Bøger af Mike Owens

Some folks in the small town of Canandaigua, New York, said John Merritt had a death wish. Maybe they were right. Why else would he be out ice fishing after a brief warm spell had thinned the lake's frozen crust? After an almost predictable plunge through the surface, he's saved by a team of medical experts who specialize in salvaging victims of cold water drowning. But the aftermath of John's recovery, filled with ghostly visions and uncontrollable changes in his behavior, causes him to question his own sanity. Could all this be the result of his Near-Death Experience, or is something more sinister afoot?

Phil Claussen couldn't very well leave her out there in the middle of nowhere, shoeless and barely dressed, so he offers her a ride. When he asks why she's hitchhiking on a deserted road, she says, "Waiting for you. I've been waiting for you for a long time." "Impossible," he says. "I've never set foot in Oklahoma before." He asks more questions...

They looked alike, dressed alike, shared the same food preferences, finished one another's sentences. What were the chances that in a world where opposites attract and likes repel, two people so similar in every way, including their successful careers as serial killers would meet, fall in love and form one of the deadliest duos ever? Bernie and ...

Somehow, it's always about the money. Sharon Saluda, in her junior year at Pisgah College, doesn't have nearly enough of it, and a diploma is her ticket out of the narrow confines of small town life in Jacob's Bluff, NC. A career as a stripper seems a promising solution, but when that ends badly, a desperate Sharon capitalizes on that most basic of needs-sex-by matching up college coeds with faculty clientele. Her job description takes a dramatic uptick when Connor Shaw arrives and wants her as his own-for a very good price, of course. She takes the plunge, body and soul, because this man is gorgeous, ridiculously wealthy, and the sex is out of this world. But there's always a catch...right?

Nothing left to live for…that's how eighteen-year-old Daisy Sugarbush feels after an explosion inflicts deep burns over seventy percent of her body, condemning her to six excruciating months in the hospital, where her pleas to stop treatment are ignored.Blind and horribly disfigured, she wishes only to end her wretched life as soon as possible. Starvation should push her ruined body over the edge-the doctors told her as much-which becomes her game plan.Then a new therapist, Arthur, enters her life with other ideas, but can he succeed where so many others have failed?

This is the first book to devote complete coverage to the most recent release of the popular embedded open source database SQLite.

Outside of the world of enterprise computing, there is one database that enables a huge range of software and hardware to flex relational database capabilities, without the baggage and cost of traditional database management systems. That database is SQLite—an embeddable database with an amazingly small footprint, yet able to handle databases of enormous size. SQLite comes equipped with an array of powerful features available through a host of programming and development environments. It is supported by languages such as C, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, TCL, and more. The Definitive Guide to SQLite, Second Edition is devoted to complete coverage of the latest version of this powerful database. It offers a thorough overview of SQLite’s capabilities and APIs. The book also uses SQLite as the basis for helping newcomers make their first foray into database development. In only a short time you can be writing programs as diverse as a server-side browser plug-in or the next great iPhone or Android application! Learn about SQLite extensions for C, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. Get solid coverage of SQLite internals. Explore developing iOS (iPhone) and Android applications with SQLite. SQLite is the solution chosen for thousands of products around the world, from mobile phones and GPS devices to set-top boxes and web browsers. You almost certainly use SQLite every day without even realizing it!