Before I Self Destruct


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A collection of poems written during a poet's experience with love, heartbreak, depression and revitalization. Read through the pages of Little Blue's mind as she undergoes deconstruction to reassemble herself.




The Index of Self-Destructive Acts


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On the day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for the Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A data journalist and recent media celebrity—he correctly forecast every outcome of the 2008 election—Sam knows a few things about predicting the future. But when projection meets reality, life gets complicated. His first assignment for the Interviewer is a profile of disgraced political columnist Frank Doyle, known to Sam for the sentimental works of baseball lore that first sparked his love of the game. When Sam meets Frank at Citi Field for the Mets’ home opener, he finds himself unexpectedly ushered into Doyle’s crumbling family empire. Kit, the matriarch, lost her investment bank to the financial crisis; Eddie, their son, hasn’t been the same since his second combat tour in Iraq; Eddie’s best friend from childhood, the fantastically successful hedge funder Justin Price, is starting to see cracks in his spotless public image. And then there’s Frank’s daughter, Margo, with whom Sam becomes involved—just as his wife, Lucy, arrives from Wisconsin. While their lives seem inextricable, none of them know how close they are to losing everything, including each other. Sweeping in scope yet meticulous in its construction, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts is a remarkable family portrait and a masterful evocation of New York City and its institutions. Over the course of a single baseball season, Christopher Beha traces the passing of the torch from the old establishment to the new meritocracy, exploring how each generation’s failure helped land us where we are today. Whether or not the world is ending, Beha’s characters are all headed to apocalypses of their own making.




Mamba


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What is it like to be suddenly rich beyond your wildest dreams? What is it like to discover how deeply your hatred of rapist is? What is it like to become a government assassin to fill that hatred? Discover the dangers of being rich as you follow birth and growth of Mamba through these discoveries. Paula Fisher is a strikingly beautiful dark haired woman with a deep hatred of all men. Alone in the jungle of darkest Africa she is attacked by a rich Baron. Killing her attacker, Paula suddenly finds herself rich beyond her wildest dreams. She discovers that her hatred of men has changed when she falls in love. Paula assumes a new persona to match her new hatred. As Mamba she sets out on a quest to kill all the rich rapist she can. With the help of her new found love and a killer for hire she begins her quest only to find confusion and despair as she fights for her life and fortune.




50 Cent


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The life that 50 Cent was born into was anything but easy. From growing up without a father, to drug dealing, to being shot nine times and nearly losing his life, 50 Cent had to overcome a lot of struggles in his life. But this hip-hop biography will not only cover those struggles, but also his rise to becoming one of the biggest and wealthiest names in the hip-hop world.





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Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life of Marshall Bruce Mathers III and Curtis James Jackson III - Famous Stars


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Ever wondered how Marshall Bruce Mathers III and Curtis James Jackson III rose to stardom? No one expected a skinny and poor young boy from the projects of Detroit to one day become one of the highest-selling rap artists of all time, but Marshall Mathers, aka Eminem, never lost sight of his dream. Despite an unbelievable amount of odds stacked against him, the aspiring rap artist used his pain and turmoil to pour anger, hurt, and frustration into his rap lyrics. Using his own turbulent life as a blueprint, Eminem rose through the rap charts on the waves of critics who began praising his skilled lyricism and sarcastic sense of humor. Looking at 50 Cent’s career, one would hardly expect that the rapper’s impressive rise to stardom could have been cut short by an early life of crime and violence. As a musician, an actor, and a businessman, 50 Cent has consistently proven his instincts for choosing successful projects in which to involve himself. However, 50 Cent was actually born into an environment full of poverty and bloodshed and had to fight his way out of a deadly cycle of incarceration and physical confrontation before he truly realized his full potential. For more interesting facts you must read the biographies. Grab your biography books now!




Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life Of Curtis James Jackson III (50 Cent) - Famous Stars


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Ever wondered how 50 Cent rose to stardom? Looking at 50 Cent’s career, one would hardly expect that the rapper’s impressive rise to stardom could have been cut short by an early life of crime and violence. As a musician, an actor, and a businessman, 50 Cent has consistently proven his instincts for choosing successful projects in which to involve himself. However, 50 Cent was actually born into an environment full of poverty and bloodshed and had to fight his way out of a deadly cycle of incarceration and physical confrontation before he truly realized his full potential. For more interesting facts you must read the biography. Grab your biography book now!




Celebrity Biographies - The Amazing Life Of Jay Z and 50 Cent - Famous Stars


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Ever wondered how Jay Z and 50 Cent rose to stardom? When he was young, Shawn Carter used to sneak away from the putrid halls of his ratty Brooklyn apartment to walk the busy streets of a city alive with success. The young boy who grew up in the shadow of the towering skyscrapers of New York City ascended to the pinnacle of music recognition through hard work and determination. As the subject of one of the first and most famous rap rags to riches stories, rapper Jay Z’s career has had an influential impact on a new generation of rappers who cite the rap godfather’s passion and hard-working attitude as inspiration for their own career paths. Starting as an amateur rapper in the Brooklyn underground scene, Jay Z quickly rose to the heights of rap superstardom. Looking at 50 Cent’s career, one would hardly expect that the rapper’s impressive rise to stardom could have been cut short by an early life of crime and violence. As a musician, an actor, and a businessman, 50 Cent has consistently proven his instincts for choosing successful projects in which to involve himself. However, 50 Cent was actually born into an environment full of poverty and bloodshed and had to fight his way out of a deadly cycle of incarceration and physical confrontation before he truly realized his full potential. For more interesting facts you must read the biographies. Grab your biography books now!




Automata, Languages and Programming


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The two-volume set LNCS 6755 and LNCS 6756 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2011, held in Zürich, Switzerland, in July 2011. The 114 revised full papers (68 papers for track A, 29 for track B, and 17 for track C) presented together with 4 invited talks, 3 best student papers, and 3 best papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 398 submissions. The papers are grouped in three major tracks on algorithms, complexity and games; on logic, semantics, automata, and theory of programming; as well as on foundations of networked computation: models, algorithms and information management.




Displaced II


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Who are we? Where do we come from? Is there other life in the Universe? Is there a God? What happens after we die? Is time travel real? In 2006, Kev Pearson discovered a quarter mint stamped in the year 2025. His search for the origin of this quarter led him to those answers, and more. What if you could have those answers, too? Would you want to know? Are you ready to know? Connor MacKenzie and the FCA have rescued Kev Pearson from his perilous temporal situation. Four years have passed for Connor during Kev's inadvertent jumps across time. The Brüder-3 operating system HoloLog he brought with him is the treasure trove of information the FCA has been waiting for. Now Connor must clean up the mess he and Kev left behind in 2095. But there’s a mole in the FCA. They prevent Connor from completing the mission of solving the 2025 quarter riddle, which is now hidden with the ten-year-old version of Kev Pearson. The mole forces Connor and the FCA to the year 2025 to make the very exchange the causes the 2025 quarter to lose its place in time. The FCA cannot stop what is already preordained without contaminating the established timeline. The Exchange answers many questions but also poses many new ones in the process. The chase is on again for the quarter Kev left hidden in 1981 after Connor realizes The Corporation knows it's there. Another old friend from Kev's high school days becomes involved at that critical moment. His involvement leads to the climax of the second act when Kev finally remembers his missing day from 1989 at the Liberty Reservoir. Will the missing pieces of information from that day finally put this temporal puzzle together? Or will it make an already complicated situation worse?