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The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was provides a comprehensive historical, sociological, legal, financial, and managerial argument for the reclassification of profit-athletes as employees. Such a reclassification would permit profit-athletes to gain not only fair financial compensation but also equal access to educational benefits that have been promised but systematically denied. The authors trace how Power Five college sports have morphed into a hyper professionalized and commercialized sport-business enterprise.

It seems very unreal but the author is not only top-notch with his plot handling but he never strays from the bounds of reason. It isn’t easy to fool someone like detective sergeant Blick of Scotland Yard, but he does it. Blick is called in by an archeologist named Mr. Fransenmery to help solve the killing of Guy Markenmore, who had been away from the area for seven years and had returned because of the expected death of his father.

Samantha Moon would go to the ends of the Earth to stop Elizabeth.... Or into another world entirely. Fourteen years ago, her life forever changed, entwined with the darkest of dark vampires.

In the whole history of the English people there is no period so absolutely heroic, so full of enthralling interest, as that in which the might of England made itself apparent by land and sea—the period which saw good Queen Bess mistress of English hearts and Englishmen and sovereign of the great beginnings which came to such a magnificent fruition under Victoria. That was indeed a golden time—an age of great venture and enterprise—a period wherein men’s hearts were set on personal valor and bravery—the day of great deeds and of courage most marvelous.

When a famous actor goes missing, the search leads playwright Richard Copplestone to the seaside town of Scarhaven. Every clue seems to bring about more questions as the intrigue goes much deeper than anyone suspects. Copplestone uncovers layer after layer of dark secrets, many of them involving the attractive Audrey Greyle and her family. If Copplestone does not discover the truth soon, he risks endangering the lives of the friends he has made in Scarhaven, including Audrey.

Du hast um die Lügen gebettelt, wie du jetzt um die Wahrheit bettelst. Und einem Betteln können wir einfach nicht widerstehen... Mables erstes Studienjahr neigt sich dem Ende zu, aber es sind nicht ihre Prüfungen, die sie herausfordern. Das Spiel um ihr Herz erreicht ein neues Level. Wenn zuvor Lügen, Tricks und Täuschungen die Waffen der Kings waren, konfrontieren sie Mable nun mit der Wahrheit. Welche Geheimnisse hat Sylvian die gesamte Zeit über verborgen? Ist Reece derjenige, für den ihn alle halten? Wer ist Zayn wirklich? Und was wird geschehen, wenn die tödliche Verbindung zwischen Mable und Jaxon ans Licht kommt?

Richard Viner is basically an average young man on the street who, more or less accidentally, finds a dead body in a dimly lit alley while he’s taking his usual nightly stroll. He calls police and when they arrive they figure it’s likely a robbery gone wrong because the dead man’s valuables are missing. However, a prime suspect is arrested trying to pawn some jewelry belonging to the victim. He happens to be an old school-mate of Viner. Viner discovers the old chum is down and out and needs the money, so he decides to investigate and try get his pal vindicated.

The astral drop took out all the tech on the ship—maybe for good. They’re so far down that rescue seems unlikely. If they had it to do over again, maybe Eric and Jessie would have found some other way to escape their pursuers. But unless Eric figures out reverse time travel, they’re going to have to live with the decision.

Gathered to serve the people of Deyrnas once again, the Heroes of Dragon’s Nest must now look to a future that already has numerous designs upon it. Some seek to reclaim lost glory, others want only to preserve what they have, and a brave few still hope to salvage something new and better.

When our vampire friend, Nora, reaches out for help, what choice do I have but to try? At least that’s what I tell myself when I open a doorway into an unfamiliar realm—the result being that I reunite Nora with her long-dead vampire lover. Kind of weird, I know, but that’s not the problem.

Adam lives a picture-perfect life: happy marriage, two young children, and a flourishing career as a doctor. But Adam also lives with a secret. Hospital CCTV, strangers' mobile phones, city traffic cameras–he is convinced that they are all watching him, recording his every move. All because of something terrible that happened at a drunken party when he was a student. Only two other people knew what happened that night. Two people he's long left behind. Until one of them, Clio–Adam's great unrequited love–turns up on his doorstep, and reignites a sinister pact twenty-four years in the making...

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It was a lonely English courtyard where attorneys received traditional apprenticeship … one of the ancient Inns of Court. The bludgeoned body of a well-dressed elderly man was found there at midnight, an apparent murder victim. Investigative newspaper reporter Frank Spargo was one of the first to arrive at the crime scene and he was puzzled about why such a prosperous looking man had been wandering there at that time of night. The only item found on the body was a small paper with a young barrister’s address.

Nach einer schwierigen Kindheit verbringt Evan Sinclair sein Leben gern in geordneten Bahnen. Nur sehr selten verhält er sich spontan – bis er durch Zufall den Schriftwechsel mit einer mysteriösen Frau beginnt, die das genaue Gegenteil von ihm zu sein scheint. Sie fasziniert und amüsiert ihn, und das Interesse scheint auf Gegenseitigkeit zu beruhen … das ist mehr, als er von seinem momentanen Schwarm Miranda Tyler behaupten kann, der kompromisslosen und attraktiven Lehrerin, die ihm deutlich gezeigt hat, dass sie weder beeindruckt noch an ihm interessiert ist.

Mancano pochi giorni a Natale e la regina Elisabetta II attende di celebrare le festività in famiglia, come da tradizione, nella tenuta reale di Sandringham; tra cene con figli, nipoti e pronipoti e serate trascorse davanti al fuoco, le vacanze sono da sempre un momento atteso, lontano dall'etichetta e dagli obblighi di corte.

The Last Kids on Earth gets a lupine twist by way of Margaret Peterson Haddix in this eerie middle grade adventure set in a small town where all the adults are werewolves but the kids begin to suspect something else sinister is putting them at even greater risk. Eleven-year-old Sel lives in the...

Money. It’s the root of all evil and I need it bad. You could call it the wrong place, wrong time. To me the day I met Enzo was the day the old me died. When he kidnaps me thinking I’m the daughter of his enemy, the only thing I can do is pretend to be something I’m not. But the more I pretend, the deeper I fall. Enzo is dark, cruel, and menacing, but he’s protective, fierce, and determined. Soon he wants to forge a contract between our families, making me his bride, but he has no idea I’m not whom he thinks I am and when he finds out … well, I know I’m as good as dead.

Vier Könige sind drei zu viel. Niemand von uns will dich wirklich für sich, aber wir wollen wissen, für wen dein Herz am meisten schlägt. Denn so sind nun einmal die Regeln. Bist du endlich dazu bereit, einen Namen zu nennen? Oder müssen wir dich... zwingen? Mable hat sich unbeliebt bei der Elite gemacht und muss jetzt lernen, was es bedeutet, dem reichen It-Girl Clarisse Cunningham im Weg zu stehen. Nicht nur einer der Kings ist Mable verfallen. Sondern alle. Was muss Mable als Strafe durchstehen – und warum? Werden die Kings rechtzeitig da sein, um sie zu retten?

A Single Candle, the third book in the Cerah of Quadar series, picks up the action where book two leaves off, bringing the forces of good and evil face-to-face.

Nestled within the folds of the Canadian Rockies, Graves Grove probably isn’t the picturesque place you’d like to stay for long. Peculiar things happen here. The citizens seem normal superficially—they function well enough. But each one is deeply disturbed, wrapped in secrets and neuroses which drive them to strange behaviors.