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The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor
by Shaenon K. Garrity (Author) and Christopher Baldwin (Illustrator)
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Booktalk: One dark and stormy night, Haley sees a stranger drowning in the river. Since her greatest passion is Gothic romance novels, she knows her moment has come. But when Haley leaps into the water to rescue the stranger, she awakens in Willowweep. It certainly looks like the setting of one of her favorite books: A stately manor. A sinister housekeeper. Three brooding brothers. There’s even a ghost.

Except Willowweep is not what it seems. Its romantic exterior hides the workings of a pocket universe–the only protection our world has against a great force of penultimate evil, and its defenses are crumbling. Could cruel fate make Haley the heroine that Willowweep needs?

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The Art of Clean Code: Best Practices to Eliminate Complexity and Simplify Your Life
by Christian Mayer (Author)
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Booktalk: Learn eight principles to simplify your code and become a more effective (and successful) programmer with real-world examples:

Concentrate on the important stuff with the 80/20 principle — focus on the 20% of your code that matters most
Avoid coding in isolation: create a minimum viable product to get early feedback
Write code cleanly and simply to eliminate clutter
Avoid premature optimization that risks over-complicating code
Balance your goals, capacity, and feedback to achieve the productive state of Flow
Apply the Do One Thing Well philosophy to vastly improve functionality
Design efficient user interfaces with the Less is More principle
Tie your new skills together into one unifying principle: Focus

Snippet: Large companies like International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Microsoft, and Apple employ the Pareto principle to build faster, more user-friendly computers by channeling their focus on the vital few; that is, by repeatedly optimizing the 20 percent of the code that was executed most often by the average user. Not all code is created equal. A minority of code has a dominating impact on the user experience, while much of the code has little impact. You might double-click the File Explorer icon multiple times per day, but you seldom change the access rights of a file. The 80/20 principle tells you where to focus your optimization efforts!

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