lair. That move takes a tragic twist, as Odell’s best friend and crime-fighting companion, the faithful Patrol Sergeant George Grundy, displays his heroism in the heat of battle and it has tragic results. Amid tragedy, a driven and focused, Homicide Detective Lyle Odell will stop at nothing to bring the killer to justice. This Detective Lyle Odell adventure has everything a crime-drama reader could want in a detective novel; a thrilling and complicated storyline, beautiful women, multiple suspects and plotlines and Detective Odell and the team, amongst the murder and mayhem, while poking around for mysterious clues. Tragedy! Suspense! Thrills! Plucked out of the pages of the novel “O'Malley” by his creator, Homicide Detective Lyle Odell proved to be a hugely popular character with readers. In “O’Malley,” the good detective helps the principal character solve the mysteries of his past and the brutal homicide of a fellow police officer. The character proved to so popular with readers that Paul John Hausleben created a series of novels starring the eccentric, systematic, hard-drinking, gumshoe Homicide Detective Lyle Odell. Here in this latest Detective Lyle Odell novel, the author weaves an exciting murder mystery and crime drama mixed with his usual unforgettable characters, and proves once again why Odell’s creator earned the title of “The Master Storyteller.” Grab your copy today!

Download or read book Nefarious Intentions written by Michael Anderle and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mission Improper written by Bec McMaster and published by Bec McMaster. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling twist on the enemies to lovers’ theme—a deliciously dark vampire romance with a unique steampunk infusion. He promised her vengeance. She threatened to steal his heart instead…. Caleb Byrnes works best alone. The cold and brooding blue blood is the best tracker the Guild of Nighthawks has, and he rules the craving within him with an iron hand. Nobody escapes him. Nobody gets the better of him. And nobody has ever come close to unleashing the hunger within him. Until now…. Ingrid Miller is the one who got away. The one woman who makes him burn, and threatens all his hard-won control. The passionate and fiery verwulfen bounty hunter once worked a case with him—and left him tied to his bed. Naked. When they’re partnered together on a new case, Byrnes finally sees his chance to have his revenge. He will have her in his bed and he will ruin her with his kiss, and vengeance will be so, so sweet. There’s just one little problem…. Vampires once ruled London—but after a bloodthirsty revolution left the human queen on the throne, the city has been negotiating a new peace. Rumors of a plot against the queen beckon, and Byrnes and Ingrid must go undercover among the blue blood elite in order to discover the truth. And when their hunt uncovers a dangerous conspiracy, Byrnes must unleash the darkness within him if he’s to have any chance of protecting the woman his vampiric half wants to claim…. A unique, sexy paranormal romance, Bec McMaster's London Steampunk novels will appeal to fans of Ilona Andrews, Nalini Singh, and Kristen Callihan's Darkest London series. Binge read this COMPLETE series today! Mission: Improper is the first book in the spin-off to Bec's award-winning London Steampunk series. If you're searching for a vampire romance with a sexy twist, an enemies-to-lovers pairing, and plenty of action-adventure, then you’ll love sharing the journey with Byrnes and Ingrid! Don’t miss any of the London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy books! Book 1: Mission: Improper. Book 2: The Mech Who Loved Me. Book 3: You Only Love Twice. Book 4: To Catch A Rogue Book 5: Dukes Are Forever Book 6: From London, With Love What everyone is saying about Bec McMaster: "a must read for paranormal fans and steampunk fans alike. 5/5 Stars, Reviewer Top Pick" –Night Owl Reviews "richly imagined, gritty and dark, and full of hot heroes and hot sex...utterly delicious. " –Smart Bitches, Trashy Books "Action, adventure, steampunk, and blazing hot seduction...Bec McMaster offers it all." –Eve Silver, author of Sins of the Flesh The Blue Blood Conspiracy London Steampunk series: —Gaslight Fantasy Romance —Historical Fantasy Romance —Steampunk Romance —Paranormal Romance —Action Adventure Romance —Vampire Romance —shifter romance

Download or read book Beyond Seduction written by Kathleen O'Reilly and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the success of her sultry Red Choo sex blog,it would take serious buzz to put Mercedes Brooks'sfirst book of erotic fantasies on the bestseller list. Andthat meant agreeing to another showdown with her nemesis, the super-sexy TV pundit Sam Porter. This time, though, the on-air innuendos were just a dressrehearsal. What happened later between the sheets wasactually the main event. If the tabloids got wind of theirnight together, Sam's career would self-destruct. But thereal shocker was that even with a prime-time scandalhanging over their heads, one night was not enough!

Download or read book International Religious Rights and Standards written by Cometan and published by The Religious Recognition Project. This book was released on 2023-09-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal finding of the doctoral research of Cometan (a.k.a. Brandon Reece Taylorian) was that the ways governments, both authoritarian and democratic, use their powers to recognise religions and beliefs and register religious or belief organisations is negatively impacting conditions of freedom of religion or belief. Cometan explored the range of recognition and registration issues plaguing religious freedom and other human rights and discovered that there lacks a definitive set of international standards to address some of the granular topics that are causing registration procedures in particular to become onerous and thus impedimental to the free and legal exercise of religion or belief. Cometan's International Religious Rights and Standards (IRRS) document presents a series of standards for how nation states ought to develop their recognition and registration policies and practices to remain FoRB-compliant. The standards of the IRRS document have been created based on the results of Cometan's PhD research, the thesis for which is titled Religious Freedom and State Recognition of Belief. Cometan's intention is that the IRRS document will encourage international organisations like the OSCE and the United Nations as well as national and international human rights courts such as the ECtHR to establish more detailed and country-specific guidelines to address the breath of registration issues and the recognition issues that often worsen such issues.

Download or read book The Courtesan s Arts written by Martha Feldman and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. In Ming dynasty China and early modern Italy, exchange was made through poetry, speech, and music; in pre-colonial India through magic, music, chemistry, and other arts. Yet like the art of courtesanry itself, those arts have often thrived outside present-day canons and modes of transmission, and have mostly vanished without trace.The Courtesan's Arts delves into this hidden legacy, while touching on its equivocal relationship to geisha. At once interdisciplinary, empirical, and theoretical, the book is the first to ask how arts have figured in the survival or demise of courtesan cultures by juxtaposing research from different fields. Among cases studied by writers on classics, ethnomusicology, anthropology, and various histories of art, music, literature, and political culture are Ming dynasty China, twentieth-century Korea, Edo and modern Japan, ancient Greece, early modern Italy, and India, past and present. Refusing a universal model, the authors nevertheless share a perception that courtesans hover in the crevices of space, time, and practice--between gifts and money, courts and cities, subtlety and flamboyance, feminine allure and masculine power, as wifely surrogates but keepers of culture. What most binds them to their arts in our post-industrialized world of global services and commodities, they find, is courtesans' fragility, as their cultures, once vital to civilizations founded in leisure and pleasure, are now largely forgotten, transforming courtesans into national icons or historical curiosities, or reducing them to prostitution.

Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Michael Thomas Sadler written by Robert Benton Seeley and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inevitable written by Karen Wiesner and published by Writers Exchange E-Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tori Bertoletti, librarian and planet cataloger, and Raze Salen, mankind's emissary, aboard the Human spacefaring liveship the Aero have convinced their government of the dire need to negotiate formal alliances with the other cultures in the galaxy. The monumental task they're undertaking and the consequences of failure are mind-rattlingly clear. Complications muddle the mission in the form of uneasy truces and frustrating stalemates, long-held enigmatical cosmologies suddenly called into life-altering question, along with immediate and imminent threats that could tear apart the fabric of the entire universe and everything living in it.

Download or read book Disabling Leadership written by Andrew T. Draper and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Churches must both consider the theology of disability and also become places where people with disabilities lead. Moving beyond paternalistic views of disability, this book encompasses cutting-edge theological ethics as well as practical examples of how church leaders and congregants can foster genuinely inclusive leadership teams.

Download or read book The Song of Seare Collection written by C. E. Laureano and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 1241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection bundles all 3 titles of the exciting Song of Seare series into one e-book for a great value! #1 Oath of the Brotherhood: In a kingdom where the Old Ways hold fast and a man’s worth lies entirely in his skill with the sword, Conor Mac Nir is a scholar, a musician, and a follower of the forbidden Balian faith: problematic for any man, but disastrous for the son of the king. When Conor is sent as a hostage to a neighboring kingdom, he never expects to fall in love with the rival king’s sister, Aine. Nor does he suspect his gift with the harp (and Aine’s ability to heal) touches on the realm of magic. Then his clan begins a campaign to eliminate all Balians from the isle of Seare, putting his newfound home in peril and entangling him in a plot for control of the island that has been unfolding since long before his birth. Only by committing himself to an ancient warrior brotherhood can Conor discover the part he’s meant to play in Seare’s future. But is he willing to sacrifice everything—even the woman he loves—to follow the path his God has laid before him? #2 Beneath the Forsaken City: Conor and Aine have barely escaped Seare with their lives. Conor knows he must return to find the harp that could end the Red Druid’s reign of terror, but in the midst of their escape, he and Aine are torn apart once more. Surrounded by despair and thrown into as much danger as they left behind, Conor and Aine must cling to the whispers of Comdiu’s plans for them and the homeland that depends on their survival. But at what cost? Will they learn to depend on Comdiu completely? Or will they give up hope? #3 The Sword and the Song: The shadow of war. A clash of brothers. A terrible sacrifice. In the face of powerful darkness, who will prevail? The island of Seare is at war. The Red Druid is gathering strength and power to stand against Conor, Eoghan, and the brotherhood. But there is strife within the brotherhood as well. Eoghan still refuses to claim his rightful rule, and the resulting conflict creates an uncomfortable distance between him and Conor. When Conor leaves to find the key to defeating the Red Druid, Eoghan and Aine worry he will succumb to the danger. They set out on their own mission to defeat the Red Druid through Aine’s magical gifts. But nothing—and no one—is as it seems.

Download or read book Emerging Threats of Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology written by Benjamin D. Trump and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthetic biology is a field of biotechnology that is rapidly growing in various applications, such as in medicine, environmental sustainability, and energy production. However these technologies also have unforeseen risks and applications to humans and the environment. This open access book presents discussions on risks and mitigation strategies for these technologies including biosecurity, or the potential of synthetic biology technologies and processes to be deliberately misused for nefarious purposes. The book presents strategies to prevent, mitigate, and recover from 'dual-use concern' biosecurity challenges that may be raised by individuals, rogue states, or non-state actors. Several key topics are explored including opportunities to develop more coherent and scalable approaches to govern biosecurity from a laboratory perspective up to the international scale and strategies to prevent potential health and environmental hazards posed by deliberate misuse of synthetic biology without stifling innovation. The book brings together the expertise of top scholars in synthetic biology and biotechnology risk assessment, management, and communication to discuss potential biosecurity governing strategies and offer perspectives for collaboration in oversight and future regulatory guidance.

Download or read book Belt of Truth written by JOHN JAMES ABEKAH and published by JOHN JAMES SEKOH ABEKAH. This book was released on 2024-04-13 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the transformative power of the Belt of Truth in this essential first volume of John James Abekah's six-part series, The Whole Armour of God. In a world rife with chaos and deception, the Belt of Truth provides vital protection, enabling you to withstand the onslaught on your beliefs and align with God’s purpose. John James Abekah’s profound insights guide you through an enlightening journey into the essence of this crucial armour piece. Discover how anchoring your life to unwavering truth can revolutionize your spiritual experience. Embrace the Belt of Truth and unlock: Discerning Wisdom: Navigate through deception with enhanced clarity and wisdom. Transcendent Illumination: Access deeper truths and revelations that light up your mind and spirit. Robust Spiritual Armour: Fortify your spiritual defenses and prepare to confront challenges head-on. Exponential Growth: Dive deep into the teachings and unlock your spiritual potential. Start your journey with the Belt of Truth today and step into a life of victory, purpose, and unshakeable faith.

Download or read book Black African Story written by Isaac B Thomas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black African Story, Isaac attempts to expose reasons for Black people’s failure to get along at the same pace with other races in terms of technological advancement and economic prosperity. He discusses reasons that some sections of the immediate black society are not keen in discussing, such as cultural reforms. The book offers possible solutions with much emphasis on Zimbabwe and Malawi as case studies.

Download or read book Racial Union written by Julie Lavonne Novkov and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2001, the state of Alabama opened a referendum on its long-standing constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage. A bill on the state ballot offered the opportunity to relegate the state's antimiscegenation law to the dustbin of history. The measure passed, but the margin was alarmingly slim: more than half a million voters, 40 percent of those who went to the polls, voted to retain a racist and constitutionally untenable law. Julie Novkov's Racial Union explains how and why, nearly forty years after the height of the civil rights movement, Alabama struggled to repeal its prohibition against interracial marriage---the last state in the Union to do so. Novkov's compelling history of Alabama's battle over miscegenation shows how the fight shaped the meanings of race and state over ninety years. Novkov's work tells us much about the sometimes parallel, sometimes convergent evolution of our concepts of race and state in the nation as a whole. "A remarkably nuanced account of interlocked struggles over race, gender, class and state power. Novkov's site is Alabama, but her insights are for all America." ---Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania "Hannah Arendt shocked Americans in the 1950s by suggesting that interracial intimacy was the true measure of a society's racial order. Julie Novkov's careful, illuminating, powerful book confirms Arendt's judgment. By ruling on who may be sexually linked with whom, Alabama's courts and legislators created a racial order and even a broad political order; Novkov shows us just how it worked in all of its painful, humiliating power." ---Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor

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Download or read book Understanding Logic Locking written by Kimia Zamiri Azar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the breadth and depth of IP protection through logic locking, considering both attacker/adversary and defender/designer perspectives. The authors draw a semi-chronological picture of the evolution of logic locking during the last decade, gathering and describing all the DO’s and DON’Ts in this approach. They describe simple-to-follow scenarios and guide readers to navigate/identify threat models and design/evaluation flow for further studies. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of all fundamentals of logic locking.

Download or read book Knockout written by Sammy Franco and published by Contemporary Fighting Arts, LLC. This book was released on with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DROP HIM WITH JUST ONE PUNCH! Knockout is a one-of-a-kind book designed to teach you the lost art and science of sucker punching in a self-defense situation. SIMPLE, BRUTAL AND EFFECTIVE Sucker punching is a unique fighting skill that can be performed by just about anyone, young and old, regardless of size or strength or level of experience. Best of all, you don’t need martial arts training to master these simple fighting techniques. TURN YOUR FISTS INTO SLEDGEHAMMERS Knockout is based on world-renowned self-defense expert, Sammy Franco’s 30+ years of research, training, and teaching both martial arts and combat sciences. He has taught these cutting-edge fighting skills to thousands of his students, and now he’s put them down in this in-depth book. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO MASTER SUCKER PUNCHING With over 150 detailed photographs, 244 pages and dozens of easy-to-follow instructions, Knockout has everything you need to master the devastating art of sucker punching. KNOCKOUT INCLUDES: 1. How to win a fight every time 2. How to deceive, disorient, and demolish your opponent 3. The best sucker punch tricks and tactics 4. Critical knockout targets 5. Fist loading weapon 6. Sucker punch drills and exercises 7. Solo and partner workout programs 8. Hundreds of training tips 9. And much, much more BATTLE-TESTED STREET FIGHTING MOVES! Whether you are a beginner or advanced, student or teacher, Knockout teaches you brutally effective skills, battle-tested techniques, and proven strategies to get you home alive and in one piece.