SMART AND SUSTAINABLE APPROACHES FOR OPTIMIZING PERFORMANCE OF WIRELESS NETWORKExplores the intersection of sustainable growth, green computing and automation, and performance optimization of 5G wireless networksSmart and Sustainable Approaches for Optimizing Performance of Wireless Networks explores how wireless sensing applications, green computing, and Big Data analytics can increase the energy efficiency and environmental susta...

Sonya - a young, immigrant wife, beautiful, privileged and pregnant, and totally dependent on her husband and love of her life, Shahil. The little family of three are preparing their bags for their first trip to homeland from America, when a pounding on their front door crashes all their dreams of a beautiful return to pieces that will not be picked up for ten more years and her epic battle for justice against all odds in a strange and terrifying new world.Her journey takes her dee...

"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York TimesThe first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s.Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan’s ca...

With Jude in a coma, it's finally beginning to look as though Aaron and Heather might get their happy ending. With the birth of their child fast approaching and life returning to normal - well as normal as life can be when you're engaged to one of the most eligible billionaires in the world - there is only one thing left for the couple to do.When Aaron plans their perfect day in secret, he has only one thing to worry about. Will Heather say yes? But not everyone gets a happy ending...

Australia's queen of crime fiction is back with a chilling new story that taps straight into the issues of our times.Detective-Inspector Deb Hawkins has domestic violence in her sights. But as head of a new police unit that targets violence against women within cultural enclaves, she is battling a wall of silence. How can she win the trust of Rana Al-Sheikly, the distressed young woman she encounters during the investigation of yet another gang-related drive-by sho...

Closer than ever Carrie and David find life after their wedding fraught with even more danger.With Gertrude's sanity unraveling after the murder of her husband the consequences of Henry's death are still wreaking havoc on David and Carrie's life. Rachel is determined that her child will receive its rightful piece of the Ashcroft fortune and no one can stand in her way.With the pressure mounting Carrie makes a discovery that threatens to tear her happiness apart.Will...

A poignant novel of loss, growing up, and an unusually gifted girl finding her way in the world.Maya Devine has a strange ability to see colors that surround other people—and sometimes even to hear the thoughts in their heads. But even with these gifts, she still struggles to understand her mother, Marigold. Desperate for enlightenment, Marigold drags Maya to library lectures on making money and gardening as part of her home schooling; attends AA meetings even thou...

Life has never seemed more perfect for Carrie. She has, David, the man of her dreams, the man who loves and adores her. And yet, she can't shake the feeling that all that might come crashing down around her ears at any moment.When word of her engagement to David Ashcroft, the most eligible bachelor in the country gets out, Carrie finds her life thrown into chaos by the media frenzy that ensues. But not everyone wants to see Carrie happy. Secrets and lies spill out into the public l...

A SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH'HANINGTON EXCELS... THERE ARE NODS TO LE CARRE, BUT HIS IMPRESSIVE DEBUT IS HIS OWN THING' The Sunday Times'THOUGHTFUL, ATMOSPHERIC AND GRIPPINGLY PLOTTED' Guardian'IMPRESSIVE... HANINGTON HAS TRUE TALENT' The Times'TREMENDOUS' William Boyd'ENTHRALLING' Michael Palin'...

A rich and greedy sultan meets his match in a VERY cheeky little red rooster…Hilariously wacky tale by bestselling author of War Horse.The rich and greedy sultan loves his jewels more than anything, so when he loses a diamond button he is furious!Especially as a naughty little red rooster seems determined to keep it…A marvellously funny tale by master storyteller, Michael Morpurgo.

When Cassie comes to Vancouver from Australia for an intensive summer program at a prestigious ballet school, she finds it hard to fit in. A clique of girls who have been at the school a long time don't want the newcomers to get any attention. At first Cassie tries to go along to get along, but when she realizes that some of the visiting summer students are being bullied and threatened, and that she herself is being sabotaged, she finally speaks out—and finds out how far some girls will go...

Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives 9-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the image of a familiar but startling face. Could it be a quadrillion dollar bill? Could it be real? Well, Agent Fondoo of the U.S. Treasury Department and his team of Secret Government Agents are determined to get that money back! But Steven and his best friends, Russell and Zoopy the giant dog, are more than a match for the Feds. After all, Steven is the presi...