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Calculated Risks How to Know When Numbers Deceive You
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Description: At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated by statistics.
Cognitive scientist Gerd Gigerenzer says that because we haven't learned statistical thinking, we don't understand risk and uncertainty. In order to assess risk - everything from the risk of an automobile accident to the certainty or uncertainty of some common medical screening tests - we need a basic understanding of statistics.
Astonishingly, doctors and lawyers don't understand risk any better than anyone else. Gigerenzer reports a study in which doctors were told the results of breast cancer screenings and then were asked to explain the risks of contracting breast cancer to a woman who received a positive...
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Spooky Sweet by Connie Shelton
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Description: Now that Samantha Sweet has a contract to provide her special handmade chocolates for the wealthy jet-set clients of Book It Travel, Sweet's Sweets bakery is taking on a whole new dimension. Only problem, Sam isn't ready. It's almost Halloween, her pastry shop is bursting at the seams and she needs extra employees but there is no place to put them.Right before the witching day, she comes upon a large Victorian house she can adapt for the business, and it seems her problem is solved. But is it? The mysterious, spooky noises at night are way more than the normal creaks and groans of an old building. Something else is going on and Sam suspects it may be related to her husband's newest case, investigating where an abandoned duffle bag crammed full of cash came from. Beau is dealing with a greedy reward-seeker, a robbery with no leads, and a waif who appears and vanishes. Sam's mystery has her watching for ghosts and working almost around the clock. Is she relying on magic?-well,...
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Sticky Sweet by Connie Shelton
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Description: It's here - USA Today and International bestselling author Connie Shelton's newest Samantha Sweet cozy mystery. With nearly 2 million books sold and downloaded in more than 60 countries, find out what the fuss is all about!
Breaking into another house, creating chocolates worth $200 a box, and helping her sheriff husband solve a traffic accident-turned-murder ... Samantha Sweet has her hands more than a little full as the new year begins.
"Love Connie Shelton's work. She usually has me at the first word."-5 stars, Terry Brown
It's the beginning of a new year at Sweet's Sweets pastry shop and chocolate factory, and Samantha Sweet finds herself busy as ever, especially when her top client comes in with a new idea. His travel firm is selling a new Travel the World itinerary for the jet-set, and Sam is to come up with special chocolates to make the spectacular trip even more memorable for his wealthy...
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The Yield by Tara June Winch
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Description: <a href="https://.goodreads.com/book/show/43820674-the-yield"><span style="color: #6cb4ee">The Yield</a>
<p id="freeText4066576368042405931">Shortlisted for The Stella Prize 2020
Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2020
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction 2020
Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards for Fiction 2020
Longlisted for the ABIA Awards for Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2020
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind.
August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather's death. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and ne that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land - a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river.
Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch's The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity.
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Going Solo by Eric Klinenberg
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With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to deliver the definitive take on how the rise of going solo is transforming the American experience.
Klinenberg sho that most single dwellers-whether in their twenties or eighties-are deeply engaged in social and civic life. There's even evidence that people who live alone enjoy better mental health and have more environmentally sustainable lifestyles. Drawing on more than three hundred in-depth intervie, Klinenberg presents a revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the baby boom and offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal change.
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An Essay by author Eric Klinenberg<p style="font-style: italic">As featured on Rollingstone.comThere have been a lot of big cultural changes since the 1960s, and no one has covered them like Rolling Stone. But some changes escape the eyes of even the most perceptive observers. We recognize them only in retrospect, and once we do we suddenly realize that artists--especially musicians--were not merely seeing the revolution, but also expressing them from the very start. Often, we were even singing along!
My new book, Going Solo, tells the story of the biggest modern social change that we've yet to identify: the extraordinary rise of living alone.
Until the middle of the 20th century, no society in human history had sustained large numbers of singletons. In 1950, for instance, only 4 million Americans lived alone, and they accounted for less than 10 percent of all households. Today, more than 32 million Americans are going solo. They represent 28 percent of all households at the national level; more than 40 percent in cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Denver, and Minneapolis; and nearly 50 percent in Washington D.C. and Manhattan, the twin capitals of the solo nation.
The numbers are even higher in Europe and Japan. And they're growing fastest in places with rapidly developing economies, from China and India to Brazil.
I put together a playlist of some of the greatest songs for going solo, and an extended set of many others. Got your own favorites? Share them! After all, no one can get it all right on their own.
Billy Idol, "Dancing with Myself"
Sometimes you really don't need a partner, and this is among the brightest songs about the pleasure of being alone. Idol's "Dancing with Myself" is a remix of a single that was originally performed by the group Generation X. What better way to get in the mood for going solo?
Rolling Stones, "Get Off of My Cloud"
"Got Off of My Cloud" was the "follow up" to the Rolling Stones' mega-hit "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," which attracted more attention than anyone anticipated. The band's discomfort with their sudden popularity blares out through their admonition: "Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd/ On my cloud." Nothing like being at the center of everything makes you need some time to yourself.
Beyonce, "All the Single Ladies"
Beyonce can care less what you think, she don't need no permission, and she's still a little bitter about the ring thing. But "All The Single Ladies" brilliantly embodies the feminine swagger and bravado made in the 1960s by groups like The Chiffons and The Supremes. Don't just be content with being single. Celebrate it. Get your hands up, up in the club.
Gloria Gaynor, "I Will Survive"
If you've ever been to any party with a dance floor, you know how much this song means to people. Some call it the Gay anthem, but it's also the theme song for countless women who've endured a tough separation, because Gaynor soulfully captures that exact moment after a break up when the attitude shifts from fear and despair to strength and independence.
Rufus Wainwright, "One Man Guy"
Growing up in a family of great musicians, Rufus Wainwright developed a total mastery of his instruments, and the lyrical ability to shed light on topics that are hard to discuss. Rufus's father, Loudon Wainwright III, wrote "One Man Guy" and performed it for his 1986 album of the same name. Rufus's adaptation is a visceral account of solitude: "I'm gonna bathe and shave/And dress myself and eat solo every night/Unplug the phone, sleep alone/Stay away and out of sight," he sings. "These three cubic feet of bone and blood and meat are all I love and know/I'm a one man guy is me."
Jay Z, "99 Problems"
After Blue Ivy was born, Jay Z settled down into fatherhood and allegedly swore off ever using the B-word again. But before his Beyonce days, Jigga made one thing absolutely clear: He had a ton of things to deal with-getting pulled over, music critics slamming him, and radio stations not playing his songs. But girlfriends? Not among them.
Tom Waits, "Better Off Without a Wife"
Tom Waits has been married for 32 years now, but in the great 1975 album Nighthawks at the Diner, he toasted "to the bachelors and the Bowery Bums/And those who feel that they're the only ones/Who are better off without a wife." It's a great testament to the urban underworld,and to Tom's wild years.
Bob Marley, "No Woman, No Cry"
Plenty of musicians have assured us that everything's gonna be all right. But leave it to the one with the Jamaican attitude to really make us believe it. Marley applies his home country's "No worries" philosophy to being alone and the result is one of the best feel-good songs ever.
Wilco, "Born Alone"
Jeff Tweedy may be a married father, but he's one of our the great iconoclasts and individualists of our time, always doing his own thing his own way. In "Born Alone," Tweedy pulled random words from Emily Dickinson's poetry and set them next to writing from Whittier and other poets from the 1800s. He's said that final lyric, "born alone, born to die alone" is dire, defiant, and triumphant, and that the song ends with a series of repeating chords that ascend and descend to give the sound "like it's endlessly going deeper and deeper into the abyss." Solo or not, we've all been there.
Patty Labelle and Michael McDonald, "On My Own"
The #1 hit from LaBelle's 1986 platinum album, "Winner in You," this is a song about being alone, together. In the video, LaBelle and McDonald appear on separate coasts, in a split screen, and testify to the sweet sorrow of being solo after love ends. "I've got to find out what was mine again/My heart is saying that it's my time again/And I have faith that I will shine again/I have faith in me/On my own."
Morrissey, "I'm OK By Myself"
Where would a list about being alone be without Morrissey? But "I'm OK By Myself" is much less on the sad-sap end of Morrissey's discography and far more proudly independent. He wants the person who left him to know this: He doesn't need you. And he hopes that fact makes you throw up in your bed.
Jamie O'Neal, "All by Myself"
Possibly the most famous song to listen to while staring out a rainy window with a single tear drop on your cheek. Many musicians have tried but none of captured the true pain of isolation like O'Neal.
Jimi Hendrix, "Stone Free"
In the tradition of wandering bluesmen and free spirits everywhere, Hendrix celebrates his independence and warns women against even trying to tie him down. "Listen to me baby, you can't hold me down.Stone free, do what I please/Stone free to ride the breeze/Stone free I can't stay/Got to got to got to get away." Has anyone else so perfectly captured the sentiments of men who won't commit?
Jason DeRulo, "Ridin' Solo"
The companion piece to Beyonce's All the Single Ladies, DeRulo says he's sorry things didn't work out, but he's ready to move on because the pain is gone. "Better days are gonna get better," he sings. "I'm feelin' like a star, you can't stop my shine/I'm lovin' cloud nine, my head's in the sky/I'm solo, I'm ridin' solo."
--Eric Klinenberg (With contributions from Jennifer Lena, Dan Ozzi, and Ed Russ (DJ Jah Karma)
Used by permission of Rollingstone.com
From Booklist
Singletons-people who choose to live alone-are getting more numerous. Roughly 31 million Americans live alone. That's one out of seven adults, and you should keep in mind that Americans are, overall, less likely to live alone than people in many other countries. This rather interesting book addresses several questions, among them why people choose to live alone, why singletons are on the rise, whether living alone is a key part of maturing, whether singletons enjoy better mental health than their cohabiting counterparts, and whether living alone necessarily makes someone an introvert (studies-and Klinenberg cites many-indicate that people who live alone can be enthusiastically social animals). The prose is lively, focusing more on personal stories than dry statistics, and by treating living alone as a social phenomenon, Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University, is able to draw some startling conclusions about our behavior. --David Pitt
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The Last Drop of Blood by Graham Masterton
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Description: The final thriller in the million-copy-selling Katie Maguire series.
In the driver's seat of a Jaguar, on a country road, a good man burns.
Justice Garrett Quinn should have been at a sentencing. He was one of the good ones, fighting for order in a lawless world. In a burned-out car, on the outskirts of Cork, DS Katie Maguire finds what's left of him.
But this is only the beginning. The judge's death sparks a gang war fought with bullets and bombs, and civilians are caught in the crossfire. As the city spirals deeper into violence, Ireland's most fearless detective must find the courage to fight for her hometown one last time.
Katie Maguire is no stranger to sacrifice - but she has lost so much already. Facing new horrors each day, Katie must decide: can she do her duty when she has nothing left to give?
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You Can Heal Your Heart by David Kessler, Louise Hay
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Description: In You Can Heal Your Heart, self-empowerment luminary Louise Hay and renowned grief and loss expert David Kessler have come together to start a conversation on healing after loss. Louise and David discuss the emotions and thoughts that occur when a relationship leaves you brokenhearted, a marriage ends in divorce, or a loved one dies. They will also help you develop greater self-awareness and compassion, providing you with the courage and tools to face many other types of losses and challenges, such as saying good-bye to a beloved pet, losing your job, coming to terms with a life-threatening illness or disease, and much more.With a perfect blend of Louise's affirmations and teachings on the power of your thoughts and David's many years of working with those in grief, this remarkable book will inspire an extraordinary new way of thinking, bringing profound love and joy into your life. You will not only learn how to harness the power of your grief to help...
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The Experience Economy by B Joseph Pine II, James H Gilmore
epub | 2.18 MB | English | B. Joseph Pine II, James H. Gilmore | 2020 | Harvard Business Review Press
Description: Time is limited. Attention is scarce. Are you engaging your customers?
Apple Stores, Disney, LEGO, Starbucks. Do these names conjure up images of mere goods and services, or do they evoke something more-something visceral?
Welcome to the Experience Economy, where businesses must form unique connections in order to secure their customers' affections-and ensure their own economic vitality.
This seminal book on experience innovation by Joe Pine and Jim Gilmore explores how savvy companies excel by offering compelling experiences for their customers, resulting not only in increased customer allegiance but also in a more profitable bottom line. Translated into thirteen languages, The Experience Economy has become a must-read for leaders of enterprises large and small, for-profit and nonprofit, global and local.
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Future Minds Richard Yonck
epub | 1.65 MB | English | Richard Yonck | Arcade
Description: For Readers of Michio Kaku and Stephen Hawking, an Epic Journey through the Intelligent UniverseWith the ongoing advancement of AI and other technologies, our world is becoming increasingly intelligent. From chatbots to innovations in brain-computer interfaces to the possibility of superintelligences leading to the Singularity later this century, our reality is being transformed before our eyes. This is commonly seen as the natural result of progress, but what if there's more to it than that? What if intelligence is an inevitability, an underlying property of the universe?
In Future Minds, Richard Yonck challenges our assumptions about intelligence-what it is, how it came to exist, its place in the development of life on Earth and possibly throughout the cosmos. Taking a Big History perspective-over the 14 billion years from the Big Bang to the present and beyond-he dra on recent developments in physics and complexity theory to explore the questions: Why do pockets of increased complexity develop, giving rise to life, intelligence, and civilization? How will it grow and change throughout this century, transforming both technology and humanity? As we expand outward from our planet, will we discover other forms of intelligence, or will we conclude we are destined to go it alone? Any way we look at it, the nature of intelligence in the universe is becoming a central concern for humanity. Ours. Theirs. And everything in between.
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Learning Java 5th Edition
epub | 8.71 MB | English | Daniel Leuck, Patrick Niemeyer, Marc Loy | O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Description: If you're new to Java-or new to programming-this best-selling book will guide you through the language features and APIs of Java 11. With fun, compelling, and realistic examples, authors Marc Loy, Patrick Niemeyer, and Daniel Leuck introduce you to Java fundamentals-including its class libraries, programming techniques, and idioms-with an eye toward building real applications.
You'll learn powerful new ways to manage resources and exceptions in your applications-along with core language features included in recent Java versions.
Develop with Java, using the compiler, interpreter, and other toolsExplore Java's built-in thread facilities and concurrency packageLearn text processing and the powerful regular expressions APIWrite advanced networked or web-based applications and services
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Anatomy of Injustice by Raymond Bonner
epub | 2.22 MB | English | 9780307957368 | Raymond Bonner | 2012 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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<p id="freeText7729416891627164156">The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. security officer immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man with no previous felony record. His only connection to the victim was having cleaned her gutters and windo, but barely ninety days after the victim's body was found, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.
Elmore had been on death row for eleven years when a young attorney named Diana Holt first learned of his case. After attending the University of Texas college of Law, Holt was eager to help the disenfranchised and voiceless; she herself had been a childhood victim of abuse. It required little scrutiny for Holt to discern that Elmore's case-plagued by incompetent court-appointed defense attorneys, a virulent prosecution, and both misplaced and contaminated evidence-reeked of injustice. It was the cause of a lifetime for the spirited, hardworking lawyer. Holt would spend more than a decade fighting on Elmore's behalf.
With the exemplary moral commitment and tenacious investigation that have distinguished his reporting career, Bonner follo Holt's battle to save Elmore's life and sho us how his case is a textbook example of what can go wrong in the American justice system. He revie security officer work, evidence gathering, jury selection, work of court-appointed lawyers, latitude of judges, iniquities in the law, prison informants, and the appeals process. Throughout, the actions and motivations of both unlikely heroes and shameful villains in our justice system are vividly revealed.
Moving, suspenseful, and enlightening, Anatomy of Injustice is a vital contribution to our nation's ongoing, increasingly important debate about inequality and the death penalty.
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The Handbook of Conflict Resolution by Peter T Coleman
epub | 3.47 MB | English | Peter T. Coleman, Morton Deutsch, Eric C. Marcus | Wiley
Description: <a href="https://.goodreads.com/book/show/18432717-the-handbook-of-conflict-resolution"><span style="color: #6cb4ee">The Handbook of Conflict Resolution</a>
<p id="freeText14577904709186313846"> Praise for The Handbook of Conflict Resolution "This handbook is a classic. It helps connect the research of academia to the practical realities of peacemaking and peacebuilding like no other. It is both comprehensive and deeply informed on topics vital to the field like power, gender, cooperation, emotion, and trust. It now sits prominently on my bookshelf."
--Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
"The Handbook of Conflict Resolution offers an astonishing array of insightful articles on theory and practice by leading scholars and practitioners. Students, professors, and professionals alike can learn a great deal from studying this Handbook."
--William Ury, Director, Global Negotiation Project, Harvard University; coauthor, Getting to Yes and author, The Third Side
"Morton Deutsch, Peter Coleman, and Eric Marcus put together a handbook that will be helpful to many. I hope the book will reach well beyond North America to contribute to the growing worldwide interest in the constructive resolution of conflict. This book offers instructive ways to make this commitment a reality."
--George J. Mitchell, Former majority leader of the United States Senate; former chairman of the Peace Negotiations in Northern Ireland and the International Fact-Finding Committee on Violence in the Middle East; chairman of the board, Walt Disney Company; senior fellow at the college of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
"Let's be honest. This book is just too big to carry around in your hand. But that's because it is loaded with the most critical essays linking the theory and practice of conflict resolution. The Handbook of Conflict Resolution is heavy on content and should be a well-referenced resource on the desk of every mediator--as it is on mine."
--Johnston Barkat, Assistant Secretary-General, Ombudsman and Mediation Services, United Nations
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Darkly Black History and America's Gothic Soul by Leila Taylor
epub | 14.08 MB | English | 9781912248544 | Leila Taylor | Repeater
Description: Leila Taylor takes us into the dark heart of the American gothic, analysing the ways it relates to race in America in the twenty-first century.
Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under floorboards -- the American gothic is a macabre tale based on a true story.
Part memoir and part cultural critique, Darkly: Blackness and America's Gothic Soul explores American culture's inevitable gothicity in the traces left from chattel slavery. The persistence of white supremacy and the ubiquity of Black death feeds a national culture of terror and a perpetual undercurrent of mourning.
If the gothic narrative is metabolized fear, if the goth aesthetic is romanticized melancholy, what does that look and sound like in Black America?
"I am struck by the depth of Leila Taylor's vision. The generosity shown in the way a history (and present) is illuminated. This book does so much beautiful work to widen the expectations and understandings of blackness, and I am immensely thankful for it."
- Hanif Abdurraqib, author of Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest and They Can't Kill Us Until they Kill Us
"A powerful and deeply personal exploration of what it means to be an outsider within an outsider culture. Between the black aesthetic of goth culture and the Blackness of America, Leila Taylor navigates seamlessly between cultural critique, personal history, and a history of America's troubled past in writing that is incessant, curious, and generous, and a voice that is at turns both searing and vulnerable. Powerful and strange, uncanny and unforgettable." - Colin Dickey, author of Ghostland
"Takes us on a path that connects the Middle Ages, Edgar Allen Poe, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Afropunk, Prince, Black Lives Matter, and Hot Topic. It's an incredible journey..." - Baratunde Thurston
"Fascinating. A revelatory exploration of blackness, goth culture and the ramifications of inherited trauma."-Irenosen Okojie
"A rare glimpse into American gothic from an African American perspective."-Library Journal
Leila Taylor is a former goth kid and current Creative Director at Brooklyn Public Library. She's given talks at the International Gothic Association and the Morbid Anatomy Museum, has an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and an MA in Liberal Studies from The New college of Social Research. This is her first book.
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Django 3 By Example, 3rd Edition by Antonio Mele
epub | 12.41 MB | English | Antonio Melé | Packt
Description: Django 3 By Example, Third Edition, explores key Django features and best practices that every Python web developer should be aware of. This third edition is fully updated for Django 3 and a new chapter on Django Channels for real-time features has been added. Much more than just a reference guide, this book sho you how Django works in the real world. This book also sho you best practices and how to integrate other popular technologies, such as Redis, Celery, or Memcached into your Django projects.
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Poison Sleep by Tim Pratt
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Description: The bad girl of the magical underworld is back and badder than ever
Someone wants Marla Mason dead. Usually that's not ne. As chief sorcerer of Felport, someone always wants her dead. But this time she's the target of a renegade assassin who specializes in killing his victims over days, months, or even years. Not to mention a mysterious knife-wielding killer in black who pops up in the most unexpected places. To make matters worse, an inmate has broken out of the Blackwing Institute for criminally insane sorcerers--a troubled psychic who can literally reweave the fabric of reality to match her own traumatic past.
With her wisecracking partner Rondeau reluctantly in tow, Marla teams up with a "love-talker" whose dangerous erotic spells not even she can resist. Together they're searching the rapidly transforming streets of Felport for a woman who's become the Typhoid Mary of nightmares, infecting everything--and everyone--she touches with a chaos...
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Krakens and Lies by Tui T Sutherland Kari Sutherland
epub | 2.37 MB | English | Tui T. Sutherland | HarperCollins
Description: The Menagerie trilogy comes to a fantastic conclusion in Krakens and Lies, the third magical and mysterious adventure from Tui Sutherland (New York Times bestselling author of the Wings of Fire series) and Kari Sutherland. Young readers who love mythological creatures and series like Fablehaven, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and Spirit Animals won't want to miss the Menagerie.
Someone has been sabotaging the Menagerie, and Logan and Zoe are on the case. But their troubles only get worse when the basilisk escapes its enclosure and the merpeople go on strike-leaving the kraken to its own devices. The race is on to solve the mystery and save the Menagerie in this riveting, action-packed finale!
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Mergers and Acquisitions from A to Z
mobi | 2.94 MB | Andrew J. Sherman | 2018 | AMACOM
Description: The definitive guide to getting deals done right.More than ten thousand mergers and acquisitions occur annually in the US, many among small- and mid-sized companies. These complex transactions can be an effective growth strategy, but they carry significant risk.Mergers and Acquisitions from A to Z helps guard against costly mistakes. Expert advice, case studies, checklists, and sample documents walk you through every step of the process — from valuation to securities la to closing and successful integration. Covering the latest trends and regulatory developments, the fourth edition explains how to:Prepare for and initiate a dealCreate a letter of intentConduct due diligenceStructure profitable dealsCalculate the purchase priceRaise capitalKeep transactions on trackUnderstand the roles and risks for boardsManage postclosing challengesAnd...
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Escapes Can Be Murder by Connie Shelton
epub | 435.75 KB | Connie Shelton | Columbine Publishing Group, LLC
Description: "Charlie is a fabulous amateur sleuth." -Midwest Book Review
Charlie and Drake are working a helicopter job in rural Maine when a man approaches and asks for their help. At first glance, it seems he's just an old man who needs to get to his son's remote cabin in the woods. But the cabin holds more secrets than Fergus McNab will admit, and it isn't until Charlie returns to Albuquerque that she discovers they may have just aided and abetted a criminal who has escaped the law back home.
The secrets get twistier, the more she looks into the ten-year-old case where Rory McNab, facing a life in prison, seemed to vanish from the reach of the law. Just as Charlie is thinking she should report McNab's whereabouts, there's a murder that seems to rock the foundation of the old case. And Charlie is in handcuffs, caught in the middle.
Praise for the Charlie Parker mysteries:"Charlie is just what readers want." -Booklist
"Connie Shelton gets better...
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Get Sh t Done by Jeffrey Gitomer
epub | 1.01 MB | English | Jeffrey Gitomer | Wiley
Description: Discover the lost secrets of accomplishment and achievement!
Do you want to do more, accomplish more? Of course you do, everyone does. So, what's stopping you? Get Sh*t Done not only sho you what's preventing you from daily achievement, it provides the tools and the strategies to help you get to where you want to be. Get Sh*t Done is much more than just the title of this book, it's the method that unlocks the secrets of accomplishment and achievement-the GSD Secret Formula. In this book, you will learn to identify and implement the elements of superior productivity, eliminate the causes of procrastination, and achieve the best possible outcomes in business and in life.
This valuable guide gives you a comprehensive, step-by-step plan for achieving maximum productivity. Bestselling author and "King of Sales" Jeffrey Gitomer guides you through each aspect of the GSD process, from attitude,...
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Sweet Hearts by Connie Shelton
epub | 235.49 KB | English | Connie Shelton | Secret Staircase Books
Description: Things are crazy at the bakery, as Sam tries to replicate the magical chocolates that the quirky Romanian chocolatier introduced at Christmas-time. Meanwhile, there are lots of weddings, in addition to her own, and other pastry shop demands during this
romantic holiday week.
While Sam tries to keep up with it all, another mystery comes her way. Marla Fresques needs to find her missing son. The woman is dying and wants her son home to raise the daughter he left behind. When Sam learns that the authorities dropped the case years ago, she feels she must help. Can she find the missing man?
Or will she resort to using her uncanny healing powers to cure Marla's illness?
Through all this, Sam's life becomes further complicated by the fact that an ex-girlfriend of Beau's sho up in town, determined to win him back.
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