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Readers will relish this captivating second entry in Kelley's trilogy, with free-thinking literature professor Sean Byron McQueen returning for another rousing adventure. It's been nine years since Sean Byron McQueen's best friend was murdered and Sean recovered his friend's world-changing theory. Now, Sean and his wife, Professor Emily Edens, quantum cosmologist, run a college in Oregon where they teach innovative classes about science, literature, and most importantly, The Theory of Everything-or how to choose love over fear. The couple are raising two young children, as well as their good friend's twin daughters, who are technological savants. They help Sean through his trepidation over the use of holograms and a new form of mass mind communication run by Genesis, a breakthrough quantum computer made in Russia. After Sean begins receiving strange communications with forgeries of famous authors' works, he realizes that the evil Guru might be the mastermind behind Genesis. And the Guru might also be after Emily, who is leaving on a worldwide tour to discuss The Theory of Everything. Sean sets out to track down the Guru before the dangerous ""hive-mind"" technology of Genesis is used for malevolent ends and find his beloved wife before the Guru does

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A thrilling, international quest to unlock the mysteries of the universe, chock-full of adventure and magic. When New York City literature professor Sean McQueen receives a cryptic letter in the mail from his recently deceased best friend, Dylan, he is forced out of his middle-aged doldrums and into a desperate hunt for Dylan's missing ""Theory of Everything."" Sean's search begins in Manhattan with a gathering of Dylan's quirky confidantes, where he discovers Dylan might actually have been murdered. Soon, Sean and his new girlfriend, M-a brilliant and beautiful quantum physicist-are following clues and on a plane to Kathmandu. After a massive earthquake shakes the Nepalese city, Sean is also shaken to realize he's not the only one hot on the trail of Dylan's theory of the universe and finds himself tussling with surly detectives, CIA operatives, and a powerful, sinister guru. As Sean stumbles into this journey of a lifetime, he finds not only Dylan's world-changing ""Theory of Everything,"" but his own self and true love in the process. Fans of adventure, mystery, magic, love, and explorations of self-discovery will relish this first book of a trilogy overflowing with fascinating literary references, intrigue, and redemption. Michael Kelley was a successful lawyer who went on to manage a large global Wall Street investment business at Merrill Lynch and then at his own fund, Baltoro Capital Management. He left investing to become a novelist in 2015. Kelley studied English literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

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When the numbers just don’t add up … Following in the footsteps of the successful The Humongous Books of Calculus Problems, bestselling author Michael Kelley has taken a typical algebra workbook and made notes in the margins, adding missing steps and simplifying concepts and solutions. Students will learn how to interpret and solve problems as they are typically presented in algebra courses—and become prepared to solve those problems that were never discussed in class but always seem to find their way onto exams. Annotations throughout the text clarify each problem and fill in missing steps needed to reach the solution, making this book like no other algebra workbook out there.

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