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Stephen Smith, Simon Forty

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Past & Present

The missions and massacres of the infamous panzer division that spearheaded the German Ardennes Offensive in the Battle of the Bulge.From the outset of the offensive, launched on a snowy December 16, the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler faced difficulties. It captured a fuel dump at Büllingen, but brave defense forced Commander Joachim Peiper onto tight, winding roads that proved difficult to negotiate and soon the battle group was strung out over 2...

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Stephen Smith

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Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

Gain all the skills required to dive into the fundamentals of the Raspberry Pi hardware architecture and how data is stored in the Pi’s memory. This book provides you with working starting points for your own projects while you develop a working knowledge of Assembly Language programming on the Raspberry Pi.You'll learn how to interface to the Pi’s hardware including accessing the GPIO ports. The book covers the basics of code optimization as well as how to inter-operate with C and...

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Stephen A. Smith

What happens when you walk away from security to build a life with your hands?In January 2019, former white-collar professional Steve Smith stepped into the snowy Maine woods with a simple, risky goal: to see if he could make a living using nothing but an axe.With no formal training and no safety net, Smith began hand-hewing logs into timber beams, learning a heritage craft once essential to survival and now nearly forgotten. What began as an experiment bec...

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Stephen Smith

Join veteran crime-fighter Stephen Smith on a journey through the dark and dangerous world of the Metropolitan Police specialist firearms command from its inception in 1966, when the cold-blooded murder of three police officers sparked a revolution in the training of armed officers, to the present day. This unique police unit battled against the IRA in the 1970s, experienced its first operational shootings in the 1980s and underwent massive expansion in the 1990s. In the new millenium it f...

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Stephen Smith

Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist.Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar...for thirteen years.Starved and beaten, the little boy's world was a darkened room that measured just eight feet by ten with a single makeshift bed, bare light bulb, and a solitary table. Steve would spend his days conjuring up an imaginary world full of monsters he would draw to try an...

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Stephen Smith, Simon Forty

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Past & Present

An account of the heroic D-Day actions of the US Army's first airborne division in the series that brings World War II battles to life.Since its formation on August 15, 1942, the 82nd Airborne, commanded by Major General Matthew B. Ridgway, trained exhaustively for their new role, which involved parachuting from C-47s and insertion by Waco CG-4A gliders. After participating in the invasion of Sicily and performing night parachute drops onto the Salerno beachhead in ...

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Alexandre Dumas

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Stephen Smith

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. It is also among the highest selling books of all time. The writing of the work was completed in 1844. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from the plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and t...

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Stephen Smith

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Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

Gain the skills required to dive into the fundamentals of the RISC-V instruction set architecture. This book explains the basics of code optimization, as well as how to interoperate with C and Python code, thus providing the starting points for your own projects as you develop a working knowledge of assembly language for various RISC-V processors.The RISC-V processor is the new open-source CPU that is quickly gaining popularity and this book serves as an introduction to assembly la...

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Stephen Smith

Love has a strange way of making fools of us. Sometimes we recognize the damage long before we're ready to walk away.In the town of Sapphire Ashes, Wilcox University stands among the aging houses and faded beauty of the Blue Neighborhood. Students hurry between classes, football games draw their usual crowds, and three women at the Moirai Coffee Shop spend their days serving coffee, trading remarks, and keeping a watchful eye on passersby.Sophia Adkins is one of those peopl...

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Stephen Smith

When a thunderstorm delivers a broken, wordless Dawson Grant to the porch of three strange Sisters at the edge of Reckless Abandon Swamp, he wants only to disappear from a world that has quietly betrayed him. Under the Sisters' roof, Dawson begins the slow work of rebuilding a life from the wreckage of the one he lost.Hushpenny Parish has a way of drawing buried truths back to the surface. As the town prepares to reopen its long-abandoned theatre, Dawson's new play ref...

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Stephen Smith

In July of 1535, the English statesman and writer Thomas More was brought to trial, found guilty of malicious treason against King Henry VIII, and beheaded. “I die the King’s good servant,” he declared in his final words, “and God’s first.” But in the course of his fifteen-month imprisonment in the Tower of London, this “man for all seasons”—now facing a final riddle of how “a man may lose his head and have no harm”—wrote a collection of letters, instructions, and prayers to family and fri...

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Stephen Smith

Every story remembers.Harvey Collins thought his biggest challenge this school year would be convincing his students that Beowulf still mattered. Then impossible footprints appear beneath the football stadium. Ancient words begin changing inside classroom texts. And during the opening game of the season, something that should have remained trapped in literature tears its way into the real world.Hidden beneath Crimson Ridge High lies the Athenaeum, where teachers, librarians...