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This best seller has been updated and revised to cover all the latest changes to C++ 14 and 17! C++ Concurrency in Action, Second Edition teaches you everything you need to write robust and elegant multithreaded applications in C++17. C++ Concurrency in Action, Second Edition is the definitive guide to writing elegant multithreaded applications in C++, it carefully addresses every aspect of concurrent development, from starting new threads to designing fully functional multithreaded algorithms and data structures.

As the Muse of History, Clio had everything she desired: a beautiful historic house in Savannah, Georgia full of books and cats. Her life was peaceful and perfect! Who cares if none of the other gods thought much of her; the less people bothered her the more time she had to read and study. A knock on her door ended her serene world. Artemis needed help. Not just any Greek God would do, she needed one who thought with her head and not her heart. Clio was the obvious choice to ask.

Do you wish for a more meaningful and authentic way to celebrate the harvest season? Do you feel disconnected from the natural rhythms of the earth and long to reconnect with your spiritual roots? Not many of us understand the significance of Lammas or how to fully embrace its traditions, but that’s going to change. If you seek a deeper connection with nature, a sense of community, and a profound way to honor the cycle of life, then this is the book you need!

Midsummer is approaching and Avery, Alex, and the White Haven witches, are making plans to celebrate Litha, but everything stops when paranormal activities cause havoc. Smuggler's gold is found that dates back centuries, and a strange chain of events is set in motion; Newton needs magical help. The witches find they are pitted against a deadly enemy, and they need the Cornwall Coven. But not all are happy to help - a few members have never accepted White Haven, and their enmity puts everyone in danger.

One headstrong fey, seven Nephilim, and an American occult collector make for an action-packed ride! When the team break fey magic that seals an old tomb, they find it contains more than they bargained for. Now they’re hunting for a rogue spirit, but he always seems one step ahead. Later, join Shadow, Gabe, and Harlan as they search for the Temple of the Trinity. The Nephilim find it has unsettling links to their past. In the last story, when an arcane artefact is stolen from the Order of the Midnight Sun, Shadow and Gabe are hired to track it down, pitting them against a new enemy.

Tiphani Fuller is on the run for her life. This former district attorney, wife of a Baltimore detective, and mother of two has burnt bridges and left dead bodies across the country. Now she has nowhere to turn but to the home she ran from in her youth. As a child, Tiphani did everything to put the bullet-infested and crime-laden streets of Flint in her rearview mirror. Now she finds herself back in the community with people she swore she would never deal with again.

Dr. Antonio "Tone" Ortiz is an ordinary single father in Miami, trying to ignore what flows through his veins, until his daughter, Jewel, goes missing. With all his options failing, it's up to Tone to find his daughter by any means necessary, even if that means signing his soul over to the devil himself: his father, Caltrone Orlando. Co-parenting has never been easy, and Kenya Gates will learn just how hard it is with the kidnapping of her daughter, Jewel. Even through all the sacrifices, secrets, lost love, drama, pain, and manipulation, these two fighting parents will come together.

In this straightforward guide, expert relationship therapists Edrica Richardson and Ilene Cohen get to the heart of what it means to really be in fulfilling relationships and why connecting with the ones you love can feel so hard. You'll learn how "doing the work" encourages healing and growth within yourself and within your relationships.

Hacker Kita Yamasaki would do anything to escape the post-apocalyptic landscape that was the result of the Forever Winter. But for a normal person, the only options are the war-hungry nation-state of Ex Cathedra or the isolationist United California. Fortunately, Kita is anything but normal. When she finds a faded brochure for the BC Oasis—an underground greenhouse capable of sheltering a quarter million people—she jumps at the opportunity, even going so far as to steal a fission battery the oasis requires to operate at full capacity.

Meet the Banks sisters - Simone, Bunny, Tallhya, and Ginger. The four beauties are living under the same roof by force, but they can't stand each other. Their only common denominator is their loving grandmother, Me-Ma. When she's not at work trying to make ends meet, she's home with her girls, trying to keep them from killing each other.

Este libro comienza hace 10.000 años y termina en el futuro. Con una exhaustiva investigación, Diana Uribe y su hija Alejandra Espinosa Uribe nos presentan una obra memorable. Lo que se reúne en estas páginas y en las más de 15 horas de audio es el resultado de una tarea titánica: contar la historia de cómo las revoluciones han configurado el mundo en el que vivimos. Aquí, el lector encontrará una definición amplia de revolución, que abarca desde las movilizaciones masivas que estallan de repente hasta aquellos largos procesos que tardan siglos en gestarse.

At the age of 64, legendary athlete Diana Nyad inspired the world when she walked onto the shores of Key West after "crossing the Mt. Everest of the earth's oceans", becoming the first person in history to make the 111-mile swim from Cuba to Florida without the assistance of a shark cage. In her riveting new play The Swimmer, recorded live at the Minetta Lane Theatre, Nyad shares the heartbreaking setbacks, brushes with death and the victories that kept her going, plunging the audience into the depths of her extraordinary journey.  

New Nigeria is a good, clean, all-American town. The husbands are smiling and handsome, the wives are strong, rich, and powerful, and Nat Turner High is the best public school in the state. Yet, the citizens of this idyllic community find themselves in a rapidly changing country and, to be perfectly honest, some of them are a teeny bit uncomfortable with it all.

An anthology that gives access to the voices of mothers of color and marginalized mothers.

Based on her research at Harvard Medical School and twenty years as a business psychologist, Dr. Sharon Melnick, a Marshall Goldsmith Top 100 Coach, shows you how to get back “in your power,” where you see how much you can control to show up as your best self and get the outcome you want. In Your Power: React Less, Regain Control, Raise Others guides you through twelve Power Portals, giving you a new approach to stop reacting to others’ limitations and instead raise yourself and others to be limitless.

Miss Silver joins a friend from Scotland Yard to investigate a suspicious suicide. Frank Abbott’s vacations never last very long, and his trip to Field End is no exception. He has hardly enjoyed a moment of Jonathan Field’s hospitality before tragedy strikes. A niece ventures into old Jonathan’s study at night to ask him a question, and finds him stone cold with a revolver by his hand. An obvious suicide, it seems, but Inspector Abbott is not so sure.

Dafne Lancaster está ante su primera temporada en Londres. Su familia dispone de conexiones sociales envidiables, pero ella es una joven tímida y no cuenta ni con la belleza de sus hermanas ni tampoco con su don para la conversación. Así que las cosas no se presentan fáciles. Sin embargo, la temporada se abre con la llegada de James Tilburn, un hombre amable y tierno que ya le robó el corazón cuando era joven.

A citadel crowned in ice. An ancient message that contains a warning. The clash of ancient powers. Nahum thinks he’s accompanying Olivia on a simple retrieval for The Orphic Guild, but finds something far more sinister. Relics connected to the Fallen.

When 13-year-old Savannah Hopkins doesn’t come straight home from school, as she always does, her mother Jane immediately raises the alarm. Leading the investigation is Detective Natalie Ward, whose daughter, Leigh, is the same age as Savannah. Soon Natalie’s worst fears are confirmed when the teenager’s broken body is found in nearby shrubland. Evidence points toward a local recluse, but just as the net is closing around him, one of Savannah’s friends, Harriet, is reported missing.

Creo en el amor. Pero el amor parece haberse olvidado de mí. Tengo citas a menudo. Estoy dispuesta a dar mil oportunidades a los tíos. Simplemente, no he encontrado al indicado. Hasta que una mañana de primavera, en plena campiña inglesa, un desconocido alto y moreno aparece de entre de la niebla. Logan Steele tiene el pelo alborotado, el torso duro y unos labios tan perfectos que quiero besárselos solo para comprobar que son reales.