Feral Grandmothers is a collection of literary short stories imagining and exploring the state of being a grandmother. They range from brief fables of grandmothers as mythic figures to revisions of fairy tales to realistic grandmothers from Appalachia. Some of the grandmothers protect their grandchildren fiercely, and others try to divorce their families. Some of them have turned inward, away from the world, and others are brave in unexpected ways.

Kensley Carpenter is a little girl who goes on big adventures with her cousins and friends and her grandparents . And she always takes Jesus along.The happenings in Kensleys stories always makes their way back to Jesus and his teachings

This book is about a little girl named Kensley Carpenter who loves Jesus and always takes him along every where she goes and all her stories include Jesus and his teachings

Six weeks.That's how long my editor gave me to change my book from a baseball romance to one about hockey. A complete rewrite. Which is how I find myself in Montana, a thousand miles from home, researching hockey, and preparing to meet a local expert.There's one small problem.Or rather a big one. A big, grumpy problem.My expert is none other than Nick Galaxy—the single dad and hockey captain I ran into minutes after landing ...

USA Today Bestseller: After a wild night in Vegas, a gymnast wakes up married to the hockey player next door, in this charming sports romance.The last thing gymnast Hannah Walsh needs is a distraction, especially one like her neighbor: the cocky, handsome pro–hockey player who's been asking her out for weeks. But after a hazy, whirlwind night in Las Vegas, she wakes up as Mrs. Travis Bennett and avoiding the guy who cost her a sponsorship is no longer an o...

Innovation and Future Technology accepts scientifically rigorous research, regardless of novelty. Innovation and Future Technology’s broad scope provides a platform to publish primary research, including interdisciplinary and replication studies as well as negative results. This publication criteria are based on high ethical standards and the rigor of the methodology and conclusions reported.Innovation and Future Technology features reports of original research from all disciplines...

Over sixty years ago, a World War II soldier mailed a Christmas card from overseas to his sweetheart. That card has finally arrived–but to an address now called home by Samantha, a young missionary awaiting her next assignment. Inspired by the card's amazing journey–and the tender message of its sender–Samantha searches for the card's rightful owner against the odds.Her best hope seems to lie with Ty, a wounded soldier sent home to finish his career behind a desk. Feeling trapped, ...

These Proceedings offer a selection of peer-reviewed research and survey papers by some of the foremost international researchers in the fields of finance, energy, stochastics and risk, who present their latest findings on topical problems. The papers cover the areas of stochastic modeling in energy and financial markets; risk management with environmental factors from a stochastic control perspective; and valuation and hedging of derivatives in markets dominated...

In various scientific and industrial fields, stochastic simulations are taking on a new importance. This is due to the increasing power of computers and practitioners’ aim to simulate more and more complex systems, and thus use random parameters as well as random noises to model the parametric uncertainties and the lack of knowledge on the physics of these systems. The error analysis of these computations is a highly complex mathematical undertaking. Approaching these issues, the authors p...

The modeling of stochastic dependence is fundamental for understanding random systems evolving in time. When measured through linear correlation, many of these systems exhibit a slow correlation decay--a phenomenon often referred to as long-memory or long-range dependence. An example of this is the absolute returns of equity data in finance. Selfsimilar stochastic processes (particularly fractional Brownian motion) have long been postulated as a means to model this behavior, and the concep...

Murder in the holiday spiritIt was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Christmas lights. A social worker wouldn't let a living baby be part of the town's living crèche. And some ladies were stretching the limits of their leotards in a pageant called the Nutcracker. All in all, former New Yorker Tori Miracle was basking in the quaint glow of her adopted Pennsylvania town, when suddenly ...

Collecting together twenty-three self-contained articles, this volume presents the current research of a number of renowned scientists in both probability theory and statistics as well as their various applications in economics, finance, the physics of wind-blown sand, queueing systems, risk assessment, turbulence and other areas.The contributions are dedicated to and inspired by the research of Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen who, since the early 1960s, has been and continues to be a ver...