Author: Susan Vaughan
Publisher: Silhouette
ISBN: 1426873751
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Christina Skye
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 1426802722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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Author: Heather Demetrios
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534431888
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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“Bringing together rigorous research and a vibrant writing style” (School Library Journal), Code Name Verity meets Inglourious Basterds in this riotous, spirited biography of the most dangerous of all Allied spies, courageous and kickass Virginia Hall. When James Bond was still in diapers, Virginia Hall was behind enemy lines, playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Hitler’s henchmen. Did she have second thoughts after a terrible accident left her needing a wooden leg? Please. Virginia Hall was the baddest broad in any room she walked into. When the State Department proved to be a sexist boys’ club that wouldn’t let her in, she gave the finger to society’s expectations of women and became a spy for the British. This boss lady helped arm and train the French Resistance and organized sabotage missions. There was just one problem: The Butcher of Lyon, a notorious Gestapo commander, was after her. But, hey—Virginia’s classmates didn’t call her the Fighting Blade for nothing. So how does a girl who was a pirate in the school play, spent her childhood summers milking goats, and rocked it on the hockey field end up becoming the Gestapo’s most wanted spy? Audacious, irreverent, and fiercely feminist, Code Name Badass is for anyone who doesn’t take no for an answer.

Author: Pearl Witherington Cornioley
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613744900
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Pearl Witherington Cornioley, one of the most celebrated female World War II resistance fighters, shares her remarkable story in this firsthand account of her experience as a special agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). Told through a series of reminiscences—from a difficult childhood spent in the shadow of World War I and her family's harrowing escape from France as the Germans approached in 1940 to her recruitment and training as a special agent and the logistics of parachuting into a remote rural area of occupied France and hiding in a wheat field from enemy fire—each chapter also includes helpful opening remarks to provide context and background on the SOE and the French Resistance. With an annotated list of key figures, an appendix of original unedited interview extracts—including Pearl's fiancé Henri's story—and fascinating photographs and documents from Pearl's personal collection, this memoir will captivate World War II buffs of any age.

Author: Jukka K. Korpela
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 059610121X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. There are hundreds of different encoding systems for mapping characters to numbers, but Unicode promises a single mapping. Unicode enables a single software product or website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without re-engineering. It's no wonder that industry giants like Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM andMicrosoft have all adopted Unicode. Containing everything you need to understand Unicode, this comprehensive reference from O'Reilly takes you on a detailed guide through the complex character world. For starters, it explains how to identify and classify characters - whether they're common, uncommon, or exotic. It then shows you how to type them, utilize their properties, and process character data in a robust manner. The book is broken up into three distinct parts. The first few chapters provide you with a tutorial presentation of Unicode and character data. It gives you a firm grasp of the terminology you need to reference various components, including character sets, fonts and encodings, glyphs and character repertoires. The middle section offers more detailed information about using Unicode and other character codes. It explains the principles and methods of defining character codes, describes some of the widely used codes, and presents code conversion techniques. It also discusses properties of characters, collation and sorting, line breaking rules and Unicode encodings. The final four chapters cover more advanced material, such as programming to support Unicode. You simply can't afford to be without the nuggets of valuable information detailed in Unicode Explained.

Author: Tobey Dodge CSEP
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504921380
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Written by Ava Carroll Brown, author of Where Is Your Mother? You cant help but come away with insights, helpful information, and be inspired when you read The Other Side of the Aisle. It is chalk full of 27 years of solid wedding knowledge, important lessons learned and shared with us from working with nearly 800 families. My friend and colleague Tobey Dodge has written a book that pulls on your heart strings with endearing stories while she gently instructs brides, grooms, their families and wedding industry pros through her story telling about her own familys history, personal challenges, triumphs, and determination to make her way in the business world. I hope you will enjoy this book which is more like sitting down and listening to an old friend sharing life stories that will make you smile, shake your head in amazement, and realize that being a kind and imperfect human being can make it in business, find love the second time around, and build a business reputation that any of us would be proud to have.

Author: David Wright
Publisher: David Wright
ISBN: 1476207895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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Codename Vengeance is a WWII historical thriller filled with top-secret Nazi weaponry, breath-taking aerial duels, and gut-wrenching moral dilemmas. It's the first in a series of adventure/espionage novels spanning the career of the German double agent, Henrik Kessler, and the demise of the Nazi empire from 1942 to 1945. When an American pilot on loan to the RAF shoots down three British spitfires in his own squadron, and then crash-lands at a German airbase in Holland, the Nazi SS have more than a few questions about his identity. Who is this American? A deserter? A traitor? A maniac? Or truly a German spy as he claims to be? Before they can interrogate him to find the answers, Henrik escapes the airbase and travels on foot to Amsterdam for mysterious reasons of his own. Apparently he has returned from America, not to deliver top secret plans of the atomic bomb, but to smuggle his former fiancé, Esther Jacobs, out of German occupied Holland in a hidden submarine. There is only one problem with his plan. What if she doesn't want to go? Before he can convince her to come with him, Esther and her family are evacuated to a Jewish concentration camp in the Harz Mountains. Now Henrik must choose between his tainted loyalty to an evil regime or his forbidden love for a Jewish woman. Will he continue to work on Hitler's dreaded Vengeance weapons with the secrets he has brought with him from America, or will he set out on a doomed mission deep into the heart of the Third Reich to save Esther and her family? Whatever his decision, only the fate of the civilized world hangs in the balance.

Author: Christina Skye
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 142680265X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1116

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Smart, stubborn heroines and the tough, hunky Navy SEALs assigned to protect them-- Christina Skye's Code Name books deliver fast-paced thrills with sizzling romance! Bundle includes Code Name: Baby, Code Name: Blondie, and the newest title, Code Name: Bikini.

Author: Renee Dyer
Publisher: Renee Dyer
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Mateo Romero is living the dream as a beach attendant on the turquoise waters of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, helping families get the most of their vacations by day and rescuing kids in need by night. The last thing he expects is to meet Darby Benson, an uptight tourist who has the audacity to call him a stalker. Everywhere he goes, she’s there—either in distress or starting trouble. He should steer clear, but something about her draws him in. Her snide remarks infuriate him, but when she smiles, he forgets why he ever found her irritating in the first place. And he can’t have that—it goes against his first rule: “no getting involved with tourists.” Darby Benson, destination wedding extraordinaire, never expected she would still be unmarried at thirty-four years old. She didn’t imagine her boyfriend of twelve years would ask her to plan a romantic getaway for two only to propose to her assistant. Yet, here she is, single, on vacation alone, trying to avoid her ex and his new fiancée. To make matters worse, she keeps running into Mateo Romero, a local who seems hell-bent on sticking his nose in her business. Everywhere she turns, Mateo is there, offering advice, stepping in where he isn’t needed, being far too sexy for anyone’s good. Annoyance shifts to flirtation, and eventually, they can’t deny their attraction. Darby worries she’s being set up for her next heartbreak. Mateo is ready to give her his heart. If they can get on the same page, their romance could be one to last a lifetime.

Author: M.M. Rumberg
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664194983
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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From the author of the award-winning CodeName:Snake, The Evil We Kill, comes the third volume of the dramatic story of an assassin driven by revenge. The Nazis killed his family and his mission in life has been to seek out Nazis who escaped Germany at the end of WWII. Inadvertently, Stefan Hirsch has uncovered massive fraud among high-ranking US government officials. He is a danger to them and must be eliminated. Agents are sent to make him “disappear.” Stefan tries to fight back but the resources used against him are overwhelming and closing in. His tormentors are unrelenting and death can be seconds away. And now they are also after his wife and child. He cannot let his guard down and knows he must strike back, but how, against such massively overpowering odds? Author Picture (use the same picture on the previous Xlibris novel – CodeName: Snake – II Trust No One)