No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father and a downtrodden mother, the 'Razor King' of Glasgow's pre-war slum underworld, the Gorbals. The savage, near-truth descriptions, the raw
John Cain has been working Homicide long enough to get hard to pretty much anything; even wrenching personal loss. Today, it all gets too much. Today, he gets assigned something that finally breaks through his defenses -- a child killing that hits horribly close to home. Until now, he's been a
Sabrina would just love to zap Libby Chessler clear into the next galaxy...but then, what else is new? After all the work Sabrina has put into planning the Harvest Moon dance, Libby is trying to step in and take over. So what if a hip TV station is doing a news feature starring Libby? And so what
Her… Sloane Locke has led a sheltered life. However, with a history like hers, she can understand why her brothers and her father want so much to protect her. She has gone along with it for twenty long years, but those days are over. For the girl who never makes promises, Sloane has made a pact
You know that old saying… He’s the next big thing. Yeah, that was me. I was a rising star, and I couldn’t have been happier. Fame, money, women at every turn. I had it all, until the day my world came crashing down. I never fathomed this would be my life. But here I am, a single dad at twenty-eight
Node.js is a wildly popular platform for writing web applications that has revolutionized web development in many ways, enjoying support across the open source community as well as industry. With Node.js Succinctly by Emanuele DelBono, you will learn the basics of Node.js: non-blocking I/O, the
Ivy, a talented tattoo artist who spent the early part of her twenties on the move, is finally looking for a place to call home. She thinks she might have found it in San Francisco, but all that changes when she witnesses a terrible crime. She’s ready to pack up her things yet again, when a random
Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, an anthology of stories, set in the near future, from some of today’s leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries that reignites the iconic and optimistic visions of the golden age of science fiction. In his 2011 article “Innovation
She's never been one to back down from a challenge... I glance over at Connor walking next to me. His face is set in hard lines, and I can tell he's upset. Even though the rest of us are safe, I know it kills him that one of us must suffer to remain that way. I reach out to squeeze his hand in
This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels--Crime and Punishment, The
