Man-woman relationships
The Littlest Witness
Author: Jane M. Choate
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 9780373447183
Category: Man-woman relationships
Page: 221
View: 377
TO PROTECT A CHILD When Delta Force soldier Caleb Judd's brother and sister-in-law are murdered, the killers turn their attention on his orphaned nephew. Caleb's new mission: protect little Tommy--who hasn't said a word since witnessing his parents' deaths--and figure out who's targeting his family. He needs help, and security expert Shelley Rabb is perfect for the job. But Caleb's used to calling the shots, not taking orders...even when they come from a beautiful former Secret Service agent. Shelley knows firsthand what can happen when business becomes personal, so she vows not to get too close to Caleb and his nephew. She will risk her life to make sure they're safe, but will that mean risking her heart, too?
Fiction
THE LITTLEST WITNESS
Author: Amanda Stevens
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 9781460350096
Category: Fiction
Page: 256
View: 778
Nothing distracted true blue police detective John Gallagher from his work—certainly not a woman. Until a mysterious death led him to Thea Lockhart's door. One look in Thea's beautiful, haunted eyes and John wanted to run—from visions of love, marriage and forever! But Thea's little girl might be the only witness to murder… Betrayed by the law that should have protected her, Thea had given up her identity to save her daughter. The last person she should trust was a policeman—but something in John's steady gaze made her hope. If she told him the truth about her past, did she dare believe this man could be her future?
Fiction
The Littlest Witness (Mills & Boon Love Inspired Suspense)
Author: Jane M. Choate
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 9781474047500
Category: Fiction
Page: 224
View: 502
To protect a child
Language Arts & Disciplines
Bearing Witness While Black
Author: Allissa V. Richardson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780190935528
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 305
View: 580
"Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement--through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of US cities--using little more than the device in their pockets. Their urgent dispatches from the frontlines spurred a global debate on excessive police force, which claimed the lives of African American men, women and children at disproportionate rates. This groundbreaking book reveals how the perfect storm of smartphones, social media and social justice empowered Black activists to create their own news outlets, which continued a centuries-long, African American tradition of using the news to challenge racism. Bearing Witness While Black is the first book of its kind to identify three overlapping eras of domestic terror against African American people--slavery, lynching and police brutality--and explain how storytellers during each period documented its atrocities through journalism. What results is a stunning genealogy--of how the slave narratives of the 1700s inspired the Abolitionist movement; how the black newspapers of the 1800s galvanized the anti-lynching and Civil Rights movements; and how the smartphones of today have powered the anti-police brutality movement. This lineage of black witnessing, Allissa V. Richardson teaches us, is formidable and forever evolving. Richardson's own activism, as an award-winning pioneer of smartphone journalism, informs this text deeply. She weaves in personal accounts of her teaching in the US and Africa--and of her own brushes with police brutality--to share how she has inspired black youth to use mobile devices, to speak up from the margins. It is from this vantage point, as participant-observer, that she urges us not to become numb to the tragic imagery that African Americans have documented. Instead, Bearing Witness While Black conveys a crucial need to protect our right to look--into the forbidden space of violence against black bodies--and to continue to regard the smartphone as an instrument of moral suasion and social change"--
Fiction
Love Inspired Suspense January 2016 - Box Set 1 of 2
Author: Valerie Hansen
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 9781459295278
Category: Fiction
Page: 224
View: 963
Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. SMALL TOWN JUSTICE The Defenders by Valerie Hansen Back in her hometown, Jamie Lynn Henderson is determined to help her brother get out of prison. But she'll need Shane Colton to keep her alive long enough to discover the truth: Did her brother really murder Shane's father? COMPROMISED IDENTITY by Jodie Bailey Someone is stealing military laptops containing top secret information—and it's Sean Turner's mission to catch the culprit. When an attempt is made on staff sergeant Jessica Dylan's life, Sean's even more determined to bring down the ring targeting soldiers—and to save Jessica. THE LITTLEST WITNESS by Jane M. Choate After Delta soldier Caleb Judd's nephew witnesses his parents' murders, Caleb hires bodyguard Shelley Rabb to protect the little boy while working to expose the killer.
Computers
Algorithmic Game Theory
Author: Marios Mavronicolas
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783642046452
Category: Computers
Page: 359
View: 917
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2009, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in October 2009. The 29 revised full papes presented together with 3 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers are intended to cover all important areas such as solution concepts, game classes, computation of equilibria and market equilibria, algorithmic mechanism design, automated mechanism design, convergence and learning in games, complexity classes in game theory, algorithmic aspects of fixed-point theorems, mechanisms, incentives and coalitions, cost-sharing algorithms, computational problems in economics, finance, decision theory and pricing, computational social choice, auction algorithms, price of anarchy and its relatives, representations of games and their complexity, economic aspects of distributed computing and the internet, congestion, routing and network design and formation games and game-theoretic approaches to networking problems.
Fiction
Double Vision
Author: Colby Marshall
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780698170582
Category: Fiction
Page: 368
View: 385
New from the author of Color Blind...FBI profiler Jenna Ramey has synesthesia, a neurological condition that causes perceptions of color to flash through her mind, triggered by seemingly unrelated stimuli. But she has learned to understand and interpret these associations. They help her do her job. They can help save lives… A little girl has witnessed a mass shooting. What she knows may be the key to finding the man responsible. Jenna has been tasked with drawing her out, figuring out what she saw, what she remembers, what it means. But Molly is an unusual child. She is sweet and bright, and eager to help, but she has a quirk of her own: an intense preoccupation with numbers. It helps her notice things that others don’t. It also leads Jenna into a maze of speculation that could turn into a wild goose chase while the body count continues to rise. Jenna and Molly view the world through their own filters. In some ways, they speak different languages. Now Jenna must learn to communicate, to break Molly’s code, to understand the mind of a murderer…
Biography & Autobiography
Witnesses of the Unseen
Author: Lakhdar Boumediene
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9781503602113
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 288
View: 833
This searing memoir shares the trauma and triumphs of Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir's time inside America's most notorious prison. Lakhdar and Mustafa were living quiet, peaceful lives in Bosnia when, in October 2001, they were arrested and accused of participating in a terrorist plot. After a three-month investigation uncovered no evidence, all charges were dropped and Bosnian courts ordered their freedom. However, under intense U.S. pressure, Bosnian officials turned them over to American soldiers. They were flown blindfolded and shackled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were held in outdoor cages for weeks as the now-infamous military prison was built around them. Guantanamo became their home for the next seven years. They endured torture and harassment and force-feedings and beatings, all the while not knowing if they would ever see their families again. They had no opportunity to argue their innocence until 2008, when the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in their case, Boumediene v. Bush, confirming Guantanamo detainees' constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court. Weeks later, the George W. Bush–appointed federal judge who heard their case, stunned by the absence of evidence against them, ordered their release. Now living in Europe and rebuilding their lives, Lakhdar and Mustafa are finally free to share a story that every American ought to know. Learn more at witnessesbook.com or donate to a crowdsourced restitution fund at GoFundMe.com/witnesses.
Fiction
Texas Midnight
Author: Caroline Burnes
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 9781460350133
Category: Fiction
Page: 160
View: 950
From enemies…to lovers? Proud Apache Anna Red Shoes had sworn revenge against Jeremy Masterson for the lies he'd written about her family. But when she confronted the famous author, the passion that burned in her wasn't anger, but the scorching heat of desire. When she saw an answering spark in Jeremy's eyes, Anna chose to disappear… She hadn't expected to become the obect of a manhunt. She certainly hadn't expected Jeremy to come after her, claiming she's put them both in danger. But when he did, Anna knew that more than her freedom was at stake—she was falling in love with the man who'd taken her captive…
Fiction
Secret Admirer
Author: Amanda Stevens
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 9781460350126
Category: Fiction
Page: 256
View: 741
Get ready for a new brand of justice… Born to a legacy of lawman, three brothers sworn to serve and protect will safeguard the women they love. GALLAGHER JUSTICE With a wickedly sexy smile and reputation to match, detective Tony Gallagher was the Chicago P.D.'s bad boy. Tony had one rule: he always worked alone. Until a murder case pushed him to the edge—and he got a new partner… Working with Tony was Eve Barrett's dream come true—and her worst nightmare. As a girl she'd loved him, but he'd never noticed her. Now she had to find her growing desire, and her real assignment: investigating Tony. With women he knew dying, Tony trusted no one. Eve had to win his confidence—before a clever killer discovered the secrets of his heart…
Juvenile Fiction
The FunGkins
Author: C. Raymond Gray
Publisher: A Zebra Press Inc
ISBN: 9780692314890
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 262
View: 470
Clara Gooday, age 9, hears what she thinks is her Aunt Tilly’s tall tale about seeing the FunGkins. Things heat up when Clara meets two FunGkins and helps them get back the Magic Mushroom. The Jacks reward Clara and Aunt Tilly by shrinking them down to their size and whisking them off to the magical land of Mushroom Valley. There they see creatures never seen by any human and FunGkins who are from all nationalities and races living in harmony. Meanwhile, the skinny, seven-foot-tall, evil Mr. Mustashio has moved into the funeral home next door. Clara plans to watch every move he and his talking dog, Snodsty, make. Follow Clara in this tale of friendship, faith, and moral fiber.
History
Last Witnesses
Author: Svetlana Alexievich
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9780141983578
Category: History
Page: 320
View: 868
Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph 'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead, Guardian Extraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. With remarkable care and empathy, Alexievich gives voice to those whose stories are lost in the official narratives, uncovering a powerful, hidden history of one of the most important events of the twentieth century.Published to great acclaim in the USSR in 1985 and now available in English for the first time, this masterpiece offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human consequences of the war - and an extraordinary chronicle of the Russian soul.