Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Connecticut

Walk in the footsteps of the Medici, sip aperitivi, and discover the cultural heart of Italy: with Rick Steves, Tuscany is yours to discover. Inside Rick Steves Florence & Tuscany you'll find:
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Rick Steves Florence and Tuscany

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Danielle Steel

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

The Cast

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Philippe Martin

Computer Science

Preparing for the CKA and CKAD Certifications

Master all the concepts and tools necessary to start administering a Kubernetes cluster and deploying applications to production. You will cover the entire curricula of the two Kubernetes certifications (for application developers and administrators). The initial chapters guide you through deployment of a Kubernetes cluster on virtual machines and explore the different components of the control plane. Next, you will work with the kubectl command-line tool; namespaces, labels, selectors, and annotations—common resources used through the Kubernetes API. The following chapters describe the principle of controllers and detail how workload controllers work as well as the possibilities for configuring deployed applications. You will also learn how to deploy a scalable and self-healing application, how pods are scheduled to nodes, how parts of the application can communicate, and how the application is discoverable from the outside. Next, you will cover security concerns describing the different authentication methods, the RBAC authorization mode, security contexts, network policies, and how to secure container images. You will also cover using persistent volumes for your containers to store long-term data, monitoring your clusters and applications and implementing design patterns for multi-container pods. The concluding chapters guide you through the upgrade of your deployed cluster. After reading this book, you will have enough knowledge to deploy a complex application using a Kubernetes cluster and be ready for the certification exams. What You Will Learn Deploy a Kubernetes cluster with kubeadm and learn how the control plane works Discover how the Kubernetes API is structured Deploy secure, auto-scaled, and self-healing applications Master the kubectl command-line tool Who This Book Is For Administrators and application developers with good knowledge of micro-services development and deployment.

Kubernetes

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Kasun Indrasiri

Danesh Kuruppu

Building Cloud Native Applications with Go and Java for Docker and Kubernetes

Get a comprehensive understanding of gRPC fundamentals through real-world examples. With this practical guide, you'll learn how this high-performance interprocess communication protocol is capable of connecting polyglot services in microservices architecture, while providing a rich framework for defining service contracts and data types. Complete with hands-on examples written in Go, Java, Node, and Python, this book also covers the essential techniques and best practices to use gRPC in production systems. Authors Kasun Indrasiri and Danesh Kuruppu discuss the importance of gRPC in the context of microservices development.

GRPC: up and Running

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Huseyin Babal

gRPC Microservices in Go shows you howto combine the powerful gRPC Remote Procedure Call framework with Golang's low-level efficiency and flexibility. You will learn how to develop microservice inter-service communication patterns powered by gRPC, design backwards compatible APIs, and apply hexagonal architecture to microservices.

GRPC Microservices in Go

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David Anderson

Micheal O'Reilly

Mark McCann

Adrian Cockcroft

Simon Wardley

Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud

Technology is moving faster than ever, and today's business leaders need the ability to experiment and maximize outcomes from their technology investment. An effective engineering function is critical and must fully align with business goals. Well architected systems evolve quickly, perform well and keep maintenance costs down. The book will offer a solution to help businesses align engineering functions with business goals. It will be structured using the Wardley Strategy Cycle and has Wardley maps throughout to illustrate all the key concepts. It will delve deeply into a mindset that allows for key accelerators such as Developer Experience, team enablement, leadership alignment, and out-of-the-box patterns that will propel organizations. Finally, readers will explore the leadership approach needed to guide the evolution and movement of technology, people, and the markets, providing the foundations for a strong narrative, transparency, and fast feedback loops and alignment. These three components will show how a company can exploit new and novel practices.

The Value Flywheel Effect

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Michael Connelly

The stakes have never been higher: when DNA evidence frees a sadistic killer, defense attorney Mickey Haller and LAPD Detective Harry Bosch must put him behind bars before he strikes again. Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years. With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch is sure of anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill again.

The Reversal

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Scandal and tragedy erupt against the backdrop of an exclusive Paris hotel in Danielle Steel's riveting novel.

Known for its luxurious accommodations and bespoke service, the Hotel Louis XVI has been the most lauded boutique hotel in all of Paris for decades, attracting an international clientele of the rich and famous. Now, after four years of renovations and the death of its legendary and beloved manager, it is set to reopen its doors at last. An esteemed group of loyal returning guests is set to descend upon the hotel, joined by a number of new faces who have managed to secure coveted bookings in the wake of last-minute cancellations.

Awaiting them all is the Louis XVI's new manager, Olivier Bateau, an anxious man whose lack of experience leaves him unprepared. He and his level-headed assistant manager, Yvonne Philippe, both strive to continue the hotel's tradition of excellence. But they quickly realize that anything can happen at any moment, and on one cool September evening, everything does.

A successful art consultant arrives at the hotel for the first time since her brutal divorce, and is surprised to find new love--if she is willing to risk her heart again. A new guest contemplates ending his life, and saves a life instead. A couple finds their once-in-a-lifetime trip interrupted by a tragic medical emergency, leaving the idyllic future they've long waited for hanging in the balance. And one of the hotel's most high-profile guests, a French politician and assumed presidential candidate, holds a mysterious meeting in his suite that will threaten his life and legacy. Rocked by the events of this one fateful night, guests and staff alike brace themselves for the aftershock, as it quickly becomes apparent that more dramas and misfortunes are still in store.

Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable story about a famed hotel, where a few complications quickly escalate into a matter of life and death, changing the lives of everyone who passes through its doors.

Complications

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Jonathan Lethem

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification." This is the story of 1970s America, a time when the most simple human decisions—what music you listen to, whether to speak to the kid in the seat next to you, whether to give up your lunch money—are laden with potential political, social and racial disaster. This is the story of 1990s America, when no one cared anymore. This is the story of punk, that easy white rebellion, and crack, that monstrous plague. This is the story of the loneliness of the avant-garde artist and the exuberance of the graffiti artist. This is the story of what would happen if two teenaged boys obsessed with comic book heroes actually had superpowers: They would screw up their lives. This is the story of joyous afternoons of stickball and dreaded years of schoolyard extortion. This is the story of belonging to a society that doesn't accept you. This is the story of prison and of college, of Brooklyn and Berkeley, of soul and rap, of murder and redemption. This is the story Jonathan Lethem was born to tell. This is THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE.

The Fortress of Solitude

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Erik Larson

The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

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Dead Wake

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Carmen Maria Machado

Stories

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially Heinous,” Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.

Her Body and Other Parties

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Tyler Akidau

Slava Chernyak

Reuven Lax

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The What, Where, When, and How of Large-Scale Data Processing

Annotation Streaming data is a big deal in big data these days, and for good reason. Businesses crave ever more timely data, and streaming is a good way to achieve lower latency. Plus, streaming is a much easier way to tame the massive, unbounded data sets that are increasingly common today. Expanded from co-author Tyler Akidau's popular series of blog posts 'Streaming 101' and 'Streaming 102', this practical book shows data engineers, data scientists, and developers how to work with streaming or event-time data in a conceptual and platform-agnostic way.

Streaming Systems

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David Pine

Build Single-Page Apps with WebAssembly and C#

Take advantage of your C# skills to build UI components and client-side experiences with .NET. With this practical guide, you'll learn how to use Blazor WebAssembly to develop next-generation web experiences. Built on top of ASP.NET Core, Blazor represents the future of .NET single-page applications (SPA) investments. Author David Pine, who focuses on .NET and Azure content development at Microsoft, explains how WebAssembly enables many non-JavaScript-based programming languages to run on the client browser. In this book, you'll learn about real-time web functionality with ASP.NET Core SignalR. You'll learn strategies for bidirectional JavaScript interop. David covers component data binding, hierarchical event-driven communications, in-memory state management, and local storage. This book shows you how to: Create a feature-rich Blazor app that looks beautiful Localize an enterprise-scale app as the sole developer using GitHub Actions and Azure Cognitive Services Translator service Create advanced validation scenarios for input-based components with forms Automatically deploy and host to Azure Static Web Apps, and rely on HTTP services Utilize geolocation service native to the browser, as well as native speech synthesis and recognition Author a custom modal verification mechanism for validating a user Determine the best approach for building reliable, architecturally sound websites

Learning Blazor

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Haishi Bai

Yaron Schneider

Building Distributed Cloud Native Applications

Get the authoritative guide on Dapr, the new distributed programming model that works with existing and new programming languages alike. Written by the model's creators, this introduction shows you how Dapr not only unifies stateless, stateful, and actor programming models but also runs everywhere--in the cloud or on the edge. Authors Haishi Bai and Yaron Schneider with Microsoft's Azure CTO team explain that with Dapr you don't need to include any SDKs or libraries in your user code. Instead, you automatically get flexible binding, state management, actor pattern, pub-sub, reliable messaging, and many more features. This book shows developers, architects, CIOs, students, and computing enthusiasts how to get started with Dapr.

Learning Dapr

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Gerard Maas

Francois Garillot

Mastering Structured Streaming and Spark Streaming

To build analytics tools that provide faster insights, knowing how to process data in real time is a must, and moving from batch processing to stream processing is absolutely required. Fortunately, the Spark in-memory framework/platform for processing data has added an extension devoted to fault-tolerant stream processing: Spark Streaming. If you're familiar with Apache Spark and want to learn how to implement it for streaming jobs, this practical book is a must. Understand how Spark Streaming fits in the big picture Learn core concepts such as Spark RDDs, Spark Streaming clusters, and the fundamentals of a DStream Discover how to create a robust deployment Dive into streaming algorithmics Learn how to tune, measure, and monitor Spark Streaming

Stream Processing with Apache Spark

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James Urquhart

The Future of Streaming and Event-Driven Integration

The evolution of software design is moving into a phase dominated by events and streaming data. Serverless programming, IOT data capture, and even live video provide a near real-time look at the world around us. Software is being developed now that can optimize the ways not only how technology interacts, but how businesses themselves integrate with other businesses to meet customer needs, a phenomenon I call "flow". Flow may best be defined as the defacto patterns and standards by which activity and related data is communicated between arbitrary parties over the Internet. This book explores a critical implication of that evolution: what happens when the sources, formats, and mechanisms that enable the exchange of events and data streams are commoditized and standard, and businesses can discover and link new sources of activity to enhance existing businesses or drive new markets altogether? And what are some of the technologies and architectural patterns that you can begin to adopt today to position your company for the tremendous opportunities enabled by flow? As HTTP revolutionized the way we linked information, will de facto event standards revolutionize the way we link activity?

Flow Architectures

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Ken Youens-Clark

A Project-Based Primer for Writing Rust CLIs

For several consecutive years, Rust has been voted "most loved programming language" in Stack Overflow's annual developer survey. This open source systems programming language is now used for everything from game engines and operating systems to browser components and virtual reality simulation engines. But Rust is also an incredibly complex language with a notoriously difficult learning curve. Rather than focus on the language as a whole, this guide teaches Rust using a single small, complete, focused program in each chapter. Author Ken Youens-Clark shows you how to start, write, and test each of these programs to create a finished product. You'll learn how to handle errors in Rust, read and write files, and use regular expressions, Rust types, structs, and more. Discover how to: Use Rust's standard libraries and data types such as strings, vectors, dictionaries, and sets to create systems programs Write and test Rust programs and functions Read and write files, including stdin, stdout, and stderr Document and validate command-line arguments Write programs that fail gracefully Parse raw and delimited text as well as Excel data Use and control randomness

Command-Line Rust

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Boris Scholl

Trent Swanson

Peter Jausovec

Using Containers, Functions, and Data to Build Next-Generation Applications

This comprehensive guide helps developers and architects understand current cloud-native technologies, with recommendations that explain when you need to use each one. Authors Boris Scholl, Trent Swanson, and Peter Jausovec describe the patterns you need for building cloud-native applications, and provide best practices for the most common tasks such as messaging, eventing, and DevOps. This practical book also delivers an architectural blueprint for a modern cloud-native application. You'll learn about microservices, containers, serverless computing, storage types, data considerations, portability, and the use of functions. Differentiate between containers and functions, and understand when to use which technology Leverage Service Meshes to move complexity, such as distributed tracing and mutual TLS handshakes, away from the developer Use messaging and eventing as the glue for the cloud-native composite applications Handle state-in distributed applications Understand what makes your application portable

Cloud Native

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Nigel Poulton

Starfleet Edition

The Kubernetes Book

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Borg Collector's Edition

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Josh Patterson

Michael Katzenellenbogen

Austin Harris

Managing Cloud and on-Premise Deployment

When deploying machine learning applications, building models is only a small part of the story. The entire process involves developing, orchestrating, deploying, and running scalable and portable machine learning workloads--a process Kubeflow makes much easier. With this practical guide, data scientists, data engineers, and platform architects will learn how to plan and execute a Kubeflow project that can support workflows from on-premises to the cloud. Kubeflow is an open source Kubernetes-native platform based on Google's internal machine learning pipelines, and yet major cloud vendors including AWS and Azure advocate the use of Kubernetes and Kubeflow to manage containers and machine learning infrastructure. In today's cloud-based world, this book is ideal for any team planning to build machine learning applications. With this book, you will: Get a concise overview of Kubernetes and Kubeflow Learn how to plan and build a Kubeflow installation Operate, monitor, and automate your installation Provide your Kubeflow installation with adequate security Serve machine learning models on Kubeflow

Kubeflow Operations Guide

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Louise Penny

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village. But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true. And so begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth. What they uncover deep in the forest sets off a sequence of events that leads to murder, leads to an old crime, leads to an old betrayal. Leads right to the door of an old poet. And now it is now, writes Ruth Zardo. And the dark thing is here. A monster once visited Three Pines. And put down deep roots. And now, Ruth knows, it is back. Armand Gamache, the former head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, must face the possibility that, in not believing the boy, he himself played a terrible part in what happens next.

The Nature of the Beast

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Kerri Connor

Crafting Hope When Faced with Life's Thorniest Challenges

A collection of spells and advice for life's challenges, including problems related to family, relationships, career, and finances.

Spells for Tough Times

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Judika Illes

150 Spells You Can't Live Without

Appealing to both novice and experienced spell casters, this book contains 150 fast and easy spells that can be done with ordinary household ingredients.

Magic When You Need It

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Emily

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