Twelve year old Wayne is a brave, curious and God-fearing boy who lives in a small village near Manchester with his parents and his seven-year-old sister, Kate. Wayne loves fairy tales, especially the stories his father tells him at bedtime. One evening, his father tells him about a mysterious castle near the Golden River. Long ago, a powerful wizard lived there and, before his death, placed a magical curse on the castle. Anyone who enters must solve the mysteries hidden inside or be trans...

EVERY STONE PULLED FROM THE GROUND CONFIRMS WHAT THE BIBLE ALREADY SAID.If it got the past right, with that kind of precision, then its words about the future cannot be ignored.Dinesh D'Souza first traveled to Israel in 2022. He stood at the Pool of Siloam where Jesus healed a blind man. He walked the Pilgrimage Road that Jesus walked. He looked out from the ruins of King David's palace at those very rooftops. And one question stopped him cold: not theologi...

Why do democracies continue to elect 'orphaned' outsiders versus 'patrician' elites?In The Orphan Paradox, Sharma offers an original meditation on the hidden wounds that shape political leadership. Building on his earlier works, including Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia (2012), Sharma fuses psychology, history, and political science to illuminate how leaders transform vulnerability into vision. Through vivid portraits that traverse continents and centuries, h...

Learn various design patterns and best practices in Spring 5 and use them to solve common design problems.Key Features- Explore best practices for designing an application- Manage your code easily with Spring's Dependency Injection pattern- Understand the benefits that the right design patterns can offer your toolkitBook DescriptionDesign patterns help speed up the development process by offering well tested and proven soluti...

A BOLD PROPOSAL TO TWEAK AMERICA'S GOVERNING SYSTEM TO MASSIVELY IMPROVE LIFE IN AMERICAAmerica has changed. Not in a good way. Our government was designed in 1787 to deliver a great life. It did a remarkably good job for a long time, but not anymore. Why? In a story of discontented Democrats and Republicans, the author Dinesh Shah shows that the governing system we have today is not the same as the one previous generations had. As a result, Americans today cannot ...

About the BookLeadership is not a position. It is a choice.Many people spend their lives waiting, for the right opportunity, the right title, the right recognition, or the perfect moment to begin. But true leadership starts long before external success arrives. It begins within.Leading From Within is a practical and inspiring guide that empowers readers to develop the mindset, habits, and principles necessary to lead themselves befo...

Still Moving – How I Built, Rebuilt, and Kept Moving: An Entrepreneur’s Journey Across Borders, Industries, and Resilience is a book by Dinesh Pandey, published in 2025. It details Pandey’s life and career, from his modest beginnings to building and rebuilding ventures across multiple industries and global markets.Through personal stories and business lessons, the book explores his experiences in shipping, commodities, real estate, luxury, ...

After an attempt on her wealthy grandmother’s life at a family reunion, an Indian American teen hunts for the culprit in this “brisk, twisty, and engrossing” (Kirkus Reviews) murder-comedy perfect for fans of Knives Outand Never Have I Ever**.**There are three things Jayshree Devi can count on happening at her annual family reunion: 1) her cousins will forget she exists, 2) her aunts will...

A hands-on guide to creating, monitoring, and tuning a high performance Spring web applicationKey FeaturesUnderstand common performance pitfalls and improve your application's performanceBuild and deploy strategies for complex applications using the microservice architectureUnderstand internals of JVM - the core of all Java Runtime EnvironmentsBook DescriptionWhile writing an application, performance is paramount. Performance...

Get to know effective ways to improve PostgreSQL's performance and master query optimization, and database monitoring.Key Features\[\*\] Perform essential database tasks such as benchmarking the database and optimizing the server’s memory usage\[\*\] Learn ways to improve query performance and optimize the PostgreSQL server\[\*\] Explore a wide range of high availability and replication mechanisms to build robust, highly available, scalable, an...

Learn and use the design patterns and best practices in Spring to solve common design problems and build user-friendly microservicesKey FeaturesStudy the benefits of using the right design pattern in your toolkitManage your code easily with Spring's dependency injection patternExplore the features of Docker and Mesos to build successful microservicesBook DescriptionGetting Started with Spring Microservice...

Create interactive cross-platform reports and dashboards using SQL Server 2016 Reporting ServicesKey Features\[\*\] Get up to speed with the newly-introduced enhancements and the more advanced query and reporting features\[\*\] Easily access your important data by creating visually appealing dashboards in the Power BI practical recipe\[\*\] Create cross-browser and cross-platform reports using SQL Server 2016 Reporting ServicesBoo...