By Elizabeth Berg

By Diana Palmer

Returning to Montana to get over the trauma that left her emotionally scarred, Abby Shane recollects her affair with Cade McLaren, who comforts Abby and makes her want he might be greater than a protector. Reissue.

By Stuart Sim

The detective determine in modern American crime fiction more and more is dependent upon revenge to lead to justice in a society the place there was a pointy decline in ethical values. This examine demonstrates how the thought of the detective as an ethical exemplar or heroic excellent breaks down within the works of writers equivalent to James Ellroy and Sara Paretsky.

By Claudio Calosi, Pierluigi Graziani

This quantity is the 1st systematic and thorough try and examine the relation and the potential purposes of mereology to modern technological know-how. It gathers contributions from major students within the box and covers a variety of medical theories and practices similar to physics, arithmetic, chemistry, biology, desktop technology and engineering. during the quantity, a number of foundational matters are investigated either from the formal and the empirical element of view.

The first part seems to be on the subject because it applies to physics. The part addresses questions of patience and composition inside quantum and relativistic physics and concludes through scrutinizing the chance to catch continuity of movement as defined through our greatest actual theories inside gunky area times.

The moment half tackles arithmetic and exhibits easy methods to offer a origin for point-free geometry of area switching to fuzzy-logic. The relation among mereological sums and set-theoretic suprema is investigated and matters approximately diverse mereological views comparable to classical and traditional Mereology are completely discussed.

The 3rd part within the quantity appears at traditional technology. numerous questions from biology, medication and chemistry are investigated. From the viewpoint of biology, there's an try and supply axioms for inferring statements approximately half hood among organic entities from statements approximately their spatial relation. From the point of view of chemistry, it truly is argued that classical mereological frameworks aren't sufficient to trap the practices of chemistry in that they think about neither temporal nor modal parameters.

The ultimate half introduces laptop technology and engineering. a brand new formal mereological framework during which an indeterminate relation of half hood is taken as a primitive idea is developed after which utilized to a wide selection of disciplines from robotics to wisdom engineering. a proper framework for discrete mereotopology and its purposes is constructed and eventually, the significance of mereology for the particularly new technological know-how of area engineering is additionally discussed.

By Rex Stout

Investigating the unusual will of overdue multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne--who left the majority of his property to his mistress and approximately not anything to his 3 sisters--astute sleuth Nero Wolfe stumbles upon a legacy of homicide.

By Sharon Kay Penman

"A masterful photograph of Wales within the thirteenth century...vivdly pictured as grandly appealing, its humans unstable, obdurate and mystic."THE SAN DIEGO UNIONThirteenth-century Wales is a divided nation, ever on the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John. Then Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce with England by way of marrying the English king's cherished, illegitimate daughter, Joanna. Reluctant to wed her father's sour enemy, Joanna slowly grows to like her charismatic and brave husband who goals of uniting Wales. yet as John's attentions flip repeatedly to subduing Wales--and Llewelyn--Joanna needs to choose to which of those strong males she owes her loyalty and love.A sweeping novel of strength and keenness, loyalty and lives, this is often the publication that started the trilogy that comes with FALLS THE SHADOW and THE RECKONING.

By Mark Smith, Jamie Thomson

By Susan Mallery, Tanya Michaels

By Sally Tyler Hayes

…but by no means moment selection one other MAN'S spouse Police Detective Marc Dalton had continuously secretly enjoyed his top friend's spouse. Now Ginny was once his most sensible friend's widow and attempting to bring up her child by myself amidst troubling allegations surrounding her husband's demise. realizing he might not stand via in silence, Marc determined to supply Ginny his help…and his middle. Ginny had constantly visible Marc as a friend—a tremendous guy who may still have already got settled down with a spouse and kids. yet now Marc used to be confessing he'd constantly been loopy approximately her, that he desired to be a moment father to her little lady. How may perhaps Ginny face up to any such tempting supply? How may perhaps she betray her stories and succumb to a different man's embody?

By Mary Alice Monroe

E.R. nurse Ella Majors has visible the entire distress that she will deal with. Burned-out and uncertain of her subsequent step, she accepts the transitority place as caregiver to Marion Henderson, a worried five-year-old who suffers from juvenile diabetes.But Ella quickly realizes there's extra sorrow within the remoted domestic than the little girl's sickness can account for. Harris Henderson, a unmarried father, turns out larger in a position to take care of the wild birds he rehabilitates in his birds-of-prey sanctuary than together with his personal daughter.Then whatever magical starts off to occur: the undying fantastic thing about the South Carolina coast and the majestic grace of the wild birds weave a therapeutic spell at the injured hearts on the sanctuary. yet a stricken mother's unforeseen go back will try out the delicate bonds of belief and new love, and show the inherent hazards and exhilarating great thing about flying unfastened.