Sharp, dramatic, and full of insider dish, SOPHIA OF SILICON VALLEY is one woman's story of a career storming the corridors of geek power and living in the shadow of its outrageous cast of maestros. During the heady years of the tech boom, incorrigibly frank Sophia Young lucks into a job that puts her directly in the path of Scott Kraft, the eccentric CEO of Treehouse, a studio whose animated films are transforming movies forever. Overnight, Sophia...

After a dinner-party clash, one dinner guest is dead and two more have gone missing in the Alberta wilds. As Jan comforts the newly-bereaved Michael, Lacey infiltrates the Caine oil dynasty to learn which of Tyrone's half-brothers want him gone. With the search for the missing going into its third night, Lacey uncovers a weakness in the Caine ranch's security network as well as evidence of previous attacks on Tyrone. Then Jan discovers a long-buried...

A memoir of the author's life in the antiquarian book trade in London, England, beginning with his childhood in rural Ontario, to his eventual, almost accidental start in the trade in London, and to him becoming a poet and travel writer.

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'The Dish' reveals the extraordinary life of a single restaurant dish, introducing every hand that helped produce the meal and tracing each key ingredient back to its origin. Acclaimed "chef writer" Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that come together in a single restaurant dish, creating an entertaining, vivid snapshot of the contemporary restaurant community, modern farming industry, and food-supply chain.

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 In the fall of 1981, BYU was ranked #1 in the country in football. The roar of the crowd echoed across campus every time BYU scored a touchdown. Leach was a fan of BYU's head coach, LaVell Edwards, and his innovative offensive system. #2 Mike Leach was a big fan of BYU football, and when he and Sharon married in 1982, they moved to Southern California so he...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I have always been drawn to risk, and I've taken it at every point in my life. I was born in 1928 in a railroad town in eastern Oklahoma, and grew up with a family that was hardworking, self-sufficient, and honest. #2 I had to learn to sit on my bottom, as my grandmother often told me. I had to give back a dollar I had found on the street because my mother, grandmother,...

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