A disappearance, a priest fed up with confessions, Halloween night, All Saints and All Souls set in a small college town with a penchant for bird watching, astronomy, and tracking, laced with the notes of elusive music whispering through the prairies grass and ghosts who dance and send out recipes. The threads of a past and a present intertwine through violins, a play, a bomber jacket, dance prints and card decks.

As sizzling as a see-and-be-seen night on the town, as lip-smacking as a flawless cosmo, The Perfect Manhattan serves up a dishy tale of bartending among the beautiful people—and provides the ultimate summer cocktail.Meet Cassie Ellis—a young college graduate with the world on a string, a yen for screenwriting, and a need for fast cash to pay off her student loans. Eager to avoid the lucrative snooze-fest of a reliable consulting job, she shocks everyone s...

The legendary six-time CrossFit Games champion and Olympic athlete shares lessons from her inspiring story of leveling up her performance, embracing failure, and fiercely taking on impossible goals.“Champions are built in the mind first, and Tia Toomey understands exactly how to do that.”—Andy Frisella, entrepreneur, creator of 75 Hard and Real AF podcastTia Toomey, the world’s fittest woman, has won the CrossFit Games an incredibl...

Stories about murders, train wrecks, plane crashes, disappearances, peculiar events, and mysterious happenings in a once rural county near Washington, D.C.

I have loved to compete since primary school; where I lived for sport, particularly running, and would push myself to the limit to become better than yesterday. It may come as a surprise to you, but I always came second. I was always the underdog, that person who just fell short. I never gave up, I just felt that fire in my belly get stronger and stronger – I wanted do more, be more, achieve more.The day I finally came first was something I had always dreamed of. At twenty-four yea...

A short book of poetry to give you the inspiration to live your most powerful day. It is a reminder that beauty and change are a constant part of making a happy life. It is through our shadowed moments that we grow and become strong. It is then that we will find out who we are and our true purpose in life. It is at these moments of disappointment and challenge that we overcome life's obstacles. This is when we find our " power wings " and take a flight to a new life of our design. One we m...

Learn how to write code, mathematics, graphics, and output, all in a single document, as well as in a web browser using Project JupyterKey Features\[\*\] Learn to write, execute, and comment your live code and formulae all under one roof using this unique guide\[\*\] This one-stop solution on Project Jupyter will teach you everything you need to know to perform scientific computation with ease\[\*\] This easy-to-follow, highly practical guide l...

Leverage the power of the popular Jupyter notebooks to simplify your data science tasks without any hassle Key FeaturesCreate and share interactive documents with live code, text and visualizationsIntegrate popular programming languages such as Python, R, Julia, Scala with JupyterDevelop your widgets and interactive dashboards with these innovative recipesBook DescriptionJupyter has garnered a strong interest in the data scie...

The Manhattan Project at Hanford Site describes the top-secret effort undertaken during World War II to develop a weapon never imagined at "Site W" or "Hanford Engineer Works," one of three sites selected in the United States (plus Los Alamos and Oak Ridge) to research and produce weapons that were ultimately used to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki and end World War II. It was a research and engineering feat of unimaginable proportion, and the total project cost for all three sites was $2.1 bi...

Your one-stop guide to building an efficient data science pipeline using JupyterKey Features\[\*\]Get the most out of your Jupyter notebook to complete the trickiest of tasks in Data Science\[\*\]Learn all the tasks in the data science pipeline—from data acquisition to visualization—and implement them using Jupyter\[\*\]Get ahead of the curve by mastering all the applications of Jupyter for data science with this unique and intuitive guide...

Jim Toomey was already a successful drummer when he became a part of a new group, The Tourists, in the late seventies. He formed the group with Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart, Peet Coombes and Eddie Chin.From their early beginnings in London, finding their sound and their voice, through their success, their recordings, TV appearances, and their tours across the world, this is the story of The Tourists, told by the man sitting behind the drums.In a series of anecdotes and tales of...

Create and share livecode, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text, in both a single document and a web browser with JupyterKey FeaturesLearn how to use Jupyter 5.x features such as cell tagging and attractive table stylesLeverage big data tools and datasets with different Python packagesExplore multiple-user Jupyter Notebook serversBook DescriptionThe Jupyter Notebook allows you to create and share documents that con...