FW: Proteomics of Biological Systems: Protein Phosphorylation Using Mass Spectrometry Techniques (by Bryan M. Ham)

 

 

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Subject: Proteomics of Biological Systems: Protein Phosphorylation Using Mass Spectrometry Techniques (by Bryan M. Ham)

 

Product Description: Phosphorylation is the addition of a phosphate (PO4) group to a protein or other organic molecule. Phosphorylation activates or deactivates many protein enzymes, causing or preventing the mechanisms of diseases such as cancer and diabetes. This book shows how to use mass spectrometry to determine whether or not a protein has been correctly modified by the addition of a phosphate group. It also provides a combination of detailed, step-by-step methodology for phosphoproteomic sample preparation, mass spectral instrumental analysis, and data interpretation approaches. Furthermore, it includes the use of bioinformatic Internet tools such as the Blast2GO gene ontology (GO) tool, used to help understand and interpret complex data collected in these studies. Read more...

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FW: Corneal Endothelial Transplant DSAEK, DMEK & DLEK with Int. DVD-ROM (by John Thomas)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:59 AM
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Subject: Corneal Endothelial Transplant DSAEK, DMEK & DLEK with Int. DVD-ROM (by John Thomas)

 

Product Description: Section 1: Cornea, 1. Corneal Hysteresis and Biomechanics of the Normal Cornea, 2. Corneal Physiology, 3. Corneal Endothelium in Health and Disease, Section 2: Corneal Imaging, 4. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) of the Anterior Segment, 5. Optical Coherence Tomography in Corneal Implant Surgery, 6. Use of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) in Descemets Stripping with Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSEK) and Descemets Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty (DSAEK), 7. Imaging of the Cornea and Anterior Segment with High-Frequency Ultrasound, 8. Confocal Microscopy of the Cornea, Section 3: Next Generation Operating Microscope, 9. Next Generation Operating Microscope: 3D Digital Microscope and Microsurgical Workstation, 10. Role of Surgical Slit-lamp in Endothelial Transplantation and Anterior Segment Surgery, Section 4: Surgical Instruments, 11. New/Useful Surgical Instruments in DSAEK, Section 5: Artificial Anterior Chambers, 12. Artificial Anterior Chambers, Section 6: Classification of Lamellar Corneal Surgery, 13. Definition, Terminology and Classification of Lamellar Corneal Surgery, Section 7: History, Section 8: Deep Lamellar Endothelial Keratoplasty (DLEK), 15. Deep Lamellar Endothelial Keratoplasty (DLEK): Large Incision Technique, 16. Deep Lamellar Endothelial Keratoplasty (DLEK): A Procedure for Special Cases of Endothelial Dysfunction, 17. Deep Lamellar Endothelial Keratoplasty: Small Incision Technique Combined with Phacoemulsification and Read more...

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FW: Fluid Mechanics with Multimedia DVD, Fifth Edition (by Pijush K. Kundu)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:58 AM
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Subject: Fluid Mechanics with Multimedia DVD, Fifth Edition (by Pijush K. Kundu)

 

Product Description: Fluid mechanics, the study of how fluids behave and interact under various forces and in various applied situations-whether in the liquid or gaseous state or both-is introduced and comprehensively covered in this widely adopted text. Revised and updated by Dr. David Dowling, Fluid Mechanics, Fifth Edition is suitable for both a first or second course in fluid mechanics at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level. The leading advanced general text on fluid mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, 5e includes a free copy of the DVD "Multimedia Fluid Mechanics," second edition. With the inclusion of the DVD, students can gain additional insight about fluid flows through nearly 1,000 fluids video clips, can conduct flow simulations in any of more than 20 virtual labs and simulations, and can view dozens of other new interactive demonstrations and animations, thereby enhancing their fluid mechanics learning experience. * Text has been reorganized to provide a better flow from topic to topic and to consolidate portions that belong together. * Changes made to the book's pedagogy accommodate the needs of students who have completed minimal prior study of fluid mechanics. * More than 200 new or revised end-of-chapter problems illustrate fluid mechanical principles and draw on phenomena that can be observed in everyday life. * Includes free Multimedia Fluid Mechanics 2e DVD Read more...

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FW: I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It (by Adam Selzer)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:52 AM
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Subject: I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It (by Adam Selzer)

 

After a few wonderful dates with Doug, Alley begins to hear the whispers all around her the popular people who used to find her brutal sarcasm mean and heartless are now smiling at her in the hallway and patting her on the back. Soon the information gets to her. Doug's skin is a pasty grey for a reason. There is also a very important reason as to why he has to take medicine every four hours, and can only sing one or two songs a night before he is at death's door. Of course, as the title states, the poor guy is already past death's door and trying with all his might to live a few precious moments that were taken from him by a brutal accident. The sarcasm and wit in every sentence of this book is truly remarkable. I was laughing right along with all the characters AND learning some lesser known facts such as: Lutherans take longer to become zombies than other religious denominations marrying a post-human and converting is a great way to deal with issues of birth control and teen drinking and, the difference between dating a zombie and a vamp is much like dating a dentist versus a doctor. Alley is the girl who won Doug's decomposed heart, and it is truly a great comic ride to watch her come to terms with her future. Read more...

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FW: Illegal Aliens (by Nick Pollotta)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:50 AM
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Subject: Illegal Aliens (by Nick Pollotta)

 

This novel was more fun than I anticipated. Aliens land in New York and the UN first contact team takes over the world to deal with them. This is almost 2 books. The first half deals with the first aliens who land on earth and the second half what earth does in retaliaton to what they find out about people-out-there. This book sends up tonnes of standard SF stories and is fully tounge-in-cheek. It has a cast of eccentric characters and aliens who really aren't any better or worse than humanity itself. Read more...

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FW: Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred (by David L Martin)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:50 AM
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Subject: Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred (by David L Martin)

 

Product Description: Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious Visions of Modernity, David Martin unpacks a collection of artifacts from the visual and historical archives of modernity, finding in each a slippage of scientific rationality--a repressed heterogeneity within the homogenized structures of post-Enlightenment knowledge. In doing so, he exposes modernity and its visual culture as haunted by precisely those things that rationality sought to expunge from the "enlightened" world: enchantment, magic, and wonderment. Martin traces the genealogies of what he considers three of the most distinct and historically immediate fields of modern visual culture: the collection, the body, and the mapping of spaces. In a narrative resembling the many-drawered curiosity cabinets of the Renaissance rather than the locked glass cases of the modern museum, he shows us a world renewed through the act of collecting the wondrous and aberrant objects of Creation tortured and broken flesh rising from the dissecting tables of anatomy theaters to stalk the discourses of medical knowledge and the spilling forth of a pictorializing geometry from the gilt frames of Renaissance panel paintings to venerate a panoptic god. Accounting for the Read more...

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FW: Immortal Beloved (by Cate Tiernan)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:49 AM
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Subject: Immortal Beloved (by Cate Tiernan)

 

This is a fabulous book, but I have to warn potential readers- there's a lot in here that is very, very familiar. Many of the themes and elements have been used in Tiernan's other works and at times many of her characters showed marked similarities to characters from the Sweep and Balefire series. This wasn't a bad thing, mind you. With any other author it might be, but somehow Tiernan manages to take these similar elements and weave them into something so readable and fun that by the end of the book I wouldn't have cared if she'd suddenly made everything a carbon copy of her other books. The book is just that good. Read more...

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FW: In Close (by Brenda Novak)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:48 AM
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Subject: In Close (by Brenda Novak)

 

This is a terrific small-town amateur sleuth in which the romantic subplot enhances the prime story line of someone apparently silencing those getting close to the truth. Like the lead female, readers wonder if the culprit is a family member as her paralyzed sister and her step parents want her to drop her obsession. As the killer has to be In Close to Claire with Pineview being a tiny town, fans will relish this tense psychological thriller in which an unknown predator kills anyone who learns the truth. Read more...

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FW: GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:45 AM
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Subject: GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook

 

GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook Updated for ArcGIS Desktop 10, GIS Tutorial 1: Basic Workbook provides effective GIS training in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format. By combining ArcGIS tutorials with self-study exercises intended to gradually build upon basic skills, the GIS Tutorial 1 is fully adaptable to individual needs, as well as the classroom setting. The tutorial demonstrates a range of GIS functionality, from creating maps and collecting data to using geoprocessing tools and models as well as ArcGIS 3D Analyst and ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extensions for further analysis. GIS Tutorial 1 includes a data CD for working through the exercises and fully functioning 180-day trial DVD of ArcGIS Desktop10 software, making it the smart choice for GIS beginners. List Price: $ 79.95 Price: $ 43.99

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FW: It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom (by Andrew P. Napolitano)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:45 AM
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Subject: It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom (by Andrew P. Napolitano)

 

Judge Napolitano has some very controversial views. Let's just start with a few of them. Organs (the kind tucked away in human bodies) should be bought and sold legally, gay marriages should be legal, drugs should be legal, prostitution should be legal. His logic is sound as far as measuring these laws against constitutional rights. Unfortunately his views are not very mainstream and may be alarming to some people. After reading this book, I felt disturbed that the government disregards our constitutional rights, and at the same time, I was left with a helpless feeling. I think a book like this would be great for students learning about history, but I doubt any school would allow a book in the classroom that promotes legalizing drugs and prostitution. A quote straight out of the book "If you want to ingest drugs, the government should not stop you." Read more...

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FW: Jinx (by Meg Cabot)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:43 AM
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Subject: Jinx (by Meg Cabot)

 

So what makes this book so much fun? It is the lead character, Jinx. She is just a very real persona. She is suffering from some very painful truths that she doesn't want brought to the light. Things like mixing witchcraft and a person's free will. On top of that, she is dealing with a new living situation, a new crush, a new school, and the need to finally have some good luck. Some great luck! Meg Cabot really created a wonderful character in Jinx. Teens and heck, even adults, will empathize with the fears she faces on a daily basis, the challenges of dealing with cruel people, with rumors, and with a very confusing ancestry. Luckily, Jinx has style and a panache all her own and she will win you over from the very first page. I really enjoyed how Meg Cabot intertwined witchcraft and adolescence. There are some really great messages in this book, but you won't feel like you've been hit over the head with them. Subtle, sly, and humorous, Jinx has all the marks of an entertaining paranormal read. Read more...

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FW: Killer Politics: How Big Money and Bad Politics Are Destroying the Great American Middle Class (by Ed Schultz)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:42 AM
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Subject: Killer Politics: How Big Money and Bad Politics Are Destroying the Great American Middle Class (by Ed Schultz)

 

This book has balls. Period. The author holds nothing back. This book points at what has been going wrong, and what can be done to correct it. Ed provides answers solutions, and whether or not you agree with his ideas, you have to admit that his presentation of the facts shows how corporate profits have in large part replaced national pride as the defacto standard in the upper echelon of global politics. Ed shows us the shell game that is being played and if you think this is all sensationalism, just wait a few decades and you will wonder whatever happened to that great country we used to call home. The standard argument we hear from the middle class Republicans is that the people with the money provide the jobs, and therefore we need to give them more money. The facts are that America was founded on the individual earning his place in the world, not a corporate feudal state which merely replaces the titles "nobility" and "serf" with "upper management" and "labor." Read more...

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FW: Knock Me Off My Feet (by Susan Donovan)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:40 AM
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Subject: Knock Me Off My Feet (by Susan Donovan)

 

The main characters are engaging, the dialogue is fast-paced and realistic, the secondary characters are sufficiently developed to make them interesting, and the mystery works well to drive the plot (even though I guessed early on who the bad guy was). I wound up liking the characters in the book, liking the way the relationship developed, liking their quirks and foibles. It's one of those books that once you start it, you have to finish it. Read more...

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FW: Lakota Baby (by Elle James)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:39 AM
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Subject: Lakota Baby (by Elle James)

 

Then there is Gray Running Fox, Joe's old friend and manager of the Grand Buffalo Casino and Marcus Caldwell, of the National Indian Gaming Commission and the Lakota woman, Leotie Jones, who is obsessed with Joe Lonewolf and always trying to put the make on him. Joe had made the mistake of having a short affair with her when they were teenagers. Read more...

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FW: Lean on Pete (by Willy Vlautin)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:38 AM
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Subject: Lean on Pete (by Willy Vlautin)

 

Lean on Pete is a touching tale of a young boy who wants nothing more than to be able to finish school, join the school football team, and have a secure family home. Charlie tells his own tale in his own no-nonsense fashion as he tries to find just that. The result is an appealing and heart warming read, filled with a cast of mist-fits, the good natured, and the not to be trusted. I thoroughly enjoyed Lean on Pete. Read more...

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FW: Long Shot: Comeback Kids (by Mike Lupica)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:34 AM
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Subject: Long Shot: Comeback Kids (by Mike Lupica)

 

Sixth grader Pedro is an excellent basketball player. When he decides to run for class president against Ned, his teammate, a fabulously talented basketball player and one of the most popular boys at school, it creates problems for Pedro both on and off the court. This book includes lots of basketball jargon, description of plays, and strategies, but also incorporates strong "family values" in the strong relationship between Pedro and his dad Luis. The author emphasizes teamwork over individual efforts as the way to win in sports as well as life. Read more...

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FW: Love Amid the Ashes (by Mesu Andrews)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:32 AM
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Subject: Love Amid the Ashes (by Mesu Andrews)

 

Andrews' debut embodies everything I love about biblical fiction. When an author has a passion and heart for the story, they can take the "dry bones" of well-known and loved biblical characters and imbue the individuals immortalized in the scriptures with the vibrancy of the life they once lived on earth. And that life, that previously unimagined yet now fully realized world they inhabit within the pages of a novel like Love Amid the Ashes makes lives such as Dinah's and Job's relatable in a fresh new way. The reality of suffering and trust in a believer's life is such an individual, very personal thing with which to grapple, and this side of heaven one's understanding cannot help but be limited by our humanity. As someone who's struggled with "whys," I freely admit my own tendency to focus on circumstances, or the emotion of the moment, forgetting the sovereignty of the God who holds my future in His hands. Andrews' beautifully realized, heartfelt portrait of Job and Dinah is a powerful, inspiring reminder of the fact that my God transcends the whys, and when it seems that no answers are forthcoming, that doesn't mean that He holds me any less securely in the palm of His hand. Love Amid the Ashes shines with Mesu Andrews' passion for scripture, and her lovingly crafted portrait of Job's life cannot fail to inspire a deeper appreciation and study of the biblical text. This is a humbling, challenging novel, and I pray that no matter what your situation, you'll be reminded Read more...

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FW: Disordered World: Setting a New Course for the Twenty-first Century (by Amin Maalouf)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:31 AM
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Subject: Disordered World: Setting a New Course for the Twenty-first Century (by Amin Maalouf)

 

Product Description: Born into the Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation. His first book, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, was a critical and commercial success and remains in print after twenty years. In Disordered World, Maalouf combines his command of history with a critical perspective on contemporary culture, East and West-joining them with a fierce moral clarity and a propulsive style. Examining tensions between the Arab and Western worlds, Maalouf sees something beyond a "clash of civilizations." Both cultures have their own continuity, integrity, and morality. Yet in our times, both have become exhausted and debased. The West has betrayed its values, even as it pushes democracy abroad. The Arab world, nostalgic for its golden era, has rushed toward radicalism. We fall short of ideological debate not only because we lack common ground, but because we are fast losing what ground we stood on. Maalouf looks at a century of confrontations between our cultures, culminating in the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet he turns to the global challenges we face today-climate change, financial collapse, humanitarian disaster-with remarkable hope that they may yet unite us in a bid to save what is truly common to us all. Intelligent, impassioned yet measured, Maalouf envisions renewed cohesion in our currently disordered world. Read more...

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FW: Love and Obstacles (by Aleksandar Hemon)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:31 AM
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Subject: Love and Obstacles (by Aleksandar Hemon)

 

Hemon is a sly writer, scuttling crabwise toward his point, but there always is one, usually about the gap between what he'd like the world to be and what it is. Part of Hemon's appeal is the risk he takes by putting his dour, self-absorbed sensibility on display and then using his considerable artistic gifts to transcend it. If he wasn't so funny, he might get dreary if he wasn't so insightful, his self-absorption would become boring if he wasn't such a deft describer and storyteller, his limited plot range might seem stifling. Read more...

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FW: Love in a Nutshell (by Janet Evanovich)

 

 

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:29 AM
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Subject: Love in a Nutshell (by Janet Evanovich)

 

Number one bestselling author Janet Evanovich teams up with award-winning author Dorien Kelly to deliver a sparkling novel of romantic suspense, small-town antics, secretive sabotage, and lots and lots of beer Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she’s been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parents’ summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene’s Harbor, Michigan. Kate’s plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory. Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his company, and Kate is just new enough in town that she can insert herself into Culhane’s business and snoop around for him. If Kate finds the culprit, Matt will pay her a $20,000 bonus. Needless to say, Kate is highly motivated. But several problems present themselves. Kate despises beer. No one seems to trust her. And she is falling hard for her boss. Can these two smoke out a saboteur, save Kate’s family home, and keep a killer from closing in…all while resisting their undeniable attraction to one another? Filled with humor, heart, and loveable characters, Love in a Nutshell is delicious fun. Read more...

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