"Lillian Firestone is Chinese, but the kids in her 1951 Kansas City high school can't separate her from the North Koreans that America is at war with. Sick of the racism she faces at school and frustrated that her adoptive white family just sees it as 'teasing,' Lily begins to search for her birth mother"

..".well fleshed out characters, engaging and fast-paced plot and a heartbreaking conclusion... a must-read for anyone who loves a good mystery with a twist." Two sisters. One killer. A devastating secret. On a lazy and warm summer evening in 2001 young Sadie and Madison Hunter and their parents are brutally assaulted. The case has been cold for seventeen years, and it's a shock for the Snohomish County Police Department to find a man dead in Sadie's niche bookstore, It's a Mystery, with the same MO that killed her parents: four stab wounds in a perfect square. What could tie the death of her parents to this strange man killed in Sadie's store almost two decades later? The sisters have been chasing the killer who destroyed their family for most of their lives, and for the first time, they're close. Sadie and Madison vow to beat the killer at his own game. Who will win and who will die?

Since their inception, the Perspectives in Logic and Lecture Notes in Logic series have published seminal works by leading logicians. Many of the original books in the series have been unavailable for years, but they are now in print once again. Reverse mathematics is a program of research in the foundations of mathematics, motivated by two foundational questions: 'what are appropriate axioms for mathematics?' and 'what are the logical strengths of particular axioms and particular theorems?' This volume, the twenty-first publication in the Lecture Notes in Logic series, contains twenty-four original research papers from respected authors that present exciting new developments in reverse mathematics and subsystems of second order arithmetic since 1998.

The more things change, the more they stay the same... After six years of peace, Jack Stephens and his group of friends, The Tiders, have mostly embraced the prospect of leading normal lives. For some, that means the possibility of sharing a life of dreams together. Until the calls come in... Future plans are put on hold as one by one, The Tiders are requested to assist with a mysterious viral outbreak at a London shopping mall. Loyalty and trust will be tested. As nightmares become reality, is everyone who they seem to be?

This innovative dictionary allows the user to find given names which relate to a specific meaning. Arranged alphabetically by definition, the names are followed by the language of origin, variations (derivatives, diminutives, and nicknames) of the name itself, and the name as interpreted in different languages. Separate sections are included for male and female names. Using the dictionary you could discover that there are over 160 names listed for "flower," from Anthea (Greek) to Zahara (African).

Reverse Mathematics is a program of research in the foundations of mathematics, motivated by the foundational questions of what are appropriate axioms for mathematics, and what are the logical strengths of particular axioms and particular theorems. The book contains 24 original papers by leading researchers. These articles exhibit the exciting rece

Michael Mann's films receive a detailed analysis as existential dramas, including Heat, Collateral , The Last of the Mohicans and Public Enemies. The book demonstrates that Mann's films perform critical engagement with existentialism, illustrating the problems and opportunities of living according to this philosophy.

Reverse Tradition invites the reader of postmodern fiction to travel back to the nineteenth-century novel without pretending to let go of contemporary anxieties and expectations. What happens to the reader of Beckett when he or she returns to Melville? Or to the enthusiast of Toni Morrison who rereads Charlotte Bronte? While Robert Kiely does not claim that all fictions begin to look alike, he finds unexpected and illuminating pleasures in examining a variety of ways in which new texts reflect on old. In this engaging book, Kiely not only juxtaposes familiar authors in unfamiliar ways; he proposes a countertradition of intertextuality and a way to release the genie of postmodernism from the bottleneck of the late twentieth century. Placing the reader's response at the crux, he offers arresting new readings by pairing, among others, Jorge Luis Borges with Mark Twain, and Maxine Hong Kingston with George Eliot. In the process, he tests and challenges common assumptions about transparency in nineteenth-century realism and a historical opacity in early and late postmodernism.

"I know you're a virgin, Lydia, so I'll try not to hurt you--too much." ***** Lydia has been chosen by the Alpha King to become the breeder for the four most promising Alphas in the kingdom. She is the daughter of an Alpha whose pack is failing and needs the money promised for successfully bearing an heir. Lydia is a virgin, and this assignment is terrifying to her, but she wants to help her pack. At the palace, she is introduced to the four Alphas: Luke, Jeremiah, Preston, and Isaac. They are all powerful men with different personalities, and she is attracted to all of them. During a medical exam, Lydia find s out that she has two uterine horns, like a wolf, which will make it easier for her to become pregnant. As the relationships heat up, Lydia finds herself falling for all four men. Whoever impregnates her first will become king, but when she discovers she is pregnant, she is shocked at the paternity! With other Alphas moving in, hoping to claim the throne Lydia and the Alphas must stand together and fight. Will Lydia and her men prevail?