A war is about to begin.Sophie Ford has a secret. Fear for herself and her friend has her running to the vampire council in search of protection.And she is bonded to a vampire.Robert Valentine knows Sophie is hiding something, but what? She tempts him as no little human ever has in his whole life. He is the eldest son of the most powerful family in the world.Forces they cannot control are fighting against them. Time is running out. Sophie's secret i...

Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s coming-of-age story is, according to Booklist, “a novel that, if it doesn’t cross entirely over into John Irving territory, certainly nestles in close to the border.”Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her wor...

Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in NonfictionFrom award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world's most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it —now in paperback.In Sam Roberts's pulsating history of the world's most exceptional metropolis, greet the city anew through thirty-one unique New Yorkers you've probably ne...

On a dark, brooding summer's evening, Agnes Lenham seats herself in an empty first-class compartment on the train to Portsmouth. She is joined by a naval officer and a middle-aged man, in high spirits after dining at his club, travelling to his home on the Isle of Wight. His name is Giles Blanchard - and within moments of the train leaving the station, the sailor strangles him . . . At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called to Superint...

Praise for The 10 Rules Of Sam Walton "The 10 Rules of Sam Walton is one of those books that should be read and regularly reread by . . . everyone-business-people, students, teachers, parents, and children. It transcends the limits of a traditional book about lessons in business and makes it a book about life and about successful living!"--J. K. Knapp III, former Wal-Mart store manager,current manufacturer and supplier to Wal-Mart As founder of Wal-Mart and its many successful divisions, S...

"Mordantly wonderful." -CARL HIAASEN"I almost died laughing." -ROZ CHAST"My own departure would not be so bad if only Mr. Roberts could write the obit!" -KAI BIRDFrom celebrated New York Times obituarist Sam Roberts, the art of the obit: Who we remember, how we forget, and where we find the true meaning in a lifeAfter nearly a decade behind the obituaries desk at the paper of record, Roberts kn...

Eric Sams' study of Schumann's 246 songs (Faber 1961, revised 1993) - a companion volume to his The Songs of Hugo Wolf, also available in Faber Finds - remains a classic text. By providing a translation, commentary and notes for each of the songs, tracing original sources and relating recurring themes vividly to Schumann's life, Sams provides a unique documentary of Schumann's song-writing art.The book includes a foreword (to the First Edition) by the legendary acc...

In just 24 sessions of about an hour, you’ll learn how to build robust, efficient business workflows with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds the real-world foundation you need to succeed with WF from the ground up.Filled with hands-on code examples, this book walks you through creating every type of workflow supported by .NET 3.5’s powerful new version of WF. One step at a time, you’ll discover how to host workflows,...

L'école est vivante...et elle compte bien vous dévorer !Élève à l'école de La Trouille, Sam Graves vient d'y être nommé surveillant de couloir. Son rôle ? Veiller à ce que chacun des élèves rejoigne sa classe à l'heure. Mais il va rapidement découvrir que l'école est hantée... Pire, elle est vivante ! Et elle a très faim d'élèves. Sam parviendra-t-il à déjouer les plans démoniaques de l'école de La Trouille ?

A "street-smart, informative and occasionally hilarious" look at the places, personalities, and history that make New York one of a kind ( Publishers Weekly).Reporter Sam Roberts has covered the city in all its quirkiness, both in print and in his popular New York Times podcasts. In Only in New York, now updated with new stories, he writes about what makes this city tick and why things are the way they are in the greatest of all metropoli...

Individual soldiers have demonstrated incredible courage, strength and bravely. In some, war brings out the very best. The soldier fights for his life and the lives of his friends and fellow soldiers- not for the distant general ordering him to kill other men. We all recognize that crazed dictators from totalitarian states must be stopped and we know that too often, the only way they can be stopped is by fighting and killing them.

The future just happened, they didn't quite think it would be this way, but it ended up this way! Our characters form a powerful business relationship that ends up having a 'mind of its own' but it's a force for good. Damon, Cam, Kai and others have a world-changing opportunity that changes everything. Join in the merry chase of robots creating their own bots and how humans handle the exciting changes about to happen.