The Tale of Alathimble Spaide is a collection of fantasy tales and poems to amuse and delight. The book includes tales of wizards, gnomes, ogres, trolls, vampires and one dragon who isn't all that he appears to be. The main character of the title work is a hapless magician and his pet pig who together, through shared misfortune and ineptitude, become unlikely heroes. For the reader searching for deep and serious high fantasy, we strongly recommend Tolkien. For those simply looking for a bit of frivolous fantastical fun, this is the book for you.

Erik Mitchell traveled the world uncovering art fraud and relic theft, which pitted him against spoiled billionaires, unscrupulous collectors, mobsters, and cartels. He worked with law enforcement across the U.S. and Europe, but then a sting goes wrong, Erik ends up injured and returns to find his partner cheating. He decides to stop globetrotting and buy an antique shop in scenic Cape May, NJ, rebuild his life, and nurse his broken heart. Undercover Newark cop Ben Nolan went down in a hail of bullets when a bust went sideways, after a tip-off from a traitor ...

War and passions erupt violently when Native American and European Cultures collide! "Were I in my village tonight, I would hear the wind moving through the trees. I think maybe I might hear also a child laugh somewhere within a neighbor's lodge. Here I hear music coming from the large stone house, but I do not hear the wind working its way through these trees. Torches and candles burn everywhere as if to turn night into day, but your people do not gather around the flames. Your fires are only lit to provide light, and the brightness of this light drives ...

The Christian walk, what a journey! It is a journey of joy, excitement, surprises, dangers, and it requires patience. Help, Lord, I’m Not Perfect Yet speaks how we haven’t arrived at our sinless state. We all have imperfections, sins, and faults that seem to just take over our life, and we can’t figure out how to overcome them. We all get confused sometimes in our life, and we don’t know what is going on. Did you know that many Bible characters suffered from these same things? Hang in there, God has not given up on you. He knows ...

She's my best friend's kid sister. Now she's not a kid any more. As a forest ranger, I believe in the simple life. I prefer cabins to apartments, trails over freeways, and trees to people. My life is orderly, predictable, and quiet. Until it's hit by a woman I never saw coming -- Hurricane June. She's fierce. She's feisty. She has a laugh like the first day of spring, and she's so pretty that I can't breathe when I look at her. June will only be in town for a few months-just while job-hunting. She won't last until winter, but how can ...

Finding Order in Diversity: Religious Toleration in the Habsburg Empire, 1792-1848 covers the tumultuous period in the Habsburg Empire from Joseph II's failed reforms through the Revolutions of 1848, documenting the ongoing struggle between religious activism and civil peace. In the name of stability, the Habsburg Empire sidelined Catholic activists and promoted religious toleration during this era in which Austria was an international symbol of conservatism and other states engaged in strident confessional politics. Austria's well-known fear of disorder ...

2024 Reprint of the 1927 Edition.  In this mystery, created from a reworked collection of short stories, Poirot enters the world of international espionage. The original stories were published in 1924 and it was in 1926 that Agatha Christie, in need of a new book, gathered them together with the help of her brother-in-law and submitted them to her publisher. Summary: An unexpected visitor called Mayerling comes in through Hercule Poirot's bedroom and collapses on the floor. The only clue to what he wants is his repeating Poirot's name and address ...

Exhumation of A Murder is a comprehensive study of the case of Major Armstrong, the celebrated Hay Poisoner, one of the most notorious murderers of the twentieth century and the only solicitor ever to hang. It is one of those classic old-fashioned English murders, which hail from the heyday of the courtroom drama when, with the hangman lurking in the pine-and-panel wings and the black cap an object of horryfyingly alarming currency rather than mere symbolism, the loser in 'the black dock's dreadful pen lost all'. And the Armstrong case was unquestionably ...

This book provides an overview on how biologically-inspired meta-heuristics can be applied to solve optimization problems encountered in the business process management domain. Thus, the book integrates, in a unitary approach, a set of biologically-inspired methods proposed by the authors, methods which address the problems of business process mining and business process optimization. The book is intended to be used by researchers, PhD students or Master students in Computer Science interested in learning how to apply biologically-inspired meta-heuristics ...

How do children read the Bible? This book makes a major contribution to this underexplored area by analyzing how children interpret Bible stories, focused around an empirical investigation of one group of eleven- to fourteen-year-old children, and their readings of the Gospel of Luke. The first section of the study establishes the nature of the text and the readers in this project: exploring the Gospel of Luke as a narrative of Jesus' birth, life, death, and resurrection, and then looking at the developmental traits of children as readers. The next section ...