On his thirtieth birthday, barista Jimmy Patterson decides to get rip-roaring drunk after his roommate-boyfriend abandons him at a bar in the tiny California foothills town of Stone Acres where they have relocated from San Francisco. Jimmy is immediately rescued by the burly owner of Stonewall Saloon, who has had his eye on Jimmy since the first time he came in months before.Jimmy's fine with being saved but wants to know the bartender's real name since the guy has worn name tags wi...

There are lots of books about Harleys, about their history, performance, lineage and the minutae of their specification, but none of them will tell you what to look for when buying one second-hand. That's what this book is about - it aims to be a straightforward, practical guide to buying a used Harley-Davidson. It won't list all the correct colour combinations for each year, or analyse the bike's design philosophy, or consider its background as a cultural icon - there are excellent books ...

English writing tutor Steve Smith only has two more semesters to graduate from Vermillion College in California. Then he hopes to get a top-paying job writing copy for a tech firm. Until he reaches his self-fulfilled dreams, however, he's working his way through school without borrowing from his successful Chinese-American parents.Vermillion football star Jason Woodard, on the other hand, grew up in a state-run home and is struggling to make his athletic scholarship and all that go...

Data Science Foundations Explained Clearly for Absolute Beginners Today: Practical Concepts Tools and Mindsets for Starting Analytics Confidently is a thorough manual created to assist anyone entering the field of data science with assurance. This book, which is written for complete novices, simplifies difficult ideas into understandable, useful explanations that make it simpler to comprehend how data may be gathered, examined, and utilized to guide decisions. It presents the fundamental p...

Four books under one cover, dealing with themes of horror and the supernatural from a female-led perspective for the connoisseur of the assertive, terrifying - and sometimes evil, woman.Inside you will find:"The Bewitchment" by Wilson Henshaw; “Madame Solange” from Rafe Linnell; “The Comtesse" by Maurice Huysman; and Ezra Bedford's "Kiss of Evil".Female-led fiction in the classical style for those who prefer their fantasies populated by believable characters and plo...

Legacy of a Weymouth Woman is the story of Lillian May Henshaw, a resourceful and talented woman, an advocate for education and an early feminist who, perhaps, was just a little bit ahead of her time.Growing up in the shipbuilding community of Weymouth, she had a penchant for stories about the exploits and adventures of the local ships and the men who sailed them. She often wrote about them as a young freelance correspondent for the Halifax Chronicle Herald near the end of the gold...

Fruitcake is the laughingstock of the holiday season. But is it really an aphrodisiac instead?Motorcycle mechanic Sam McGuire is surprised to find a gaily wrapped box on his doorstep with a piece of fruitcake inside. The note on the present is an invitation to a holiday party.Intrigued, Sam attends the party -- mostly to get more of the fruitcake he falls in love with -- and meets his new neighbor, Jay Merriweather. The lure of Jay's big family and its holiday tradition of ...

Gil and Ford shared a pivotal moment when they were kids living in tiny Leeward, California, on the northern coastal highway. Immediately afterward, Gil moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with his family so his mother could get better cancer care.Years later, Gil is back in Leeward, working as CFO at Mainsail Construction where Ford supervises the work teams. Gil has come home to take care of his father after the older man's stroke. While Gil says he's a small town boy at heart an...

Jodis had been born with everything her society had to offer, and had lost it all. Could it be that the bedraggled blue-haired castaway she drags from the Icelandic ocean holds the key to her return? And has Jodis fought against the world for so long that her heart has become too hard for love? A powerful drama of love, revenge, politics and violence in the bleak wilderness of 11th centry Iceland.

Wilson Henshaw’s “The Toe Ring”, his tale of an English husband succumbing to the mind-control of an Indian housekeeper as well as that of his wife's, opens these three tales of misadventure in the female-led world of horror, the occult, and the supernatural. The husband’s downfall brought about by the housekeeper's simple yet mesmeric and eponymous.."Toe-Ring"… As well as the feet he seems powerless to resist as he falls deeper and deeper under the spell of his own servant.Maurice...

Most of the many available books about Triumph motorcycles concentrate on the bigger Bonneville and Trident ranges. Yet alongside these headline-grabbing bikes, Triumph also built a series of smaller 350 and 500cc machines that possessed all the style of their bigger brothers, but were lighter in weight, easier to ride, and now cheaper to buy, too. This straightforward, practical Essential Buyer's Guide contains all the advice you need on buying one of these classic motorcycles, from the e...

Many words have been written about the Honda FireBlade, about its history, performance, lineage and specification, but few tell you what to look for when buying one second-hand. That's what this book is about - it aims to be a straightforward, practical guide to buying a used Fireblade. It won't list all the correct colour combinations for each year, or analyse the bike's design philosophy, or consider its background as a standard-setting sports bike - there are excellent books listed at t...