An epic of the days when personal honour and patriotism were more important than any one man's life. John Regan has a secret mission crucial to the success of the infamous United Irishmen's Rebellion of 1798. A thrilling historical adventure for younger readers from the bestselling author of Rape of the Fair Country, first published in 1971 and now available as an eBook for the first time.

The second powerful novel in the Five Crowns of Okrith fantasy series brings us into a new part of the world as the fae princess Rua joins forces with a truly unlikely ally—all with the same romance and adventure readers have come to expect from A.K. Mulford’s viral sensation! A magic sword. A powerful curse. An untested fae princess. And a continent on fire... Eighteen-year-old Ruadora Dammacus now possesses the Immortal Blade, a powerful artifact that might be enough to overthrow the cruel oppression threatening the land. Yet when Rua discovers the Northern Court King’s uncle is not only alive but has cast a spell on the blue witch army, she realizes that the battle is just beginning. Venturing into the Northern Court, Rua finds herself working closely with the young Northern King. Her problems are mounting, and the handsome—and perhaps evil—king is only one of them. With the eyes of her newfound family on her, can Rua prove herself worthy of the Immortal Blade and break the curse over the blue witches, or will its magic be too difficult to control? And, perhaps even more dangerous, is her growing connection to the Northern King and what that means for her people…and her heart.

Ruth Wallace knows she can only hide the scars on her arms for so long. Cutting herself doesn’t make her problems disappear, but at least it helps her cope. Ruth needs to find some way, any way, to heal her scars—the ones she hides and the ones she can’t—before something terrible happens. The seventh book in the TrueColors teen fiction series, Blade Silver deals with cutting, guilt, psychology, and healing. Includes discussion questions.

The twist of a knife. The birth of a legend. Step into the world of the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas with this collection of prequel novellas. Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom's most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful Assassin's Guild and its scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, she yields to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. But when Arobynn dispatches her on missions that take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, Celaena finds herself acting independently of his wishes and questioning her own allegiance. If she hopes to escape Arobynn's clutches, Celaena will have to put her faith in her wits and her blade . . . knowing that if she fails, she'll lose not just a chance at freedom but her life. A prequel to the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass, this collection of five novellas explores the history of this cunning assassin and her enthralling-and deadly-world. Included in this volume: The Assassin and the Pirate Lord The Assassin and the Healer The Assassin and the Desert The Assassin and the Underworld The Assassin and the Empire

In southeast Africa, the power to heal is often associated with crossing borders, whether literal or metaphorical. This wide-ranging volume reveals that healers, whose power depends on the ability to broker therapeutic resources, also contribute to the construction of the borders they transgress. While addressing diverse healing practices such as herbalism, razor-blade vaccination, spirit possession, prophetic healing, missionary health clinics, and traumatic storytelling, the nine lively and provocative essays in Borders and Healers explore the creativity and resilience of the region's healers and those they heal in a world shaped by economic stagnation, declining state commitments to health care, and the AIDS pandemic. This important book contributes to understandings of the ways in which healing practices in southeast Africa mediate divides between the wealthy and the impoverished, the traditional and the modern, the local and the global.

She created the deadly shifter virus. Will he surrender or mate her? Hundreds of wolf shifters have died. From the shifter virus she created. But she calms his wolf. Blade cannot—will not—let her go. The WSSO stole her work, her husband’s life. Now they want her dead. One wolf shifter stands in their way. Opening her heart to another? No, not again, not in a million years. Fortunately, Blade is a very persistent shifter. ◆◆◆ Fight Hard. Love Harder. Blade’s Battle is the second book in a wolf shifter romance series full of romance, intrigue, and deadly heroes. If you like alpha males and smart women who fight for what they believe in, and you want a very HEA, then you’ll love Julie K. Cohen’s Broken Shifters series.

Temple of the Sun and Moon provides the reader with the tools to achieve a deeper understanding of and connection to the Solar and Lunar energies. You will find some theory, but only just enough to whet your appetite for more. The majority of the teachings are offered through the tools of prose, poetry and pathworking as a way of creating a richer, more sensorial experience in developing a daily practice of luminous devotions. Part One begins with a simple pathworking of connection to Earth, our home in this greater Cosmos. Parts Two and Four explore the energy of the Sun and the Moon in their physical and spiritual forms. Parts Three and Five are poetic and prose renditions of devotionals that arose from experience, ritual, meditation and communion with the Sun and the Moon. Additionally there is exploration of the Sun and the Moon within the discipline of the Hermetic Qabalah.

Are they each other’s downfall? Or salvation? Athadia is a Healer, possibly the last of her dwindling race. Vaun is the warrior who rescues her—then refuses to let her go. She knows by his first touch he is a Latent, a half-blood and potential mate, but he’s also her mortal enemy. She needs to escape—hopefully with his unborn child in her womb. Athadia keeps Vaun’s soldiers alive on their perilous journey back to Kerfdom, but once there, Vaun is ordered by his brother, the King, to kill her. Keeping her is viewed as treason, but she offers him a type of healing that has eluded him all his life. It can’t be love, though. Athadia is forbidden to take a life mate. As conspiracies are revealed and war threatens, can they unite their people against a common foe? Or will she cause Vaun to be revealed as one of her own, ensuring they’re both killed and all hope of a future lost?

Kassie Sinclair is a simple woman that leads a simple mundane life spending her days saving lives. But when she is abducted by a vile creature that looks spectacular in a three-piece suit, she is pulled into a world she never imagined could exist; a world that was anything but mundane. After Kassie is forced to save the life of a stranger that has been brutally beaten and tortured she learns that she has a special gift to heal supernatural beings; a gift that is coveted by the very creatures that abducted her. Now, she must trust the handsome stranger to protect her from the creatures of the supernatural realm, but will she trust him after she learns what he truly is? Dmitry Jensen, a fola dearg, a red blooded vampire, has spent the last twenty years searching for the woman responsible for the death of his parents. When he finally gets a lead on her whereabouts, he finds himself in the middle of a nest of blue blooded vampires, the fola gorm, the greatest enemy of his kind, without backup. After being captured, tortured, but not broken, Dmitry finds himself putting his life in the hands of a woman that looks identical to the woman that had tortured and killed his parents. Will he be able to look past his need for revenge in order to trust her enough to save his life and quite possibly capture his soul?

During the past decade, significant progress in molecular and cellular te- niques has greatly advanced our understanding of the wound healing p- cess. Many of these new techniques have been utilized in the context of more classic models of wound healing. The combination of new and classic approaches has allowed scientists to make exciting discoveries in the field of tissue repair, resulting in an explosion of information about the healing p- cess. Importantly, these new findings have great relevance beyond wound healing itself. The injury repair process cuts across many disciplines, exte- ing to such broad fields as cancer, inflammation, and atherosclerosis. The relevance of the field to these many disciplines has generated great interest in models and methods for the study of wound healing. The goal of Wound Healing: Methods and Protocols is to provide scientists from many dis- plines with a compendium of classic and contemporary protocols from r- ognized experts in the field of wound healing. We hope this volume will be useful not only to those working within the field itself, but also to scientists from other disciplines who wish to adapt wound healing models to their own experimental needs. The process of wound healing encompasses many different biologic p- cesses, including epithelial growth and differentiation, fibrous tissue prod- tion and function, angiogenesis, and inflammation.