Megan awakens from a dream to find that she is back in Merridiah University, and now attending school in this afterlife as a full time exchange student. It is December 25th and she is told that she will remain a part of the Shutterbox Exchange Programme at Merridiah for a year. But what about her life on Earth? Megan is certain she has completely vanished from her home world and she knows her mother must be hysterical...

A hip, moving, topsy-turvy look at the lives and loves, trials and travails of four teenage girls.

An awkward, quiet music student finds himself caught up in an unlikely love triangle in which seemingly opposite personalities are drawn together by their passion for music and their search for their true selves.

A Complutense International Seminar on "Earth Sciences and Mathematics" was organised and held in Madrid at the Facultad de Ciencias Matemáticas of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in September 2006. Scientists from both fields, Mathematics and Earth Sciences, took part in this International Seminar, addressing scientific problems related to our planet from clearly complementary approaches, seeking to gain and learn from this dual approach and proposing a closer collaboration in the near future. This volume is the second one of a Topical Issue on "Earth Sciences and Mathematics" and contains papers addressing different topics as analysis of InSAR time series, fuzzy classification for remote sensing, modelling gravitational instabilities, geodynamical evolution of the Alboran Sea, statistical warning systems for volcanic hazards, analysis of solutions for the hydrological cycle, study of the ice flow, magma intrusion in elastic layered media, river channel formation, Hartley transform filters for continuous GPS, and deformation modeling.

When aliens called DearS land on Earth and are sent to random high schools to learn Earth's customs, Takeya helps Ren, a sexy DearS, figure out the wacky customs of this place called Earth.

When a new type of human--Alter-Users--becomes the center of an unexplained phenomenon, an elite squad of soldiers appears to keep the peace...or so it seems. This group, called Holy, has many hidden motives...and, in this case, what the public doesn't know Will hurt them. Alter-User Kazuma Torizuna may be the only one able to defy Holy in search of the truth.

The Sweet Potato Queens® are back and bawdier than ever in Southern belle extraordinaire Jill Conner Browne's ninth edition of the hysterical series. Having experienced pretty much ALL of the crappy parts of life, Browne feels it is her duty to render whatever assistance she can to her fellow sufferers -- and she does so in her own inimitable fashion.Her father taught her there are very few situations in life that we really and truly cannot change, and it is up to us to figure out how to either make fun OUT of them -- or make fun OF them. And fortunately for the rest of us, Browne is well equipped for both. Including the exploits of the Queen contingent and her family, she delivers applicable tidbits like:* Thinking or talking about watermelon can save any negative situation.* If you get drunk in Scotland, you can't have your cow with you.* When sanity and reason fail, you can always cheerfully resort to ridicule.* Denial means that every situation is perfectly perfect.More fun than a Cracker Barrel full of monkeys, Fat Is the New 30 will change your life -- or at least give you ideas for making fun of yourownself.

Luka Reinhardt is the 21st century's greatest Dark Wizard. He and his bookish brother, Luel, live next door to a pair of witches named Madame Batolli and Nell. Both witches fall for Luka's good looks and ignore Luel's feeble advances without a second thought. it's more than a love triangle--it's a love pentagram, especially when Luel's old flame, Sage, shows up. As if that weren't enough magical mayhem, things get a bit heated when Neo, Luka's overzealous apprentice, unleashes Efreet, a wrathful fire spirit.

The hip-hop world is always struggling to find a balance between keepin' it real and payin' the bills, two concepts intrinsically at odds with each other. And on the L.A. scene, one young artist's attempt to reap a bit more cash by changing labels is about to start a war ...

Meet Aram Ko, a beautiful 17-year-old Shaman girl who's in search of three reincarnated heroes from the year 184. Yoobin likes to read racy magazines and can talk trash with the best of them; Kwanoo, a mild-mannered eccentric, enjoys playing "patty cake" with ladies; and Jangbang, a fearless fighter, packs a major attitude. Mystery and intrigue ensue as the three warriors battle spiritual enemies from the past while hiding their identities in the strange and unusual world of the 20th century