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Darkbound

Auteure: Jo Sanders

Nombre de pages: 447

Elle a signé pour épouser un inconnu dans un pays dont elle ne connaît pas les lois. Le monde de Mariela s'écroule deux fois. La première, quand elle devient la tutrice de ses filleuls à la mort de leurs parents. La seconde, quand un homme, Alec, s'introduit chez eux et la prévient : il est venu récupérer les enfants. Peu importe qu'elle le supplie ou le menace, il obtiendra ce qu'il veut. Ces orphelins sont les héritiers de Varosija, la principauté dont était originaire leur père – son frère –, et Alec a pour mission de les ramener à la maison. Cependant, son plan parfaitement huilé se fissure quand Vladimir, le grand-père qui a commandité ce kidnapping, ordonne le mariage de Mariela et Alec pour assurer la protection des petits. Bloqués ensemble dans une union sans amour, où la haine et les secrets sont omniprésents, ils doivent tout de même apprendre à cohabiter. Devenus une famille en une journée, ils devront le rester pour une vie entière. Mais la vie est courte, quand le danger plane à chaque instant...

Dark Bound: Snarky Urban Fantasy Series

Auteure: Kim Richardson

Nombre de pages: 188

"Dark Bound is thrilling, exciting and one of the best paranormal series I've read." --Boundless Book Reviews In my life when things go bad, they go notoriously bad. If having a Greater demon hunt me wasn’t bad enough, or a demented archangel trying to kill me, try doing a job for a fae queen I hate. Why? Because someone close to me is about to lose everything if I don’t find a crap load of money soon. But without any other jobs coming up, I’m stuck. So when the fae queen of the Dark court offers me a gig. I take it. But what I thought was a routine Hunt, turns into a fight for my life. Oh, and my master plan for making easy money? Yeah, not so much. Don't miss the pulse-pounding continuation of the Shadow and Light series!

Cartel Princess

Auteure: Ana Scott

Nombre de pages: 394

Prisonnière de l'ennemi, elle est prête à tout pour retrouver sa liberté... Soeur surprotégée d'un des plus puissants chefs de gang de Los Angeles, Sky Lennox voit sa vie basculer lorsqu'elle est vendue à l'ennemi juré de son frère, Maddox Black, un être impitoyable à la beauté renversante. Elle était amoureuse de lui par le passé et, malgré sa dangerosité et sa réputation, il l'attire toujours autant, sinon plus. Maddox, chef des Black Dragons, a de nombreux ennemis, mais le pire de tous se nomme Bradley Lennox, et c'est le frère de Sky. Lorsque Sky se retrouve entre ses mains, Mad a la ferme intention de se servir d'elle pour atteindre son frère, de se venger et de n'en faire qu'une bouchée. Mais contre toute attente, Sky propose une étrange alliance à Mad. Dans la jungle des gangs et des cartels, le sol va trembler.

Dark Hunt

Auteure: Kim Richardson

Nombre de pages: 188

Have a demon problem? I'm your girl. I’m the best there is at what I do, and what I do isn’t pretty. If a demon crosses over to our side of the Veil, or if a werewolf goes feral and kills an innocent—they send me. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, and the pay usually sucks. But I do what it takes to keep my belly full and a roof over my head. When the Council, the group of angel-born who’d shunned me all those years ago, offer me a job, I have no choice but to take it. Everything would have worked out fine if the Council hadn’t forced me to work the case with Jax—the devilishly handsome and mysterious angel-born warrior. I’m a bad-girl hunter for hire. He’s an angel-born golden boy. What could possibly go wrong? "Dark Hunt is a thrilling paranormal story, which will have you reading late into the night. I devoured it, and I couldn’t stop." —Boundless Book Reviews Dark Hunt is a sassy, fast-paced urban fantasy filled with demons, angels, vampires, werewolves, witches, fae, and shifters. If you enjoy fantasy books, paranormal romance with a kick-ass heroine and plenty of action, slow-burn romance and humor, then you’ll love reading Dark Hunt.

Photobiologic, Toxicologic, and Pharmacologic Aspects of Psoralens

Nombre de pages: 278

National Cancer Institute Monograph

Auteure: National Cancer Institute (u.s.)

Nombre de pages: 280

Use of Small Fish Species in Carcinogenicity Testing

Nombre de pages: 280

Linked Discourses

Auteure: Bhikkhu Sujato , Suttacentral

Nombre de pages: 2401

SuttaCentral has published an entirely new translation of the four Pali nikāyas by Bhikkhu Sujato, which is the first complete and consistent English translation of these core texts. This is an ebook version of Bhikkhu Sujato's translation of the Saṁyutta Nikāya, which can also be read at SuttaCentral website. The “Linked” or “Connected” Discourses (Saṁyutta Nikāya, abbreviated SN) is a collection of over a thousand short discourses in the Pali canon. The word “linked” refers to the fact that the texts are collected and organized by topic. In most cases the organizing principle is a particular theme of Dhamma, for example, the five aggregates, dependent origination, the noble eightfold path, mindfulness meditation, or the four noble truths. This collection contains the most extensive range of texts on these core themes. In other cases chapters are organized according to the person or kind of person who speaks. This collection has a full parallel in the Saṁyuktāgama (SA) of the Sarvāstivāda school in Chinese translation. In addition, there are two partial collections in Chinese (SA-2 and SA-3) as well as a number of miscellaneous or fragmentary texts in...

Handbook of Texture Analysis

Auteure: Ayman El-baz , Mohammad Ghazal , Jasjit S. Suri

Nombre de pages: 226

The major goals of texture research in computer vision are to understand, model, and process texture, and ultimately, to simulate the human visual learning process using computer technologies. In the last decade, artificial intelligence has been revolutionized by machine learning and big data approaches, outperforming human prediction on a wide range of problems. In particular, deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are particularly well suited to texture analysis. This book examines four major application domains related to texture analysis and their relationship to AI-based industrial applications: texture classification, texture segmentation, shape from texture, and texture synthesis. This volume: Discusses texture-based segmentation for extracting image shape features, modeling and segmentation of noisy and textured images, spatially constrained color-texture model for image segmentation, and texture segmentation using Gabor filters Examines textural features for image classification, a statistical approach for classification, texture classification from random features, and applications of texture classifications Describes shape from texture, including general...

Numbered Discourses

Auteure: Bhikkhu Sujato , Suttacentral

Nombre de pages: 2108

SuttaCentral has published an entirely new translation of the four Pali Nikāyas by Bhikkhu Sujato, which is the first complete and consistent English translation of these core texts. This is an ebook version of Bhikkhu Sujato's translation of the Aṅguttara Nikāya, which can also be read at SuttaCentral website. The “Numbered” or “Numerical” Discourses are usually known as Aṅguttara Nikāya in Pali, abbreviated AN. However, the Pali tradition also knows the form Ekottara (“one-up” or “incremental”), and this is the form usually found in the northern collections. These collections organize texts in numbered sets, from one to eleven. Compared to the other nikāyas, they are more oriented to the lay community. The Ekottarikāgama (EA) in Chinese is a highly unusual text, which features a range of variations within itself when it comes even to basic doctrines. It shares considerably less in common with the Pali Aṅguttara than the other collections do with their counterparts. In addition, there is a partial Ekottarikāgama in Chinese, as well as a variety of individual discourses and fragments in Chinese and Sanskrit. This translation of Aṅguttara Nikāya was...

The Empire of Ashes

Auteure: Samuel Robbins

Nombre de pages: 451

The world changes far too quickly. A man from the far south rises, proclaimed as the promised Deliverer that will defeat the emperor—but he himself doubts this. Another man leads his exiled people northward, toward the Storm Mountains and the fabled fortress of Phoenix Haven, where lies an emerging rebellion against Emperor Archax’s rule. Out of a clan of dark assassins—exiled from their ancestral home, imprisoned in a foreign city—a single woman dares to defy the ancient guild code when she refuses to kill her quarry. Set in a brilliantly realized world ravaged by war and magic, this epic novel of blood, intrigue, and betrayal marks the beginning of the Ascendance Trilogy, a magnificent new fantasy series.

Tonight Not Even My Skin

Auteure: Leanne Ponder

Nombre de pages: 86

The Tale That Wags The God

Auteure: James Blish

Nombre de pages: 293

When James Blish died in 1975 he was one of the top science fiction writers. in addition, he was perhaps the leading technical critic in the science fiction field. Following on from the two earlier collections of his critical writing, under the anonymous pseudonym of 'William Atheling, Jr', The Tale that Wags the God is a final selection of the insightful and incisive analyses of one of the field's great critics.

Strangers

Auteure: Michaelbrent Collings

Nombre de pages: 381

Get ready for "a truly terrifying story" (Scream Magazine) by international bestseller and multiple Bram Stoker and Dragon Award finalist Michaelbrent Collings... You wake up in the morning to discover that you have been sealed into your home. "Top-notch creepy, a win all the way!" - The Horror Fiction Review The doors are locked, the windows are barred. THERE'S NO WAY OUT. "[Strangers is] something even Alfred Hitchcock himself would be proud of." - Horrornews.net A madman is playing a deadly game with you and your family. A game with no rules, only consequences. "Collings' most penetrating book." - Horror-Web.com So what do you do? Do you run? "[K]eeps you enthralled from page to page" - Horror Drive-in Do you hide? "[S]pine-tingling, edge-of-the-chair suspense." - Hellnotes OR DO YOU DIE? Fans of Bird Box, Head Full of Ghosts, Phantoms, and The Stand will love this story about the ultimate lockdown. Grab your copy...and get ready to meet the Strangers!

Darkling Smiles: Tales of Brightness Darkled

Auteure: Michaelbrent Collings

Nombre de pages: 377

#1 Horror Bestseller and multiple Bram Stoker finalist Michaelbrent Collings brings you a "chilling collection of eight tales... as scary as they are satisfying" (Publisher's Weekly). A family that wins tablet computers at a deal to good to be believed... A man who is sent across the universe, only to discover the most dangerous world in existence... A hitman who realizes that his greatest contract is going to be himself... A man whose child has been targeted by a cult, and must decide what he is willing to do to save those he loves... Michaelbrent Collings brings you eight tales of people whose lives -- and sometimes deaths -- have fallen into decay. Tales of the ordinary and the extraordinary, the outrageous and the banal. Tales of lives bright, lives dim. Stories of a universe fallen, where every happiness has its opposite, and every smile will be inevitably darkled... Readers rave: "A fantastic collection" - Heather Escobedo "A Must-Have Book for Michaelbrent Collings fans" - D. Hilton "I was blown away by this collection of stories." "I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves surprise endings and twisted tales." - Jeffrey C. "Stories that will haunt your dreams." -...

When True Night Falls

Auteure: Celia Friedman

Nombre de pages: 588

Warrior priest Damien Vryce and immortal sorcerer Gerald Tarrant reunite in an uneasy alliance to combat an evil that threatens the delicate stability of life on Erna, where the mysterious force known as the fae conjures monsters from the stuff of dreams. This sequel to Black Sun Rising secures Friedman's reputation both as a gifted storyteller and an innovative creator. This sequel to Black Sun Rising secures Friedman's reputation both as a gifted storyteller and an innovative creator.

Wild Magic

Auteure: Angus Wells

Nombre de pages: 544

Wild Magic is the dazzling conclusion to The Godwars, an epic quest of daring heroism and startling magic by one of the rising stars in the fantasy firmament. When the First Gods created all things, they brought forth two lesser gods, Tharn and Balatur, to walk upon the new world. But greed and power twisted their minds and turned their ambition into madness. And so the First Gods condemned them to eternal sleep in order to preserve creation. Now, the exiled prince Calandryll, the mercenary Bracht, and the warrior woman Katya pursue Rhythamun, a powerful wizard who would wake one of the mad gods and provoke apocalypse. He carries with him the Arcanum, an ancient book of power that—simply by virtue of having been discovered—already stirs the god from his slumber. But Calandryll and his companions are chased by another vengeful mage, whose dark magics created Cennaire, an undead murderess, to thwart their efforts. And as they face the perils of civil war, magical assaults, and the ever-present threat of Cennaire’s treachery to reach Rhythamun before he wakes the god, they live with the knowledge that the fate of the world rests solely in their hands.

Brute Neighbors

Auteure: Herbert R. Coursen

Nombre de pages: 261

Sam Lanston's distress at losing a job he loves is multiplied when he is accused of murdering the man who took his place. While no physical evidence links Sam to the murder scene, the last act of the murdered man has been to type Sam's initials onto the sheet of paper that was in the victim's typewriter. The prosecutor is determined to convict Sam, by means legal or otherwise, and it looks as if Sam will spend the rest of his life in the Superannuate. While his hero is Henry David Thoreau, Sam Lanston discovers that the only people who survive in the new millennium are those who never raise even a mild voice of protest to the various tyrannies that would impose their will upon us. This novel explores the supposedly rational and non violent sphere of academe and the real world of the justice system outside the ivy covered walls. H. R. Coursen has published seventeen books on Shakespeare, twenty-one novels, and thirty books of poetry. A fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force, he became a membe of Veterans for Peace as the war in Vietnam developed. He teaches at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the University of Maine at Augusta. A poll in 1996 by Penn State University named him ...

Crown Of Shadows

Auteure: Celia Friedman

Nombre de pages: 445

Despite opposition by his Patriarch, warrior priest Damien Vryce again seeks the assistance of the immortal sorcerer Gerald Tarrant. While racing against time to prevent the enslavement of their world, the two men find themselves trapped between justice and retribution. Betrayal and loyalty assume ironic forms in this conclusion to Friedman's complex and compelling Cold Fire Trilogy. The richly detailed setting and strong supporting characters give substance to a tale that explores the consequences of embracing evil in the hope of achieving its redemption.

The works of Ossian, the son of Fingal, translated from the Galic language by James Macpherson. Vol. 1. [-4.]

Nombre de pages: 272

Darkbound

Hidden Identity

Auteure: Carol J. Post

Nombre de pages: 219

RUNNING FOR HER LIFE When Meagan Berry is caught on camera rescuing a senator, she knows her cover's been blown. After faking her death, she's spent months keeping her identity hidden from an abusive ex-fiancé. Now he's on her trail in remote Cedar Key, Florida. Officer Hunter Kingston knows Meagan's running from something, but he can't imagine anyone wishing harm on the pretty artist. Then an intruder breaks into Meagan's house, and Hunter promises not to leave her side. But when evidence from the crime scene doesn't add up, Hunter wonders whether he should trust Meagan. Yet he will have to put his faith in this mysterious beauty if they both want to live to see another day.

Global Frankenstein

Auteure: Carol Margaret Davison , Marie Mulvey-roberts

Nombre de pages: 351

Consisting of sixteen original essays by experts in the field, including leading and lesser-known international scholars, Global Frankenstein considers the tremendous adaptability and rich afterlives of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, Frankenstein, at its bicentenary, in such fields and disciplines as digital technology, film, theatre, dance, medicine, book illustration, science fiction, comic books, science, and performance art. This ground-breaking, celebratory volume, edited by two established Gothic Studies scholars, reassesses Frankenstein’s global impact for the twenty-first century across a myriad of cultures and nations, from Japan, Mexico, and Turkey, to Britain, Iraq, Europe, and North America. Offering compelling critical dissections of reincarnations of Frankenstein, a generically hybrid novel described by its early reviewers as a “bold,” “bizarre,” and “impious” production by a writer “with no common powers of mind”, this collection interrogates its sustained relevance over two centuries during which it has engaged with such issues as mortality, global capitalism, gender, race, embodiment, neoliberalism, disability, technology, and the role of science.

Sensory Arts and Design

Auteure: Ian Heywood

Nombre de pages: 251

Artists, designers and researchers are increasingly seeking new ways to understand and explore the creative and practical significance of the senses. This ground-breaking book brings art and design into the field of sensory studies providing a clear introduction to the field and outlining important developments and new directions. A compelling exploration of both theory and practice, Sensory Arts and Design brings together a wide variety of examples from contemporary art and design which share a sensory dimension in their development or user experience. Divided into three parts, the book examines the design applications of new technology with sensing capacities; the role of the senses in creating new imaginative environments; and the significance of the senses within different cultural practices. The thirteen chapters cover a highly diverse range of issues – from the urban environment, architecture and soundscapes to gustatory art, multisensory perception in painting, music and drawing, and the relationship between vision and smell. Initiated by Insight, a research group at Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts –widely recognised as a center of research excellence –...

The Pastor's Story, and Other Pieces; Or, Prose and Poetry

Auteure: Mary A. H. Gay

Nombre de pages: 276

Egypt, a poem. To which are added other poems and songs

Auteure: John Henry Davies

Nombre de pages: 142

Mary Tudor, an historical drama: the Lamentation of Ireland, and other poems

Auteure: Sir Afterwards De Vere Hunt (aubrey)

Nombre de pages: 476

Obedience

Auteure: Jacqueline Yallop

Nombre de pages: 289

Set in contemporary and World War II France, this is the story of Sister Bernard: her forbidden love, her uncertain faith, and her guilt- ridden past. A once -bustling convent in the South of France is closing, leaving behind three elderly nuns. Forced, for the first time, to confront the community that she betrayed decades ago, Sister Bernard relives her life during the war. At thirty, Sister Bernard can hear the voice of God-strident, furious, and personal. When a young Nazi soldier, a member of the German occupying forces, asks her to meet him in the church in secret one evening, she agrees. And so begins the horrifying and passionate love affair that will deafen the heavens and define her life, tempting her into duplicity. Obedience is a powerful exploration of one woman's struggle to reconcile her aching need to be loved with her fear of God's wrath.

Guardians of the Key

Auteure: Clio Gray

Nombre de pages: 183

Lucca, City State for hundreds of years, keeper of secrets and relics, possessor of the Holy Face of Christ, has Napoleon's army at its gates, the emperor having declared himself King of All Italy. A continent away in Bexleyheath, Mabel Flinchurst gazes down from her window upon the Advent Fair. With all the hustle and bustle she doesn't see the pilgrim walk into the church of St Anthony's across the square, and slit his own throat. But Lucca and this suicide are strands from the same rope, a rope that is being wound unseen about Mabel, ready to rip her from her cosy world. When Mabel's friend, Toby, is kidnapped she enlists the help of compulsive list-maker and missing-persons finder, Whilbert Stroop. Together they are drawn into a mystery that began many centuries ago, and soon they find themselves losing a race against time and treachery, as an unknown enemy, and murder, begin to snap at their heels...

The Toymakers

Auteure: Robert Dinsdale

Nombre de pages: 430

An enchanting, magical novel set in a mysterious toyshop - perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, Stephanie Garber's Caraval and Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist. The Christmas Emporium opens with the first sign of frost . . . It is 1917, and while war wages across Europe, in the heart of London, there is a place of hope and enchantment. The Emporium sells toys that capture the imagination of children and adults alike: patchwork dogs that seem alive, toy boxes that are bigger on the inside, soldiers that can fight battles of their own. Into this family business comes young Cathy Wray, running away from a shameful past. The Emporium takes her in, makes her one of its own. But Cathy is about to discover that the Emporium has secrets of its own . . . Complete your collection with Paris by Starlight, the next novel from the author of the The Toymakers, out now ***** 'This vivid, haunting novel is both vast and intimate. A wonderful and thought-provoking read.' KATHERINE ARDEN, author of The Warm Hands of Ghosts Engaging and enchanting . . . A fairytale for adults, with all the wonder – and terror – that that entails.' GUARDIAN 'There is magic at the heart of The...

Louisa May Alcott

Auteure: Beverly Lyon Clark

Nombre de pages: 450

This collection of nineteenth-century reviews provides a wealth of information for scholars interested in Alcott (increasing the number of indexed reviews almost tenfold) but also insight into the ways in which reading audiences were constructed in the nineteenth-century United States. The reviews provide a window on to nineteenth-century attitudes toward popular fiction and toward women writers. The author of the novels and of sensational tales, of travel writing and of temperance tracts, Alcott was both highly popular and highly respected. Her works were reviewed not just in magazines for children, but also in the most prestigious literary journals of the day.

New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

Nombre de pages: 630

Bookburners: Book 3

Auteure: Max Gladstone , Margaret Dunlap , Brian Francis Slattery , Andrea Phillips , Mur Lafferty

Nombre de pages: 518

Magic is real, and hungry--trapped in ancient texts and artifacts. Only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Join Detective Sal Brooks, newest recruit to a black-ops magic hunting team backed by the Vatican, as she travels the world to keep the supernatural in check. Just remember: watch your back and don't touch anything. Fans of Supernatural, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and The Da Vinci Code will love this epic urban fantasy. Bookburners Season 3 is written by Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, Brian Francis Slattery, Andrea Phillips, Mur Lafferty, and Amal El-Mohtar and presented by Serial Box Publishing.

The Characters of Crystals

Auteure: Alfred Joseph Moses

Nombre de pages: 232

The First English Revolution

Auteure: Adrian Jobson

Nombre de pages: 268

One of the most important - and least understood - events in English history.

Beatrice

Nombre de pages: 380

Literary News

Nombre de pages: 882

Haven and the Circle of Darkness

Auteure: Robert N. Gable

Nombre de pages: 292

Nine-year-old Jake Jacobs had walked over To The window and was looking across the valley and up To The ridgeline. Jake slowly lifted his arm, pointed To The top, and said in a quiet voice, 'They're coming.' it began in Escape to Haven when Kent Davidson and members of his Sunday school class established a self-sustaining community to protect themselves from a corrupt federal government, a new administration, and attacks by terrorists. In Haven And The Circle of Darkness, The residents of Haven learn that there are more serious foes than mankind to confront. When one of the residents receives a directive For The community in a vision, The community, with the help of local pastors, set into motion a plan to disciple twelve new believers each week. But as their self-sustaining community attempts to become a nonprofit organization, The residents of Haven soon find themselves under attack from unseen forces that will stop at nothing to shut their efforts of discipleship down. Join author Robert N. Gable in his second novel, Haven And The Circle of Darkness, a Christian thriller about the importance of relying on faith when battling demonic forces.

Entheogens and the Future of Religion

Auteure: Robert Forte

Nombre de pages: 230

A study of the importance of psychedelic plants and drugs in religion and society • With contributions by Albert Hofmann, R. Gordon Wasson, Jack Kornfield, Terence McKenna, the Shulgins, Rick Strassman, and others • Explores the importance of academic and religious freedom in the study of psychedelics and the mind • Exposes the need for an organized spiritual context for entheogen use in order to fully realize their transformative and sacred value We live in a time when a great many voices are calling for a spiritual renewal to address the problems that face humanity, yet the way of entheogens--one of the oldest and most widespread means of attaining a religious experience--is forbidden, surrounded by controversy and misunderstanding. Widely employed in traditional shamanic societies, entheogens figure prominently in the origins of religion and their use continues today throughout the world. They alter consciousness in such a profound way that, depending on the set and setting, they can produce the ultimate human experiences: union with God or revelation of other mystical realities. With contributions by Albert Hofmann, Terence McKenna, Ann and Alexander Shulgin, Thomas...

Life of ---,compiled from various sources together with his Autobiography,...

Auteure: Jean Paul F. Richter

Nombre de pages: 502