Coffee shop owner and sometimes barista Kian's youthful, tragic mistake still haunts him but it doesn't stop him from wanting just one week of steamy passion with beautiful Sanaa, who also only wants one week of his loving because of a failed relationship that has made her skittish. Kian is a condemned man and, unless he learns about the power of love and redemption, this year will be his last on earth. Is it possible that falling for Sanaa is the...

Don’t let the authentic Cuban recipes fool you: This is no cozy mystery. Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery reveals the darker side of the modern Revolution.

Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, Yarmila, a 24-year-old Cuban woman whom he first met through her food blog. But Yarmi isn’t there to meet him at the airport, and...

From C. J. Box, the New York Times -bestselling author of the Joe Pickett novels, comes a thrilling book of suspense stories about the Wyoming he knows so well-- and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there. Over the course of eighteen books, C. J. Box has been consistently hailed for his brilliant storytelling and extraordinary skills at creating character, suspense, and a deep sense of place. All of those strengths are in the ten riveting...

I wanted to lose myself in the small town of Pelion, Maine. To forget everything I had left behind. The sound of rain. The blood. The coldness of a gun against my skin. For six months, each breath has been a reminder that I survived--and my dad didn't. I'm almost safe again. But the moment I meet Archer Hale, my entire world tilts on its axis . . . and never rights itself again. Until I trespass into his strange, silent, and isolated world, Archer...

After moving from Malone, New York, to Spring Valley, Minnesota, in the 1870s, fourteen-year-old Almanzo Wilder, who would grow up to become the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and his family must decide whether to stay out west or return home to the life they have always known.

Cerebral air embolism (CAE) is an uncommon entity associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Often underdiagnosed, is a well-documented complication of several medical invasive procedures. Although rare, air embolism can result from any endoscopic practice. We describe a case of CAE following a colonoscopy.

Soaring prices are a reminder of the essential role that affordable products play in sustainable economic growth and higher human development. Utilization of waste materials has become more pressing than ever. Red mud is accumulating at a rate of 30 million ton annually throughout the world. Under normal conditions when 1 ton of alumina is produced from bauxite, an equal amount of red mud is generated as a waste. A further aspect is their reuse as...

The propagation of the cracks occurs through the formation and the intensification of a plastic zone at the crack tip. This mechanism is accompanied by energy dissipation. The energy dissipated per cycle is representative for the state of the material at the crack tip. Many works based on energetic approach have been made by different authors in orders to characterise the behaviour of the material in propagation state.

Background and Goal of Study: We hypothesized that thoracic continuous paravertebral block with ropivacaine and clonidine, as adjuvant, could improve acute postoperative pain management compared to local anaesthetic alone, during first 24h post-procedure in radical mastectomy patients. Materials and Methods: 74 ASA I-III women, candidates to elective radical mastectomy under general anaesthesia, participated in this prospective randomized double-blind...

Looking back at the history of control engineering, one finds that technology and ideas combine themselves until they reach a successful result, over the timeline of several decades (Bernstein, 2002). It is such that before the computational advances during the so-called Information Age, a manifold of mathematical tools remained abstract and limited to theory. A recent trend has been observed in combining feedback control theory and applications with...