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Tom Howard

In these eight darkly comic stories, Tom Howard explores the instincts for violence and tenderness that mark his character's lives. A brother and sister wander the pier after a deadly plague destroys most of humanity. A high school bully struggles to overcome his demons. A man in the grips of dementia is visited by his children's ghosts. The people in these blistering tales grapple with past mistakes, trying to navigate their way toward redemption and resurrection and failing often—but alw...

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Tom Howard

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Blue Light Books

This debut story collection from the Tobias Wolff Award–winning author "is streaked with fantasy that deconstructs society's lost and wasted lives" ( Publishers Weekly).In these eight darkly comic stories, acclaimed author Tom Howard explores the conflicting instincts for tenderness and violence that mark his character's lives. A brother and sister wander the pier after a deadly plague destroys most of humanity. A high school bully struggles to overcome hi...

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Tom Howard

Tom Howard’s award-winning debut short story collection, Fierce Pretty Things, won accolades for blending “raw emotion with surreal forays into the supernatural and metaphysical.” With his second collection, Invisibilia, Howard takes the reader on a mesmerizing ride through a haunting, haunted landscape of children, drifters, soldiers, lovers, and ghosts, and the unseen forces that shape their lives.Two sisters and their parents slowly disappear, each in their own way, after a univ...

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Tom Howard

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Real American Grit Series

You've tried bonuses, spiffs, and commissions. So why isn't your team performing its best?The problem may be your pay plan.Pay Plans That Actually Work reveals why most compensation plans accidentally reward the wrong behaviors, frustrate top performers, and quietly cost owners millions in lost productivity, unnecessary payroll, and employee turnover. Home-service leader Tom Howard introduces six principles rooted in behavioral science that transform compensation i...

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Kevin J. Anderson, Seanan McGuire, Andi Christopher, Keltie Zubko, James Romag, Liam Hogan, John M. Olsen, Edward J. Knight, Ed Burkley, Tom Howard, Alicia Cay, JL Curtis, Eric James Stone, Travis Heermann, Rebecca M. Senese, Gama Ray Martinez, Rebecca E. Treasure, Russell Davis, Brennen Hankins, Michael Scott Bricker, Michael Nethercott, Eugie Foster, Kelly Adams, Erekson Holt, Deborah Kevin, Melissa Dalton Martinez, Constanza Ontaneda, Dale Sprague, Amanda Montandon, Matt Wright

When the mask comes off, can you handle what's underneath?When your secret identity is revealed …When the monster is unleashed …When the superhero's child has no power …When Death himself is caught unawares …Pull back the mask to reveal 21 tales from seasoned and award-winning authors, of magical masks, gas masks, death masks, superheroes, secret identities, disguised robots, alien symbionts, a Napoleonic thief, a swindling demon—eve...

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Vernon Howard

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Michael Toms

In this wide-ranging, insight-provoking conversation, Howard states in simple terms what must be done to reach enlightenment. Powerful, incisive and mystical are only a few words that describe this rare and penetrating voice in the wilderness.

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A. J. Sautter

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Drawing Fantasy Creatures

Little grabs people’s imaginations more than fire-breathing dragons, magical elves, and other fantastic creatures. Now with this ebook, fantasy fans can learn to draw their favorite creatures and learn more about them at the same time. Simple, step-by-step instructions team up with lively creature descriptions to teach young artists how to draw dragons, orcs, dwarves, and many other fantastical creatures.

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Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

R for Health Technology Assessment discusses the use of proper statistical software, specifically R, to perform the whole pipeline of analytic modelling in health technology assessment (HTA). It has been designed with the objective of establishing the use of R as the standard tool for HTA amongst academics, industry practitioners and regulators. It covers a lot of ground, starting with the necessary background in HTA, R and statistical inference, followed by various modell...

This volume is an integrated overview and synthesis of available data relating to the Quaternary evolution of the River Trent. It provides detailed descriptions of the Pleistocene sedimentary records from the Trent, its tributaries and related drainage systems - a sedimentary record that spans a period of approximately half a million years - and the biostratigraphical and archaeological material preserved therein.Significant new data are presented from recently discovered sites of ...

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Blair Howard

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Tom Lennon

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The Randall & Carver Mysteries

Walter Prescott has six weeks to live. One question haunts him: What happened to Ruth Bellamy?Fifty-six years ago, Ruth vanished. No note. No goodbye. No trace.Walter never stopped searching.Now, dying of cancer, he hires private investigators Randall & Carver to find the truth—whatever it costs. But the truth costs more than either of them imagined.Ruth didn’t disappear. She was erased. Forced into hiding by men who would kill to protect a government secret so ...

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Blair Howard

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Tom Lennon

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The Randall & Carver Mysteries

A historic hotel. A long-buried secret. A honeymoon turned deadly.Private investigators Tucker and Mallory Randall are ready for two weeks of ocean views, champagne, and relaxation in St. Augustine, Florida. But when a body washes up beneath the bluff, their romantic getaway turns into a murder investigation that spans centuries.The victim? The hotel historian—killed just hours after revealing a forty-year-old cold case tied to missing treasure, Spanish shi...

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Blair Howard

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Tom Lennon

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The Harry Starke Novels

An elite Iranian military unit. A missing tactical nuclear weapon. An aging Vietnam vet with a taste for violence.It began when an FBI informant was brutally gunned down outside a soccer stadium.A tactical nuclear weapon has gone missing somewhere in the Middle East and is thought to have been smuggled into the United States by a small group of Iranian terrorists intent on chaos and destruction. The target? Unknown, but the FBI’s local director is convinced that it’s the Se...