Discover the darker side of Devon with this remarkable collection of true-life crimes from across the county. Legendary north Devon highwayman Tom Faggus (featured in the classic novel Lorna Doone) east Devon smuggler Jack Rattenbury (known as ' The Rob Roy of the West') south Devon murderer John Lee (' The Man They Could Not Hang') & west Devon fraudster Charles De Ville Wells (immortalised for his gambling exploits in the music hall song ' The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo') are featured among the infamous rogues rascals & reprobates in this veritable who's who of the county's most notorious villains. Drawing on a wide variety of historical sources & containing many cases which have never before been published Devon Villains will fascinate everyone interested in true crime & the history of Devon. ...

The story of the Devonshires is the story of Britain. William Cavendish the father of the first Earl dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess his second wife was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in Engl&. Arbella Stuart their granddaughter was a heartbeat away from the throne of England & their grandson Lord General of the North fought to save the crown for Charles I. Fifty years later the First Duke of Devonshire conspired to depose James II & make William of Orange king. For the next two centuries the Devonshires were at the heart of fashionable society & the centre of political power. The Fourth Duke became prime minister & Georgiana wife of the Fifth scandalised even the Regency. Spencer Compton the last of the great Devonshires was three times offered the preimership & three times refused it. Even the Devonshire servants made history. Joseph Paxton was their gardner & Thomas Hobbes was the family tutor. With the help of previously unpublished material from the Chatsworth archives The Devonshires reveals how the dynasty made & lost fortunes fought & fornicated built great houses patronised the arts & pioneered the railways made great scientific discoveries & in the end came to terms with changing times. It is popular history at its very best. ...

If youre a developer trying to figure out why your application is not responding at 3 am you need this book! This is now my go-to book when diagnosing production issues. It has saved me hours in troubleshooting complicated operations problems." -Trotter Cashion cofounder Mashion Dev Ops can help developers QAs & admins work together to solve Linux server problems far more rapidly significantly improving IT performance availability & efficiency. To gain these benefits however team members need common troubleshooting skills & practices. In Dev Ops Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices award-winning Linux expert Kyle Rankin brings together all the standardized repeatable techniques your team needs to stop finger-pointing collaborate effectively & quickly solve virtually any Linux server problem. Rankin walks you through using Dev Ops techniques to troubleshoot everything from boot failures & corrupt disks to lost email & downed websites. Youll master indispensable skills for diagnosing high-load systems & network problems in production environments. Rankin shows how to * Master Dev Ops approach to troubleshooting & proven Linux server problem-solving principles* Diagnose slow servers & applications by identifying CPU RAM & Disk I/O bottlenecks* Understand healthy boots so you can identify failure points & fix them* Solve full or corrupt disk issues that prevent disk writes* Track down the sources of network problems* Troubleshoot DNS email & other network services* Isolate & diagnose Apache & Nginx Web server failures & slowdowns* Solve problems with My SQL & Postgres database servers & queries* Identify hardware failures-even notoriously elusive intermittent failures" ...

Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative integrated schemes & the original experience for viewers of the paintings was significantly different from our own. Focusing on Italian altarpieces from the second half of the 13th century to the very end of the 15th the book investigates the original functions & locations of altarpieces as well as the circumstances of their dislocations dismantlings & reconstructions. Regional variations are also analyzed & the author examines altarpieces formal & typological development taking into account the wealth of related scholarship undertaken in the past thirty years. ...

London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen-collecting craze is growing & discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping the known world in terrible & unimaginable ways. When the glamorous Lady Bessingham is found murdered in her bedroom surrounded by her vast collection of fossils & tribal masks Professor Adolphus Hatton & his morgue assistant Albert Roumande are called in to examine the crime scene
- & the body. In the new & suspicious world of forensics & autopsy examinations Hatton & Roumande are the best. But the crime scene is not confined to one room. In their efforts to help the infamous Scotland Yard detective Inspector Adams track down the Ladys killer Hatton & Roumande uncover a trail of murders connected to a packet of seditious letters that if published would change the face of society & religion irrevocably. D.E. Merediths measured prose & eye for exquisite detail moves seamlessly from the filthy docks on the Isle of Dogs to the jungles of Borneo & the drawing rooms of Londons upper class. Her slow-burning mystery builds to a shocking conclusion consuming Victorian London
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When Rose wakes up in the night because it is so quiet she's sure there is something wrong. With Buttercup's help she soon discovers that Owl has stopped hooting but what she doesn't know is why? Join Rose Buttercup & the other Dewdrop Fairies as they try to find Owl's lost hoot! ...

On the coldest morning of the year Vicki Myron found a tiny bedraggled kitten almost frozen to death in the night drop box of the library where she worked & her life -- & the town of Spencer Iowa -- would never be the same. Vicki was a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm & an alcoholic abusive husb&. But her biggest challenge as the new head librarian in Spencer was to raise the spirits of a small out-of-the-way town mired deep in the farm crisis of the 1980s. Dewey as the townspeople named the kitten quickly grew into a strutting adorable library cat whose antics kept patrons in stitches & whose sixth sense about those in need created hundreds of deep & loving friendships. As his fame grew people drove hundreds of miles to meet Dewey & people all over the world fell in love with him. Through it all Dewey remained a loyal companion a beacon of hope not just for Vicki but for the entire town of Spencer as it slowly steadily pulled itself up from the worst financial crisis in its long history. Dewey won hearts & proved to everyone he encountered that unconditional love comes in many forms. ...

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World was a blockbuster bestseller & a publishing phenomenon. It spent more than seven months on the New York Times bestseller list nearly the entire time in the top five. It has sold nearly a million copies spawned three children's books & will be the basis for a movie starring Meryl Streep that is in the works. No doubt about it this is one beloved cat. But he's more than just a bestselling franchise: Dewey has created a community. Dewey touched readers everywhere who realized that no matter how difficult their lives might seem or how ordinary their talents they can
- & should
- make a positive difference to those around them. Dewey's Nine Lives continues the formula that made Dewey so successful: inspiring funny & heart-warming stories about cats told from the perspective of ' Dewey's Mum ' librarian Vicki Myron. The amazing felines in this book include Dewey of course whose further never-before-told adventures & amazing legacy are chronicled but several others who Vicki found out about when their owners reached out to her. Vicki learned through extensive interviews & story sharing what made these cats special & how they fit into Dewey's community of perseverance & love. From a divorced mother in Alaska who saved a drowning kitten on Christmas Eve to a post-traumatic stress-disorder
- suffering veteran whose heart was opened by his long relationship with a rescued cat these Dewey-style stories will inspire readers to laugh cry care & most importantly believe in the magic of animals to touch individual lives.


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A special adaptation for younger readers of the international bestselling Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World. A heart-warming story about the library cat who inspired the lives of those around him as well as people across the world. At only a few weeks old on the coldest night of the year Dewey was stuffed into the returned book slot at the Spencer Public Library. The next morning librarian Vicki Myron finds him & nurses him back to health deciding then & there that he would become the library's offical pet! Dewey soon learns to love his new home spending each day spreading his own special brand of love to those that enter the library & winning the hearts of everyone around him. ...

DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER: Dexter Morgan can't stand the sight of blood. Which makes his job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami PD a little tricky. But it means that he's very tidy when it comes to his hobby: murder. After all even though Dexter only ever kills bad people he doesn't want to draw attention to it. But now there's another killer out there who's being a whole lot less subtle' DEARLY DEVOTED DEXTER: Miami's best-dressed serial killer is getting twitchy
- he hasn't killed for months. Ever since their paths first crossed Sergeant Doakes hasn't let Dexter Morgan out of his sight. Then a body turns up mutilated & barely alive. To trap the torturer Doakes & Dexter will have to work together if they can trust each other. It's a devil's pact & one of them will have to be the bait...DEXTER IN THE DARK: When Dexter is brought in to analyse a charred headless corpse it seems he's dealing with a killer even more sinister than he is & one with a personal interest in him. & with Dexter now having a wedding to plan & a family to protect the stakes are high. As he realises his step-children might share his blood-lust if he's ever to help them target it Dexter will first have to stay alive himself.
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