The Mystery of Death and the Spark of the Self is the first monograph on the emergence of the lyric "I" in East Slavic and Russian poetry of early modernity. Considering poems by male and female authors from Slavia Orientalis (today's Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and parts of Eastern Poland and the Baltic states), Erica Camisa Morale explores the origins of the lyric and the emergence of selfhood in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She analy...

Be careful! It’s going to be really hot. :)⚠️ Warning: This is not a safe story.Explicit content, violence, sarcasm, school drama, magical duels — all included.Earth. The year 2622.A world where magic and technology coexist. A world ruled by clans and aristocrats, each with their own unique Gift. They can control elements, soar through the skies, twist minds, or turn into beasts. To them, you're just a toy.A stranger from another era — the distant fu...

Bridging advanced control theory, operations research, and high-performance distributed architecture.In modern digital commerce, algorithmic brilliance musters little success unless paired with execution speed. Traditional static pricing models and nightly batch spreadsheets are no longer enough to survive volatile, high-frequency markets. Dynamic Pricing and Revenue Management: A Control-Theoretic Approach provides the comprehensive mathematical m...

When Gabi's beloved family car is put up for sale, she becomes determined to find a way to save it in this multigenerational story perfect for fans of My Papi Has a Motorcycle.Gabi knows that Papi's lowrider, Pico Nights, is more than a car. It's a family scrapbook on wheels—a treasure trove of memories for her, Papi, and Abuelo Chucho. It chauffeured Gabi's cousin to her quinceañera, rolled through years of Fourth of July parades, and was detailed most Saturday mor...

Discover the Spirit's Movement Throughout ScriptureThe Holy Spirit is often regarded as the most mysterious and misunderstood person of the Trinity. Though it is important to understand specific topics associated with the Holy Spirit, such as spiritual gifts, our understanding must expand to encompass the Holy Spirit's powerful role throughout the entire canon of Scripture. The Spirit has been at work since the very beginning.In God's Presence with Us a...

19th century…Kings and Queens…Princes and Princesses…Demons and demonesses…What was going on behind the closed walls of the castles back then?Conspiracies, murders?Balls, fancy banquets?And also love, debauchery, and sex…

You already know what it feels like when connection doesn't come easily. The conversation that stalls after two sentences. The room you leave replaying everything you should have said differently. The friendship that never quite goes past pleasant. The moment someone else, less prepared and less capable, gets chosen simply because people trust them more.None of that means something is wrong with you. It means you were never taught a skill that almost everyone assumes is a personali...

Within the gilded grandeur of the New York Metropolitan Opera House, a spectral love story unfolds. Mia Thompson, the meticulous stage manager, finds her ordered world disrupted by the haunting presence of Alessandro Rossi, a renowned tenor whose tragic demise decades ago continues to echo through the hallowed halls. Flickering lights, disembodied arias, and a palpable sense of sorrow draw Mia into a mystery intertwined with the opera house’s very foundations.Alessandro’s ethereal ...

In the heart of Buffalo, a neighborhood's trust is held together by something as simple and sacred as a keyring. For Jovino Morales, that keyring is more than metal; it's a promise to his community, a symbol of the winter repairs that keep families safe. But at a church fundraiser, the keyring vanishes, replaced by a valuable comic book and a taunting note: "Not yours. Yet."A dad with a knack for solving puzzles.Jovino is a man of many hats: a devo...

"It's hard to like someone who turns your world upside down…"Astrid Danika Drascul is a bundle of fun with a powder keg personality in a fun size package that can be toted around with ease, so says her blunt, abrasive, and often offensive uncle, Max Áiféiseach. When word of him moving to France reaches the angsty teenager, the life she knows is over, or so she fears. She must give up her dream of shadowing "Mad Max" and conform to the stricter expectations...

Fate is a bitch…After the death of her best friend, Kalista Angelic, Born Angel of Light, Truth, and Justice is done waiting for the right time. She's going after her Soul's Enemy, Vretil, the Corrupted Angel of Darkness, the first chance she gets and following through with her threat. There's only one problem: Fate. Everything in her life has revolved around it, and Kalista is fighting it harder than ever before as she seeks normalcy and to build a life w...

Sarah Campbell thought she knew who she was- Switch's daughter, Mia's sister, and Diesel's ol' lady. But one crash changes everything. She wakes battered, alive, and missing the memories that matter most. She remembers everyone in Devil's Ridge...except Diesel. Diesel has always been the quiet storm of the Riders, marked by scars he carved to escape a brutal past. But that past never stayed buried-it's the reason the crash happened, and it's come hunting him with ruthless intent. Now Sarah...