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Once a land of Pueblo dwellers, the town of San Geronimo Peak, New Mexico, is prime ski country. PI Howard Moon Deer and ex-cop Jack Wilder are headed there to meet their first client - a former US senator and the ski slope's owner. Instead, they find his body - and a murder case to solve.   

Noted software expert Robert C. Martin presents a revolutionary paradigm with Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code “on the fly” into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer - but only if you work at it.

In this prequel short story to Robert Dugoni’s #1 Kindle-bestselling novel, My Sister’s Grave, Tracy Crosswhite is a young patrol officer, paying her dues, keeping her head down, and hoping a solid record will get her promoted to detective. While years have passed since the disappearance of Tracy’s sister, the experience has made her one of the city’s most dedicated cops.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs “[A] compelling portrait not...

Though unappreciated in his own time, Johann Sebastian Bach has ascended to Olympian heights, the verdict of contemporary audiences long since overruled by succeeding generations of music lovers. But what makes his music great? In this series of 32 lectures, a working composer and musicologist brings his exceptional teaching skills to the task of helping you hear the extraordinary sweep of Bach's music. You'll understand the compositional language that enabled him to compose such extravagant, unbridled music while still maintaining precise control of every aspect - beat, melody, melodic repetition, interaction, and harmony.

While Skeeve and Aahz are preoccupied with the aftermath of Gleep's shooting, the M.Y.T.H. Inc. crew faces its biggest challenge yet - not one, but multiple challenges to the king and his court sorcerer! Word on the street is that the kingdom is under the control of a mighty sorcerer. It's obvious that this magician dabbles in the black arts: He consorts with demons. He has a dragon for a pet. He's connected to the criminal underground, trading political influence for their assistance in keeping the populace under control.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts introduces an unforgettable thief in an unputdownable new novel… Greed. Desire. Obsession. Revenge . . . It’s all in a night’s work. Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother’s head, slipping into...

Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career of studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak condenses three decades of original research to introduce an incredibly powerful approach to learning that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring a skill.

The greatest contribution of the ancient shamans to modern healing is the understanding that in the course of any life we are liable to suffer soul loss - the loss of parts of our vital energy and identity - and that to be whole and well, we must find the means of soul recovery. Moss teaches that our dreams give us maps we can use to find and bring home our lost or stolen soul parts. He shows how to recover animal spirits and ride the windhorse of spirit to places of healing and adventure in the larger reality.

Learn how small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion with this New York Times bestselling introduction to fifty scientifically proven techniques for increasing your persuasive powers in business and life. Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what...

One night, and my entire life went up in flames. All because of him. Jafar. As my world burned down around me, he offered me a choice. Walk away with nothing but my freedom...or rise to his challenge and win my fortune back. I bargained. I lost. Now Jafar owns me, and even as my mind rails against his rules, my body loves the punishments he deals out when I break them. But a gilded cage is still a prison, I’ll do anything to obtain my freedom. Even betray the man I’m falling for. Content Warning: This book contains depictions of consensual non-consent.

Christians consider their religion virtually synonymous with morality, believing there can be no moral standard without a God to guarantee it, no moral behavior without belief in God and knowledge of his commandments. Disbelievers are objects of their suspicion, tarred with labels like "relativist" and "nihilist." But buried under the benign and placid surface of Christian theology lies an incurable conflict—a ticking moral time bomb—and most believers have never realized the sinister implications of what they purport to believe.

Written and Read is a Bible teaching podcast built around one simple conviction: God wrote His Word to be read, understood, and applied.Every episode, co-host McKenzie Fleming brings the questions, the kind real people actually ask, and pastor, teacher, and author Dr. Robert C. Crowder opens the King James Bible and lets the text speak for itself. No opinion pieces. No cultural commentary. No celebrity guests. Just an honest question and a straight answer from the Word of God.Dr. Crowder's conviction is straightforward: the Bible is the Word of God, given to be understood, not just read. Every...

Book 3: 99 Laws of Silent Influence Everyone around you is playing a game you were never taught. Not loudly. Not aggressively. Quietly — through the frame set before you arrive, the silence held a beat too long, the question never asked, the story you were allowed to tell yourself. The most effective operators in any room never command. They arrange. They wait. They let you reach their conclusion and believe it was yours. If you've studied Cialdini, or finished Never Split the Difference and felt there was a deeper layer still — this is that layer. 99 Laws of Silent Influence draws from...

A gripping collection of classic Robert Sheckley science fiction, featuring sharp imagination, futuristic intrigue, and unforgettable twists in “Beside Still Waters,” “Cost of Living,” and “Diplomatic Immunity.” Perfect for readers who enjoy witty, thought-provoking short stories...

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote three of the most enduring stories in English literature. Each one invented something the genre had never seen before. He is underestimated in the way that only writers of extreme narrative skill tend to be underestimated — as if the pleasure a story gives is evidence against its seriousness. Treasure Island invented the template for the adventure novel so completely that every pirate story written since is either following it or reacting against it. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde gave the English language a phrase — and a psychological concept ...

The war is over. The city is not. As West Berlin struggles to survive the blockade, former flyer Eli Ralston works under a sky crowded with aircraft and impossible choices. Beyond the city’s sealed borders, Anja Keller moves through the western zones carrying coded messages, forged papers, and the kind of hope that can ruin a person if it arrives too late. In a city held together by airlifts, ration lines, and endurance, love is not separate from duty - it is bound up in every sacrifice they make. The Air Between Them is a poignant historical love story about postwar Berlin, the Berlin ...

A striking collection of classic Robert Sheckley science fiction, featuring “Warm,” “Warrior Race,” and “Watchbird.” This volume brings together sharp imagination, futuristic suspense, and Sheckley’s signature wit in one memorable edition...

Instead of staring into computer screens, a small group of gamers find themselves trapped in a dangerous world. What started out as a fun night of pen, paper, dice and character sheets; to their horror, they had been changed into their characters. Aided by a powerful ally, they’re warned of the dangers of this new world— The Eternal Realm—three kingdoms ruled by Humans, Elves and Dwarves, each with their own politics and class made navigation a challenge. As they travel through dense forests, river lands and rugged mountains the bonds of friendship and unity are frayed. What started ...

A sharp and entertaining collection of Robert Sheckley science fiction stories filled with wit, surprise, and imaginative twists. Featuring “Proof of the Pudding,” “Prospector’s Special,” and “The Hour of Battle,” this volume showcases Sheckley’s talent for blending clever ideas...