Mostrando resultados por autor "LA Wade" en Todas las categorías

Societies that ignore social disintegration and collapsing birth rates are putting their future in peril. So why are we ignoring the signs? ?In The Origin Of Politics, Nicholas Wade explains how our political systems compete with a more ancient set of rules for organizing society—those...

After wandering the earth for centuries two immortals find each other just in time to try to save a world that is on the verge of extinction. Trust and love don’t come easy to the two as they navigate the evils of this world in their efforts to save it. Throw in a black cat that makes you want to run out and get a black cat, and you have #wlw action and adventure mixed in with a lot of romance and suspense. #wlwaction/adventure #wlwfantasy #sapphicbooks #lesbian

A psychiatric patient who predicts murders—down to the details. Dr. Rachel Hadley has barely absorbed the shock of her ex-husband, psychiatrist Dr. Colton Hadley, vanishing when County Detective Lane Archer uncovers something Colton left behind: a set of taped interviews no one was supposed to...

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races...

Currency trading can seem confusing and overwhelming at first. Charts, terminology, and constant market movement often leave beginners unsure where to start. Currency Trading Basics was written to remove that confusion and provide a clear, structured introduction to the forex market for anyone starting from zero.

Hawk Haynes was proud of Porterville, Texas, a town he had founded. He had left it to go on a long honeymoon with Elizabeth Trudy, his new bride. When he returned a black cloud had ascended upon the town. The peace and harmony was gone, and so was his best friend. Hawk was sure Lank Lankford didn’t leave of his own accord. Luke Tanner, an old army buddy had left with Lank, and that told Hawk things weren’t right. Lank would never partner up with the likes of Luke Tanner, a born killer.

One transposed digit. One corporate takeover. One billionaire who doesn't forgive easily—until he learns what's worth more than winning. Layla I gave Chicago's hottest mystery man my number at a street festival, felt that electric instant connection, then accidentally sent him to my...

By the late 2030s, artificial intelligence has advanced faster than the institutions designed to contain it. Mavin Prep, a brilliant engineer, pushes AI beyond accepted limits while turning congressional paralysis into public spectacle. What begins as disruption gradually exposes deeper fault lines within the American system. As job scarcity reshapes economic life and a quieter, more survivalist nationalism takes root, the language of unity begins to fade. Confidence in institutions falter. Cultural assumptions erode.

The essays in this collection came about during the unhurried months when one who had traveled incessantly was obliged to stay still, even as events flared on all sides in a world that never stops moving. Wade Davis brings his unique cultural perspective to such varied topics as the demonization of coca, the sacred plant of the Inca; the Great War and the birth of modernity; the British conquest of Everest; the endless conflict in the Middle East; reaching beyond climate fear and trepidation; on the meaning of the sacred.

HER FATHER HUNTED MONSTERS. NOW ONE IS WAITING FOR HER. Quantico, Virginia. 1990. Alexandra (Alex) Monroe is an FBI trainee whose father was a famous FBI profiler from the late 70s and early 80s. But during a forensics exercise in the FBI’s cold case archive, Alex stumbles on a file bearing...

Two imbeciles, Twig and Rocky, escape from a mental institution and go on a murderous rampage. Twig is a foul-mouthed and perverted dwarf, and Rocky is a large man suffering from gigantism. Separately, they had always been mistreated and bullied, but together, they are unstoppable, unleashing chaos upon the scum and predators of society.

"FAIR WARNING, MR. DARCY!" She shouts it at the top of her lungs as his carriage races away. Whether he hears depends on a father's split-second grab, a frightened boy, and the chaos of a coaching inn yard. Elizabeth Bennet never wanted to marry Fitzwilliam Darcy. He's certain she compromised him deliberately. She knows she didn't. And both are spectacularly wrong about everything else. In Book 2, we see the months of turmoil and anger caused by months of separation, but what if he heard her? Would he stop? Would they work out their differences or just foster more anger and consternation. ...

With his father missing and his mother gravely ill, William Carter is struggling to keep his family’s cotton farm afloat in the face of drought and foreclosure. As his options wane, William receives a mysterious letter that claims to know his father’s whereabouts. Together with his best friend Ollie, a mortician in training, William sets out to find his father and bring him home to set things right. But before the boys can complete their quest, they must navigate the labyrinth of the Big Thicket, some of the country’s most uncharted, untamed land.

Elizabeth Bennet is a lady of decided opinions—especially about a certain Mr Darcy. When Colonel Fitzwilliam reveals that gentleman as the cause of her sister’s romantic woes, Elizabeth does not become angry or distraught. Instead, the news offers some relief, because it allows her to finally understand everything that happened in Hertfordshire the previous autumn. With this new knowledge, she acts to remove herself from the disagreeable company at Rosings.

It’s modern day in the New South City of Charlotte, North Carolina, when an unlikely trio of retirees at the Independence Retirement Community team up to solve two mysteries related to the death of a 96-year-old resident. Why was his manuscript about the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence missing when they found his body? And why did his handwritten will dated the day he died disinherit his beloved granddaughter (his only heir), and leave his $50 million fortune to Sue Ellen Parker, the most despised resident at the Indie?

FBI Agent Jude Camden handles every aspect of his job with by-the-book professionalism. There's no reason why his latest assignment—which calls for him to pose as the boyfriend of perfumer Gemma Clare—should be any different. Except Gemma is different. She's creative, bold, and feisty. And as soon as she meets Jude, she wants to loosen him up, wrinkle his perfect shirts, and test every ounce of his towering self-control.

When Meg Cole's father dies unexpectedly, she's forced to return home to Texas and to Whispering Creek Ranch to take up the reins of his empire. The last thing she has the patience or the sanity to deal with? Her father's thoroughbred racehorse farm. She gives its manager, Bo Porter, six months to close the place down. Bo knows he ought to resent the woman who's determined to take from him the only job he ever wanted. But instead of anger, Meg evokes within him a profound desire to protect.

He told me that he’d destroy me. I knew he wasn’t lying, and I loved him anyway. I believed in love - in him. I just wasn’t prepared to carry the weight of his demons. I wanted forever with him, but life showed me love was temporary, and forever was a dream. Despite everything that happened, even now, I wouldn’t change any of it. For a love to have the capacity to destroy you, it has to be extraordinarily powerful - and that kind of love is impossible to walk away from.

The first time I spoke to Peter Greer, it was at my best friend's engagement party. He was introduced to me as her brother then, but I knew of him even before that. For the many years I'd worked in the admin department at Pierce Goodman, Peter Greer was one of the untouchables. A person so high up the chain of command that a lowly admin assistant like me had no reason to speak to him directly. Of course, that changed when I became friends with his sister. We were acquainted. 

Delight in a perfect 'first stories' collection for the little ones.... This collection includes: The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, The Little Tin Soldier, The Three Little Pigs, The Brown Bear and the Fox, The Tortoise and the Hare, Tom Thumb, The Little Red Hen, Sammy's Miracle, The Acorn and the Pumpkin and The Little Fir Tree.