Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are interested in developing modern applications, this book will help you leverage the vast JavaScript ecosystem while using an elegant language, helping you avoid the shortcomings of JavaScript.What you will learnCreate user interfaces with jQuery, Backbone, AngularJS, and Kendo.UIDevelop RESTful services using Node and ExpressRead and write data using SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, CouchD...

Whispers on the Wind follows five families from 1873 into the twentieth century. A young Zeke Martin follows his uncle Lemuel into the West to escape a bitter family feud fueled by the bigotry of the Civil War. His youthful inexperience in life is soon expanded when a group of Crow warriors gives him a captive Sioux Indian woman. Little Walking Buffalo Woman, along with a jealous young Sioux girl, Looks at the Sky, will lead him through the door of manhood. Together, they will face mysteri...

Anthony Longstreet, born in San Nicolas, Aruba, enjoys an idyllic childhood. He treasures his toy airplanes and dreams of being a pilot. One night in February 1942 changes everything. After a torpedo from a German U-boat hits the oil tanker Pedernales off the coast of Aruba, his family returns to the United States, where he grows up to fulfill his dream of flying. Anthony becomes a personal pilot for notable figures in the 1960s, giving him a unique perspective of events during the early d...

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Lonely Silver Rain is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.Travis McGee has luck to thank for his reputation as a first-rate salvager of stolen boats. Now Billy Ingraham, a self-made tycoon, is betting that McGee can locate his $700,000 custom cruiser. McGee isn’t so sure. He knows all too well the dangerous link between Florida boatjackings and the...

A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea, Fatal Forecast is a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of seventy-two hours in the lives of eight young fishermen, some of whom would never set foot on dry land again.On the morning of November 21, 1980, two small Massachusetts lobster boats set out for Georges Bank, a bountiful but perilous fishing ground 130 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. The National Weather Service had forecast typical fall weather,...

Here is the triumphant sequel to Robert Mason's bestselling account of his service as a chopper pilot in Vietnam. Chickenawk: Back in the World is a moving, no-holds-barred post-Vietnam memoir that reveals the war's shattering legacy in the heart and mind of a returning vet. When Robert Mason's first book was published in 1983, it was hailed as one of the finest personal evocations of Vietnam ever to appear in print. In fact, Chickenhawk is still in print, a book that continues to serve as...

The harrowing adventure-at-sea memoir recounting the heroic search-and-rescue mission for lost Montauk fisherman John Aldridge, which Daniel James Brown calls "A terrific read."I am floating in the middle of the night, and nobody in the world even knows I am missing. Nobody is looking for me. You can't get more alone than that. You can't be more lost.I've got too many people who love me. There's no way I'm dying like this.In the dea...

When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from America's most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fisherman's worst nightm...

In the early hours of February 15, 1982, while undertaking exploratory drilling one hundred and seventy nautical miles east of St. John's, Newfoundland, the Ocean Ranger, the Titantic of semi-submersible oil rigs, capsized and sank in a severe weather storm. All eighty-four crewmen, including fifty-six Newfoundlanders, were lost. It was Canada's worst maritime disaster since the Second World War, leaving that tightly-knit island province shattered to its core. Reeling in debt and unemploym...

"There can be no better writer of modern sea adventure around today." – Clive Cussler“Poyer has an accurate ear for dialogue and he fleshes out his characters.” – New York Times Book Review“Poyer’s ability to hold the reader’s interest is fantastic.” – Roanoke Times-UnionUSA Today -bestselling author David Poyer writes gripping undersea thrillers in the tradition of Clive Cussler and John D. MacDonald.Salvage diver and ex-con Tiller Gallowa...

Johnson’s savagely funny [book] is a grunt’s-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community. It’s like M*A*S*H on ice, a bleak, black comedy.”—The Times of London

Take a gorgeous companion for a leisurely sail on a beautiful yacht. Sounds like easy duty for Matt Helm, except that the last three captains of the yacht died under mysterious circumstances. Matt will tangle with a crew of dangerous women, a terrorist squad, and an elite organization of death-dealing specialists. He had better be ready, if he wants to stay alive.