Jon Smith Books

The book serves as a comprehensive guide to Entity Framework Core, emphasizing its role as an object-relational mapper that simplifies database interactions in .NET applications. It features over 100 diagrams and code snippets, with practical examples, including the development of a bookselling web application. Readers will learn essential patterns for security, performance tuning, and unit testing, alongside strategies for addressing common data access challenges. Ideal for beginning to intermediate .NET developers, it draws on Jon Smith's extensive real-world experience.

The Fifth Horseman presents a modern comic fantasy that challenges traditional mythology and the boundaries of life and death. Jon Smith, an internationally bestselling author, explores unique themes through humor and creativity, offering readers a fresh perspective in his adult debut.

This book takes a 'warts and all' sensible yet humorous look at the many stages of pregnancy. It explores the changes, physical and emotional, that any man can expect to see in his partner and in their relationship over the coming months. Becoming pregnant involved two people. The rearing of a child will involve two people; there is every reason that your partner's pregnancy should also involve the two of you, together. For any man that has been put off reading pregnancy books because he doesn't feel he was the intended audience or that something about the tone of these books was alien to him, yet he still has questions that need answers; then "The Blokes' Guide to: Pregnancy" is the book he's been looking for. As a father himself, Jon Smith realised, when his partner Lisa became pregnant that there was nothing out there that he could relate to. "The Bloke's Guide to Pregnancy" is the result. Jon takes a comical yet informed look at the ups and downs of life as a father to be.

Offering a humorous and practical perspective, this guide addresses the journey of pregnancy from a man's point of view. It covers essential topics such as supporting a partner, understanding pregnancy changes, and navigating the emotional landscape. With a mix of advice, anecdotes, and tips, it aims to prepare expectant fathers for the challenges and joys ahead. The author combines wit with relatable insights, making it an engaging read for men looking to be involved and informed during this transformative time.

The story follows Sothea and Gabe as they confront a dark entity from Khmer folklore that resurfaces, threatening their community. As they battle this supernatural force, they must also grapple with their own inner demons and the complexities of friendship and family. Their journey highlights themes of resilience and the struggle for acceptance in a society that has marginalized them.

A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully--each a victim of an unknown doomsday virus. For three days, a team of scientists is a U.S. government laboratory has been frantically trying to unlock the virus's secrets. When the leading researcher from that lab, Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith, returns from overseas, he barely survives a series of well-orchestrated attempts made on his life. By the time Smith eludes his pursuers and makes it home, he discovers that the virus has claimed its fourth victim, Dr. Sophia Russell--Smith's fiancee. Devastated and enraged, Smith quickly uncovers evidence that his lover's death was no accident--that someone out there has the virus, and the pandemic that threatens hundreds of millions of lives is no accident. But wherever he turns, Smith finds that some unseen force has blocked his quest for information.Not knowing whom to trust, Smith assembles a private team to search for the truth behind the deadly virus. While the death toll mounts, their quest leads to the highest levels of power and the darkest corners of the earth, as they match wits with a determined genius--and as the fate of the world lies in the balance.