The Last in Line


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She’s on the run from a horrific past. He’s on the verge of a riches to rags nightmare. Until one chance encounter changes everything… Burlesque bar owner Freya Cortez, leads a razzle-dazzle life until she learns her mother has just weeks to live. Now she is forced to juggle a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity with the torment of her far-from-perfect childhood. Millionaire party-boy Max Tindall is facing financial ruin, even his most prized possession is at risk—his home. But a casual encounter with Freya gives him one last chance to turn his life around. Though Freya has vowed to never fall in love, even she can’t deny Max is the kindest person she’s ever met, the one man to challenge her “no settling” rule. But how can a woman so fiercely independent ignore the fact that there's something gravely amiss with him? Something even he hasn’t noticed. Something bound to destroy both their lives. For fans of heat with heart romance, and It Ends With Us — Colleen Hoover. Curl up with The Last in Line to experience this epic romance like no other! Books in the Love at Last series: Book 1: The Last Heartbeat - Agathe and Luke Book 2: The Last Place You Look - Sophie and Orlando. Book 3: The Last in Line - Freya and Max. This book is for you if you love: Opposites attract, Contemporary, Workplace Romance novels. Heat with heart steam, and story with all the heart-wrenching depth! Want more? How about a riches to rags twist, from an OWN voice author. A multicultural and interracial cast. Touches of tragedy, with an uplifting purpose. HEA/ Happy Ever After ending. Self-discovery. Angst with bursts of humor. A big city, Australian setting. A strong, intelligent, independent heroine. Wounded characters with a second chance at life. A book with a heartthrob hero that “gets it” and wants his woman to be whole. Steamy!




Last in Line


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No matter whether the teacher orders the class by name, favorite animal, or height, Zelda Zena Zipperelli always seems to be the last person.




Last in Line


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Best of Ronnie James Dio


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(Play It Like It Is). Note-for-note transcriptions of 12 tunes from the electrifying frontman of Rainbow, Black Sabbath & Dio: Don't Talk to Strangers * Heaven and Hell * Holy Diver * King of Rock & Roll * The Last in Line * Man on the Silver Mountain * The Mob Rules * Neon Knights * Rainbow in the Dark * Sacred Heart * Stand Up and Shout * We Rock. Features photos and a foreword by Jack Black!




The Last Line


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THE DRUG WAR is about to become A REAL WAR. Chris Teller may be the best in the intelligence business, but that doesn't mean he's the most popular. Far from it, in fact. While he may be a threat to the status quo, however, the only thing saving him from expulsion is an even greater threat to his country, one that's already within our borders. With Mexico descending into anarchy, the drug cartels have kicked up the heat, allying with Hezbollah and the Iranian secret service in a plot aimed at nothing less than the destruction of the United States of America. As Teller races to unravel the plot, he discovers that the most dangerous and pernicious enemies are not bloodthirsty drug lords, but a terrifying and treasonous cabal within the U.S. government itself. Former military intelligence officer Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer made headlines when his memoir, Operation Dark Heart, faced Department of Defense censorship. Now he returns with The Last Line, an eye-opening thriller rooted in the shadow world of espionage, government power, and betrayal.




Last in a Long Line of Rebels


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Sheila Turnage meets Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn-Dixie in this debut about a small town and a young girl who discovers some old family secrets. Lou might be only twelve, but she’s never been one to take things sitting down. So when her Civil War-era house is about to be condemned, she’s determined to save it—either by getting it deemed a historic landmark or by finding the stash of gold rumored to be hidden nearby during the war. As Lou digs into the past, her eyes are opened when she finds that her ancestors ran the gamut of slave owners, renegades, thieves and abolitionists. Meanwhile, some incidents in her town show her that many Civil War era prejudices still survive and that the past can keep repeating itself if we let it. Digging into her past shows Lou that it’s never too late to fight injustice, and she starts to see the real value of understanding and exploring her roots.




Rainbow in the Dark


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Ronnie James Dio was a heavy metal icon and frontman of three of the best-selling, most influential and famous rock bands in history: Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his own multi-million selling band, Dio. Rainbow in the Dark is a rollercoaster ride through the extraordinary highs and lows of Dio's life, and takes us from his early days as a street gang leader and Doo-wop singer in '60s Vegas through to his breakout success with Rainbow and Black Sabbath in the '70s and the stadiums of US metal in the '80s - ending in Dio's dressing room at Madison Square Garden, in June 1986, at the peak of his worldwide fame with Dio. Tragically Dio passed away from cancer in 2010, but had already begun writing a memoir before his death. Edited by the world-renowned music biographer Mick Wall, with the involvement of Dio's wife of over 35 years and personal manager Wendy Dio, Rainbow in the Dark will honour and feature Dio's never-before-seen original manuscript, while drawing on the extraordinary collection of print and audio interviews with the man himself to produce a vivid, raw and faithful portrait of one of the world's greatest ever rock legends.







The Cognitive Life of Maps


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The “mapness of maps”—how maps live in interaction with their users, and what this tells us about what they are and how they work. In a sense, maps are temporarily alive for those who design, draw, and use them. They have, for the moment, a cognitive life. To grapple with what this means—to ask how maps can be alive, and what kind of life they have—is to explore the core question of what maps are. And this is what Roberto Casati does in The Cognitive Life of Maps, in the process assembling the conceptual tools for understanding why maps have the power they have, why they are so widely used, and how we use (and misuse) them. Drawing on insights from cognitive science and philosophy of mind, Casati considers the main claims around what maps are and how they work—their specific syntax, peculiar semantics, and pragmatics. He proposes a series of steps that can lead to a precise theory of maps, one that reveals what maps have in common with diagrams, pictures, and texts, and what makes them different. This minimal theory of maps helps us to see maps nested in many cognitive artifacts—clock faces, musical notation, writing, calendars, and numerical series, for instance. It also allows us to tackle the issue of the territorialization of maps—to show how maps can be used to draw specific spatial inferences about territories. From the mechanics of maps used for navigation to the differences and similarities between maps and pictures and models, Casati's ambitious work is a cognitive map in its own right, charting the way to a new understanding of what maps mean.




Sorting Last-In-First-Out Stacks


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This thesis deals with storage systems that are organized in last-in-first-out stacks. This approach for storing items is common, for example, in container terminals, and is therefore of great practical interest as well as high relevance in the literature. Furthermore, optimization problems that may arise in this context are presented and addressed by developing novel mathematical model formulations and customized solution methods.