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Twenty years after secretly causing panic in her hometown through the written word and artwork, along with a fellow loner named Zeke, famous author, mom, and wife Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that brings her past rushing back, threatening to upend everything.
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Wilson's ambition alone is exciting. . . . [His] writing has a Houdini-like perfection, wherein no matter how grim the variables, each lovely sentence manages to escape with all its parts intact." —Boston Globe
The eagerly-anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Family Fang—a warm-hearted and moving story about a young woman making a family on her own terms.
When Isabelle
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"Hands down my favorite book of the year." — Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Fang comes his first short story collection in nearly a decade, combining his signature quirkiness with his keen eye for emotional complexity
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"Lillian and Madison were unlikely, yet inseparable friends at their boarding school. Then Lillian had to leave the school unexpectedly in the wake of a scandal, and they have barely spoken since. Years later, Lillian gets a letter from Madison pleading for her help. Madison's twin stepkids are moving in, and she wants Lillian to be their caretaker. However, there's a catch: the twins spontaneously combust when they get agitated. Lillian is convinced...
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Python Made Easy: A First Course in Computer Programming is a full color, step by step, hands-on introduction to the world of computer programming using Python.
With a focus on practical application, this book is designed to equip anyone seeking an interactive introduction to Python with the essential skills and knowledge needed to start their programming journey.
This book adopts a "learn by doing" approach, providing a rich set of lab exercises...
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Make the most of your computer with this illustrated, easy to follow guide to Microsoft Windows 11. Exploring Windows 11 is the essential guide for those who want to get to grips with the fundamentals of Microsoft Windows 11. Written in a clear and practical way using full color illustrations, screenshots, and easy to follow instructions, Exploring Windows 11 will help you:
Install or upgrade to Windows 11
Master the key features of Windows 11
Customise...
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Exploring Galaxy Tab is the perfect companion for your new Samsung Galaxy S4 Tablet. Written by best-selling technology author, lecturer, and computer trainer Kevin Wilson, Exploring Galaxy Tab is packed with step-by-step instructions, full color photos, illustrations, helpful tips and video demos.
Updated to cover Android 9, Exploring Galaxy Tab will help you :
• Install or upgrade to Android 9
• Setting up your tablet
• Configuring your...
8) Exploring Windows 10 May 2019 Edition: The Illustrated, Practical Guide to Using Microsoft Windows
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Exploring Windows 10 is the essential guide for those who want to get to grips with the fundamentals of Microsoft Windows 10. Written in a clear and practical way using illustrations, screenshots, video demos, and easy to follow instructions, Exploring Windows 10 will help you:
Install or upgrade to Windows 10 May 2020 update
Master the key features of Windows 10
Find your way around the Desktop, Start Menu, and the Taskbar
Organize your files with...
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Exploring Galaxy Tab is the perfect companion for your new Samsung Galaxy A Tablet. Written by best-selling technology author, lecturer, and computer trainer Kevin Wilson, Exploring Galaxy Tab is packed with step-by-step instructions, full color photos, illustrations, helpful tips and video demos.
Updated to cover Android 9, Exploring Galaxy Tab will help you :
• Install or upgrade to Android 9
• Setting up your tablet
• Configuring your...
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Exploring Apple iPad is the perfect companion for your new iPad, iPad Air or iPad mini. Written by best-selling technology author, lecturer, and computer trainer Kevin Wilson, Exploring Apple iPad is packed with step-by-step instructions, full color photos, illustrations, helpful tips and video demos.
Updated to cover the iPadOS update, Exploring Apple iPad will help you :
• Upgrade your iPad to iPadOS
• The new features introduced in iPadOS
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Bits, bytes, logic, RAM, CPUs, hard drives and SSD drives. Master the geeky acronyms and simplify computer hardware & terminology with ease. This book is great for beginners or a basic computing class.
Exploring Computer Hardware looks at:
The microcomputer, mainframes and super computers
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CPU architecture, instructions sets, and the fetch execute cycle
Computer ports and plugs
Network topologies, LANs, WANs, MANs, fibre optics...
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The iPad revolutionised the way we work, catch up on entertainment, and access information. Now with their very own operating system iPadOS, iPads have become an essential tool for students, business users, and home users.
Updated to cover the iPadOS update, Exploring iPad Pro will help you get to grips with the fundamentals of your device. Written in a clear and accessible way using full color illustrations, screenshots, video demos, and easy to...
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Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider-a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted....
14) Blood and Fears
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The US 8th Air Force came of age in 1944. With a fresh commander, it was ready to demonstrate its true power: from Operation Argument in February-targeting German aircraft production plants-to bringing the Luftwaffe to battle over Berlin, the combined US Air Force-Royal Air Force forces' round-the clock campaign bottled up the German army in Normandy.
In this authoritative history, Kevin Wilson reveals the blood and heroism of the 8th Air Force....
15) The family Fang
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Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist's work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents' madcap pieces. but now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it difficult to cope with life outside the fishbowl of their...
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The twenty-first century offers more technology than we have ever seen before, but with new updates coming out all the time, it's hard to keep up.
Essential Windows 10: October 2018 Edition is here to help. Along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, illustrations, photographs, and video resources, this guide offers specifics in...
Setting up your computer, downloading and upgrading to Windows 10 October 2018 Update
A look at the new features...
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Updated to cover the new features, Exploring Chromebook is the perfect companion for your Chromebook. Written by best-selling technology author, lecturer, and computer trainer Kevin Wilson, Exploring Chromebook is packed with step-by-step instructions, full color photos, illustrations, helpful tips and video demos.
Updated for 2020, Exploring Chromebook will help you :
Setting up your Chromebook
Configuring your Chromebook
Transferring data from your...
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The twenty-first century offers more technology than we have ever seen before, but with new updates, and apps coming out all the time, it's hard to keep up.
Essential Office 365 is here to help. Along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and photographs, this guide offers specifics in...
• Downloading and Installing Microsoft Office Suite
• Getting started with Office Online: using Sway, OneDrive, Mail & Calendar
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Written as an illustrated, step-by-step guide and workbook for complete beginners, this illustrated, full color book will introduce you to the python programming language using clear explanations, diagrams, coded examples, lab exercises and video demos.
You'll begin by learning how to set up the python interpreter and development environment on your computer, then you'll dive straight into the basics of python such as python language syntax, python...
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Your company's identity, products, services, and strengths are all represented by its written communications. From business plans and sales presentations to newsletters and e-mail marketing, the way the company comes across on a page or screen can make the difference between big success and big trouble. The AMA Handbook of Business Documents takes the guesswork out of preparing first class written pieces of every type. Packed with dozens of sample...