Learn how to make Android development much faster using a variety of Kotlin features, from basics to advanced, to write better quality code.Key FeaturesLeverage specific features of Kotlin to ease Android application developmentWrite code based on both object oriented and functional programming to build robust applicationsFilled with various practical examples so you can easily apply your knowledge to real world scenariosIdentify the i...

A family has been massacred in their home, a display of violence both brutal and bizarre. The details prove curious -- not only are the bodies savaged way beyond anything found at a normal murder scene, every mirror in the house has been shattered. The spectacle shocks a peaceful island community, and when local police turn to the FBI for assistance, Agent Violet Darger finds herself working another harrowing crime scene. She stares, once more, into the abyss, and mankind'...

Invisible when no one should be, Anira is an outcast, forced to hide from the chieftain who rules her clan with an iron fist.He is their savior. Akin to a god. The path to their survival.Only, he isn't. Not by a long shot.He is their greatest enemy, hidden within their midst. The most dangerous threat of all.No one sees him for who he is, but her. The one whose very existence is a guaranteed death sentence, should she be discovered. Worse, s...

Now available for the first time in audio, this luminescent novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer enthralls with a story of difficult choices, complicated loves, and hard-won triumphs.At the age of forty-six, Daphne Miller is a first-time homeowner, a divorced college administrator whose daughter has moved in with her father. On a dirt road in the green mountains of southern Vermont, Daphne has at last found a home of her own. It may be t...

Rina Nelle Mont is finally a part of the paranormal world. But it isn’t rainbows and roses like she’d imagined.The Magical Creatures Academy only accepts those supernaturals with the greatest potential. She’s now certain she has what it takes … and then some. She has more power than she has bargained for.The Academy is the leading institution for paranormal creatures in the world. Its students are the finest of shifters, vampires, and fae.In Rina’s ...

Use this book to decipher and easily learn more than 400 words and expressions used by legal practitioners. Written by a lawyer and English teacher, Legal English Volume 3 aims to skyrocket your confidence and comprehension skills when dealing with texts written in legalese. All the target terminology used has been put in an attention-grabbing context to provide efficient explanations and sentence use. The book consists of 20 chapters, covering such issues as company debt, indigenous right...

Everything You'll Ever Need (You Can Find Within Yourself) is Charlotte Freeman's first book and was written from the most vulnerable places of the heart. This book is open and honest, written to resonate with those who need it the most.Full of messages we all sometimes need, that often come at just the right time, this book is your reminder that everything you'll ever need, you can find within yourself.

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Improve your legal vocabulary and comprehension of texts written with the use of jargon of legal practitioners. Designed by a lawyer and legal English teacher, this workbook helps you to understand more than 400 legal expressions and 80 business phrasal verbs. It sets the terminology in a daily-life context and provides efficient explanations as well as sentence use. The workbook covers elements from 18 areas of law, including human rights law, public international law, business law, IP la...

He abducts me to find his fated mate, unaware that I am she. I am Freyja, the First Witch. I was born with a cruel curse: anyone I touch with my bare skin will die an agonizing death. That is, until a formidable, drop-dead gorgeous Dragonian prince invades my forest home. The prince's lust burns hot and bright for me, yet he resists, wanting his destined witch more. The oracle promises the witch will be his true queen and bring him the greatest kingdom on Earth. Knowing he's the only man w...

I didn’t choose this life, but it’s still the only one I’ve got.Made by corrupt magic, sent to die, then saved and adopted by the local pack. I wasn’t born a wolf shifter, but I’m one of them now. And I’m prepared to fight at their side against the evil organization that will stop at nothing to extinguish our kind.I’ve found a family and I’ve found love with my very own fated mate, the irresistible pack Beta. But if I’m not careful, I can lose it all. One wrong move is all ...

I Burn Paris has remained one of Poland's most uncomfortable masterstrokes of literature since its initial and controversial serialization by Henri Barbusse in 1928 in L'Humanité (for which Jasieński was deported for disseminating subversive literature). It tells the story of a disgruntled factory worker who, finding himself on the streets, takes the opportunity to poison Paris's water supply. With the deaths piling up, we encounter Chinese communists, rabbis, disillusion...