Best Selling Books by Andrew Peters

Twenty-two-year-old Jacks is on a mission to drown his past in alcohol when he meets the handsome drifter Benoit on a lost weekend in Montréal. It''s lust and possibly something more. Jacks never suspects that a drunken hook-up will plunge him into the hidden, violent world of feline shifters. Benoit traps him in an arcane ritual to be joined as mates, from which Jacks emerges with fantastical abilities and a connection to Native traditions that were buried by his family. But his new existence pits his human instincts against his wild animal nature. When Jacks meets the young medical student Farzan, who wants to be with Jacks no matter what or who he is, Benoit''s feline jealousy rages like an inferno. Jacks must figure out how to survive with his dual nature and a boyfriend who will kill any threat to their relationship. When a secret society called The Glaring shows up with a plan to exterminate humankind, Jacks will have to work quickly to gain command of Benoit''s magic before the world shatters into a war of man against beast. Praise for Werecat: The Trilogy "...steamy enough to satisfy romance-genre die-hards. Peters builds interest by seamlessly moving the narrative from past to present. Jacks'' struggle with identity and independence make him a sympathetic, nuanced character. An innovative take on the shape-shifter genre; this first offering in a gay fantasy series should garner a large following." - Kirkus Reviews "If you''ve ever wondered what it is like to live and love as a big cat, this is the book for you." - Brian Holliday, Wilde Oats Journal "I LOVED this story. A new and intriguing twist on shifters...I thought both characters were well-developed, the story interesting, the suspense intriguing and I even liked the way the sex scene played out (not gonna tell you; you''ll have to read it and see)." - Cathy Brockman, The Cat''s Meow: Reviews That Purrrr "What a great start to the series. Kept me hooked from the beginning to the ending." - Sean Norris, World of Diversity Reviews "Peters does a great job giving us the foundation for the series and helping us to understand Jacks and the struggles he faces." - Jay, Joyfully Jay M/M Reviews & More

Light is a phenomenon analyzed by science, celebrated in literature, and symbolized by religions. Light and nature in all these aspects form the source of meaning in these poems. The sublime reality that encompasses the spectacularly grandiose as well as the common can be realized through the beauty of life''s interconnected web. But questions that struggle with the relationship between human responsibility and survival have never been more prominent than now. Human understanding has never been so close to nature and never more destructive and exploitive of it. Human cultures have focused on human meaning in building civilizations, but survival seems now to require a more fundamental existential awareness of the totality of life.

Arthur and Yaz live in a tiny village beneath the Devil''s Chair, where dark tales are more than mere superstition. Searching for Arthur''s missing father, the two encounter strange beasts, a fallen angel and a broken spell. They must make the most dangerous journey of their lives and use all they have learnt to confront absolute evil.

Afin d''éviter de tomber sous les dents effilées du tigre, un sage fait appel au jugement de la faune et de la flore. Malheureusement pour l''homme, les habitants de la jungle ont une piètre opinion des êtres humains. Alors qu''il n''arrive plus à trouver des prétextes pour repousser l''heure de sa mort, un chacal vient à sa rescousse... -- Conte indien, illustré par des aquarelles aux couleurs vives, abordant le thème de la ruse. [SDM].

Invasive bigheaded carp (Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix and Bighead Carp H. nobilis) are a major nuisance throughout the Midwest. Horizontally oriented (or side-looking) hydroacoustic split-beam sampling is used throughout the Mississippi River basin to quantify the density and size distribution of bigheaded carp. Accuracy of these estimates relies on target strength (TS) returns from individual fish, and orientation is generally known to affect TS. Specifically, fish swimming perpendicular to a transducer generate a stronger TS return than one swimming towards or away from it. This study conducted two experiments to determine the effect of orientation on TS return. The purpose of this study was to 1) determine the statistical relationship between the max TS return and TL of Silver Carp, 2) quantify the relationship between body orientation and the mean TS return for Silver Carp, 3) compare the relationship between body orientation and the mean TS return for Silver Carp and Smallmouth Buffalo and 4) compare echosounding the tethered and free-swimming Silver Carp. To address objectives 1-3 a study was conducted where tethered Silver Carp and Smallmouth Buffalo were echosounded at multiple orientations. Each fish was tested every 10 degrees from 0°-180° or 180°-360° (where 0° and 360° are the same). The fourth objective was addressed using a free-swimming study where Silver Carp were echosounded in a controlled environment for a week. The tethered study consisted of Silver Carp (range 436mm-715mm total length (TL)), and Smallmouth Buffalo (range 361mm-576mm TL) suspended in a 0.1ha research pond on a carousel at orientations from three categories (lateral, oblique and head/tail). The free-swimming study consisted of Silver Carp (range 425mm-790mm TL) in a 0.1ha research pond where the fish were able to behave normally, and data was collected for 7 days. Target strength returns were measured using a horizontally facing 200kHz split-beam transducer for both studies.Consistent with expectations, we found that tethered orientation affected the TS return (P =