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In a chaotic blast of gunfire, the James Gang fled a posse's attack—and the infamous Jesse threw his cousin Jeston Nash a hoard of stolen cash. But dodging the law with thirty thousand dollars in a dusty carpetbag is a risky proposition. Hoping to lie low in the mountains of the Northwest, Jeston and his partner, Quiet Jack, find themselves on a journey into the dark heart of human nature—and deadly animal instinct....

"In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing,” writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. “Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing.” The stories in this year’s Best American Food Writing are brilliant, eye-opening windows into the heart of our country’s culture.

This audiobook is a primer on the most essential soft-skills that you can, or rather should, learn to help you in your career progression and professional growth. As more and more jobs get standardized, automated, or disrupted with the onslaught of technologies, these skills will give you a consistent and constant advantage amongst your peers.

When the CEOs of the world's top two software organizations quit their jobs to create AI to govern the mankind, they thought they were paving the path to Utopia. It delighted many but created deep unease in the hearts of some. Shadowy figures, who saw power slipping through their fingers. We've always asked: Will AI take over humans? Maybe it is time now to ask: Will we let it?

Henry Harrison is an accidental child, but that doesn’t mean his great big family doesn’t love him. Even so, he’s good at blending into the background, content to watch everything from the shadows. He’s invisible, and his crush on his childhood best friend is even more invisible to her. But being in love with his best friend is the least of Henry’s worries when he finds himself locked in school with The Squad, five beautiful cheerleaders that rule the school.

This is a book with different stories, and it has 36 chapters.

Secrets unlocked in the zodiac world. Discover what love language pairs with which zodiac signs so you can meet your needs. Conflict in a relationship can be better handled with the key knowledge of communication in high-stress moments for each zodiac sign. Which zodiac signs prefer long walks on the beach or spontaneously traveling? Its not always about which zodiac sign is compatible with which, but if you are perfect for said zodiac sign.

This book on healthy body chemistry helps you understand what balanced body chemistry is and what it does for optimum body performance and sustaining good health.

Cryptocurrency is a popular topic. Everyone is talking about it these days; you even hear it on the news. The concept itself sounds quite foreign to most, but it is definitely something that has had you sitting up and taking notice. Many assumed that cryptocurrency was a fad, something that would have its time to shine and then disappear as fast it appeared. But it has been over a decade since the first cryptocurrency was launched with more being created yearly. So it isn’t showing any signs of stopping, at least anytime soon.

Learn to troubleshoot and be superior in your trade. This short, easy-to-understand troubleshooting guide focuses on the electrical trade, but the principles are the same for any applicable trades. Learn these fast strategies and get offered the big jobs, the big promotions, and the big bucks. Best of all, you will gain the reputation as "The Closer". When you arrive on site, everyone breathes easier because the situation is now under control. If you're the type of individual that wants to fix technical problems, but don't know where to begin, you're going to love this book.

If you are looking to build your brand, establish your business or maintain and increase success in the areas you are currently working in, The 7-7-7 Rule provides you with multiple supporting components to ensure just that.

The brutality of post-nuclear America has spawned a dark frontier where the harsh and unforgiving new rules of existence cannot obliterate the decency and determination that drive the true human spirit. It's tested and tormented but never destroyed. A lust for power and a strong sec-force are the basic requirements of any Deathlands baron. But brilliant, charismatic Baron Eugene Arcadian has bigger visions than simply a monopoly on jack and trade. He wants the future.

Louisiana, 2065. A lot has changed in the 43rd of the Kurian Order. Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive on the scent of fear. And if it is night, as sure as darkness, they will come. On this pitiless world, the indomitable spirit of mankind still breathes in Lieutenant David Valentine. Brought into the Wolves - an elite guerrilla force sworn to win back Earth - Valentine leads his first command in the Kurian Zone.

The war of Honce drags on, and the roads and seas are littered with bodies. To everyone's stunned disbelief, Yeslnik the Fool has tipped the war's scales in his favor. The reign of the newly self-appointed King Yeslnik is already distinguished as the most bloody and merciless in Honce history. Trapped, Dame Gwydre and Father Artolivan concoct a desperate plot to join forces with Laird Ethelbert, the lesser of two vicious evils. But Ethelbert's paid assassins slew Jameston Sequin and nearly did the same to Bransen.

After surviving a brilliantly plotted murder attempt, the richest man in San Francisco is looking to hire the best protection money can buy. Enter Matt Jensen, who, for the princely sum of $5000, agrees to escort millionaire John Gillespie and his very fetching daughter on a railway journey from Frisco to Chicago. There’s just one catch: The world’s deadliest killers are coming along for the ride....

It was a duty to a dead man. Matt Jensen had promised his friend, slain by an outlaw named Pogue Willis, that he would deliver money to his brother in St. Louis. But Matt's search leads him from St. Louis to Arizona Territory and into the company of a rich Easterner and his beautiful young wife. For Matt, the schemes of some citified land prospectors don't mean much, until the young woman is seized by renegade Apaches and it's up to Matt to save her life from brutal death....

In the shadow of the Prophecy Mountains, the ramshackle boomtown of Rattlesnake Wells draws schemers, predators, and desperate pilgrims. As for the law, that’s the town marshal, a former Texas outlaw trying to make a new life for himself. But Sundown Bob Hatfield knows a man who’s slick on the draw can’t escape trouble for long. In Rattlesnake Wells, you fight fire with fire — and a new one has just exploded.

In a hail of thunder and gunfire, Jeston Nash fled a new Orleans billiards hall with a land deed in one hand, a blazing pistol in the other. He'd won his gamble with Quick Quintan Cordell fair and square. But in seconds, violence flared, Cordell lay dead, and Sheriff Pat Garret's voice still rang in Nash's ears...somewhere, someday, they would meet again....Jeston Nash learned about robbery from his cousin, Jesse James. But it was the wild outlaw Billy the Kid who taught him that even a wanted man is just a man. Nash catches up with the kid in a dusty town of drunken bottle-shooters.

In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farmboys, almost more trouble than they were worth. When Trey McLean leaves his family's East Texas cotton farm and sets off on his own to learn the cattleman's trade, he's about as green as they come. But Trey learns fast. He learns about deceit when a con man cheats him out of his grubstake and about love when he meets the woman he's destined to marry.

October 1964: Just months after freelance indexer Marjorie Trumaine helped solve a series of murders in Dickinson, North Dakota, she is faced with another death that pulls her into an unwanted investigation. Calla Eltmore, the local librarian, is found dead at work, and everyone considers it suicide. But Marjorie can't believe that Calla would be capable of doing such a thing. Marjorie's suspicions are further aroused when she notices something amiss at Calla's wake, but the police seem uninterested in her observations.