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Stella Carrington, young and beautiful, feels that life is passing her by in the repressed Victorian household of her grandmother and spinster aunts. A casual flirtation shocks and horrifies the elderly ladies, and they summon Robert Crayfield, her godfather, who is an officer in the Indian Civil Service, to make suitable arrangements for her to be a missionary or governess. But, tantalized by her beauty and disregarding the difference in their ages, he offers to marry her instead, scandalizing the village. 

Stella, indifferent to romance, is most excited by the prospect of...

Distributed Systems: Concurrency and Consistency explores the gray area of distributed systems and draws a map of weak consistency criteria, identifying several families and demonstrating how these may be implemented into a programming language. Unlike their sequential counterparts, distributed systems are much more difficult to design, and are therefore prone to problems. On a large scale, usability reminiscent of sequential consistency, which would provide the same global view to all users, is very expensive or impossible to achieve. This book investigates the best ways to specify...

In Stuart Perrin's multicultural suspense novel "Little Sisters," the protagonists are drawn into the dangerous world of international sex trafficking. Beyond revealing the nightmare of sexual slavery, it's a story of four sisters and how each of them is transformed by the horrors of life in a Mumbai brothel in dramatically different and unpredictable ways.

"When children (no matter what their nationality, ethnicity or religion) are forced to...

Das sensationelle Krimi-Ereignis des Jahres zum Wohlfühlen, Schmunzeln und Miträtseln: Wie findet man den eigenen Mörder?

Tante Frances dachte immer, dass sie eines Tages umgebracht wird. Sie hatte recht. Und sie hat vorgesorgt.

Frances Adams war siebzehn Jahre alt, als ihr eine Wahrsagerin auf dem Jahrmarkt prophezeite, dass man sie ermorden würde. Ihr Leben lang nahm niemand Frances ernst. Bis sie nun, sechzig Jahre später, ermordet wird! Tante Frances hatte also recht. Und sie hat vorgesorgt. Erstens hat sie auf ihrem herrschaftlichen Landgut...