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Author : Thomas Savage,Annie Proulx
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316082709

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The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage,Annie Proulx Pdf

Now an Academy Award-winning Netflix film by Jane Campion, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst: Thomas Savage's acclaimed Western is "a pitch-perfect evocation of time and place" (Boston Globe) for fans of East of Eden and Brokeback Mountain. Set in the wide-open spaces of the American West, The Power of the Dog is a stunning story of domestic tyranny, brutal masculinity, and thrilling defiance from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in American literature. The novel tells the story of two brothers — one magnetic but cruel, the other gentle and quiet — and of the mother and son whose arrival on the brothers’ ranch shatters an already tenuous peace. From the novel’s startling first paragraph to its very last word, Thomas Savage’s voice — and the intense passion of his characters — holds readers in thrall. "Gripping and powerful...A work of literary art." —Annie Proulx, from her afterword

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307767486

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Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

The steadfast and sturdy Continental Op has been summoned to the town of Personville—known as Poisonville—a dusty mining community splintered by competing factions of gangsters and petty criminals. The Op has been hired by Donald Willsson, publisher of the local newspaper, who gave little indication about the reason for the visit. No sooner does the Op arrive, than the body count begins to climb . . . starting with his client. With this last honest citizen of Poisonville murdered, the Op decides to stay on and force a reckoning—even if that means taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.

Author : George Wilkins Kendall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
ISBN : CORNELL:31924009717053

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The War Between the United States and Mexico Illustrated by George Wilkins Kendall Pdf

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Jimmy Patterson
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316315487

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Cradle and All by James Patterson Pdf

Two teenage girls claim that they are pregnant virgins. But only one is carrying the child of Christ . . . and the other will deliver the son of Satan. In Boston, seventeen-year-old Kathleen is pregnant, but she swears she's a virgin. In Ireland, another teenage girl, Colleen, discovers she is in the same impossible condition. Cities all around the world are suddenly overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. As terrifying forces of light and darkness begin to gather, Kathleen and Colleen find themselves at the center of the final battle for the very soul of humanity. Each of the girls must convince a young detective that she is the true mother of God . . . and that the other is carrying the devil. The stakes couldn't be higher in this page-turning thriller. You won't be able to put it down until the final reveal: which baby is the miracle . . . and which the monster?

Author : Keith Ridgway
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811230865

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A Shock by Keith Ridgway Pdf

Ever since Keith Ridgway published his landmark cult novel Hawthorn & Child, his ardent fans have yearned for more Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it’s at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They’re on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by their fingernails, consumed by emotions and anxieties in fuzzily understood situations. A deft, high-wire act, full of imprecise yet sharp dialog as well as witchy sleights of hand reminiscent of Muriel Spark, A Shock delivers a knockout punch of an ending. Perhaps Ridgway’s most breathtaking quality is his scintillating stealthiness: you can never quite put your finger on how he casts his spell—he delivers the shock of a master jewel thief (already far-off and scot-free) stealing your watch: when at some point you look down at your wrist, all you see is that in more than one way you don’t know what time it is…

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015036917014

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Points of Issue by Anonim Pdf

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547190332

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The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Mrs. Isabella Mary Beeton
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 2271 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465529893

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The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Isabella Mary Beeton Pdf

Author : John Sandford
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101158173

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Mortal Prey by John Sandford Pdf

Years ago, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hitwoman in the business. Now retired and living in Mexico, she nearly dies herself when a sniper kills her boyfriend, the son of a local druglord, and while the boy's father vows vengeance, Rinker knows something he doesn't: The boy wasn't the target-she was-and now she is going to have to disappear to find the killer herself. The FBI and DEA draft Davenport to help track her down, and with his fiancie deep in wedding preparations, he's really just as happy to go-but he has no idea what he's getting into. For Rinker is as unpredictable as ever, and between her, her old bosses in the St. Louis mob, the Mexican druglord, and the combined, sometimes warring, forces of U.S. law enforcement, this is one case that will get more dangerous as it goes along. And when the crossfire comes, anyone standing in the middle won't stand a chance.... Filled with the rich characterization and exceptional drama that are his hallmarks, Mortal Prey proves that John Sandford just keeps getting better.

Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798200952090

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Pdf

One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.

Author : A. J. MacGregor,W. Perring
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1942-01-01
Category : Cats
ISBN : 0721402089

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Smoke and Fluff by A. J. MacGregor,W. Perring Pdf

A story in verse desribes "the mischievous pranks of two lively kittens, Smoke and Fluff, and how their naughtiness was forgiven, in the end, by their understanding mother."--p. [2].

Author : Gareth James,Daniela Witten,Trevor Hastie,Robert Tibshirani,Jonathan Taylor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783031387470

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An Introduction to Statistical Learning by Gareth James,Daniela Witten,Trevor Hastie,Robert Tibshirani,Jonathan Taylor Pdf

An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance, marketing, and astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents some of the most important modeling and prediction techniques, along with relevant applications. Topics include linear regression, classification, resampling methods, shrinkage approaches, tree-based methods, support vector machines, clustering, deep learning, survival analysis, multiple testing, and more. Color graphics and real-world examples are used to illustrate the methods presented. This book is targeted at statisticians and non-statisticians alike, who wish to use cutting-edge statistical learning techniques to analyze their data. Four of the authors co-wrote An Introduction to Statistical Learning, With Applications in R (ISLR), which has become a mainstay of undergraduate and graduate classrooms worldwide, as well as an important reference book for data scientists. One of the keys to its success was that each chapter contains a tutorial on implementing the analyses and methods presented in the R scientific computing environment. However, in recent years Python has become a popular language for data science, and there has been increasing demand for a Python-based alternative to ISLR. Hence, this book (ISLP) covers the same materials as ISLR but with labs implemented in Python. These labs will be useful both for Python novices, as well as experienced users.

Author : Hadley Wickham,Garrett Grolemund
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781491910368

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R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham,Garrett Grolemund Pdf

Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible. Authors Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund guide you through the steps of importing, wrangling, exploring, and modeling your data and communicating the results. You'll get a complete, big-picture understanding of the data science cycle, along with basic tools you need to manage the details. Each section of the book is paired with exercises to help you practice what you've learned along the way. You'll learn how to: Wrangle—transform your datasets into a form convenient for analysis Program—learn powerful R tools for solving data problems with greater clarity and ease Explore—examine your data, generate hypotheses, and quickly test them Model—provide a low-dimensional summary that captures true "signals" in your dataset Communicate—learn R Markdown for integrating prose, code, and results

Author : Edward N. Zempel,Linda A. Verkler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015019843310

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First Editions, a Guide to Identification by Edward N. Zempel,Linda A. Verkler Pdf

Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345316231

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Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter by Isaac Asimov Pdf

Lucky Starr and Bigman Jones journey to the remote moons of Jupiter to find the spy who is leaking the vital secrets of the hyperatomic engines of a prototype spaceship to the enemy Sirians