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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Understand calculus as a connected science of change, accumulation, and approximation.Why does a tangent line predict nearby behavior? How can infinitely many small contributions produce a finite total? Why do derivatives and integrals reverse one another? And what makes a numerical answer trustworthy?Calculus Lectures: An Intuitive Approach develops these questions from first principles. George Chu guides university students from functions and limits to multivariable geometry, differential equations, optimization, and modern scientific computation. Clear intuition leads into precise definitions, stated assumptions, and derivations that explain why the formulas work.Build the foundations. Understand limits through controlled error, derivatives through local linear models, and the mean value theorem through the connection between local rates and global change. Learn how curvature shapes approximation, why Taylor coefficients contain factorials, and when a smooth function differs from its Taylor series.Make accumulation meaningful. Construct integrals from sums, derive the fundamental theorem, and understand substitution as a conversion of local measure. See integration by parts connect ordinary calculations to energy estimates and weak differential equations. Distinguish signed displacement from distance, finite area from infinite domains, and convergence from misleading cancellation.See the geometry. Move from a scalar derivative to a Jacobian, gradient, and Hessian. Explore constrained optimization, multiple integrals, polar coordinates, vector fields, and the boundary identities behind conservation laws. Learn why a determinant measures local volume change and why a domain with a hole can defeat a tempting potential-function argument.Connect analysis with computation. Examine truncation error, roundoff, conditioning, stability, and convergence. Follow forward and reverse automatic differentiation through a computation graph. Derive sensitivities and adjoints for differential equations, then investigate residual-based scientific learning with a known solution and independent checks.The book includes 24 main lectures, 12 extended workshops, scientific diagrams, comparison tables, worked exercise solutions, and reproducible Python experiments. Workshops develop completeness, exponential structure, asymptotics, arc length, oscillation, Fourier ideas, implicit functions, probability, engineering design, finite elements, and numerical verification.Examples connect mathematical reasoning to a moving cart, a changing reservoir, an expanding balloon, an oscillating spring, a heated rod, and an optimized container. Counterexamples reveal the boundaries of theorems. Error estimates show what an approximation can support, while computational investigations turn formulas into behavior that students can inspect and reproduce.Research windows from 2025 and 2026 connect established calculus to work on numerical precision and the verification of generated differential-equation solvers. Classical principles receive their proper attribution; recent findings are presented with their scope and limitations. The emphasis throughout is understanding that can be tested, explained, and used.For undergraduate students, learners, and readers preparing for advanced scientific study. Familiarity with algebra, functions, and elementary trigonometry is expected. Basic Python is helpful for the experiments. The main sequence supports a first calculus course, while the later lectures and workshops offer a bridge to numerical analysis, differential equations, optimization, and scientific machine learning.Read to understand the mechanism, derive the result, inspect the assumptions, and build confidence through evidence. Th Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Understand what happens between a click and a committed result.A web application is a system of cooperating machines, each with its own state, authority, and limits. This university textbook helps you see those boundaries clearly, explain the mechanisms behind them, and build applications whose behavior you can defend with evidence.Full-Stack Web Development for Modern College Curricula: Building Scalable Web Applications with React, Node.js, and Cloud Architecture develops one continuous teaching project, Campus Projects, from browser interaction to protected data changes and deployment design. George Chu (Xingxiong Zhu) combines practical implementation with the reasoning that makes it understandable.Start with the foundations. Follow a request through HTTP, asynchronous JavaScript, runtime validation, and typed contracts. Learn why an address, a version, a request identifier, and an idempotency key solve different problems. Trace promises and bounded concurrency instead of treating asynchronous execution as a mystery.Make React state explicit. Work through render snapshots, reducers, effects, forms, accessibility, and stale responses. Separate draft state from confirmed state. Understand how browser rendering, server rendering, hydration, and Server Components move work across boundaries without removing the need for clear ownership.Protect the data that matters. Connect relational keys and constraints to application invariants. Examine conditional updates, transactions, isolation, locks, and competing reservations. Study sessions, object authorization, CSRF defenses, reliable side effects, and the transactional outbox. See why a successful retry must preserve a command's identity and why an old success is not necessarily the current resource state.Reason about scale. Derive useful models for fan-out latency, cache demand, queueing, concurrency, and fixed-workload speedup. Every model comes with assumptions and limits. Learn to distinguish an illustrative calculation from a benchmark, average latency from tail latency, and a passing local test from evidence about independent database sessions.Connect architecture to operation. Explore serverless execution, cold starts, container builds, cloud topology, deployment identity, readiness, graceful shutdown, observability, recovery, and service objectives. Selected official documentation and recent serverless research provide context; original diagrams and worked explanations show how to evaluate their implications for your own system.The course contains 22 lectures, 26 original figures, comparison tables, mathematical models, source-code examples, laboratory tasks, and 88 questions with worked reasoning. Sequence diagrams, state transitions, entity relationships, timelines, distributions, and performance curves reveal different aspects of the same application.Three graduation-project blueprints extend the course into architecture defense: a campus project workspace, a research artifact registry, and an event booking service. Each blueprint connects users, state, risks, implementation milestones, experiments, and assessment criteria so that a capstone can demonstrate engineering judgment as well as features.Designed for computer science juniors and seniors, this book assumes basic programming knowledge and introduces the web-specific reasoning as it becomes necessary. It suits a structured course, a supervised laboratory, or focused independent study. The aim is practical confidence grounded in understanding: know what your application promises, identify the component that can enforce it, and choose the evidence that can test it.Practice explaining each design choice, predicting its failure cases, and testing the result with one experiment. T Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What if the secret to overcoming your biggest hurdles isn't willpower, discipline, or radical life overhauls-but just ten minutes?Whether it's sending that intimidating email, stepping onto the treadmill, opening a dreaded bill, or having an uncomfortable conversation with a loved one, starting is almost always the hardest part. Our brains aren't wired to be lazy; they are wired to resist activation friction.Enter The Ten Minute Rule.The principle is remarkably simple: Promise yourself to do the task for just ten minutes. When the timer rings, you are completely free to stop. But 90% of the time, you won't.In this practical, field-tested guide, you'll discover how a micro-commitment of 600 seconds can dismantle deep-seated psychological resistance and create unstoppable momentum across every area of your life.Inside this 30-chapter tactical handbook, you will discover: The Science of Friction: Why willpower fails you and how the psychology of procrastination can be tricked using micro-agreements.Work & Productivity: How to send dreaded emails, tackle overwhelming creative projects, and initiate deep work instantly.Physical & Mental Health: Build consistent workout routines, tackle household clutter, and face health checkups without anxiety.Financial Clarity: Conquer financial avoidance by spending 10 minutes facing bills, budgets, and bank statements.Difficult Conversations & Relationships: Use the 10-minute principle to set firm boundaries, express hard truths, heal distant friendships, and apologize sincerely.Major Life Milestones: Break down intimidating career pivots, public speaking anxiety, and dark personal crises into actionable 10-minute steps.Packed with 30 real-world scenarios, clear visual frameworks, and an actionable weekly tracking system, The Ten Minute Rule isn't a book you just read once-it's a handbook you'll keep on your desk to flip open whenever you feel stuck.Stop waiting for motivation to strike. Give yourself ten minutes, and watch your life transform. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Maren Ellison has one rule about new neighbors: trust nothing until it's earned. So when Vivienne Hart moves in two doors down - effortlessly beautiful, suspiciously well-informed, and armed with a plate of the best lemon bars Maren has ever tasted - every instinct Maren has starts screaming. Viv knows the neighborhood's recycling schedule before anyone tells her. Viv is on Maren's private running route at exactly the wrong time. Viv smiles a little too easily for a woman who clearly has something to hide. What Maren doesn't know is that Viv has a few instincts of her own - and every single one of them is currently pointed at Maren. The Perfect Neighbor is a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud domestic suspense novel about two guarded women, one meddling best friend with too much time on her hands, and the gap between the story we build in our heads and the much stranger, much funnier truth waiting on the other side of it. No bodies. No basements. Just two perfectly nice women, one perfectly unhinged summer, and the neighborhood watch group's worst nightmare. Perfect for readers who love their suspense twisty, their humor dark, and their neighbors deeply, hilariously suspicious. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. He bet fifty dollars he could get her to say yes to one date. He never planned on falling for her. Jake Sullivan is Fairview State's star quarterback - golden-boy charm, full-ride scholarship, and a grade in Music Theory bad enough to threaten it all. Charlotte "Charlie" Bishop is the music department's best-kept secret - a gifted composer with a strict, hard-earned rule: no athletes, ever again. When Jake gets assigned to Charlie's tutoring schedule, his roommate can't resist a bet: fifty bucks says Jake can't get the campus's most guarded girl to say yes to one date. Jake never turns down a challenge. What starts as a dare turns into something neither of them planned - late nights at the piano, real conversations that have nothing to do with chord progressions, and a connection that feels nothing like a game. Then Charlie finds out about the bet. Jake has one shot to prove that what started as fifty dollars became the realest thing he's ever felt - in front of the whole school, at the biggest game of the season. A sweet, funny, swoon-worthy college romance about bets, bravery, and the music that plays underneath it all - perfect for readers who love their sports romance heartfelt, clean, and impossible to put down. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A database glitch just made her the CEO. She still doesn't know how to use the espresso machine on the executive floor. Arabella Fairfax has one professional goal: get through the workday without anyone remembering her name. Six quiet years in accounts payable have suited her perfectly. Then a botched HR data migration accidentally names her Interim Chief Executive Officer of Wyndham & Sterling Industries - for thirty full days, with the real CEO unreachable on a digital detox retreat and no way to undo it. What follows is equal parts disaster and revelation: a sycophantic VP who agrees with opinions she hasn't had yet, a board member scheming to install his own candidate, a devoted intern who believes in her more than she believes in herself - and a slowly uncovered financial scandal that nobody with an actual MBA ever bothered to notice. The Understudy CEO is a whip-smart, big-hearted workplace comedy about competence hiding in plain sight, the specific chaos of accidental power, and what happens when the person who actually reads the numbers finally gets a seat at the table. A sharp, funny send-up of corporate politics and executive egoA genuinely satisfying financial-mystery subplot with real stakesA slow-burn workplace romance that never overshadows the comedyEighteen original illustrations, one per chapterPerfect for readers who love office comedy with real bite, competent heroines who don't need to be loud to win, and a boardroom showdown that's actually satisfying. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. You're not behind because you're slow. You're behind because you're careful. Adoption of AI across the accounting profession has climbed steeply. Among solo and small-firm practitioners, it has lagged - and not for lack of interest. It's because you have a duty to the people whose financial lives sit in your files, and nobody has explained how to use these tools without putting that duty at risk. This book is written for you. AI for Accountants and Bookkeepers shows you exactly how to get real hours back every week - drafting client emails in seconds, compressing the month-end close, producing checklists, commentary, and tax summaries in minutes - and how to do it without exposing client information, without putting an invented citation into a working paper, and without ending up unable to explain what you did and why. Here is what makes it different. Most AI books for accountants hand you prompts that tell you to paste your client's trial balance, bank statement, or return directly into a public AI tool - and say nothing about the fact that, under the confidentiality rules governing our profession, submitting client information to a third party is a disclosure. Every prompt in this book is written to be used without exposing client data. Each one carries a risk tag telling you exactly what is safe to put in. Inside you'll find: The A.U.D.I.T. Method - a five-step discipline built backward from your professional obligations: Anonymize, Understand, Direct, Inspect, TrackWhy AI invents citations that look perfect, which tasks are most exposed, and a two-pass verification workflowThe de-identification playbook - the same quality of answer, describing the situation instead of the clientWorkflows for month-end close, tax season, client communication, reporting, practice admin, and advisory200 ready-to-use prompts, organized by task, every one risk-taggedFour adaptable templates: a one-page firm AI policy, engagement letter and consent language, a pre-delivery verification checklist, and the A.U.D.I.T. cardWhat to say when a client asks, "did you use AI on my return?"How to turn saved hours into advisory revenue rather than just more capacityWritten by George Chu, a Senior Member of the IEEE with a Master of Engineering in Software Engineering from Peking University, and developed with practicing accountants and bookkeepers. Your caution was always the right instinct. It just needed better information. This book provides general information and practical guidance, not legal, tax, or accounting advice. Confirm current requirements with your professional body, state board, insurer, and counsel. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. To escape a political marriage, Princess Wilhelmina ("Willa") of the Kingdom of Castellane assumes the alias "Willa Wexford" and enrolls in a prestigious school as a commoner. There, she falls for Lord Theodore Camden-the campus heartthrob who is adored by everyone yet is incredibly shy and low-key in private. Their respective circles of close friends conspire to orchestrate a series of "accidents" that create opportunities for the two to be alone together, culminating in the revelation of her true identity at the graduation ball. DRAMATIS PERSONAEPRINCESS WILHELMINA "WILLA" OF CASTELLANE, heir to the throne, currently in hiding as "Willa Wexford"LORD THEODORE CAMDEN, Larkspur University's most admired student, privately shy to the point of paralysisCASSANDRA "CASS" BLYTHE, Willa's closest friend and co-conspiratorRAFFERTY "RAFF" SINCLAIR, Theodore's closest friend and self-appointed romantic strategistPRINCE ANATOLE OF VARENGARD, Willa's intended political match, polished and quietly calculatingPROVOST BERTRAM LOCKE, head of Larkspur UniversityKING CORNELIUS OF CASTELLANE, Willa's fatherQUEEN ROSALIND OF CASTELLANE, Willa's motherSTUDENTS, COURTIERS, GUESTS The action takes place at Larkspur University, a fictional institution of considerable prestige and considerably more gossip, in the present day. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Everyone is talking about making money with AI. Almost none of it is honest. This book is the exception. How to Make Money with AI is a no-hype, step-by-step guide to building real income using the AI tools available right now - written for total beginners with no coding skills, no tech background, and no spare cash to invest. Inside, you'll find: 4 proven income paths: freelancing, automation services, digital products, and custom AI agentsA complete 30-day action plan to land your first paying clientReal pricing frameworks - what to actually charge, and how to raise your rates with confidenceA simple system for building visibility and getting inbound client requestsHow to turn one-off gigs into recurring income, and recurring income into scalable productsThe legal and copyright guardrails every AI-assisted creator needs to know21 specific, beginner-friendly AI side hustles, with realistic income ranges for eachNo fake screenshots. No rented Lamborghinis. Just a system that works the way real income actually gets built: one honest client, one honest product, one honest system at a time. If you're ready to stop watching "AI millionaire" videos and start building something real, this book gives you the map. The rest is up to you. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A comedy in five acts, in rhymed coupletsPrince Roman has been photographed since he could walk. He has been described in print every week of his adult life, so generously and so often that he no longer believes any account of himself, including the true ones. He wants one ordinary Tuesday, unscheduled and unphotographed, in a room where somebody contradicts him.Lady Joliet Montagu has spent nine years at the law and is very good at it, and would like, once, to be the line above a photograph instead of the line beneath one. Their two houses have been suing each other for nineteen years over three yards of lawn.They meet at a masked ball, before either knows the other's name, and have twenty minutes of telling the truth. Everything after that is other people: a press secretary who is very funny for three acts and is then broken for the one thing he did not do; a newspaperman who never lies and cannot be argued down; a cousin who fixes seven things and is thanked once, and who at the last will not take another errand without terms; and a king who has been frightened of a Sunday paper since 1994 and has organised a reign around it.What the play turns on, in the end, is the price of nine plain words. I was afraid, and I was wrong. Three men decline to say them. It takes two women to get them said.About this editionSix full-page plates, drawn for this edition in the manner of a line engraving - one object to an act, each of them physically present in the act it faces.Written throughout in rhymed couplets - pairs of ten-syllable lines - with a note in the front matter on the two conventions a reader will meet on the page.Five acts, thirty scenes, nine speaking parts. Approximately two hours ten minutes in performance, with one interval at the end of Act Three.For directors and drama departmentsCast: eight principals - three women, five men - plus a photographer with two lines, castable either way and easily doubled. The play does not double beyond that: all eight principals are on stage together twice.Set: one platform and six chairs. Every location in the play can be the same platform changed by light and by what people are carrying. Nothing in this play needs to be built. The balcony can be a chair.Content: no violence, no sex, no strong language. Suitable for school and college production.Rights: amateur and educational performance rights are granted freely to schools, universities and community theatre companies, with no royalty payable, on the single condition that the author is credited in the programme. Professional and broadcast rights are reserved.Also by George Chu: The Golden Prince - a comedy in five acts. The Merchant of Manhattan - a comedy in five acts. The Quant Billionaire - ten algorithms and the arithmetic of a firm. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. 95% of pilots. 40% of projects. None of it was the technology.MIT found that 95 percent of corporate AI pilots delivered no measurable return. Gartner expects over 40 percent of agentic AI projects to be canceled by the end of 2027 - for escalating costs, unclear business value, or inadequate risk controls.Read that list again. Not one of those three is a statement about the technology. Each is a decision somebody did not make before switching it on.Two things that already happenedIn February 2024 a payments company announced its AI assistant was doing the work of 700 people, and it handled roughly 2.3 million conversations in its first month. Fifteen months later the company was hiring humans again, and its chief executive was explaining that the AI had been cheaper and the work worse.The same month, a tribunal ruled an airline responsible for what its chatbot told a customer. The airline had argued the chatbot was a separate legal entity, responsible for its own actions. That argument lost, and has been losing ever since.What your agent says, you said. That is not a technical constraint - it is one you have already agreed to.The P.I.L.O.T. MethodP - PICK. Which work is agent-shaped: repetitive, rule-checkable, reversible, bounded, verifiable. Never the task that annoys you most - and this chapter explains why that trap is so convincing.I - INSTRUCT. A brief in five sections, edge cases longest by far - plus the diagnosis that catches more broken projects than anything else here: if you cannot write the brief, the problem was never the agent.L - LIMIT. Three budgets - what it may see, what it may spend, and what it may say on your behalf. Almost nobody sets the third, and it is the one that produces the incidents.O - OBSERVE. Four numbers, weekly, in fifteen minutes - defined before you switch anything on, because afterwards you will always find a story in which it succeeded.T - TRANSFER. Three kinds of handoff, and what travels with each so the person receiving it does not conclude it would have been faster to do it themselves.Six functions, 24 prompts eachCustomer support, sales and outbound, finance and admin, marketing and content, recruiting and HR, operations and scheduling. Each with the trap specific to that function, a case where it went wrong, and a full worked walk-through of all five steps on one real task.Nothing in it expiresNo code, no product recommendation, no framework named in the method. The tools change every few months; the decisions do not. What is this allowed to touch? How will we know whether it worked? Who is answerable when it gets something wrong? None of those gets easier when the technology improves.Written for you ifSomebody has asked you to "look at agents" and you do not codeYou cannot tell whether what you are being sold is an agent, an assistant, or a rebrand - roughly one vendor in a hundred was judged genuinely agenticYou have a pilot running and no idea how you would defend it in a reviewAlso includedFive fill-in instruments: a nine-question task screen, a brief template with a worked example, a three-budget permission matrix, a twelve-point pre-launch checklist, and a one-page incident note - plus a chapter on surviving the sales meeting and a thirty-day plan that starts Monday.George Chu holds a Master of Engineering in Software Engineering from Peking University and is a Senior Member of the IEEE. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Your team is not using AI the way you are. That is the whole problem.You have used these tools. They work. They give you back the better part of a day every week - and they have changed almost nothing about how your company actually runs.That is not a training gap, and it is not a budget problem. The median small business spends about $30 a month on AI.Here are the numbers that explain it. Managers get 7.2 hours a week back from AI. Everyone else gets 3.4. Seventy-six percent of small businesses use AI - and fourteen percent have it embedded in how the work actually gets done.Sixty-two points of daylight. Closing that gap is what this book is for.A method, not a tour of the toolsS.C.A.L.E. is five steps you can run in ninety days.SELECT - Score every repeated process on frequency, judgment, cost of error, and whether one named person owns it. Take three. Start with the boring one.CODIFY - Sit with the person who does the work and fill six boxes. The decisions box is the whole game. You cannot automate what you cannot describe.ASSIGN - Take the steps apart individually. Human only, AI drafts and a human approves, or AI runs and a human audits. Every AI step gets one named owner.LAUNCH - Decide where the saved time goes before you free it, and say so out loud. Predict the first bad week. Give it to the pragmatic skeptic, not the enthusiast.EVALUATE - Four numbers: before, after, rework, error rate. Roughly forty percent of AI's time savings are eaten by rework nobody measures. On the date you set, say keep, fix, or kill.What is inside17 chapters built around one working method200+ prompts placed in the chapter where you would actually reach for them - sales, marketing, support, operations, finance, hiring - with a full index at the backFour fill-in templates: the Six-Box Description, the Assignment Matrix, the 30-60-90 Rollout Calendar, and a one-page AI use policyA chapter on what your team actually thinks, and the one fear you should stop trying to talk them out ofA thirty-day plan that costs you six hours and no moneyEvery statistic sourced and named. No invented percentages.Who this is forOwners of businesses with roughly 5 to 50 employees. Past survival. No operations director. Already convinced AI works - and quietly aware that so far it has only worked for you.Who this is not forBeginners and solo operators. This book assumes you already know what these tools can do, and skips the tour entirely.George Chu holds a Master of Engineering in Software Engineering from Peking University and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.Chapter 1 is three numbers long. Start there. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - He bet fifty dollars he could get her to say yes to one date. He never planned on falling for her. Jake Sullivan is Fairview State's star quarterback - golden-boy charm, full-ride scholarship, and a grade in Music Theory bad enough to threaten it all. Charlotte 'Charlie' Bishop is the music department's best-kept secret - a gifted composer with a strict, hard-earned rule: no athletes, ever again. When Jake gets assigned to Charlie's tutoring schedule, his roommate can't resist a bet: fifty bucks says Jake can't get the campus's most guarded girl to say yes to one date. Jake never turns down a challenge. What starts as a dare turns into something neither of them planned - late nights at the piano, real conversations that have nothing to do with chord progressions, and a connection that feels nothing like a game. Then Charlie finds out about the bet. Jake has one shot to prove that what started as fifty dollars became the realest thing he's ever felt - in front of the whole school, at the biggest game of the season. A sweet, funny, swoon-worthy college romance about bets, bravery, and the music that plays underneath it all - perfect for readers who love their sports romance heartfelt, clean, and impossible to put down.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - To escape a political marriage, Princess Wilhelmina ('Willa') of the Kingdom of Castellane assumes the alias 'Willa Wexford' and enrolls in a prestigious school as a commoner. There, she falls for Lord Theodore Camden-the campus heartthrob who is adored by everyone yet is incredibly shy and low-key in private. Their respective circles of close friends conspire to orchestrate a series of 'accidents' that create opportunities for the two to be alone together, culminating in the revelation of her true identity at the graduation ball. DRAMATIS PERSONAEPRINCESS WILHELMINA 'WILLA' OF CASTELLANE, heir to the throne, currently in hiding as 'Willa Wexford'LORD THEODORE CAMDEN, Larkspur University's most admired student, privately shy to the point of paralysisCASSANDRA 'CASS' BLYTHE, Willa's closest friend and co-conspiratorRAFFERTY 'RAFF' SINCLAIR, Theodore's closest friend and self-appointed romantic strategistPRINCE ANATOLE OF VARENGARD, Willa's intended political match, polished and quietly calculatingPROVOST BERTRAM LOCKE, head of Larkspur UniversityKING CORNELIUS OF CASTELLANE, Willa's fatherQUEEN ROSALIND OF CASTELLANE, Willa's mother>The action takes place at Larkspur University, a fictional institution of considerable prestige and considerably more gossip, in the present day.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Maren Ellison has one rule about new neighbors: trust nothing until it's earned. So when Vivienne Hart moves in two doors down - effortlessly beautiful, suspiciously well-informed, and armed with a plate of the best lemon bars Maren has ever tasted - every instinct Maren has starts screaming. Viv knows the neighborhood's recycling schedule before anyone tells her. Viv is on Maren's private running route at exactly the wrong time. Viv smiles a little too easily for a woman who clearly has something to hide. What Maren doesn't know is that Viv has a few instincts of her own - and every single one of them is currently pointed at Maren. The Perfect Neighbor is a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud domestic suspense novel about two guarded women, one meddling best friend with too much time on her hands, and the gap between the story we build in our heads and the much stranger, much funnier truth waiting on the other side of it. No bodies. No basements. Just two perfectly nice women, one perfectly unhinged summer, and the neighborhood watch group's worst nightmare. Perfect for readers who love their suspense twisty, their humor dark, and their neighbors deeply, hilariously suspicious.…