"You must read Bedelia", the seductive black-widow thriller by the author of the classic film noir, Laura ( The New York Times).Charlie Horst has returned with his new bride, Bedelia, to his family home in Connecticut. Indulgently infatuated, Charlie is the luckiest man alive. What's not to love about Bedelia? She's gorgeous and complacent. She's also a gracious and ideal party host—luscious and decorative in blue velvet. And in public, s...

The Indian Ocean region has rapidly emerged as a hinge point in the changing global balance of power and the geographic nexus of economic and security issues with vital global consequences. The security of energy supplies, persistent poverty and its contribution to political extremism, piracy, and related threats to seaborne trade, competing nuclear powers, and possibly the scene of future clashes between rising great powers India and China—all are dangers in the waters or in the littoral ...

In Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story, editors Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein have assembled a collection of eighteen original essays written by literary critics from around the globe. Collectively, these critics argue that the reciprocal influence between Russian and American writers is integral to the development of the short story in each country as well as vital to the global status the contemporary short story has attained. This collecti...

Adam Newcommer is missing. In the idealistic town of Marshport, Ohio, the eleven-year-old has seemingly vanished from his friend's house in the deep of the night. While his parents question who they can trust and struggle to remain hopeful, the town's sheriff and a young private investigator look into the mysterious disappearance. The deeper they dig, the more they fight against small-town secrets and local superstitions as they search for Adam to bring him back home.

Old scars never fade. And new enemies don’t wait for you to heal.Ambrose Severen has built a sanctuary in the ruins of a broken world, but peace was never part of the System’s design. As incursions rise and Avalon’s enemies circle, Ambrose must walk the knife’s edge between savior and executioner.Eric Delrosa, the monster who destroyed his world, has vanished into another realm. But Ambrose hasn’t forgotten. He’s building power, closing rifts, and gathering...

A book full of fascinating, little-known facts about Wales. Stories about the huge contribution of this small nation to the world are presented, such as the most advanced laws in the Middle Ages, Britain's only effective royal dynasty and its most effective prime minister.

This book is for you if you're tired of watching JavaScript struggle with complicated calculations while your users get impatient. I wrote this second edition because WebAssembly 2.0 changes everything, and I wanted to show you exactly how to use it without the usual technical book problems.The first thing we'll do is go through the basics, like memory management and control flow, which are the most important. Then we'll move on to putting together C, C++, Rust, and Python into Was...

Unleash the Speed: Master WebAssembly and Take Your Web Apps to the Next LevelThrough practical examples, you'll learn how WebAssembly can transform C++, Rust, and other languages into lightning-fast web apps. Step-by-step, you'll master techniques to integrate WebAssembly modules into JavaScript projects for seamless communication.You'll discover strategies to optimize code, leverage multi-threading, and apply cutting-edge methods like lazy loading. We also tackle memory...

The fear of shouldering invisible responsibilities alone often stems from the belief that asking for help meansadmitting failure, and this book offers a compassionate reframe to understand and address the imbalance inemotional labor within relationships. Part of Emrys Delacroix's insightful book explores how sharing the mentalload can transform from an overwhelming burden into a shared responsibility.Mental Load is not a task list, a checklist, or a one-size...

Diego runs boat tours out on the swamp, filled with ghost stories and wild animals on the hunt for prey. What happens when he falls prey to the very ghost stories that he doesn't even believe in?

They took everything from him. Now, he will take their world.When the System integrated his universe, Ambrose Severen lost everything -his world, his loved ones, his very purpose.Now, all he has left is revenge.With nothing to lose, Ambrose embarks on a ruthless quest for power, determined to tear down everything the First Forerunner has built.No price is too high, no challenge too great, as he fights to carve a path of retribution through a shattered world....

Emrys Ambrosius and L. R. Monroe present Book 1 in the Wyrmhaven series.