A look back at the many women who become followers of Charles Manson during his Helter Skelter siege in California in the 60s & 70s. All were hippie girls who became loyal to the maniac who told them to kill for him...Among those featured here are the stripper Susan Atkins, a sweet-voiced stripper whose looks belied a devil within. Leslie Van Houten who was an educated young woman that became a murderous animal under Manson's control. Patricia Krenwinkel and Squeaky Fromme, who were mental...

A new kind of contributor has joined your team. It does not sleep, it does not get tired, and it can open dozens of pull requests across your repositories before lunch. It is an AI coding agent, and it is changing software development faster than most teams expected. Maybe your agents are wonderful at scaffolding features and occasionally wire up a database connection with credentials pasted straight into the source, or maybe your confidence in what ships quietly drops. Whatever brought yo...

Seven years ago, Elias Shaw should have died.The sacred brand seared into his chest was meant to kill him. Like it killed every other man who dared bear the mark. But Shaw survived. And the cross with its serpent still burns with the intensity of that first moment.Now he's a bounty hunter in the lawless American Southwest. Running from a past he doesn't understand. Hunting men for money instead of facing the truth about what he's become.But the truth has a way of ca...

Who doesn’t like a good mystery? Here are 25 great noir crime and mystery stories by some of the top fictioneers of the 20th century, ripped from the pages of such magazines as The Black Mask Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Secret Agent X, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine -- and many more! Hours of great reading await...if you dare proceed!LET HER KILL HERSELF, by Rufus KingTHE SPENT DAYS, by Fletcher FloraCONSOLATION PRIZE, by Stephen Wasylyk

Our thoroughly educated and distinguished founding fathers spent more time on the careful construction of our Senate than on any other topic. They wanted it to be populated with the highest and best humanity had to offer. So, they concluded, by a vote of 10 to 0, that such a Senate could best be achieved by assigning State legislatures the chore of selecting them; not the public at large who were already given the House of Representatives.They would no doubt be biased in this regar...

Tasked by the mad king to rescue a beautiful princess, guard and aspiring samurai Jimmy Olsen Sakamota must scour the strange and wonderful country of Wenapaj with the aid of an ancient robot, an overeager student, a screenwriter, a possessed doll, and a neophyte soldier. With his friends at his side, Jimmy may have just enough strength, skill, and luck to rescue Princess Sera from the dragon.

After twenty years of averting planetary disasters in the mainstream and fighting nightmares in the dream realm, the Dreamer known as Narrator Number One slips off to the distant world of Vinta for a well-earned vacation. When a knight from post-apocalyptic Earth falls out of the sky, One decides to delay his vacation long enough to lend a hand.This small task turns out to be far from simple, however; in his attempts to help the wayward knight, One finds himself face-to-face with m...

CISSP Study Guide - fully updated for the 2024 CISSP Body of KnowledgeISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Official Study Guide, 10th Edition has been completely updated based on the latest 2024 CISSP Detailed Content Outline. This bestselling Sybex Study Guide covers 100% of the CISSP objectives. You'll prepare smarter and faster with Sybex thanks to expert content, knowledge from our real-world experience, access to the Sybex ...

From the author of the bestselling Snark series comes the premiere guide to satire, sneering, jeering, and mockery in their finest forms. A surviving knight of many a verbal joust, Larry Dorfman has become an expert at backhanded sass and cathartic banter.Featuring life lessons from the master himself, as well as quotes and quips by some of history’s sarcastic greats, The Sarcasm Handbook teaches readers how to deflect stupidity and express their inner dissatisfaction with...

In the 1970s, a comic book ad promised a chilling record: sold alongside Sea Monkeys and a towering "you control it" Monster Ghost. These novelty ads were often more thrilling than the cheap trinkets they sold, and wise parents spared their children the inevitable disappointment. But this ad was different. Its eerie artwork hinted at something far more sinister, and for $1.25, buyers got more than they bargained for. The mysterious Gayle House, the company behind it, vanished without a tra...

A love story shaped by history, tested by secrets, and haunted by the past.Hong Kong, 1988. Lisa Li has lived many lives. A physics graduate from Oxford, a rising star in the Asian financial world, and the cherished daughter of a powerful Chinese Party leader, she now inhabits the uneasy space between East and West. To her colleagues, she is brilliant. To her parents, she is ta future leader ofChina. But to herself, she is still trying to understand who she really ...

Inspiring Moments: The Poetic Courage of Victor Micah James are nearly 250 original writings of the 21st-century African American poet Michael James Allen, educator and philanthropist. He posits that poetry removes the stigma of political correctness and the societal moral code of what isappropriate or inappropriate. Moreover, poetry permits the poet to go from the abyss to luscious green valleys to the mountaintop and write poems that address all topics regarding humanity, from lov...