The Wild Operatives


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Three special shapeshifters explore their wild sides and find love in this compilation of steamy, smalltown southern romance. Quickdraw, Texas is full of charm...and magic.




The Wild Operatives


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Old Dog, New Tricks Former gang enforcer Lyle Davis is newly released from prison. With a laundry list of offenses tainting his reputation, the town's unforgiving population is reluctant to forgive until the local sheriff conscripts Lyle to mentor their neighborhood juvenile delinquents. Julia Bearheart creates prosthetics for wounded warriors to walk again. Months after she loses her dearest patient, Ian introduces her to Lyle. His loyalty, honesty, and genuine nature is a relief, an abrupt change of pace from stuffy boardroom executives and military suits. So is the hot body he developed in prison. Julia can't deny Lyle's rugged looks or southern charm, but he's her patient and she's sworn not to mix business with pleasure. He knows she's too good for him, but she's the only thing he wants under the mistletoe. If Santa has anything to say about it, maybe both of their Christmas wishes can come true. -------- Texas Pride As the eldest of seven children, Esteban Castillo has spent his life protecting others, at home and in the U.S. Marines. Now he leads the construction company founded by his father, and it thrives under his leadership--until a rivalry with another firm places their livelihood in jeopardy. Love comes in many forms. For Sasha Vogt, nothing matters more than her two wives, Nandi and Isisa. Together, the women form Houston's only lion shifter pride, but something is missing from their lives. No man has ever lasted between the three of them, and they doubt one ever will... until Sasha meets Esteban. Dating multiple women may be a fantasy for some men, but for Esteban it seems too good to be true. And right now, with someone out to ruin his family name, love should be the least of his worries. --------- A Man of Many Talons Small town sheriff Ian MacArthur lives his life by the golden rule. He's the ideal husband, a compassionate friend, loyal comrade, and a perfect stepfather to a little girl who adores him. He can do anything--but get his wife pregnant. It's a shifter's worst nightmare. Leigh blames herself for their problems. After a mishap with an IUD and five years of trying to conceive, nothing has worked. A visit to a specialist may be their only chance. Ian once told her eagles mate for life, but something tells her infertility may be a deal breaker.




A Wild Life: A Visual Biography of Photographer Michael Nichols (Signed Edition)


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Michael 'Nick' Nichols has for decades created powerful and eloquent images of iconic wildlife species. His vision is to stir the emotions of viewers leading to empathy and conservation. Melissa Harris has provided a sparkling text not just of Nick and his colleagues at work in the field, but one which provides many fascinating insights into the conservation issues related to his photographic quests. Among these are the survival of mountain gorillas during nearly six decades of civil war in their realm, the horrendous elephant slaughter for ivory, and the ethics of trophy hunting, of killing lions for pleasure. This is an illuminating and honest book about some of the world's greatest natural treasures and those who strive to protect them.--George B. Schaller, author of The Serengeti Lion and The Year of the Gorilla A Wild Life is Nichols's story, told with passion and insight by author and photo-editor Melissa Harris. Nichols' story combines a life of adventure, with a conviction about how we can redeem the human race by protecting our wildlife. The book's two central characters are the photographer--who journeys from the American South, via the photographers' co-operative Magnum, to becoming lead wildlife photographer of National Geographic magazine--and the author, who travels with the photographer on assignment in Africa, to gain intimate and deep insight into her subject. Harris's story also draws on meetings with some of the world's leading eco-scientists--including legendary primatologist, Jane Goodall.




Yukon


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Canada's Yukon is one the world's last great wildernesses, where bears, moose and caribou roam. It's a place where hikers, paddlers, skiers and mushers can travel for days without seeing another human soul, where the northern lights dance green and red across starry skies, and where glaciers tumble, mountain peaks soar, and tundra shrubs scream scarlet as summer turns to fall. Bradt's Yukon is the only guidebook dedicated to this natural and historical wonderland. Offering practical advice on everything from where to pan for gold to how to avoid being eaten by a bear, alongside quirky anecdotes (such as the story behind the 'sourtoe cocktail' - a shot of whisky garnished with a severed human toe), it's the perfect companion for highway drivers, cruise-ship passengers, and outdoors enthusiasts alike.




Job's Spiritual Journey


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Encyclopedia Of Freemasonry And Its Kindred Sciences, Volume 3: M-R


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Dr. Albert G. Mackey appears as author of this " Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences," which, being a library in inself, superseded most of the Masonic works which have been tolerated by the craft — chiefly because none better could be obtained. Here is a work which fulfils the hope which sustained the author through ten years' literary labor, that, under one cover he "would furnish every Mason who might consult its pages the means of acquiring a knowledge of all matters connected with the science, the philosophy, and the history of his order." Up to the present time the modern literature of Freemasonry has been diffuse, lumbering, unreliable, and, out of all reasonable proportions. There is, in Mackey's "Encyclopaedia of Masonry," well digested, well arranged, and confined within reasonable limits, all that a Mason can desire to find in a book exclusively devoted to the history, the arts, science, and literature of Masonry. This is volume three out of four and covering the letters M to R.




Damascus and Palmyra: a Journey to the East


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.