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The Vampire's Lair: Danny Dal is searching for truth. Robin Ballard is protecting what she loves. The Vampire's Escape: Benjamin Dal is a vampire inventor trying to help humanity. When Lauren Vaughan, a gorgeous widow, is thrust into danger, they must risk everything to defeat their darkest foe. The Vampire's Choice: Valerie Dal, a vampire princess, is desperate to atone for her past mistakes.

A hunky hermit, Mickey Shive, has a plan to change the world. In their quest to save their people, can they also save themselves? Her Biker Dragon Collection: Cast out from their clans, these badass dragon shifters must use their cunning and strength to defy the laws of their people and stay one step ahead of those determined to keep life-saving cures out of the hands of humans.

Curvaceous Marie rides alongside the Iron Claws as their human medic. Her Delicious Dragon: Ned is a motorcycle-riding dragon shifter who kicks ass and bakes a mean cheesecake. Maya's a cunning tiger shifter and her clan's head of security. Nina Alvarez is a successful freelance programmer who loves the freedom of her nomadic life.

Her Hacker Dragon: Brilliant, transgender shifter Alec Harper is trying to atone for his dark past by dedicating his life to healing humans. Vampire scientist Penelope O'Hara has been fascinated by all things supernatural for three hundred years. When Alec saves her from a sudden attack by dragon shifter goons, Penelope is pulled into a dangerous world of hackers, killers, and conspiracies.

When Joe's past catches up with him, he is forced to face the decisions he thought he outran long ago. Will the mistakes of his past drive him away from the Iron Claws and his forbidden love, Emma? Buy Freed by Love to fight for love today!

Author : Blanche H. Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States.

Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene. Don DeLillo has spent his career reflecting upon the creative processes of artists. In recent years he has become increasingly drawn to spectators and how they project and indulge their own private obsessions through art.

It is also the first book to identify and analyze a signature DeLillo motif: the embedded author. In multiple novels, short stories, and plays, DeLillo inserts a character subtly implied as the creator of the very narrative we are reading or watching.

It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders.

It also deals with the problem of redheads. There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America.

It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his es-tranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man.

And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world.

It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking. Author : Tenley Hardin Publisher : Lulu. As an artist, writer, teacher, wife, and mother of two young girls, Claire struggles to maintain balance. Institutionalized for manic-depression as a result of her third suicide attempt, Claire is confined both in her hospital room and in her mind.

However, she begins to find awareness and direction during her stay at a mental institution, mainly because she allows herself to enter her past in a way she has never before.

Claire examines her childhood--how she and her siblings unrelentingly adored their mother, whose death marked the end of their innocence. But it is not until she returns to her hometown of Clare, MI to see her ailing father that she truly discovers just how deep the secrets of her childhood are.

Along the way, the dark corners of her mother's past reveal the healing truth of love. In her journey to battle the idealized notions of motherhood and artistry, Claire finds purpose and inspiration in simple treasures: her children.

A collection of exotic tales cruelly twisted into moral lessons "entirely free from Author : Jocelyn K. These instruments will provide Landsat 9 users essential information about crop health, irrigation use, water quality, wildfire severity, deforestation, glacial retreat, urban expansion and more. Northrop Grumman built the Landsat 9 spacecraft, integrated it with the instruments, and tested the observatory.

Download Options x tif Landsat 9 carries two instruments designed to work together to capture a broad range of wavelengths: the Operational Land Imager 2, or OLI-2, which detects nine different wavelengths of visible, near-infrared and shortwave-infrared light; and the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2, or TIRS-2, which detects two wavelengths of thermal radiation to measure slight changes in temperature. Data from both instruments are shown in the two pairs in this image.

The top left shows snow and glaciers in the Himalayan mountains, leading to the flat Tibetan Plateau to the north. The top right shows the same area in thermal data from the TIRS-2 instrument. Blue-white color indicates relatively cooler surface temperatures, while orange-red indicates warmer surface temperatures. The bottom left shows the brown and green rectangles of farm fields in southern Ontario, sandwiched between Lake Erie and Lake St.

The white and grey rectangles in the bottom of the image are produce greenhouses, which show up as blue-ish relatively cooler spots in the TIRS-2 image on the right. Version without labels. Landsat and other remote sensing satellites help to track changes to US coastlines, including urban development and potential impacts of rising sea levels.

From Oct. The Great Lakes serve as sources of freshwater, recreational activity, transport, and habitat for the upper-midwestern US, and water quality remains a high priority. In warmer months, Landsat 9 observes swirls of green algae which can become harmful algal blooms. Critics were also favorable to the album, with Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly , in particular, noting that "Loeb has an undeniable gift for creating an air of intimacy and vulnerability, which may well be enough for 'Stay' fans looking for additional doses of contemplative melancholy.

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