Every year at Christmas a rich man rides a train through Appalachia and throws gifts to the poor children who are waiting, in order to repay a debt he owes the people who live there.
Andrew Dare, the enforcer for a werewolf pack, discovers a beautiful, tortured female werewolf who has had silver injected into her veins and can no longer shift.
It should have been a simple job. But for Garrett, a human detective in a world of gnomes, tracking down the woman to whom his dead pal Danny left a fortune in silver is no slight task. Even with the aid of Morley, the toughest half-elf around, Garrett isn't sure he'll make it out alive from a land where magic can be murder, the dead still talk, and vampires are always hungry for human blood.
Patricia Briggs presents a collection that includes the first five novels in her #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a coyote shapeshifter with some unusual talents, Mercy’s found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so-human on more than one occasion... This collection includes: MOON CALLED BLOOD BOUND IRON KISSED BONE CROSSED SILVER BORNE
We all have tragic backstories in today’s world…I wake up chained to the wall of a dark cell aware of two things: I failed my sister, and I smell my enemy.When I’m taken to meet Dare, the alpha of the Silver Tip pack, I’m sure I’m about to lose my throat. The last thing I expect is for the Alpha to recognize me as his fated mate. No way is he going to let me go now, and I still have to find a way to rescue my sister.As I plot my escape to save her, I find that if I leave, Dare could be killed by power-hungry members of his pack. And now he’s more to me than my fated mate—my heart is involved. With time ticking by on my sister’s life, I have to make a choice I never thought I’d face—my sister’s life or my mate’s? That’s if I can survive the undead shifters intent on killing me first...
The Bratz decide to dress as pop sensations for the annual Stilesville Masquerade Ball, and to make their costumes more complete they form their own pop group, the Super Starz.
By and large, Sweden's place in film history is secure and prominent. Swedish films are associated with Ingmar Bergman's successful and high-quality works. However, another breed of Swedish film is notorious for its laissez-faire attitude towards nudity and relaxed sexuality. Produced in the back yard of the Swedish film industry, these sexually daring films join countless sensational movies that deal with shocking or taboo subjects - street punks, space aliens, hard drugs and drunken Vikings. Ekeroth delves into Swedish culture and returns with an overview of 'Sensationsfilms'.
Advanced Organics for Electronic Substrates and Packages provides information on packaging, which is one of the most technologically intensive activities in the electronics industry. The electronics packaging community has realized that while semiconductor devices continue to be improved upon for performance, cost, and reliability, it is the interconnection or packaging of these devices that will limit the performance of the systems. Technology must develop packaging for transistor chips, with high levels of performance and integration providing cooling, power, and interconnection, and yet preserve the performance of the semiconductors with minimum package delay to the system. Trends in each of the major packaging technologies include chip level connection, providing the required connections between the chip and the semiconductor package. The power distribution to the chip and heat removal from the chip; first level packages providing all the necessary wiring; interconnections and power distribution; first-to-second level interconnections; and second level packages providing all the necessary wiring, connections, power distribution, and power supply connection are included as well. This book is a useful and informative reference to students or individuals studying or conducting research within the field of electronic engineering.
Although metal is one of the first mines processed by humanity, it has never lost value. It seems that it will not lose value in the future. Although new raw materials modified with today's technology are being discovered, metal will have the most trusted, used, and good properties tomorrow as it is today."Metal and Metal Packaging" consists of three parts. In the first chapter, metal, the history of metal, and its journey to the present day are discussed. The chemical structure and physical properties of the metal are also discussed and examined in the first chapter. Ethnographic findings such as how the metal entered humanity's life with its history, for what purposes it was used, and how it turned into packaging were used. The second chapter of Metal and Metal Packaging deals with metal production, types, and metal as a material. A rich photo archive supported it, and it was aimed not only to inform the reader but also to excite the interest and desire of metal and raise awareness. The third part of the book is devoted to the packaging property of the metal. I hope that this book will benefit the researcher, designer, and anyone interested in the subject. Metal is life, love, art, and above all, it will come.