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Providence, Rhode Island. Los cuatro socios de un destacado bufete de abogados afiliado a la mafia, mueren en un jet privado que se estrella a las afueras de la ciudad de Nueva York.

Data Science for Dummies is the perfect starting point for IT professionals and students who want a quick primer on all areas of the expansive data science space. With a focus on business cases, the book explores topics in big data, data science, and data engineering, and how these three areas are combined to produce tremendous value. If you want to pick-up the skills you need to begin a new career or initiate a new project, listening to this book will help you understand what technologies, programming languages, and mathematical methods on which to focus.

The naval Battle of Copenhagen cost Captain Will Dormer an eye and a leg. The battle to establish himself as Viscount Claremont of Belford Park could cost him his life. He feels completely at sea as owner of an estate, but his father and two brothers managed to kill themselves in a drunken carriage accident.

A scathing examination of a wealthy Southern family and the greed that tears them apart. Regina’s brothers have inherited their father’s wealth, while after years of neglect, her dying husband is determined to see she gets nothing. It will take every ounce of her ruthless guile to outwit her relations and assure herself a gilded future.

In London in the Time of Dickens, you’ll get the unique opportunity to experience the British capital through the eyes of a literary master whose work is inextricably tied to the city and its rich history. Throughout 12 lectures taught by Professor Lillian Nayder of Bates College, you’ll tour the city of London in a time of rapid transformation through the life and work of Charles Dickens, uncovering the history of the metropolis, while also witnessing the everyday experiences of Londoners from all walks of life as Dickens represents them.

Hitting the 40s and 50s is a turning point. What we do from that moment on impacts the way we live the rest of our life. Rediscover Your Athlete Within is a book about challenging and guiding people through those sticky middle years to help them get off the couch and get active. Some may need a little nudge, others a big kick, but everyone can create a shift, reignite their passion, see the possibilities and redefine their future on their own terms. It’s about giving people a new lease on life. Everyone has an athlete within, built upon all the skills developed since birth.

"A tense and atmospheric thriller that is just as much a tale of survival as it is one of love and devotion.” —Kimi Cunningham Grant, USA Today bestselling author of The Nature of Disappearing A young chef returns home to find her small town caught in the snare of an oil company. Her brother...

“Narrator Katharine Chin elevates this contemporary coming-of-age story featuring four Asian American friends...A resonant listening experience rich with biting social commentary.” — Kirkus From the acclaimed author of Number One Chinese Restaurant comes an affecting novel about an...

In this timeline and collection, Diane Lilli returns to the poems of her youth, with transformative imagery that tracks her lifetime of writing poems, landing in 2025. Beginning with her first poem written at eight-years of age, the author continues to share a real-time body of work from different moments of her life, as a fantastical, poetic memoir. Every poem is organized in chronological order, and separated by distinct phases of her life.

Ariel Lili Cohen è un'agente militare di un'unità speciale delle forze di sicurezza israeliane (IDF). Ha partecipato a varie azioni con ruoli per lo più "sotto copertura". Per questo ha vissuto molte vite in una. Per non impazzire e riuscire a ritrovarsi ha deciso di scrivere questo libro. Per raccontare tutte le sue esperienze, paure, speranze, amori, verità non dette e situazioni inammissibili ha scelto la forma del romanzo.

We stopped pretending it was a game the night we tied her to the altar. The Circle was supposed to be fun, reckless nights, bodies worshiped like temples, and dares that ended in moans instead of mistakes. But something has changed. The symbol carved into the wood grows sharper every time we see it. Someone is feeding it in the dark. And now our rituals taste like devotion laced with sin. We don’t just touch anymore. We take. We claim. We ruin. They say you can walk away from this. They’ve never felt the ropes. Never begged for the burn. Never been worshiped and wrecked in the same breath.

I have the revenge against my father that I've always wanted. All it cost me was to get married… and the demon I’ve come to care for. Or did it?

Nous sommes en 1985 dans la ville de Providence, à Rhode Island, et les quatre associés d'un important cabinet d'avocats lié à la mafia sont tués dans un jet privé qui s'écrase non loin de New York. Quatre femmes très différentes viennent de perdre l'amour de leur vie. Bien que le crash soit d'abord considéré comme un tragique accident, quelque chose ne colle pas : les associés n'étaient pas censés être à New York ce jour-là, et on découvre qu'une très grosse somme d'argent est partie en fumée avec l’avion.

What does it mean to be a “woman” in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God’s plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impact of such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president, and the transgender movement.

It’s 1985 in Providence, Rhode Island, and the four partners of a prominent, mafia-affiliated law firm have been killed in a private jet that went down outside New York City. Four very different women have just lost the loves of their lives: Justine, a former fashion model adjusting to suburban life; Camille, a beautiful, young second wife some suspect is a gold digger; Krystle, committed to leaving the firm to her sons after her husband worked his whole life to support them all; and Meredith, a stripper at the local club who was in a secret relationship.

Lillian Ahenkan's hypothesis: anyone can create a unique formula for their own personal success. The one-size-fits-all approach to 'your best life' is outdated - you can do better. You don't have to be exceptional (or even the exception) to be successful. You just need to learn the algorithm. Through her own success experiment, Lillian transformed herself from a two-time uni drop-out stuck in a career that paid in burnout, into highly sought-after media personality FlexMami. And here she shows that her experience hasn't been a fluke.

Mattia Cattaneo, rampollo di una famiglia per bene, sparisce dalla sua villa di Alassio e viene ritrovato due giorni dopo con un proiettile in testa. Sequestro di persona finito male? Jacopo Bignone, giornalista della Ponente Press, non lo crede e segue una pista che porta in Spagna. A Valencia, proprio il giorno del rapimento, c'è stato un eccidio di narcos. Unico indizio, l'identikit di un italiano visto aggirarsi in zona: Luca Dolmetta, un agente immobiliare che, come Mattia, frequentava il più esclusivo night club di Alassio, l'Iguana Club.

Nel Ponente Ligure c'è una collina che domina la città di Albenga e degrada a terrazze verso il mare. Qui nel II secolo d.C. ha trovato la morte un martire cristiano, San Calocero. Vicino alla basilica del Santo, recenti scavi archeologici hanno riportato alla luce una tomba, contente il corpo, a testa in giù, di una ragazzina di tredici anni. Gli studiosi l'hanno chiamata Martina. Ed è di un'altra Martina, studentessa liceale, il cadavere che Jacopo Bignone e Consuelo Salini, - giunti lì per un servizio giornalistico - trovano in fondo a quella tomba.

Devon Burges is in the throes of a high-risk birth when she learns of her dear friend’s murder. The police quickly name another friend as the chief suspect, but Devon doesn’t buy it - and despite her difficult recovery, she decides to investigate. Haunted by postpartum problems that manifest as a cruel voice in her head, Devon is barely getting by. Yet her instincts are still sharp, and she’s bent on proving her friend’s innocence.

1790s London. Julia Richmond is not the typical society wife. She is a witch in hiding from her husband, her family, and the church. She is called to shed her reclusive life and practice her magic, risking everything she loves to save the family that rejected her before a demon destroys them all. Faced with this choice, Julia travels from the glittering halls of London society to the tropical heat of a sugar cane field. Along the way, she evades pirates, fights demons, escapes religious zealots and confronts black witches.