This popular dictionary, formerly published as the Penguin Dictionary of Electronics, has been extensively revised and updated, providing more than 5,000 clear, concise, and jargon-free A-Z entries on key terms, theories, and practices in the areas of electronics and electrical science. Topics covered include circuits, power, systems, magnetic devices, control theory, communications, signal processing, and telecommunications, together with coverage of applications areas such as im...

Why does a rich, handsome, ambitious and talented 26-year old former SEAL settle in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay, and unknowingly carry a rare dagger around his waist?Want to know more about antiques, auctions, starting your own business, planning for the future?What are your chances of finding something worth $75,000 every Wednesday at a country auction?What happens when a murder results from a rare dagger from Baghdad, worth over a million dollars?Wh...

Frustrated over his failure to sell antiques in Betterton, a small town on the Chesapeake Bay, Mark Hopkins, a handsome, rich and bright 27-year old former SEAL, decides to become a private art dealer and buys a farm outside Rock Hall, near the Eastern Neck Island Wildlife Refuge. Two weeks later he discovers an important impressionist painting in an antiques store in Baltimore, which he buys for $10,000 and sells for $329,000.His joy, however is short-lived when his father dies un...

Buck Brightman is a 29-year-old, gregarious, adventuresome photojournalist who sets out to find his Mother's birthplace in Germany. Along the way he also finds lively companions, good food and beer, lifelong friends, a madman who strips Buck naked, a mother lode of truffles, an ISIS terrorism operation, a plot involving Trakehner horses, bat guano...and love. Come join Buck on his adventure ... and see what you find!

Bonnie is 24 and a voluptuous single mother of two boys when she falls in love with articulate, identical twin ex-vet medics. After they become partners in her soft-crab business on Maryland's upper eastern shore, she is pregnant. DNA tests reveal the biological father is not one of them. The subsequent hunt for the real father leads to a suspenseful roller-coaster ride. Mistrust, ingenuity and persistence to seek the truth prove in the end, You Can Be As Good As You Can Be, and Be Better ...

"I can see no reason why it wouldn't make a good movie. The frame work is certainly there."Paul Gregory, legendary agent and producer.ABERDEEN begins on the Chesapeake Bay with the wedding of Ruth Wayne, a gorgeous flight attendant, and Mark Hopkins, a rich and intuitive former SEAL Lieutenant who owns Ridgefield Farm outside Rock Hall on the upper eastern shore of the Bay and runs his familys steel mill in Baltimore.With the help of his staff, he e...

This saga centers around the Chesapeake Bay and Mark Hopkins, a charismatic former SEAL, who juggles his family life with running a steel mill (Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point), leasing part of the land to a research institute for the study of nudity, and wheeling and dealing in art.After finding a Remington bronze in a thrift store, which is sold for a $450,000 profit, his steel mill is sabotaged by a millionaire to avenge the court martial of his corrupt son. Woven into the ove...

The acclaimed author "assembles a stellar collection of twenty stories that create their own worlds in twenty pages or less" ( USA Today ).Tom Perrotta explains in his introduction that "all of [these stories] took me somewhere I didn't expect to go, and jolted me into that state of heightened awareness and emotional receptivity that's one of the great rewards of reading good fiction."In Nathan Englander s What We ...

Everyone loves cats! What's not to love? In this book you will find 101 Hilarious jokes about the cats, and everything we enjoy laughing about our feline friends. Fill your days with laughter, give this book as a gift, or use it to entertain your loved ones. These punny jokes make great icebreakers and will lighten any mood. Great to use in a classroom, near events, or times when you just need a laugh.This collection of jokes is clean fun and family friendly, with no violence or of...

Anna and Bennett must find a way to stay together--or say goodbye forever--in this romantic and exciting sequel to Time Between Us

One of Tallahassee's richest cultural entities, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FSU, has collected here an anthology of mostly true and some fictional stories and poems, all rich, warm and seasoned.You get tales: bird dogs sprayed yellow and sulfurous; a white girl walking dusty red clay Georgia back roads and meeting her first black woman alone; an offbeat mom zanier than Lucille Ball; a magical memory with hooting owls echoing across a Suwannee River of the past; the chi...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A USA NETWORK ORIGINAL SERIES • “A taut and terrific page-turner” (Entertainment Weekly) from the master of the courtroom thriller“Great fun to read . . . The complex plotting is Grisham’s major accomplishment.”—Los Angeles TimesIt’s summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor’s shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through ...