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#1
The Giver
The Giver

By Unknown Author

At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life.

#2
Kryminal'nyi kodeks Ukrayiny. Normatyvni akty kryminal'no-pravoho znachennya. Postanovy Plenumu Verkhovnoho Sudu Ukrayiny.
Kryminal'nyi kodeks Ukrayiny. Normatyvni akty kryminal'no-pravoho znachennya. Postanovy Plenumu Verkhovnoho Sudu Ukrayiny.

By Unknown Author

A notable work from 1993.

#3
Ostatnie Życzenie
Ostatnie Życzenie

By Unknown Author

Pozycja, która przedstawia początki historii słynnego Geralta z Rivii. Sięgnij po tę lekturę i zanurz się w świecie, pełnym niebezpiecznych stworzeń, nierzadko napadających na ludzkie osady. "Ostatnie życzenie" to jeden ze zbiorów opowiadań z cyklu wiedźmińskiego, który zdobył ogromną popularność nie tylko w Polsce, ale i na całym świecie, między innymi za sprawą gry komputerowej, a następnie dzięki serialowi, wyprodukowanemu przez platformę Netflix. Główny bohater, Geralt z Rivii, jest wiedźminem, czyli osobą, która w zamian za wynagrodzenie, pozbywa się rozlicznych potworów. Działa według ściśle określonego systemu moralnego, dzieląc wszystko na to, co dobre i na to, co złe, nie uznając natomiast niczego pośrodku. Nie zabija, jeśli nie musi tego robić. Woli stawiać na uroki, które czasem też mogą rozwiązać problem. W trakcie swoich przygód poznaje piękną czarodziejkę, Yennefer, która wzbudza w nim fascynację. Jakie zlecenia czekają na niego w najbliższej przyszłości?

#4
Along Came a Spider
Along Came a Spider

By Unknown Author

A missing little girl named Maggie Rose.A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C.The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher.A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh. He is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him - even after he's been captured. Gary Soneji is a mild-mannered mathematics teacher at a Washington, D.C., private school for the children of the political and social elite. He's so popular that the kids all call him "Mr. Chips." And he's very, very smart. Growing up, he always knew he was smarter than the rest of them - he knew that the Great Ones always fooled everybody. He kidnaps Maggie Rose, the golden-haired daughter of a famous movie actress, and her best friend, Shrimpie Goldberg, the son of the secretary of the treasury, right out from under the noses of their two Secret Service agents. But Gary Soneji is not surprised at his skill. He's done it before. Hundreds of times before. Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. he looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. Cross works and lives in the ghettos of D.C. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. He has two adorable kids of his own. They are his own special vulnerabilities. Jezzie Flanaganis the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she's got an outer shell that's as tough s it is beautiful. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. What is she running from? What is her secret? Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair-at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji, who wants to commit the "crime of the century," is playing at the top of his game. The latest of the unspeakable crimes happened in Alex Cross's precinct. They happened under the protection of Jezzie Flanagan's men. Now Soneji is at large again, still wreaking havoc. Alex Cross must face the ultimate test as a psychologist: how do you outmaneuver a brilliant psychopath? Especially one who appears to have a split personality - one who won't let the other half remember those horrific acts? Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim? Gary Soneji is every parent's worst nightmare. He has become Alex Cross's nightmare. And now, reader, he's about to become yours.

#5
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Sower

By Unknown Author

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.

#6
The Client
The Client

By Unknown Author

In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client -- even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives. ([source][1]) [1]: http://www.jgrisham.com/books/the-client/ ---------- Also contained in: - [Novels: The Client / The Firm](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17766481W) - [Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Volume 4 1993](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15150385W)

#7
Stone Butch Blues
Stone Butch Blues

By Unknown Author

Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as a butch lesbian in 1970s America. While fictional, the work also takes inspiration from Feinberg's own life, and she describes it as her "call to action."

#8
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Nightmares & Dreamscapes

By Unknown Author

A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns . . . and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back with a third collection of stories--a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume, with passages leading every which way to hell . . . and a few to glory. The long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling have never been so richly demonstrated. There's something here for readers of every stripe and predilection--classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle, even a teleplay and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt piece of Little League baseball that first appeared in The New Yorker. In story after story, several published here for the first time, he will take you to places you've never been before, places that are both dark and vividly illuminated. Fair warning: You will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you. Can you believe? Then come . . . ([source][1]) ---------- Contains: - [Dolan's Cadillac][2] - [The End of the Whole Mess][3] - Suffer the Little Children - [The Night Flier][4] - Popsy - It Grows on You - [Chattery Teeth][5] - [Dedication][6] - [The Moving Finger][7] - [Sneakers][8] - [You Know They Got a Hell of a Band][9] - [Home Delivery][10] - [Rainy Season][11] - [My Pretty Pony][12] - Sorry, Right Number - [The Ten O'Clock People][13] - [Crouch End][14] - [The House on Maple Street][15] - The Fifth Quarter - [The Doctor's Case][16] - [Umney's Last Case][17] - Head Down - Brooklyn August [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/story_collection/nightmares__dreamscapes_flap.html [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14916968W/Dolan's_Cadillac [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650789W/The_End_of_the_Whole_Mess [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650747W/The_Night_Flier [5]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650843W/Chattery_Teeth [6]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650711W/Dedication [7]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650782W/The_Moving_Finger [8]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650831W/Sneakers [9]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650807W/You_Know_They_Got_a_Hell_of_a_Band [10]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650837W/Home_Delivery [11]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650825W/Rainy_Season [12]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81590W/My_Pretty_Pony [13]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650723W/The_Ten_O'Clock_People [14]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650699W/Crouch_End [15]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650797W/The_House_on_Maple_Street [16]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650676W/The_Doctor's_Case [17]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14917659W/Umney's_Last_Case

#9
The Virgin Suicides (Bloomsbury Classic)
The Virgin Suicides (Bloomsbury Classic)

By Unknown Author

The Lisbons are a Catholic family living in Grosse Pointe, Michigan in the 1970s. The father, Ronald, is a math teacher at a private school and the mother is a homemaker. The family has five daughters: 13-year-old Cecilia, 14-year-old Lux, 15-year-old Bonnie, 16-year-old Mary, and 17-year-old Therese. Their lives change dramatically within one summer when Cecilia, a stoic and astute girl described as an "outsider", attempts suicide by cutting her wrists. A few weeks later, the girls throw a chaperoned party, during which Cecilia jumps from their second story window and dies, impaled by a fence post. The cause of Cecilia's suicide and its after-effects on the family are popular subjects of neighborhood gossip. The mystique of the Lisbon girls operates also for the neighborhood boys, the narrators of the novel. Lux begins a romance with local heartthrob Trip Fontaine. Trip negotiates with the overprotective Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon to take Lux to a homecoming dance, on the condition that he finds dates for the other three girls. After having sex with Trip on the high school football field after the dance, Lux misses her curfew. Consequently, the Lisbons become recluses. Mrs. Lisbon pulls all the girls out of school, claiming that it would help the girls recover from Cecilia's suicide. However, despite her attempt to protect the girls from boys and sex, over the winter, Lux is seen having sex with various unknown men on the roof nightly. A few months after Lux is sent to the hospital because of a pregnancy scare—which her parents were told was simply indigestion—Mr. Lisbon officially takes a leave of absence. Their house falls into a deeper state of disrepair; none of them leave the house and no one visits, not even to deliver milk and groceries. A strange smell coming from the house permeates the neighborhood. From a safe distance, all the people in the neighborhood watch the Lisbons' lives deteriorate, but no one can summon up the courage to intervene. During this time, the Lisbons become increasingly fascinating to the neighborhood in general and the narrator boys in particular. The boys call the Lisbon girls and communicate by playing records over the telephone for the girls. Finally, the girls send a message to the boys to come to the house. Shortly after the boys arrive, three of the sisters kill themselves: Bonnie hangs herself, Therese overdoses on sleeping pills, and Lux dies of carbon monoxide poisoning. Mary attempts suicide by putting her head in the oven, but fails. Mary continues to live for another month before successfully ending her life by taking sleeping pills. Newspaper writer Linda Perl notes that the suicides come a year after Cecilia's first attempt. After the suicide "free-for-all," Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon leave the neighborhood. The house is sold to a young couple from the Boston area and most of the Lisbons' personal effects are either thrown out or sold in a garage sale. The narrators scavenge through the trash to collect much of the "evidence" they mention. The boys that once loved them from afar are now grown men, determined to understand a tragedy that has always defied explanation. For still, the question remains – why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own lives?

#10
The Fires of Heaven
The Fires of Heaven

By Unknown Author

The bonds and wards that hold the Great Lord of the Dark are slowly failing, but still his fragile prison holds. The Forsaken, immortal servants of the shadow, weave their snares and tighten their grip upon the realms of men, sure in the knowledge that their master will soon break free... Rand al' Thor, the Dragon Reborn, knows that he must strike at the Enemy, but his forces are divided by treachery and by ambition. Even the Aes Sedai, ancient guardians of the Light, are riven by civil war. Betrayed by his allies, pursued by his enemies and beset by the madness that comes to the male wielders of the One Power, Rand rides out to meet the foe.

#11
Without Remorse
Without Remorse

By Unknown Author

Clancy shows how an ordinary man crossed the lines of justice and morality to become the CIA legend Mr. Clark. John Kelly, former Navy SEAL and Vietnam veteran, is still getting over the accidental death of his wife six months before, when he befriends a young woman with a decidedly checkered past. When that past reaches out for her in a particularly horrifying fashion, he vows revenge and, assembling all of his old skills, sets out to track down the men responsible, before it can happen again. At the same time, the Pentagon is readying an operation to rescue a key group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. One man, they find, knows the terrain around the camp better than anyone else they have: a certain former Navy SEAL named John Kelly. Kelly has his own mission. The Pentagon wants him for theirs. Attempting to juggle the two, Kelly (now code-named Mr. Clark) finds himself confronted by a vast array of enemies, both at home and abroad - men so skillful that the slightest misstep means death. And the fate of dozens of people, including Kelly himself, rests on his making sure that misstep never happens. Men aren't born dangerous. They grow dangerous. And the most dangerous of all, Kelly learns, are the ones you least expect... As Clancy takes us through the twists and turns of Without Remorse, he blends the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, knife-edge suspense and a remarkable cast of characters.

#12
The Shipping News
The Shipping News

By Unknown Author

At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons--and the unpredictable forces of nature and society--and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery. A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.

#13
Forward the Foundation
Forward the Foundation

By Unknown Author

During the whole Foundation series, one man has always had his hand in the development of a galaxy. Merely hinted at in previous books, visited off and on for historical background - finally here delved into as deep as one can go - the demystified Hari Seldon. This follows about 40 years of his life, and traces his progress in the development of Psychohistory - the pseudo-mathematical science that would one day save the galaxy. If you have read the Foundation series, either in it's entirety or just pieces, this is a must read. It also (if memory serves) is the last book Asimov wrote before his death - the final pages describing Hari Seldon's final moments of life mirroring his own. A truly beautiful read.

#14
Men at Arms
Men at Arms

By Unknown Author

"Unadulterated fun." —San Francisco Chronicle "Pratchett has now moved beyond the limits of humorous fantasy, and should be recognized as one of the more significant contemporary English-language satirists." —Publishers Weekly The fifteenth novel in the Discworld series from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett, featuring a lycanthropic recruit and a sword in a stone! Corporal Carrot has been promoted! He’s now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork, Discworld’s greatest city, from Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders, unlicensed Thieves, and such. It’s a big job, particularly for an adopted dwarf. But an even bigger job awaits. An ancient document has just revealed that Ankh-Morpork, ruled for decades by Disorganized crime, has a secret sovereign! And his name is Carrot . . . And so begins the most awesome epic encounter of all time, or at least all afternoon, in which the fate of a city—indeed of the universe itself!—depends on a young man’s courage, an ancient sword’s magic, and a three-legged poodle’s bladder.

#15
Fear Street - Sunburn
Fear Street - Sunburn

By Unknown Author

Claudia Walker was in search of the perfect tan when she accepted her friend Marla's invitation to spend the weekend at her cliffside beach house. Little did she know that horrible fatal accidents would occur on the beach and in the house. Or are they really accidents?

#17
Mördare utan ansikte
Mördare utan ansikte

By Unknown Author

En natt i januari mördas Maria och Johannes Lövgren, ett äldre bondepar i Skåne. Innan kvinnan avlider yttrar hon ordet ”utländsk”. Någon tid senare brinner stadens flyktingförläggning och en somalisk flykting blir mördad. Den som hotar menar uppenbarligen allvar. Kommissarie Wallander tar upp kampen mot den hänsynslöse mördaren.

#18
Concepts of physics
Concepts of physics

By Unknown Author

Part 2 of Concepts of Physics explains the different theories and concepts in an easy-to-understand way, making it popular among students. H. C. Verma's book is an all-inclusive theoretical and conceptual guide that covers a vast range of topics. It is an ideal book not only for pre-college students but also for those appearing for competitive exams in the field of engineering and medicine. It is a book that aims to comprehensively guide the students in various aspects of physics thus, making them fully equipped to answer any type of questions that may come in the exams. Volume 2 of the Concepts of Physics starts with a chapter on Heat and Temperature. It moves on to explain the Kinetic Theory of Gases. The concepts of Calorimetry, Law of Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Specific Heat Capacities of Gases are discussed in the subsequent chapters. There are separate chapters on Gauss's Law, Electric Field and Potential, and Capacitors.

#19
Trainspotting
Trainspotting

By Unknown Author

Scottish writer Irvine Welsh's first novel, Trainspotting, is a collection of short-stories revolving around a group of friends, their drug use, and struggles in the city of Edinburgh.

#20
A Girl in a Million
A Girl in a Million

By Unknown Author

"You want me?" Caroline Frisby was right for the job--after all, she'd established an excellent rapport with the little boy while he was in the hospital in England. It only made sense that she be the one to supervise Marc's recovery back home in Holland. But was she the right girl for the man? Marius van Houben, the boy's uncle, was rich, attractive and successful--and very single. He could have any girl he wanted. What were the chances that he would want her? Caroline knew they were one in a million.

#21
Green Mars
Green Mars

By Unknown Author

In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier.Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planets hostile, barren beauty. Led by rebels like Peter Clayborne, these young people are the first generation of children born on Mars. They will be joined by original settlers Maya Toitovna, Simon Frasier, and Sax Russell. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, rivalries, and friendships explode in a story as spectacular as the planet itself.From the Paperback edition.

#22
Understanding Comics
Understanding Comics

By Unknown Author

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.

#23
The Haunted Mask
The Haunted Mask

By Unknown Author

Carly Beth's Halloween mask is so ugly, but she can't seem to get it off after she scares some of the boys in her neighborhood.

#24
Night of the Living Dummy
Night of the Living Dummy

By Unknown Author

Lindy finds a ventriloquist's dummy and has fun learning to make him move and talk. Kris is jealous, and decides to get a dummy of her own. Then nasty evil things begin to happen. No way can a dummy be causing all the trouble. Or is there?

#25
Voice in the Wind
Voice in the Wind

By Unknown Author

Following the prides and passions of a group of Jews, Romans and Barbarians living at the time of the siege, the narrative is centered on an ill-fated romance between a steadfast slave girl, Hadassah, and Marcus, the brother of her owner and a handsome aristocrat. After surviving the massacre of her family and the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, Hadassah is captured and sold to a well-to-do merchant’s family. Brought to Rome, she is pressed into service as a personal slave to hedonistic Julia Valerian. Hadassah struggles to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and to treat her masters in a manner in keeping with His teachings, but she is forced to keep her religious identity a secret in order to survive. Confused and alone, she has only her faith to cling to as she tries to subtly bring God into the lives of her captors. Reckless, impulsive, and villainous, Julia tries to undermine Hadassah at every turn. But Julia’s brother, Marcus, is a different sort altogether. Is it possible for a love between Hadassah and Marcus to flourish considering not only their differing stations in life, but also the gap between Hadassah’s unrelenting faith and Marcus’ lack of belief in anything? Simultaneously, Atretes, a captured soldier from Germania, is forced to become a gladiator. This is the time of Rome’s decline and the decadence of a civilization on the verge of self-destruction serves as a powerful backdrop to the Barbarian’s struggle for survival in the arena.

#26
El Club Dumas
El Club Dumas

By Unknown Author

Read it awsome book. Exiting. In the world of rare books everything has its price. Butwhen the book is a satanic tract the currency is not money but life.

#27
A Game of You
A Game of You

By Unknown Author

This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679281W.

#28
Star Wars - The Thrawn Trilogy - The Last Command
Star Wars - The Thrawn Trilogy - The Last Command

By Unknown Author

The conclusion to the epic adventure begun in the number one New York Times bestselling Heir to the.Empire and continued in Dark Force Rising, this final volume spans a galaxy in flames, as the Empire threatens to engulf the New Republic and its brave defenders. THE LAST COMMAND The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor's secret fortress: clone soldiers. As Thrawn' mounts his final siege, Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the Empire, while Leia holds the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins. Overwhelmed by the ships and clones at Thrawn's command, the Republic has one last hope -- sending a small force, led by Luke Skywalker, into the very stronghold that houses Thrawn's terrible cloning machines. There a final danger awaits, as the Dark Jedi C'baoth directs the battle against the Rebels and builds his strength to finish what he had already started: the destruction of Luke Skywalker.

#29
The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

By Unknown Author

"It started with the strange howling at night. Then there was the rabbit, torn to shreds. Everyone thinks Grady's new dog is responsible. After all, he looks just like a wolf. And he seems a little on the wild side. But Grady knows his dog is just a regular old dog. And most dogs don't howl at the moon ... or change into terrifying creatures when the moon is full." P. [4] of cover.

#30
Out From Boneville
Out From Boneville

By Unknown Author

"After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins - Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone - are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. Eventually, the cousins are reunited at a farmstead run by tough Gran'Ma Ben and her spirited granddaughter, Thorn. But little do the Bones know, there are dark forces conspiring against them and their adventures are only just beginning!" --Provided by publisher.

#31
Yesterday's Echoes
Yesterday's Echoes

By Unknown Author

HE KNEW HER DARK SECRETS... Tragedy had befallen Rosie when she was a vulnerable sixteen-year-old, and the worst thing about the experience was being caught by Jake Lucas, who clearly thought Rosie was a tramp. Since then Rosie had resolutely concentrated on building up a successful career and had allowed no one to guess that there was another woman behind the cheerful face she showed to the world. But Jake had entered her life again, and he wasn't about to let her forget the past. There seemed to be no way of avoiding the inevitable confrontation. Would it shatter Rosie's life all over again?

#32
Code Complete
Code Complete

By Unknown Author

Take a strategic approach to software construction—and produce superior products—with this fully updated edition of Steve McConnell's critically praised and award-winning guide to software development best practices. Widely considered one of the best practical guides to programming, Steve McConnell's original CODE COMPLETE has been helping developers write better software for more than a decade. Now this classic book has been fully updated and revised with leading-edge practices—and hundreds of new code samples—illustrating the art and science of software construction. Capturing the body of knowledge available from research, academia, and everyday commercial practice, McConnell synthesizes the most effective techniques and must-know principles into clear, pragmatic guidance. No matter what your experience level, development environment, or project size, this book will inform and stimulate your thinking—and help you build the highest quality code.Discover the timeless techniques and strategies that help you:Design for minimum complexity and maximum creativityReap the benefits of collaborative developmentApply defensive programming techniques to reduce and flush out errorsExploit opportunities to refactor—or evolve—code, and do it safelyUse construction practices that are right-weight for your projectDebug problems quickly and effectivelyResolve critical construction issues early and correctlyBuild quality into the beginning, middle, and end of your project

#33
Algebra 1
Algebra 1

By Unknown Author

Easy to read with example problems to solve.

#34
House of glass
House of glass

By Unknown Author

Casting Stones Lily's marriage to Daniel Norfolk had pitted brother against brother. And now the raging, hate-fueled desire that had tormented Lily for two years had come full circle with her husband's death. Daniel's brother Dane had made her life hell. He'd aroused a tumult of sexual hunger. . . of wanting, needing and knowing it could never be. She'd been living a lie--and now was the time to tell Dane the truth. Confession was the only chance Lily had to make him understand--to make him WANT--her love!

#35
The Celestine Prophecy - An Adventure
The Celestine Prophecy - An Adventure

By Unknown Author

Are three decades of interest in modern physics, ecology, mystical religion and interpersonal psychology finally synthesizing into a new spiritual "common sense"? Are we now beginning to live this new common sense? Can it become the dominant paradigm of the next century? When James Redfield first published this extraordinary book -- an adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery -- people picked it up, read it, and were stunned by its contents. They told their friends about it, and friends in turn told their friends. By word of mouth alone, news of this magical, moving work spread throughout the country, until -- within months of its first printing -- over hundred thousand readers had become excited by its predictions and touched by the way it made sense of what was happening in their lives. Now you can discover for yourself the insights, the vision, and the uncanny accuracy of "The Celestine Prophecy". A parable filled with vital truth that reads like a gripping adventure-tale, it begins with the disappearance of an ancient Peruvian manuscript. Although few Westerners know of its existence and a government wants to suppress it, this precious document contains an important secret: the 9 insights the human race is predicted to grasp as we enter an era of true spiritual awareness. To find the manuscript -- and its hidden treasures -- you will join one person's search. It is a quest that will carry you high into the Andes mountains, to ancient ruins deep in old-growth forest, and to a startling discovery. You will quickly recognize the truth of the First Insight: in each of our lives occur mysterious coincidences -- sudden, synchronistic events that, once interpreted, lead us into our true destiny. When you find and understand all 9 of the insights, you will have an exciting new image of human life, and a positive vision of how we will save this planet, its creatures, and its beauty. "The Celestine Prophecy" will give you hope…and chills…as you begin to perceive its predictions unfolding all around you in intimate relationships and international affairs. And you will suddenly recognize the quantum leap forward humankind is preparing to make as we approach the new millennium. Important works such as Carlos Castaneda's "The Teachings of Don Juan" and the prophecies of Nostradamus have helped prepare the way for the revelations you will find in James Redfield's life-changing words. The time is right to hear them, and to discover the personal journey that is opening in your life. --jacket ---------- Also contained in: - [The Celestine Insights](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16058012W/The_Celestine_Insights)

#36
Lasher
Lasher

By Unknown Author

The Talamasca, documenters of paranormal activity, is on the hunt for the newly born Lasher. Mayfair women are dying from hemorrhages and a strange genetic anomaly has been found in Rowan and Michael. Lasher, born from Rowan, is another species altogether and now in the corporeal body, represents an incalcuable threat to the Mayfairs. Rowan and Lasher travel together to Houston and she becomes pregnant with another creature like him, a Taltos. Lasher seeks to reproduce his race in other women, but they cannot withstand it. Rowan escapes and becomes comatose as her fully-grown Taltos daughter is born. The Mayfairs declare all-out war on Lasher and try to nurse Rowan back to heatlth. Michael remains entwined in the Mayfair family and learns how he comes by his strange powers. Michael's ghostly visiting from a long-dead Mayfair reveals the importance of destroying Lasher. In the investigation, Lasher's origins are revealed, the new Taltos Emaleth returns, and the climax of death and life engulfs the family. ([source][1]) [1]: http://annerice.com/Bookshelf-Lasher.html

#37
Welcome to Camp Nightmare
Welcome to Camp Nightmare

By Unknown Author

A creepy thriller about a nine-year-old boy whose summer stay at Camp Nightmoon becomes a living nightmare.

#38
A Suitable Boy
A Suitable Boy

By Unknown Author

The tale of Lata's and her mother's attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through maternal appraisal. Set in post-independence India and involving the lives of four families, it is also an explanation of a whole continent faced with its first great General Election.

#39
Meet Addy
Meet Addy

By Unknown Author

In 1864, after her father and brother are sold to another owner, nine-year-old Addy Walker and her mother escape from their cruel life of slavery in North Carolina to freedom in Philadelphia.

#40
Powerful Stranger
Powerful Stranger

By Unknown Author

Ryan Landis had always loved and protected Lauren as long as she could remember. He had been a reassuring figure in her childhood. But now she was grown up and making her own decisions. And the last thing she wanted was Ryan interfering in her life. How dared he question her choice of husband! How could he whisk her off to California to work for him without giving her time to even think about whether she really wanted to? And what exactly did Ryan want from her? The hard, arrogant businessman he had become was very different from the Ryan she remembered. But somehow he was even more exciting...

#41
Fables & Reflections
Fables & Reflections

By Unknown Author

Continues the epic of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, as he observes and interacts with an odd assortment of historical and fictional characters throughout time.

#42
River god
River god

By Unknown Author

Awesome

#43
Fear Street - The New Boy
Fear Street - The New Boy

By Unknown Author

Janie and her friends make bets on which of them will date hunky, mysterious Ross first. But then the murders begin.

#44
The Recruit (CHERUB #1)
The Recruit (CHERUB #1)

By Unknown Author

a fast paced action filled story where kids are recruited to become secret agents called cherub agents James Adams has been recruited after his mum die's and is ready to take on what ever training has install for him warning not suitable for younger readers

#45
On Basilisk Station
On Basilisk Station

By Unknown Author

Honor in Trouble: Having made him look like a fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames *her* for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system. But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They've made her mad.

#46
A squash and a squeeze
A squash and a squeeze

By Unknown Author

With the help of an old man and all of her animals, an old lady realizes that her house is not as small as she thought it was.

#47
The Ghost Next Door
The Ghost Next Door

By Unknown Author

Hannah's boring summer changes when a new boy, who seems to disappear in the strangest ways, moves in next door.

#48
Let's Get Invisible!
Let's Get Invisible!

By Unknown Author

On Max's birthday, he finds a sort of magic mirror in the attic. It can make him become invisible.

#49
Cruel & Unusual
Cruel & Unusual

By Unknown Author

"11:05 P.M. Convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the Commonwealth of Virginia's electric chair." "In the morgue, Dr. Kay Scarpetta has been waiting for Waddell's body. It's a strange feeling, preparing for an autopsy before the subject is dead. But Scarpetta's been here before. As Virginia's chief medical examiner, she knows the tension of watching the clock as the execution hour draws near.". "Waddell's death isn't the only newsworthy event on this cold December night. Three hours after thirteen-year-old Eddie Heath goes out to a convenience store to buy a can of soup, his nude, grotesquely wounded body is found propped against a dumpster.". "Waddell's execution, the attack on Eddie - the two events seem unrelated until Scarpetta and Richmond police lieutenant Pete Marino remember that Waddell arranged his victim in a strikingly similar position to Eddie's. And then there's a new murder, the most puzzling of all." "The crime scenes yield few clues: old bloodstains, fragments of feather, and - most baffling - a bloody fingerprint that points Scarpetta to the one suspect who could not possibly have committed this murder.". "And somewhere in Virginia's corridors of power, perhaps even in her own office, lurks an enemy who will destroy Scarpetta unless she can produce the proof that will clear her name. With some help from her seventeen-year-old niece, computer whiz Lucy, as well as from her loyal friend Lieutenant Marino and FBI agent Benton Wesley, Scarpetta musters all her forensic expertise and investigative skills to uncover shocking secrets that will have vast repercussions.". "Cruel and Unusual moves bestselling author Patricia D. Cornwell in dramatic new directions, confirming the extraordinary range and power of this gifted, prizewinning writer."--BOOK JACKET.

#50
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

By Unknown Author

Lost in an Egyptian pyramid, twelve-year-old Gabe and his cousin Sari find they are not alone.

#51
The Awakened Heart
The Awakened Heart

By Unknown Author

He'd proposed -- a marriage of convenience! Dr. Rijk van Taak ter Wijsma hadn't gone down on bended knee, nor had there been fireworks when he'd kissed her cheek, but then, Sophie had decided long ago that romance wasn't for her. She'd experienced the bitterness of a love gone wrong and was now quite content to consider a comfortable relationship. After all, Sophie and Rijk were becoming the best of friends. Their marriage would be a partnership that would offer contentment and a quiet happiness. They'd be spared the ups and downs of passion. But would such a marriage also offer solace to Sophie's awakened heart?

#52
Mr. Murder
Mr. Murder

By Unknown Author

Martin Stillwater has a vivid imagination. It charms his loving wife, delights his two little daughters, and gives him all the inspiration he needs to write his highly successful mystery novels. But maybe Martin's imagination is a bit too vivid... One rainy afternoon, a terrifying incident makes him question his grip on reality. A stranger breaks into his house, accusing Martin of stealing his wife, his children - and his life. Claiming to be the real Martin Stillwater, the intruder threatens to take what is rightfully his. The police think he's a figment of Martin's imagination. But Martin and his family have no choice but to believe the stranger's threat. And run for their lives. But wherever they go - wherever they hide - he finds them...

#53
Diarios de Motocicleta
Diarios de Motocicleta

By Unknown Author

The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New York Times bestseller. This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon. Features of this edition include: A preface by Che Guevara’s daughter Aleida Introduction by Cintio Vintier, well-known Latin American poet Photos & maps from the original journey Postcript: Che’s personal reflections on his formative years: “A child of my environment.” Published in association with the Che Guevara Studies Center, Havana

#54
Teddy bear, teddy bear
Teddy bear, teddy bear

By Unknown Author

An illustrated version of the traditional rhyme which follows the activities of a teddy bear.

#55
The Cheater
The Cheater

By Unknown Author

Carter Phillips is under a lot of pressure to ace her math achievement exam - so much pressure that she gets Adam Messner to take the test for her . . . in exchange for one date. But Adam wants more than a date - much more. Carter has no choice. She has to do whatever he asks. If not, he'll tell her secret and ruin her life. Adam's control over her gets more and more unbearable. Carter is desperate to get rid of him - but how? Is murder the only way?

#56
Girl, interrupted
Girl, interrupted

By Unknown Author

A notable work from 1993.

#57
Between Death and Life
Between Death and Life

By Unknown Author

Dolores has accumulated information about the death experience and what lies beyond through 16 years of hypnotic research and past-life therapy. While retrieving past-life experiences, hundreds of subjects reported the same memories when experiencing their death, the spirit realm, and their rebirth. This book also explores: guides and guardian angels; ghosts and poltergeists; planning your present lifetime and karmic relationships before your birth; the significance of bad lifetimes; perceptions of God and the Devil; and much more.

#58
Metode dan aneka teknik analisis bahasa
Metode dan aneka teknik analisis bahasa

By Unknown Author

Linguistic method and techniques.

#59
A Very Stylish Affair
A Very Stylish Affair

By Unknown Author

Contents flammable! Sydney lawyer Jason Lombard is a ten on the male Richter scale in every superficial sense. He also seems unable to even look past Sophie's hair, which is a bit. . . well . . . flamboyant at the moment. She suspects her days as his new assistant are numbered. But when Sophie discovers the cad only hired her as a distraction for a case he's working on, Mr. Snob finds himself on the receiving end of a temper as hot as her hair. A truce reached, now they're headed for Bora Bora, where things are bound to get even hotter!

#60
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying

By Unknown Author

A notable work from 1993.

#61
A history of God
A history of God

By Unknown Author

As soon as they became recognizably human, men and women - in their hunger to understand their own presence on earth and the mysteries within and around them - began to worship gods. Karen Armstrong's masterly and illuminating book explores the ways in which the idea and experience of God evolved among the monotheists - Jews, Christians and Muslims. Weaving a multicolored fabric of historical, philosophical, intellectual and social developments and insights, Armstrong shows how, at various times through the centuries, each of the monotheistic religions has held a subtly different concept of God. At the same time she draws our attention to the basic and profound similarities among them, making it clear that in all of them God has been and is experienced intensely, passionately and often - especially in the West - traumatically. Some monotheists have seen darkness, desolation and terror, where others have seen light and transfiguration; the reasons for these inherent differences are examined, and the people behind them are brought to life. We look first at the gradual move away from the pagan gods to the full-fledged monotheism of the Jews during the exile in Babylon. Next considered is the development of parallel, yet different, perceptions and beliefs among Christians and Muslims. The book then moves "generationally" through time to examine the God of the philosophers and mystics in all three traditions, the God of the Reformation, the God of the Enlightenment and finally the nineteenth- and twentieth-century challenges of skeptics and atheists, as well as the fiercely reductive faith of the fundamentalists of our own day. Armstrong suggests that any particular idea of God must - if it is to survive - work for the people who develop it, and that ideas of God change when they cease to be effective. She argues that the concept of a personal God who behaves like a larger version of ourselves was suited to mankind at a certain stage but no longer works for an increasing number of people. Understanding the ever-changing ideas of God in the past and their relevance and usefulness in their time, she says, is a way to begin the search for a new concept for the twenty-first century. Her book shows that such a development is virtually inevitable, in spite of the despair of our increasingly "Godless" world, because it is a natural aspect of our humanity to seek a symbol for the ineffable reality that is universally perceived.

#62
Starless Night
Starless Night

By Unknown Author

Return to the City of Spiders!Still reeling from the death of Wulfgar, Drizzt is allowed little time to grieve, for dark elves are massing in the caverns deep under Mithral Hall. To protect his adopted home, he'll have to return to the city of his birth, the evil City of Spiders. Menzoberranzan is one of the most dangerous places in the already perilous Underdark on a good day, but for Drizzt, a renegade with a price on his head, its certain death ever to set foot there again. But Drizzt Do'Urden and his companions have faced certain death before, and will gladly spend their lives for the sake of the dwarves of Mithral Hall.From the Paperback edition. ---------- **This book is in the following series:** - Forgotten Realms - The Legend Of Drizzt | Book 8 - The Legacy of the Drow | Book 2

#63
Saving Grace
Saving Grace

By Unknown Author

When Lady Johanna learned that she was a widow, she vowed she would never marry again. Only sixteen, already she possessed a strength of will that impressed all who looked past her golden-haired beauty. Yet when King John demanded that she remarry -- and selected a bridegroom for her -- it seemed she must acquiesce, until her beloved foster brother suggested she wed his friend, the handsome Scottish warrior Gabriel MacBain. At first Johanna was shy, but as Gabriel tenderly revealed the splendid pleasures they would share, she came to suspect that she was falling in love with her gruff new husband. And it was soon apparent to the entire Highlands clan that their brusque, gallant laird had surrendered his heart completely. But now a desperate royal intrigue threatened to tear her from his side -- and to destroy the man whose love meant more to her than she had ever dreamed! (From the Author's web-site.)

#64
Mieko and the fifth treasure
Mieko and the fifth treasure

By Unknown Author

Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing for the contest at school.

#65
The Unfinished Nation
The Unfinished Nation

By Unknown Author

A notable work from 1993.

#66
Savage Destiny
Savage Destiny

By Unknown Author

HE WAS JUST USING HER! Five years before, Pierce had married Alix one day - and rejected her the next. And why? Because she had been his route to a fleet of ships and his revenge. He had been passionate and she had been in love - but once was enough for Alix to have her fingers burned! Now he was back and as demanding as ever. She must marry him to help her sick father and die ailing family business - and again she had no choice. But this time things were different. Before she had loved him now she hated him. She was determined not to suffer again as she had before - but was he too hot to handle?

#67
De ontdekking van de hemel
De ontdekking van de hemel

By Unknown Author

Dit monumentale boek, waarin alle thema's en obsessies uit het werk van Harry Mulisch in 65 hoofdstukken bijeenkomen, is tegelijk een psychologische roman, een filosofische roman, een tijdroman, een ontwikkelingsroman, een avonturenroman en een alles overkoepelend mysteriespel.

#68
Disclosure
Disclosure

By Unknown Author

Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, his ninth under his own name and nineteenth overall, and published in 1994. The novel is set at a fictional computer hardware manufacturing company. The plot concerns protagonist Tom Sanders and his struggle to prove that he was sexually harassed by his female employer. ---------- Also contained in: - [Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Volume 5, 1994 ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15150330W/Reader's_Digest_Condensed_Books) - [Two Complete Novels: Disclosure/Rising Sun][2] [1]: http://www.michaelcrichton.com/disclosure/ [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14950533W/Disclosure_Rising_Sun

#69
Junie B. Jones and a little monkey business
Junie B. Jones and a little monkey business

By Unknown Author

Through a misunderstanding, Junie B. thinks that her new baby brother is really a baby monkey, and her report of this news creates excitement and trouble in her kindergarten class.

#70
Flyy girl
Flyy girl

By Unknown Author

From a fresh new voice with talent to burn comes this brash, bitter-sweet novel about Tracy Ellison, a young, middle-class teen coming of age in Philadelphia's ostentatious eighties. Tracy is willing to go much further than any of her girlfriends as she sets out to lure the most popular boys in her neighborhood. Spoiled by her relatives and too much for her mother to handle, Tracy uses her personal brand of intimidating flattery to conquer one guy after another - until she meets her match in Victor Hinson, her Mr. Everything. . Too grown and too fast for her own good, Tracy races through her sixteenth year, collecting designer clothing, jewelry, and street-smart boys with wild abandon. While Tracy pursues her adventurous, fast-paced lifestyle, Raheema, Tracy's girlfriend and neighbor, follows a very different course - struggling to maintain good grades in school and to avoid the powerful pressures to stray from the path she's chosen. Slowly Tracy begins to examine her life, her goals, and her sexuality - as she evolves from a "flyy girl" into a woman.

#71
Such Dark Magic
Such Dark Magic

By Unknown Author

"I think we could be friends, you and I..." But simple friendship just wasn’t possible between wealthy New Zealander Philip Angove and the woman who came into his life. His particular brand of arrogant assurance and blatant sex appeal had the entire female sex at his feet. Or so it seemed to Antonia, who was both attracted and appalled by the phenomenon. Not that she had any intention of succumbing — she had learnt her lesson about men like Philip and learnt it the hard way. But Philip had other ideas.

#72
When I was Puerto Rican
When I was Puerto Rican

By Unknown Author

Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in the mango groves at night, the taste of the delectable sausage called morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. As she enters school we see the clash, both hilarious and fierce, of Puerto Rican and Yankee culture. When her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually take on a new identity. In this first volume of her much-praised, bestselling trilogy, Santiago brilliantly recreates the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years and her tremendous journey from the barrio to Brooklyn, from translating for her mother at the welfare office to high honors at Harvard.

#73
Whatever Happened to Janie?
Whatever Happened to Janie?

By Unknown Author

No one ever paid attention to the faces of missing children on milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the little girl who had been taken twelve years ago, she recognized that little girl--it was herself.The mystery of the kidnapping is unraveled, but the nightmare is not over. The Spring family wants justice, but who is to blame? It's difficult to figure out what's best for everyone.Janie Johnson or Jennie Spring? There's enough love for everyone, but how can the two separate families live happily ever after?From the Hardcover edition.

#74
The scam
The scam

By Unknown Author

The most thrilling non-fiction business book ever written in India. A fast, colourful narrative, knitting together the life and times of all stock market players involved in two of India's biggest stock market scams.The Scam, a chronicle of two of the most famous scams in the Indian stock markets, is now back in a digital avatar. The story told by Sucheta Dalal and Debashis Basu, can't find a more credible and informed couple of storytellers for these events. First published in April 1993, the book was an immediate bestseller but had been out of print for a while. This 8th edition of the scam includes the original Harshad Mehta Scam and the Ketan Parekh Scam, while also delving into the JPC Fiasco and the Global Trust Bank Scam. The basic question that the book deals with is, "what really happened in the two great Indian scams?" The answer to this question, detailed in the book, brings up another important one, "Have we learnt anything since, so that such things don't happen again?"

#75
Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth
Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth

By Unknown Author

Sometimes life is P.U. Junie B.'s having a rough week. First she got punishment for shooting off her mouth in kindergarten. And now she's in big trouble again! 'Cause Monday is Job Day, and Junie B. told her class that she's got the bestest job of all. Only, what the heck is it?

#76
Oceano mare
Oceano mare

By Unknown Author

Ocean Sea (Italian: Oceano mare) is a 1993 novel by the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. Its narrative revolves around the lives of a group of people gathered at a remote seaside hotel. The novel won the Viareggio Prize.

#77
Be Careful What You Wish For...
Be Careful What You Wish For...

By Unknown Author

Samantha Byrd's wish to be the strongest basketball player turns out differently than she expected.

#78
Monster
Monster

By Unknown Author

A notable work from 1993.

#79
A Night in the Lonesome October
A Night in the Lonesome October

By Unknown Author

Zelazny manages to cleverly combine Jack (the Ripper), Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Frankenstein, and Dracula together with witches, werewolves, druids and many others in this amusing tale of an approaching confrontation that, on the Halloween of a full-moon, will change the cosmic balance of power between good and evil. Told through the eyes of Snuff, Jack's guard dog, who performs magical calculations in addition to accompanying his master on collecting expeditions into 19th century London. Twists and turns of magical espionage and adventure unfold as this unforgettable tale plays out over the course of 31 lonesome nights in October

#80
Fire in the Blood
Fire in the Blood

By Unknown Author

A husband's prerogative. Nadine had learned to cope with the rigors of a new life in the world of television. But after one chance meeting with Sean - a year after their divorce - peace had fled and excitement flared dangerously. He knew it too....and was ruthlessly prepared to use Nadine's weakness against her. Their marriage had been a battleground of mistrust and anger; his fame as a producer had come between them...and so had hers as a model. Would the unresolved desires that held past, present and future at bay seduce her into something she knew spelled disaster?

#81
The Night Manager
The Night Manager

By Unknown Author

Individual greed takes the place of old world rivalries of great nations. Inside look at the international cartel of illegal arms dealers, and drug smugglers. Lays forth an understanding of paradoxes in our unquestioning perceptions between evil and virtue! Heavy reading at best; smashing thoughts!

#82
SQL for Dummies
SQL for Dummies

By Unknown Author

Learn SQL the fun and easy way -- no programming experience needed! SQL For Dummies, 7th Edition, shows programmers and web developers how to use SQL to build relational databases and get valuable information from them. This book covers the core features of the SQL language. Topics covered include how to use SQL to structure a DBMS and implement a database design; secure a database; and retrieve information from a database. This edition will be revised to reflect the new enhancements of SQL/XML:2008. The latest update of the perennial bestselling SQL For Dummies, which has sold more than 210,000 units in six editions. SQL is the most popular database language in the world Covers creating, accessing, manipulating, maintaining, and storing information in relational database management systems (DBMS) such as Access, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL. Includes new content on using SQL with XML to power data-driven web sites and using SQL with Access 2010 Whether you're daunted by database development or a system admin star, SQL For Dummies, 7th Dummies will have you working your web site in no time at all.The EPUB format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices.

#83
A Heartless Marriage
A Heartless Marriage

By Unknown Author

Marriage on trial! From playboy lover… When gorgeous millionaire Raoul de Chevnair chose Leigh as his bride, it seemed he'd left his flirtatious bachelor days behind for good. But had he? Their marriage had scarcely begun before his playboy habits returned and Leigh found him in the arms of another woman…. …to faithful husband? That was five years ago. Leigh is no longer a naive teenager, bowled over by Raoul's charm. So when he vows to win back her trust, Leigh is determined not to give in that easily! It's all very well for Raoul to sweep her off on an exotic second honeymoon, but Leigh needs a lot of convincing that Raoul has decided to take his marriage vows seriously after all!

#84
Ageless body, timeless mind
Ageless body, timeless mind

By Unknown Author

Contrary to or traditional notions of aging, we can learn to direct the way our bodies metabolize time. In *Ageless Body, Timeless Mind*, Deepak Chopra, M.D, best-selling author or *Quantum Healing and Perfect Health*, combines mind/body medicine with current antiaging research to show why - and how - the affects of aging are largely preventable. By intervening at the level where belief becomes biology, we can achieve our unbounded potential. Even the most conventional thinkers recognize that mind/body medicine is on the leading edge of health today. Dr. Chopra, a pioneer and leader in this exciting field, believes that the aging process can be dramatically reshaped using the mind/body connection. In this book he gives readers tools to create new perceptions of aging, techniques for harnessing the power of awareness, and practical steps to experiencing timelessness. In these ways we can take control of the way we age and fulfill the promise of Ageless Body, *Timeless Mind.*

#85
The private diary of Lyle Menendez
The private diary of Lyle Menendez

By Unknown Author

The personal story of Lyle Menendez is based on a four-and-a-half-year intimate correspondence with the author and covers the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez by Lyle and his brother Erik and the court trials that ended in hung juries.

#86
A Dangerous Magic
A Dangerous Magic

By Unknown Author

The rancher and the librarian... He was wide-open spaces, solitude and strength - the kind of man to set women's hearts aflutter. She was a small-town girl who never dreamed she'd end up marrying a rancher. But if Catrina thought that Zade Mackensie's marriage proposal was the answer to those dreams, she was mistaken. Oh, Zade wanted to marry her, all right. He made no secret of the fact that a wife would make the ideal companion on his Montana Ranch. But he didn't offer her love. Catrina loved Zade enough to take a chance on marrying him. Now all she had to do was melt his resistance to romance.

#87
Road to Nowhere
Road to Nowhere

By Unknown Author

A Dark And Stormy Night. Teresa Chafey is running away from home. Driving north along the California coast, she picks up two mysterious hitchhikers: Poppy Corn and Freedom Jack. Together the three of them tell stories: Teresa of her devastating relationship with her boyfriend, Poppy of a sad young woman she once knew, and Freedom of a talented young man with a violent temper. Yet as they talk, a darker story unfolds around them. A story of life and death, of redemption and damnation. It will be the longest night of Teresa's life. Maybe the last night of her life.

#88
The Robber Bride
The Robber Bride

By Unknown Author

Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one. But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends, Tony, Charis, and Roz. All three "have lost men, spirit, money, and time to their old college acquaintance, Zenia. At various times, and in various emotional disguises, Zenia has insinuated her way into their lives and practically demolished them. To Tony, who almost lost her husband and jeopardized her academic career, Zenia is 'a lurking enemy commando.' To Roz, who did lose her husband and almost her magazine, Zenia is 'a cold and treacherous bitch.' To Charis, who lost a boyfriend, quarts of vegetable juice and some pet chickens, Zenia is a kind of zombie, maybe 'soulless'" (Lorrie Moore, New York Times Book Review). In love and war, illusion and deceit, Zenia's subterranean malevolence takes us deep into her enemies' pasts.

#89
Rowan of Rin (Rowan of Rin
Rowan of Rin (Rowan of Rin

By Unknown Author

Bravest heart will carry on when sleep is death, and hope is gone. Rowan doesn't believe he has a brave heart. But when the river that supports his village of Rin runs dry, he must join a dangerous journey to its source in the forbidden Mountain. To save Rin, Rowan and his companions must conquer not only the Mountain's many tricks, but also the fierce dragon that lives at its peak.

#90
The knight at dawn
The knight at dawn

By Unknown Author

Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.

#91
The Kissing Hand
The Kissing Hand

By Unknown Author

When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.

#92
At Odds With Love
At Odds With Love

By Unknown Author

When Jane needed help, she was amazed that it was the charismatic surgeon Nikolaas van der Vollenhove who tore himself away from his busy schedule to come to her rescue. A renowned workaholic, it was obvious that he had no time for anything - or anyone - in his life. Which was why his marriage proposal came as such a shock. Just why did he want Jane for his wife - if not for love?

#93
Einstein's dreams
Einstein's dreams

By Unknown Author

A fictional work in which a twenty-six-year-old Albert Einstein, working in a patent office in Switzerland, imagines possible worlds in which time works differently as he formulates his theory of relativity.

#94
How computers work
How computers work

By Unknown Author

How Computers Work shows you how chips, software, memory, and hardware work using detailed four-color drawings. An interactive game-like CD-ROM takes you directly inside your computer. This book is completely updated and revised to include the latest technology developments. An updated introduction to the workings of the computer explores the basics of microchips, hardware, software, and computer memory, providing an entertaining and informative tour of every part of the computer, from hard drive and processor to mouse, monitor, and keyboard. Also takes you through the workings of digital cameras, ebooks, Bluetooth, and much more.

#95
Dark Sunlight (Postcards From Europe)
Dark Sunlight (Postcards From Europe)

By Unknown Author

Destination: Spain Attractions: Costa del Sol, flamenco dancing and Felipe de Santis He was arrogant as the devil and cold as ice - a ready made adversary! Brash, brazen, hard-hitting journalist Maggie Howard had covered war zone and interviwed dictators without learning how to stand up for herself. She didn't do soft stories so her resentment was already high when she was assigned to do a feature article on famed equestrian Felipe de Santis, and as far as she was concerened this assignment in Andalucia was no diffrent from the rest. Then she met Felipe, and immediately two forceful personalities clashed, arrogance and pride met blow for blow. He was used to giving orders and expected Maggie to defer to him. She would do things her way, and if Felipe didn't like it he knew what he could do. What she wasn't used to was the sort of campaign he wagged in order to get his own way... But it wasn't until Felipe accused her of being afraid to be a woman that Maggie knew this time the outcome of her story was completely beyond her control!

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Scandalous Seduction (Harlequin Presents, No 1589)
Scandalous Seduction (Harlequin Presents, No 1589)

By Unknown Author

Small-town schoolteacher meets handsome author—they fall madly in love and live happily ever after. Only in fairy tales. And Harriet Weatherspoon had stopped believing in those when her sister ran off with her fiance. And though Brad Barrington—famous throughout Australia for his sexy blockbusters and his beautiful women—might be her new neighbor, she had his number. Like those male characters in his books, he played the seduction game on automatic pilot. But how long could Harriet hide behind her cool aloofness when Brad used every opportunity to warm her up?

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Introduction to genetic analysis
Introduction to genetic analysis

By Unknown Author

xxiii, 838 pages : 29 cm

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I'll Be Seeing You
I'll Be Seeing You

By Unknown Author

Meghan Collins, newly hired TV reporter, makes a startling discovery while on assignment at a large metropolitan hospital. An unidentified young woman dying of a knife wound is rushed into the emergency ward, and Meghan finds herself staring down at a person who could be her double. She is thrust into an investigation that not only involves finding out the identity of the dead woman, but also uncovering the details of her father's puzzling death 10 months earlier. Nine months ago, her much-loved father's car spun off a New York bridge. Now, investigators are saying that there's no trace of his car in the river, and they suspect he faked his own death. With frightening speed, links start to appear between Meghan's father and her dead lookalike. To complicate things further, Meghan's next assignment reveals some questionable procedures at a fertility clinic in regard to in vitro fertilization of identical twins.

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The Girl Who Cried Monster
The Girl Who Cried Monster

By Unknown Author

A girl loves torturing her younger brother with stories of monsters. When she leaves something back at the library, and goes to get it, she sees something that makes her wish that she had never told any of those stories because now, no one believes her.

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Zlatin dnevnik
Zlatin dnevnik

By Unknown Author

The extraordinary diary that awakened the world's conscience - now with a new introductionWhen Zlata's Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins as the day-today record of the life of a typical eleven-year-old girl, preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties. But as war engulfs Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic becomes a witness to food shortages and the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor's cellar. Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant. The result is a book that has the power to move and instruct readers a world away.