In 1679, Samuel Pepys is Secretary to the Admiralty, in charge of the navy, and at the right hand of King Charles.But also in 1679, England is awash with suspicion and fear. In this maelstrom of distrust, Pepys finds himself at the heart of a conspiracy, charged with treason and facing a crooked trial and potential execution.The only person who can save him is his brother, Balthazar, and Balthazar’s twin children, Betty and Sam – precociously smart and deviously determined ...

The story reveals the life of a young man who joined the Army right out of high school. From a small town with five siblings to his first plane ride overseas, he began his service to his country. He started a military career that took him around the world and offered a promising future. The loss his family suffered on October 19, 2005, changed his life more profoundly than any previous pain from losing loved ones. The story also explores the profound pain of experiencing the greatest loss ...

Two buddies, theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus and James, sit at a table and pass the time together playing a made-up game in which they name people, places, or things – Pamela Anderson, microwave ovens, their fathers, Goldman Sachs – and debate whether they are successful or not; in other words, whether they are winners or losers. Each friend seeks to defeat the other, and because one of these men grew up economically privileged, and the other did not, the competition very quic...

A comparative analysis of Ethernet, TCP/IP, and Fibre Channel in the context of SCSIIntroduces network administrators to the requirements of storage protocolsExplains the operation of network protocols to storage administratorsCompares and contrasts the functionality of Ethernet, TCP/IP, and Fibre ChannelDocuments the details of the major protocol suites, explains how they operate, and identifies common misunderstandingsReferences the o...

It tells the story of a man with a head injury who finds himself in a stranger's bathroom, unaware of his identity or why he is there.

First published in 1881 and then reprinted in 2000. The materials from which this little work has been compiled are scattered over more than 1000 volumes, some very rare, and to be consulted only in libraries in India, Russia and other parts of the Continent, or in the British Museum. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true ...

THE ONLY THING LEFT IS VENGEANCE…Dispossessed in the Battle of Tukayyid, former Com Guard soldier Jeremiah Rose wants nothing more than to strike back at the Clans who destroyed his ’Mech and his career. Dreams of swift vengeance turn to nightmares when every effort he makes to rejoin the fight to protect the citizens of the Inner Sphere is rejected.Forced to win a new BattleMech by fighting on the game world of Solaris VII, Rose recruits other soldiers fro...

DEAD RIGHT THEREJeremiah Rose and the Black Thorns, flush with their success against the Jade Falcons on Borghese, head to Harlech to draw a new assignment. Their only requirement: the new job must let them face off against the Clans.They find more than they bargained for. Their assignment: Garrison duty on Wolcott—a Kurita planet deep in the heart of the Clan Smoke Jaguar occupation zone. Wolcott is besieged, but protected from further Clan aggression by the Clan code of h...

Before Oregon had a constitution or courthouses, it had chaos. Rough Justice uncovers the turbulent birth of law and order of the Northwest frontier, where fur traders, missionaries, Native communities and opportunists wrestled with how to live in a place without laws - and for much of the time without a single jail.Drawing on eyewitness diaries, newspapers and public documents, James Long brings to life the makeshift trials, public hangings and moral conflicts tha...

Before the Allies could storm the beaches of Normandy, they had to win a shadow war of pure imagination. The greatest weapon deployed in the weeks leading up to D-Day was not made of steel or explosives, but of rubber, canvas, and meticulously crafted lies. Operation Fortitude was a massive, unprecedented counterintelligence campaign designed to convince the German High Command that the main invasion force would strike at Pas de Calais. To sell this illusion, the Allies conjured an entirel...

As the stage curtains begin to close and you look back on your life, what memories will replay themselves in your mind?What will stick out the most?Each of us has a story to tell, a lifetime of trips and parties, first loves and heart breaks, the joys of birth and the grief of death. Each life creates a beautifully unique tapestry. My Life, Not Yours is the tapestry of one man’s life, from his childhood up until becoming a grandparent, and with those years comes a tremendous ...

The Gift Within is a fictional book about Skylar, a tender-hearted Carolina Wren, who is afraid to take flight and is tormented by his siblings. Encouraged by his parents, he overcomes his fear and discovers how to soar by giving away the gift deep within his heart. The book is appropriate for pre-adolescent readers, although it can be easily comprehended by gifted younger readers and read by parents/grandparents to young children. The "hidden" moral of the book is to help readers think ab...