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Jane Gordon had it all: the perfect knight in shining armor, loving, husband for thirty-six years; ten beautiful, adopted children, and a successful career as a nurse practitioner. It all came crashing down when she found Scott dying on their kitchen floor Thanksgiving Eve of 2019. In The Missing Scott Chronicles, she narrates the subsequent nightmare of losing absolutely everything in the heart-wrenching first year without her husband.This memoir offers a raw and vulnerable chroni...

For any organization that wants to use Windows SharePoint Services to share and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, this book shows administrators of all levels how to get up and running with this powerful and popular set of collaboration tools.Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology in Office 2007 is an integrated set of services designed to connect people, information, processes, and systems both within and beyond the organizational firewall. SharePoint 2007: ...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our April 2025 issue (#223) contains:Fiction* "Through These Moments, Darkly" by Samantha Murray* "The Seed" by Sheri Singerling* "Aegiopolis Testudo" by Gordon Li* "Still Water" by Zhang Ran* "Symbiotic" by Carolyn Zhao* "In My Country" by Thomas Ha* "An Even Greater Col...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1800s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. More than 29 hours of vintage science fiction. These science fiction short stories were written by some of the most acclaimed, successful and influential authors of the time including, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, Harry Harrison, Clifford D. Simak, Murray Leinster, H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley, Leigh Brackett, Margaret...

Darkly funny, wildly original, and unexpectedly heartfelt, Gordon Takes a Walk is a satirical literary adventure that turns an ordinary man into an accidental legend. After discovering his wife's betrayal, Gordon - a painfully average engineer in a worn brown Walmart bathrobe - simply walks out of his life and keeps walking. What begins as a numb journey through suburban America quickly spirals into an absurd and unforgettable odyssey when Gordon unknowingly wanders onto one of th...

At last, the definitive guide to the five basic steps that any person should follow when investing.What if there were a way to cut through all the financial mumbo-jumbo? Wouldn't it be great if someone could really explain to us—in plain and simple English—the basics we must know about investing in order to insure our financial freedom?Jargon-free and written for all investors—experienced, beginner, and everyone in between—The Investment Answer dis...

What if there were a way to cut through all the financial mumbo-jumbo? Wouldn't it be great if someone could really explain to us-in plain and simple English-the basics we must know about investing in order to insure our financial freedom?At last, here's good news.Jargon-free and written for all investors-experienced, beginner, and everyone in between-THE INVESTMENT ANSWER distills the process into just five decisions-five straightforward choices that can lead to safe and s...

Baptists arrived in what would become Canada in the mid-eighteenth century, and from those early arrivals Baptists from a wide variety of backgrounds planted churches in every region of the vast nation. This book traces that history of Baptists in Canada, and provides historical antecedents and theological rationales for their church polity. Written in a generous spirit, it recognizes what Baptists share with other Christian communities and how they differ among themselves on some matters....

I hope the title of this book is not misleading. If you are expecting an entire volume of spinoffs from Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, complete with consciousness-swapping across the aeons, cone-shaped scholarly beings compiling their archives while dinosaurs roam outside their cities and some nameless doom threatens them from below, this isn't it. I did indeed include a few stories of that sort, as such titles as Robert Guffey's "Toward a General Theory of Yithian Psychology" and Rob...

50 Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. More than 29 hours of vintage science fiction. These science fiction short stories were written by some of the most influential authors of the time including, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, Harlan Ellison, Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth, Fritz Leiber, Harry Harrison, Jack McKenty, Robert Silverberg, Alfred Coppel, Rog Phillips, Darius John Granger, Winston Marks, C. H. ...

What begins as an ordinary Saturday morning becomes the turning point of Gordon’s life. A quiet engineer who prides himself on fixing what’s broken, Gordon discovers a devastating betrayal that shatters his world. Numb with heartbreak, he leaves everything behind and simply starts walking.Wearing nothing but his old brown bathrobe and carrying a coffee cup, Gordon wanders aimlessly across the country until he unknowingly strolls into one of the most secure military bases in America...