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ER nurse Mark Rollens is still grieving the death of his brother who died in the Dragon Floods five years ago. He's been unable to connect with anyone, despite his best friend Jenny urging him to get a boyfriend already. Dragon shifter Cyrus Luz is living a lie. After the Floods, he left his dragon kin to live among the humans as a firefighter. He wanted to save lives, not take them. He wanted to heal the sorrows of the humans, not make things worse.

Lily Sutton has been running wild for years beneath her siblings’ noses. Born and raised in the rookeries, she is not afraid of anything or anyone. And she is most certainly not cowed by arrogant scoundrels like the owner of London’s most prestigious shop, Bellingham and Co. She is determined to right the wrongs of her world, even if it means resorting to devious methods, such as absconding with some overpriced fripperies and baubles.

This book offers a variety of articles and interviews regarding the business of stand-up comedy. It especially focuses on the being new to the business, although the insights provided can benefit even an experienced comic.

There are three things that we have to take into account when attempting to assess the impact of the contemporary sensibility in art on the culture of the various countries bordering the Mediterranean. First, the way in which each of these territories responds to the idea of the contemporary is bound up with its own cultural history. Every Mediterranean coastline possesses a hinterland, and this hinterland exercises an enormous influence on what is seen on the coast itself.

There is an increasing tendency to set up body artists and performance artists - the two categories are often interchangeable - as the real heroes and heroines of the contemporary avant-garde. In fact, we need to look much further back for its beginnings. The first body art performer, as well as the first professional bodybuilder, was the showman, Eugene Sandow (1867-1925). Though Sandow’s heyday occurred before the birth of the Modern Movement, there are compelling reasons for giving the primacy to him.

It is understandable that, in current circumstances, major arts institutions should try to ally themselves with the more anarchic, contrarian elements in contemporary culture. Perhaps this is especially true of those dealing with the contemporary visual arts, committed as these still are to the myth of avant-gardism. One problem that immediately presents itself, of course, is that this myth is not itself contemporary - it is rooted in the very earliest years of the century before ours.

John Millais is the most paradoxical of Britain’s major Victorian artists. Already recognized in his teens as prodigiously gifted, he chose to risk everything by becoming a founder-member of the Pre-Raphaelites, a revolutionary group of neo-primitive painters who, despite the support offered to them by John Ruskin, the most influential critic of the day, risked being treated as outcasts by the ruling artistic establishment.

Britain’s Culture Minister, David Lammy, recently suggested that the history of slavery should be made a compulsory part of the nation’s school curriculum. Mick Hume, a columnist in The Times, promptly retorted, “Slavery and the Holocaust are now likely to be taught as little chunks of history, removed from any proper context. They become simplistic parables of good and evil, over which children are encouraged to emote and empathise...." How well founded was this criticism?

The current agitation about the restitution of artistic treasures of all kinds to their original locations is usually presented as overdue justice for faults committed by European colonialism. In fact, this is a serious oversimplification. Conquering armies have always regarded works of art as legitimate spoil. Modern attitudes to the legitimate or illegitimate possession of famous artworks can be traced to the European Enlightenment that blossomed in the late 18th century.

Written with clear instructions for acing a variety of job interviews, this audiobook entertains as well as informs. With a strong background in career planning and employment issues, the author draws on a number of years working as an internship director at a major university and as a career adviser at a Midwestern community college. She has seen it all. The audiobook also posits a myriad of successful strategies for landing the offer.

Pack alpha Hayden Keys has always had a weakness for a cutie with a killer smile. After years of disappointment and heartbreak, Hayden learned to fulfill his needs and urges from random hook-ups in gay bars. Little does he know a snarky, out-of-town omega is about to rock his world. Pregnant with his abuser's pup, Conner O'Brien is on the run from his ex and cronies. The little town of Blue Moon, populated by a local pack of werewolves, is as good a place as any to take refuge.

Freeze Frame brings together six international poets, each with their own vision of what would appear in the static frame if we captured the flow of our ceaseless contemporary narrative. Read and recorded by the poets themselves in their home locations, the listener may experience their full presence and intention.

After tragically losing his wife, Ezra is still going through the motions, but not really living. All he has now is his son, Spencer, and his career as a dentist. The life he thought he was going to have has been torn apart. The things he had once enjoyed no longer feel the same without the person he had shared everything with. That is, until Ferris Jenkins crashes into his life. Not only does the lifeguard save his son from literally drowning in the ocean, but he also slowly starts to bring Ezra back to life.

Unless you have been living under a rock, you will know of or make use of LinkedIn. Most just brush it off as another mere social network. However, it is so much more than that! Used correctly, you can use LinkedIn as a marketing tool and maneuver your way into your dream job. Recruiters and hiring managers use LinkedIn as their number one tool for finding ideal candidates. With the right know-how, you can put yourself at the top of their lists!

Despite the growth of platforms such as LinkedIn, resumes remain an indispensable tool. With the job market more competitive than ever before, it's vital that you present the best version of yourself on paper. With hundreds, even thousands of resumes to sift through, hiring managers simply look for the smallest mistake to discard your resume and hire your competitor.

Updated and expanded for the third edition, this volume combines scholarship with movie lore to present a comprehensive account of the development and influence of the American screenwriter. The text is written in an informal style and includes anecdotes and stories that spotlight the writers' creative work and their struggle to achieve recognition.

Although he might not look it, pack beta and bookstore owner Horatio Ortega always had a weakness for a certain feisty human. Trouble is Corey Malone's middle name. Although they've known each other since they were kids, Corey continues to be a pain in his ass. As beta, its Horatio's job to maintain order in town, but Corey seems intent on breaking all the rules. The more Horatio wants to hate Corey, the harder it is to let go.

Jerry Norcia's Felony at 40,000 Feet follows Universal Airlines employee Grant Guidera, whose desire to succeed takes him on a risky path to self-destruction. Money pulls Guidera into the shady arena of sex, drugs, illegal aliens, and other sordid aspects of the underworld. His life becomes a nightmare as everything and everyone he cares about crash around him. Will he lose it all as greed thrusts him into a cycle of risk, betrayal, guilt, personal loss, and fear? Grant is desperate to call it quits, but is it too late?

This book encompasses in brief the story of Madame Queen and embraces steam locomotive development on the Santa Fe from 1869 to the officially announced end of steam operations in 1953. The actual end date of steam operation was August 1957. Presented for the first time in chronological order in one publication, here is a brief story of motive power development on the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway.

Through the ages, sensual massage has been a widely practiced form of intimate connection between those who know its secrets. With a long and fascinating past, sensual massage is found all over the world, its secrets delighting the initiated with a whole new level of touch. Tantric massage, especially, is an erotic font of mutual delight and ecstasy.