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THE LIVING ENDEddie Marlon is just a kid with a song he wants published, another city kid with dreams of being in the music business. His song is nothing special, but Eddie gets a tip that a local radio station needs help on the early morning shift. Marty Allen hires him to line up the records for his show. But the way Eddie sees it, Marty is a square—he doesn’t go for the bucks that are to be had charging A&R guys to get their tunes on the air.Eddie must have been born lucky because one night Marty needs Eddie to help him get the station boss out of a jam. Then they owe him. And when it’s time to collect, Eddie is right there with a plan. He wants his own time slot and he wants to put on free shows with all the big talent, who will naturally play for free to get the air time. Eddie’s got big plans alright. Because now it’s his shot at the top—and if you want to be on Eddie’s show, you’re going to pay for it!

The job of a data scientist is one of the most lucrative jobs out there today - it involves analyzing large amounts of data, and gathering actionable business insights from it using a variety of tools. This book empowers you to conduct data analysis and perform efficient machine learning using Python.

Frank Kane's Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python is your companion to learning Apache Spark in a hands-on manner. Frank will start you off by teaching you how to set up Spark on a single system or on a cluster, and you'll soon move on to analyzing large data sets using Spark RDD, and developing and running effective Spark jobs quickly .

LIZ Liz Allen isn’t going to take it anymore. Men have been trying to victimize her all her young life. But that ends when the fat local sheriff strips her and whips her alone in a cell. It ends with a dead sheriff and Liz on the run. She soon finds Gunson, a pretty-boy hood, and together they create their own little crime spree. But you don’t turn your back on Liz for long, and Gunson soon discovers that he’s as expendable as the next guy—who turns out to be a hood named Lew Barker. Trouble is, they all figure they know more than Liz. They all figure they’re more ruthless than a woman. They know the score. But they all learn the hard way—Liz makes it on her terms, and she’s got nothing to lose. SYNDICATE GIRL Jackson City is owned by the Syndicate. Everyone knows it. Step out of line, you get a bullet courtesy of Zito’s men. It’s Captain Marcy Lewis’s job to keep it that way. But now District Attorney Mal Waters has decided to step in and do something about it. And he’s got the city’s only respectable newspaper behind him. But Waters is up against the men who put him in office, the men in Zito’s pocket. He’s also up against his fiancé, who has her own plans and doesn’t want him rocking the boat. Zito and the Syndicate have got all the aces in this game, and all Waters has got is his determination. They’ve framed him, and they’ve humiliated him. Then he meets Mary Lister, the syndicate’s girl, and he sees a way out….

Following the collapse of his business and the loss of his home, Frank Kane made a catastrophic decision. In an attempt to dull the reality of the horrendous conditions, he succumbed to drugs. After enduring years of systematic beatings by the guards and attempts on his life by inmates, Frank suffered more than one breakdown.