Best Selling Books by John Barnes

John Barnes'' suspenseful new novel focuses on rich contractor Paul Zeffer''s last 12 days on earth. He''s physically huge, muscled and mean. His specialty: harming people his victims love. Then he''s murdered. The suspect list is long. Police struggle to find a killer. They ask private Investigator Stanley Deutsch to take a look. Deutsch uses counter-intuitive logic to uncover the killer (or killers). The unexpected conclusion will leave you gasping.

This paper discusses the federal taxation of life insurance companies, with a focus on recent changes to the tax code and their impact on the industry. It offers practical advice for companies looking to navigate the complex tax landscape, and provides insights into the latest trends and developments in the field. A must-read for anyone working in life insurance and tax law. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Following a lifetime of killing, Trinity-a beautiful, troubled assassin-grinds out a lonely and aberrant existence in the darkened alleys of Tokyo. She bides her time, knowing the day will soon come when she must seek retribution for the death of her friend, Angel, mercilessly killed by her nemesis, Borisa. In a moment of weakness she breaks her own code and forms a connection with a vulnerable target of the local Yakuza. Unable to suppress her primal instincts to shed blood, Trinity''s entanglement with the ruthless gang of killers descends into carnage, triggering a warpath across two continents and into Europe. Meanwhile, Gabriel, a former FBI agent who still carries a torch for Trinity, is waiting in Athens. Conflicted about his feelings for her, he maps out her movements from afar. When at last their paths cross, Trinity and Gabriel haunt the cobblestoned streets of Athens in search of Borisa. The Bulgarian crime queen is the final roadblock between Trinity and a new life, and Trinity will stop at nothing until Borisa is dead.

101 Ways to Surprise & Delight Your Wife is the perfect way to show your wife or girlfriend that she''s still the one! It''s a great ''idea handbook, '' offering the collective wisdom of more than 300 men and women, all telling you what would REALLY surprise & delight her. It was written to help you find all new ways of creating surprising, delightful and romantic moments and ideas for your wife, girlfriend, partner, or even husband or boyfriend. We started by asking more than 300 men and women to consider and vote on hundreds of different romantic, surprising and delightful ideas for their partner. The top one hundred (and one!) ideas made it into the book, so now you can enjoy the ''cream of the crop'' - the very best ideas that are proven, simple, effective, and fun. Every idea is detailed with "user rankings" showing which ideas were found to be the best, most romantic, surprising and delightful ideas. It also features helpful, at-a-glance Icons, showing you immediately if an idea is Inexpensive, or Requires Planning, or Includes The Kids, and more. You can flip straight through to the ideas that suit your time and budget. Anyone can surprise and delight anyone, anytime with this book full of surprising, delightful and romantic ideas for her, for him, for everyone. Find out more at www.surprisingbooks.com

Who doesn''t love a biscuit hot and fresh from the oven? Pick your favorite, from cooking them in a Western Dutch Oven style to Appalachian Catheads. Many different biscuit recipes and styles are covered here. Not stopping with biscuits, different gravy recipes and various spreads are also covered. So, get out the rolling pin and heat up the oven.

From the droning English countryside to the seedy perversity of the Bay Area tenderloin, "Positive Aloha" is an insightful collection of humorous observations illustrating life and the demise of humanity.

Detective Stanley Deutsch stumbles into a dark-web criminal ''entertainment'' known as ''the game.'' In this game, a young, defenseless woman gets two hours to disappear before two professional assassins set out to find and kill her. If she survives 48 hours, she collects $100,000. If she doesn''t, the winning assassin gets the reward. Stanley rescues the woman and vanishes with her, infuriating the game''s sponsor. He''s a sadistic recluse nicknamed ''Mr. Cruel.'' No one knows his real name, what he looks like, or his origins. They do know he''s connected to Mexican cartels and kills indiscriminately, including those he loves and values. Mr. Cruel orders henchmen to kill Stanley Deutsch and relaunch the female prey. Stanley discovers the master criminal''s location. He unleashes a secret weapon to kill him. Then comes a surprise no one saw coming.

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This collection puts together 20 of the best science fiction stories about Mars published over the past two decades by top-notch authors of the genre. An improbable group of astronauts are slingshot to Mars in cheap one-person, one-way jalopies in "Terminal," by Lavie Tidhar. In "The Cascade," by Sean McMullen, an affair between a shy robotics postdoc and an adventurous young woman change the destiny of the first landing on Mars. A penal colony on Mars violently clashes with a science base in "Falling onto Mars," a Hugo Award winning story by Geoffrey A. Landis. In "The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars," by Ian McDonald, the lives of a young Indian construction worker and an old Estonian cosmonaut collide during the terraforming of Mars by quantum machines. Two young girls are desperate to survive on the surface of Mars after their commune''s underground compound is destroyed by comet strikes in "Hanging Gardens," by Gregory Feeley. In "Digging," by Ian McDonald, a project has been undertaken to create a breathable atmosphere on Mars constructing a valley so deep that the planet''s thin atmosphere will be forced into it. An amusing step-by-step program enables potential potentates to find the right Mars to rule over in "How to Become a Mars Overlord," by Catherynne M. Valente. In the Hugo Award winning story "The Emperor of Mars," by Allen M. Steele, a laborer on a corporate-owned Martian colony transforms himself into royalty while coping with a tragedy on Earth. A young girl defies the conventional role she''s fated for on Mars in "La Malcontenta," by Liz Williams. In "The Burial of Sir John Mawe at Cassini," by Chez Brenchley, a gravedigger uncovers many secrets at the burial of a hanged British nobleman on a Victorian Mars. A colonist provides a moving account of his life on Mars to inspire a new generation of Martians in "Martian Heart," by John Barnes. In "The Vicar of Mars," by Gwyneth Jones, a High Priest suffers hauntings after visiting an old, reclusive, wealthy woman on Mars. A rough and tumble Martian mining town reconstructs a lawman from the Old American West to restore order in "Wyatt Earp 2.0," by Wil McCarthy. In "An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away," by John Barnes, the rivalry between two documentarians, filming on Mars, puts them in peril as the planet is being terraformed. A corporation building New Las Vegas on Mars grooms a janitor for rock stardom to improve worker morale in "The Rise and Fall of Paco Cohen and the Mariachis of Mars," by Ernest Hogan. In "Martian Blood," by Allen M. Steele, an Egyptian-American astrobiologist travels to a Martian aboriginal settlement to prove his theory that life on Earth originated on Mars. Pilgrims, tourists, and locals visit the many monoliths of Mars to commune with their unknown builders through radio bursts in "The Monoliths of Mars," by Paul McAuley. In "The Martian Job," by Jaine Fenn, the greatest heist known to humankind, with many a double-cross, is pulled on the largest corporation on Mars. The first man to step foot on Mars recounts his life''s story as mankind ends its colonization of the planet in "Mars Abides," by Stephen Baxter. And finally, in the Locus Award winning story "The Martian Obelisk," by Linda Nagata, a robotic crawler threatens the remote construction of a monument on Mars, by an architect on Earth, as it approaches the obelisk.

Terran missionaries determined to bring the planet Randall into the commonwealth, inadvertently start a war among the planet''s three races

Walnut tall-case clock. The hood has a cove and ogee molded broken-scroll pediment terminating in carved rosettes, with three turned and carved urn-and-flame finials on block plinths, a molded arch with a carved keystone above the door, free-standing fluted columns at the four corners, and a glazed door with an astragal top. Waist with ogee molding at the top, applied ovolo molding above the case door, fluted quarter-columns at the front corners and a case door with a shaped top. Base with ogee and ovolo molding at the top. Base section with fluted quarter-columns at the front corners, an applied base panel with a shaped top, and supported on ogee bracket feet. Composite brass dial with applied chapter ring with roman hour numerals and arabic minute numerals, applied cast ornament in the spandrels, and a moon phase dial in the lunette. Inside the chapter ring there is an applied seconds dial and a calendar aperture. The dial is signed "John Barnes Philadelphia." Eight day movement.

Vietnam veteran Dan Samson travels back in time and discovers that he has become a deciding factor in the battles of the Civil War. Original.

The third in the Rebecca and Barry Forester adventure series, the action shifts to Hamburg, Germany. A freighter heads there with weapons-grade uranium stolen from North Korea and destined for Iran. Meanwhile, an escaped sex slave begins hunting down and slaying those who abused her. Dragon Motors President Tama Wu, believes the evil Pole, who crushed the bones in her face and knees and almost killed her, has not, as reported, been assassinated, but is alive and living in Hamburg. She heads there to kill him. Barry and Rebecca head for Hamburg at the CIA''s behest. Rebecca''s life hangs in the balance, and Barry must solve a series of riddles to end to the mayhem.