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Our DANTES study guides are different! The Foundations of Education DANTES/DSST study guide teaches you everything that you need to know to pass the DSST test. This study guide is more than just a set of sample test questions. Our easy-to-understand study guide will teach you all the information you need.

New Orleans native Mademoiselle Francesca Dumas is a kept woman. At age 18 in the second year of the American Civil War, she is the concubine of a rich New Orleans banker, Joachim Buisson. Born a quadroon, Francesca leads a sheltered life of elegant jewels, gowns, lace, and lavish balls - until a bullet shatters her dream world. An assassin murders “her man” as Francesca stood beside him among a throng gathered atop a Mississippi River levee on April 25, 1862. Bowed by Joachim’s body, rain-soaked and blood-spattered, she vows revenge.

Who thought giving away billions of dollars could make so many people want to kill you? Out of necessity, Blaze and Carla just executed the biggest heist in history. Now they want to give it all away - but the tyrants they stole it from have other plans...they want their money back, and they want Blaze and Carla dead! Tired of being chased, shot at, and kidnapped, Blaze and Carla devise a plan...it's a good plan, if they can live long enough to pull it off.

A book of short stories coupled with contemporary poetry in different forms.

Life has finally started to settle down for Sergeant Reese Sanders after his devastating injury overseas. Discharged from the Army and now with a good job at Courage Reins, an equine therapy center at Three Rivers Ranch, he’s finally found happiness. Then down-on-her luck Carly Watters becomes his veteran care coordinator and wants to assist him with tasks he most definitely doesn’t need her help with - until a horrific fall puts him right back where he was years ago: Injured and depressed.

The only thing Tom Lovell knows is ranching, having been raised by a single dad on a Montana cattle ranch before moving to Three Rivers Ranch. He's watched other men on the ranch get hitched one by one, but he's not sure he's the marrying type. His mother's abandonment when he was a child colors how he sees women, and besides, he's a fifth generation cowboy, and that's enough for him.

Ethan Greene wants no part of the rodeo circuit he left six years ago. Instead, he's spent the last year reinventing himself, trying to become a man he can be proud of. But when feisty, champion barrel racer, Brynn Bowman, shows up at Three Rivers Ranch to recruit him to be the second part of a two-man roping team, Ethan finds himself saying yes - but only for one year, just to help out a friend.

First Lieutenant Peter Marshall has never felt as safe and whole as he does at Three Rivers Ranch. With massive scars covering most of his upper body, he's self-conscious and searching for his life's purpose. He thinks he's found it in Courage Reins, an equine therapy program for veterans he's starting out at the ranch. He didn't plan on the beautiful Chelsea Ackerman looking at his deformities with admiration.

Heidi Duffin has been dreaming about opening her own bakery since she was thirteen years old. She scrimped and saved for years to afford baking and pastry school in San Francisco. And now she only has one year left before she's a certified pastry chef. She's home for the summer when she goes to Three Rivers with her sister - and meets Frank Ackerman.

In No Useless Mouth, Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. By describing three interrelated behaviors - food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare - the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Musings: Poetic Echoes and listen to inspirational poems today.

A broken tree branch. A dead body. An ambitious personal assistant. An unfaithful husband. Was it murder or simply an unfortunate accident? A lot of people resented Amelia Prescott, the grande dame of marketing agencies, because of her success. But did someone resent her enough to murder her? That becomes the job of Sheriff Davis and Brigid - to find out if Amelia’s death was an accident or a carefully thought-out murder. Confrontations can get dicey. Good thing Brigid has a 125-pound Newfoundland to help her.

Join Brigid, Sheriff Mike, and Deputy Lindsay as they try to protect Mike and save themselves from being victims.

Eugenia Fain presents a collection of poems.

Chelsea Hamilton spent her life preparing to run the international clothing business her parents started, but she’s still caught off guard when she learns of her mother’s untimely death. When a stranger attempts to kill her, she realizes somebody doesn’t want her to inherit her legacy. Private Investigator Dylan O’Donnell spends his time searching for lost teens. He doesn’t know what to think of the beautiful woman seeking his services. Together, they dig into her family's secrets. The closer they get to the truth, the closer they grow to one another.

When Nema and her friends discover a hidden sugar-hooked society holding lost kids, they find their perfect world in danger. The strange, sticky place hides the truth about Nema’s missing brother and a plot to destroy the free life she knows. But only they can reverse a code to prevent a rock candy robot invasion and rescue the captives. Fail, and they might never make it back home. Moojag and the Auticode Secret is a quirky, Alice-esque, cli-fi adventure.

Family members, leaders, life coaches, and mentors often give recommendations and encouragement without understanding or sharing the pitfalls and responsibilities associated with the change. Most life changes need aftercare and management to avoid self-destruction and returning to the things you left or something worse. This book is intended to present tools and techniques to manage you and the community around you.

This adventure begins with a two family vacation. One family will be saying good-bye to their son as he has been accepted to West Point. The other family's son will be attending the University in Albany. One is White, the other is a Negro, and this is the middle of the 19th century. Best friends from birth and both trying to make a difference in an improbable time in our nation's history. The two friends try to maintain their relationship and do the best they can even through the Civil War.

One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia is the story of one woman’s journey through 100 years of history to find peace with her father. Tania Romanov Amochaev and her father were both exiled from their homelands as infants; both knew life in refugee camps. Their shared fate does not lead to mutual understanding.

With a new development going in on the north end of Three Rivers, Camila Cruz is desperate to win the plumbing bid for the mom-and-pop plumbing shop she joined when she came to town four years ago. The project would keep the shop open and allow Cami to buy it from the owners who are ready to retire. It would be the perfect Christmas present.