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A paranoid whistleblower on her last task. A private investigator posing as her fake boyfriend. An international conglomerate that eliminates its enemies.Calling for help...Administrative Assistant Sienna Halstead has one last task to do for the FBI Criminal Investigative Division before she can quit her corporate job and disappear. Scared that the evidence against the international conglomerate she works for is not sufficient, paranoid Sienna starts to make mistakes. When she calls Hu Knows, Inc., for help, Helen Hu sends the no-nonsense Earl into her chaotic world.Cashing in on overtime pay...The last thing Private Investigator Earl Young expects to do on his week off is to pose as a fake boyfriend to one of two whistleblowers at a business convention, although the former Special Ops soldier is confident he can handle any task his employer assigns to him. Besides, he gets to stay at a five-star hotel and eat for free.Crossing the line...Earl's driving need to solve problems forces him to work alongside Sienna as she draws him deeper into her corporate world of secrets and subterfuge. The more time they spend time together, the more Earl feels attracted to Sienna, and forgets that he is only her bodyguard. When Sienna's life is endangered, how far will Earl go to protect her?Never a Traitor is book 1 in USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson's Defender Sweethearts Christian romantic suspense collection, a sister series to Protector Sweethearts. While the heroes in Protector Sweethearts search for lost treasures and lost people, the Defender Sweethearts novels focus on protecting the helpless and hopeless. The main characters in Defender Sweethearts come from the supporting cast in Protector Sweethearts.Protectors Sweethearts: Book 1: Once a ThiefBook 2: Once a HeroBook 3: Once a SpyBook 4: Twice a FighterBook 5: Twice a ConvictBook 6: Twice a SoldierDefender Sweethearts: Book 1: Never a TraitorBook 2: Never a HostageBook 3: Never a FugitiveBooks 4-6: Coming Soon

He is a struggling violinist living in poverty. She is a billionairess violin collector with a trust fund. Living in two different worlds, will their unexpected romance last?The musician...Six years ago, Ivan McMillan was a budding crossover violinist on a world tour with his pianist sister. His career was cut short when Grandpa Otto died suddenly, leaving Grandma Yun saddled with enormous medical bills that ate up all their savings. In the midst of Ivan's struggle to provide for his elderly grandmother and to save their family home from foreclosure, he finds himself falling in love with his billionairess friend, whose lifestyle he cannot afford.The muse...After Brinley Brooks's ex-boyfriend abandons her due to her vow of purity, the twenty-something heiress goes home to St. Simon's Island to spend time with her family and to accept her life as a single woman. At her sister's birthday party, Brinley is mesmerized by a violinist friend, Ivan, when he plays one of Bach's orchestral suites. Music therapy or not, her heart starts to seek its own second movement in her love life. Or is she just lonely? One thing leads to another, and Brinley enters Ivan's world of material poverty and spiritual wealth.The minuet of their lives...When one of Ivan's worst fears comes to pass, he feels obligated to show Brinley what it means to be a Christian living through adversity. However, trusting God is the last thing on his mind as the crisis affects his career, his life, his family, and his relationship with Brinley. Ivan cannot let her see how far he has sunk. What is a Christian man to do?His Longing Heart is the first novel in USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson's Seaside Chapel Christian small town beach romance series. This book is the updated second edition of the previously published Share with Me.Read the rest of the Seaside Chapel novels: Book 1: His Longing Heart (second edition of Share with Me) Book 2: His Wake-Up Call (second edition of Step with Me)Book 3: His Morning Kiss (previously published as Sing with Me)Book 4: His Quiet SerenadeBooks 5-12: Coming Soon

Single thirty-something Sebastian Langston hires his sister's best friend to be his fake girlfriend for the summer in order to win back his ex-fianc e whom he lost to a billionaire.The desperate jilted man...Restaurateur Sebastian Langston cannot believe that his ex-fianc e, Talia, would leave him again. They've broken up so many times that he is sure she'll return to him...until he sees her with a billionaire. Now he has to fight to get her back. Sebastian cooks up an idea in which he hires a beautiful girl who can make Talia jealous. Poor starving harpist Emmeline O'Hanlon needs money and seems willing to help him reach his objectives.The dreamy rent-a-girlfriend...When her best friend's older brother offers her an unusual proposition, Emmeline has no idea what she is getting into. However, her van is dead, her rent is due, and she is forced to take the job. The short-term business agreement would only last one summer, or so Emmeline thinks. More than money for graduate school, she needs Sebastian's funding to resume the search for her long-lost brother. Sebastian promises to enlist one of the top private investigators in the region to find Claude. In return, all she has to do is smile and make Talia jealous. How hard can it be?The duet that can't go wrong...So begins this ill-advised scheme to drive Sebastian's ex-fianc e back to him. He thinks his plan-on-a-whim will succeed because it has to. He will turn thirty-four next September, and he wants to be a father by the following summer, preferably to the first of a passel of Talia's future children. As they keep up the ruse, Emmeline's ethereal harp starts to sound like a siren song that distracts Sebastian from his goals. Soon, he rows away from his lane and begins to forget his original purpose for hiring her...His Wake-Up Call is the second novel in USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson's Seaside Chapel Christian small-town beach romance series. This book is the updated and expanded second edition of the previously published Step with Me.Read the rest of the Seaside Chapel novels: Book 1: His Longing Heart (second edition of Share with Me) Book 2: His Wake-Up Call (second edition of Step with Me)Book 3: His Morning Kiss (previously published as Sing with Me)Book 4: His Quiet SerenadeBooks 5-12: Coming Soon

A father of two, widowed billionaire Diehl Brooks returns home to St. Simon's Island and falls in love with his sister's personal chef. Will complications from his unfulfilled first marriage threaten his chance for love a second time around?A selfless personal chef...Chef Skye Langston cooks for local residents and visitors to the Golden Isles. When her friend and client, Brinley Brooks, asks her to cook for her older brother, who will be in town for the summer, Skye is wary. Although they move in different social circles, she has heard a lot about Diehl Brooks, once the most eligible bachelor on the island. Now their worlds intersect in his sister's beach house. Seeing him almost every day changes Skye's opinion of him, but she tells herself that she is only being kind to the widower, as the Bible asks Christians to be kind to others.A single-again billionaire...Having drifted away from God, almost-forty-year-old Diehl doesn't know how to come home. After being tragically widowed, he works himself aground, leaving his two school-aged children with their nanny and grandparents. Diehl burns out at work, and is forced to take a sabbatical before he destroys the multi-billion-dollar family business. On St. Simon's Island and the neighboring Seaside Island, his casual friendship with his sister's personal chef quickly turns into something romantic, but his past shows up to collect yet another pound of flesh.A splintered family...Diehl might be newly single again, but his first marriage has long tentacles. When secrets from his marriage-of-convenience threaten his present-day happiness, Diehl is convinced he is not good enough for Skye. Why would God bless him with love a second time around when he failed the first time? In the middle of his emotional angst, Diehl's children throw his life into a tailspin. Even as Skye's presence soothes his soul, Diehl has a hard time believing in happy endings. How can God give him sweet promises of a better tomorrow when his life is so bitter right now? His Morning Kiss is the third novel in USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson's Seaside Chapel Christian small-town beach romance series. This book was previously published as Sing with Me.Read the rest of the Seaside Chapel novels: Book 1: His Longing Heart (second edition of Share with Me) Book 2: His Wake-Up Call (second edition of Step with Me)Book 3: His Morning Kiss (previously published as Sing with Me)Book 4: His Quiet SerenadeBooks 5-12: Coming Soon

Publisher's Note: This expanded novel debuted as an abridged novella in the now-expired Winter Deceptions boxed set that released in August 2022. An untrusting vigilante.An unpredictable survivalist.An untraceable killer.When trust-fund-baby-turned-vigilante Mira Proskouriakova hires jobless former soldier Briscoe Hall to assassinate her mother's killer, targeting her own father is the last thing she expects.Zero Trust is book 4 in USA Today bestselling author Jan Thompson's Binary Hackers series of near-future romantic technothrillers. We first met Mira and her father as side characters in Zero Sum(Binary Hackers Book 1). A daughter's dangerous mission...Nine years ago, Mira's mother was murdered. Her body was never found and the assassin was never caught.In Zero Sum (Binary Hackers Book 1), when Mirabella "Mira" Proskouriakova finds out that Dmitri Proskouriakoff is her biological father, she goes undercover as his housekeeper in the hope of learning how her mother was murdered nine years ago. A home invasion reveals that Dmitri knows Mira is his daughter, but neither one does anything about their shared secret.Fast forward to the present day, Mira's relationship with her father is still tenuous at best because Mira thinks Dmitri could have done a better job protecting her mother. To make it worse, it doesn't seem to bother him that his former lover and the mother of his child is mysteriously dead.If Dmitri doesn't care, then it's up to Mira. She decides that her mission in life is to find her mother's killer and execute her own vigilante justice. But first, she has to hire an assassin who can handle the weapon for her.Even while she's determined, our newly-minted vigilante is ambivalent about what justice means. Wouldn't it be better to take her mother's murderer to court?Her father's designated protector...A US Army veteran with no job prospects, Briscoe Hall wanders aimlessly in life, and finds himself returning home to the survivalist community in North Georgia that took him off the streets when he was an orphaned kid and raised him all the way through college.His adopted older brother and leader of the community knows that transient Briscoe will soon disappear from their lives yet again, being the wayfaring stranger that he is. He offers Briscoe an assignment that he cannot refuse. Ten million dollars in cash to keep Mira alive and ten million in gold to help her meet her goals. With that sort of funding, he can go wherever he wants for years to come without having to do any work.Besides, Briscoe knows Mira, and feels a tug to keep her safe from this crazy idea of hers.Her mother's killer is still at large...An easy payday for Briscoe turns into a nightmare when the killer discovers their whereabouts in the wintry North Georgia Mountains. Confusion sets in when people are not who they seem to be. Are their enemies now their friends? And friends, enemies?While he prefers to hide off the grid, Briscoe knows that digital native Mira cannot be completely disconnected. Perhaps that is an advantage. Or not.With the enemy operating incognito, how can Briscoe keep the right people alive? If you enjoy this story, check out the rest of the Binary Hackers series.

Boken ger en översikt av den matematik som möter oss i historien. Begreppsbildningens historia står i förgrunden, men uppmärksamhet har även ägnats primitiva, spontana lösningsmetoder, sådana vi möter dem i egyptisk, babylonisk, grekisk och indisk matematik samt i den matematik som utvecklats i västerlandet från 1100-talet och framåt. Den kinesiska matematiken uppmärksammas också; kinesernas metoder är påtagligt avancerade och i många fall långt före sin tid.Bokens syfte är att söka den finita matematikens rötter. I matematikens historia kan urskiljas två huvudtraditioner, en orientalisk, som syftar till beräkning och som har en algoritmisk och operativ karaktär och en grekisk som har en deduktiv och begreppsorienterad karaktär, vilken fått sitt förnärmsta uttryck i Euklides Elementa.Dessa två traditioner blir kända för européerna under högmedeltiden. Omkring 1600 utmynnar mötet mellan de två traditionerna i den symboliska abstraktionen, som är ett resultat av en definitiv sammansmältning av de båda traditionerna och som utgör förutsättningen för de stora framsteg som görs inom ämnet under 1700-talet och som under 1800-talet leder till skapandet av den abstrakta algebran.I Matematiken i historien ges även en översikt av matematikens historiografi. Boken avslutas med ett kapitel som redovisar de pedagogiska slutsatserna av begreppshistorien med utgångspunkt från rekapitulationstesen.Boken är avsedd som ett historiskt orienterat komplement till gängse läroböcker inom ämnet matematik i gymnasieskolan. Den kan också användas som kurslitteratur inom grundskollärarutbildningen och bör även kunna fylla en plats inom lärarfortbildningen.Till boken finns en övningsbok som kan beställas separat.