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For lovers of the Nancy Drew mysteries, here she is -- times four! Four modern-day Little Women, each with her own charms and talents, solve mysteries in the beautiful New Jersey shore town of Ocean City. In "The Case of the Missing Script," a famously quirky movie director finds himself in a tight spot, and only the Sheridan sisters, Meg, Biz (The Brain), Ames and Josie, whose parents own the Dolphin Hotel where he's staying, can get him out of it.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the Artificially Intelligent (DSM-V-AI Edition) is a darkly comedic, sharply insightful exploration of the psychological quirks and malfunctions of artificial minds. Equal parts parody and philosophy, it catalogs the new frontier of synthetic psychopathology with absurd precision.

Secret Service Agent Kent travels to 1881 New York City to go undercover as a counterfeiter to work for criminal mastermind Sean Reddick. Reddick runs a criminal empire from the neighborhood known as The Bowery and has a house on Mulberry Street which serves as his headquarters. Reddick is into just about everything illegal there is, but as a Secret Service Agent, Kent is interested only in his counterfeiting operation. Armed with a cover story that he was in prison with a forger in Reddick’s employ, Kent is brought into the fold as a forger. Over time he gains Reddick’s trust and the ...

A.L. Long brings an award winning story of love and deceit. Next to Never: Shattered Innocence Trilogy Book One Rade Matheson is a young successful businessman with over a billion dollars in assets. His only objective is to find the man who embezzled millions from one of his companies. What he finds is the innocence of the only women who can lead him to his stolen money and the man responsible. The only problem is he can't get enough of her. One wrong decision could cause him to lose her forever. All Dylan Adams wanted was to get her life back on track. After the death of her fiancé she ...

Shrunk: Crime and Disorders of the Mind is a collection of powerful chapters by eminent forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about mental health issues they face and what they are doing about it. Unlike any other book within the genre of True Crime, Shrunk is the first book that delves deeply into the disturbed human psyche to help build a solution to the problem of understanding mental illness within the criminal justice system.

Before the listener is a collection of 40 authentic Prophetic traditions concerning the fast of Ramadan, with brief commentary from the noble scholars of Islam. This is in keeping with the longstanding tradition of the muhaddithun collecting 40 hadiths from the Messenger of Allah on various subjects.

This book is one of the more widely distributed works of Ibn 'Ata'illah and serves as an ethical guide to those seeking God. It is a collection of short spiritual sayings each containing profound meaning driven from the Qur'an and Sunnah, and deals with issues related to tawhid, ethics and day-to-day conduct.

Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene 10 years ago and revolutionized the way people communicate when stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. Since then, millions of people have learned how to hold effective crucial conversations and have dramatically improved their lives and careers thanks to the methods outlined in this book. Now, the authors have revised their best-selling classic to provide even more ways to help you take the lead in any tough conversation.

⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ This was a perfect story for now, due to the virus pandemic. I could really relate to the story and some of the issues that the isolation has caused. - Amazon Reviewer ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ Al Macy voiced many of the fears I'm experiencing, strictly sheltering from COVID-19. It helps to see them in writing & know that I am not alone! - Amazon Reviewer Attorney Garrett Goodlove has a strong bond with his twin sister, Carly. They’re soul mates. Doesn’t mean they always get along. Over the years, Garrett has found that the only way to tolerate his reckless and headstrong sibling ...

Whether you are just curious about worldschooling, already an experienced worldschooler, or arriving at the end of your journey and wondering what might be next, this book will help you. This book will help you answers the most common questions about worldschooling, like: How do you start?, How do you earn a living while you travel?, and What happens when kids grow up and want to go to college?, And many more!

The Balkans, 1371. After conquering the Serbian army in battle, bands of Ottoman warriors terrorize the land, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake. As one of the few survivors of a deadly attack on her village, Magdalena is determined to protect her newly orphaned niece. When a group of battle-weary Serb warriors offers to lead Magdalena and her charge to safety, a flame of hope flickers to life for the desperate woman, burning brighter when she spots a familiar face among the group: Miladin, the man she once loved—and lost.

There are rooms we are born into—and rooms we are taught to revere. Some are literal: classrooms, hallways, kitchens, small-town spaces where belonging is quietly enforced. Others are less visible but more enduring: rooms of popularity, class, permission, and protection. They shape who is admired, who is believed, and who learns early how to endure. The Girls Who Never Left the Room is a literary examination of those spaces—and the people shaped by them. Blending memoir, social observation, and restrained satire, this book traces how early hierarchies follow us into adulthood, evolving ...

An awful lot has happened in the last 100 years or so. In fact, when you look at how much went on in the 20th century, it's amazing it didn't take longer than that. And what have we learnt? A few obvious lessons include: megalomaniac men with moustaches in charge of countries tend to turn out to be bad; anyone who thinks they can explain let alone sort out the Middle East is wrong; France simply cannot be relied upon; America may or may not be the cause of everything good and bad in the world (depending on who you ask). 

School’s out for summer, and all Saxony wants is a few weeks at home to recuperate from the roller-coaster ride of her first year at Arcturus Academy. Apparently, that is too much to ask, as a promise she made to protect the innocent comes back to haunt her. Venetian crime boss Enzo Barberini has called in his chit. Saxony finds herself on a chase through (and beneath) the gritty ancient streets of Naples, hunting for not one but two men she hoped never to meet again. Her only back-up? A couple of fellow students.

Hail Mariam is an interfaith Muslim take on Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret drawn from the author’s own experiences in Catholic school. Sixth grade wasn’t supposed to be this complicated. Iraqi American Mariam Hassan transfers to a local Catholic school and before her first day her...

Your definitive guide to Salah and its importance to Muslims all over the world. Do you know what Salah is? Do you know how to perform it? Do you want to know why Muslims pray five times daily? Whether newly converted or born into it, Muslims worldwide must pray five times a day.

Jake Corby saved the world. Now, he's being asked to save the universe! Corby is recovering from his last mission, enjoying life with his new family, when he’s sucked into a parallel universe with nothing but his clothes, his dog, and his eighty-three-year-old grandmother-in-law. On this version of Earth, the dinosaurs didn’t go extinct and the world is ruled by a spacefaring civilization of dinobirds. If Jake wants to return home, he’ll need to not only survive but locate the rulers of Earth so they can send him back. Worse, Corby learns that a universe collision is imminent. Unless ...

The purpose of this paper is to survey the SEI's CMMI model and the PMI's OPM3 model as being used in appraising organizations based on maturity. Organizations seeking appraisal of their current maturity, either for internal strategic goals, or for external commercial and trade requirements, will consider basing their maturity assessment and improvement efforts on a global framework which was developed for satisfying these organizational improvement needs. Most well‐known models currently are CMMI (with several constellations) from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie ...

This book contains forty-five sermons that Shaikh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, arguably the greatest Sufi teacher, delivered at his school in Baghdad in the middle of the sixth century Hijra (the twelfth century CE). The Shaikh’s words are the fruit of many years of personal strife against his lower self and complete dedication to God. They explain the spiritual journey to attain nearness to God in Islam. In his sermons, Shaikh ‘Abd al-Qadir addresses the various spiritual diseases, such as envy, greed, and arrogance. He also teaches about the qualities that the seeker of God must acquire...

Brought to you by Penguin. A STORY OF HOPE, PERSEVERANCE AND RESILIENCE IN THE MIDST OF WAR Louai Al Roumani was head of finance and planning at one of the largest banks in Syria, when the war broke out in 2011. In Lessons from a Warzone, Al Roumani shares his very personal account of coping...