What happens to the ones who never got a chance?The babies who arrived too soon and left too quietly. The children taken in the middle of ordinary afternoons. The ones who never opened their eyes in this world, never felt a first breath of open air, never knew what love felt like from the outside.They didn't disappear.Energy cannot be destroyed. It only shifts.And where it shifted to is a vast and luminous existence — warm, purposeful, and full of children w...

The Lights. Book 2The Lights have lived in a parallel world on earth for as long as there has been life on the planet. Hidden behind portals but aware of their humanoid neighbors. Now humanity on Gaea will be thrust into a battle for the survival of their race, and the freedom to evolve at their pace.When Lilith Ulrich publishes her findings on Tesla's Mana and resolves to share the new energy source with the world, chaos stirs and forces unseen move to stop her. She comes ...

This book is your ultimate Robert Redford resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Robert Redford's whole picture right away. Get countless Robert Redford facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Robert Redford Handbook is the single and largest Robert Redford reference book. This compendium of in...

Tesla's Mana.Lilith Ulrich, a genius and energy enthusiast discovers energy in its purest form; Mana, a form of natural power produced from billions of sparks of life, and the birth of all matter on Gaea. Together with her friends, she will manipulate the energy source with hopes of creating a never-ending source of power. Until their work with Mana gets on the radar of powerful companies in Gaea and an otherworldly council bent on keeping their control over humanity.In a d...

Magic realism is a term that is often used to describe the fiction of such Latin American writers as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges. Literary critics such as Seymour Menton have contended that it is also present in the art and literature of Germany, Italy, France and the United States after World War I. The stories in French Quarter Tales follow such a tradition by presenting unusual (and even supernatural) situations within very familiar settings. Pr...

Images of New Orleans’s historic French Quarter evoke wrought iron gates, flowers hanging from second-story porches, and age-old romance. But hidden from the romantic and joyful jubilations of Mardi Gras, the darkness of an empty alley can inspire remembrance of things past—dreams within dreams, as Edgar Allan Poe might say. French Quarter Cantos: A Poelage is a collection of verse from a poet who has walked down the dark alleys of New Orleans, discovering a visceral connection to...

The wunderkind chef of an acclaimed restaurant is reunited with “the one that got away” when she’s hired to cater her wedding in this charming, full-cast queer rom-com, perfect for fans of Alison Cochrun and Casey McQuiston, by TV writer and former BuzzFeed personality Ash Perez.What would you do for a second chance at your first love?Alex Perez is a culinary genius: she’s on the verge of becoming the youngest ever head chef at the famed S...

This is the first book to exclusively address Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), filling a major gap in both the research on these institutions and in our understanding of their approaches to learning and their role in supporting all students while focusing on Hispanic students. Born out of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1992 and are classified as such if their enrollment of Latino students account for a quarter of their undergraduate enrollment, the number of HSIs a...

Crímenes. Secretos. Relaciones tóxicas.El true crime que estremecerá incluso a los más durosLa existencia de Cassie parece perfectamente normal: vive con sus padres y su hermana en una granja, le encanta ir a la escuela, y le gusta el que, para ella, es el chico más encantador de su clase.Pero esa existencia aparentemente idílica cambia cuando alguien inicia una macabra « caza » en el pueblo.Poco a poco, v...

“Networking is an essential part of building wealth.”~Armstrong WilliamsEach person that you meet has the potential to change your life. It is essential that you learn the correct techniques involved in networking. It starts as simple as learning how to use the people who already are your friends and expanding on their contacts.This book will allow you to think outside the box and see that networking is not difficult and can lead to many great rewards. It will show ...

Celebrating the artistic legacy of a true Marvel Comics legend! George Pérez first wowed fans in the 1970s, building a phenomenal reputation as a super-team illustrator without peer on AVENGERS, INHUMANS and FANTASTIC FOUR! His talents graced the super hero action of MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE, the martial-arts mayhem of DEADLY HANDS OF KUNG FU and the monster madness of Man-Wolf in CREATURES ON THE LOOSE! Years later, Pérez demonstrated his cosmic grandeur by wiping out half the Marvel Universe al...

The multi-volume set LNAI 12975 until 12979 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2021, which was held during September 13-17, 2021. The conference was originally planned to take place in Bilbao, Spain, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 210 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 869 submissions.T...