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La Fin du Monde is a linear compilation of nostalgic, melancholic, & triumphant accounts that turn into time and shift between the internal narrative and epistolary forms with profound erudition to directly address love, loss, closure, and resurgence by means of catharsis & self indulgence.

Danny Kingman is used to fending for himself. Working nonstop as an ER nurse to pay for his mother's care, he's been putting his own life on hold since he can remember. But when an unbelievably hot, strangely intense man saves him from a mugging, Danny has a feeling everything is about to change. Especially when that man suddenly pops out a pair of fangs.Roman Mourier has been wandering aimlessly for decades, waiting for the inevitable day when the last of his humanity leaves him, and the demon inside him takes permanent control. He doesn't believe in fated mates, or the myth that there's a soul out there that could tether his humanity to him. Until he feels a strange pull to the lovely young man at the hospital, and hope stirs in him for the first time.But Roman has demons other than just the one inside him. Is he strong enough to keep Danny safe from the past that haunts him? He knows one thing for sure: now that he's found his mate, he will do anything to keep him.Roman is a heated, fated-mates MM paranormal romance with a HEA and no cliffhanger. It contains insta-obsession, a cinnamon roll of an ER nurse, and the possessive vampire determined to keep him. It also contains steamy scenes between two men, and the moderate violence (and mentions of blood) that one might expect from a vampire romance. Not suitable for readers under 18.

Big momma Lucy has owned property in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn for 16 years; Although the bedrooms are sunny, the secrets are dark. Fritz, the building's handyman, met a skimpy woman named Charlesha Moss, for whom he fraudulently prints a lease. The troubled woman moves into the vintage apartment with her eight children; that's right, Eight! Big momma Lucy despises the fake lease; she believes the room is too small for eight children, so she tried to reverse it. They argue over the tenant's drug addiction, skipped rent, and negligence of her children.After a year of Big momma Lucy's pressing, she evicted Charlesha out of the apartmentBut her enemy isn't so easy to terminate.Deon Moss discovers an extraordinary gift; he and his seven sisters leave their foster homes and go on a new journey. Charlesha lost her eight kids in one thrilling night, and Big momma Lucy lost her brownstone home.

Point Connett in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, is a seaside community of 105 houses; most are year-round, and some are summer cottages. It is located on the western shore of Buzzards Bay, which is a large inlet that separates the mainland from Cape Cod to the east. The name Point Connett is from that of a Wampanoag Indian who, in the 1600s, took the anglicized name William Connett. Prior to King Philip's war (1675-1678), he owned much of the land in Rochester and Mattapoisett, including Point Connett, now named for him. Mattapoisett is a Wampanoag word that translates as "A Place of Rest." It has been, since its beginning, a lovely and friendly community. Several families trace their roots on "The Point" back to the beginning, and some third- and fourth-generation descendants still own homes here, peopled with fifth-generation children. The book, overall, is a collection of independent chapters, each written by members of different families about their personal experience of Point Connett. These have been collected and put together by the editor, and added to a Prologue that recounts the Point's early history as assembled from available sources. The collection of stories here very clearly and effectively demonstrates the character and activities of this lovely community by the sea and nicely captures the zeitgeist of Point Connett.

I have been studying, teaching about, designing, researching, analyzing, and consulting on cam follower systems for fifty years. I designed many cams at Polaroid Corporation in the 1960-1970 period then went on to teach mechanical engineering at various universities for 42 years until 2012. I usually taught courses on kinematics, dynamics, machine design, and stress analysis. Most of these courses included the design and analysis of cams. Over the years I taught, I also actively consulted for engineering companies all around the world on machine design problems, many of them involving cams. I have written six engineering textbooks. The kinematics book, Design of Machinery, has an introductory chapter on cam design and one on cam dynamics. Cam Design and Manufacturing Handbook, written late in my career, encapsulates all the art and science on cams that I have learned from study, experimentation and original research done with my graduate students, and my 50-years of experience in cam design. When I consulted with companies about cams, it was common to find that the engineers who had designed them had little idea or expertise on how to properly design a cam. This was not because they were bad engineers; they were not. I blame it on a lack of training in cam design in their engineering education. Having spent my career in the "engineering ed biz," I know for a fact that most U.S. engineering curricula seldom mention cam systems to their students, let alone teach them anything useful about the subject. If cams are taught at all, they typically are included in a first course in kinematics. Many textbooks written for that course, if they have a cam chapter, it is almost always out-of-date and full of errors and misinformation. Even kinematics books written relatively recently continue to contain the same obsolete and misleading information on cam design that has been prevalent for the past 50 years. My kinematics book Design of Machinery is a notable exception; it is up-to-date. The above-described situation gave me the motivation to write this primer on cam design. I want to provide a simple, clearly written, short, and inexpensive description of how to (and how not to) design a cam, aimed at the engineer in industry that may occasionally be required to do so, but may have little or no training and experience for the task. This book is essentially a lightly abridged version of the first few chapters of my comprehensive and complete book on the subject, the Cam Design and Manufacturing Handbook. I believe that this information will serve to get an engineer to the point that he or she can design a simple cam-follower system that will work. If their career finds them needing to do more than occasional work of this sort, then they can consult my more comprehensive book and other tomes on the same subject.

The third edition of Cam Design and Manufacturing Handbook brings together the latest cam design technology, proper cam design methods and manufacturing procedures, and cam research results in one volume that is indispensable to the design, analysis, and manufacturing of cam-follower systems. Much of the material is original and based on 30 years of cam research involving many of the author''s graduate students whose theses were advised by the author and on papers published in professional journals. It covers treatments of shape-preserving and B-splines for cams, calculations of 3-D globoidal cams, modeling of multi-DOF cam systems, calculation of torque-compensation cams that can zero the net inertial torque on a cam system''s camshaft, and equations to model the deliberate impact of a follower against a valve seat or hard-stop. This edition adds a new chapter on servo-driven mechanisms. The mathematics to program servo drives is the same as that for cam motions, though there are other pitfalls, which are discussed in this chapter. Covering both introductory and advanced topics in depth, this comprehensive handbook provides all the information you need to properly design, model, analyze, specify, and manufacture cam-follower systems including:ΓÇó Proper Cam Design Techniques                  ΓÇó Roller and Flat FollowersΓÇó Polydyne and Splinedyne Cams                  ΓÇó Translating and Oscillating FollowersΓÇó Single- and Multi-Dwell Cams                     ΓÇó Measuring Cam-Follower DynamicsΓÇó Classical Cam Functions                              ΓÇó Residual VibrationsΓÇó Polynomial and Spline Cams                       ΓÇó Forward and Inverse Dynamic AnalysisΓÇó Conjugate Cams                                           ΓÇó Lubrication of the Cam-Follower JointΓÇó Pressure Angle and Radius of Curvature     ΓÇó Case Studies of Cam DesignsΓÇó Radial, Barrel, and Linear Cams                  ΓÇó An Extensive Bibliography on CamsThis book provides all the information a cam designer needs to create low-vibration, high-speed cam-follower systems for both machine and automotive applications.