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Sakya Pandita: Three Biographies
by Drogon Chogyal PhakpaA set of classic biographies of Sakya Pandita—one of Tibet&’s greatest scholars and religious masters.Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182–1251) was a renowned Tibetan polymath, scholar, statesman, and religious master, and remains one of the most famous and consequential figures in the history of Tibet. The three biographies included here contain fascinating firsthand accounts of key events in Sakya Pandita's life, covering his family ancestry, early education, interactions and ddebates with other sects, and travels to Mongolia and his diplomacy at the Mongol court, as well as a detailed account of the miraculous events that occurred in the last weeks of his life. These were written by three central figures of the Sakya tradition: Drogon Chogyal Phakpa (Lodro Gyaltsen) (1235–80), who was Sakya Pandita's nephew and religious successor; Gorampa Sonam Senge (1429–89), a renowned Sakya scholar and prolific author who served as the sixth abbot of Ngor Monastery; and Jamgon Ameshab (Ngawang Kunga Sonam) (1597–1659), who was the twenty-seventh throne holder of the Sakya order and one of the foremost Tibetan literary and historical scholars of his time. The translations demonstrate the unique compositional style of traditional Tibetan religious biography and contain many fascinating first-person accounts of what it was like to spend time in the presence of a great Buddhist master and statesman who lived one thousand years ago in the midst of one of Asia's most tumultuous periods.
What My Brother Knew: A Memoir
by Kristina AmelongFor readers who were inspired by Alua Arthur&’s Briefly Perfectly Human, an emotional, eye-opening account of one woman&’s journey from loss and abuse to healing and spiritual awakening. As a boy, Jay Amelong predicted the accident that caused his death, down to the color of the car that hit him. &“I will die young, while riding my bike,&” he told friends and family repeatedly. &“It won&’t be much longer, I want you to be prepared.&” These were baffling words to hear from the mouth of a content thirteen-year-old—but when Kristina Amelong was only seventeen, her brother&’s tragic death unfolded exactly as he said it would, radically changing her life. Propelled down a self-destructive path of drug addiction and reckless sex, Kristina spent much of her young adult years wanting to die. Once or twice she came close. Always, Jay&’s bizarre story and his inexplicable acceptance of his own death lived in her body. More than thirty years after losing Jay, Kristina embarks on a journey of discovery, seeking truth about herself, her brother, and the universe. The result of her investigation is a memoir that defies belief. Charting a life path from loss and abuse to healing and spiritual awakening, What My Brother Knew demonstrates the transformative power of facing the mystery of death head-on and our incredible ability, as humans, to do just that.
Passport to Danger
by Sheila GrantPassport to Danger is a thrilling story of espionage during the height of the Cold War with the action racing from posh office towers in New York City to a crescendo in the resort towns of Cuernavaca and Acapulco with stakes of nuclear proportions.The CIA-backed invasion of the Bay of Pigs had been repelled by Russian-armed Cuba, the Berlin Wall had been erected separating East from West, and the Cuban Missile Crisis had brought the US and Russia one launch button away from World War III. The arms race between the two world powers was at a fevered pitch and the Cold War was at its apex. It is against this backdrop that supermodel Elizabeth Lamont is recruited by the CIA after a case of mistaken identity and thrust into the conflict as a double agent impersonating notorious KGB operative Nicola Neumann. Elizabeth&’s mission is to reach Anton Sobokov, who defected from Russia and became a leading US nuclear physicist. Now he&’s being held by the KGB in a house in Cuernavaca, Mexico, waiting to be transported to Cuba by plane and Moscow by boat. While impersonating Nicola Neumann, Elizabeth must gain access to the house and obtain the encrypted code to Sobokov&’s work before it falls into the hands of the Soviets. Should she fail, the balance of power could shift from the US to Russia. With a growing affection for Steve Brenner, a nuclear scientist and close friend of the perceived traitor, Sobokov, the stakes become personal as Elizabeth must prevent her emotions from sabotaging her mission—even if the answers she uncovers devastate the man she may be growing to love.
Requiem
by John PalisanoNew gothic horror from Bram Stoker Award winning author, and recent past President of the Horror Writers Association, John Palisano.Ava must fight an entity locked in on taking out the crew of the Eden, a moon-sized cemetery in space, as it brings back the souls of the dead buried aboard. One such soul is Ava&’s lost love, Roland.The spirits of the interred on the Eden haunt those aboard, including a visiting musician is tasked with writing a new song for the dead. Her Requiem calls a cosmic entity that illuminates their darkest fears and secrets. One by one, they&’re driven mad. Ava fights her grief and must rise up before they&’re lost and the entity reaches Earth.FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to excellent original writing in horror, science fiction and fantasy. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress. Awarded independent publisher of 2024 by the British Fantasy Society.
Growing Home
by Beth FerryAn unlikely team of talkative plants, a curious spider, and a grumpy goldfish use their newfound magical abilities to defend their family from a greedy human in this charming middle grade novel from New York Times bestselling author Beth Ferry, with illustrations from the award-winning Fan brothers.Ivy is the beloved houseplant of young Jillian Tupper of Number 3 Ramshorn Drive, much to the constant dismay of Toasty the goldfish, who is technically the family pet—swimming in his special place of honor, the antique octagonal fish tank—and should be the most loved. It seems that&’s how the cookie (or cheese puffs, in Toasty&’s case) crumbles in the curious Tupper household, but soon a sequence of thrilling and magical events challenges that way of life forever. First, there&’s the arrival of Arthur, a knowledgeable spider with a broken leg and a curious mind, hidden in an old typewriter. Then Jillian throws everyone for a loop when she brings home dear, sweet Ollie, a school houseplant who just wants to be friends and sing. When Toasty splashes the plants with his tank water out of frustration, the friends learn that they can do magical things—like lift heavy objects and turn things invisible! It turns out Toasty&’s fishtank isn&’t just for fish; it was made by a curious inventor who gave it special powers that, in the wrong hands, could disrupt everything forever. And a curious man with purple shoes just so happens to want that tank at any cost. Can Ivy, Toasty, Arthur, and Ollie grow to be friends in time to work together to save their beloved Tupper family from utter ruin?
Prince, Musical Genre, and the Construction of Racial Identity (Tracking Pop)
by Griffin WoodworthThroughout his career, the Minneapolis musician Prince was known for fusing different musical genres as well as moving between different identities—sexual lothario, devout man of God, androgynous sprite—qualities that fit the postmodernism of the 1980s. This volume takes a fresh look at Prince’s work, arguing that his music was deeply informed by the history and techniques of Black culture, and that his multigenre fluency and changeable image were weapons that he deployed in a career-long fight against the racially segregated structures of the American music industry. Using a methodology that mixes musicology with African American literary theory, queer theory, and gender studies, this book analyzes the ways that Prince mixed and manipulated musical genres that are indexed to racial identities—such as “White” rock or new-wave, and “Black” funk, gospel, or R&B—in order to construct pluralistic identities. Each chapter includes detailed musical analyses and transcriptions of Prince’s songs, focusing on his use of rock guitar, new-wave synthesizers, funk drumming, gospel singing, and R&B horns. By tracking Prince’s transformations of instrumental and vocal idioms derived from specific musical genres, and considering the historical and cultural values embedded within those genres, Griffin Woodworth explores the ways that Prince musically broke down stereotypes of Black masculinity. With its intersectional approach to musical analysis, this book captures the sounds of American racial politics in the 1980s, 90s, and 2000s as heard through the music of one of the era’s most popular artists as he worked to transform and transcend those politics.
Boundless: Native American Abundance in Art and Literature
by Heid E. Erdrich Lisa A. CrossmanBoundless expands conversations on Native and Indigenous art and literature by presenting words and images in kinship. Starting in the collections of the Mead Art Museum and the Collection of Native American Literature at Amherst College and centered on the creative production of Native peoples of the Northeast, the project follows relationships between Indigenous authors and artists across the United States and beyond borders. Boundless presents an engagement of Indigenous curatorial methods as practiced by guest curator Heid E. Erdrich (Ojibwe) in an exhibition in two iterations hosted by the Mead in 2023 and 2024. Advisors to Boundless include Mohegan, Nipmuc, Shinnecock, and Wampanoag artists and scholars, along with others, who supported Erdrich in her urge to center the project in the Northeast. Advisors contributed both visual art and writing to the exhibition and publication. Collaborative co-creation between artists, students, faculty, Mead staff Lisa Crossman and Emily Potter-Ndiaye and the guest curator are also explored in this illustrated volume. Amherst College’s Collection of Native American Literature contains thousands of Indigenous-authored works spanning centuries. The Collection’s abundance of books, prints, music, ephemera, and artist-made works, all by Native people, provide rich selections for Boundless. Crosscurrents of Indigenous visual art and literature are considered in this broad and interdisciplinary project. Boundless crosses generations to explore relatedness, kinship, and collegiality. Boundless brings artists and writers together across generations, often drawing together works by members of the same tribe or even the same family to show the history, presence, and futurity of Native American creative and intellectual production.
Computational Visual Media: 13th International Conference, CVM 2025, Hong Kong SAR, China, April 19–21, 2025, Proceedings, Part I (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15663)
by Piotr Didyk Junhui HouThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of CVM 2025, the 13th International Conference on Computational Visual Media, held in Hong Kong SAR, China, in April 2025. The 67 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 335 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Medical Image Analysis, Detection and Recognition, Image Enhancement and Generation, Vision Modeling in Complex Scenarios Part II: 3D Geometry and Rendering, Generation and Editing, Image Processing and Optimization Part III: Image and Video Analysis, Multimodal Learning, Geometrical Processing, Applications
Climate Change: Conflict and Resilience in the Age of Anthropocene (Advances in Global Change Research #80)
by Uday Chatterjee Subodh Chandra Pal Asish Saha Dipankar RuidasThis book illustrates a geospatial technology approach to data mining techniques, data analysis, modelling, risk assessment and visualization and management strategies in many elements of natural and societal hazards. This book delves into cutting-edge techniques based on open-source software and R statistical programming, Google Earth Engine and modelling in modern artificial intelligence techniques, with a particular emphasis on recent trends in data mining techniques and robust modelling in water resource crisis-related hazards. Furthermore, this book also discusses how to manage water resources at various local, regional and international levels while incorporating environmental considerations. This book contains works that address the connection between climate change, extreme events and resilience. These works include those that identify and evaluate policies, quantify the effects of public interventions, climate change on extreme events, describe the decision-making process and its role in modelling for resilience. This book's subjects be of interest to earth and environmental scientists, professionals and authorities. This book focuses at geospatial modelling and climate change management. A relationship between three technologies, including remote sensing (RS), geographic information systems (GIS) and the R programming environment, is acknowledged as particularly effective in this regard. This book, on the other hand, serves as a practical guide to identify the most recent breakthroughs in geospatial and geostatistical approaches and their application in the field of subsurface water-induced hazards throughout the world. This book is specifically designed to serve the community of Undergraduates, Postgraduates and Researchers, Policymakers, Environmentalists, Natural Hazards and Disasters Management, NGOs, Corporate Sectors, Social Scientists, and Government Organizations in the fields of Environmental Sciences, Geography, Hydrology, Natural Hazards, Geospatial Sciences, Remote Sensing & GIS, Agriculture, Crop-Science, Forestry, Soil Science, Agronomy, Humanistic & Social Sciences and so on.
Digital Health, AI and Generative AI in Healthcare: A Concise, Practical Guide for Clinicians
by Terry AdirimThe purpose of this title is to provide a comprehensive foundation for all medical professionals and healthcare-professions students in understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the advent of generative AI, including the release of Open AI’s ChatGPT in 2022, the world entered a new age of rapid advancements in technology that will significantly change the way clinicians practice medicine, operate healthcare institutions, and conduct research. At the heart of this penetrating book is the idea that medical schools, medical training programs and other health education institutions must undertake a key role in developing AI literacy for clinicians across the spectrum of medical education that includes all health professions. Moreover, assert the authors, AI literacy should be incorporated within medical school curriculums as a core competency, as well as into graduate medical education training programs and continuing medical education courses. This timely and easy-to-read guide offers a wide range of chapters that discuss the core concepts and issues relating to AI in medicine, including a basic understanding of algorithms, machine learning, large language models and natural language processing, the limits and pitfalls of AI, ethical and legal issues, the evolving regulatory landscape around AI, as well as how AI is currently being used in healthcare, to name just several compelling topics. Additionally, AI technologies will change how medical school curriculums are delivered and how student competencies are assessed, maintain the authors. Therefore, medical educators will not only need to rethink how and what medical information is conveyed to students during formal instruction, but also must be prepared for AI-powered programs being used to assess students and trainees for the purpose of licensure and board certification. A timely and soon-to-be gold standard resource in the field, Digital Health, AI, and Generative AI: A Concise, Practical Guide for Clinicians will be of great interest to medical professionals, trainees, administrators, policymakers, and anyone interested in the fast-evolving intersection of digital technologies and healthcare.
Gesund bleiben und elegant altern
by Carsten CarlbergWer möchte nicht gesund bleiben und elegant altern? Dieses Buch bietet keine klassischen Ratschläge, sondern vermittelt ein tiefes Verständnis der Prozesse in unserem Körper, insbesondere des Immunsystems. Erfahren Sie, wie ein gut funktionierendes Immunsystem uns vor Infektionen und Krebs schützt, warum Überreaktionen zu Allergien und Autoimmunerkrankungen führen können und wie unser Lebensstil die Immunantwort beeinflusst. Dieses Buch richtet sich an Laien mit biologischen Grundkenntnissen, die mehr über die faszinierenden Mechanismen unseres Immunsystems erfahren möchten. Es ist ideal für alle, die Verantwortung für ihre Gesundheit übernehmen und die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen für ein gesundes und langes Leben verstehen wollen. Mit klaren Erklärungen und wissenschaftlich fundierten Informationen zeigt dieses Buch, wie Sie Ihr Immunsystem stärken und somit Ihre Gesundheit und Lebensqualität verbessern können. Ein unverzichtbarer Leitfaden!
Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models. Emerging Trends in Computational Models, Intelligence and Security Systems: 6th International Conference, ICC3 2023, Coimbatore, India, December 14–16, 2023, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2423)
by Shina Sheen Latha R. Sridevi U. K. Thanalakshmi P. Thilaga M.This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference, ICC3 2023, held in Coimbatore, India, during December 14–16, 2023. The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 86 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: computational intelligence; cyber security; and computational models.
Essays on Pollution Control in Economics and Management Science: An Interdisciplinary View (Lecture Notes in Operations Research)
by Fouad El OuardighiThe book features contributions that address both environmental economics and environmental management. It presents a novel dynamic modeling framework for environmental economics in which environmental absorption efficiency is considered as a time-dependent variable with its own dynamics. It also introduces several extensions and applications of the model, including the possibility of including self-regenerating environmental absorption efficiency, non-cooperative transboundary issues with two superimposed free-rider behaviors (i.e., emissions reduction and restoration efforts), and deforestation. In the environmental management context, it puts forward an entirely new dynamic modeling framework. Unlike static approaches, the model considers both flow and stock variables, reflecting the accumulation of pollution over time. In turn, the book assesses sustainable configurations for supply chain competition, providing mathematical insights and managerial recommendations that integrate accumulated pollution aspects and associated negative externalities. Overall, the book calls for combining environmental economics and environmental management in order to arrive at more realistic, empirically grounded models. Given its focus, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students with an interest in addressing pollution control challenges in the fields of economics and management science.
Navigating the Complexities of Energy Transitions in East Asia: Analytical Insights (Climate Change and Energy Transition)
by Fukunari Kimura Xunpeng Shi Han PhouminThis book brings together a series of expert analyses to unravel the multifaceted challenges and opportunities within the energy sectors of ASEAN and East Asian countries. Distinct in its approach, this volume presents a fusion of in-depth theoretical analysis and current research, allowing readers to explore various facets of energy transitions. Contributions from leading experts on the energy implications of the Russia-Ukraine War, provide a rich, academically rigorous exploration of the subject. Designed for policymakers, researchers, academics, and professionals in the energy sector, the book maintains an advanced content level that is both intellectually stimulating and practically relevant. It is also an invaluable resource for students in higher education pursuing studies in energy policy, environmental economics, and regional studies. This book is a crucial reference for anyone seeking to deeply understand the theoretical underpinnings and future directions of energy transitions in ASEAN and East Asia.
Controlling the Effective Hamiltonian of a Driven Quantum Superconducting Circuit (Springer Theses)
by Jayameenakshi VenkatramanThe thesis illustrates, with a remarkable combination of theoretical analysis and experimental investigation, how the static Hamiltonian of an oscillator with both 3rd and 4th order non-linearity can morph into a profoundly different Hamiltonian under the influence of an oscillating driving force. In a classical system, such transformation would not be considered a novelty, but the author demonstrates that the new Hamiltonian can possess an exotic symmetry with surprising new quantum properties that one would never anticipate from the original Hamiltonian, with no classical equivalent. The root cause of these unexpected properties is a subtle interference effect, which is only possible in a quantum context. Carefully crafted control experiments ensure that measured data are compared with theoretical predictions with no adjustable parameters. Instrumental in this comparison is a new diagrammatic theory developed by the author.
Lecture Notes in Data Engineering, Computational Intelligence, and Decision-Making, Volume 2: 2024 International Scientific Conference "Intelligent Systems of Decision-Making and Problems of Computational Intelligence”, Proceedings (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #244)
by Volodymyr Lytvynenko Sergii BabichevThis book addresses contemporary challenges in artificial and computational intelligence, particularly focusing on decision-making systems. It explores current trends in computer science, including the collection, analysis, and processing of information. The advancement of modern information and computer technologies for data analysis and processing in data mining and machine learning is highlighted, showcasing their role in enhancing the efficiency of information processing by reducing time and increasing accuracy. The book comprises 16 scientific papers presenting cutting-edge research in data mining, machine learning, and decision-making. It is categorized into three sections: 1. Data engineering, computational intelligence, and inductive modeling—16 papers. This book is designed for scientists and developers specializing in data mining, machine learning, and decision-making systems.
Timebomb: When Ageing Explodes
by Giles MerrittAgeing is a timebomb. We celebrate our greater longevity, yet few of us consider its consequences. This book is an important warning that unless Europeans defuse its explosive force, within two decades our societies will be devastated by it. The hard fact is that because our political economies have been built around shorter lifespans, they risk being blown apart by ageing. The pressures exerted by the over-60s, who are increasing from today's quarter of the population to a third, will upend our politics and impoverish our young. Millennials and Gen-Zers are already saddled with their elders' runaway pension and healthcare costs, but are themselves poorer and less privileged. Merritt, a veteran analyst of the European scene, traces the demographic projections that politicians of all persuasions have long ignored, and shines a harsh light on policy shortcomings that must be urgently addressed. For anyone wants a stake in our future, this book is essential reading which clarifies the political choices to be made if comparatively prosperous Europe isn't to die of old age.
Europe’s World: Policy Paradigms, Strategic Thinking and the Anti-Liberal Challenge
by Knud Erik Jørgensen, Tonny Brems Knudsen and Laura LandorffThe EU’s international environment is increasingly characterized by power politics, great-power rivalry, ideological contestation and war. This has challenged the liberal-internationalist identity that has been at the heart of the EU since its birth. This book examines how the EU has responded to these new realities. It analyses the introduction of a flurry of concepts including European sovereignty, strategic autonomy, civilization, responsibility and strategic compass, and asks whether these signal a reconsideration of foreign policy objectives, a new strategic orientation or possibly a paradigm shift. The book develops a theoretical framework on policy paradigms, worldviews, grand strategy, strategic narratives and the drivers of institutional change followed by chapters on the anti-liberal challenge, the evolution of the EU framework of ideas, the search for grand strategy and strategic autonomy, the response to Russian aggression and imperial thinking, and continuity and change in EU unity, working groups, green leadership and strategic communication.
Poetic Inquiry as Research: A Decolonial Guide (Creative Research Methods in Practice)
by Heidi van Rooyen and Raphael d’AbdonPoetic inquiry is an arts-based approach integrating the humanities and sciences to enhance the quality of social science research and its dissemination. This insightful guide sheds light on the transformative power of poetic inquiry in academic research. Blending poetry with scholarly work, it offers practical advice on crafting research poems, distinguishing them from literary poems and determining when and how to incorporate them into your studies. The book: - helps researchers to explore and express their research creatively; - emphasises diverse and decolonial viewpoints and paths to knowledge; - features methods, case studies, prompts and exercises from the Global South and North. Perfect for researchers eager to explore new dimensions of expression, this guide enriches all aspects of the research process.
Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything
by Kate Pickett Daniel Nettle Elliott Johnson Ian Robson Howard Reed Matthew JohnsonBasic income can no longer be dismissed as a utopian idea — it’s being tested worldwide. But can it truly transform economies and societies? This book dives into real-world examples, revealing how basic income reshapes lives. It explores the ripple effects of financial security—better health, stronger communities, more education, meaningful work, and engaged citizenship. By breaking the cycle of poverty, basic income unlocks access to essentials like food and housing, empowers people, and fuels long-term thinking and entrepreneurship Tying together theory with groundbreaking evidence from real-world trials, this book shows why basic income isn’t just possible—it’s the vital solution to our age of crisis, paving the way for a fairer society.
Vulnerability Theory and the Trinity Lectures: Institutionalizing the Individual (Law, Society, Policy)
by Martha Albertson FinemanVulnerability theory offers an alternative to social-contract and rights-based paradigms. Beginning with the corporeal body, the theory argues we are inevitably and constantly dependent on social institutions that are generated (and ideally monitored) through law. Accordingly, vulnerability theory argues for a state attentive to the needs of the universally 'vulnerable subject'. Based on lectures at Trinity College Dublin that focused on four foundational concepts, this book highlights how vulnerability theory differs from individualistic liberal frameworks. Calling for a reorientation of law toward a collective responsibility-based approach, it is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory, social justice, and sociolegal scholarship.
Getting Better: The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities
by Clare Bambra Julia Lynch Katherine E. SmithAvailable open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Health inequality has reached a crisis point. Your income or hometown can have a devastating impact on how well and how long you live. This injustice, exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, continues as the cost of living rises and other sources of inequity grow. What can be done to make things better? This book, written by the authors behind the award-winning The Unequal Pandemic, explores successful international case studies of governments reducing health inequalities – from the USA and Brazil to Germany and England – stretching over fifty years from the 1960s to the 2000s. Essential reading for students and scholars of public health and the social sciences, and for health and social care professionals and policy makers, this book demonstrates that reducing health inequalities is possible and provides a roadmap for today’s governments to follow.
Maybe This Will Save Me: A Memoir of Art, Addiction and Transformation
by Tommy Dorfman*An Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer Book*&“I&’m determined to get to know the real Tommy, to trace the shape of my scars.&”For years, Tommy Dorfman turned her back on her thoughts and emotions, hoping they&’d simply go away. After a lifetime of confusion, she finally gained clarity around her gender and began to transition. But there were still parts of herself she&’d locked away, elements of her story that she needed, for the first time, to fully confront. She sought guidance in a tarot deck.Maybe This Will Save Me is structured through the cards of that tarot pull. The youngest of five children, she grappled with her own identity from an early age and spent her teenage years numbed by drugs and alcohol. At the same time, she harbored dreams of creative stardom and a desire to make herself seen. Charting her early struggles in theater, her rise to fame in 13 Reasons Why, her hard-fought journey to sobriety, and the relationships that shaped her, Maybe This Will Save Me is a luminously written, bracingly honest, and structurally audacious memoir of an artist whose vision transcends mediums.
Cinderella's One-Night Surprise (Fairy Tales in Maine)
by Michele RenaeIn this Fairy Tales in Maine story by Michele Renae, a Cinderella discovers her one-night waltz with a billionaire had consequences…but could their baby be the key to her happily-ever-after? COULD HE BE THE PERFECT FATHER? After being forced to return to her humdrum hometown, Mabel Mitchell is trying to make peace with her abandoned big-city dreams. So when a moonlit dance in a castle with a stranger leads to an unforgettable night, she knows the fairy tale must end there…especially as he is none other than the world-famous Jamison Wright! But when she discovers she is pregnant, can she take a chance on Jamison…to lead her and their baby into their happily-ever-after?From Harlequin Romance: Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories.Fairy Tales in MaineBook 1: Invitation to His Billion-Dollar Ball by Cara ColterBook 2: Cinderella's One-Night Surprise by Michele Renae
To Catch a Fortune (The Fortunes of Texas: Secrets of Fortune's Gold Ranch)
by Rochelle AlersThe enemy next door…Had a hold on his heart! Oil entrepreneur Jonathan Porter&’s jet-setting ways come screeching to a halt when he learns he&’s the father of an orphaned son he never knew about. As Jonathan settles into his new home in Emerald Ridge, Texas—and figures out parenthood—the Porter family prodigal comes straight into the crosshairs of Vivienne Fortune. The formidable ranch forewoman&’s used to playing tough to be taken seriously at managing her wealthy family&’s property. But as Viv realizes Jonathan's a welcome ally against the saboteur hell-bent on destroying her family, she also discovers that her handsome new enemy might be more lover than foe! From Harlequin Fortunes of Texas: Book 1: Faking It with a Fortune by Michelle MajorBook 2: A Fortune's Redemption by Stella BagwellBook 3: A Fortune with Benefits by Jennifer WilckBook 4: Conveniently a Fortune by Michele DunawayBook 5: To Catch a Fortune by Rochelle Alers