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Warning a drug dealer about a police raid isn't a mistake. Not for a detective with sixteen years on the Drug Squad. It's a choice. And Tom Kessler knows exactly what it will cost him. He has spent his career in the shadows of serious crime: surveillance, undercover work, informant handling. The kind of policing that never reaches the press and leaves marks that don't show. He knows where every line is drawn. He built his life on them.

In Great American Investments, legendary investor Charles D. Ellis reveals the fascinating stories behind the decisions that shaped America. From the Louisiana Purchase that doubled the nation's size to Land Grant Colleges that democratized education, Ellis explores how bold investments in...

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

A scathing social critique which skilfully explores class, corruption and moral decay, Bleak House is centred around a long-running legal case – Jarndyce v. Jarndyce – and its devastating consequences on the people involved. From financial ruin to relentless personal suffering, the case has wreaked havoc on the lives of generations, having dragged on for decades.

Famed for being Dickens’s last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend is a sophisticated social analysis and damning satire of wealth, and the greed and corruption it can bring. First published between 1864 and 1865, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a large fortune left by John Harmon Sr., owner of a huge estate. Once John passes, his wealth is left to his son, but only under one condition: that he marries Miss Bella Wilfer, a shallow young woman preoccupied with money.

FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR CHARLES CUMMING THE NEW THRILLER FOLLOWING CAREER SPY, LACHLAN KITE 'Nobody writes more enjoyable spy thrillers’ ANTHONY HOROWITZ ‘Charles Cumming has breathed new life into the spy novel’ BEN MACINTYRE 'The rightful inheritor of John le Carré's crown'...

Grandes esperanzas cuenta la historia de Philip Pip, un niño huérfano que vive con su hermana huraña que lo maltrata, y el esposo de esta, un herrero de nombre Joe Gargery. En una vida sin esperanzas como aprendiz de herrero, Pip sueña con que su destino cambie. Un día es llevado a la casa Satis, la mansión de Miss Havisham, una adinerada loca y misteriosa que lo contrata para que juegue con su nieta, la bella Estella.

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing many industries, but with its power comes responsibility. "AI Governance: Ensuring Trust, Security, and Ethics in AI-Based Systems" is your guide to navigating the challenges of responsible AI development and deployment. Written by cybersecurity expert Dr. Kellep A. Charles, this essential resource connects AI innovation with ethical practices.

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Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens gathers Dickens’s most incisive explorations of crime and character, led by the haunting tale of Mr. Julius Slinkton—a man whose impeccable manners and professional respectability conceal a chilling capacity for manipulation.

A book you can listen to on your lunch hour, to understand the processes and components involved in telling any story, whether you are selling a product or service, asking for a raise, or, are an executive presenting to the media.

Although the Sumerians continue to get second or even third billing compared to the Babylonians and Assyrians, perhaps because they never built an empire as great as the Assyrians or established a city as enduring and great as Babylon, they were the people who provided the template of civilization that all later Mesopotamians built upon. The Sumerians are credited with being the first people to invent writing, libraries, cities, and schools in, and many would argue that they were the first people to create and do those things anywhere in world.

**When everything falls apart, where do you find the strength to stay?**After seventy years of duty—in submarines, serving his country, keeping promises—Charles J. Hierons found himself at Faithwood Mental Health Treatment Centre, drowning in PTSD, his mind a war zone of nightmares and...

The last—and unfinished—work by Charles Dickens, one of the world's greatest storytellers, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is aptly titled. At the time of his death, Charles Dickens had written only six chapters of the novel he had planned to be twice as long. When young Edwin Drood mysteriously...

Raduan denkt gar nicht daran, Ardal Aelric, einem seiner gerissensten Widersacher im Spiel der Götter, mit seinen eigenen Fähigkeiten zum Sieg zu verhelfen. Wenn er schon ackern muss wie ein Gaul, weil ihm das schlechteste Blatt aller Champions gegeben wurde, dann will er den Lohn für seine...

He needed her more than anything but his past would forever keep them apart. Jules Wynd was supposed to one day manage the family estate in the Cape Colony, but matters hadn’t gone as planned. Instead, upon completion of his education, Jules purchased a commission to join his closest friend in...

A science-based guide that analyzes, synthesizes, and disseminates the most up-to-date picture of how food can be used as medicine to live a healthier, stronger, better, and longer life. While diet has the potential to prevent (or to cause) disease, it can also treat disease and promote health...

Who can measure the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives? When we are in the dark, He brings the Light. When our minds are perplexed, He gives the Answer. When we need an encouraging promise, He provides the Word. When we are lost, He shows the Way. Charles H. Spurgeon clearly communicates...

Ein versteinertes Herz, drei nächtliche Geister und die letzte Chance auf Erlösung … London, 1843. Schon als junger Mann findet Ebenezer Scrooge seine Bestimmung im kalten Glanz des Goldes: Für den hartherzigen Geldverleiher zählen nur Bilanzen und Gewinne, Mitgefühl und Nächstenliebe...

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