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The nights are chill and rough for three orphans - sexual Dyra, boastful Torvir, and caring Hoskuld - but they find that, when they are together, their insane plans actually succeed and their daring thefts somehow pay off. Together, they make a pact to steal the world piece by piece, and, by the...

Trop jeune veuve d'un vieillard cacochyme qui n'eut pas le temps de la déflorer, l'aristocrate et altière Hermine de Cœur s'empresse, en créant un pensionnat, de mettre sa fortune au service de l'éducation de jeunes garçons. L'étude des langues s'y fait sous un jour nouveau, l'anatomie ne se...

After years of slowly working her way up the ladder, Emily Desjardins is finally poised at the next step—cooking at the kind of restaurant she’d love to one day own. Her new boss is classically trained, has stunningly high standards, and effortlessly designs delicious, creative cuisine....

Digging into Chinese folktales, Mr. Woo tells us stories about falling in love in a world that is distant in time and place, distinct in culture and expectations, each with a touch of the exotic. In these tales dating from the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, dramas unfold in the Imperial palace,...

In the Top 100 of Best Sellers in the Historical Mystery Category at Amazon What if Edgar Allan Poe did not die in Baltimore as a drunk in the gutter? What he were, instead, murdered? In post Civil War New York City, Detective Pat O'Malley is living inside Poe's Cottage in the Bronx. O'Malley is haunted...

"This novel has everything: a coming of age story, a family drama, and a thriller, all in one splendid read!" Freak Story: 1967-1969 wins Honorable Mention at 2013 San Francisco Book Festival. Buddy Hartman was adopted by a woman who wanted to get a child to please her husband. When the...

Sometimes who we are is deeply hidden within our genes A spellbinding story about discovering ones own nature, and how it can be completely different from what you expected. Can our essence have more to it than simple, plain humanity? Do we really know who we are deep down to the core? Iris is a regular...

Crammed with humour, sorrow, folly, bravery and the richness of the everyday, Tulchinsky’s fictional treatment of the Lapinsky family and its remarkable fortunes-through the pivotal moment of the 1933 Toronto race riot, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism and its attendant social tensions, World War II, and the post-war era-brings to life the character of an entire community.

Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and opened it up to outside developers,...

Northwest Bronx is home to Wave Hill, Van Cortlandt Park, Woodlawn Cemetery, the New York Botanical Garden, and a variety of colleges and universities. Hunter College served as a training facility during World War II, and Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt�s family, and Arturo Toscanini once lived at Wave...

Around the void left by the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963, the poems in this collection speak, unleashing the strong emotions both before and after the moment of assassination. Poems take on the voices of Evers's widow, Myrlie; his brother, Charles; his assassin, Byron De La Beckwith; and each of...

This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of...

Guaranteeing a high system performance over a wide operating range is an important issue surrounding the design of automatic control systems with successively increasing complexity. As a key technology in the search for a solution, advanced fault detection and identification (FDI) is receiving considerable...

Provides a holistic approach that looks at changing process conditions, possible process design changes, and process technology upgrades Includes process integration techniques for improving process designs and for applying optimization techniques for improving operations focusing on hydroprocessing...