Ghost Key
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Ghost Key
Dominica and her tribe of hungry ghosts were driven from Esperanza, that magical city high in the Andes, but they were not all destroyed. As a last devastating blow against Tess Livingston, Dominica seized Tess's niece Maddie as a host, and fled to the United States. The evil bruja has settled in a small resort town in Florida and is cementing her power over a new tribe of unquiet dead. But she will not be able to take over Cedar Key, not without arousing the suspicion of the US government. And not without attracting the attention of Wayra, her oldest lover and most bitter enemy. Passion, terror, blood, and courage abound in this supernatural thriller that will take your breath away. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Storm Chasers
A decade ago, Alex Rivera and Maya Chen were the Gulf’s boldest storm-chasing duo—and each other’s great love—until a disastrous night shattered their partnership. Now a monster hurricane called Kestrel is sprinting toward the coast, fattened by record-warm seas and aimed at millions who still sleep through the sirens. When Maya discovers the official numbers don’t add up—cooler seas, lower surge, safer forecasts—she suspects sabotage. Hours later, their mentor dies in a “single-car accident,” leaving behind a drive of raw data and a warning: trust only what you can touch. Forced back into the same truck they once called home, Alex and Maya plunge into walls of rain, lightning-lit sugarcane, and buckling bridges to ground-truth the storm. Each mile peels back old wounds and the wildfire chemistry they swore to bury. What they uncover is a billion-dollar scheme: a corporate giant tampering with ocean buoys and weather feeds to keep ports open, profits high—and evacuations late. When their livestream is jammed and a corrupt deputy impounds their rig, the chase becomes a rescue mission. With power grids collapsing and surge rising like a black tide, they commandeer a volunteer’s skiff, mount a rooftop antenna, and race the eyewall to broadcast a real warning before entire neighborhoods drown. To stop the lie, they must survive the truth—of the storm, the conspiracy, and the love they left in the wreckage. Heart-pounding and deeply human, Storm Chasers is a thriller about second chances, the cost of silence, and choosing justice when every second counts.
On Transactional Concurrency Control
This book contains a number of chapters on transactional database concurrency control. This volume's entire sequence of chapters can summarized as follows: A two-sentence summary of the volume's entire sequence of chapters is this: traditional locking techniques can be improved in multiple dimensions, notably in lock scopes (sizes), lock modes (increment, decrement, and more), lock durations (late acquisition, early release), and lock acquisition sequence (to avoid deadlocks). Even if some of these improvements can be transferred to optimistic concurrency control, notably a fine granularity of concurrency control with serializable transaction isolation including phantom protection, pessimistic concurrency control is categorically superior to optimistic concurrency control, i.e., independent of application, workload, deployment, hardware, and software implementation.