Most Popular Books by Tom McNeal

Audrey and her best friends Lea and C.C. have just arrived at Jemison High from the one-room private school where they spent grades six through ten, where they performed Gilbert and Sullivan musicals, where they adored Edith Wharton. They’re a nerdy little trio, so everyone is shocked when the handsome new guy, Wickham Hill, asks Audrey out. Audrey is soon so smitten that she hardly pays any mind to the vicious underground newspaper at school–or to that strange lurking guy in World Cultures. Before long, it seems everyone at Jemison High is worried about getting crushed–by friends, by enemies, by a mysterious reporter.

A National Book Award Finalist An Edgar Award Finalist A California Book Award Gold Medal Winner A dark, contemporary fairy tale in the tradition of Neil Gaiman. Jeremy Johnson Johnson hears voices. Or, specifically, one voice: the ghost of Jacob Grimm, one half of The Brothers Grimm. Jacob watches over Jeremy, protecting him from an unknown dark evil whispered about in the space between this world and the next. But Jacob can''t protect Jeremy from everything. When coltish, copper-haired Ginger Boultinghouse takes a bite of a cake so delicious it’s rumored to be bewitched, she falls in love with the first person she sees: Jeremy. In any other place, this would be a turn for the better for Jeremy, but not in Never Better, where the Finder of Occasions—whose identity and evil intentions nobody knows—is watching and waiting, waiting and watching. . . And as anyone familiar with the Brothers Grimm know, not all fairy tales have happy endings. Veteran writer Tom McNeal has crafted a young adult novel at once grim(m) and hopeful, full of twists, and perfect for fans of contemporary fairy tales like Neil Gaiman''s The Graveyard Book and Holly Black''s Doll Bones. The recipient of five starred reviews, Publishers Weekly called Far Far Away "inventive and deeply poignant."

At the age of 17, Randall Hunsacker shoots his mother''s boyfriend, steals a car and comes close to killing himself. His second chance lies in a small Nebraska farm town, where the landmarks include McKibben''s Mobil Station, Frmka''s Superette, and a sign that says The Wages of Sin is Hell. This is Goodnight, a place so ingrown and provincial that Randall calls it "Sludgeville"-until he starts thinking of it as home. In this pitch-perfect novel, Tom McNeal explores the currents of hope, passion, and cruelty beneath the surface of the American heartland. In Randall, McNeal creates an outcast whose redemption lies in Goodnight, a strange, small, but ultimately embracing community where Randall will inspire fear and adulation, win the love of a beautiful girl and nearly throw it all away.

A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age A California Book Award Winner for Juvenile Literature An ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults A Booklist Top Ten Youth Romance Clara Wilson and Amos MacKenzie are finding their lives turned upside down: by each other, by fickle friendships, by failing families, and by the two meanest brothers in town. As the pressures of high school and home life collide, Clara and Amos struggle to maintain their identities amid the chaos. Honesty may be the answer...but it can be awfully hard to find.

Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that "picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio." Long ago, she once experienced that love. Willy Blunt was a carpenter with a dry wit and a steadfast sense of honor. Marrying him seemed like a natural thing to promise. But Willy Blunt was not a person you could pick up in Nebraska and transport to Stanford. When Judith left home, she didn''t look back. Twenty years later, Judith''s marriage is hazy with secrets. In her hand is what may be the phone number for the man who believed she meant it when she said she loved him. If she called, what would he say? To Be Sung Underwater is the epic love story of a woman trying to remember, and the man who could not even begin to forget.

Summary This classic howto was written in 2002, but it is still a must-read howto for any Linux professionals today.It will guide you how to set up NFS clients and servers. This is a book you should have on your bookshelf. Table of Contents 1. Preamble 1.1. Legal stuff 1.2. Disclaimer 1.3. Feedback 1.4. Translation 1.5. Dedication 2. Introduction 2.1. What is NFS? 2.2. What is this HOWTO and what is it not? 2.3. Knowledge Pre-Requisites 2.4. Software Pre-Requisites: Kernel Version and nfs-utils 2.5. Where to get help and further information 3. Setting Up an NFS Server 3.1. Introduction to the server setup 3.2. Setting up the Configuration Files 3.3. Getting the services started 3.4. Verifying that NFS is running 3.5. Making changes to /etc/exports later on 4. Setting up an NFS Client 4.1. Mounting remote directories 4.2. Getting NFS File Systems to Be Mounted at Boot Time 4.3. Mount options 5. Optimizing NFS Performance 5.1. Setting Block Size to Optimize Transfer Speeds 5.2. Packet Size and Network Drivers 5.3. Overflow of Fragmented Packets 5.4. NFS over TCP 5.5. Timeout and Retransmission Values 5.6. Number of Instances of the NFSD Server Daemon 5.7. Memory Limits on the Input Queue 5.8. Turning Off Autonegotiation of NICs and Hubs 5.9. Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Behavior in NFS 5.10. Non-NFS-Related Means of Enhancing Server Performance 6. Security and NFS 6.1. The portmapper 6.2. Server security: nfsd and mountd 6.3. Client Security 6.4. NFS and firewalls (ipchains and netfilter) 6.5. Tunneling NFS through SSH 6.6. Summary 7. Troubleshooting 7.1. Unable to See Files on a Mounted File System 7.2. File requests hang or timeout waiting for access to the file. 7.3. Unable to mount a file system 7.4. I do not have permission to access files on the mounted volume. 7.5. When I transfer really big files, NFS takes over all the CPU cycles on the server and it screeches to a halt. 7.6. Strange error or log messages 7.7. Real permissions don''t match what''s in /etc/exports. 7.8. Flaky and unreliable behavior 7.9. nfsd won''t start 7.10. File Corruption When Using Multiple Clients 8. Using Linux NFS with Other OSes 8.1. AIX 8.2. BSD 8.3. Tru64 Unix 8.4. HP-UX 8.5. IRIX 8.6. Solaris 8.7. SunOS

For sixteen-year-old Lana life is often difficult, with foster parents, and a houseful of special needs children, until the day she ventures into an antique shop and buys a drawing set that may change her life.

Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Children''s Literature A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age Winner of the 2004 Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List When fifteen-year-old Mick Nichols discovers a secret about his stepmother, he comes obsessed with uncovering the truth. But before he can get to the bottom of it, Mick is confronted by a series of strange robberies and a close friend with a dark secret of her own. As he seeks out answers, Mick realizes that all of his problems are zipped up together—and he may have to go to drastic lengths to untangle them. “The McNeals spin a wonderfully rich story.”—Kirkus Reviews “A well-honed novel. . . . Readers will be sucked in.”—Publishers Weekly

Judith ha 44 anni e due segreti che non ha mai confidato a nessuno. Il primo riguarda il suo passato e l''uomo che avrebbe dovuto sposare, ma che ha abbandonato senza una parola. Il secondo, il suo rapporto con la figlia Camille: tra loro non ci sono mai stati particolari problemi, ma in cuor suo Judith non si è mai sentita una buona madre. Un giorno, all''improvviso, capisce che la vita che sta vivendo non è quella che desiderava e decide di andarsene. Il confronto con il passato, però, si rivelerà molto diverso da come se lo era immaginato.

On Sunday when it is time for his bath, Phil runs away and spends months on his own wishing he could be back home, even if it means getting wet once a week.

本书为我们演绎了一个复杂的故事. 两个家庭, 两代人的婚姻问题, 亲情, 爱情, 友情的交织, 都通过这本书向读者展示了出来.

Le temps d''un été, dans la beauté sauvage et brute du Nebraska, sur les routes poussiéreuses et sous un soleil de plomb, Judith et Willy se sont aimés. Elle avait 17 ans. Aujourd''hui, elle en a 44. Alors que son quotidien s''effrite, Judith pense à son premier amour au volant d''un pick-up rouge aussi déglingué que son tee-shirt était délavé. Si leurs corps ont trahi, leurs coeurs sont-ils restés fidèles ?