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"Sam's mother can't wait to wed her wealthy beau, Harold Robertson. The big mystery is how they're going to pull off a lavish wedding in three weeks. Harold's snobby sister-in-law proposes a solution: engage flamboyant wedding planner Lydia Lighthouse. But their beacon of hope quickly sends everyone into a blind rage, most of all the groom-to-be. So when the maddening micromanager is strangled with her own scarf, it's a shock, but not a surprise....

Amateur sleuth Samantha Washington's shopping trip to Chicago takes a deadly detour when a man is murdered on her bus . . . After some post-Christmas retail therapy in the Windy City, mystery bookshop owner and historical whodunit novelist Sam Washington is returning home to North Harbor, Michigan, on a chartered bus. With Nana Jo and her gal pals Irma, Dorothy, and Ruby Mae from Shady Acres Retirement Village along for the ride, it's a lively trip....

Flexible ac Transmission Systems (FACTS) devices are used to control power flow in the transmission grid to relieve congestion and limit loop flows. High cost and reliability concerns have limited the widespread deployment of FACTS solutions. This paper introduces the concept of Distributed FACTS (D-FACTS) as an alternative approach to realizing cost-effective power flow control. By way of example, a distributed series impedance (DSI) and a distributed...

Modern capitalism can get traced back to the 18th century. It is characterized by innovation and love to protect personal wealth. To understand modern capitalism, we will analyse the varieties of capitalism, the family under capitalism, tensions with democracy as seen by Buchanan and Olson, contradictions of post-industrial society, capitalism and nationalism as seen by Ernest Gellner, Herbert Marcuse and the new left critique, and end of communism,...

Market research is any set of skills utilized to collect data and better comprehend a corporation's target market (McQuarrie, 2005). Companies utilize this data to design improved products, advance user experience, and craft an advertising message that entices excellent leads and advances conversion rates. To understand market research better we are going to analyze strategies and procedures for quality of Service, ISO 9000, lean manufacturing, six...

Statistics is the science of gathering, consolidating, presenting, scrutinizing, and interpreting data to aid in making more effectual decisions (Bhardwaj, 2009). Certainly, we have noted the big number of evidences and data, frequently denoted to as statistics, that are present in the newspaper and periodicals we read, the websites we visit, the TV we watch, principally sporting actions, and in the grocery supplies where we buy goods and services...

Second Chances sets the isolation of western Australian against the hubbub of London, telling the intertwined stories of a group of colourful characters at various stages in their lives. Alan and Sylvia share a relationship of convenience. When Sylvia travels to London to attend a funeral, they both find themselves caught up in circumstances that force them to re-consider where their lives are heading. Alan's brother Ben and his spoiled wife Suzanne...

Presented as one hundred fifteen narrative-style poems, some of which are rhyming and others are in prose or blank verse, Reflections on Mountaineering, A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains, a FOURTH EDITION, summarizes much of what the author, Alan V. Goldman, learned in his more than 30 years of climbing, either from personal experience, or from his mountaineering peers. Mr. Goldman came to realize that many of the same moral issues...

In the land of Barracks, the economy thrives on the barter of their citizen's most precious commodity-a human heart. Each year the Heart Reign festival is thrown for those who have become of age to trade their heart for their deepest desires. And this year is Adelaide Tye's year to trade. After despising Heart Reign for years, Addie endures her Extraction and discovers that her heart isn't gray and dying, like all other hearts in Barracks, but bright...

A magic healer must journey to cure a sick prince in this fantasy adventure series launch by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Study series. Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan absorbs their wounds and diseases into herself. But rather than being honored for her skills, she is hunted. Healers like Avry are accused of spreading the plague that has decimated the Fifteen Realms, leaving the survivors in a state of chaos. Stressed...