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David Cornford

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The Great Plan

Blazing red eyes with flames for pupils regarded Nidar. Their savage intensity scoured away all thought and ignited terrible, fearful anxiety. There was an insatiable hunger in their depths and Nidar could feel that hunger reaching for her. Those eyes did not want to just kill her, they wanted to devour her.Welcome to Foji. Welcome to The Forge.Nidar is a saikushi, a unique type of kishpu that can use the open nexus on Foji to craft powerful artefa...

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David Cornford

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The Great Plan

Four of the oversized warriors that guarded the tent entered the gloomy interior."Kneel."Each did so, bowing their heads.Lilah Aldam clenched his fists, his red eyes flashed and each man howled as the blood god’s power ripped through them. Talons stretched from their fingers, their legs lengthened and the muscles in their arms swelled. Armor cracked and split as torso's enlarged and their skin darkened to a ...

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Serenity Rose, Pyle Hazard, Donald Patten, Ronald W. Gillespie Jr., Serena Mossgraves, Ruan Bradford Wright, Thirdy Japsay, Mariah Lynde, AP Cleriot, Patricia Harris, LaVern Spenser MCcarthy, David Cornford

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Killing Stroke

Inside the mind of the killer can be several things. These anthologies are a dive into what the artists and authors involved see it as.This book has art from Donald Patten and Serenity Rose,Poetry by Patricia Harris & Ruan Bradford Wright & Serena Mossgraves & Thirdy Japsay,And These Stories:Drops of Blood by David CornfordChanges by Serena MossgravesI Am An Artist by Pyle HazardThe Case of the Banshee House by Ronald W. Gillespie Jr.

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Magda David Hercheui, Tony Cornford

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Business and Digital Transformation

Digital infrastructures are the commonly used technologies, systems, products, and platforms which businesses use to conduct commerce, partnerships, and transactions. Chief among these infrastructures is the Internet – an infrastructure which is remarkable for its all‑pervasive presence in our daily lives – while others include cloud computing, social media, mobile technology, blockchain technologies, and cryptocurrencies.This book introduces the key concepts and models to help you...

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Kelley Armstrong, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Laird Barron, Gary A. Braunbeck, Dana Cameron, Dan Chaon, Lynda Barry, Charlaine Harris, Brian Keene, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Michael Koryta, John Langan, Tim Lebbon, Seanan McGuire, Joe McKinney, Leigh Perry, Robert Shearman, Scott Smith, Lucy A. Snyder, David Wellington, Rio Youers

A chilling vampire horror anthology featuring original short stories from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors—including Charlaine Harris (whose novels inspired HBO’s True Blood) and Scott Smith, in his first published fiction since The Ruins.Before vampires became romantic antiheroes, they were creatures of shadow and blood. In this terrifying collection, some of the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy restore the va...

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Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani

"a provocative new book" — The New York TimesAI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value.Now with a new preface that explores how the coronavirus crisis compelled organizations such as Massachusetts General Hospital, Verizon, and IKEA to transform themselves with remarkable speed, Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, ...

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Best Horror of the Year

Darkness, both literal and psychological, holds its own unique fascination. Despite our fears, or perhaps because of them, readers have always been drawn to tales of death, terror, madness, and the supernatural, and no more so than today when a wildly imaginative new generation of dark dreamers is carrying on in the tradition of Poe and Lovecraft and King, crafting exquisitely disturbing literary nightmares that gaze without flinching into the abyss—and linger in the mind long after.

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Marianne Bellotti

Kill It with Fire chronicles the challenges of dealing with aging computer systems, along with sound modernization strategies.How to survive a legacy apocalypse“Kill it with fire,” the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk approach that often burns through tons of money and time only to result in a less efficient solution. This book offers a far more forgiving modernization framework, l...

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Best Horror of the Year

A doctor makes a late-night emergency call to an exclusive California riding school; a professor inherits a mysterious vase... and a strange little man; a struggling youth discovers canine horrors lurking beneath the streets of Albany; a sheriff ruthlessly deals with monstrosities plaguing his rural town; a pair of animal researchers makes a frightening discovery at a remote site; a sweet little girl entertains herself... by torturing faeries; a group of horror aficionados attempts to trac...

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Mik Kersten

In the Age of AI, the constraint has shifted from producing outputs to delivering outcomes.Dr. Mik Kersten, author of the bestselling Project to Product, has the data to prove it. When he and his colleagues studied more than 8,000 enterprise value streams, building accounted for just 8% of the time it took to get from an idea to running software. The rest was eaten up by planning, approvals, testing, and waiting, none of which gets faster when AI writes the code.

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Ellen Datlow

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Best Horror of the Year

For over three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the seventh volume of this series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night.Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as:Neil GaimanKim RobinsonStephen KingLinda...

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Vijay Tella

****A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER**Explore the true potential and impact of business automation**Digital transformation of the business landscape is well underway, and businesses are being reshaped faster than ever before. Agility and adaptability are now critical components of these business' survival. But building these traits requires a holistic approach with an unrelenting focus on automation. How does one go about developing that focus?In T...