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The Microsoft Power BI Complete Reference Guide gets you started with business intelligence by showing you how to install the Power BI toolset, design effective data models, and build basic dashboards and visualizations that make your data come to life.

Brian Knight’s Dangerous Toys will break your heart, tickle your funny bone, and punch you right in the gut.Murderers and monsters, shapeshifters and the unquiet dead, cryptids and clowns … Dangerous Toys explores a world of small horrors from the subtle to the brazen, the serious to the slapstick.

In 2008, the cult novelette 1200 AM Live introduced readers to the sick world of Andy Crow and Charles Greene.In 2009, The Avian presented the tragic story of Jove.They Call Us Monsters, the final story in this fantasy/horror trilogy, brings these characters together in an explosive conclusion. For the first time, these beloved characters meet, and all hell breaks loose.  This omnibus collects all three stories in a single volume.“Monsters are real, you’ve got photographic evidence, and frankly son, it’s beginning to piss us off.” - Charles Greene

There’s something deadly hiding in the wilds of Mount Misery.Novelist Jim Eldridge joins the Hacks Club for a writer’s retreat at The Devil’s Tail Lodge.  Something on Mount Misery is not happy to see them.  Fellow attendees, including bestseller Heather Woods and the legendary H Casper, look forward to a week of fun and relaxation, until trouble with a local man turns deadly.The body count rises, and the survivors band together to fight the relentless killer. Will they escape the nightmare on The Devil’s Tail Ridge, or die trying?“Say hello to horror’s next big thing.”  Brian Keene, author of The Rising

Vengeful revenants, ghost children, woodland zombies, and lustful demon toys are among the menagerie of small horrors showcased in Brian Knight's first collection, Dragonfly. Gripping, touching, and sometimes humorous, Dragonfly deals a powerful range of emotions from love to hate, hope and loss. Reviewers and readers alike have praised Dragonfly, which received four honorable mentions in The Years Best Fantasy & Horror."Brian Knight's writing shines with a dark brilliance. Dragonfly is a chilling collection of terror." Douglas Clegg, author of The Children’s Hour

Dead hookers, murderous junkies, and pissed-off drug lords. Butch Quick is having a really bad night.Meet Butch Quick, a reluctant tough guy with a bad attitude and a talent for trouble. If the job is too dirty or dangerous for anyone else, then Butch is your man.When Butch repossesses a vintage 1968 Mustang from a neighborhood troublemaker, he uncovers a dark secret that tangles him up with a local drug kingpin and his army of moronic goons, a foul-mouthed macaw, and a dangerous woman named Honey."You just gotta like Brian Knight's jack-of-all trades tough guy, Butch Quick. Butch is a muscle-bound Sad Sack, a big-hearted lug of an actual nice guy who just can't get a break. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong. More please!" Paul Bishop, author of Fight Card: Felony Fists

Microsoft Power BI is a cloud-based service that helps you easily visualize and share insights from your organization's data. This book will get you started with Business Intelligence using the Power BI tool, covering essential concepts like installation, building basic dashboards and visualizations to make your data come to life.

He comes when you’re sleeping.  He is the reason you’re afraid of the dark.After years of living as a prisoner of the fairytale monster that killed her mother, Charity has escaped, but the Bogeyman wants her back, and he will not stop until he has her. There is only one safe place for her now, a haunted place called Feral Park, but the price of safety will be more than her innocence … it will be her soul.“FERAL is a haunting, genuine fusion of horrific fantasy and the fearsome dreads of present-day life.  FERAL bites hard and doesn’t let go.”  Tom Piccirilli, author of Midnight Road

She was a mystery from the start.They found her at a roadside diner outside the small Idaho town of Clearwater, drugged and abandoned, with no memory of who she is or where she came from.But was she a miracle?She inspires violence with her presence, madness with a touch.  As her health improves and her memories return, the hot Clearwater summer becomes increasingly strange and violent.  Insanity infects the small town, a shadowy figure lurking in the woods deals death, and no one is safe.“The author of Dragonfly and Feral shows his skill at small-town horror." Library Journal.

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A book-and-video introduction to Microsoft's Business Intelligence tools If you are just starting to get a handle on Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) tools, this book and accompanying video provides you with the just the right amount of information to perform basic business analysis and reporting.

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