In the tumult of 1970s New York City, kids are expected to figure out issues of race that adults haven't when seventh graders are bused from their neighborhood in Queens to integrate a new school in South Jamaica. Jamila, Josie, and Francesca are three mixed-race girls who have always felt like outsiders in their mostly white neighborhood in Queens, but at least they have each other. Now it's seventh grade, and they're part of an experiment where kids will go on a long bus ride to integrate a new school in a black neighborhood. Maybe there the three girls can finally fit in. But Francesca's parents put her in private school. And Jamila and Josie discover that they're not even in the same classes. How do they find their place in a school divided between black and white? And what about the boys wanting to be friends--and maybe more? Can kids come together when grown-ups stay apart? In this tender story of friendship and family love, award-winning author Marina Budhos captures what it's like to tip from twelve to thirteen and to try to carry the dreams of adults.
Serena is not a frog. She is a scorpion through and through. Distrustful, cunning and so very angry. Its in nature to sting. Its in her nature to plot, to kill and to doom herself and the people around her. Every victory has its price and every action has its consequences, Serena learns this the hard way.
Pearson identifies what keeps most women struggling in the pain and anger of their ex-relationships and why they keep having their buttons pushed. She offers a pro-active approach to free women from their pasts in a quick and painless fashion.
With a relentlessly probing finger, the author traces the ragged edges of the scars of the hidden heart of a healed survivor. Then testifies to the healing virtue of Jesus, she tells the tales of the private pain a relationally imprisoned soul lives through.Millions of fellow pilgrims that are healing or healed will find fellowship and freedom in the veracity of these vignettes.– Pastor Dave Hackett Hope Church Corning NY
Kick off your flip-flops and savor this fun-loving box set filled with hot summer nights and sunny, sandy days! Last Kiss of Summer by Marina Adair Kennedy Sinclair, pie shop and orchard owner extraordinaire, is all that stands between Luke Callahan and the success of his hard cider business. But when the negotiations start heating up, will they lose their hearts? Or seal the deal? Burning Moon by Jo Watson When Lilly Swanson's fiance leaves her at the altar, she makes an impulsive decision-she heads off to Thailand to spend her honeymoon alone. She quickly learns that everything in Thailand is very hot: the weather, the merchandise, and especially Damien-the sexy, spontaneous man she meets before her feet even hit the sand. After a week of letting go, indulging her every impulse and desire, Lilly must go back to the girl she used to be. Or can Damien convince her that their party doesn't have to end? One Week to the Wedding by Olivia Miles In theory, Kate Daniels couldn't be more excited to be planning her best friend's wedding, but lately just thinking about gowns and centerpieces makes her want to hide. Maybe it's because her fiance cheated with her younger sister, Charlotte. Or maybe it's because her newfound reputation as a jilted wedding planner isn't exactly doing wonders for her career. With the wedding only a week away, Kate expects a few surprises. But what she doesn't expect is to find herself believing...in the strength of family, and the possibility of finding love again. Meet Me at the Beach by V.K. Sykes Gorgeous Lily Doyle was the only thing Aiden Flynn missed after he escaped from Seashell Bay to play pro baseball. Now back on the island, memories rush in about the night of passion they shared long ago, and everything else washes right out to sea-everything except the desire that still burns between them. The Cottage at Firefly Lake by Jen Gilroy Eighteen years ago, Charlotte Gibbs left Firefly Lake-and Sean Carmichael-behind to become a globetrotting journalist. But now she's back. Will the two have a second chance at first love? Or will the secret Charlie's hiding be their undoing?
As I made it clear in the title, do not expect a cook book, let alone a well structured one. A recipe will take you to a certain story or a cooking tip, and from there, more recipes or a memory will pop up. This book follows my mind which is always musing when I cook. Food and memories go hand in hand for all of us. One thing is for sure, though: this book does its part to keep the dairy farms in business! And I hope it will keep you smiling, too.
A blast from the past leads to tantalizing trouble for one woman in this dazzling second chance romance set in the small town of Sugar, Georgia. Charlotte Holden, Sugar's favorite pediatrician, knows better than anyone that love only leads to heartbreak. Instead, she's focused on creating an outpatient center for children. All she has to do now is win over a big-city donor–easy as peach pie. Then sexy Jace McGraw blows back into town and utters those three words every woman dreads: we're still married. Jace McGraw was making an offer on his dream business in Atlanta when he was told that his wife had some credit issues. The annulment went through years ago—or so he thought. He'd walked away only to keep his troublemaker reputation from ruining her dreams. Now that they have a second chance, Jace offers Charlotte a deal: he'll grant a discreet divorce–in exchange for 30 days and nights of marriage–because this time he isn't going to let her go without a fight.
Author Marina Murray pens her first book of poems. Readers will enjoy her honest exploration of a life seeking the God she wants to know personally. Marina's intention in writing this book is to encourage her readers in their walk with God. Life brings many trials, problems, and hardships that will knock us down. She hopes that her words will encourage and strengthen others to stand back up again. Life's problems will come and go, but God always stays.
Learn how to build dynamic schema-driven forms with Vue from scratch Key FeaturesUnderstand the basics of form component compositionScale and integrate your forms with libraries such as Vuex and VuelidateConvert any form into a self-generated schema-driven appBook Description Almost every web application and site out there handles user input in one way or another, from registration forms and log-in handling to registration and landing pages. Building Forms with Vue.js follows a step-by-step approach to help you create an efficient user interface (UI) and seamless user experience (UX) by building quick and easy-to-use forms. You’ll get off to a steady start by setting up the demo project. Next, you’ll get to grips with component composition from creating reusable form components through to implementing the custom input components. To further help you develop a convenient user input experience, the book will show you how to enhance custom inputs with v-mask. As you progress, you’ll get up to speed with using Vuelidate and Vuex to effectively integrate your forms. You’ll learn how to create forms that use global state, reactive instant user input validation and input masking, along with ensuring that they are completely schema-driven and connected to your application’s API. Every chapter builds on the concepts learned in the previous chapter, while also allowing you to skip ahead to the topics you’re most interested in. By the end of this book, you will have gained the skills you need to transform even the simplest form into a crafted user and developer experience with Vue. What you will learnLearn all about the basics of creating reusable form components with the Vue frameworkUnderstand v-model and how it plays a role in form creationCreate forms that are completely powered and generated by a schema, either locally or from an API endpointUnderstand how Vuelidate allows for easy declarative validation of all your form’s inputs with Vue’s reactivity systemConnect your application with a Vuex-powered global state managementUse the v-mask library to enhance your inputs and improve user experience (UX)Who this book is for If you are a developer with basic Vue experience who wants to enhance your forms, then this book is for you. No previous experience with any of the libraries used in the book is required.
Delve into light, shadow and mysticism that may be found in the liminal spaces of our lives, where boundaries between ourselves and the natural world, and the other-worldly, become permeable. Immerse yourself in the sound and rhythm of Marina Martin's first collection of poems, and experience a coherent vision of existence from a perspective that is rare in today's mainstream society. This musical journey through image, metaphor and undulant subtext may take you further than you think you might go.
From editor of Dolly at the age of 23 to CEO of Australia’s leading digital publisher by her forties, Marina Go is here to inspire the next generation of female leaders to take their rightful place at the top. In Break Through, Marina Go, general manager of Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE and Cosmopolitan and the first female chair of Wests Tigers NRL Club, shares an in-depth analysis of the 20 leadership traits that make a successful woman – providing the tools to turn your personal vision of success into a reality. Marina defines success as the ability to achieve the goals she sets for herself. In this deeply personal book, she talks candidly about the challenges and triumphs she has faced over her 30-year career as a leader in the media and publishing industry. Venture inside the cutthroat world of Kerry Packer-era women’s magazines, the challenges of balancing a career with two sons and the backlash she’s received since becoming chair of a major NRL team. Empowering, inspiring and hilariously candid, Break Through equips you with the skills needed to handle those inevitable career curveballs and gives you the confidence to smash stereotypes and barriers that get in the way of your success – all the while helping you discover the secret to a happy, balanced life along the way.
Marina Budhos, whose parents came from two different immigrant streams, always listens for the story within the story. Here, in fourteen intimate conversations and many short interviews, teenagers from all over the world reveal their most personal struggles and triumphs. Remix features Muslim girls from traditional families and Guyanese boys who know every hot new club, Hmong athletes, Russians in Disneyland, Central Americans sustained by community and tempted by gangs, Koreans facing extreme pressures to succeed, and many others. Filled with insights about American teenage culture and moving stories about the special challenges immigrants face, Remix shows all the voices of the new America.
ROSA MARIA MIRANDA 70, returns to Los Angeles to search for JUAN CARLOS LAMAS to fulfill a dream that has been brewing in her mind for the last thirty five years. She finds him in the gutter, ravaged by alcoholism. Her love for him mixed with a sense of pity, resurrects with the same passion she had felt at their first encounter, and she swears to do anything and everything left in her, to help him recover. Her only resource: the power of her love, believing that its strength will conquer every obstacle in their way to happiness. She doesn't count on the demons that have invaded him or the struggles and risk she must endure. A flash back in part one is full of emotion, passion, agony, triumph and defeat. To some readers the story's heroine may sound as a selfish, dysfunctional promiscuous, but she is a woman who refuses to be intimidated by the consequences she knows her foolishness may bring to her life. She feels she must take the challenge in order to find the happiness she imagines waits for her despite her advancing age. To the very young, love in old age seems a ridicule, or even grotesque. The result is a moving eulogy and a tribute to romantic love in our old age.
The Holidays in Farmland continues the fairy tale of Christmas in Rabbitland. Our rabbits: Teacher and Carpenter, Artist and Tailor, Baker and Writer, Shoemaker and Musician start their journey to introduce a new characters and their professions to our young reader. The fairy tale Holidays in Farmalnd is focused on the development of the personality and on the early stages of a child`s coming-of-age. This fable forms the world of the young reader, helps to meet with the professions and have a positive view of the main activities and work. " Holidays in Farmalnd " has the positive direction because it creates and instills proper standards of social behavior, developed by centuries. Children learn how to behave at home, on the street and away, how to make friends, to respect our neighbor, to welcome guests. Let this story help children in the future to find their way in life journey.
She’s on the run from a deadly enemy. He lives in the shadows of truth. When their lives merge, will their battle for survival lead to love? The German Alps, 1450 AD. Lady Beatrix Edelman refuses to go down without a fight. Already under siege in the palace, she’s forced to gather her family and flee from her violent illegitimate son-in-law’s murderous rampage. And though she’s thankful for refuge at a convent, the duchess is too focused on defending her children to notice the mute man unable to tear his eyes away… Erasmus has not spoken one word since the day his father tried to kill him. Taken in by the charitable nuns as a traumatized child, the now-grown refugee is terrified someone will learn his true identity. But when a remarkable woman shows up seeking asylum, he’s compelled to assist her no matter the personal cost. Taken as a hostage by the villagers, Lady Beatrix despairs as she becomes dependent on the silent stranger for aid. And after Erasmus finds her frantically looking for escape, he breaks years of silence to convince the captivating beauty to trust him… despite his shocking secret. Can they help each other find safety and the haven waiting in their arms? Duchess in Flight is a bold and dashing historical romance novel. If you like reluctant heroes, strong women, and chances for redemption, then you’ll adore Marina Pacheco’s adventurous tale. Buy Duchess in Flight to escape into happily-ever-after today!
Well-Being Tools for Optimal Aging By: Marina Ustinova M.D. Aging is inevitable, but anti-aging practices can make a world of difference in our appearance, health, energy level, and overall well-being. In this book, Marina Ustinova, MD shows us how to achieve anti-aging qualities and a youthful attitude through body/mind medicine, kundalini yoga, and energy rejuvenation. Well-Being Tools for Optimal Aging is for everyone who wants to know themselves and their bodies better for a higher quality of life. It is also written for medical professionals to gain an understanding of the connection between the physical and subtle bodies. Gravity is a key reason why we experience negative qualities of aging, and these insights will share how to create a lighter energy of gravity and change the frequency of energy vibration to greatly impact well-being. Youth is associated with joy, an abundance of energy, and hope for future achievement. By following the insights in this modern interpretation of natural, ancient practices, we can experience a more youthful feeling and appearance. Ustinova offers a valuable guide for daily anti-aging practices, and a full 7-week lifestyle program filled with practical tools for rejuvenation that we can do at home.
This is a story of a girl called Dene who grew up in a poor family in Ndjamena, the capital city of Chad. Growing up was hard for her because she saw how her father maltreated her mother and also other women and girls being marginalized and subjected to violence of all forms. She thought it is normal because that is what is being passed from generation to generation. It’s called men’s world. Women are treated like thing with low value. They call us Mara Sakite. In local Arabic, it means a simple woman. Our destinies are in our men’s hands. They adjust and fascinate it to their desires. But later she realizes that this is unfair toward women and decides to share it by writing in her dairy.
Speed up your development processes and improve your productivity by writing practical and relevant prompts to build web applications and Machine Learning (ML) models Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF copy Key Features Utilize prompts to enhance frontend and backend web development Develop prompt strategies to build robust machine learning models Use GitHub Copilot for data exploration, maintaining existing code bases, and augmenting ML models into web applications Book DescriptionAI-Assisted Programming for Web and Machine Learning shows you how to build applications and machine learning models and automate repetitive tasks. Part 1 focuses on coding, from building a user interface to the backend. You’ll use prompts to create the appearance of an app using HTML, styling with CSS, adding behavior with JavaScript, and working with multiple viewports. Next, you’ll build a web API with Python and Flask and refactor the code to improve code readability. Part 1 ends with using GitHub Copilot to improve the maintainability and performance of existing code. Part 2 provides a prompting toolkit for data science from data checking (inspecting data and creating distribution graphs and correlation matrices) to building and optimizing a neural network. You’ll use different prompt strategies for data preprocessing, feature engineering, model selection, training, hyperparameter optimization, and model evaluation for various machine learning models and use cases. The book closes with chapters on advanced techniques on GitHub Copilot and software agents. There are tips on code generation, debugging, and troubleshooting code. You’ll see how simpler and AI-powered agents work and discover tool calling.What you will learn Speed up your coding and machine learning workflows with GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT Use an AI-assisted approach across the development lifecycle Implement prompt engineering techniques in the data science lifecycle Develop the frontend and backend of a web application with AI assistance Build machine learning models with GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT Refactor code and fix faults for better efficiency and readability Improve your codebase with rich documentation and enhanced workflows Who this book is for Experienced developers new to GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT can discover the best strategies to improve productivity and deliver projects quicker than traditional methods. This book is ideal for software engineers working on web or machine learning projects. It is also a useful resource for web developers, data scientists, and analysts who want to improve their efficiency with the help of prompting. This book does not teach web development or how different machine learning models work.
Are you a parent or teacher interested in helping children become better thinkers? How about if a process existed that could enhance children's thinking skills and also be used to enhance the learning of academic content? How about if that process is a replicable step-by-step procedure? And how about if that process is generic enough so that it can be used across the curriculum as well as in personal life? Would that be useful? If you answer yes, you must give your children the opportunity to learn the thinking tools taught in this book. Used in over 20 countries, these tools are specialized graphic organizers that are very simple to learn and apply to every day conflicts and problems. Your children can read the book-written as a story-as part of their regular reading assignments and then practice the tools with the guide included at the end of the book. Do not be surprised if you learn and use them too!
“Usually, in a conflict, the Other is not taken into account. The Other doesn’t exist, or if he does, he is faceless, emotionless, dehumanised, in order not to feel guilty. I will never forget the faces of those Egyptian soldiers…” Not many people can say they have lived such an intense, tormented and torn life as Marina Ergas. When she is twenty years old, Marina leaves her home and her well-off life in Milan to go to Israel, pushed by her courage and the will to change the world. Her family settled in Italy after centuries of nomadism, like every Jewish family. At a certain point, Marina feels the irresistible need to visit the Promised Land, to help “her” peaceless people. During her peace crusade, however, she witnesses an escalation of illogical and uncontrolled violence, where “the Other” continuously takes different shape and ethnicity, as in a crazy roulette. Jews, Israelis, Syrians, Jordanians, Palestinians, Russians, Japanese. Everyone represents “the Other” to someone else, and the “Other” must be killed pitilessly. The author of this upsetting book spends thirty years chasing a political, social and religious ideal, which collapses under the blows of different attacks and massacres that kill, among others, thousands of youths. What remains is an overwhelming sorrow, a sense of emptiness and helplessness. Miraculously alive, disenchanted and embittered, Marina decides to leave the Promised Land.
THE BEST-LAID PLANS OFTEN GO AWRY . . . especially in the kitchen. When you’re faced with one of those inevitable cooking calamities--be it a sinking soufflé, salty soup, or stuck-together pasta--How to Repair Food has the answers and advice you need to get your meal back on track. First published in 1970 and now with more than 100,000 copies in print, this kitchen classic has been completely revised and updated to serve a new generation of home cooks. NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION: • Hints on lowering fat and sodium. • Ways to integrate wholesome and organic ingredients. • Tips for reducing kitchen waste. • Ideas for coping with holiday and other special-occasion dinner debacles. Filled with witty, accessible, and often ingenious solutions to mishaps that befall even the best of cooks, the alphabetical listings (from Abalone to Zucchini) are designed to rescue any dish from the brink of disaster.
Wild meets Endless Love in this multilayered story of love, survival, and self-discovery McKenna Berney is a lucky girl. She has a loving family and has been accepted to college for the fall. But McKenna has a different goal in mind: much to the chagrin of her parents, she defers her college acceptance to hike the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia with her best friend. And when her friend backs out, McKenna is determined to go through with the dangerous trip on her own. While on the Trail, she meets Sam. Having skipped out on an abusive dad and quit school, Sam has found a brief respite on the Trail, where everyone’s a drifter, at least temporarily. Despite lives headed in opposite directions, McKenna and Sam fall in love on an emotionally charged journey of dizzying highs and devastating lows. When their punch-drunk love leads them off the trail, McKenna has to persevere in a way she never thought possible to beat the odds or risk both their lives.
He needs shelter. She wants a way out. Will his brave move to protect risk both their hearts? England, 1393 AD. Former child soldier Mal dreams of escaping his cruel existence. Barely surviving an ambush that killed a merciless sheriff and his henchmen, the injured young man seeks refuge at a nearby convent. But his plans to heal quietly before setting sail for a new life are interrupted when he sets eyes on a beautiful maid. Pastry chef Anne Cook has her pick of men to marry. So when a despicable knight claims her as his bride, she begs the local baron to annul the forced engagement. But as the enraged suiter attempts a kidnapping, she’s shocked when the secretive warehouse boy comes to her rescue. Discovering an old foe led the deadly surprise attack, Mal fears he’ll never be worthy of the pretty girl he’s fallen for and he’ll have to go on the run. But with treacherous schemes closing in on them both, Anne and her savior’s only hope may be a desperate plan to stay together. Will the besieged couple overcome dangerous enemies and fight their way to love? Sanctuary is a sweet medieval mystery romance. If you like optimistic tales of redemption, heart-warming characters, and feel-good thrills, then you’ll adore Marina Pacheco’s historical tale. Buy Sanctuary to find haven in another’s arms today!
2021 Illumination Book Awards, Bronze Medal: Spirituality Forgiveness is hard. But Jesus knows how much we need it. True forgiveness can be complicated because the pain of betrayal, loss, deception, and personal attack clings tightly to our emotions, memories, even our bodies. We may intend to forgive yet become stuck in our own mixed motives, others’ silence or anger, and the skewed stories we believe and tell about our lives. In The Ignatian Guide to Forgiveness, Marina McCoy delves into the principles of Ignatian spirituality and uses gentle honesty to lay out 10 steps toward forgiveness, including: Sort out true desires Honor anger while deepening compassion Make friends with time Create a new story . . . and more. Each chapter offers stories, real-life steps to take, and a powerful prayer for healing Forgiveness is hard, but it’s also possible—with our “habits of mercy” and God’s abundant grace.
Meeting the Entities of Light who share with us our true identity, invite us to remember who we are and lead us on the way back home: "Creating is our duty. Transforming is the first step. We are now walking this part of the way together. This is the meaning of our personal and spiritual growth. A journey of Love to go back to Love.
Dylan Rhea’s life is a mess, and it just keeps getting worse. He retired from Kingsbury Town Football Club in disgrace, his girlfriend threw him out, and now he’s running his father’s non-league football club into the ground. He’s a miserable failure and it doesn’t seem that things will ever turn around. Until Penny Adams arrives on his doorstep with a strange request. Penny doesn’t want to be in north London with a pick-axe in her duffle bag and only enough money to last four days. But she has a job to do and she wants to get it over with as soon as possible. Because then she can go back to Indiana and get her life back. By a miracle, Dylan lets her dig. And as Penny keeps digging, remarkable things start happening. Dylan’s team starts winning. And against all odds, keeps winning. Is this the invisible hand of a long-dead queen? Or just some remarkably good luck? But there are powerful forces who don’t want Dylan to keep winning, and they want Penny out of the way. How long will Dylan and Penny’s luck hold out?
It was a terrible crossing. The worst yet. There weren't enough boats. I had to stab my way up the gangplank. It was pitch black and the ferryman hadn't an eye in his head. In a house, a young mother watches over her sleeping baby. But in this dark and dangerously funny play, nothing is as it seems. Audrey or Sorrow is a shape-shifting, time-bending deep dive into a world of unimaginable loss. It exemplifies Marina Carr's work: storytelling that pushes the boundaries of love, power and desire. Draw coal. Coal is a beautiful thing. Someday we'll all be coal. A Landmark Productions and Abbey Theatre co-production, it opened at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in February 2024.
THE STORY: Set on the remote hill of Raftery's farm, this play tells the tale of Red Raftery and his children, Dinah, Sorrel and Ded. Removed from the civilized world of the valley, Red lives by his own rules, where all natural order is inverted, a
*UPDATED First Edition 12/2015* For ages 6-9. Mia and Gia are best friends. They are 7 years old and are in 2nd grade. They are on a mission to build a robot by the name of Robi. When Mia and Gia build the robot, they discover that a local museum wants to display their invention and make them famous, but will they go along?
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