Catalog Search Results
1) High risk
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ambra Vinter ... the beautiful young journalist is sent on assignment to Kiruna, a tiny mining town far north of Stockholm, chasing after yesterday's news. In December, this is a place on the edge of darkness--and Ambra's memories of it are just as bleak, for it is where she once suffered at the hands of a brutal foster father. Yet it is here, in the middle of nowhere, that she meets a man who takes her breath away"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
FATAL TRUTH
Finishing the investigation that got her parents killed is reporter Scout McAdams's top priority-even with someone threatening her life if she doesn't drop it. But she'll reluctantly accept former army ranger Nicco Santonni as her bodyguard...on one condition. He can't try to stop her from uncovering the truth her true-crime writer mother was searching for, despite the danger. Though the pretty-and stubborn-journalist may not want a bodyguard,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a prosecutor is threatened by dangerous criminals, she finds refuge with the Texas Ranger she never stopped loving in this romantic suspense novel.
When district attorney Tory Carson returns home after a long day in court prosecuting a gang leader, she finds her house trashed. Concerned that the vandalism is connected to the trial, the local police chief calls the Texas Rangers . . . and her former love Cade Morgan responds.
Tory's history...
4) High Risk
Author
Language
English
Description
He'll break all the rules to keep the last promise to his best friend.
Commander Ryan Tyler is a true American hero-a former Navy SEAL and the man who saved the International Space Station. Yet he couldn't save the best friend who died in his place. Fallout from that tragic accident thrust Ty into a dark and dangerous lifestyle, but when he's given the unexpected chance to fly again, he grabs it.
Gray Barrett never imagined that her dream job as...
5) High Risk
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When CIA agent, Lee Morrison, is wounded on a mission in Hong Kong, fate pairs her with ex-patriot Rik Van Doorn, an industrialist with a surprising number of skills. Together they must find stolen American missiles and get them off the market. Working undercover creates a close relationship, where the risks are high and trust is all important. But Lee and Rik owe allegiance to different countries, and enemies and friends are often interchangeable....
6) High Risk
Author
Language
English
Description
A secret sex life ...A handsome, twisted stranger ...And a journey into a nightmare. Beth Walsh seemed like such a demure housewife. But while her attorney husband was away at work, she engaged in countless encounters with strangers ... until she met the one stranger who would change everything -- for the worst. Abbott Lowery was every woman's dream; but the monster lurking inside his handsome, chiseled exterior was terrifying. And Beth's behavior...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being attacked in her own store, Ellie Winters no longer considers her hometown a safe haven. Nor can she believe the lawman helping her recover is Johnny Rock, her former childhood friend--and the boy who once threw her family into turmoil. Though she's secretly happy to see Johnny again, he's only back to stop a drug ring. Too bad the trail leads straight to Ellie's shop. Despite their rocky history, Johnny knows the pretty business owner...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man in a culture of machismo, Gomez's High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: his uncle's cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at twelve years old to become a man. The story then moves through the queer spaces where he learned the joy of being gay and Latinx, including Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, a drag queen convention in Los Angeles, and the doctor's office where...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the shadow of Mt. Rainier
her life hangs in the balance.
Surviving a shoot-out is not how Hannah Kahn planned to start her new job. But when her boss is killed, the shooters think she knows something and make her their next mark. She'll have to rely on Ayden Honor-her boss's bodyguard and her ex-to outrun the mysterious mercenaries now intent on chasing her. And the secret she's kept from him must finally come to light…
From Love Inspired...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Redemption is but a step away for reformed jewel thief Rafael Navarro. The price? One last, dangerous heist. But when things turn deadly and an innocent is accused, his only way out is to trust the woman who once betrayed him. Eons ago, heiress Gabrielle Ferrer had broken Rafael's heart to save his life. Now that her covert quest for revenge against a ruthless criminal has taken a lethal turn, they are forced to work together to clear their names...
11) High Risk Rookie
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
He's a gifted hockey player who can't get his act together.
The moment I heard about Levi Ziegler, I had a bad feeling in my gut. As a seasoned sports agent, I just knew he was going to be trouble. But despite my reservations, as a favor to the GM of the Vancouver Wolves, I agreed to sign this young, wild player as a client.
One reckless night, one terrible mistake, and suddenly my entire world and everything I have worked for is on thin ice. Thanks...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Imagine yourself parachuting from a plane straight into a raging forest fire, or racing against the clock to disarm a ticking bomb while enemy forces lurk around you. For some people, this is just a typical day at work. They have some of the world's deadliest jobs…and you're about to join them! Explore these high-risk careers and see if you have the guts to do what they do!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This useful book gives sound, straightforward advice about prenatal care, analyzing and diagnosing high-risk factors, and describing the tests, medications, and procedures necessary for a healthy pregnancy. The authors offer specific ways to cope with the rollercoaster of emotions and medical issues that arise during this process. Beginning with a general guide to successful conception, the book explains the risks and addresses the most pressing concerns....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
He left his old life and regrets behind... but his new one will be put on the line for the thing he never saw coming-her. Thirty-four is way too old to be in school. After years in high stakes finance, Michael Harper is a medical student and two short years from becoming a doctor. MetroGen hospital is even more cut-throat than Wall Street, and the brutal hours are wearing away at his soul.The universe granted him the gift of the curvy, blushing Angela...
Author
Language
English
Description
Progressive politics finds itself in an incredibly testing era. The accelerating economic, social and political shifts put vast pressure on progressive movements. Being electorally challenged by the conservative right and the radical left they struggle to appeal to voters or bear the fruits of their time in government.
The coming decades offer both great opportunities—the chance for entrepreneurs to develop new, efficient and innovative businesses...
Author
Language
English
Description
Through the seventies and into the mid-eighties a cohort of young climbers challenged the siege mentality of their seniors on high mountains in the Greater Ranges with fast moving, lightweight expeditions run on a shoestring. Brian Hall was one of them and, in High Risk, he describes their daring adventures and the counterculture they lived within, their rivalries and relationships, and the terrible price many of them paid. When all was done, they...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A doctor's revelatory account of pregnancy and the complexity of reproductive life-and everything we lose when we don't speak honestly about women's health. "My work offers a window into the darkest and lightest corners of people's lives, into the extremes of human experience," writes Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky in High Risk, her timely and unflinching account of working in maternal-fetal medicine-that branch of medicine that concerns high-risk pregnancies....
Author
Language
English
Description
A laugh-out-loud memoir about a free-spirited Brooklyn girl who, after a whirlwind romance, finds herself living in a rickety farmhouse, pregnant, and faced with five months of doctor-prescribed bed rest because of unusually large fibroids.
Aileen Weintraub has been running away from commitment her entire life, hopping from one job and one relationship to the next. When her father suddenly dies, she flees her Jewish Brooklyn community for the wilds...
Author
Language
English
Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Nausea is worse than pain. I remember thinking this during the early days of my first pregnancy, a pregnancy I had prayed and wept for, despaired about, and agonized over. But 6 weeks in, I found that I was hating every moment.
#2 Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy is a common problem that affects 70 to 90 percent of pregnant women. It is unclear if it is a disease...