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      • Trusted Partner
        December 2023

        The Coconut

        Botany, Production and Uses

        by Stephen W Adkins, Julianne Biddle, Amirhossein Bazrafshan, Sundaravelpandian Kalaipandian

        The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) is one of the world's most important palms, and contributes significantly to the income and livelihood of many people in tropical countries. Widely referred to as the 'tree of life', coconut has been used as a source of food, drink, oil, medicine, shelter and wood for around 500 years. Every part of the coconut palm can be utilized. The demand for coconut fruit and its products has increased recently as people have become aware of its nutritional and health benefits, especially those of coconut water and virgin coconut oil. This book covers all aspects of coconut including origins and diversity; ecophysiology; production in a changing climate; pests and diseases; harvest and postharvest management; breeding and genetics; as well as the current and future status of coconut as an economic crop. This book is a key resource for researchers and students in horticulture, plant science and agriculture, and those interested in the production of tropical crops, and practitioners in the coconut industry.

      • May 2010

        Necking

        Out of Print

        by Lori Toland, Jana Denardo, Josephine Myles, Evan Gilbert, Aundrea Singer, Emily Moreton, Heidi Cullinan, Heidi Champa, Dar Mavison, Jamie Freeman, JL Merrow, Zahra Owens, Devon Rhodes, G.S. Wiley, Lenore Black

        Edited by Julianne BentleyJust close your eyes and feel: soft, warm lips skimming from your shoulder to your ear, your skin prickling and tickling. Then add another set, echoing the first, layer upon layer of sensation as two sets of hands join the game, stroking, sliding, ratcheting up the heat. And when your lips part and the tip of your tongue darts out, it's met by two more in a luscious, messy, three-way kiss. This is necking, pure and hot, sending shivers of arousal down your spine. In these stories, the men come in threes: triple the pleasure, triple the love. ;

      • Science fiction
        April 2008

        The Nightmares of God

        The Story of the Death of the Universe and its Rebirth

        by Michael Davies

        A massive new spiritual force comes to Earth, far more powerful than anything seen before in an asttempt to save all of Creation.  The entity that we have called "God" is awakening from millions of years of sleep and will combine with all of the intelligent species in the Universe.  But Mankind is sick and must be healed before this can happen.  The story goes through the modern age as the world is torn apart by these new forces, into the near future as Humanity is exposed to many alien species and finally into the far future as the Universe ends.

      • Fiction
        October 2020

        And the Crows Took Their Eyes

        by Vicki Lane

        In bitterly divided western North Carolina, Confederate troops execute thirteen men and boys suspected of Unionism. The Shelton Laurel Massacre, as it came to be known, is a microcosm of the horrors of civil war—neighbor against neighbor and violence at one’s own front door. Told by those who lived it—the colonel’s wife, a helpless witness; the jealous second-in-command who gives the fatal order; the canny mountain woman who cares only for her people and her land; the conscript, a haunted man seeking redemption; and the mute girl, whose folk magic yields an unexpected result—these voices offer an intimate glimpse into the lives of five people tangled in history’s web, caught up together in love and hate.

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