Operating Systems: Internals And Design Principles

Loyalty. Pride. Family. These are the only values that matter. Jozef is both nephew and enforcer to the Koba crime family. He is ruthless, brutal and completely loyal to his family. Shaun is a doctor working in the Ukraine with Doctors Without Borders. She’s logical, kind and honest. Shaun has been trained on how to deal with hostage situations, but nothing prepares her for Jozef or the life he’s forcing her into. From the operating room to an opulent glittering ballroom and a forced engagement, Shaun is wildly out of her depth. Every step she takes is monitored and the man who kidnapped her watches her like a feral dog preparing to strike. Caught in a deadly plight, Shaun has no choice but to give her heart to a killer or become another victim of organized crime.NOTE: Sinner’s Empire contains scenes of sexual content, violent situations, and panic attacks.Sinner’s Empire is created by Nikita Slater, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

Lorenzo Tanaleon III is the heir of the wealthiest family in the town. He does everything whatever his family expects him to do. On the other hand, Maya Aguilar is an average girl who came from an average family. She always sticks to her own principles. They're in a complete opposite world. However, things get worse when Maya's grandfather had fallen ill and they had to leave their land due to the construction of a luxurious five star hotel exactly in their area. Maya, enraged with the wealthy clan and feeling pity towards her countrymen, swore to do anything just to stop the demolishment and dispute. Even if it takes for her to fake her pregnancy and let the sole heir of the Tanaleons be responsible for 'their' non-existing child. Will she be able to stand everyone's mockeries and ridicule? Will she be able to keep her principles on and remember her mission? What if lies will turn to reality? Will she be able to find love with the very unpredictable man, Lorenzo Tanaleon III?

Pierre Paul Abutu gives a humorous, fascinating and dispassionate narration of the unique intimate and romantic events of his life from teenage to adolescence, and into the early stages of his adult life. This narration revolves around the lives, and relationships of sixteen ladies with whom he shared happy, intimate, eventful and evergreen moments of his life with. These love affairs occur in Pierre Abutu’s life, at his university, the Augustine Nnamani Campus, Agbani, in Enugu Campus of the Nigerian Law School, Akwa Ibom State and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Due to his religious beliefs, personal convictions, personal principles, metaphysical and supernatural predictions and postulations, the media, intellectual and literary effects in his life, most of these affairs either ended abruptly or amicably. These love affairs also reveal the negative attitudes, traits and deceptive machinations of these girls and ladies. Even though certain unpleasant and resultant effects were never intended at any particular stage, or with any of these girls and ladies, one thing was very clear: each love affair was and would always be evergreen to Pierre Abutu.

During a fight with my husband, he shoved me. My stomach bumped into the couch’s armrest. Just then, his childhood friend called him, sobbing. “Caleb, hurry, come to Cloudpeak Hotel and save me! My boss got me drunk, and now he’s forcing me to serve our client…” I nearly blacked out from the twisting pain in my stomach. I begged him to take me to the hospital. However, my husband said, “There’s a life at stake here! Can you not be so cruel?” He left, slamming the door behind him. I had no choice but to call for an ambulance. That night, he spent the night with his childhood friend, while I lay in the operating theater, undergoing emergency surgery. Good news, Caleb Gordon! You'd never have children again! Weren’t you glad? You deserved it!

During a critical meeting, my medical case notes were swapped for "Confession of an Affair”. "Exhibit A: She knowingly intruded into a marriage, a disgrace to her profession." "Exhibit B: Harassing the patient's family and destroying their family." "Exhibit C: Callously endangering lives, deliberately plotting against the wife and child to take her place!" In front of hospital leadership, the patient’s family accused me of being a homewrecker, attempting to shame me into confessing. It was chaotic until she physically assaulted me, leaving me with a concussion. When my husband rushed in from the operating room, I said coldly, "Looks like this ‘real wife’ is being called the mistress! Why would you still defend me?” Without hesitation, my husband stepped forward and slapped the real mistress. “Security!” he called out. “Get this troublemaker out of here, now!”

Perhaps out of mercy, Debra found herself reborn before all the tragedies—before her husband Juan drained her last bit of value and let her died miserably in childbirth on the operating table. In her last life, Debra discarded her noble status and tried everything to please Juan after marriage, groveling for his affection. Everyone in Seamar City knew that Juan's beloved was Shelia, while Debra was unfavored. In this life, Debra was determined to leave Juan. Unexpectedly, after their divorce, the husband who once despised her made a complete 180. But so what? Faced with his desperate plea for reconciliation, Debra turned around and threw herself into the arms of his archenemy. "Do you have anything to say to my ex, new love?" she asked the man standing by her side. Marion smiled with a powerful protective aura, "He can wish us a happy marriage."

At the age of 18, Patricia married Martin Langley, a man who was paralyzed from the waist down, instead of her stepsister, Debbie Brown. She accompanied him through the darkest moments of his life. Despite their two-year marriage and companionship, their relationship didn’t mean as much to Martin as Debbie's return. Martin, in order to treat Debbie's illness, heartlessly disregarded her pregnancy and cruelly bound her to the operating table. Martin was heartless, he left Patricia feeling lifeless, which prompted her to leave and go to a foreign land. Martin, however, would never give up Patricia, even though he hated her. He couldn't deny that he had and inexplicable fascination with her. Could it be that Martin, unbeknownst to him, has become helplessly in love with Patricia? When she came back from abroad, whose child is the little boy by Patricia's side? Why does he resemble Martin, the devil incarnate, so much?

Asha harus kehilangan bayi karena desakan ibu mertua dan suami yang memaksanya melahirkan secara normal. Tidak hanya kehilangan bayinya, Asha juga diceraikan dan dibebani biaya rumah sakit oleh Dimas. Saat Asha tengah terpuruk dan hancur, datang Jonathan, dokter bedah saraf yang mendadak muncul sebagai pahlawannya. Hubungan yang awalnya hanya karena rasa iba, berubah menjadi sebuah simbiosis mutualisme kala Jonathan menawarkan sebuah penawaran fantastis untuk setiap tetes ASI Asha. Apakah hubungan mereka hanya sebatas saling membutuhkan saja? Atau ada hal lain di antara keduanya? Follow (@)selfiehurtness untuk update cerita terbaru dari author, ya. Cover design by : (@)reiart0309

Keyara (Key) and her four friends celebrated her acceptance to work at the most famous game design company at that time. To liven up the mood, Key joined in the game of Truth or Dare and accepted the challenge to randomly kiss a stranger that night. Grey, a handsome and mature man, felt down after fighting with his girlfriend. He was unsure about marrying her because of their differences. While pondering over his drink, a stranger woman surprised him with a hot kiss. As it turned out, they both met again at the office as bosses and subordinates. For Key, the kiss became a bad start in her workplace. And for Grey, the kiss marked the beginning of his punishment game towards Key. Will the relationship that started with a kiss end up sweet or sour, considering that Grey already has a girlfriend?

Penipu muda bernama Delano, seorang pria cerdas dan kreatif bertekad meraih sukses lewat lukisan-lukisan terkenal karyanya. Ia berteman dengan dua orang preman jalanan, yang suka membuat onar. Bahkan mereka menjadi keluarga dan membangun keluarga sendiri di sebuah bangunan tua yang lama tak berpenghuni. Suatu hari Delano mampu menarik perhatian pelukis ternama yang melegendaris Jeff Hilton dengan bakatnya. Namun pertemuan keduanya justru memicu serangkaian peristiwa yang berhubungan dengan masa lalu Delano yang menjadikannya dendam. Bahkan merengkuh sifat buruknya yang kejam, lebih kreatif dan berkarakter ambisius, Darren. Cover by; pexels// @cottonbro, design by: @lia_lintang08