Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill SubsNamed Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsRated "Top 50 Fiction" by SubstackDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contri...

Quantum Computing for Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Integrating Artificial Intelligence for Eco-Efficient Operations and Strategic Optimization is a relevant, contemporary, and futuristic contribution that discusses, explores, and highlights how emerging paradigms of computation, namely quantum computing, are significantly influencing sustainable supply chain design, planning, and practices. With the growing need to reduce environmentally adverse impacts while remaining eff...

It's 1990, and thirteen year old Billy is trying to survive junior high, busted shoes, bad grades, family secrets, and the general humiliation of being a teenager.But life at home is becoming harder to understand.His father is increasingly convinced that the CIA, Big Brother, and mysterious forces are watching him. His mother is hiding secrets of her own. Strange phone calls, empty bottles, old suspicions, and a complicated family history begin to reveal a reality that Bill...

**An American sports legend offers a sweeping Black history of boxing, celebrating the trailblazing athletes who fought in the ring and against racial injustice.Features a 16-page photo insert.**Here is Peter Jackson, a free-born Black tradesman and boxer from the island of St. Croix who KO’d the white boxer Tom Leeds in the thirtieth round to win the Australian Heavyweight championship in 1886. Most white fighters refused to get into the ring with Jackson. “Gentleman” Jim ...

¿Qué pasa cuando la comida favorita que un niño o una niña trae a la escuela recibe comentarios denigrantes a la hora del almuerzo? Descúbrelo en esta edición bilingüe.What happens when a child’s favorite packed lunch is met with disparaging comments at the school lunch table?En un salón lleno de sándwiches, cuatro estudiantes se destacan con sus comidas caseras que reflejan las culturas de las que forman parte. Antes de que puedan disfruta...

Agri-food processing residues are end products emerging after food and industrial processing operations. These waste products are a goldmine, as they possess valuable organic matter such as complex carbohydrates, proteins, and phenolic compounds that can be diverted toward high-value products.This book covers biomolecules and bioproduct synthesis from agricultural residues with a circular economy approach. It explores the benefits of adopting a sustainable approach, including reduc...

THE PHANTOM WALKS. EVIL DIES.It's all come down to this—The Phantom vs. Arif Singh and his Brotherhood! After the Brotherhood's failed attack on Bangalla, Singh was all set to rot in prison. But concrete walls cannot stop the man who controls one of the most notorious criminal enterprises in the world. Only The Phantom can. Or this time, he might just die trying.

Some days, faith feels like a distant memory. You reach for God in the silence, and your hands come back empty. You wrestle with doubt, with heartbreak, with the quiet ache of wondering whether your life has mattered at all.In Hope Bound, Dylan Ray Wineinger offers a collection of Shakespearean sonnets and short stories born from that very struggle. These pages move through the terrain of longing and redemption, romance and regret, moments of spiritual collapse and the slo...

In the humid, blood-soaked dirt of central Louisiana, Survival isn't a right - It's a commodity. Adopted brothers Ozzie and J.R. grew up running the Parish under the iron rule of the Fontenot plantation. But the old century burns away to a far more lethal game. Thrust into a cutthroat empire transitioning from bootleg alcohol to the high-stakes world of illegal narcotics, the brothers must navigate a treacherous new landscape where power is bought in blood. To carve out their own kingdom, ...

Humans have both an evolutionary past and a sacred purpose.For those who've been told they must choose between evolution and faith, this book offers a third way: understanding our complete biological story while honoring our spiritual identity.Author Janet Kellogg Ray is a veteran science educator and Jesus follower. She has written about creationism in Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark? and faith and modern science in The God of Monkey Science. I...

Award-winning biographer Ray Boomhower tells the story of a journalist who spent his life smashing barriers, from his childhood in Indiana and his Ivy League education at Brown to his reporting on the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South in the 1960s and, finally, covering what he described as “the biggest story in the world” of his time, the Vietnam War.Pioneering Black journalist Wallace Terry risked his life on the battlefield writing for Time magazi...