A very personal quest for a perfect state of contentment. The next logical step? Suicide. A disturbed young man shuffles through life with only one thing on his mind. To end his life. But there is a mission to accomplish first. This is to make his life as perfect as possible. However, it will not be easy. A bitterly unhappy childhood, where he suffers a cruel violent father, an ambivalent mother and a murderous younger sister, who may or may not be imaginary, sees him institutionalised. Life as an adult only serves to add to his problems. Unable to settle down in any of a number of jobs, he eventually falls in with a group of young people who murder strangers for fun. From this most unlikely of settings the mist gradually begins to lift as he achieves both comradeship and love from within the gang in a particularly unique way. Is that perfect state of contentment finally within his grasp? The young man narrates his own story.

Offers advice for coping with the death of a parent, discussing handling a fatal diagnosis, arranging hospital care, making funeral arrangements, and working through the grieving process.

Charity thought she had it all—marriage to respected consultant Tyco van der Brons and being a mother to his two children. So why did her heart yearn for his love, too? She had known from the start that theirs was a marriage of convenience—so it would be foolish to wish for anything more...wouldn't it?

Melissa Craig is a successful crime novelist who has left London to pursue her career in the more relaxed atmosphere of the Cotswolds. It doesn't take her long to discover that fact and fiction are sometimes frighteningly similar, and the gentle country existence she planned for herself is, instead, providing grist for her creative mill. Finishing Touch finds Melissa becoming more involved with the local community, and teaching creative writing at the local Tech. But murder stalks the college art department, reminding both Melissa and Iris, her artist neighbour, of a bizarre event they had witnessed some time before. 'A gently old-fashioned whodunit, riddled with lurking anguish' The Times

The refereed proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference are presented in this volume. Twenty-six full papers are presented together with two keynote and eight invited lectures. Collectively, they represent some of the most important developments in computer systems architecture. The papers emphasize hardware and software techniques for state-of-the-art, multi-core and multi-threaded architectures.

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David was a writer who was just really getting started. Looking for a new house he got more stories than he could imagine. A scrapbook that told stories of the house he buys. Including the story of Cara. A women that meets the love of her life Travis and his son Wayne. She loves them both but she doesn't know if she's really ready to get married, or to be a mom.