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Tom Stewart

“Immortal North is one of the finest examples of true literary fiction I have ever read. ★★★★★”—Marcus Lynn Dean, author, Thermals of TimeThe “achingly beautiful” story of Immortal North concludes in this stunning sequel, an unflinching meditation on the triumph of human resolve.He’s known as the trapper and his family has a long history in these remote woods. Now it’s just him and the boy, and he’ll raise him in the world he knows, the fore...

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Ria Wilde

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Kylie Stewart, Tor Thom

Saint.Virtuous. Kind. Patient.These were words never associated with Gabriel Saint. He was a monster. The devil that haunted the city of Redhill. And he had found me.I managed to hide for a while from my past, present, and future. But I should have known they'd come looking. After all, I had the heir of the city in my arms, and if I know anything about the ruling crime family of this city, it's that family comes before all else.When Gabriel ...

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Tom Stuart

Finally, you can learn computation theory and programming language design in an engaging, practical way. Understanding Computation explains theoretical computer science in a context you’ll recognize, helping you appreciate why these ideas matter and how they can inform your day-to-day programming.Rather than use mathematical notation or an unfamiliar academic programming language like Haskell or Lisp, this book uses Ruby in a reductionist manner to present formal semantics, automat...

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Tom Stewart

"In prose that sears, he gives us the wild coast and the wounded soul—both stripped of pretense, both tremblingly alive."Author Tom Stewart—following a national fiction award for Immortal North—returns with his most intimate novel yet: an emotionally charged story of heartbreak and healing in the town he calls home. Lyrical and sexy, at once comedic and profound, the story unfolds over three days, seamlessly weaving sensational Tofino history with ...

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Tom Stewart

***** A Readers’ Favorite Five Star Author ********** Shelf Unbound 2022 Best Indie Book Notable Author ********** 2020 Canada Book Awards Winning Author *****Tom at seventeen years old, naïve and optimistic, took a bush-plane flight north to remote wilderness and work at an isolated fishing lodge. Only days into the season, confrontations with coworkers escalates into threats on his life. So a young man makes a stand.In a later year ...

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Tom Stewart

For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Ernest Hemingway comes a debut novel that Book Sirens calls "Heartbreakingly beautiful, raw and enchanting. ★★★★★"A father raises his boy in the isolated north. But for those lands and minds with an unsettled past, other dangers may lurk the woods where father and son hunt the timber.***** A Readers’ Favorite Five Star Author ********** Shelf Unbound 2022 Best Indie Book Nota...

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Tom Stewart

Jack Powers left Iowa January 1st, 1990. In the 1990's you didn't talk about your feelings, desires, or emotions with anyone unless they involved marriage, kids and a dog. It was a time when Mathew Sheppard was tied to a fence post and left to die simply because he was different. Jack would leave the familiarity of home and family, and be forever changed by "Florida man" culture. For Jack, the shock would be equivalent to being jolted back to life with a defibrillator. His journey could le...

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Stuart Butler, Tom Oliver

Improve your game's code with design patterns to make it more readable, reusable, modular, and optimized, guided by an Unreal Authorized Instructor to enhance your overall use of C++ with Unreal EngineKey FeaturesExplore programming patterns, structures, and principles and their applications in Unreal Engine 5 game developmentTranslate code from Blueprint to C++ to implement performant solutions in game developmentBuild a decoupled communicatio...

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Tom Stewart

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Immortal North

For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Ernest Hemingway comes a debut novel that Book Sirens calls "Heartbreakingly beautiful, raw and enchanting. ★★★★★"A father raises his boy in the isolated north. But for those lands and minds with an unsettled past, other dangers may lurk the woods where father and son hunt the timber.***** 2023 Whistler Independent Book Awards Fiction Winner ********** 2022 Chanticleer International Book Awards Literary & Cont...

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Tom Stewart

For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Ernest Hemingway comes a debut novel that Book Sirens calls "Heartbreakingly beautiful, raw and enchanting. ★★★★★"A father raises his boy in the isolated north. But for those lands and minds with an unsettled past, other dangers may lurk the woods where father and son hunt the timber.***** A Readers’ Favorite Five Star Author ********** Shelf Unbound 2022 Best Indie Book Notable Author ********** 2020...

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Stuart Woods

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Tom Stechschulte

From the bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series comes a thriller following a former investigative journalist trying to escape his past by moving to a lakeside home in the North Georgia Mountains, only to discover the dark and evil secret hidden deep within the lake’s waters.Nestled in the mountains of North Georgia, a tranquil lake hides a dark history. Built by a powerful and obsessive man at an unthinkable cost, the reservoir transformed an isolated to...

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Samuel Pepys, Tom Griffith

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Classics of World Literature

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his celebrated diary on 1st January 1660 immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne and the subsequent loosening of the rigid moral and social code enforced during the Puritan Commonwealth. As variously Clerk to the Council, a Member of Parliament, a prisoner in the Tower of London, twice Secretary to the Admiralty and President of the Royal Society, Pepys was in a unique position to observe and record in detail a fascinating ten-year pe...