Villains, Annoying Assistants, and Monsters…Oh My! My best friend had nothing to do with bouncing or monsters until something went terribly wrong in my new job. Suddenly she’s missing, and the rumor is that a nest of monsters might have her. Those monsters are about to meet their match. I’m going to go medieval on their furry butts. If only I can figure out how to control my bouncing magic for five solid minutes. I just hope Molly will forgive me for bringing her assistant Rog along on the rescue mission. The man has taken annoying to levels heretofore unknown. Believe me. I’ve tried to shake him. But he’s like a giant octopus with a thousand tentacles. He insists he needs to go with me on the rescue. Unfortunately, the man has even less sense than he has magic. And he has zero magic. Something tells me this is going to go badly.
Brand-new librarian Meg Booker is just supposed to be checking out books. Instead, it’s the patrons who are being checked out—permanently. April 1985. Fir Grove Library, Portland, Oregon: Big hair. Leggings. Card catalogs. Kicking kids with giant boom boxes out of the library. Meg’s got it all handled—until her boss takes off on a way-too-long vacation and leaves her in charge. Right away, things start going wrong. Historical records disappear out of the archives. The hot new library page skateboards into work—or doesn’t—whenever he feels like it. A simmering feud boils over between two prominent and universally loathed patrons—nicknamed “The Witch” and “Leisure Suit Lothario”—leaving Meg scrambling to keep the peace. Then the Witch turns up dead in the library conference room. The police say it’s natural causes, but Meg suspects murder—and no librarian worth her reference desk credentials leaves a reference question unanswered. Enlisting the aid of the library’s mystery book club, and armed with mad research skills, she sets out to prove what really happened. But when there’s another death—and one of her friends is arrested –Meg has to unmask the real murderer before it’s too late. A Shush Before Dying is the first book of the Meg Booker Librarian Mysteries—a cozy library mystery series set in the 1980s.
Villains, Annoying Assistants, and Monsters...Oh My! My best friend had nothing to do with bouncing or monsters until something went terribly wrong in my new job. Suddenly she's missing, and the rumor is that a nest of monsters might have her. Those monsters are about to meet their match. I'm going to go medieval on their furry butts. If only I can figure out how to control my bouncing magic for five solid minutes. I just hope Molly will forgive me for bringing her assistant Rog along on the rescue mission. The man has taken annoyingto levels heretofore unknown. Believe me, I've tried to shake him. But he's like a giant octopus with a thousand tentacles. He insists he needs to go with me on the rescue. Unfortunately, the man has even less sense than he has magic. And he has zero magic. Something tells me this is going to go badly.
One starship commander’s decision will decide the fate of the human race. Colonel Pierce Oswald has given the last twenty years of his life to the war with the Proximans. It's a war Earth is losing. It's a war that has taken everything from him. Returning from a secret mission to recover an alien artifact, he finds the Sol system ominously silent. Realizing the enemy won the war while he was away, Oswald decides his crew’s final mission—vengeance at any cost. He must lead the divided crew of the starship Roland on their deadliest mission yet. Can Oswald achieve victory against a superior foe, mutiny, and his own overwhelming grief? With Our Dying Breath is a dark, military sci-fi adventure with an apocalyptic twist that explores the choices a desperate ace commander makes when he has nothing left to lose. If you like tales of starship warfare that explore the darkness of space, then you'll enjoy A.R. Kavli's grim sci-fi novel. Buy With Our Dying Breath today to fight alongside Pierce Oswald and the crew of the starship Roland on their final, deadly mission.
"On January 1, 1943, First Lieutenant Pete Edris was transferred to the 306th Bomb Group, 369th Bomb Squad, and served under Col. Armstrong (who was portrayed by Gregory Peck in the movie, 'Twelve O'clock High'). This is Pete's story. It's a story of a twenty-two year old boy whose B-17 bomber was blown out of the sky over Rennes, France, on March 8, 1943. It's a story about the people who befriended him. And it's a testimonial to his irrepressible desire to survive one of Nazi Germany's most notorious prison camps, Stalag Luft III, from where 'The Great Escape' was based. It's a story about living to see another day...and reuniting with Doris Cooke, his soul mate...and the love of his life. It's a truly remarkable story about a rare World War II statistic: An infinitesimal twenty-three American soldiers were declared dead in World War II...and lived to tell about it. Pete Edris was one of those soldiers. And this is his unforgettable story." --Raymond Reid, Introduction, page v.
Hello, my friends, I hope you all are safe and sound. As we all know the pandemic effect is now about to finish. We all are back to our professional life with full of passion and energy. Currently, I have been working in the M/S Castomach Global Pvt. Ltd. located in Chakan, Pune. I am working as an R & D manager. Castomach is a manufacturer of finished PDC parts for reputed automotive and non-automotive companies such as LUCAS- TVS, Valeo, Varroc, Atomberg etc. My native place is Kevanale in Raigad district Maharashtra. I have worked in medium-scale companies as a Quality Manager, Production Head, Development head, maintenance dept, etc. I have been working in the industry for 25+ years. As an engineer, we face every day different challenges. In simple words, we have to give an exam every day and we have to win it with distinction marks. The interesting thing is that we get different kinds of questions while working in the industry which we have to solve with our expertise and knowledge. Many times, certain technical/quality issues may seem to be difficult to tackle. Working in this industry for 25+ years’ experience I can say “nothing is impossible.” I also felt at a certain point, that I should share my technical knowledge and expertise with all our Technocrat friends, because “knowledge sharing is knowledge gaining”. This book will also help to understand college students of Mechanical Engineering as well as to our Technocrat friends about pressure die casting and its related process and details about various metals and technical content about the PDC. I would like to express my gratitude towards our honourable directors Mr.Tushar Bafna, Mr.Anup Saklecha, Mr.Balu Jogdand sir. Without their support, it was difficult for me to write my experience on paper. I would also like to mention the name of our Plant Head Mr.Omkar Gangdhar and all the technical teams working in the Castomach. Their support is very much commendable. I would like to honour Mr.Nityanand Choudhari sir Technical Director from Alcast Foundry Pvt. Ltd. I would also like to honour Mr. Ashwin Shah sir and Mr. Ajit sir from Matchwell die-casters where I worked under them for many years. This book will help you to know the details about the PDC process, raw material details, technical details, machine details etc. Lastly, I hope the book will enrich the knowledge of die casting in all my technocrat friends as well as it will guide the Mechanical Engineering students from all the universities. I am waiting to hear feedback from all my friends. Thank you. Suresh Sonawane.
A sly and clever caper among the richest of the rich, A Safe Place for Dying is for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Robert Crais. An extortion letter arrives at Crystal Waters, one of Chicago's wealthiest gated communities. It makes no specific threats, gives no instructions, demands only that $50,000 be gotten ready---chump change for an enclave where the cheapest house is worth three million. It's easy to see it as harmless---a note from a nut. Then a mansion explodes. The homeowners panic, and want it hushed up. If word gets out that a bomber is targeting Crystal Waters, their multimillion-dollar homes will become worthless, a last catastrophe for people strung out from living the good life too well. They hire Dek Elstrom to investigate. Dek Elstrom used to soar high, too, when he lived with his multimillionaire wife at Crystal Waters, but that was before the dominos of his life tipped over and his ex-wife threw him out. Now reduced to living in a crumbling stone turret, bankrupt of everything but attitude, he's not even his own ideal choice for the job. He's too broke, however, to question the motives of a gift-horse client. He needs the money---and the chance to reconnect with his ex-wife. Another bomb goes off, and Dek realizes the culprit must be someone who is angry, needs money, and used to live at Crystal Waters. Then he realizes something else. He himself is the prime suspect.
Cherri, a thirty-something wife and mother of two teen daughters, goes out with her best friend to a popular singles nightclub. Their girls' night out turns deadly when they meet some dangerous predators. As Cherri and her friend leave the club, they are attacked. Cherri is left to die in a dark alley, while her friend is abducted and later found murdered. Cherri wakes up in the hospital with vague memories of a mysterious stranger who appeared beside her as she lay dying of her wounds. But her miraculous survival has dark consequences. The stranger she remembers was not human, and the help Adrian offers her is a dark gift. Cherri is horrified to discover that she is now immortal. How can she possibly go back to her old life, and how will her family react to such a shocking revelation? With Adrian's help, Cherri learns to accept and live a new existence, while still holding her old life together. She has a shaky marriage to repair, daughters to nurture, a friend to grieve, a business to run, and a growing attraction to Adrian. She desperately wants to keep her transformation a secret, but secrets have a way of coming out.
BOOK #5 IN THE BEST-SELLING TAU CETI AGENDA SERIES, SEQUEL TO TRAIL OF EVIL. Humanity takes to interstellar space to face conflict and an extermination threat from an evil artificial intelligence, and an alien menace from beyond. A century and a half after the Martian Separatist Wars, Alexander Moore returns to the stars with the Sienna Madira, a United States Navy supercarrier spacecraft outfitted with advanced FTL and endlessly strange, extremely effective, quantum-based weapons and remote sensing technology. And, of course, he's brought Marines, and lots of them. These are troops superbly trained for space battle, and equipped with advanced powered armor and artificial intelligence backup. Moore's task: hunt down remnant weaponry platforms left by the brilliant, mad artificial intelligence known as Copernicus, the being ultimately responsible for the Solar System-wide civil war. Now Copernicus has formed an alliance with something else out there with a similar goal: wipe humanity from the galaxy forever. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Travis S. Taylor “[E]xplodes with inventive action.—Publishers Weekly on Travis S. Taylor’s The Quantum Connection “[Warp Speed] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . . You won’t want to put it down”—John Ringo
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