Senior year was supposed to be about making more friends and finally talking to your crush. But for Lydia Thompson and Dominic Miller, there’s more to worry about than just exams.When Dominic’s father, Harden, is found dead, the police are quick to label it a suicide—but Dominic knows something isn’t right. Determined to uncover the truth, Dominic teams up with Lydia, his closest friend, to dig into the mysteries surrounding Harden’s death.Together, they embark on a journey...

A successful real estate tycoon reunions with his long-lost brother who lives underneath the New York City subway system. Moses and Isaac dreamt of having their own real estate firm as kids. Moses was favored by his parents, friends, and everyone that he came in connect with. While Isaac was given less attention from his family, and so-called friends, and lots of stares from strangers. On the twin's high school graduation, Moses got a car and Isaac got a gift card. The brothers got into a ...

A hot-headed thrash Metal bassist struggles with his abusive family history that jeopardizes his future with his House Songstress fianace. World-renowned, Ramiro Espinoza, bassist/vocalist of the Heavy Metal band "IRATE: seemed to have it all. But, backstage his life was far from perfect. He grew up in home, where his father constantly threw the Bible in his face. Also, he, his mother and sister endured physical and emotional abuse at the hands of this mad man. Music was an outlet for Rami...

Author Oz Du Soleil's area of frustration with Excel is cleaning data. From his earliest days with Excel, he has found himself constantly needing to fix names that are ALLCAPS, peel addresses away from phone numbers, and fixing all the many other things that prevent data from being useful. In this intro to Power Query, Oz shows you five core techniques in Excel Power Query: Splitting data, Filling blanks, Joining data sets, grouping and summarizing, and adding columns using Column From Exa...

This book includes step-by-step examples and case studies that teach users the many power tricks for analyzing data in Excel. These tips have been honed by Oz du Soleil, a former financial analyst charged with taking mainframe data and turning it into useful information quickly, and "Mr. Excel" himself, Bill Jelen. Topics include data quality, validation, perfectly sorting with one click, matching lists of data, data consolidation, data subtotals, pivot tables, pivot charts, tables, and mu...

This book includes step-by-step examples and case studies that teach users the many power tricks for analyzing data in Excel. These are tips honed by Bill Jelen, "MrExcel," and Oz do Soleil during their careers run as a financial analyst charged with taking mainframe data and turning it into useful information quickly. Topics include data quality, validation, perfectly sorting with one click every time, matching lists of data, data consolidation, data subtotals, pivot tables, pivot charts,...

This Straight to the Point guide provides an introduction to data cleansing, which also goes by names such as data munging and data wrangling. Whatever the name, it basically means doing what needs to be done to make data useful and trustworthy. Data cleansing can include the following tasks: Deleting unnecessary headers Deleting summary rows Filling in gaps Flattening a report Merging and appending data from multiple sources Pulling data from source X to complete data in source Y Splittin...

A Queen.Two Kings.A prophecy that must be fulfilled.And a banished enemy.Seraphina Kuchev, the Queen of Valinir knows that her newly appointed general is not an emissary of the human kingdom of Anathema, but the young King of Kanthra, a dragon shifter. He wants his vengeance against the Wrathful Witch King, and she wants to remove the threat to the continent that will disrupt the progress she's made to right the wrongs of her husband. But when attraction spa...

A mad man. A lawyer. And a shadowed monster between them.But sometimes...sometimes, the real monsters exist in the flesh. Jax and Carter are two stepbrothers. Carter's father is the Bratva's strategist and the one who sends him away to Exodus, an asylum, where he dies at eighteen. News of his death leaves Jaxon reeling, feeling betrayed and abandoned, forcing him to run states away from New York. Now, five years later with his own law firm, Jaxon takes his...

A richly illustrated natural history of fungiOccupying an entire kingdom of their own, fungi comprise over 155,000 species that include yeasts, rusts, and molds as well as the more familiar mushrooms and toadstools that we see in the wild and on our plates. Found widely across the globe, they represent a diverse group of organisms, some living freely in soil and water, and others forming parasitic or symbiotic relationships with plants, algae, and animals. This boo...

Homicide—that is royal law’s greatest taboo. But it does not apply to the samurai Ginko, for she exists outside this world’s logic. Despite saving the citizens of the royal capital, Ginko falls under suspicion in the eyes of Delacro, the Hero of Law. Unable to judge her according to this world’s code of justice, Delacro intends to take her into temporary custody…but the young warrior refuses to go down without a fight! What outcome awaits the two as they draw their weapons…?

Let’s Get This Party Started is a guide to more than 15 parties you can throw for your kids that are inexpensive, wildly inventive, and fun. Each party includes two crafts, one game, and one recipe—all of which you can put together with your child. Author Soleil Moon Frye also offers countless tips and ideas that will inspire you. Among the thematic parties featured in the book are the fairy party, the pirate party, the movie-on-the-lawn party, the camp party, the ’80s pa...