A small-town baker learns to raise her expectations for love with some help from a handsome local teacher in this sunny romantic comedy.Layla Dupree has given up on love. She’s waded through all the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than the last. Apparently, owning the bakery at Inglewild’s most romantic destination does not help one’s love life—despite Layla’s best efforts. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts he...

Return to the universe of the classic Alien movies with this sci-fi horror collection featuring Criminal Enterprise and No Exit!Criminal Enterprise by B. K. Evenson: Thomas Chase wakes up from cryosleep to his first day at a new job—as a pilot for a contraband drug company dropping a shipment on Fantasia, a rock-planet terraformed to hide an elaborate drug manufacturing operation. Everything from synthetic heroin...

This unsolved mystery might lead to happily ever after…or a very literal dead end…Before inheriting her aunt’s house (and giant dog), Emily would’ve said nothing crazy ever happened in small towns. It takes being intentionally run off the road to realize just how wrong she’d been. If not for the kind—and dangerously sexy—good Samaritan who came to her aid, she wasn’t sure what would’ve happened. Now all she has to do is figure out who might want her dead—and why.

Dark Night Of The Soul, Spirituality, Ascension. These were all new concepts to KR. A whole new world had opened up to him. Willing to explore this new world, KR embraced the future with an open mind. And then there was Theresa, the catalyst that awakened him, sending him on a quest for answers that led him to a juncture of two paths, where anything could be manifested. Remembering her last words: "I'll see you soon."

It's magic! Cinderella doesn't know a thing about Harry Potter, but the Prince is a Harry Potter fanatic. With the help of the mice and her Fairy Godmother and Fairy Godfather, Cinderella is able to answer the final question to live happily-ever-after. This short (twenty-five minute) play is perfect for either classroom work or for production.

Botswana Police Sergeant Duski Lcha is the daughter of a Zionist preacher whose sermons berate witch doctors and their ungodly practises. Desperate to find a man she could call her own in a culture where infidelity is the norm and the possibility of forming a monogamous relationship is as unlikely as getting frostbite in the Kalahari, Duski does the unthinkable in order to achieve this goal. With her fathers sermons constantly whirling around her head, she seeks the services of a local wit...

This book is intended for university students of B.Sc. and M.Sc. levels offering a course on molecular modeling. It deals with the practicals of molecular modeling. Experiments are designed for first-time learners who want to do computational chemistry calculations using molecular mechanics, semiempirical, DFT, and ab initio theories. Students can perform the experiments with help of the book using freely available software for the academic community.

This is a comedic play for one-act high school theatre competition for people who don't like one-act high school theatre competitions.

When rising politician Karen Dodd pushes through the toughest gun-control bill in Ohio's history, she thinks it's her ticket to the governor's office. But soon after she announces her candidacy, on the day she's slated to receive an award from a gun-control organization, Karen Dodd is found dead in her comfortable suburban home, one bullet through her heart. Suspects abound-her philandering husband, a hard-drinking former beauty queen, a smooth-talking gun lobbyist and his deceptively meek...

Seventeen-year-old Matt Foley has a typical set of problems: feeling alienated from his perpetually perky family, struggling to focus on classes when sports seem far more interesting, chafing at the slow pace of life in his small Virginia town. The usual. Until his coach and mentor is killed at a tae kwon do tournament.During a sparring match, Bobby Davis, a baby-faced stranger from Richmond, crushes the coach's larynx with a powerful spinning hook kick. To the police, it looks lik...

For eight centuries, the dwarven kingdom of Truuj has lived in isolation, banishing its criminals across the sea to the human-ruled lands of Nostra Celeste. Now, a rare diplomatic order has sent Furyk Stonebrow, a noble-born dwarf and official ambassador, on a mission to find these clanless outcasts and offer them a chance to return home.But the world across the Paladim Sea is far more dangerous than the histories suggest. Furyk arrives to find a land of rising tensions as a myster...

Global food security is a challenging issue. Meeting the food and nutritional requirements of the world has become an issue for national policymakers and is of public concern. There is a need to enhance agricultural production, as well as, to reduce postharvest loss, improve the quality of processed products, and add value to products to make more quality food available. Agro-product processing technology plays a major role to reduce post-harvest losses, improve the quality of processed pr...