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The Concrete Kiss

Author : David Grace
Publisher : David Grace
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concrete Kiss written by David Grace and published by David Grace. This book was released on with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homicide Detective Ned Danes discovers that an ambitious Deputy D.A. has concealed evidence of an accused murderer's innocence in order to secure a headline-grabbing conviction. Danes is warned that a smart guy would keep his mouth shut. More interested in being a good guy than a smart one, Danes torpedoes the corrupt Deputy D.A.'s case, and for his honesty, Danes is exiled to the tiny basement office of the Cold Case Squad. Working in his forgotten outpost Danes becomes obsessed with finding the real killer whom the Deputy D.A.’s scheme has allowed to run free. But just as he seems to be closing in Danes receives a plea for help from an old friend. FBI agent Phillip Abbott has been put on leave for his last sixty days before his forced retirement. He has that long to catch a drug-cartel hit man whose specialty is murdering entire families. Completely alone, Abbott needs a courageous cop like Ned Danes to back him up. While Danes knows that Abbott has a seventeen-year-old adopted daughter named Jessica, it is only after Danes agrees to help catch the killer that he discovers that the hit man murdered Jessica's entire family. When he adopted Jessica Abbott promised her that he would get the monster who killed her family no matter what it took and Danes soon learns that Abbott is willing to do anything, including break the law and possibly go to prison, to keep that promise. And that's only a fraction of the story.

Making the Modern World

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118697960
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Making the Modern World written by Vaclav Smil and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most efficient production processes and the highest practical rates of recycling may not be enough to result in dematerialization rates that would be high enough to negate the rising demand for materials generated by continuing population growth and rising standards of living. This book explores the costs of this dependence and the potential for substantial dematerialization of modern economies. Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization considers the principal materials used throughout history, from wood and stone, through to metals, alloys, plastics and silicon, describing their extraction and production as well as their dominant applications. The evolving productivities of material extraction, processing, synthesis, finishing and distribution, and the energy costs and environmental impact of rising material consumption are examined in detail. The book concludes with an outlook for the future, discussing the prospects for dematerialization and potential constrains on materials. This interdisciplinary text provides useful perspectives for readers with backgrounds including resource economics, environmental studies, energy analysis, mineral geology, industrial organization, manufacturing and material science.

The Perfumer

Author : Laszlo Reti
Publisher : Larkin
ISBN 13 : 6156733086
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book The Perfumer written by Laszlo Reti and published by Larkin. This book was released on 2024-07-13 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a special ability allows someone to use a sense in their work that most people cannot? Gitta Kardos is a 40-year-old single businesswoman who lives for her work. As a perfumer, she designs personalised fragrances. But that's just the surface. Her work is much more complex, using her refined sense of smell to detect scents that no one else can. With the right concentration of scents, she can influence the behaviour of others without their awareness. She can put one party at an advantage in business negotiations. It can infer the current state of an athlete's body odour and thus determine his chances of winning for a bookmaker. She can tell whether a negotiating partner is scared, aroused or sexually motivated. And she can do all this by her smelling. Gitta Kardos is brought together with a new client in Budapest, whose order she fulfils without a second thought, putting her and the business she founded with her partners in danger. Before she knows it, she is being hunted by the police as a suspect of multiple murders, and if that wasn't enough, she is being pursued by several assassins. Can she prove his innocence in the murders? Can she outwit his pursuers? Will she find out who wanted her dead? And how can she use his wonderfully sensitive sense of smell to do it?

Concrete Kids

Author : Amyra León
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593095197
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Concrete Kids written by Amyra León and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Goddard CBC's Social Justice Prize Nominee • A YALSA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults "I will close my eyes and disappear into the pages of this book for many years to come."--Hanif Abdurraqib (New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in The Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest) "Amyra's wondrous awe for life in all its terror and splendor is inspiring to witness."--Rosario Dawson (award-winning actor, singer, and activist) "A moving, inspiring love letter to and about 'the concrete kids. The kids with a melanin kiss.'"-- Kirkus Reviews "Leon's powerful book will embolden readers find their own ways of speaking out against injustice." -- Booklist, Starred Review "A raw and complex free verse exploration of self-love, Blackness, womanhood, and healing. A timely, essential purchase for all young adult collections." -- School Library Journal, Starred Review In Concrete Kids, playwright, musician, and educator Amyra León uses free verse to challenge us to dream beyond our circumstances -- and sometimes even despite them. Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. Concrete Kids is an exploration of love and loss, melody and bloodshed. Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra León takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. In her signature free-verse style, she invites us all to dream with abandon--and to recognize the privilege it is to dream at all.

The Concrete Age

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Concrete Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands

Author : Paul F. Hudson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009040146
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands written by Paul F. Hudson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressure on large fluvial lowlands has increased tremendously during the past twenty years because of flood control, urbanization, and increased dependence upon floodplains and deltas for food production. This book examines human impacts on lowland rivers, and discusses how these changes affect different types of riverine environments and flood processes. Surveying a global range of large rivers, it provides a primary focus on the lower Rhine River in the Netherlands and the Lower Mississippi River in Louisiana. A particular focus of the book is on geo-engineering, which is described in a straight-forward writing style that is accessible to a broad audience of advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in global environmental change, fluvial geomorphology and sedimentology, and flood and water management.

Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies

Author : Abigail Hing Wen
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250883245
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies written by Abigail Hing Wen and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tan Lee finds himself embroiled in an unusual love triangle, all while trying to defuse a heist, unravel a conspiracy, and navigate the most complicated babysitting assignment ever in this YA novel by New York Times and Indie bestselling author Abigail Hing Wen. After a magical kiss at Prom, best friends Tan Lee and Winter Woo agree to cool it off, a plan that goes awry when their parents jointly head off to Hawaii and leave Tan and Winter to babysit Tan's sister Sana together. If that isn't complicated enough, Tan's ex-girlfriend from Shanghai arrives on his doorstep with money stolen from her billionaire father and thugs on her heels. Tan soon finds himself on the run through the San Francisco Bay Area, trying to out-manuever international hackers and protect his friends, family and sister—and his own heart.

Concrete Rose

Author : Angie Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062846752
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Concrete Rose written by Angie Thomas and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. A Printz Honor Book! If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.

26 Kisses

Author : Anna Michels
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481452460
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book 26 Kisses written by Anna Michels and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Veda's boyfriend unceremoniously dumps her right after graduation, she embarks on a summer love quest to move on and move up: kiss 26 boys, one for each letter of the alphabet"--

Kissing Monsters

Author : Lynn Robin
Publisher : Lynn Robin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kissing Monsters written by Lynn Robin and published by Lynn Robin. This book was released on with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When you kiss a monster, you turn them into angels. If you’d kiss the Collector, he would turn you into a monster. So… what happens if you would kiss a human?” Her name is Kiss. She travels the world to find monsters to kiss and turn them into angels—for the world has too many monsters and too few angels, she believes; too many shadows and too few stars in the sky. But then she crosses paths with Zane, a young human man, a lost and lonely cello player, who tells her about the Collector—a monster who would turn her into a demon if she’d kiss him. The Collector wants and claims everything that catches his attention. And so, he starts hunting for Kiss. Will she run? Will she stay and fight? Or could Zane, a mere human, save her instead?

No First Kisses

Author : Rue Lennox
Publisher : Heroes in Villains Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book No First Kisses written by Rue Lennox and published by Heroes in Villains Press. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He vowed to protect her, even if it meant losing himself. I’ve carried his secret with me for years, both loving and hating him at the same time. Logan Pierce was my protector, my savior, and the one who walked away, breaking us both in the process. Now, years later, he's back, breaking into my life and my heart all over again. Despite the chaos he brings, there's a connection I can't deny, a pull I can't resist. Logan still carries the guilt of something out of our control, and his fear of losing me again keeps him at arm's length. But when a new threat emerges, one that can destroy us both, we're forced to confront our past and the love that never truly faded. Our future hangs in the balance as we face the darkness together. Will we find our way back to each other, or will the shadows of our past consume us forever? This is Logan and Poppy’s story. No First Kisses is a second chance romantic suspense with a happily ever after. Each book in the Birch Harbor: Coming Home series can be read as a stand-alone, but the stories and characters do interconnect.

A New Friendship

Author : Edward Buelt
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814639437
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book A New Friendship written by Edward Buelt and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a deacon?" "What does a deacon do?" These are two questions pastors, parishioners, and even deacons themselves often ask. In A New Friendship Monsignor Edward Buelt answers these questions through an engaging conversation with the Scriptures, the eucharistic liturgy, and church teaching on the diaconate. Originally given as a retreat for deacon candidates, A New Friendship is now available to a larger audience of bishops, priests, deacons, deacons' wives, and candidates in formation. Buelt's treatment of all the major themes of the diaconate? Ministry of word, altar, and charity, as well as communion, sacrifice, service, and suffering? Is inspiring and enriching. He highlights the meaning of the diaconate through insightful and moving reflections on the Scriptures and proposes practical lessons for a deacon's ministry at Mass. Buelt offers sound counsel for the spiritual life of deacons in the voice of an attentive pastor of souls and as one who cares about the diaconate. A New Friendship is must reading for anyone interested in the diaconate and in diaconal ministry.

The Science of Single

Author : Rachel Machacek
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101478446
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Single written by Rachel Machacek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Rachel Machacek's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. One year of dating. One year of looking for love. One uproarious and touching memoir. After years of dating without a connection, Rachel Machacek vowed to try a more dedicated, less slipshod, more scientific way of finding love. So, she committed a year of her life to trying every mainstream (and not-so-mainstream) method of meeting the right guy. In The Science of Single, Rachel welcomes readers into the findings from her roller- coaster year, and although she set out looking for the right chemistry, what she discovers in the process is hilarious, unexpected, and infinitely more exciting. Watch a Video

Kissing Monsters Collection 1

Author : Lynn Robin
Publisher : Lynn Robin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kissing Monsters Collection 1 written by Lynn Robin and published by Lynn Robin. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her name is Kiss. She travels the world to find monsters to kiss and turn them into angels—for the world has too many monsters and too few angels, she believes; too many shadows and too few stars in the sky. But then she crosses paths with Zane, a young human man, a lost and lonely cello player, who tells her about the Collector—a monster who would turn her into a demon if she’d kiss him. The Collector wants and claims everything that catches his attention. And so, he starts hunting for Kiss. Will she run? Will she stay and fight? Or could Zane, a mere human, save her instead? Follow the love story of Kiss and Zane in a world of monsters and angels in this collection of the first four books in the Kissing Monsters series…

Finding Me

Author : Darnella Ford
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758273762
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Finding Me written by Darnella Ford and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Southern coming-of-age. . ..Ford's Shreveport is an unforgiving place—swampy, seductive and judgmental—that's reflected in her blunt but intoxicating prose. —Publishers Weekly Eleven-year-old Blaze James and her twin sister, Aerial, know two things beyond a doubt. They're two of the prettiest girls in Shreveport, Louisiana, and they'll always be there for each other. Then one night, a gas explosion leaves their father dead and Aerial severely burned, changing their lives forever. While Aerial goes with their mother to Baton Rouge for treatment, Blaze stays behind with a neighbor. Free-spirited and unconventional, Felicity Hardaway opens Blaze's eyes to a whole new world, inspiring her to explore her own budding desires. . .and the answers she finds will bring passion, betrayal, and a love beyond expectations. "A southern-set, fast-moving coming-of-age tale with the immediacy of informal storytelling and intimate conversation somewhat like Alice Walker's The Color Purple. . ..A riveting tale of aching love, deceit, and shifting points on the continuum of human sexuality." —Booklist "A startling, provocative novel. . ..A story that is as unexpected as it is entertaining." —APOOO BookClub "A witty and talented author with a knack for creating unforgettable characters." —Zane "Ford creates unpretentious, gritty masterpieces." —Upscale

Labor Digest

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Labor Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gods of Noonday

Author : Elaine Neil Orr
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813924472
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Gods of Noonday written by Elaine Neil Orr and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of medical missionaries, Elaine Neil Orr was born in Nigeria in 1954, in the midst of the national movement that would lead to independence from Great Britain. But as she tells it in her captivating new memoir, Orr did not grow up as a stranger abroad; she was a girl at home—only half American, the other half Nigerian. When she was sent alone to the United States for high school, she didn't realize how much leaving Africa would cost her. It was only in her forties, in the crisis of kidney failure, that she began to recover her African life. In writing Gods of Noonday she came to understand her double-rootedness: in the Christian church and the Yoruba shrine, the piano and the talking drum. Memory took her back from Duke Medical Center in North Carolina to the shores of West Africa and her hometown of Ogbomosho in the land of the Yoruba people. Hers was not the dysfunctional American family whose tensions are brought into high relief by the equatorial sun, but a mission girlhood is haunted nonetheless--by spiritual atmospheres and the limits of good intentions. Orr's father, Lloyd Neil, formerly a high school athlete and World War II pilot, and her mother, Anne, found in Nigeria the adventure that would have escaped them in 1950s America. Elaine identified with her strong, fun-loving father more than her reserved mother, but she herself was as introspective and solitary as her sister Becky was pretty and social. Lloyd acquired a Chevrolet station wagon which carried Elaine and her friends to the Ethiope River, where they swam much as they might have in the United States. But at night the roads were becoming dangerous, and soon the days were clouded by smoke from the coming Biafran War. Interweaving the lush mission compounds with Nigerian culture, furloughs in the American South with boarding school in Nigeria, and eventually Orr's failing health, the narrative builds in intensity as she recognizes that only through recovering her homeland can she find the strength to survive. Taking its place with classics such as Out of Africa and more recent works like The Poisonwood Bible and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Gods of Noonday is a deeply felt, courageous portrait of a woman's life.