Download or read book Storm File written by CB Samet and published by Novels by CB Samet. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's a professional bodyguard who leaves nothing to chance. He’s a rockstar who stands to lose everything. Billy Jean Parrish is a marine turned professional bodyguard. She thrives on discipline and order, and she’s never lost a client. But when she takes an investigative role in the attempted assassination of devilishly handsome rockstar, Ethan Storm, she’s out of her depth—in more ways than one. Can she keep Ethan safe and identify the perpetrator while keeping her emotions out of the equation? Ethan Storm turned his life around after a wild youth. Now, he needs to finish his last music tour before a quieter life awaits. But an attempt on his life has him reeling. When he hires the Rider team to boost his security and investigate the threat, he meets the inscrutable Billy Jean. He keeps his attraction for her in check, but when Billy Jean becomes the target, neither he nor his emotions will remain backstage. Sparks and bullets fly in this romantic suspense adventure. If you like action, adventure, and strong female leads, this is the series for you. The romance is medium with heat with some explicit language. Each novel shares characters, but they are also their own happily-ever-after. *** “I loved this book…. Now this book had an awesome leading lady Billy Jean. She was kick ass but still had feelings that Ethan was able to pull out. Ethan was also great and protective, but definitely let the professional Billy take charge. The romance was gradual and felt genuine. The suspense was really entertaining and had several plot twists thrown in. Definitely worth the read if you like your romance with some action, suspense, cute families, and danger. I cannot wait to read the rest of the series I missed out on!” —Goodreads Reviewer

Download or read book Storm Surge written by CB Samet and published by Avant Star Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Storm Thoren’s work as a hired assassin has her meeting handsome Bryce Chambers, she’s out of her element protecting him and the secrets he harbors. But the danger surrounding him sends her on a path careening with the destiny she’s been trying to avoid. Bryce’s attempt at a normal life is spun upside down when he encounters Storm and her supernatural abilities. He doesn’t need the kind of danger an assassin might bring into his life, but he can’t escape her magnetism or the sense she’s destined for something greater. But as darker forces close in on them, can they save each other before forces of darkness crush them both? **Storm Surge is the captivating second book in The Shadow Guardians urban fantasy romantic suspense series. If you like engaging characters, sizzling tension, and magic, then you’ll love this series. “Samet's dramatic, otherworldly story tackles both romance and suspense—and successfully merges the two into one intriguing and nuanced plot, rich with drama from the first sentence. The storyline is logically sound and well-thought out, and the supernatural elements immersive…. Samet is quite obviously a masterful storyteller.” –BookLife Prize Reviewer (on Raine Down, Book 1)

Download or read book Isaac s Storm written by Erik Larson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the twentieth century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms. The idea that a hurricane could damage the city of Galveston, Texas, where he was based, was to him preposterous, "an absurd delusion." It was 1900, a year when America felt bigger and stronger than ever before. Nothing in nature could hobble the gleaming city of Galveston, then a magical place that seemed destined to become the New York of the Gulf. That August, a strange, prolonged heat wave gripped the nation and killed scores of people in New York and Chicago. Odd things seemed to happen everywhere: A plague of crickets engulfed Waco. The Bering Glacier began to shrink. Rain fell on Galveston with greater intensity than anyone could remember. Far away, in Africa, immense thunderstorms blossomed over the city of Dakar, and great currents of wind converged. A wave of atmospheric turbulence slipped from the coast of western Africa. Most such waves faded quickly. This one did not. In Cuba, America's overconfidence was made all too obvious by the Weather Bureau's obsession with controlling hurricane forecasts, even though Cuba's indigenous weathermen had pioneered hurricane science. As the bureau's forecasters assured the nation that all was calm in the Caribbean, Cuba's own weathermen fretted about ominous signs in the sky. A curious stillness gripped Antigua. Only a few unlucky sea captains discovered that the storm had achieved an intensity no man alive had ever experienced. In Galveston, reassured by Cline's belief that no hurricane could seriously damage the city, there was celebration. Children played in the rising water. Hundreds of people gathered at the beach to marvel at the fantastically tall waves and gorgeous pink sky, until the surf began ripping the city's beloved beachfront apart. Within the next few hours Galveston would endure a hurricane that to this day remains the nation's deadliest natural disaster. In Galveston alone at least 6,000 people, possibly as many as 10,000, would lose their lives, a number far greater than the combined death toll of the Johnstown Flood and 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. And Isaac Cline would experience his own unbearable loss. Meticulously researched and vividly written, Isaac's Storm is based on Cline's own letters, telegrams, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the hows and whys of great storms. Ultimately, however, it is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets nature's last great uncontrollable force. As such, Isaac's Storm carries a warning for our time.

Download or read book Mastering Apache Storm written by Ankit Jain and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the intricacies of Apache Storm and develop real-time stream processing applications with ease About This Book Exploit the various real-time processing functionalities offered by Apache Storm such as parallelism, data partitioning, and more Integrate Storm with other Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HBase, and Apache Kafka An easy-to-understand guide to effortlessly create distributed applications with Storm Who This Book Is For If you are a Java developer who wants to enter into the world of real-time stream processing applications using Apache Storm, then this book is for you. No previous experience in Storm is required as this book starts from the basics. After finishing this book, you will be able to develop not-so-complex Storm applications. What You Will Learn Understand the core concepts of Apache Storm and real-time processing Follow the steps to deploy multiple nodes of Storm Cluster Create Trident topologies to support various message-processing semantics Make your cluster sharing effective using Storm scheduling Integrate Apache Storm with other Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, HBase, Kafka, and more Monitor the health of your Storm cluster In Detail Apache Storm is a real-time Big Data processing framework that processes large amounts of data reliably, guaranteeing that every message will be processed. Storm allows you to scale your data as it grows, making it an excellent platform to solve your big data problems. This extensive guide will help you understand right from the basics to the advanced topics of Storm. The book begins with a detailed introduction to real-time processing and where Storm fits in to solve these problems. You'll get an understanding of deploying Storm on clusters by writing a basic Storm Hello World example. Next we'll introduce you to Trident and you'll get a clear understanding of how you can develop and deploy a trident topology. We cover topics such as monitoring, Storm Parallelism, scheduler and log processing, in a very easy to understand manner. You will also learn how to integrate Storm with other well-known Big Data technologies such as HBase, Redis, Kafka, and Hadoop to realize the full potential of Storm. With real-world examples and clear explanations, this book will ensure you will have a thorough mastery of Apache Storm. You will be able to use this knowledge to develop efficient, distributed real-time applications to cater to your business needs. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide is full of examples and real-world applications to help you get an in-depth understanding of Apache Storm. This book covers the basics thoroughly and also delves into the intermediate and slightly advanced concepts of application development with Apache Storm.

Download or read book Storm Over the Bay written by Mary Jo O'Rear and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But all that changed after September 14, 1919, when a massive hurricane struck the bay and buried the downtown area under ten feet of debris. Estimates of the death toll ranged from nearly 300 to 1,000, and the storm left millions of dollars of damage in its wake. The citizens of Corpus Christi, however, rather than being demoralized, were galvanized by the disaster. In gripping detail, author Mary Jo O'Rear chronicles the successful efforts of the newly unified Corpus Christi, efforts that culminated in the dedication of the Port of Corpus Christi on September 14, 1926 - seven years to the day after the storm that devastated the city.

Download or read book Storm Blueprints Patterns for Distributed Real time Computation written by P. Taylor Goetz and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blueprints book with 10 different projects built in 10 different chapters which demonstrate the various use cases of storm for both beginner and intermediate users, grounded in real-world example applications. Although the book focuses primarily on Java development with Storm, the patterns are more broadly applicable and the tips, techniques, and approaches described in the book apply to architects, developers, and operations. Additionally, the book should provoke and inspire applications of distributed computing to other industries and domains. Hadoop enthusiasts will also find this book a good introduction to Storm, providing a potential migration path from batch processing to the world of real-time analytics.

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Download or read book Margaret Storm Jameson written by Jennifer Birkett and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her childhood in Whitby to her long old age in Cambridge, the life of Margaret Storm Jameson (1891-1986), novelist, autobiographer, and political activist, spanned almost the whole of the twentieth century. A self-styled Little Englander by nature, and European by nurture, equally at home, or out of place, in the North Yorkshire moors and seascape of her birth, metropolitan London, rural France, and the capitals of Central Europe, she wrote of country, cities and the exile from both with equal knowledge and sympathy. Out of the changing landscapes of her present, she fashioned her vision of the future. The title of her autobiography, Journey from the North, is a simultaneous evocation and erasure of nostalgia for lost commonality, and in her long life as writer and activist, President of wartime PEN (the association of Poets, Essayist, Novelists) committed to the values of freedom and social justice, she fought to reconcile the conflicting forms of emergent modernity. Her own journey is the generic experience of twentieth-century Britain, and the England she urges on her contemporaries is one that shares the life and mind of Europe. The present book traces the history of that shared experience. It recovers, through her writing, the aspirations and the disappointments of the generation of socialists that was Class 1914. The soldiers returning from the front in 1918, to unemployment and the General Strike of 1926, fight in 1940 alongside Frenchmen, and against Germans, who are victims of the same system: class conflict, nationalist rivalries, imperialist ambition, all for Jameson have the same defining economic horizon. At the end of the odyssey the stark alternatives take shape: Washington or Moscow, the madness of American capitalism, or the oppression of Stalinist Communism. Alongside the narrative of Jameson's life, and the experiences as daughter, wife, and mother that shaped her personality and her career, the book explores her concern with issues of culture and society, cultural memory, and cultural landscapes, her fascination with aesthetic form and the relation of writing to politics, her insight into the materiality of words, and her persistent probing of the nature of the writing subject. It draws on unpublished archive material and brings new research on neglected areas of cultural history into conjunction with literary-critical analyses of Jameson's novels and studies of her journalism and essays. There is an extensive Bibliography of her work.

Download or read book Storm of the Century written by Willie Drye and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets, many of whom suffered from what is known today as post-traumatic stress disorder. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy. The supervisors in charge of the veterans misunderstood the danger posed by hurricanes in the low-lying Florida Keys. In late August 1935, a small, stealthy tropical storm crossed the Bahamas, causing little damage. When it entered the Straits of Florida, however, it exploded into one of the most powerful hurricanes on record. But US Weather Bureau forecasters could only guess at its exact position, and their calculations were well off the mark. The hurricane that struck the Upper Florida Keys on the evening of September 2, 1935 is still the most powerful hurricane to make landfall in the US. Supervisors waited too long to call for an evacuation train from Miami to move the vets out of harm’s way. The train was slammed by the storm surge soon after it reached Islamorada. Only the 160-ton locomotive was left upright on the tracks. About 400 veterans were left unprotected in flimsy work camps. Around 260 of them were killed. This is their story, with newly discovered photos and stories of some of the heroes of the Labor Day 1935 calamity.

Download or read book Storm World written by Chris Mooney and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into climate change and increasingly dangerous hurricanes from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Republican War on Science. A leading science journalist delves into a red-hot debate in meteorology: whether the increasing ferocity of hurricanes is connected to global warming. In the wake of Katrina, Chris Mooney follows the careers of leading scientists on either side of the argument through the 2006 hurricane season, tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weather itself have skewed and amplified what was already a fraught scientific debate. As Mooney puts it: “Scientists, like hurricanes, do extraordinary things at high wind speeds.” Mooney—a New Orleans native, host of the Point of Inquiry podcast, and author of The Republican Brain—has written “a well-researched, nuanced book” that closely examines whether we as a society should be held responsible for making hurricanes even bigger monsters than they already are (The New York Times). “Mooney serves his readers as both an empiricist who gathers data and an analyst who puts it into context. The result is an important book, whose author succeeds admirably in both his roles.” —The Plain Dealer “Engaging and readable . . . Mooney catches real science in the act and, in so doing, weaves a story as intriguing as it is important.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Mooney has hit upon an important and controversial topic, and attacks it with vigor.” —The Boston Globe “An absorbing, informed account of the politics behind a pressing contemporary controversy.” —Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book Sullivan File written by CB Samet and published by Avant Star Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's caught in a wicked scandal of illegal activity. He's her only hope of survival. Jessica Ong saves lives in her ICU but never imagined she'd be caught in a scenario where she would have to save her own. When she's accosted by men searching her apartment for a mysterious USB drive, she embarks on a face-paced hunt for what information is worth killing for. What's worse? She's forced to work with her ex-boyfriend and security expert, Reece Owen. Reece guards lives and uncovers secrets for a living, and yet finds himself unprepared when having to protect the feisty ex-girlfriend he distanced himself from months ago. While he tries to help Jess untangle from her dangerous predicament, he must reconcile with emotions he's avoided. As enemies close in, can they uncover the truth to set them free? If you like action, adventure, and strong female leads, this is the series for you. The romance is medium with heat with some explicit language. Each novel shares characters, but they are also their own happily-ever-after. *** “This is the 6th book in the Rider File series but can be read as a standalone. This book had mystery, suspense and thrills, romance and action. It was very well written and enjoyable to read...I loved the fact that the MC was a strong, independent, intelligent woman.... It was a really good read! One that adventure romance readers will enjoy!” — Reedsy Discovery Reviewer "Another great story by CB Samet. Kept me on my toes with each twist and turn. Would definitely recommend this and the others in the series.” —Goodreads Reviewer “Wow. The undeniable attraction between the two. It is like fighting fire with fire. There is No cliffhanger. It has a HEA. It is a Page-turner which I enjoyed reading.” —Booksprout Reviewer

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Download or read book Building Python Real Time Applications with Storm written by Kartik Bhatnagar and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to process massive real-time data streams using Storm and Python—no Java required! About This Book Learn to use Apache Storm and the Python Petrel library to build distributed applications that process large streams of data Explore sample applications in real-time and analyze them in the popular NoSQL databases MongoDB and Redis Discover how to apply software development best practices to improve performance, productivity, and quality in your Storm projects Who This Book Is For This book is intended for Python developers who want to benefit from Storm's real-time data processing capabilities. If you are new to Python, you'll benefit from the attention to key supporting tools and techniques such as automated testing, virtual environments, and logging. If you're an experienced Python developer, you'll appreciate the thorough and detailed examples What You Will Learn Install Storm and learn about the prerequisites Get to know the components of a Storm topology and how to control the flow of data between them Ingest Twitter data directly into Storm Use Storm with MongoDB and Redis Build topologies and run them in Storm Use an interactive graphical debugger to debug your topology as it's running in Storm Test your topology components outside of Storm Configure your topology using YAML In Detail Big data is a trending concept that everyone wants to learn about. With its ability to process all kinds of data in real time, Storm is an important addition to your big data “bag of tricks.” At the same time, Python is one of the fastest-growing programming languages today. It has become a top choice for both data science and everyday application development. Together, Storm and Python enable you to build and deploy real-time big data applications quickly and easily. You will begin with some basic command tutorials to set up storm and learn about its configurations in detail. You will then go through the requirement scenarios to create a Storm cluster. Next, you'll be provided with an overview of Petrel, followed by an example of Twitter topology and persistence using Redis and MongoDB. Finally, you will build a production-quality Storm topology using development best practices. Style and approach This book takes an easy-to-follow and a practical approach to help you understand all the concepts related to Storm and Python.

Download or read book Storm Warning written by Allison Brennan and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An e-novella by New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan introduces readers to the world of Lucy Kincaid leading up to the release of the next in the series, NOTHING TO HIDE (4/30/2019). FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid and her colleague Nate are racing a severe storm, but the weather is the least of their worries... Lucy and Nate head to rural Texas in order to take an FBI Most Wanted armed robber into custody. When they reach the jail hours from San Antonio, the local cops ask them to transport another prisoner too, since the transfer location is on their way. With torrential rain and flash floods keeping everyone busy, Lucy and Nate don’t have much of a choice but to help out. When the two prisoners stage an escape and take a child hostage on their way, Lucy and Nate must try to rescue the boy and survive the storm, without letting these violent criminals get away.

Download or read book Red Threat written by CB Samet and published by Avant Star Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lillian Whyte's day started as any other--medical emergencies followed by touring the new ER and ICU tower construction. But when armed gunmen storm the building and take hostages, Lillian won't be idle on the sidelines. Determined to uncover their motive, Lillian comes face to face with danger and she may never leave the building alive.

Download or read book Storm and Flood of July 5 1989 in Northern New Castle County Delaware written by Gary N. Paulachok and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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