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High Steaks

By: Rob Loughran

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Winner of the Mystery Novel Award. Davis O'Kane thought his fall from grace had reached its lowest point, with an impending divorce and a custody battle for his twin daughters, but then he finds a dead body in his restaurant, and his world sinks as deep as a Uranium pit in the high desert of Nightingale, Nevada. Nightingale is a place where high stakes gamblers and rednecks belly up to the bar with high-priced hookers and federal agents. High Steaks propels the reader into the realm of crooked horse racing, cheating the roulette wheel, and murder as hot as a Nevada summer, set against a backdrop of the town's first contested mayoral race in decades. Follow Davis as he unravels the murder and pulls himself up from the brink of despair.

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High Steaks

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Over the Wall

From the Dangerous Streets of NYC…Through the Birth of Counterterrorism and Beyond

By: Kevin M. Hallinan,Rob Travalino

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Over the Wall

From the Dangerous Streets of NYC…Through the Birth of Counterterrorism and Beyond

By: Kevin M. Hallinan,Rob Travalino

From his hardscrabble NYC upbringing, through the NYPD ranks, to command of America’s first ever joint task force on terrorism alongside the FBI, Kevin M. Hallinan lived a lot of history. From beat cop to detective, Hallinan maneuvered through some of America’s most volatile decades and saw from the inside the tenuous gray line between law and order. The job proved to be extremely isolating. And it was almost always hair-trigger. Early in his career, Hallinan became embroiled in deadly mob cases, which pulled him under the scrutiny of the feared and historic Knapp Commission on police corruption. In extreme danger and under pressure, he persevered and kept his integrity intact. Higher-ups took notice and brought him into the chief of detectives’ office where he helped reorganize robbery squads and create innovative and responsive new police initiatives. One such effort helped bring awareness and sensitivity to sexual assault investigations and contributed to the creation of the revolutionary Special Victims Unit. And that was only the beginning. As the 80s unfolded and deadly attacks on police, diplomatic missions, and corporate targets escalated throughout the city, Hallinan relied on the mentoring of a growing network of law enforcement notables. It was compiling this amazing human network that made him the perfect choice to help pull together and lead the pioneering FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force. The JTTF, as it came to be known, would go on to create many of the counterterrorism tools and tactics that keep America safe to this very day. After retiring from law enforcement, Hallinan began a new chapter as Executive Director of Security and Facilities Management for Major League Baseball. His fascinating inside look at a life in law enforcement spans layers of history, explores evolutions in national security, and features game-changing heroes and eye-opening innovations. Kevin M. Hallinan’s life and learning are at once informative, thrilling, entertaining—and perhaps most of all, truly inspiring.

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Post Hill Press

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1637583990

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9781637583999

Kingdom Come

By: Rob Murphy

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Kingdom Come

By: Rob Murphy

2015. The United Kingdoms just discovered enough oil to guarantee prosperity for the next 100 years. The Government sees this as the final cog in its project to make the United Kingdom the enterprise capital of the world and to restore the countrys greatness. The only problem is that most of the oil lies off Scotland and Wales. And the Scots and Welsh want their share of the bonanza. Over the next six years, the United Kingdom descends into a spiral of conflict in which old nationalisms re-emerge and threaten to drag in European neighbours and the United States as the violence spills over beyond the countrys boundaries.

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1456782126

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Beat Your Allergies (52 Brilliant Ideas)

By: Rob Hicks

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Beat Your Allergies (52 Brilliant Ideas)

By: Rob Hicks

52 fresh ideas to help folks toss those tissues. Approximately one in four people will be affected by some type of allergy-in fact, 15 million people are sniffing, wiping and scratching right now. Beat Your Allergies offers practical strategies for controlling and managing symptoms-and even avoiding them altogether-with advice that ranges from traditional to cutting-edge: - Idea #15: Let's get naked - Idea #16: Dust to dust - Idea #30: Let's chill - Idea #41: Less is more - Idea #49: Eat your allergy away

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1440621756

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Troubled

A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

By: Rob Henderson

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Troubled

A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

By: Rob Henderson

Masterpiece' Evening Standard 'Fascinating' The Economist Best Titles of 2024 In this vivid coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities – and what he learnt from seeing life from both sides of the tracks. Rob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling between ten different foster homes in California. When he was adopted into a loving family, he hoped that life would finally be stable and safe. He was wrong: tragedy, poverty and violence marked his adolescent years. An unflinching portrait of shattered families, desperation, and determination, Troubled recounts how Henderson eventually managed to find an escape route through the military, which led to an academic career at Yale and Cambridge. As he reflects on the fate of many of his friends – drugs, death, prison – Henderson never escapes the feeling of being on the outside looking in, or a sense that his academic achievements are hollow compared to the love and protection that comes from stable family life. He dissects the hypocrisies of contemporary social class and shows how the most privileged among us benefit from a set of 'luxury beliefs' that actively harm the most vulnerable. Rave Reader Reviews 'Eye-opening and heart-breaking' 'Inspiring' 'Incredible' 'Wow' 'Powerful and thought-provoking

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Swift Press

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1800753659

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Control Your Blood Pressure (52 Brilliant Ideas)

By: Rob Hicks

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Control Your Blood Pressure (52 Brilliant Ideas)

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High blood pressure affects nearly one in three women and two in five men. It is a major contributor to strokes and heart disease, yet rarely presents any symptoms—and one may not even know there is a problem until it’s too late. With practical advice and sensible solutions, Control Your Blood Pressure will help readers learn how to recognize risk factors, lower their numbers, and increase their health.

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Pro Apache Struts with Ajax

By: Kunal Mittal,Rob Harrop,John Carnell

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Pro Apache Struts with Ajax

By: Kunal Mittal,Rob Harrop,John Carnell

In this book, the authors take an application-centric approach: the development of an application drives the Struts along with Ajax coverage, rather than the other way around. Chapter titles include: What We Do Wrong: Web Antipatterns Explained; Managing Business Logic with Struts; Architecting the Data Access Tier with ObjectRelationalBridge; Building Flexible Front-Ends with the Tiles Framework; Dynamic Forms using Ajax and the Struts Validator Framework; Speeding Struts Development with XDoclet, and Logging and Debugging. Appendices discuss JavaEdge setup, Struts development tools, and Apache Struts Ti/WebWork. The end result: you will learn to use Struts very effectively!

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1430202521

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Between the Lines

Not-So-Tall Tales From Ray "Scampy" Scapinello's Four Decades in the NHL

By: Ray Scapinello,Rob Simpson

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Between the Lines

Not-So-Tall Tales From Ray "Scampy" Scapinello's Four Decades in the NHL

By: Ray Scapinello,Rob Simpson

An insider's look at life on the lines To hockey fans, Ray Scapinello's name and face are as recognizable as any star player or coach in the NHL. Scampy, as he is affectionately known has had a long and storied career as a linesman in the NHL. His 5-foot-7 frame and 163 pounds belie his ability and endurance on the ice. When Ray retired in 2004 after 33 years in the NHL, he had officiated in 2,500 regular season matches (never missing a game), 426 playoff games, and an astounding twenty Stanley Cup final series. His untouchable statistics make him a lock to enter the Hockey Hall of Fame as an official, but even they do not do justice to the respect he has earned from officials, players, coaches, and fans alike. On and off the ice, Scampy is considered one of hockey's great personalities, a consummate professional, a chronic practical joker, and a true ambassador of the sport. Between the Lines gives a rare glimpse inside the world of hockey from an unusual perspective — through the eyes of one of the game's greatest and best-loved officials. Scampy shares his tales of life both on and off the ice as an official, an inside look at what those players and coaches are really like, what they really say and do, and what the game looks like between the lines. Full of fun stories, perspective on how the game has changed and evolved, and stories and interviews about Scampy from players, coaches, and other officials, Between the Lines is a captivating memoir of a truly unique life in hockey.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470838345

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9780470838341

Control Your Blood Pressure

Smart Ways to Get Healthy Where It Counts Most

By: Rob Hicks

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Control Your Blood Pressure

Smart Ways to Get Healthy Where It Counts Most

By: Rob Hicks

Filled with practical advice and common-sense solutions, a helpful guide explains how to reduce one of the major contributors in strokes and heart disease by controlling one's blood pressure, with tips on identifying risk factors, lowering one's numbers, and enhancing one's personal health. Original.

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0399534253

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Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia, Revised and Expanded

How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

By: Rob Brezsny

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Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia, Revised and Expanded

How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings

By: Rob Brezsny

Readers were instantly beguiled by Rob Brezsny's new approach to the humble horoscope when his "Free Will Astrology" column first appeared in 1996. Instead of the generic, one-size-fits-all style of similar columns, Brezsny used witty parables, tender rants, cultural riffs, pagan wisdom, and lively rituals in his playfully positive readings. He brings that same sensibility—and the same message of a smiling universe—to this self-help book for people who may be skeptical about self-help books. Brezsny persuasively advises readers to go along with the universe's good intentions, but his rejection of cynicism and a bleak view of human nature isn't rooted in denial. On the contrary, he makes a case for a cagey optimism that requires a vigorous engagement with the dark forces. He asks us to rethink life as a sublime game created for our amusement and illumination. The book is a chameleon of a tome. You can read it straight through, slowly and surely, or else pick it up and open it at random for tasty hits of inspiration as the spirit moves you. You can even start at the end and weave your way backward. Brezsny has substantially updated this edition—he added nearly one hundred pages—by expanding various sections, adding more than a dozen new pieces and a new chapter, and providing readers with a number of playtime activities and exercises that let them participate through their own writing and drawing. "Brezsny's horoscopes are like little valentines, buoyant and spilling over with mischievousness. They're a soul prognosis." —The New York Times

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North Atlantic Books

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1556438184

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Beat Your Allergies

Simple, Effective Ways to Stop Sneezing and Scratching

By: Rob Hicks

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Beat Your Allergies

Simple, Effective Ways to Stop Sneezing and Scratching

By: Rob Hicks

Outlines practical strategies for preventing, controlling, or managing allergy symptoms using a range of traditional and less-conventional methods, from eating allergy-fighting foods and minimizing dust to adjusting one's temperature and going without clothing. Original. 40,000 first printing.

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0399533249

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Beautiful Lies

By: Rob Loughran

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Beautiful Lies

By: Rob Loughran

Darren Elmore has it all: beautiful wife, status, profitable vineyards and winery in Sonoma County. But it isn't enough. He has always wanted—needed—to know what it feels like to kill a man. So Darren chooses an unknown victim on a lonely road and indulges in a thrill kill. And he gets away with murder.Until a blackmailer shows up.Then Darren's own life and livelihood is threatened unless he pays.Now.

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1482774348

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Tantric Zoo

A Bud Warhol Mystery

By: Rob Loughran

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Tantric Zoo

A Bud Warhol Mystery

By: Rob Loughran

TANTRIC ZOO begins at a tantric sex retreat in 1987. Amid the cavorting and indulging and groping and exploring one of the campers ends up dead. The surviving sex campers bury the body and return to their lives. Until 2008 when the body is discovered and forensic anthropologist Bud Warhol tracks the campers down. Bud finds the murderer but also discovers how two decades of guilt has altered and affected the lives of everyone involved with the Tantric Zoo.

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Createspace Independent Pub

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1482611120

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The Official Blonde Jokebook

By: Rob Loughran

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The Official Blonde Jokebook

By: Rob Loughran

“The man next to me is jacking off,” said the blonde to her girlfriend as they sat in the movie theater.“Ignore him.”“I can't,” said the blonde. “He's using my hand.”How do we know that God isn't blonde?If she were, sperm would taste like chocolate.What are Vanna White's favorite consonants?North and South America.What do you call two blondes standing on either side of a friend with a broken leg?Support hos.Why'd the blonde get fired from the sperm bank?Drinking on the jobWhy'd the blond give up moose hunting?The decoys were too heavy.What is gross stupidity?144 blondes.Why'd the blonde fail Biology?Instead of dissecting frogs she was busy opening flies.“What's the difference,” the nun asked the class, “between fornication and adultery?”“I've tried both,” said the blonde, “and actually they are pretty similar.”“I don't know what you see in him,” said the brunette, “he's just an everyday kind of guy.”The blonde replied, “What more could you ask for?”Why aren't blondes pharmacists?Because they can't get those little bottles into the typewriters.Did you hear about the blonde admiral who wanted to be buried at sea?Three of his sons drowned digging the grave.The blonde went to the campus clinic and had the intern remove a wad of red wax from her belly button. “How ever,” asked the intern, “did you acquire a lump of wax in your belly button?”“My boyfriend eats by candlelight.”“What do you take for a sore throat?” one blonde asked a brunette.“I just suck on a Life Saver.”“That's easy for you; you live at the beach.” A coed reminiscing about her childhood asked her blonde roommate, “Did you play with jacks when you were little?”“Yes. And Paul's, Chuck's, Bobby's...” A blonde, a brunette, and a redhead walked into the women's locker room after a workout. Suddenly an erect cock protruded from a shower stall. The redhead said, “That's not my husband.”The brunette said, “That's not my husband or my lover.”The blonde said, “He's not even a member of this club.”How did the boss know that his new secretary was a blonde?The white-out on the computer screen.Did you hear about the blonde who moved from California to Mississippi?She raised the IQ of both states.How'd the blonde hemophiliac die?She tried acupuncture.A blonde said to her analyst: “Every time I drink I end up in a three-way or a gang-fuck and I feel guilty about it for weeks.”“It's obvious that you have to quit drinking.”“Can't you just do something about the guilt?”At the New Year's Eve party one blonde said to the other, “If I'm not in bed by midnight I'm going home.”A blonde goes to heaven and St. Peter says, “Cause of death?”“Herpes.”“You don't die from herpes.”“You do when you give it to Big Dave.”What do blondes call underwear?Ankle warmers.Why do blondes have two sets of lips?So they can piss and moan at the same time. What do you call a blonde pulling off her pantyhose?Foreplay.What do you call a blonde with genital herpes, syphilis, gonorrhea, and AIDS? An incurable romantic.Did you hear about the blonde who set her pussy on fire on the Fourth of July?She lit the fuse to her tampon.Did you hear about the blonde that went fishing with 14 guys? They all limited out; all she got was a red snapper.Why'd the blonde spend 20 minutes staring at the orange juice carton? Because it said Concentrate. An American blonde in France is raped by a gang of twelve men. The local police chief is shocked and embarrassed and says, “We will, madam, apprehend all twelve suspects.”“Don't bother,” she says. “Just get number two, number seven and number nine.”“Mother?” asked the new bride, “how can I make my new husband happy?”“Love,” said the mother, “can be a beautiful bond between two people who respect each other's needs...”I know how to fuck, mom,” said the girl. “I want you to teach me how to make meatloaf.”Many many more blonde jokes inside.

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1490416552

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You Had Better Give A ****

906 Quotes By, For, and about the Writer

By: Rob Loughran

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You Had Better Give A ****

906 Quotes By, For, and about the Writer

By: Rob Loughran

No matter how intense or honest or pure our desire to become a writer it ultimately comes down to having talent, developing your particular level of talent, or giving up. And it doesn't matter what the public is reading, what Oprah is recommending, or how you feel. If you are a writer you'll start writing that book and you'll finish it. Then whether it sells or not--whether it's published or not--you'll finish another. And another. And another. If you don't you're not a writer. This isn't a particularly comfortable or encouraging proposition and the fact that it might result in a lifetime of toil that ends in debt and obscurity doesn't, however unfair, make it any less true. When I seriously considered quitting writing I realized the crater left behind could never be filled with familial bliss, money, Irish whiskey, or vacations. In the end it doesn't matter if my books are bestsellers or any-kind-of-sellers; it only matters that they be written. Anything less would be a waste of my life. God help me, I'm a writer. And, God help me again, reading little nuggets of wisdom from other writers are sometimes the only thing that gets me to scribble another word, sentence, or paragraph. Pathetic, but here are 906 of my favorites.

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1490400028

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A Fun, Filthy Little Jokebook

By: Rob Loughran

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A Fun, Filthy Little Jokebook

By: Rob Loughran

Doris said to her sister, aI have to be extremely careful not to get pregnant.a aBut I thought Bill got a vasectomy?a aPrecisely.a Whatas the best thing to do when you see your wife staggering around on your front lawn? Shoot her again. Two old guys are walking their dogs. One says, aOld age sucks. I havenat had sex in five years.a The other replies, aI have sex almost every day.a aReally?a aOh yeah. Almost every Monday. Almost every Tuesday. Almost every Wednesdaya].a A lawyer said to his client on death row, aIave got good news and bad news.a aWhatas the bad news?a aYouare going to the electric chair tomorrow.a aWhatas the good news?a aI got the voltage reduced.a Whatas worse than having your doctor tell you have gonorrhea? Having your dentist tell you have gonorrhea. More fun and filth inside!

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1424142164

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