Most Popular Books by Lane Smith

LYING, CHEATING, AND STEALING WON''T CURE MARCH MADNESS. . . In Kentucky, where basketball is oxygen, Tommy Gunn plays his way into the NCAA title game. Despite the warnings of his sweetheart Lori, Tommy takes a big bribe to lose the game and then a bigger bribe to injure an opponent and win the game. Consumed by greed, he reneges on all deals, steals all the money, and escapes into troubled exile hounded by Russian and Italian bookies. Adopting a stolen identity, he builds a team using lies, rules violations, and sheer audacity to claw his way back to the top. Tommy will fake, take, and forsake anything to win games, but he can''t regain Lori''s love unless he turns his back on greed and finds salvation in a hope-starved place called Rio Feo.

AVIATION STORIES BY PILOTS WHO SHOULD BE DEAD This collection of near-death stories by private pilots, fighter pilots, airline pilots, bush pilots, air traffic controllers, and combat crews shines a spotlight on the bravery and ingenuity of men and women in aviation who stood up to the Grim Reaper when he came a''knocking at death''s door. You''ll be transported right into the middle of these forthright accounts, some deadly serious, some amusing, but always true.

A boy is unhappy about having to war glasses, until his doctor provides a list of happy eyeglass wearers.

T''es-tu déjà arrêté pour sentir le parfum des roses ? As-tu déjà pris le temps d''écouter la poésie des sciences en toute chose. Voici l''histoire d''un garçon qui l''a fait. Tout est devenu poétique et scientifique à la fois.

Includes- (10) Signed Copies of A HOUSE THAT ONCE WAS (9781626723146)

The purpose of this study was to identify whether sleep onset latency (SOL) and rapid eye movement onset latency (ROL) increased or decreased after consuming alcohol.--

A donkey asks a gorilla what a book is.

Japanese edition of Princess Hyacinth. Princess Hyacinth is an ordinary looking brown-haired, brown-eyed girl with a problem. She floats! The king and queen weigh her down in heavy cloths and crown and keep her indoors. When she spots a boy she likes, how will she be able to meet him, and will he like her..? In Japanese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

A collection of poetry I have written over the years, during some of the darkest times of my life.

Operators can improve a reservoir''s value by optimizing it in a more holistic manner, or over its entire life cycle. This thesis developed approaches to life cycle optimization, with emphasis on accessible technical and economic modeling techniques for production. The challenges of life cycle optimization are properly scheduling the times at which the operator should switch from one recovery phase to the next, along with determining other field design parameters such as well spacing and injection pressures for waterflooding and enhanced oil recovery processes. To deliver the most value, the operator needs to produce from a reservoir the greatest quantity of oil, at a relatively low cost, reasonably soon, and ideally at a time when the oil price is high. This is quite a tall order, as these goals are often in conflict. This thesis extended existing research regarding lifecycle optimization, first modeling production from a reservoir using an exponential decline model and assuming the oil price''s behavior can be approximated with mean-reverting processes. Implications of operating and capital costs potentially being correlated with the oil price were also examined. Finally, a mean-reverting price model that forecasts the mean oil price as increasing and described by a logistic model was proposed to accommodate both recent price forecasts and economic reality. As exponential decline models are more appropriate for characterizing existing production history rather than making a priori predictions, a geologic-parameter-based model was developed using a tank model for primary recovery and a model based on Koval theory and parameterizing a reservoir in terms of flow capacity and storage capacity for waterflooding and CO2 flooding. This model was adapted from existing theory to account for situations where a waterflood has incompletely swept a reservoir at the start of CO2 flooding. Analytical expressions were also derived for estimating injection rates into a formation parameterized by flow capacity and storage capacity. The geologic-parameter-based model was combined with economic assumptions and optimized using a genetic algorithm. This optimization suggested an operator should switch from primary recovery to a CO2 flood with a large WAG ratio relatively early in the reservoir''s life.

Traditional Chinese edition of ABE LINCOLNS DREAM by Lane Smith, the author of the Caldecott honor book Grandpa Green and the New York Times bestseller It''s a Book. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.