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“An extraordinary exploration of friendship that spans the broadest universal themes of love and loyalty to the most intricate, intimate and memorable details of a human life.” —Jill McCorkle, New York Times bestselling authorIt’s never too late to make amends in this hilarious and tender debut novel about intergenerational friendship, women’s ambition, and coming of age no matter what age you are.Madeline McKnight...

Twenty-two nightmarish stories for your reading enjoyment! Prepare for the terrifying.Sara Jordan-Heintz selected a perfect blend of tales from a talented list of authors. You might just find your next favorite horror writer in the listStories byBrooke MacKenzieJohn HaasEvan BaughfmanJohn GroverD.C. PhillipsH.K. SladeC.A. VerstraeteLindy SpencerPatrick F. MurphyK.T. TateKay Hanifen

A heartwarming picture book celebrating Caribbean baking and the special relationship between a granddaughter and her grandmother.When a little girl goes to her grandmother's house, they always bake a cake. This time, they decide to bake toto cake. But the toto cake needs lots of patience and the little girl really wants to have a taste . . .Will she discover that the best things are always worth the wait and are always better with someone to share them w...

An ancient witch with a vendetta against his kingdomAn earnest prince charged with breaking her curseFive hundred years after the legendary hero of Genad supposedly vanquished her, the shadow-wielding Ophesia reappears to curse the kingdom. Thom, the crown prince, is tasked with finishing what his ancestor started - with very little hope of success. Armed with his ancestor's ancient journals, he travels to her dangerous manor—only for her t...

A project can be almost finished for months. One more photograph, another layout, a better tool: each addition sounds reasonable, while the useful result stays out of reach.Finish the Project You Keep Reopening offers a practical way to give a modest personal or creative project a clear endpoint. Begin with who will use the result, define what completion would look like, and check the actual work against those conditions. Separate necessary corrections from attractive additions, ma...

“An extraordinary exploration of friendship that spans the broadest universal themes of love and loyalty to the most intricate, intimate and memorable details of a human life.” —Jill McCorkle, New York Times bestselling authorIt’s never too late to make amends in this hilarious and tender debut novel about intergenerational friendship, women’s ambition, and coming of age no matter what age you are.Madeline McKnight...

Finish the Work, Make It Clear contains two complete books previously published as standalone titles: Finish the Project You Keep Reopening by Evan Brooks Whitford, and Short Messages, Clear Meaning by Wyatt James Harlan.Finish the Project You Keep Reopening explores how to give a modest personal or creative project a useful endpoint. Identify who will use the result, make completion observable, separate necessary corrections from appealing additions, and acknowledge dependencies a...

This is the sixth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 450 p...

The tensions between utopian dreams and dystopian anxieties permeate science fiction as a genre, and nowhere is this tension more evident than in Star Trek. This book breaks new ground by exploring music and sound within the Star Trek franchise across decades and media, offering the first sustained look at the role of music in shaping this influential series. The chapters in this edited collection consider how the aural, visual, and narrative components of Star Trek

What does it take to manage a workforce that isn't human? The Chronicles of Aigent Catburger - raw_aigents "Name" {catburger}is the definitive historical record of a groundbreaking and perilous experiment: one human, known only as catburger, attempting to build a complex software project from scratch using nothing but a team of autonomous AI agents.This is not a story about tools. It is a story about a new kind of team, where each AI agent possesses its own uniq...

The Language of Patient Feedback provides a unique insight into a diverse range of issues related to healthcare. Through the comprehensive and detailed interrogation of 29 million words of online patient feedback on the NHS in England, as well as 11 million words of responses to the feedback from NHS providers, this book:Uses a combination of computer-assisted and human analysis (Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis) to examine the extent to which characteris...

'Measuring the Effectiveness of Social Protection: Concepts and Applications' provides the conceptual and analytical framework for assessing social protection (SP) programs, as well as provides a practical guide for users seeking to conduct analysis, particularly using the World Bank's Software Platform for Automated Economic Analysis (ADePT). The manual provides a comprehensive unique resource to tie together social policy theory, concepts and practical analytical techniques. The book con...