Nickey Valentine

Gangsters, Godfathers, hit men and dons. A trillion dollar mafia company business, where a man's code of honor and his word are everything. Come step inside and learn the secret of the murder of East Coast mafia kingpin, Zing Rizzotto, and why the mob is searching for a black man. Patrick White is given a special necklace and ring from a very powerful man. What does the ring mean, and why is he protected? Eventually, he becomes NICKEY TONY VALENTINE, one of Hollywood's richest and most famous international stars.

Cassie Wilkerson hasn’t visited quaint Honey Springs since she was 16 and local boy Nick Porter broke her heart on Valentine’s Day. But when her aunt passes away and leaves Cassie her honey bee farm, she reluctantly returns to the small town, all the while planning to get back to her high-powered NYC life as an advertising executive as soon as possible. Her career plan definitely does not include managing 300,000 insects. Then she discovers Nick is now the farm’s foreman, and he’s been creating amazing honey-based skin care products for the locals. It’s just the thing her biggest client has been looking to bring to market, but Nick’s not interested in selling. As they work together on the farm, old feelings rekindle, and soon another Valentine’s Day approaches. This time, Cassie’s falling for the whole charming town – breaking her no-sugar diet at the local diner, organizing a heart-health festival for the holiday, and even extracting her own honey from the hives. Soon, she faces a tough decision: go back to her high-powered big-city career or see just how sweet life can be in Honey Springs. First published as Her Purrfect Match

Armed with a bottle of Milk Thistle and unshakeable optimism, Nick Valentine has spent most of his adult life in fifth gear, betting on a Royal Flush while covertly holding a pair of deuces. This is his story, the odyssey of a suburban bloke who has blagged, lucked and laughed his way into just about every party, club, stage and hot-tub imaginable. Following his first brush with celebrity at an impressionable age, and spending his teens and twenties as, amongst other things, a journalist, publicist, club promoter, musician and DJ, Nick eventually banked in the shallows of party central. He spent 15 years as a social editor on London’s celebrity canapé circuit, while co-founding the Entertainment News press agency. An enterprising period acting as a social PR to the super-rich led to him co-founding three London nightclubs in quick succession, including the much lauded Cuckoo Club. With the West End as his nocturnal playground, he then bid sleep a final fond farewell. Nick professes to have attended well over 5,000 parties in his time, drunk enough champagne to test the Thames barrier and occasionally made it home in time for Countdown. 'I'm a night person,' he says. 'The trouble is I'm a morning and afternoon person as well.' This account is a surprisingly touching, light-hearted look at the daily mechanics of enjoying life to the max and then some.

Amidst the neon and the big special ugly of Las Vegas, mild-mannered Frank Fontaine is beating the brains out of the Acropolis Casino. The house cops think the dealer, a blonde named Nola, is part of the con, but no one can prove a thing. For Tony Valentine, it’s the first new scam he’s seen in decades—and maybe the best. Three things Tony knows: The blonde is guilty, the grifter has lived a former life, and the biggest scam is the one that hasn’t happened yet. In a dream world of fake Greek statues, statuesque hostesses, and a casino owner whose sex life might just burn down his own house, Tony Valentine is plying his special trade. While some people have a sixth sense, Tony has a grift sense—and he needs it now to separate a grifter from a scam that’s worse than anyone’s wildest dreams. . . .

Yet another creative book in the popular Daily Discoveries series! Special days for your students to celebrate in the classroom include: Robinson Crusoe Day, Singing Telegram Day, Magazine Day, Telephone Book Day, Levi Strauss' Birthday, Pizza Pizzazz Day and many more in addition to the familiar ones such as Groundhog Day, Lincoln's Birthday and Valentine’s Day. The creative activities can be plugged into your regular curriculum: language arts, social studies, writing, math, science and health, music and drama, physical fitness, art, etc. Your class will look forward to every day of the month when you give them a day to celebrate! Also included are reproducible patterns for writing assignments and art projects as well as lists of correlated books and bulletin board ideas.

Widowed billionaire Nick Valentine should have known the new nanny was too good to be true. And when Candace Morrison revealed her hidden designs on his baby daughter, Nick was ready. The sexy schemer would definitely get what was coming to her, but that wouldn't include Nick's child. Candace knew Nick had been deceived—but not by her. She was stunned by her boss's fierce response to the truth—and to their undeniable chemistry. Now she'd stop at nothing to prove her shocking claims about the little Valentine heiress. But would it make them a family…or tear them apart?

"Action-packed and utterly vivid, Nightbreaker leaps to life with its formidable world and spirited protagonist. As soon as you start reading, you won’t want to stop." —Chloe Gong, #1 NYT bestselling author of These Violent Delights Fifteen years ago, The Vanishing thrust Manhattan into darkness, forever changing the City That Never Sleeps. By day, resilient New Yorkers have adapted, clinging to the vestiges of their cosmopolitan lives. By night—well, you never go out at night unless you have a death wish. Or unless you're Rei Reynolds. Rei attends an exclusive New York prep school, but unlike her classmates, she welcomes nightfall. That's when she can secretly hunt Deathlings, the deadly creatures that have prowled Manhattan's subway tunnels and blood-soaked streets since the Vanishing. After they brutally slaughtered her parents years ago, Rei is desperate for vengeance. To get it, Rei must qualify for—and win—the Tournament, a competition to join the ranks of the city’s legendary Deathling hunters. Rei’s nightly pursuits should give her an advantage, but the other competitors are fierce, and in some cases familiar: enter Kieran Cross, Rei’s most infuriating rival . . . and ex-boyfriend. As the Tournament progresses—and the cutthroat competition escalates—everything Rei believed about who she can trust is called into question. Soon enough, she’s caught in the crosshairs of the elite who want to keep the city's ruling class in power, as well as those who will stop at nothing to bring it down. Because sometimes it's not the monsters waiting in the dark you should fear . . . it's the ones who dare to walk into the light. Coco Ma's exhilarating urban fantasy thrusts readers into an immersive world of thrills and chills, featuring the smart, sardonic post-apocalyptic heroine you’ll soon wish you could be.

It's just another day. Having just been accepted into Vault 111, you spend the morning with your family going about your daily routine. That is until alarms blare out, signalling a nuclear attack. You and your family sprint towards the Vault along with everyone else in the neighborhood just as a bomb explodes nearby. After surviving the blast, you are lowered into the Vault and enter cryosleep. Two hundred years pass and you awake to a world ravaged by nuclear war. You are the Sole Survivor and what awaits you is a mystery as you set out to conquer the Wasteland. Our guide will be a complete companion while you journey through the wilds of Fallout 4. You can find a plethora of information including the following: - A start to finish walkthrough with every area in between covered. - Combat details, SPECIAL explanation and general gameplay information. - VATS And You!: Getting to know your PIPBOY. - All faction quests explained including the consequences of favoring one over the others. - Information on Settlements and items for construction. - Bobblehead locations, collectibles and full Trophy/Achievement guide. - Settlement Guide complete with how to set up and manage settlements, what perks are beneficial etc. - Companion chapter detailing each companion character, where to acquire them and the pros/cons of each. - A detailed Character Creation guide fully examining the best builds and what each perk does. - Automatron and Wasteland Workshop DLC information provided, including a full walkthrough for Automatron. - A complete walkthrough of the "Far Harbor" DLC complete with information on every side quest.