Download or read book The Bitter Season written by Tami Hoag and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kovac and Liska take on multiple twisted cases as #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag explores a murder from the past, a murder from the present, and a life that was never meant to be. As the bitter weather of late fall descends on Minneapolis, Detective Nikki Liska is restless, already bored with her new assignment to the cold case squad. She misses the rush of pulling an all-nighter and the sense of urgency of hunting a killer on the loose. Most of all she misses her old partner, Sam Kovac. Kovac is having an even harder time adjusting to Liska’s absence but is distracted from his troubles by an especially brutal double homicide: a prominent university professor and his wife, bludgeoned and hacked to death in their home with a ceremonial Japanese samurai sword. Liska’s case—the unsolved murder of a decorated sex crimes detective—is less of a distraction: Twenty-five years later, there is little hope for finding the killer who got away. Meanwhile, Minneapolis resident Evi Burke has a life she only dreamed of as a kid in and out of foster care: a beautiful home, a loving family, a fulfilling job. But a danger from her past is stalking her idyllic present, bent on destroying the perfect life she was never meant to have. As the trails of two crimes a quarter of a century apart twist and cross, Kovac and Liska race to find answers before a killer strikes again.

Download or read book The Supernaturalist written by Eoin Colfer and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the future, in a place called Satelite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill enters the world, unwanted by his parents. He's sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys, Freight class. At Clarissa Frayne, the boys are put to work by the state, testing highly dangerous products. At the end of most days, they are covered with burns, bruises, and sores. Cosmo realizes that if he doesn't escape, he will die at this so-called orphanage. When the moment finally comes, Cosmo seizes his chance and breaks out with the help of the Supernaturalists, a motley crew of kids who all have the same special ability as Cosmo-they can see supernatural Parasites, creatures that feed on the life force of humans.

Download or read book English Grammar for Students of Latin written by Norma Goldman and published by Olivia & Hill Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Spider Gwen Ghost Spider Modern Era Epic Collection written by Jason Latour and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Earth-65, the radioactive spider didn't bite Peter Parker - it bit Gwen Stacy! Now, Gwen fights crime as Spider-Woman - just don't tell her father, the police chief! In the wake of SPIDER-VERSE, Gwen splits her time between school, heroism and playing in her band, the Mary Janes, while dodging NYPD lieutenant Frank Castle! But what really happened the night her world's Peter Parker died, and how does it connect to a new reptilian rampage? Gwen's troubles pile up as her world's Osborns debut and she finds herself on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most wanted list! Can a team-up between Gwen, Silk and Jessica Drew - the Spider-Woman of the prime Marvel Universe - help Gwen learn lessons about power and responsibility? Collecting EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE (2014) #2, SPIDER-GWEN (2015A) #1-5, SPIDER-GWEN (2015B) #1-8, SPIDER-WOMEN ALPHA, SILK (2015B) #7-8, SPIDER-WOMAN (2015) #6-7 and SPIDER-WOMEN OMEGA.

Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Download or read book Celeb 2 0 written by Kelli S. Burns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at how the new capabilities of Web 2.0 are changing the worlds of celebrity fandom and gossip. With Ashton Kutcher's record-breaking "tweeting" more famous than his films, and Perez Hilton actually getting more attention than Paris, the actress often covered in his blog, the worlds of celebrity celebration and online social networking are pushing the public's crush on the famous and infamous into overdrive. Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture explores this phenomenon. Celeb 2.0 looks at how blogs, video sharing sites, user-news sites, social networks, and message boards are fueling America's already voracious consumption of pop culture. Full of fascinating insights and interviews, the book looks at how celebrities use blogs, Twitter, and other tools, how YouTube and other sites create celebrity, how Web 2.0 shortens the distance between fans and stars, and how the new social media influences news reporting and series television.

Download or read book The Great CEO Within The Tactical Guide to Company Building written by Matt Mochary and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Mochary coaches the CEOs of many of the fastest-scaling technology companies in Silicon Valley. With The Great CEO Within, he shares his highly effective leadership and business-operating tools with any CEO or manager in the world. Learn how to efficiently scale your business from startup to corporation by implementing a system of accountability, effective problem-solving, and transparent feedback. Becoming a great CEO requires training. For a founding CEO, there is precious little time to complete that training, especially at the helm of a rapidly growing company. Now you have the guidance you need in one book.

Download or read book Welcome Thieves written by Sean Beaudoin and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black humor mixed with pathos is the hallmark of the twelve stories in this adult debut collection from a master writer of comic and inventive YA novels. A young man spends a whole day lying naked on the floor of his apartment, conversing casually with his roommates, pondering the past, considering the lives being lived around him. In the odd and funny, sad yet somehow hopeful conceit of Sean Beaudoin’s story “Exposure,” are all the elements that make his debut collection, Welcome Thieves, a standout. In twelve virtuosic stories, Beaudoin trains his absurdist’s eye on the ridiculous perplexities of adult life. From muddling through after the apocalypse (“Base Omega Has Twelve Dictates”) to the knowing smirk of “You Too Can Graduate with a Degree in Contextual Semiotics,” Beaudoin’s stories are edgy and profane, bittersweet and angry, bemused and sardonic. Yet they’re always tinged with heart. Beaudoin’s novels have been praised for their playfulness and complexity, for the originality and beauty of their language. Those same qualities, and much more, are on full display in Welcome Thieves, a book that should find devout fans in readers who worship at the altar of George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, and Sam Lipsyte. “A deviously spellbinding collection of short stories in which strange and beautiful worlds, creations of Sean Beaudoin’s dark and sometimes brutal imagination, emerge as part of a tapestry so finely woven that we don’t see the thread. In the end, we can only stand in awe of Beaudoin’s immense talent.” —Garth Stein, author of A Sudden Light

Download or read book The Art of Crash Landing written by Melissa DeCarlo and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time to her mother’s hometown, and gets sucked into the mystery that changed her family forever Mattie Wallace has really screwed up this time. Broke and knocked up, she’s got all her worldly possessions crammed into six giant trash bags, and nowhere to go. Try as she might, Mattie can no longer deny that she really is turning into her mother, a broken alcoholic who never met a bad choice she didn’t make. When Mattie gets news of a possible inheritance left by a grandmother she’s never met, she jumps at this one last chance to turn things around. Leaving the Florida Panhandle, she drives eight hundred miles to her mother’s birthplace—the tiny town of Gandy, Oklahoma. There, she soon learns that her mother remains a local mystery—a happy, talented teenager who inexplicably skipped town thirty-five years ago with nothing but the clothes on her back. But the girl they describe bears little resemblance to the damaged woman Mattie knew, and before long it becomes clear that something terrible happened to her mother, and it happened here. The harder Mattie digs for answers, the more obstacles she encounters. Giving up, however, isn’t an option. Uncovering what started her mother’s downward spiral might be the only way to stop her own. Hilarious, gripping, and unexpectedly wise, The Art of Crash Landing is a poignant novel from an assured new voice.

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Download or read book One Last Heist written by DAHLIA. DONOVAN and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One last heist. It should¿ve been easy. Crack a safe, steal from a villain, and go on vacation. The last thing Mack and Toshiro expect is to descend into a nightmare of betrayal. Mack Ueda-Easton loves three things: his husband, heists, and his odd family of friends. He lives life on the edge. The only cloud on his horizon is the degenerative disease stealing his sight. Toshiro Ueda-Easton tries to juggle his husband, his autistic sister, his interfering mother, and all of their heists. He knows they¿re spiraling out of control and the journey they¿re travelling can¿t last. What neither of them expect is to get catapulted straight into a dangerous conspiracy. They¿re now in a race to come out on top. If they fail, the consequences are unimaginable.

Download or read book The Algonquin Reader written by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algonquin Books presents author essays and excerpts from forthcoming fiction, featuring Security by Gina Wohlsdorf; As Good as Gone by Larry Watson; We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge; Welcome Thieves by Sean Beaudoin; Chasing the North Star by Robert Morgan; and The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church.

Download or read book The Hacker Crackdown written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the book, "The Hacker Crackdown," by Bruce Sterling. Includes a preface to the electronic release of the book and the chronology of the hacker crackdown. Notes that the book has chapters on crashing the computer system, the digital underground, law and order, and the civil libertarians.

Download or read book Hawaiian Tiger Princess Chronicles written by Rose Tigarden and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PeggySu Lee, a young Chinese-Hawaiian girl stands on a corner with her mother holding her hand. They are waiting for the traffic light to change. She can see her uncle, Michael Mao KanSu standing across the street in his JAG uniform. Suddenly there is a resounding bang and her uncle collapses to the ground. A second later there is a very loud explosion. Through the smoke the young girl thinks she can see her daddy. His face covered in camouflage paint, and then it is gone. She finds that she is alone ... and running ... her skin burning from the napalm. This is always when she wakes up. PeggySu knows this is not a true memory. She does not know where this comes from. Her mother was killed in a car accident in Hong Kong when she was only ten. Her subconscious somehow combined her mother’s death with the incident she saw on television of the young Vietnamese girl her age burning from the napalm. She has always had this same recurring nightmare, every since her mother’s death. It is as if her unconscious brain is trying to tell her something. If only she could understand. It isn’t until Mr. KanSu’s death that PeggySu learns the truth that her mother had been killed in a car bomb that day in Hong Kong. Her father didn’t want her to be frightened, so he told her that her mother had a car accident, Commander Lee had lots of secrets; some were national security, some to allow loved ones to sleep at night. PeggySu Lee grew and became the Tiger Princess, a double edged sword, both private investigator and attorney-at-law. Trained by her father, Commander Robert E. Lee, Special Forces, she is an expert in all forms of self-defense, both armed and unarmed. The Tiger Princess is the deadliest thing on two feet, which the high school bullies learned when they took her on at fourteen. PROPHECY - the first book in the Hawaiian Tiger Princess Chronicles follows PeggySu Lee from her birth in Hong Kong during the Vietnam war, through her career as a private detective and attorney with the family law firm in Honolulu. Gotham City may their Batman but Honolulu has the Tiger Princess. Read the fictional cases of KanSu & Associates and Lee Investigations as they defend the innocent of 21 century Hawaii. Walk the streets with the exotic PeggySu Lee and the handsome homicide detective Keanu Wong. These fast paced mysteries are short stories written episodically in large print with a cast of characters. Sixteen bodies drop in the eleven chapters in part 3 alone.

Download or read book Warfare in the American Homeland written by Joy James and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA collection of writings by prisoners and scholars that documents the extension of the violence and the repression of the prison establishment into the larger society. /div

Download or read book Patsy Walker A K A Hellcat Vol 1 written by Kate Leth and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patsy Walker has managed to escape her past, her enemies and Hell itself (literally) - but nothing compares to job hunting in New York City! Between trying to make rent and dodging bullets, Patsy barely has time to deal with her mother's exploitative romance comics about Patsy's past resurfacing, much less how they start to interfere with her work and dating life. As she goes from living a double life to a triple, what the hell is Patsy Walker supposed to do? There'll be friendship and burgers, monsters and rent checks and a ghost from the past with questionable motives! Comics' most flexible heroine has been a provisional Avenger, a Defender, Satan's daughter-in-law and a dead woman -but she's never been anything like this! Collects PATSY WALKER, A.K.A. HELLCAT! #1-5.

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