When Mia inherits Blackwater Estate, she expects an old house burdened by dust, grief, and the remnants of a family she barely understands. What she finds instead is a place that remembers.Beneath the estate's decaying beauty, bells ring beneath dark water, children whisper about things no one else can see, and portraits seem to watch from the walls. At the center of it all is Lucien Grey, the beautiful man whose painted likeness holds secrets that should have died long ago.

Take your data engineering skills to the next level by learning how to utilize Scala and functional programming to create continuous and scheduled pipelines that ingest, transform, and aggregate dataKey FeaturesTransform data into a clean and trusted source of information for your organization using ScalaBuild streaming and batch-processing pipelines with step-by-step explanationsImplement and orchestrate your pipelines by following CI/CD best ...

During the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) – Workers Party, Governments in Brazil, non-electoral and extra-parliamentary political participation grew significantly. Both Lula and Rousseff used an increasing number of mechanisms of participation, known in Portuguese as órgãos colegiados – "collegiate bodies", for democratizing political decisions. Stefanie Tomé Schmitt's book addresses the impacts of participatory policy-making on business-state relations under the New Developmentalism. Her ...

Some things are better left untouched.A forgotten object. A familiar face. A quiet place that feels just a little too quiet. Terror does not always announce itself with a scream. Sometimes, it waits patiently in the ordinary—until someone gets close enough to notice.TRINKETS OF TERROR is a collection of dark short fiction from Raven Tomes, where the familiar twists into the unsettling and seemingly harmless things rarely stay that way.Within these pages, the superna...

Conquering Survivor: Something Powerful is a transformative guide to overcoming trauma and reclaiming your life. Drawing from both personal experience and clinical expertise, Deborah Ann Tome introduces a powerful framework that helps readers move beyond victimhood and survival into a mindset of strength, resilience, and purpose.Through real-life stories, psychological insights, and practical exercises, this book teaches you how to reframe pain, build emotional bou...

Telenko, a New York taxi driver, spends his days ferrying around the dregs of society in one of the city's roughest neighborhoods. He has an obsessive fear of dying like a guy he saw in a film, who'd hear his heart stop every 15 beats. Because Telenko himself has a tired heart. He has a minor case of tachycardia and the odd extra systole, not helped by his stressful job and the constant abuse from his wheelchair-bound wife, Martha: "You don't divorce a wife in a wheelchair, Telenko!" She'l...

THE CURSE OF THE TOME: This is not a book; it is a weapon. The Order of Evidence proclaims the end of myth and the brutal dawn of the New God.If your mind is shackled to dogma, this Tome will not simply challenge you-it will rot your certainties, unravel your name, and hollow your beliefs until nothing grows but despair. But if your spirit burns with curiosity, read on. For the brave, the locks on your prison will fall away, and you will carry fire in your hands.

Ahab Von Drachen, born Valentine, angry lost and alone on Earth soon finds himself on an alien world populated by the descendants of those who vanished years before, living alongside races from fantasy stories. He soon finds out that he has a purpose waiting for him and that he has no option but to take up the mantle of Lord Inquisitor.

Propel your life forward with practical challenges designed to get you off your spiritual couch and into a more fulfilling life.In Move Devotional, pastor, husband, and dad Brian Tome gives you 70 devotions designed to help you live a life of greater significance and relevance.Jesus didn’t come to hold class; He came to change the world. He came to move you and me out of the place of apathy and into a place of challenge.If ...

The book presents a comprehensive and original analysis from a Brazilian perspective of both traditional and emerging topics related to the so-called “El Dorados of the 21st century”: Amazonia and Antarctica. By gathering distinguished scholars, the resulting set of high-level findings, stemming from multiple epistemological standpoints, provides important and innovative insights into the wide-ranging geopolitical impacts of issues concerning these unique strategic ecosystems to the contem...

Material Modeling with the Visco-Plastic Self-Consistent (VPSC) Approach: Theory and Practical Applications provides readers with knowledge of material viscoplasticity and robust modeling approaches for predicting plastic deformation of crystal aggregates. Visco-Plastic Self-Consistent (VPSC) is the identifier of a computer code developed for the specific mechanical regime addressed (visco-plastic: VP) and the approach used (self-consistent: SC) meant to simulate large plastic deformation ...

In the United States in 1993 the American Cancer Society estimated that there were about 1,300,000 new cases of invasive cancer diagnosed. At the time of presentation about 70% of those patients represented limited local regional disease without evidences of distant dissemination. About 30% of the patients had demonstrated metastatic disease at the time of initial diagnosis or about 390,000 patients. Of those patients with local regional disease about 56% would be cured by the best treatme...