A headstrong eight-year-old connects with a malevolent spirit inhabiting her new music box. When people try to convince her she isn't real, she must prove to them it's more than an imaginary friend.What readers are saying about Make Believe:"A chilling story. I've always liked music boxes, but I'll never again view them as not harmful." -Susan Tirsway, Avid Reader"Delightfully spooky. Reminiscent of ghost stories told around the campfire." ...

Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)--languages geared to specific vertical or horizontal areas of interest--are generating growing excitement from software engineers and architects. DSLs bring new agility to the creation and evolution of software, allowing selected design aspects to be expressed in terms much closer to the system requirements than standard program code, significantly reducing development costs in large-scale projects and product lines. In this breakthrough book, four leading ...

Historians have long analyzed the battles and the military strategies that brought the American Civil War to an end. Going beyond tactics and troop maneuvers, this book concentrates on the characters of the two opposing generals--Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant--showing how their different temperaments ultimately determined the course of the war. As author David Alan Johnson explains, Grant's dogged and fearless determination eventually gained the upper hand over Lee's arguably superior...

Pluto looms large in Flagstaff, where residents and businesses alike take pride in their community's most enduring claim to fame: Clyde Tombaugh's 1930 discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory. Percival Lowell began searching for his theoretical "Planet X" in 1905, and Tombaugh's "eureka!" experience brought worldwide attention to the city and observatory. Ever since, area scientists have played leading roles in virtually every major Pluto-related discovery, from unknown moons to the exist...

Fresh from his triumphant and extraordinary achievement at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Michael Phelps—up from working-class, born-in-the-USA roots—shows us the secrets to his remarkable success—from training to execution.For years the world has followed Michael Phelps’s progress from teen sensation in Sydney to bona fide phenom in Athens. Now he’s a living Olympic legend in Beijing with a peerless record of gold medals. In No Limits, Michael Phelps—the g...

Today begins in a quiet moment.Before the phone lights up, before the world asks anything of you, there is a small space where you get to decide how you will show up for your own life. Today I Will was written for that moment.This daily guide to intentional living offers 366 short, honest reflections—one for every day of the year, including leap years—each built around a single powerful sentence that begins with the same simple promise: Today I will…

Survive with Hidden Health Secrets⭐⭐ A Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐Are you ready to enhance your well-being and unlock the transformative power of food?Are you in search of a thorough guide that encompasses every essential aspect of revitalizing your health?Your quest ends here!This audiobook is your ultimate companion for broadening your knowledge, pu...

Ancient Aliens: Secrets That Will Change Your Perspective ForeverAre you ready to explore groundbreaking concepts that could transform your understanding of history and the universe?Looking for a thorough guide that unveils all the hidden truths challenging conventional perspectives?Your quest ends here!This audiobook acts as your ultimate companion for uncovering profound insights and engag...

"I WILL NOT BE DEFINED™" is a story of Transformation, Inspiration, Suspense and Hope. Details the story of a young man in the prime of His life, who is at the pinnacle of his success. He develops a successful enterprise of ministries including a Christian Television Station and the the first premier digital video company in the Midwest only to watch it come crashing down. He's forced to vanish from all he has accomplished as a CRIME SYNDICATE pursues him.How do you overcome when y...

From Alan E. Kazdin, a Yale University psychology and child psychiatry professor, The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child is a lifesaving, evidence-based parenting handbook for parents of children who are occasionally, or too often, "out of control."Most child-behavior books are filled with advice that sounds reasonable, fits with what parents already believe about child-rearing, and is — as Dr. Kazdin proves — guaranteed to fail. The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defia...

Some describe it as the town at the edge of the world.When Melody and Michael Devereux come to Collinsport on their honeymoon, they don't know the secrets that are hidden behind closed doors. But those secrets will be unearthed when an innocent is viciously murdered.Collinsport will be a town divided. One woman's rise to power will lead to further death and destruction. Families will be ripped apart. Blood will be spilt.And the dark forces that wait in the shadows will...

One of the unsung heroes of the auto world, C. Harold Wills designed the Model T when he worked as Henry Ford's right-hand man. Later, he founded his own company to produce the legendary Wills Sainte Claire. Every endeavor displayed his trademark inventiveness, from the development of the overhead cam engine to the toboggan run on the roof of his house. He used his money to create one of the first worker model cities at Marysville, Michigan. In this long-overdue biography, Alan and Lynn Ly...