Ten-year-old Magda Fernandez is snatched out of her home in urban New Jersey in the dead of night and held for ransom.Who is responsible for this heinous act? Her chubby, acne-faced babysitter and her sleazy boyfriend? Her boozy, adulterous father's slutty girlfriend? An honest, hardworking railroad maintenance man and his scheming coworker?A crime that baffled two rookie FBI agents and local police and is impossibly being investigated by a womanizing teacher in pursuit of ...

When a stranger who turns out to be his niece receives an extra 23andMe test by mistake, it changes Alex Blum's life forever.At the age of sixty, Alex Blum made a life-altering discovery: he was the eldest of four biological brothers he never knew existed. Born in 1955, Blum had always known he was adopted, yet the secrecy of the era kept every detail of his origins sealed. Without a court order, he spent decades without a single clue about where he came from—o...

Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment is a how-to book designed for the marketing practitioner. It provides detailed information on how to prepare and implement a marketing plan based in a total quality environment.For the last twenty years, the authors, as marketing practitioners and educators, have been deeply involved in the planning processes of many corporations. This book, Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment, is the product of what they've learned over the y...

Our world is full of wonders - if only you know how to lookThat background hum might not be the midnight traffic; it could be the echo of a whispered incantation. Step into a concrete jungle where alleyways shift course, online maps fail, and ancient runes hide in UV-reactive street art. From the quiet, agonizing personal choices of individuals protecting the people they love to the fate of entire hidden communities, the characters in these fifteen urban fantasy stories face the sa...

1940s Science Fiction 5 - 19 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories From the 1940sMr. Meek Plays Polo Chapter by Clifford D. SimakCaptain Midas by Alfred CoppelThe Incredible Slingshot Bombs by Robert Moore WilliamsAdam and No Eve by Alfred BesterThe Avenger by Damon KnightLancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate by Nelson S. BondAn Adventure of a Professional Corpse - The Artificial Honeymoon by H. Bedford–JonesThe Me...