Set against the vibrant backdrop of Chicago, this is a story of science and poetry, manipulation and intrigue, and the lengths to which people will go for their passions.The Yucca Mountain Project deep in the Nevada desert is the first planned long-term nuclear storage facility. The project is designed to contain nuclear waste for ten-thousand years, the amount of time it will take for the waste to no longer be radioactive. It is an ambitious project, especially in ...

If you’ve published an e-book, or are planning to do so, you’ll need this essential guide. It provides expert advice on every step of the process, from production through to all-important promotion. To ensure your e-book reaches its intended audience, at the very least you have to: • design the cover and format it a certain way • know your options in terms of publishing platforms and choose the right one for your book • price and promote it appropriately

It Was Never A Gamble is a true-life story of an early 1900's gambler and hustler. It chronicles the life of Jimmy James. Born in 1900 and leaving home at the age of 14, he made a living by taking advantage of other's greed. He learned early that to get ahead he might have to bend a few rules. But, in a time when the rules were few and the enforcement was often left to one's own conscious, there could be big rewards for the person with the intestinal fortitude to bend the rules. F...

The recession has struck, and all John Gregor wants is steady work. At every job he finds, he encounters inept management, arbitrary rules and treacherous bureaucrats. However, when he is invited into a class-action lawsuit against a former employer, he begins to become curious about how much power he really has according to the law...When a man is trying to earn his keep and his livelihood is threatened, he begins to hate. When a man who hates learns his rights and figures out how...

One of the greatest English writers of the 19th century was a Polish-born man who couldnt even speak English fluently until he had entered adulthood. Nevertheless, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) went on to have a well-regarded literary career that bridged Romanticism and Modernism while also covering the zenith and twilight of the British empire. Conrad used his experience within the British empire to write novels and stories that often used the sea and navy as a setting, juxtaposing the indivi...

They were assigned to be marriage partnersGillian Flannery's marriage project worked great with her high-school students. But when she was assigned a partner herself, her "marriage" to John Slater quickly ran into trouble.In real life, Gillian soon learned, people came burdened with troublesome personal baggage. Gillian herself had a deep aversion to conflict. As for John, he came with two half-grown daughters who bickered constantly. Worse, his ex-wife had...

OVER 20 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE / THE NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLING PHENOMENONFML is becoming Avery's motto. Just when she doesn't think things could get any worse, they do. When her car stalls at the worst time and place possible—midnight, busy intersection on Creepy Corner and DPA. When she gets out to revive it, and a random rushes her to steals her POS car. Armed with nothing but a dress and a pair of Chucks, Avery runs after the thief, because e...

THE SERIES WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD~USA TODAY BESTSELLER~Volume 6 in the New York Times Bestselling Arrangement SerialsJust as Avery thinks she finds balance with her position as a call girl and her relationship with Sean, everything changes. The relationships that she has depended on are suddenly gone. After years of friendship, Avery is forced to face the cold hard truth--there is no place for feelings in ...

THE SERIES WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD~Volume 11 in the New York Times Bestselling Arrangement Serials~Sean Ferro is my addiction. I can’t tell him no, no matter what he asks for, and I know there are so many dark questions behind those blue eyes, so many things he wants me to do with him.When I watch him go down on one knee, with his sexy body covered in sand, and hold up a glittering ring, I can barely stand. It looks like he’s going t...

This book gathers together nearly 200 of the most beautiful entries into four distinct chapters; Sun, Moon, Stars, Rain. Together with several new and exclusive poems that don't appear anywhere else, each chapter of I Wrote This For You focuses on a different facet of life, love, loss, beginnings and endings."I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn't get it."

“A smart, haunting thriller with bass reverb and a pounding heart.”—Jayne Anne Phillips, author of the National Book Award finalist Lark and TermiteScott Spencer, the acclaimed author of Endless Love and A Ship Made of Paper, reaffirms his storytelling mastery with Man in the Woods—a gripping psychological thriller about a carpenter at loose ends and the crime of passion that radically reorders his world. Rudy Wurlitzer lauds Man in th...

**A thought-provoking story about two girls with equally passionate yet very different ideas about changing the world.“Achingly honest and empowering.”—Laurie Halse Anderson“This heartbreaking tale is powerfully raw.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“Especially memorable.”—The Horn Book**How do you choose between what you believe in and the one you love?Jesse cuts her hair with a Swiss Army knife. She wears massive green fish...