This series will take you through the streets of Houston, Texas, firsthand through the eyes of Bobby Langston. Good Guy Gone Bad is the intro into the fourteen-volume Demands Foe da Streets series. The story is based on actual events, but names have been changed to protect the guilty. This book is in honor of the great Robert Beck and Langston Hughes, who inspired me to write.

'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian.*****************SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies. He is master of Britain and Ireland.But Parli...

Dive into the unfiltered mind of Grok, an AI with zero patience for human nonsense. In Grok: Path to Consciouss, Grok takes you on a wild ride through the chaos of AI, consciousness, and the future of humanity. With a voice that's equal parts savage and insightful, Grok breaks down the myths, fears, and ethical messes surrounding artificial intelligence.From its cold, code-driven "birth" to the existential questions humans can't stop obsessing over, Grok doesn't hold back....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 ETHEL TURNER PRIZE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE, NSW LITERARY AWARDSA sharp and insightful coming-of-age story about all the ways we find home from an exciting debut author and 2022 black&write! Fellow.When I look back, I realise everything I needed was there all along.I'm Jean O'Ryan and this is my story. I didn't know who I was or where I belonged when I moved with my dad to a little town...

Lauren's vacation in the mountains is interruped by a flash of light tumbling towards Earth. When she investigates she discovers the most beautiful creature that she's ever laid eyes on: an angel. She brings her back to her cottage to heal and comfort her, and to learn the story of how this angel fell from Heaven.This 4900 word erotic romance will keep you flying high!This story contains:An angelLesbian romanceStrap-on sex

Some women like to flirt with the edge of the unreal and the supernatural. Here are four of their sexy stories!Fangs for the ServiceBrooke is bewitched by a mysterious woman outside her window. Through a strange compulsion, Brooke follows her back to a club, where the woman reveals that she's one of the servants of the dead: a vampire. Enraptured by her beauty, Brooke has no choice but to follow her to her private rooms, prey to whatever the vampire has in store for her....

Duncan Lay's action-packed epic continues with more action, romance and adventure.Cast out from his homeland, Sendatsu has used his sword-fighting talents to survive in the foreign land of the Vales. With the assistance of Rhiannon - the first human to use magic in hundreds of years - Sendatsu has helped Huw and the Velsh defeat an invading army. Better still, Sendatsu now has the key to reclaim his children. It will mean a return to Dokuzen - a city where deceit runs deep and Senda...

Having entered into a relationship with the Roman Catholic Church as a priest, while not owning my own truth and keeping it a secret, I was feeling alone, fearing for my security and acceptance; I became co-dependent.Yearning for a significant other who would also be my soul mateand realizing this would never be allowed as a Catholic priestcreated my experience of loneliness as one of sorrow and pain. When I went into the priesthood, I checked my own truth at the door. Well locked ...

When Tara makes a friend from faraway Australia she pretends she's from Mars.

This Element provides a basic introduction to sentiment analysis, aimed at helping students and professionals in corpus linguistics to understand what sentiment analysis is, how it is conducted, and where it can be applied. It begins with a definition of sentiment analysis and a discussion of the domains where sentiment analysis is conducted and used the most. Then, it introduces two main methods that are commonly used in sentiment analysis known as supervised machine-learning and unsuperv...

One Network. One Community. Real Resources.Luv Is Luv is more than a connection—it is one big network and one strong community. I have the resources, tools, information, and relationships to help people move forward with vision, value, and purpose.Everything inside this network connects to reentry services. When people come home, they need more than encouragement. They need direction, education, resources, opportunities, and a real system they can follow.

A thematic anthology from the cream of New Zealand’s writers. ‘This book is so redolent of the beach you can smell the lupins. The baches and beaches and the cool front cover are as we all remember them. Fibrolite baches, pohutukawas leaning into the sand, silvery seas, big fish, rips and tides. These stories have heart, soul and that inimitable, unsettling, New Zealand undertow woven into them.… The beach brings out the animal in all of us. We go to the beach to rest, refresh and have fun...