The mean streets of Skid Row teem with unhappy characters. Each has his or her own sordid tale to tell about their current condition and the sorry fate that deposited them there. Meet ""Narrator"", a documentary film maker who has come to interview these hapless souls. Through the lens of his camera, he hopes to improve his understanding of their plight and the struggles they confront in their daily quest for survival. His story will focus on a minor mystery with major implications. Who killed Cassandra's cat? And why?
Viscount Mika Aertes has learned a new trade, shipping. Being a captain has never been easy and he has the scars to prove it, but his biggest challenge is yet to come. Being offered a chance to captain the first ever airship, he gets himself in over his head. Fumbling his way through the need mechanics, he hires Cassandra Burke, assistant mechanic, to help him through the process. What he doesn't know is that Cassandra has her own motives for being involved with the airship, and they don't align with his own. Sabotage- Lust- Secrets- Love? Will their paths ever be on the same page? Will the airship ever get off the ground?
Finalist Book Excellence Award 2017A unique YA Fantasy page-turner that spans the void between vastly different worlds, Gardner captures the most endearing qualities of the genre in a story that's both refreshing and original. -Book Viral ReviewReaders who love excitement, peril and sweet romance will enjoy this time-travel adventure.Eighteen years after her father visited the Realm, Cassie discovers a portal to the same world when she takes a selfie with her cell phone. Against the wishes of her friends, she goes in and finds herself captured by a grumpy old wizard. Its through him she learns of the unrest happening in the kingdom called Alisubbo. When a handsome cavalry officer, Valerio, appears with his troops in all his pompous attire, Cassie is taken breathless.The cunning Valerio immediately recognizes the opportunity of befriending this lovely, young and naive stranger and sweet-talks her into helping his cause. Her mission, deliver an Appeal for Peace to the king. Cassie willingly takes the job, thrilled that she finally has the adventure she's wanted all her young life.Tragically for her, the letter is not what Valerio says it is. Cassie discovers she's been a pawn in a coup to overthrow the king. She discovers the lies and false accusations too late. Before she can stop the violence, her hands are stained in blood. She must somehow turn the tide, save the life of the heir, and persuade him to return and rescue Alisubbo from Valerio's tyranny. Other books in this series include Ian's Realm Saga, Layla, Fallen Morning, and Diary of a Conjurer and Lost on Taikus.
Cassandra has a gift. Animals can show her what they're thinking. And she's done keeping her talent a secret. In the first volume of the Cassandra: Animal Psychic series, Cassandra sets out to help pets and their people. The trouble is, other parts of Cassandra's life are changing too. Her mom has a boyfriend she really likes, but his daughter can't stand Cassandra. And Cassandra's best friend is about to leave town. Not even her trusty dog Miss Dolly can make things feel okay. When Cassandra gets on the trail of a lost cat, will she be able to help its owners? Or will her first case be a flop?
“Madden has a lyric, a magical tone . . . and he is at his best with dialogue. The words in this novel are very nearly musical. . . . Eastern Kentucky is perhaps not all beautiful, but it is beautifully felt in this novel.”—Joyce Carol Oates, The Southern Review“Cassandra Singing successfully combines crude animal vigor with intellectual force. Maintaining a sure, steady hold on its subject, it takes us into a strange world and brings that world to life.”—Peter Wolfe, New York Times Book ReviewSet in the exotic coal country of eastern Kentucky’s mountains, Cassandra Singing centers on a brother and a sister and their contrasting ways of coping with life. Lone McDaniel is drawn to a life of action, riding a motorcycle with his friend Boyd Weaver, the wildest and most dangerous boy in town. Cassie McDaniel, bedridden for most of her life with rheumatic fever, lives in the world of her own imagination, feeding vicariously on her brother’s stories of his adventures with Boyd and Boyd’s girlfriend, Gypsy.Cassie’s strange imaginings and the folk songs she sings are her efforts to communicate with Lone, and they affect him in two ways: They pull him unwillingly into the tangled emotional terrain of his family, and they fuel his urge to escape from the nearly incestuous relationship he has with Cassie. When a willful act of destruction lands Lone in jail, Cassie decides to go out into the world, where she finds herself drawn gradually to Boyd. Both are isolated from others—Cassie by her vision of life, Boyd by his hostile actions—but they have one thing in common: their strange love of Lone. Cassie’s attempts to become Lone hurl this searing novel toward its dramatic climax.The Author: David Madden is creator and Director the U.S. Civil War Center at Louisiana State University. Cassandra Singing, his second novel, was originally published in 1969. His other highly praised novels and short story collections include The Suicide’s Wife, Bijou, The New Orleans of Possibilities, On the Big Wind, The Shadow Knows, and Sharpshooter (Tennessee, 1996). He is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Cassandra Morse was US Navy royalty. She was top of class at Annapolis and on track to be the fourth generation with admiral stars on her shoulders. That all changed when the prototype combat fighter aircraft she was piloting was blown out of the sky by a mysterious space-based weapon.When she woke from a coma, she was a different person. In addition to hallucinations she had the ability to accurately dream future events. Unfortunately, despite nearly always being right with her predictions, no one believed her.With her mental stability in doubt and lingering questions she could not answer about how she survived the crash, her Navy career was over. Her life took an unexpected turn when she was approached by an enigmatic little man who claimed to know why she was having her dreams. When his first tantalizing clues gave her hope, Cassandra started on a quest to find those responsible for turning her life upside down. Then she had her most terrifying and baffling dream yet.
Cassandra Morse was US Navy royalty. She was top of class at Annapolis and on track to be the fourth generation with admiral stars on her shoulders. That all changed when the prototype combat fighter aircraft she was piloting was blown out of the sky by a mysterious space-based weapon. When she woke from a coma, she was a different person. In addition to hallucinations she had the ability to accurately dream future events. Unfortunately, despite nearly always being right with her predictions, no one believed her.With her mental stability in doubt and lingering questions she could not answer about how she survived the crash, her Navy career was over. Her life took an unexpected turn when she was approached by an enigmatic little man who claimed to know why she was having her dreams. When his first tantalizing clues gave her hope, Cassandra started on a quest to find those responsible for turning her life upside down. Then she had her most terrifying and baffling dream yet.
Cassandra Morse was US Navy royalty. She was top of class at Annapolis and on track to be the fourth generation with admiral stars on her shoulders. That all changed when the prototype combat fighter aircraft she was piloting was blown out of the sky by a mysterious space-based weapon. When she woke from a coma, she was a different person. In addition to hallucinations she had the ability to accurately dream future events. Unfortunately, despite nearly always being right with her predictions, no one believed her.With her mental stability in doubt and lingering questions she could not answer about how she survived the crash, her Navy career was over. Her life took an unexpected turn when she was approached by an enigmatic little man who claimed to know why she was having her dreams. When his first tantalizing clues gave her hope, Cassandra started on a quest to find those responsible for turning her life upside down. Then she had her most terrifying and baffling dream yet.
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding. Dorothy Baker's entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken-at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. As she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has, Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother. First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a book of enduring freshness, insight, and verve. Like the fiction of Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri, it is the work of a master stylist with a profound understanding of the complexities of the heart and mind.
The Align > Refine > Design series covers conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling (schema design and patterns) for leading technologies, combining proven data modeling practices with database-specific features to produce better applications. Read Cassandra Data Modeling and Schema Design if you are a data professional who needs to expand your modeling skills to include Cassandra or a technologist who knows Cassandra but needs to grow your schema design skills.The book's introduction and three chapters cover the Align, Refine, and Design approach. We include what the level does in the name by rebranding Conceptual, Logical, and Physical into Align, Refine, and Design. The introduction covers the three modeling characteristics of precise, minimal, and visual; the three model components of entities, relationships, and attributes (including keys); the three model levels of conceptual (align), logical (refine), and physical (design); and the three modeling perspectives of relational, dimensional, and query. Chapter 1, Align, is about agreeing on the common business vocabulary so everyone is aligned on terminology and general initiative scope. Chapter 2, Refine, is about capturing the business requirements. That is, refining our knowledge of the initiative to focus on what is essential. Chapter 3, Design, is about the technical requirements. That is, designing to accommodate our model's unique software and hardware needs.Align, Refine, and Design-that's the approach followed in this book and reinforced through an animal shelter case study. If you are interested in learning how to build multiple database solutions, read all the books in the Align > Refine > Design series. Since each book uses the same template, you can quickly skill up on additional database technologies.
Cassandra's CallingBy: Kathy Q. Bruhl Cassandra LeGardier was introduced in the book Lady of the Gulf. As a child in the early 1900s on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, she had ambitions of becoming a nurse. She thought her career in nursing would be spent in Mississippi, but world events would alter the course of her life and take her to New Orleans, New York City, and eventually to war-torn Europe. In the process, she finds adventure, danger, and the man who would become the love of her life. About the AuthorKathy Q. Bruhl is a wife, mother, and grandmother. She enjoyed a fifteen-year career as a library assistant in a local public school system. Bruhl and her husband have been married for almost 43 years. They have two adult daughters and four grandchildren. They are involved in their local Baptist church. She enjoys writing. Cassandra's Calling is her second book and a sequel to her first, Lady of the Gulf.
How do we fight the weather?The Lazarus Protocol, the corporate plan to reengineer the Earth's atmosphere, has failed. The mysterious Cassandra and her Neo zealots have weaponized the weather, Anthony Taulke is in jail, Ming Qinlao is on the run, and Colonel Graves is left to clean up the mess.Meanwhile, we the people pay the price-in blood and treasure.But the machinery of the corporation is not dead yet. As Anthony hatches a new scheme to undo the damage caused by the Lazarus Protocol, he makes new alliances and stabs old friends in the back. Flushed out of hiding, Ming Qinlao risks everything to reclaim her family name. And a war-weary William Graves is forced to choose between his duty and his conscience.Edge-of-your-seat space battles. Cloak-and-dagger corporate intrigue. Heartbreaking stories of love and betrayal. Cassandra's War is the second exciting chapter in The SynCorp Saga, the dark sci-fi series brought to you by the bestselling writing team of Bruns & Pourteau.
When Conrad Crane retired from active duty to become a research professor,he never expected to become a modern Cassandra, fated to tell truth to powerwithout being heeded. After the world transformed on 9/11, he warned theArmy that it was not prepared to execute stability operations,counterinsurgency, and the eventual reconstruction of Iraq.Crane’s work attracted the attention of Generals David Petraeus and JamesMattis, and he soon found himself in charge of a team tasked with creatingthe groundbreaking Field Manual 3-24/Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-33.5Counterinsurgency, the very counterinsurgency doctrine he had pleaded for. Aunique blend of traditional and modern theory, this manual would prove to beessential to the success of the Surge in Iraq that changed the course of thewar.Crane’s account of the creation and implementation of the manual addressesits many criticisms, details what went wrong in Iraq, and explains how the newdoctrine was never properly applied in Afghanistan. From the debates over thecontent to the ways it was used in the field, Cassandra in Oz covers lessons that should be gleaned fromyears of global war and displays the American military as a learningorganization at its best.
When Conrad Crane retired from active duty to become a research professor, he never expected to become a modern Cassandra, fated to tell truth to power without being heeded. After the world transformed on 9/11, he warned the Army that it was not prepared to execute stability operations, counterinsurgency, and the eventual reconstruction of Iraq. Crane's work attracted the attention of Generals David Petraeus and James Mattis, and he soon found himself in charge of a team tasked with creating the groundbreaking Field Manual 3-24/Marine Corps Warfighting Publication 3-33.5 Counterinsurgency, the very counterinsurgency doctrine he had pleaded for. A unique blend of traditional and modern theory, this manual would prove to be essential to the success of the Surge in Iraq that changed the course of the war. Crane's account of the creation and implementation of the manual addresses its many criticisms, details what went wrong in Iraq, and explains how the new doctrine was never properly applied in Afghanistan. From the debates over the content to the ways it was used in the field, Cassandra in Oz covers lessons that should be gleaned from years of global war and displays the American military as a learning organization at its best.
