Elena Nevares is on the run. She's a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She's a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations. Together, they must find the rest of Sasha's crew: Cherry, the engineer and explosives expert; Rami, the master of disguise; Doc, the wunderkind Medical Officer; and Rock, the mechanically modified muscle. But Axys Generations has bigger plans than taking down Sasha's crew. Elena, Sasha, and the rest of the Lucky 7 must go on their most dangerous mission yet-not for credits or tech, but to save the world.
"No. 7"—as Carpenter, the youngest of seven children, called himself—was born in Missouri in 1854 and moved west with his family, first to Kansas, then to the settlements near Pikes Peak, and finally, in 1872, to Texas with his elder brother. From the time he made his first cattle drive, he wanted no other life but that of herding longhorns across the free and flat grasslands of the West. His schooling was the trail, the campfire, the saddle. In 1900, after a full and active life, he retired to his own ranch west of the Pecos. As the years passed, he sadly watched the fences go up and the free range disappear. Thus this book came to be written from the longing memory of a time-stranded cowman. He tells his story in the hard-punching, gritty language, direct humor, and attachment to bald fact and frank opinion that characterize the true Westerner. Elton Miles has provided an introduction that fills in the details of Carpenter's life and completes a "vivid picture of the genuine old-time cowman," as Southwest Review observed.
Lyla Wilder is done being the shy, chemistry nerd extraordinaire. While every other college student is out having fun, Lyla is studying. With her cat. Well, she's played it "safe" quite enough, thank you. So she creates a "College Bucket List" with item number seven being a night of uninhibited, mind-blowing sex... Now she just needs some help from her best friend. Hockey player Beck Davenport thought Lyla's transformation would be subtle. Man, was he wrong. With every item she ticks off, Beck finds himself growing seriously hot for his sweet, brainiac best friend. And if he's not careful, he'll end up risking their friendship in order to convince Lyla that he might just be her lucky number seven... Each book in the Taking Shots series is STANDALONE: * Getting Lucky Number Seven * Anatomy of a Player * Crazy Pucking Love * Confessions of a Former Puck Bunny
NEW STORY ARC As new forces rise up to fill the power vacuum left after the Battle of San Francisco, newly minted corporate superhero Bibi takes the first steps to eradicate Morrow once and for all—but she’s not ready for a new enemy that threatens to redefine everything she thinks she believes. THE DEAD LUCKY is a Massive-Verse series.
The detailed answer to applying intellect to business and relationships. How to correctly contact the world in all areas of your life. A. Parthasarathy has lectured extensively all over the world to some of the most accomplished business organisations and places of learning, including Harvard and Wharton. He has also been featured in Time Magazine as "the go getter's guru". This is the second title in an ordered series of nine written works by A. Parthasarathy. It is recommended that one read "The Fall of the Human Intellect" as an introduction to these concepts. The book deals with the basic concepts associated with the running of a business such as Value Systems, Work Ethics, Stress Management, Productivity, Leadership and Time Management. Also analyses one’s relationship with the world at large. The emphasis is on self -development through study and reflection of the higher values of life rather than correcting the external world. Towards the end the book highlights a human being’s role in achieving the ultimate management by gaining identity with one’s own Self.
Natasha Winters, a twenty-one-year-old English actress, never expected to be invited to New York, but as she nervously awaits the powers that be, she is greeted by the ultimate power. The boss. The much older and incredibly sexy, James Maybury.Before Natasha knows what has happened, she is in James' hotel room and playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse, with him prowling around, determined to capture his prey. It's a game she shouldn't be drawn into, given her history, and it is a game she will likely lose. With his own track record of failed relationships, James can't quite believe it when the beautiful, bright and funny Natasha Winters stands before him, bending over in a dress with legs that beg for hands to trace the full, delicious length of them. Could this woman be everything he's been looking for, his salvation? Or could she be his damnation?
David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger’s teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone’s son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter. In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris.
Louis isn’t very good at playing baseball, but he knows and loves the game more than anybody. He loves the purity of the sport, the sound of the crack of a bat, and the smell of freshly cut grass in the stadium. And more than anything, he loves the New York Yankees. So when he becomes a bat boy for the team during the summer of 1961, it is a dream come true. Lucky gives readers baseline box seats to one of the most memorable seasons in sports history, and as Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris compete in their legendary home-run race, Louis learns that the heroes he looks up to can teach him life lessons that will change him forever.
In the opening chapter of this classic novel set in Hawai‘i, news of the attack on Pearl Harbor has just reached rural Maui. Miscommunication, confusion, and rumors of war aggravate the already tense relations among the diverse immigrant communities, Native Hawaiians, and the American military. As told through the perspective of a poor Okinawan family, Lucky Come Hawaii vividly captures the emotions and trauma at this momentous turning point in Island history, which will change the fate of individuals, ways of life, and the land itself forever. First published in 1965 to national acclaim but long out of print, Lucky Come Hawaii is a tale of love, intrigue, humor, and Island families torn apart and reunited by the events of December 7th. The novel also anticipates the changes overtaking Hawai‘i, from Territory to Statehood, from small towns to a militarized Pacific metropolis. Lucky Come Hawaii should be required reading for anyone who cares deeply about the untold stories of the Islands’ multi-ethnic communities and the struggle of individuals to find a place and sense of identity in their American home.
Maureen and Wendy are sisters, and just like all sisters, they have their moments when they get along and other moments when they are like oil and water, which is a lot of fun to witness. Little sister Maureen has a new mission in life: to find a real life four leaf clover. Maureen has also taken up a new habit of fibbing. When she tells everyone about her fake cousin from Canada who lives in a castle and her other fake cousin who works with pop sensation Joy’D, her fictional family reunion becomes more than the young girl can manage, much to her older sister Wendy’s enjoyment. While Maureen struggles to try her luck with her lie, Wendy has some major drama in her relationship with Max. These sisters are going to need all the luck they can get!
