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In their own words they each look back on their shared adventures. Playing music together, riding freight trains, spraying graffiti and stealing records. Walking in one another's footsteps by day and rising up through the city's exploding pub music scene by night. Before We Was We is irreverent, funny and full of character. Just like them.

Baxter’s name isn’t George. But it’s 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he’ll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with “George.” On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days.

When a new family moves in next door, it takes Anna just two days to realise something is very wrong. She can hear their five-year-old daughter Charlie crying, then sees injuries on the little girl which cannot be ignored. Anna reports the family to the police and social services but when no one comes to Charlie's aid, Anna understands that she is alone with her fears for the child's life. So when Charlie comes to her door asking for help, the only thing Anna can think to do is take the girl and run.

Believe you can, and you will! This is a brief story of how a veteran security professional and cyber influencer George McPherson got into cybersecurity.

Dr Quinn Davidson and his wife, Marianna, have endured years of unsuccessful IVF and several miscarriages, and Quinn can't face another painful attempt to conceive. Marianna is desperate to be a mother, and their marriage is feeling the strain. At a small-town practice a few hours from their home, Quinn meets Rachel, the daughter of one of his patients. Drawn to each other, it's not long before they find themselves in a passionate affair, and Quinn realises he must choose between the two women.

Included in this volume: "Watson!" by Captain A. E. Dingle; The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace, by G. F. Forrest; The Stolen Cigar-Case, by Bret Harte; The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes, by O. Henry; and Mr. Raffles Holmes, by John Kendrick Bangs.

You are cordially invited to participate in my absurd but heartfelt attempt to help save this nation from corruption, stupidity, and evil beings of one sort or another. No Common Sense is a genre-bending political satire-based update of Founding Father Thomas Paine’s original Common Sense.

Distracted by the everyday routine of raising children, being a wife, and keeping a home, Lorraine Morrissey let life pass her by. Her wake up call comes when she realizes that with their children gone, her husband Richard is rarely home, and she’s filling her solitary days with trivial tasks. A crazy idea to save her marriage leads to a summer beach vacation unlike any she’s ever taken - one that involves unknowingly buying a haunted house.

Just 5 minutes a day can change your work life and your crew. This is a book of positive actions you take, one per day, over the next 31 days to create your personal 31-Day Workforce Turnaround. You know you can only control your actions. You know that your attitude each day and your interactions with your workforce will set and determine the tone for the day.

James Joyce was her father. Samuel Beckett was her lover. This is her story. A mesmerising fictionalisation of Lucia Joyce's life told for the first time. Paris, 1928. Avant-garde Paris is buzzing with the latest ideas in art, music and literature from artists such as Ford Madox Ford and Zelda Fitzgerald. Lucia, the talented and ambitious daughter of controversial genius James Joyce, is making her name as a dancer. But when Lucia falls passionately in love with budding writer Samuel Beckett, he is banned from the Joyce family home.

Four friends grew up together and now it's the first week, first year of high school for three of them! And one is a senior with a promising football career! Tre, Divine, Nick, and Brandon are all young men now! They were from poor to middle class neighborhoods. They were a tight crew. Tre guided them, kept them out of trouble, but the first week of high school almost turns tragic when Brandon gets attacked by a bully.

Germany 1907. Aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen has rashly married English professor Ernest Weekley. Visiting her sisters in Munich, she is captivated by a city alive with ideas of revolution and free love, and, goaded by sibling rivalry with her sisters and the need to be more than mother and wife, Frieda embarks on a passionate affair that is her sensual and intellectual awakening.

You are holding in your hands a precautionary memoir. This extraordinarily personable author thrills audiences with her exploits and adventures as a die-hard quirky public high school science teacher. With twenty-six years as a science teacher, she has plenty of teenagers-driving-you-bonkers experience and describes her knowledge of the school system through first-person experiences. The authors activities and stories are inspirational to anyone interested in what happens inside the classroom when innovative teachers are involved.

You were raised to believe that humble is best. Your hard work will get you noticed one day. You keep quiet about your achievements. Your inner voice tells you to wait—it’s not your time. And your confidence is crushed. You’re not alone. Most of the women I work with have asked these questions at some point in their lives. They worry about putting their own needs first. They worry about being judged harshly by other people. In Worthy, you will discover how to stop mauling your mojo, straighten your self-talk, and create an intentional life.

Behind the Windows of a Smile looks into the life of a childhood sexual abuse survivor. Through her story, you will learn how it happens, and how its effects ripple through the lives of its victims. Coming from a raw and vulnerable place, the author pulls back the curtain on abuse to take you on a journey toward healing and freedom. It provides a platform to open up the conversation about childhood sexual abuse and start the effective healing process that so many people need.

The flow of life carries us along almost imperceptibly. Its current is subtle enough to be felt only occasionally, as when we celebrate a birthday or cross the street to work for the thousandth time. It can also come to mind when we notice the children around us, now into their adulthood. Denial is a beautiful thing until the day we can't ignore that the current has threatened to strand us on the shore unless we make adjustments and change course.

In Lagos, Nigeria, in 2018 a talented hacker, Nick Okafor from the notorious hacker group Yaba47, seems to have it all in the dark world of bitcoin currency. He starts to have second thoughts on where his allegiance lies, after a change of heart, and growing conscience he gets out of the hacker organization and goes underground from his former group. Now he's back to shut down the infamous hacker empire he helped build with only his intellect, and a swiss army knife of hacker tools. The odds are against him, but if anyone can persevere, it’s Nick!

In a drunken gambling loss, Lord Markham promises his sister Lady Augusta to the Duke of Yorkton, a man of vast wealth who can pay off the family's gambling debts. Lord Howe, the Duke’s younger brother, has met Lady Augusta several times, and their attraction is mutual. He begs the Duke to forget Lady Augusta, but the Duke, a heartless rake, refuses.

Are you looking for adventure and new levels of personal growth and fulfillment? Is deeper, richer love in your sights? Are you seeking greater calm and inner peace in a busy world buzzing around you? After completing this transformational book, you will find yourself getting better results in all areas of your life without even trying. Download now and let the journey begin.

Rachel is a young single mother living with her son, Tristan, on a lake - remote, nearly inhospitable. She does what she has to do to keep them alive. But soon, and unexpectedly, Tristan will have to live alone, his youth unprotected and rough. The wild, open place that is all he knows will be overrun by strangers - strangers inhabiting the lodge that has replaced his home, strangers who make him fight, talk, and even love, when he doesn't want to.