Sally Anne Pearce is returning to her job at the magazine Who’s Who – a job she loathes – and her boss, Evelyn (Evil) Tanner, even more. She still has her trusty comrades Marc, I touch myself Roger, Karen and her dependable sidekick in life, Rachel. Sally keeps her sanity by hiding out in her home-from-home, The Lucky Dog pub. Things might not look so bad! What could possibly go wrong for a girl like Sally? Anything and everything, from the sublime to the ridiculous – on a day-to-day basis...

The rousing seafaring classic of adventure, pirates, and buried treasure“Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From young Jim Hawkins’s first encounter with the sinister beggar Pew to the climactic battle with the most memorable villain in literature, Long John Silver, this novel h...

Celebrated as a top new release in Humorous Science Fiction, The Great Space Race: Mind the Fluxthrows Earth into the greatest competition the universe has ever seen. Earning bestseller status on Amazon within its first month, the book is already making a strong impact with readers.The Universe is watching. The race of all races is about to begin. And somehow…Earth has a team.When Uncle Travis, a stubborn Kentucky farmer, a...

This "magnificent and authoritative work" presents the complete verse of Scotland's National Bard with extensive textual and historical notes (Colm Toibin, The Independent, UK).Best known for poems such as "A Red, Red Rose" and "Ae Fond Kiss," and for the song "Auld Lang Synge," which is sung around the world every New Years' Eve, Robert Burns was one of the most important poets of the 18th century. A major influence on the Romantic poetry movement, Burns i...

Following the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns (1759-96), Patrick Scott Hogg presents the greatest of Scotland's poets within the true context of his times. Exploding the Burns myth, Robert Burns: The Patriot Bard replaces the ram-stam lad of popular cliché with the real, living Burns - a Scottish patriot of the heart, an idealist who wished for 'Freedom and Liberty' for his beloved country, but also a man who was pragmatically a British patriot and risked his life f...

In the turbulent late 1960s, as the Summer of Love collides with war and shifting moral boundaries, one young man is forced to confront a haunting question: when justice fails, is revenge justified?A Just Revenge by Patrick L. Scott, Esq. follows Sean Roberts, a tough Northern California farm boy whose life spirals after the woman he loves disappears into San Francisco's dangerous drug culture. What begins as heartbreak soon becomes a relentless search for truth, pulling S...

Sean was a skinny 12-year-old who grew up "farm tough" living on C Street in Yuba City, California, on the Feather River, which defined the town. He viewed life as an adventure and played it like a competitive game. Ryan was from a privileged family where he wanted for nothing and spent the summer with his protective grandparents. The two boys, from different worlds, meet by chance. Events during the summer of 1955 on the farms, and ultimately on the river, welded the two of them t...

This anthology brings together eleven stories from the authors, Jerry Purdon, Trevor Abbud, Benjamin B. White, Patrick Scott, Keith Raymond, Katie Ness, Deborah Sullivan Brennan, Christopher Pender, Neepa Sarkar, Scott Chaddon, and Cris Morris. For those who might have never heard of the World of CURE, this is an excellent introduction to the vastness and ways in which so much has changed from the beginning of the appearance of the werewolves, the people who discover them, and the world fo...

Faye only focuses on the things most college students think about - classes, guys and the next time she can avoid looking at the pain she left in Arizona. She ignores how far she moved away. Faye seeks a life where she decides who and what she cares about. Unfortunately, everyone else sees it and pushes for her to deal with things they can't possibly imagine.When things come to a head, Faye begins searching for answers by questioning all the things which she sought to put behind he...

Best Practices for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tuning and OptimizationAchieve peak performance from your ERP platform while minimizing downtime and lowering TCO. Advanced Tuning for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Implementations shows how to plan and adopt a structured, top-to-bottom maintenance methodology. Uncover and eliminate bottlenecks, maximize efficiency at every component layer, troubleshoot databases and web servers, automate system testing, and handle mo...

Best Practices for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tuning and OptimizationAchieve peak performance from your ERP platform while minimizing downtime and lowering TCO. Advanced Tuning for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Implementations shows how to plan and adopt a structured, top-to-bottom maintenance methodology. Uncover and eliminate bottlenecks, maximize efficiency at every component layer, troubleshoot databases and web servers, automate system testing, and handle mo...

This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland’s work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles. With contributions from over twenty-five distinguished critics, literary journalists and scholars, this book goes beyond merely describing Sutherland’s work. The...