When Lilly went to bed, she was probably thinking the next day would be just an average day.Boy was she wrong! She awoke to a whole new world in her back yard and started on an adventure with animal friends and surprises at every turn!

A young girl and her best 4-legged friend embark on a hiking adventure to find an elusive trail that has a beautiful surprise waiting at the trail's end!

It's adventure time with 4 different stories, each involving fun animal friends and journeys to different places! Jump right in and use your imagination to play with the puppy, the birds or spend a day at the beach with the dolphin!

Enjoy six different stories that teach lessons to young readers, from being kind to others, to accepting everyone for who they are and to listening better to what Mom and Dad have to say about things. A few of the stories have animal adventures to add to the enjoyment of the messages being conveyed. So get started on a multi-story fun learning adventure!

Do you love the ocean and some of its creatures? Have you ever found seashells on the beach? Where do seashells come from and how are they made?Dive right in to this 9-page story and find out how seashells are made. Follow the adventure of one of the creatures who makes her own seashell and find out what happens along the way of her incredible journey.

A new approach to growing local medicine, including information on geo-authenticity, wildcrafting, and developing a good business plan"[A] beautiful and informative book . . . A dirt-smudged copy should be within easy reach of every home gardener or farmer who grows—or wants to grow—medicinal plants."—Michael McGuffin, President, American Herbal Products AssociationBoth a business guide and a farming manual, The Organic Medicinal Herb F...

Is Kubernetes ready for stateful workloads? This open source system has become the primary platform for deploying and managing cloud native applications. But because it was originally designed for stateless workloads, working with data on Kubernetes has been challenging. If you want to avoid the inefficiencies and duplicative costs of having separate infrastructure for applications and data, this practical guide can help.Using Kubernetes as your platform, you'll learn open source t...

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This revised third edition--updated for Cassandra 4.0 and new developments in the Cassandra ecosystem, including deployments in Kubernetes with K8ssandra--provides technical details and practical examples to help you put this database to work in a pr...

Learn everything you need to know about growing healing herbs with this “gem of a book” featuring profiles of 50 medicinal herbs and 200+ photographs (Nancy Phillips, author of The Herbalist’s Way).Now updated with new information about herb dryers and construction, soil fertility, growing cannabis, and more!In the first edition of The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer, authors Jeff and Melanie Carpenter presented a comprehens...