The infamous pirate, riverboat seductress, master of disguise, and street-urchin-turned-sailor Jacky Faber has been captured by the French and beheaded in full view of her friends and crew.Inconceivable? Yes! The truth is she’s secretly forced to pose as an American dancer behind enemy lines in Paris, where she entices a French general into revealing military secrets—all to save her dear friends. Then, in intrepid Jacky Faber style, she dons male clothing and worms her way into a p...

The British crown has placed a price on Jacky's head, so she returns to the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston to lay low. But the safe haven doesn't last--a school outing goes awry as Jacky and her classmates are abducted and forced into the hold of the Bloodhound, a ship bound for the slave markets on the Barbary Coast. All of Jacky's ingenuity, determination, and plain old good luck will be put to the test as she rallies her delicate classmates to fight together and become ...

This bestselling on-the-job reference and test preparation guide has been fully revised for new 2022 exam objectivesThis fully revised and updated resource offers complete coverage of the latest release of CompTIA A+ exams 220-1101 & 220-1102. You’ll find learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice exam questions, and in-depth explanations. Designed to help you pass the CompTIA A+ exams with ease, this definitive guide also serves as a...

Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates on the high seas.There's only one problem: Jacky is a girl. And she will have to use every bit of her spirit, wit, and courage to keep the crew from discovering her secret. This could be the adventure of her li...

The Cristero movement is an essential part of the Mexican Revolution. When in 1926 relations between Church and state, old enemies and old partners, eventually broke down, when the churches closed and the liturgy was suspended, Rome, Washington and Mexico, without ever losing their heads, embarked upon a long game of chess. These years were crucial, because they saw the setting up of the contemporary political system. The state established its omnipotence, supported by a bureaucratic appar...

CSS has had a layout-shaped hole at its center since the beginning. Designers have bent features such as float and clear to help fill that hole, but nothing has quite done the job. Now that’s about to change. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to use CSS grid layout, a generalized system that lets you lay out pieces of your design independent of their document source order and with full awareness of the overall design.Short and deep, this book is an excerpt from the upcoming...

From David Henry's point of view, everything that was wrong with life in small town America in the 1890's has been cured by more than a century of progress, while everything that was best about it has been destroyed. David's assumptions about the past are tested when a mysterious splash of light transforms David's life, opening a doorway not only to the past but to the love of a young woman named Mary Harrison. The past and present of Noblesville weave happiness and heartache for the two l...

Christmas Surprise is a romantic comedy full of heavenly twists, unlikely encounters and lessons in love, where laughter and hope appear as unexpected gifts at a time as magical as Christmas.If you like Christmas romances, grumpy x sunshine, fast burn, soulmates, redemption, romance with a fairytale, family of the heart, small town, romance between neighbors and instalove, this romance is for you! Helô's life has changed drastically. The doctor, who should be enjoying the best year...

Fate meets nostalgiaIn Sweet Nostalgia, fate meets nostalgia. Jade never forgot her ex-boyfriend, who broke up with her over his career. But the recipe of a great love always works. What happens when the two of them meet again? Alex is overwhelmed, and the stress of being a legal director at a major bank has taken its toll. When he decides to rethink his own life, his sister's engagement invitation seems like a good chance to go back to his hometown in the look of a more peaceful r...

The rate of suicides is at its highest level in nearly 30 years. Suicide notes have long been thought to be valuable resources for understanding suicide motivation, but up to now the small sample sizes available have made an in-depth analysis difficult. Explaining Suicide: Patterns, Motivations, and What Notes Reveal represents a large-scale analysis of suicide motivation across multiple ages during the same time period. This was made possible via a unique dataset of all suicide notes coll...

A sweet and full of magic story about Christmas and second chances.Samuel, better known as Samuca, is a writer of fantastic novels. All of a sudden, his life turned upside down. In the midst of all the problems he has to deal with, he has to hand over the manuscript of his book by Christmas, but he has one of those creative blocks. To help him in this task, his editor has arranged for him a very crazy assistant, and the two will have to live together until the deadline. For fifteen...

The Right Decision is not a book. It is the prequel of Under Pressure, the first young adult romance by A.C. Meyer, which takes us to the period before the story of Ryan and Mandy. If you've already read On Tiptoe, it is a great opportunity to reconnect with these characters who won the hearts of thousands of readers. But if this is your first contact with this universe, don't worry: In this book there are no spoilers.Ryan McKenna is the captain of the Gloucester Knights, the state...