Download or read book Cassandra Case Files written by Steven F. Warnock and published by Wordsmith Publishing. This book was released on with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Mack and K.C. McDuff, owners of Mac & Mac Enterprises. They’re security consultants and sometime bounty hunters, but they don't deal with average, every day, mundane threats. They hunt monsters for a living. Traveling like nomads in a converted school bus, they roam America, facing threats too small or too personal for the government to notice, much less deal with. Their calling is to protect the innocent, to fight the good fight. If they make a profit along the way, so much the better. From the mountains of West Virginia to a refurbished ghost town in Colorado, join Mack and KC as they make new friends, meet old friends, and shoot evil in the face. From "The Lewisburg Monster" “Are you Big Foot researchers like that nice fella that came over from Kentucky last month?” “No, ma’am, we’re not cryptozoologists. We’re more what you might call, um, bounty hunters or highly specialized exterminators.” “So, you’re literal Big Foot hunters?”
Download or read book Cassandra s Crossing written by Stephen Fredrick and published by Stephen Fredrick. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a serial killer loose on Maui, one with a very particular twist.Cassandra Yeats-Thomason is married to one of the world’s richest men, and to the outside world her life is a dream set on the tropical island of Maui. Anything she desires she can have.But what she really wants is a new future. And that requires Cassandra first shed her present.The problem is, the dream is in reality a nightmare filled with secrets - the type of secrets from which a person cannot just walk away - so, Cassandra formulates a plan and reaches into her distant past for help.William Langdon is an ex-Chicago cop with a notorious past and a personal life turned upside down.William is operating a small private detective agency in New Orleans with his partner and ex-wife, Sandy, when Cassandra saunters into his office seeking his assistance years after she turned her back on him and walked out of his life.Mesmerized by Cassie from the day they met in high school, William considers her the one unfinished chapter in his life.And she considers him the perfect man for her plan.
Download or read book Psychic Case Files written by Tony Stockwell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missing persons, mystery suicides, haunted houses and murder...Tony Stockwell is regularly asked by victims of crime and their families, to use his psychic powers to help investigate cases, often criminal, that have not yielded to conventional methods. In this fascinating collection, he opens his case files, including: "Suicide or Murder?" in which, at the request of a family, Tony investigates the death of a young boy who was killed in an apparent suicide, which Tony believes involved foul play. In "Missing Children", two children mysteriously disappear while their mother's back is turned. Years later, Tony reads for her and finds a clue to their whereabouts...And many more...This is a treasure trove for anyone who is interested in the realm beyond our own.
Download or read book Case File Phantom written by Dana Ford and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgia Richards lost hope of ever seeing her husband again since he disappeared over a year ago. On a Saturday afternoon, she thought she saw him at a play, on stage at the Oaksdale Playhouse. But Georgia didn’t have the courage to find out if it was really him. Constance McCauley was empathetic to Georgia’s faint of heart and decided to offer her investigation services to find the true identity of this mysterious man. Would Constance be able to track down Georgia’s estranged husband? If he was found, why had he been missing for over a year? As Constance pursued this case with a combination of faith and persistence, she witnessed the power of forgiveness unfold before her eyes.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 written by C. J. Box and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the year's best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box. C. J. Box, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal).
Download or read book Cassandra The Definitive Guide written by Jeff Carpenter and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This expanded second edition—updated for Cassandra 3.0—provides the technical details and practical examples you need to put this database to work in a production environment. Authors Jeff Carpenter and Eben Hewitt demonstrate the advantages of Cassandra’s non-relational design, with special attention to data modeling. If you’re a developer, DBA, or application architect looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide helps you harness Cassandra’s speed and flexibility. Understand Cassandra’s distributed and decentralized structure Use the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) and cqlsh—the CQL shell Create a working data model and compare it with an equivalent relational model Develop sample applications using client drivers for languages including Java, Python, and Node.js Explore cluster topology and learn how nodes exchange data Maintain a high level of performance in your cluster Deploy Cassandra on site, in the Cloud, or with Docker Integrate Cassandra with Spark, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Solr, and Lucene
Download or read book The Batman Files written by Matthew Manning and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Batman Files" begins with Wayne's childhood drawings and continues along a time line of significant events in Batman's life. Completely outlining Batman's war on crime, "The Batman Files" includes in-depth computer files, news articles, crime scene photos, blueprints, schematics, and actual maps of Gotham City.
Download or read book Cassandra The Definitive Guide written by Eben Hewitt and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-11-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could you do with data if scalability wasn't a problem? With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how Apache Cassandra handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers -- capabilities that have attracted Facebook, Twitter, and other data-intensive companies. Cassandra: The Definitive Guide provides the technical details and practical examples you need to assess this database management system and put it to work in a production environment. Author Eben Hewitt demonstrates the advantages of Cassandra's nonrelational design, and pays special attention to data modeling. If you're a developer, DBA, application architect, or manager looking to solve a database scaling issue or future-proof your application, this guide shows you how to harness Cassandra's speed and flexibility. Understand the tenets of Cassandra's column-oriented structure Learn how to write, update, and read Cassandra data Discover how to add or remove nodes from the cluster as your application requires Examine a working application that translates from a relational model to Cassandra's data model Use examples for writing clients in Java, Python, and C# Use the JMX interface to monitor a cluster's usage, memory patterns, and more Tune memory settings, data storage, and caching for better performance
Download or read book Cassandra Steps Out written by Isabelle Bottier and published by Graphic Universe& 8482. This book was released on 2019 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While struggling to cope with major changes in her life, fourteen-year-old Cassandra decides to help others by using her ability to see what animals are thinking, beginning with finding a lost cat.
Download or read book Mastering Apache Cassandra 3 x written by Aaron Ploetz and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build, manage, and configure high-performing, reliable NoSQL database for your applications with Cassandra Key FeaturesWrite programs more efficiently using Cassandra's features with the help of examplesConfigure Cassandra and fine-tune its parameters depending on your needsIntegrate Cassandra database with Apache Spark and build strong data analytics pipelineBook Description With ever-increasing rates of data creation, the demand for storing data fast and reliably becomes a need. Apache Cassandra is the perfect choice for building fault-tolerant and scalable databases. Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x teaches you how to build and architect your clusters, configure and work with your nodes, and program in a high-throughput environment, helping you understand the power of Cassandra as per the new features. Once you’ve covered a brief recap of the basics, you’ll move on to deploying and monitoring a production setup and optimizing and integrating it with other software. You’ll work with the advanced features of CQL and the new storage engine in order to understand how they function on the server-side. You’ll explore the integration and interaction of Cassandra components, followed by discovering features such as token allocation algorithm, CQL3, vnodes, lightweight transactions, and data modelling in detail. Last but not least you will get to grips with Apache Spark. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to analyse big data, and build and manage high-performance databases for your application. What you will learnWrite programs more efficiently using Cassandra's features more efficientlyExploit the given infrastructure, improve performance, and tweak the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)Use CQL3 in your application in order to simplify working with CassandraConfigure Cassandra and fine-tune its parameters depending on your needsSet up a cluster and learn how to scale itMonitor a Cassandra cluster in different waysUse Apache Spark and other big data processing toolsWho this book is for Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x is for you if you are a big data administrator, database administrator, architect, or developer who wants to build a high-performing, scalable, and fault-tolerant database. Prior knowledge of core concepts of databases is required.
Download or read book New Orleans Intrigue A Mystery With A Killer Ending written by Stephanie Colbert and published by Stephanie Colbert. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Romance Novelists brutally murdered by “Heartless” serial killer… This satirical mystery thriller brings three private investigators together in eccentric New Orleans. Each an expert in her field, they join forces to stop a sadistic killer. All his victims died by a single stab through the heart, a task that requires specialized anatomical knowledge. The killer’s ability to cover his tracks stymies the brave ladies’ struggle to find him. But why butcher successful romance novelists? Has the killer been hurt by someone he loved? As the trio search for clues, one thing becomes clear--the killer has just begun. It’s a race against time… They must stop this madman before he strikes again! But are they willing to risk their own lives?
Download or read book PORTRAITS OF MAGNOLIAS IN THE SHADOW OF ELVIS written by Milly Hockingheimer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PORTRAITS OF MAGNOLIAS In the Shadow of Elvis tells the story of a small Southern town in the 1950s as told through the lives of its teenagers. Among them was a group of girls known as The Twelve (the Magolias), one of whom, Margie King, looks back on this innocent time when most of the entertainment was self generated, and neighbors were friends who relied on each other and knew everyone else's business--although not everyone knew the mystery of the ruins of an antebellum mansion or what happened after a local lawyer became governor of the state. Offstage is Elvis Presley, who before he was famous was influencing the lives of the town's youth as his voice reached down into the Delta over the airwaves from Memphis and the teenagers sped up to Graceland to see what they could find out about the daily life of The King.
Download or read book Beginning Apache Cassandra Development written by Vivek Mishra and published by Apress. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Apache Cassandra Development introduces you to one of the most robust and best-performing NoSQL database platforms on the planet. Apache Cassandra is a document database following the JSON document model. It is specifically designed to manage large amounts of data across many commodity servers without there being any single point of failure. This design approach makes Apache Cassandra a robust and easy-to-implement platform when high availability is needed. Apache Cassandra can be used by developers in Java, PHP, Python, and JavaScript—the primary and most commonly used languages. In Beginning Apache Cassandra Development, author and Cassandra expert Vivek Mishra takes you through using Apache Cassandra from each of these primary languages. Mishra also covers the Cassandra Query Language (CQL), the Apache Cassandra analog to SQL. You'll learn to develop applications sourcing data from Cassandra, query that data, and deliver it at speed to your application's users. Cassandra is one of the leading NoSQL databases, meaning you get unparalleled throughput and performance without the sort of processing overhead that comes with traditional proprietary databases. Beginning Apache Cassandra Development will therefore help you create applications that generate search results quickly, stand up to high levels of demand, scale as your user base grows, ensure operational simplicity, and—not least—provide delightful user experiences.
Download or read book The Fallen Angel written by John Alex Harrison and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993, Michael Pappenhauser, a Catholic Monsignor, is shot in the head and stuffed into the trunk of his own Buick. A priceless artifact is missing so says emissaries from the Vatican in Rome. A postmarked letter from Mexico to the Gazelle Daily News in San Bernardino is evidence that the priest was alive in Mexico. The killer is never found. The seemingly perfect crime. 16 years later, Prosecutor Johnny Drake discovers that Tony Buffalino had accused the Monsignor of infidelity with his wife, the rich, beautiful, and world renown diviner of the Tarot, Madame Ivory. She wears a ring of Fortune, that when she blows on it, her eyes glow red like the Devil. Tony telephones Scott Hartless a.k.a. Mr. S. Monk, a devout monk at the Canterbury Cathedral in England is an assassin willing to kill anyone and anything to defend the faith of the Roman Catholic Church. Scott leaves for America and is arrested by patrol officer Big Will who tells him that confession is good for the soul. Sheila Williams, an African- American gay defense attorney from Palm Springs, takes the case. She elicits the help of a robot named Roberta with artificial intelligence and vast legal knowledge. The robot is the first synthetic human who is sentient with the capability to testify in court. The robot will soon be knocking on the U.S. Supreme Courthouse doors. Cyberspace libraries from around the world fling open their coffers and money comes rolling in to the Mr. S. Monk Defense Fund. On the courthouse steps, the robot is assassinated, Pandemonium, like an atomic bomb sends the crowds into chaos. This is a gripping novel that pulls the reader into the lives and sexual affairs of the characters in what looks like a world gone mad. Electrifying and shocking. Brilliantly executed.
Download or read book The Weapon Bearer s Son written by Steven F. Warnock and published by Wordsmith Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a Werewolf supposed to do when he finds out he's descended from fallen angels? Hang on for another unexpected adventure, Mac and KC are back. From Montana to Delaware be prepared for new friends and old acquaintances to cross your path. From The Weapon Bearer's Son: "What evil in its right mind is gonna attack a ranch protected by a pack of heavily armed Montanan cowboy werewolves?"
Download or read book Batman and Psychology written by Travis Langley and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey behind the mask and into the mind of Gotham City’s Caped Crusader, timed for the summer 2012 release of The Dark Knight Rises Batman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us? Batman and Psychology explores these and other intriguing questions about the masked vigilante, including: Does Batman have PTSD? Why does he fight crime? Why as a vigilante? Why the mask, the bat, and the underage partner? Why are his most intimate relationships with “bad girls” he ought to lock up? And why won't he kill that homicidal, green-haired clown? Gives you fresh insights into the complex inner world of Batman and Bruce Wayne and the life and characters of Gotham City Explains psychological theory and concepts through the lens of one of the world’s most popular comic book characters Written by a psychology professor and “Superherologist” (scholar of superheroes)
Download or read book No Ordinary Love written by Bernadette Lindemer and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call it fate or destiny or maybe it’s both. No Ordinary Love is a sweet story about two ordinary people from opposite sides of the world who are brought together quite serendipitously. Each receives unusual messages in their dreams that, unbeknownst to either of them, contribute to making decisions that will change their lives forever. A story whose time has come. It speaks about lost love, growing older, loss through death, and fear of the unknown, while finding love again under the least likely of circumstances. It is a pure and simple love story with an unusual and interesting twist that will lift your spirits and open your hearts to all of the possibilities that love can bring to your lives.
