Can the new search and rescue paramedic break through the brooding surgeon’s icy barriers? Escape on an Icelandic adventure with Becky Wicks’s latest Harlequin Medical Romance to find out! CAN SHE THAW HIS FROZEN HEART? Haunted by his father’s infamous financial crimes, renal surgeon Gunnar Johansson has sworn off marriage and children. He won’t subject anyone else to an entire country’s scorn! Isolating himself, he volunteers for Reykjavik’s search and rescue. But new paramedic Mahlia is a temptation he never saw coming! Soon her warmth and courage when battling Iceland’s harshest elements—and her own painful past—threaten to melt his icy resolve… From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine.

The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart. The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries -- which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived -- to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion, effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? Why do we often undergo expensive procedures when cheaper ones are just as effective? What do Da Vinci, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Egyptian archaeologists have in common? And what does it really feel like to touch your own heart, or to have someone else's beating inside your chest? Rob Dunn's fascinating history of our hearts brings us deep inside the science, history, and stories of the four chambers we depend on most.

The First Myanmar Empire of Bagan has a fascinating hidden history. While many historians claim that Myanmar’s history is Buddhist, the second emperor, King Kyansittah (AD 1040–1113) had faith in Jesus Christ and built the famous Ananda Temple, which is today a famous tourist attraction in the city of Bagan, Myanmar. In When Mountains Melted, author Khin Maung Phone Ko explores the Christian origins of Myanmar’s empire, providing historical evidence that points to a lineage of Christian thought that survived in Bagan for a hundred years, from AD 1085 to 1185. When Mountains Melted also discusses how Bagan’s political ideology was remarkably similar to modern-day democratic systems, and it shows how Myanmar was based on concepts of basic human rights, freedom of worship, freedom of expression, and national defense. Myanmar has a hidden history, and When Mountains Melted reveals the Christian roots of the First Myanmar Empire of Bagan. The hope is that this revealed Christian era of Myanmar’s history can provide the template for a revival in present- day Myanmar—an awakening to democracy, unity, strength, and ministry.

Hot to the touch... Twelve years ago, a teenage Caroline Banks slipped into Jason Cooper's bed, intending to seduce him and all of his tattooed hotness. She failed. Since then, she's wrapped herself in remote iciness, keeping her distance from both him and her home. But then Jason--now a mouthwateringly sexy U.S. Marshal--shows up suddenly with the news that Caroline's father has been shot and she is now under Jason's protection. Caroline never knew just how much she tempted him. And now, even with her aloofness, Jason can barely keep himself under control. Because that heat--that fiery sexual attraction--is stronger than ever. His job is to keep her safe, and not let himself fall into the flames. But the fire started so long ago won't be contained any longer....

Can a veterinarian resist her gorgeous new colleague, his adorable daughter and their sweet spaniel? Find out in the second installment of the Yorkshire Village Vets duet. A NEW VET, A NEW PUP…A NEW START? The arrival of gorgeous animal doc James sets sparks flying for vet Jenny. She hasn’t felt anything since her divorce. Yet with her ailing mother to care for, Jenny doesn’t have the emotional bandwidth for a relationship—particularly with a widowed single dad. But the instant connection she shares with James, his sweet daughter and their adorable spaniel soon jeopardizes Jenny’s plans for staying off the market! From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine. Yorkshire Village Vets Book 1: Bound by Their Pregnancy Surprise by Louisa Heaton Book 2: Sparks Fly with the Single Dad by Kate Hardy

Say goodbye to belly fat permanently by syncing up their circadian rhythm and other body cycles to make weight loss easy. Most women spend their entire lives fighting their bodies in an effort to lose weight. The latest research reveals that women need to work with their bodies to get the best results. It turns out there are actually right and wrong times to eat, exercise, and sleep—and what works for one woman may not work for the next. The Belly Melt Diet from the editors of Prevention teaches women to tune into their own rhythms—not just their sleep/wake cycles, but also the cycles of their hunger hormones. They will also learn the optimal time to exercise, and how to tame the ups and downs of the menstrual cycle to maximize belly fat–burning and overall metabolism boosting. The simple 2-phase diet plan teaches women how to eat, exercise, and sleep at their best with over a hundred easy and delicious fat-burning recipes, The Perfect Timing Workouts, and the newest research in chronobiology, the study of body rhythms. Real women who tried the Belly Melt Diet lost up to 19 pounds in just 5 weeks and embarked on a slimming, energizing, revitalizing lifestyle that will stay with them for good.

Jim Icarus is a handsome twenty-two year old who is invited to trek to the base camp of Mount Everest by his Dad, Alex. His adventures start by saving a boy from a burning helicopter. He falls in love with Charley, a pretty emergency physician. She helps resuscitate his Dad who succumbs to high altitude mountain sickness in Dingboche, Nepal. By luck a working group who has spent the summer and fall cleaning the trash from the base camp of Mount Everest is camped a few hundred yards from Jim's trekking party when his Dad goes into high altitude cerebral edema. Their Gamow hyperbaric bag is successful in resuscitating his Dad out of coma, but unfortunately Alex slips back into coma. Good fortune smiles again when a French physician from the High Altitude Mountain Rescue clinic in Pheriche arrives with her Jacque Cousteau designed hyperbaric chamber that will pressure the victim down to sea level. An injection of Niphedapine under Alex's tongue and a dive in the Cousteau bag brings Alex out of his coma once again. Alex survives a trip to a lower altitude on a makeshift stretcher with oxygen flowing, but is in poor condition. Only a daring helicopter rescue offers any hope, but leaves Jim wondering about the fate of his Dad. The rest of the trekking party marches up the trail and eventually five members summit Kala Patthar, but not without another high altitude sickness casualty. Meanwhile, Jim hurries down the mountain only to have to wait in Lukla for a flight back to Kathmandu. Alex recovers unbeknownst to Jim and sight sees around Kathmandu. Charley transports the other coma patient by rescue helicopter, but never quite hooks up with Jim. Jim finally meets his Dad and they recount the events that nearly melted their wings.