Adrenaline junky.Adventure traveler.Extreme sport sensation.They’re all labels Riley Harrison—known to the world as Phoenix—wears as easily as the tattoos covering his body.But it’s his role as undercover operative for LT’s kidnap and ransom unit that makes his blood sing. Riley uses his celebrity status to help infiltrate locations and situations nobody else can get into.In. Out. The fight is usually over before t...

If you're just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want—whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Nicknamed "the Llama" by two generations of users, this best seller closely follows the popular introductory Perl course taught by the authors since 1991. This eighth edition covers recent changes to the language up to version 5.34.Perl is suitable for almost any task on almost any platform, from short fixes to complete web applications. Learning Per...

If you ask Perl programmers today what book they relied on most when they were learning Perl, you'll find that an overwhelming majority will name Learning Perl--also known affectionately as "the Llama." The first edition of Learning Perl appeared in 1993 and has been a bestseller ever since. Written by two of the most prominent and active members of the Perl community, this book is the quintessential tutorial for the Perl programming language.Perl began as a tool for Unix...

This book picks up right where Learning Perl leaves off. With Intermediate Perl, you’ll graduate from short scripts to much larger programs, using features that make Perl a general-purpose language. This gentle but thorough guide introduces you to modules, complex data structures, and object-oriented programming.Each chapter is small enough to be read in just an hour or two, ending with exercises to help you practice what you’ve learned. If you’re familiar with th...

Perl is a versatile, powerful programming language used in a variety of disciplines, ranging from system administration to web programming to database manipulation. One slogan of Perl is that it makes easy things easy and hard things possible. This book is about making the leap from the easy things to the hard ones.Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules offers a gentle but thorough introduction to advanced programming in Perl. Written by the authors of the best-selling Le...

Learning Perl, popularly known as "the Llama," is the book most programmers rely on to get started with Perl. The bestselling Perl tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this new fifth edition covers recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.10.This book reflects the combined experience of its authors, who have taught Perl at Stonehenge Consulting since 1991. Years of classroom testing and experience helped shape the book's pace and scope, and this edition is pac...

A threat. A ghost from the past. A murder.And two tortured souls who find solace in each other.Ex-Navy SEAL Leif Ramsey—known as Phoenix—has fallen hard for spitfire Kelly Taylor, but the first order of business is to protect her from whoever is sending her threatening texts. Her tormenter has upped the ante with a message Leif can't bear to show Kelly, but when he finally does . . .Kelly knows exactly who sent it—a person she thoug...

FROM THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF ONLY HERE, ONLY NOWWATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025Frazer and Caitlin have come a long way without ever leaving their dead-end town. They were teenage sweethearts but years later, life's got serious: the flat they share is barely habitable, money is tight, and their autistic son is struggling at school.Caitlin dreams of fresh carpets and clean walls, but for Frazer Apex Court is the only home ...

There are certain defining events that occur to people— the sort of things we use as markers in the timetables of our lives: Birth and Deaths. Marriages and Divorces. Windfalls and Calamities. For Tom Bodett, it was the day he got electrocuted. On May 27, 1975, about seven o'clock in the morning, Tom Bodett was " exploded" in Medford, Oregon.In this collection of performance essays, the centerpiece is " Exploded" — Bodett' s recollections and reflections about a moment that had pro...

Tom Peters sees a problem with the way people do business today: Those who like to get things done are thwarted by absurd organizational barriers and by the egos of petty tyrants. His vision: Employees who dance from project to project; enterprise that reduces the bureaucracy to almost nothing; societies that educate their young to break the rules and invent vivid new futures. Re-Imagine! focuses on how the business climate has changed and how the new world of business works. Pete...

FROM THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF ONLY HERE, ONLY NOWWATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025Frazer and Caitlin have come a long way without ever leaving their dead-end town. They were teenage sweethearts but years later, life's got serious: the flat they share is barely habitable, money is tight, and their autistic son is struggling at school.Caitlin dreams of fresh carpets and clean walls, but for Frazer Apex Court ...

Winner of the McKitterick Prize 2025Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025Runner up for the the ADCI Literary Prize 2025'Absolutely loved this. Funny and heartbreaking in equal measure'DOUGLAS STUART'Glorious . . . so unusual, so moving, so memorable'GUARDIAN'Tom Newlands may make several prize lists for his stunning ...