Set in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley District, as well as infesting throughout the City, Desi Marquiso - the protagonist and essentially the ardent spokesperson for the ideology of art for the sake of art - struggles between college, work, and his failed relationship with his true love, Elena Marie. Desi takes the reader through a fierce twenty-four hours filled with interminable spells of poetic creation and provocatively intoxicating mistakes - the same mistakes willing college students generally make today. His love for poetry eventually pulls him through his poor judgements and leads him back to the Faith on which he was raised.The essential purpose of this novel: Show readers that everyone is a poet, even if the person doesn't write.

The Disappearance and the Slow Awakening

Literature & Fiction

Rodriguez, Tony R.

Contemporary

Fultus Corp

Enter Rialos, an epic fantasy world filled with beauty and danger. Rea, a young woman coming of age in an often deadly world, soon finds that not everything is as it appears. What begins for her as a simple quest to find the fate of her family turns into the challenge of her lifetime as she struggles to survive against the mysterious forces that line up against her. She must not only come to terms with her past, but also with the consequences of her actions along the way. 
As she continues on her quest Rea meets many varied personalities, each of whom challenges her way of thinking through their words and deeds. She soon finds that what she thought was a world of white and black, good and evil, is in fact a world of shades of gray. She will have to come to grips with the very different worldviews of her companions if they are to survive and succeed in their quest. She will be forced to look past race and profession to find the truth of her companions. 
"The Crimson Staff" is a fantasy novel that is relevant in today's world. With sub-themes of prejudice, tolerance, good and evil, this novel has many parallels with modern day themes in a unique, entertaining and in-depth world that will draw the reader in with characters that are compelling, original, and fallible; real in their own right.

The Crimson Staff

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Kerin, Seth

Fantasy

Whether you're just starting out with Linux or looking to hone your existing skills, this book will provide you with the knowledge you need. For new users, it is an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter. Advanced trainees can consider it a desktop reference, a collection of the base knowledge needed to tackle system and network administration. To help you work more effectively with Linux, this book contains hundreds of real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. These examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Introduction To Linux: A Beginner's Guide

Computers & Technology

Garrels, Machtelt

Operating Systems

This guide discusses concepts useful in the daily life of the serious Bash user.  While a basic knowledge of shell usage is required, it starts with a discussion of shell building blocks and common practices.  Then it presents the grep, awk and sed tools that will later be used to create more interesting examples. The second half of the course is about shell constructs such as loops, conditional tests, functions and traps, and a number of ways to make interactive scripts.  All chapters come with examples and exercises that will help you become familiar with the theory.  Author Biography:  Linux advocate of the first hour, Machtelt Garrels has made many contributions to the Open Source community and has been working for over a decade on the wider acceptance of Linux and other Open Source products.  She is an active member of the Linux Documentation Project and training manager at CoreSequence.  She writes whenever she has the time, closing gaps in existing documentation and taking the opportunity to simplify it when necessary, always keeping in mind that practice is the only way to learn.  As a result, her work is full of examples and exercises, forcing the reader to apply the theoretical concepts.

Bash Guide For Beginners

This book, set in the mid-to-late 1800's, is about a boy who, following a family tragedy at the age of fifteen, runs away to fight in the US Civil War. During the war he befriends another boy his age and they end up becoming the marshal and deputy in the fictional Kansas town of Tornado Gulch. Following another tragedy after years of being the marshal, he decides to runaway to his hometown in Dakota Territory, where he resorts to farming and befriends a tribe of Lakota Indians. This book is a true western in every sense of the word. Duncan Sims, the protagonist in this story is a man who is a loner. He is a man who loves and loses and deals with tremendous issues, such as deaths of those he is close to and being friends with Native Americans, who the people who pay his salary don't exactly appreciate. This book was written with the intent of reaching a young adult demographic, though the story is so universal that anyone should be able to enjoy it. Author Biography Having a life based around his wife and two sons keeps Jonathan W. Howe a well-rounded person. Heroes Don't Run is the first book that Jon has written for publication after years of experience writing poetry and music. Jon lives in the northern suburbs of Minneapolis-St. Paul. He is a long time Minnesota Twins fan and a dreamer of the future and the past. Reading about the past or watching a historical documentary (or tastefully made film) is what he likes to do when he's not doing all the other things that take precedence in his life. Category: Fiction/Western

Heroes Don't Run

Howe, Jonathan W.

Diagnosis and prescription. What went wrong since independence in the sixties, and what can be done to alleviate misery and suffering on the least developed and poorest continent, yet one endowed with an abundance of natural resources and hundreds of millions of people.  The author critically examines the views of many people on the subject, including "recolonization" of the continent as advocated by some - among them a number of African diplomats and scholars as well as politicians including the prime minister of Sierra Leone in the nineties - and offers innovative solutions to Africa's perennial problems.  A hard-hitting book by a Tanzanian academic author, the work is written in simple yet captivating prose, without scholarly pretensions or jargon, and is intended for members of the general public as much as it is for those of the academic community. Brutally frank and lucid in argument articulated from a Pan-African perspective.

Africa Is In A Mess: What Went Wrong And What Should Be Done

History

Mwakikagile, Godfrey

Africa

Have you ever looked at a successful individual and thought 'how lucky' or 'how gifted'? Have you ever had such good service or such value from a company that you've thought 'I'm only going to buy from there from now on'? Jim Fairbairn has spent the last ten years researching and discovering how any person and any company can become successful. In his book 'Nothing Changes Until You Do', he exposes the fact that luck or chance has nothing to do with being successful and describes how success in any avenue of life or business can be made predictable. Author Biography Jim Fairbairn is Managing Director of Clyde Bergemann Limited; a Glasgow based Mechanical Engineering Company designing efficiency systems for heat exchanger equipment worldwide. Jim has a First Class Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering from Strathclyde University and an MBA from Loughborough University. He is Chair of the Glasgow Employer Coalition, a member of the International Business Committee of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry and is an Executive Committee member of Scottish Engineering. In his spare time Jim is fascinated by 'what makes the difference' and is a certified practitioner of Neuro-Lingustic Programming (NLP)and a qualified NLP coach. Category: Business/Economics/Finance

Nothing Changes Until You Do

Business & Money

Fairbairn, Jim

Management & Leadership

Book Description: The word "liberal" has a connotation about it that suggests that many who are labeled as such, are crusaders for all that is rooted in concern for "humanity", that they actually care for the suffering, the disadvantaged, the "oppressed". It is the contention here, that just the opposite is true, that this is a myth instead. And one that needs exposing! Author Biography: James Christopher Hall is a freelance writer who has put into words, a long held belief that most "liberals" say what they say and do what they do, not out of love or compassion for "humanity" or anyone, but rather to act out their anger against authority figures only. To make his case, he presents his arguments in a style that is intended to be (hopefully) humorous, (not so politely) sarcastic, and somewhat philosophical. And, above all, will find resonance with those whose doubts about "humanity savers" have paralleled his own.

The Humanity Savers

Politics & Social Sciences

Hall, James Christopher

Politics & Government

Book Description This is the second novel out of a series of four: 1. In the Service of Constable Colonna, 2. His Holiness' Diplomat, 3. Richelieu's Admirer, 4. Ruler of France. The book describes Mazarini's service in the Papal armed forces and as the Pope's diplomat. As a protege of Constable Colonna he receives the rank of captain and is sent to the town of Ancona with a secret mission to expose and neutralize a Spanish spy ring acting in the army. After many dangerous adventures he manages to fulfill this task but faces the wrath of the Spaniards who are formally the Pope's allies. Through his ingenuity and resourcefulness he finds a way to allay the Vatican's fears of the Spaniards, survives the Spanish threats, and even defeats them diplomatically. Author Biography Arkady Alexeev was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1937. He spent many years studying European languages and history. After graduating from the St. Petersburg Herzen Institute he taught English at that school where he received the degree of Candidate of Sciences in English linguistics. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1975. He received a doctorate from the University of California - Berkeley and teaches Russian and history there. Alexeev has written some articles, a historical play and has done a number of translations of Russian poetry into English, "The Lay of Prince Igor's Host" being a recent example.

The Adventures Of Giulio Mazarini. His Holiness' Diplomat

Arkady Alexeev

Book Description: This non-fiction, coming-of-age story of a young Oregon man who joins the Green Berets unfolds in the chaotic late 1960's. We experience his steps as he graduates rigorous Special Forces' training and is selected as part of an elite team in Europe. This action/ true- life memoir concludes with revelations from his Vietnam tour-of-duty and his jungle patrols' diary written during the 1968 TET Offensive. Author Biography: "For What Its Worth" is this author's first published work. Writing at night and on weekends, the author scheduled himself one year to complete the book. Beginning on the anniversary date of his discharge from the Army, he kept to his schedule even when faced with technical equipment problems. The author recognizes his story came to be told by pure chance, but he found the journey to be engaging as well as cathartic. If there is another book forthcoming from this author, the subject matter will be entirely different as his file for this information is now closed.

For What It's Worth

Biographies & Memoirs

Holman,Michael

Leaders & Notable People

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