Girl next door Brooke Knight is building a new life for herself in Michigan. There she meets Calvin Jones, successful owner of a coffee shop and a gym, who looks great in a tight t-shirt. When the two sweethearts fall swiftly and madly in love, it seems like everything is coming up roses. But a dark secret from Brooke’s past is coming to tear it all apart.
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Genetically engineered crops and plagues have wiped out the greater portion of the world’s agriculture, ending the era of great nations and open borders as humanity struggles to survive the latest pestilence. Anderson Lake is a company man trying to discover the secrets of Thailand’s success, one of the few relatively civilised nations remaining. Jaidee is an incorruptible head of the White Shirts, protecting the nation from potentially toxic illegal imports. Hock Seng is a “yellow card”, a once wealthy Chinese refugee from a violent uprising that murdered his family. Their lives will be turned upside-down by of Emiko, a “windup girl”, an android, a sex-slave, and the person who may be about to start a revolution.
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Archaeologist Casey is dedicated to the search for hidden treasure and ancient artefacts, so much so that her responsibilities as an academic and any sense of law and safety quickly go out of the window when she is on the hunt. When she finds herself teamed up with the new head of her department, she is sure he will close-down her investigation and block her tenure – but soon romantic sparks begin to fly, and danger lurks around every corner.
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Predicting the future – from whether it will rain today to whether we should cross the road – is an essential part of our everyday life. Yet, as a rule, we are exceptionally bad at it, and routinely fail to foresee hugely significant events. In this book Nate Silver, the man who successfully predicted the results in every state for the 2008 US Presidential Elections, explores and explains the art of prediction, visiting hundreds of experts to learn from their techniques and how we can consistently be less wrong.
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This book is aimed at intuitive writers, or “pantsers”, who don’t know anything about story structure and find themselves getting lost part way through a project. By learning a little about structure, the author says they can help you become more productive and prolific than ever before by finding a middle way between “meticulous story plotting and full on organic writing.”
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