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  The 39 Clues: Book 5

  The Black Circle

  by Patrick Carman

  JOIN ANYTIME TO PLAY FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN! WHERE ARE AMY AND DAN CAHILL? The two kids were last seen in Egypt, hunting for one of the 39 Clues that could make them the most powerful people on earth. But no one has seen the siblings since. Has the ruthless Irina Spasky finally tracked them down? Or worse . . . the Madrigals? No one knows where the Clue hunt leads next. But one thing is certain – Book 5 is... (more)
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  Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye

  by Katharine Sands

  Here's a very useful book for first-time writers. Most how-to books for writers deal with this important subject (finding an agent) in a chapter or two, but Sands, a literary agent in New York, shows that there's a lot more to it than one might expect. Drawing on the experience of a variety of agents (plus one copywriter), she demonstrates that finding an agent involves finding the perfect match between author and... (more)
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  The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success

  by Donald Maass

  The Career Novelist is like having your own personal literary agent on your bookshelf!
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  Rediscovering Empathy: Agency, Folk Psychology, and the Human Sciences (Bradford Books)

  by Karsten R. Stueber

  In this timely and wide-ranging study, Karsten Stueber argues that empathy is epistemically central for our folk-psychological understanding of other agents—that it is something we cannot do without in order to gain understanding of other minds. Setting his argument in the context of contemporary philosophy of mind and the interdisciplinary debate about the nature of our mindreading abilities, Stueber counters... (more)
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  Building Intelligent .NET Applications: Agents, Data Mining, Rule-Based Systems, and Speech Processing (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)

  by Sara Morgan

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around almost as long as computers have been. It is only relatively recently, however, that some basic AI techniques have been brought to bear on common software problems. This is not a book about AI theory. It is a book about utilizing some AI technologies to enhance the value of both new and existing applications. The four AI areas covered in this book are Speech... (more)
• Archon: An Architecture for Multi-Agent Systems (Ellis Horwood Series in Artificial Intelligence)

  

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  Archon: An Architecture for Multi-Agent Systems (Ellis Horwood Series in Artificial Intelligence)

  A survey of the diverse types of work undertaken by the ESPRIT project, ARCHON, which is a consortium investigating the development of a framework for co-operation between industrial supervision and control systems. The book demonstrates ARCHON's application to electrical distribution.
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  Special Agent: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI

  by Candice DeLong

  Candice DeLong has been called a real-life Clarice Starling and a female Donnie Brasco. She has been on the front lines of some of the FBIs most gripping and memorable cases, including being chosen as one of the three agents to carry out the manhunt for the Unabomber in Lincoln, Montana. She has tailed terrorists, gone undercover as a gangsters moll, and posed as the madam for a call-girl ring. Now for the first... (more)
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  Blood Web

  by Gary Starta

  Deep within a Colorado cave, a teen drifter discovers an arrowhead shaped crystal harboring an evil sentience. Acting as the crystal's host, the boy is endowed with psychic powers and extreme rage. He embarks on a cross country mission, eager to exact revenge for crimes committed more than a century ago; able to track his intended victims through a biological conduit. Caitlin Diggs became the FBI s top agent by... (more)
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  The Spy Who Haunted Me (Gollancz)

  by Simon R. Green

  Eddie Drood’s evil-stomping skills have come to the attention of the legendary Alexander King, Independent Agent extraordinaire. The best of the best, King spent a lifetime working for anyone and everyone, doing anything and everything, for the right price. Now, he’s on his deathbed and looking to bestow all of his priceless secrets to a successor, provided he or she wins a contest to solve the world’s greatest... (more)
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  2008 Guide to Literary Agents

  by Chuck Sambuchino

  The number one guide for writers seeking agents. More than 130,000 copies sold over its lifetime Includes more than 600 listings for literary agents, script agents, conferences and publicists--all completely updated along with more than 90 pages of original articles on finding the best agent to represent your work and how to seal the deal. As the market becomes more glutted while the number of major... (more)
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  An Eye for a Deadly Eye

  by John A Wooden

  Twelve years ago, Special Agent Steve Carson was one of many agents who died at the hands of the group called Just Cause. Their cause-kill as many agents as possible, in the name of justice. Today, Just Cause is back and once again, they are killing agents of the nation's lead investigative bureau, the FBI. Their first two targets are Steve's old partners at the Bureau. After his last case, former Bureau agent,... (more)
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  Christian Writers' Market Guide 2009

  by Sally Stuart

  For 24 years running, the Christian Writers’ Market Guide has remained the most comprehensive, complete, essential, and highly-recommended resource for Christian writers, agents, editors, publishers, publicists, and those teaching writing classes. And it’s the tool for both for beginners and industry veterans. This perennial guide contains a variety of indexes–listed by topic, alphabetical listing of... (more)
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  Writer's Market UK

  "Writer's Market UK" is the most single and comprehensive resource for all writers - whether you are taking a writing course, dreaming of being published, about to be published, or have already been published. It contains over 4,000 listings of UK and Irish book publishers, consumer magazines, trade journals, literary agents, online sources and more. Key features include: more directory listings than any other... (more)
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  An Actor's Guide to Getting Work (Stage & Costume)

  by Simon Dunmore

  This guide covers a wide range of work available for actors. It offers advice on making the most of: drama schools; audition speeches and sight-readings; letters, CVs and photographs; finding and working with an agent; auditions for musicals; TV, commercials and films, voice-overs and Equity.
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  Secrets To Publishing and Marketing Your Book

  by Kristin Blizzard

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  2009 Guide To Literary Agents (Guide to Literary Agents)

  by Chuck Sambuchino

  Now, more than ever, in a market glutted with aspiring writers and a shrinking number of publishing houses, writers need someone familiar with the publishing scene to shepherd their manuscript to the right person. Completely updated annually, Guide to Literary Agents provides names and specialties for more than 800 individual agents around the United States and the world. The 2009 edition includes more than 85... (more)
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  See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

  by Robert Baer

  In his explosive New York Times bestseller, top CIA operative Robert Baer paints a chilling picture of how terrorism works on the inside and provides startling evidence of how Washington politics sabotaged the CIA’s efforts to root out the world’s deadliest terrorists, allowing for the rise of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda and the continued entrenchment of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. A veteran case officer in the... (more)
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  Vault Career Guide to Screenwriting Careers (Vault Guide to Screenwriting Careers)

  by David Kukoff

  Get the inside scoop on exciting film careers with this new Vault guide to writing a screenplay and to how the entertainment industry works.
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  The Bestseller

  by Olivia Goldsmith

  At Davis & Dash, one of New York's most prestigious publishing houses, five new authors will be published--but only one of them will be a bestseller. They have worked long and hard to write their novels of romance and murder, drama and love. But the story behind the stories is even more exciting. And the vicious competition to get the right agent, the perfect editor, and the choice spot on the bestseller list... (more)
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  Agents, Editors and You: The Insider's Guide to Getting Your Book Published (Writers Market Library)

  Every writer wishes that they had a mentor in the business-someone who could share up-to-the-minute insider advice for getting their work published. That wish comes true with Agents, Editors, and You! Dozens of industry professionals provide fiction and nonfiction writers with essential information about a variety of important topics-everything from preparing a manuscript and getting it into the hands of an... (more)