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…

The heartwarming story of a child’s enchanting dreamtime adventure on the eve of Three Kings Day.It’s the night before the Three Kings Day feast, and an excited little boy is trying to fall asleep, but he can’t because the three majestic Kings suddenly appear outside his window! Before he knows it, he’s riding a camel and traveling with them through a vast desert, following a star that leads them to a tiny stable and a precious newborn baby. The Three Kings all hav...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

What do Christians hope for? The historic creeds, rooted in Scripture, emphasize the resurrection of the body. Alongside the creeds, the Western Christian tradition holds out hope that one day we will see God face-to-face--the beatific vision. Yet recent studies on eschatology tend to focus on one or the other of these aspects, rarely explaining how the two might be brought together.The Life of the World to Come offers an integrated approach to this question. Beginning wit...

For fans of Elizabeth Strout and Kent Haruf: a novel that follows the intertwined lives of a small-town Midwestern police chief and a young man recently released from prison, each in search of justiceIt’s 1986, deep winter in Minnesota’s hinterland: remote Middle America of demolition derbies and downtown diners, a place so frozen and secluded that the world beyond its borders barely registers.Here, Gordon Trent, a police chief facing mandatory retirement, ...

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...