The newest recruit in the Special Corps, you take your orders from the legendary Slippery Jim diGriz. Rogue. Rascal. And master-criminal turned cop. Linked by a hi-tech mind-meld, he'll be with you every step of the way. But you deal with his heckling.Your mission: kidnap the mad scientist Professor Geisteskrank from the planet Skraldespand. Why, you ask? Because he's invented a device that could end life as we know (and love) it in the entire universe.Oh yes, and did we mention that the planet Skraldespand is a prison planet and home to the felonious refuse of a thousand human and alien worlds? Good luck. You're going to need it.

    Filled with clear step-by-step instructions for how to fold each model and clever routines for performing them in front of audiences, this book aims to literally move origami on to a new stage!

    Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. Sexually explicit content. MFMM with MM scenes. Mild BDSM. Regina would do anything for the cousin who took her in when she had nowhere else to go, even stand in as a replacement for a dinner date. What she is confronted with at the dinner could change her life, she just doesn't know if it is for the better. Trey and Quinn come to town for business with plans to play in their down time. Instead, they meet a woman who has the ability to offer them everything. Adam is a cop who has lost the will to survive after losing everything he held dear. A chance encounter with a victim brings back memories he is not sure he is ready to face. To Regina, one attentive man would be enough for any woman, so with three, the doubts begin to surface, will she be enough for them? Add in the baggage that each man carries with them, and she is not so sure. Will the men choose to move on with her? Or wallow in the past with bittersweet memories.

    Pendergast is missing, presumed dead.A SHOCKING RETURNSick with grief, Pendergast's ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive--only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past.AN INTERNATIONAL MANHUNTProctor, Pendergast's longtime bodyguard, springs to action, chasing Constance's kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown.BUT IN A WORLD OF BLACK AND WHITE, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMSAnd by the time Proctor discovers the truth, a terrifying engine has stirred-and it may already be too late . . .

    Subjects range from an ultra-simple hat, cup, and pinwheel to the more challenging figures of a penguin and a piano.

    But before she can leave the past behind, she must return to L.A.: her ex, Paul, is in a hurry for a divorce so he can marry his very young, very pregnant fiancée. But the day before the final proceedings, Paul's bound and broken body is found in the Palm Springs desert. Ali finds herself the sole heir to his wealthy estate—and the prime suspect in his brutal murder. As the evidence piles up against her, she must navigate a torturous path strewn with danger—and bodies—to expose the real cold-blooded thriller.Hand of EvilAli Reynolds is grieving. The newscasting job she once delighted in is gone and so is the philandering husband she loved and thought she knew. When a member of the family who gave Ali a generous scholarship for her education decades earlier suddenly asks her for a meeting, Ali wonders what it can mean. Before she can satisfy her curiosity, though, Ali receives another startling call: a friend's teenage daughter has disappeared. Ali offers to help, but in doing so, she unknowingly begins a quest that will reveal a deadly ring of secrets, at the center of which stand two undiscriminating killers…Cruel IntentEx–television journalist Ali Reynolds just wants a break from excitement to remodel her new home. But when the savagely murdered body of stay-at-home mom Morgan Forester is found, Ali’s contractor Bryan is the prime suspect. Bryan swears he has nothing to do with his wife’s murder—but as the investigation progresses, Ali seems to be the only person who believes him. Determined to prove Bryan’s innocence, she logs onto singleatheart.com, a dating site for "married singles," and unknowingly lands herself directly in the path of a calculating killer.

    Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s Blue Labyrinth is an action-packed detective novel. It neatly braids several major narrative strands into a single, gripping read that will be sure to please standing fans of the series and will doubtlessly welcome new readers into the Pendergast continuum. Blue Labyrinth, follows United States Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Aloysius X. L. Pendergast as he investigates the sudden, startling murder of his estranged criminal son, Alban. As Pendergast looks into the case, he works to delay other investigations that bear in on his family, in which he is not entirely successful; other, seemingly unrelated investigations end up attaching themselves directly to the Pendergast lineage. At length, the investigative strands converge in a tense, tightly paced action scene that could play well in a summer blockbuster, leaving Pendergast and those in his favor alive and well and all those who oppose them dead. You also get the following in this Summary & Analysis of Blue Labyrinth: • Detailed Book Review from Experts • Story Setting Analysis of Blue Labyrinth • Pick up bits you might have missed as we decipher the novel. • Plot Analysis that will help you see the book from another angle. • Details of Characters & Key Character Analysis • Summary of the text, with some analytical comments interspersed • Discussion & Analysis of Themes, Symbols… • And Much More! This Analysis of Blue Labyrinth fills the gap, making you understand more while enhancing your reading experience of the full book.

    This Boston-based alternative pop/German-like cabaret duo hand-designed this book which includes art, photos, commentary and 11 songs from their 2004 release. Songs included are: Bad Habit * Coin Operated Boy * Girl Anachronism * Good Day * Gravity * Half Jack * The Jeep Song * Missed Me *Perfect Fit * Slide * Truce.

    Communication is also emphasized, with a focus on how to document and communicate project developments, both within and outside of the team. In-depth coverage of planning, scheduling and cost management is also provided. The authors' goal is to provide many cases that are fun and elicit interesting debates, and this edition includes new end-of-chapter cases. In addition, all new up-to-date Real World Project Management vignettes are included at the beginning and within each chapter, giving you a taste of how project management is practically applied in the workplace. Key points of each chapter are highlighted in Critical Success Factor boxes, providing an overview of the main ideas covered within the chapter. End-of-chapter materials contain questions and Internet exercises that allow you to apply the concepts covered in the chapter. Sprinkled throughout each chapter are boxed questions designed to test your comprehension of key concepts. A trial version of Microsoft Office Project 2007 is included for student use on class projects.

    The official companion to the major National Maritime Museum exhibition, running from 31 March to 5 September 2004.

    Consider this the long-overdue, but perfect expression of gratitude for parents, friends, siblings, co-workers, and loved ones.

    That same day, Tucker resigned, and Huckabee would serve as governor of Arkansas until 2007, winning many national honors along the way. Character Makes a Difference is Mike Huckabee’s biographical account of how he handled that potentially major constitutional crisis and why he believes character is the key issue in everyone’s life, “in the work you do, the candidates you vote for, the people who look to you for leadership.”

    Until then, she had only ridden scooters around London. With more gear than sense, her 17,000 miles journey took her through the mayhem of Delhi traffic, the mountains of Kashmir, the deserts of Rajasthan, the beaches of Goa, the southern tip of India, the remote tracks of Nepal and the eerie Himalayan barrenness of Ladakh. She wanted an adventure to spice up a boring life and fulfil her wanderlust. She got that, and more.

    Through the stories he tells of everyday concerns, Adrian creates a vivid and unforgettable sense of the presence of God in the midst of the problems of ordinary life.

    A prequel and sequel to the 1933 novel that introduced King Kong blends the talents of a renowned fantasy artist with those of a top science fiction writer to create a worthy and long-awaited successor to the Depression-era fantasy that spawned numerous feature-length films.