This book has up-to-date information to help you get the most out of your journey to Beijing in 2008. There are local attractions, hundreds of fantastic local restaurants, hotels, bars, and shopping centers to guide you no matter which section of Beijing you are staying. To help travelers communicate with taxi drivers and others who don't speak much English, this book comes in bilingual form in English and Chinese for all the hotels, restaurants, and attractions. Travelers can simply circle the place they want to go and arrive with confidence. Also included are tips for planning your trip, doing business in China, and other useful information. Although this book mainly focuses on business and leisure travelers, it also has a section for budget conscious travelers who want to enjoy Beijing's ancient culture and charming scenery.

Champion Writers' Travel Guide to Beijing 2008

Travel

Zhang, Andy

Asia

Champion Writers, Inc.

Champion Writers' Travel Guide to Shanghai 2009

When Summer was in the Meadow records and preserves a time that is receding all too quickly into the lost pages of the last century. Based on actual events of the 20's and early 30's, the work is the real-life story of Evelyn Johnson, a child who in her own voice draws us into a magical world of backyard circuses, church picnics, and friendly neighbors. As she matures, her narration reveals with poignancy and humor life as it was lived by ordinary people during a critical period in American history. The story has historical appeal in its evocation of life in the South and in its recall of actual places, events, and persons of the time–from the talkies and Lindbergh to FDR and the Great Depression. In a larger sense, however, this is a story about ourselves and the power of remembrance to shape our lives and the lives of those who follow us.

When Summer Was in the Meadow

Literature & Fiction

Nichols, Betsy Hamlet

Contemporary

Belinda “Bella” Jones and her brother Bernard, owners of the Cedar Valley Residence, have put their hearts, souls, and a ton of cash into this dream endeavor. Now, after five years of hard work, their charming home is almost full of a lovable cast of residents and there’s just one more building addition they want to do. But then Lana Norris, a beautiful area resident is brutally murdered on Cedar Valley Trail just a few feet from their property line, and their world turns upside down. Things like this don’t happen in Cedar Valley, and their residents are shocked―and afraid. Overnight their happy place has turned into a jumbled, unfamiliar world. Indeed, residents are checking out, belongings are mysteriously disappearing, the county government is on their back about raspberries of all things, and it seems that nothing will be right again until this homicidal maniac is captured. Quickly, and to everyone’s relief, the police arrest and charge Kirby Norris, Lana’s husband. He has an alibi, but all the physical evidence points his way; and for motive, there’s a million dollar life insurance policy. It’s enough for the DA to indict, arraign, and bring to trial. But Kirby swears he’s innocent, and so does his mother, the eerily persistent Olive Norris. She engages a slick defense lawyer, but she also calls in Belinda, a past part-time investigator to find the real killer. Belinda has had several modest successes in the crime arena, and her possibly psychic chef-brother thinks Kirby is innocent, and worse yet, the real killer is still loose and she should take the job. But once Belinda begins, she enters a turning labyrinth that not even she could foresee. Suddenly there’s another gruesome murder, and some sudden surprises, and Belinda knows that she must solve this one fast―before she, or someone dear to her, becomes the next victim.

Uncle Si's Secret

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Gornell, M. M.

Mystery

Jack Thigpen works in Detroit, nicknamed The Motor City, the perfect place for a fraud investigator who specializes in car insurance scams. He is on a case he believes is a typical, low-level crime, but it quickly turns into a situation with ominous international consequences. Ironically, as he is targeted for death because of his investigation, Jack is diagnosed with a fatal disease that is untreatable, a disease that will end his life within months. And instead of killing Jack, the hit man shoots Jack's best friend. Struggling to come to terms with his impending death, Jack vows to track down his friend's killer. It's a race against time before the neurodegenerative disorder can take root and limit his ability to think and act. And so Jack enlists the aid of his brother, Tom, a taxidermist with a den full of dead animals, which Jack now sees in a new light. Tom jokes that he and Jack can be a superhero team fighting evil. Jack doesn't want to endanger Tom, and so he directs his brother to do background investigations while Jack injects himself into the physical one-on-ones necessary to dig deeper into the case. Jack plunges into the world of corrupt car dealerships, chop shops, and fraudulent auto repair shops. He is soon swept into the darkness of Detroit's criminal underbelly to uncover the truth about power struggles within organized crime rings. Death is staring him in the face, but Jack doesn't back down. He pushes ahead, plowing through perilous roadblocks planted by his enemies, propelling himself toward the finish line and a teeth-gritting, heart-pounding conclusion.

The Dead Guy

Hewitt, Doug

In Running Through a Koga Field, Stroud McCray, a 28 year-old certified public accountant in Atlanta, Georgia, who moonlights as a singer-songwriter, uncovers the suspicious and possibly illegal activities of one of his employer's most important clients, Raines Beverage, a beverage distributor and one of Georgia's largest privately owned corporations. At the same time as Stroud is contending with the repercussions of questioning the potential wrongdoings of the client, he is experiencing dreams and visions of a terrified and sought after teenage Cherokee Indian boy who lives near a koga field in Blue Mountain, Georgia, a scantily inhabited, passive, and fictional Georgia town with a multitude of rich, peculiar residents.

Running Through a Koga Field

Davis, Jerry Lee

Literary

The Tides of Men is an epic account of the deception of Global Power from a broad perspective. It is a story of commitment, hopes and dreams of real people, comprising a complex scope of characters, plots and locations. From a funeral in an Irish country churchyard the characters retrace their steps, from 'mercenary wars' in Nicaragua to a terrifying flight from China, a return from Southeast Asia and from America. Among them is Terry Sai, a fugitive from the student revolt in Beijing. The tragic departure of Aija Tsi compels Terry to carry her beloved friend's exceptional philosophies through the sordid world of the opium and weapons markets to Anna Yao in Northern Laos. Terry hears Anna's story of the keys, of Paddy Finucane, a survivor of the Vietnam War and agent for British MI5. During her friendship with Anna Yao, Terri is exposed to terrors of unspeakable magnitude. Terri is again a fugitive, under the watchful eye of An Luc, a Hmong tribesman. Paddy Finucane attends a meeting at the British Embassy with Michael Weatherby and others from MI6. The world of Admiral Mahan's Middle East emerges, the 'world dominion' of an arrogant, corrupt, corporate plutocracy with their covert Imperial agenda. The legend of Alexander's 'world of conquest' is reborn, people once again victims of 'men in private clubs drawing lines on a map of the world'. Under growing world tensions, threat of a nuclear Armageddon emerges. Jack Edwards returns to Belfast, Northern Ireland from America to lecture on "Alternatives to Violence", becoming dramatically drawn into the ongoing conflict. Worldwide attention focuses on this longest enduring Colonial war. Ensuing events coincidentally bring Paddy's former Vietnam comrades together, following the trail of the seven keys, the path of the mysterious Braderakan.

The Tides of Men

MacAllister, Niall P

Genre Fiction

This book, Beginning MarkLogic with XQuery and MarkLogic Server, is one that will enable you to start using this exciting technology quickly. You will learn essential techniques and functions for using XQuery and MarkLogic Server. Each chapter is carefully structured so that it takes very little time to learn and master. The chapters in the XQuery section contains hands-on code examples that you can practice as you are reading it. This book helps you to understand the technology and how to work with it, and gain confidence so you can succeed in your real work environment. MarkLogic chapters cover fundamental knowledge in MarkLogic Server architecture, search, thesaurus, lexicons, spelling, geospatial functions, creating alerts, error handling, and how to work with MarkLogic documents and databases. XQuery chapters covers essential XQuery skills such as working with XML documents from various locations, predicates, data types, string manipulation, working with numbers, date and time, gr

Beginning Mark Logic with Xquery and Marklogic Server

Computers & Technology

Andy Zhang

Programming

Amid a turbulent period of territorial disputes among the ruling class in Western Europe, the Roman Catholic Church calls for these fighting nobles to Crusade in the Holy Land and ensure free access to Jerusalem for Christian pilgrims. The stress of this expensive endeavor, against the tensions of territorial quarrels, tears at an already fragile relationship between the Pope and the bickering monarchs. Underlying this chaotic state of affairs is a culture that places a high value on honor and loyalty which are continually put to the test. Effective leadership is at a premium in a period where Kings and Popes may lack the skills to imbue loyalty among followers. One knight, William Marshal, The Flower of Chivalry, exemplifies the character of true reliability and its fortune. Along with other historical figures such as Richard the Lionhearted, the story features friends and family who are knights errant, Templars, priests, and ladies in waiting faced with these vexing choices. Finally, arising out of the discordant nobility in England, a great charter, the Magna Carta is presented to a recalcitrant King John and Pope Innocent III begins reforms that separate the church from the interfering state.

Commencement of Disharmony

Winter, David J.

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