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First impressions can be deceptive as in the case of Butch, a sexy, extroverted trash man and Cassie, a swanky sweetie with a mysterious job in the big city. Underneath the surface of a persons facade is the real story. A trust is formed between this unlikely couple who hook up to solve a family mystery and fi nd a missing fortune.

From her home in New Mexico, Baba continues to navigate the unpredictable currents of old age with her usual ironic sense of humor. She is renting an apartment in a Victorian house where the heating and plumbing challenge her and her landlord.. Her three daughters and her grandchildren live in Oregon,...

Composite materials are increasingly used in aerospace, underwater, and automotive structures. They provide unique advantages over their metallic counterparts, but also create complex challenges to analysts and designers. Practical Analysis of Composite Laminates presents a summary of the equations...

A comprehensive guide to using energy principles and variational methods for solving problems in solid mechanics This book provides a systematic, highly practical introduction to the use of energy principles, traditional variational methods, and the finite element method for the solution of...

A fully updated introduction to the principles and applications of the finite element method This authoritative and thoroughly revised and self-contained classic mechanical engineering textbook offers a broad-based overview and applications of the finite element method. This revision updates...

In many parts of Africa three different systems of laws are concurrently applied – the imported "Colonial" law, the indigenous customary law and Islamic law. In some countries the customary and the Islamic law are kept separate and distinct, while in others they are fused into a single...

Genetic differences in humans, like those between individuals of any animal or plant species and those between species, are all products of the evolutionary development of the living world. These differences, with their behavioral consequences, can only be understood in the light of evolution. Our ...

First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Is the strength of friendship, of love, enough to keep friends together? Or will it fracture in a tide of jealous envy? And what of the mysterious force that brought the Adrian and his group together in the first place? Answers are revealed while deeper questions are posed in the second part...

Caleb Myers watched as his sister and brother-in-law, Joshua, drove away from Clearwater for a much needed vacation, leaving him to housesit, and take care of the family business. The idea of a long weekend of peace and quiet at their country cabin turned out to be a short-lived dream when a phone...

A Bitter Reunion:    Lilly Myers ran from Clearwater ten years ago to start a new life as a nurse, leaving all of the pain and anguish of her broken heart behind. The last thing she ever wanted was to return home and face the grueling questions about her sudden disappearance. But...

Raven Corvus has always felt like she was on the outside looking in. Being adopted into a family of shifters without the ability to shift has put her life on hold. Never wanting to take part in the Moon Ceremony or choosing a mate, she tends to distance herself from her people. When an accident lets...

Kanoya is no place for an outsider. American basketball player Scott Dawson finds himself in a Japanese jail for a crime he did not commit. As Vincent Inoue tries to untangle the small town's secrets he brushes up against the Wolf Pack, a professional basketball team, and the local police. Inoue's...

Impulsive young heiress, Minn Rockwell, falls in love with Granville Lyons, a handsome Navajo Indian, when she vacations out west with two friends in Idaho. She marries him and brings him east. They buy a house. He cheats on her and physically abuses her. She divorces him with the help of her rich...