Nobody Looks That Young Here is about interconnected characters who struggle with whether to accept or reject their seemingly predetermined lives in Currie Township, Southwestern Ontario. The youth and adolescence of one character, Michael Carrion, makes up a large part of the narrative, but the narrators vary in age and gender and the story unfolds over a period of approximately 30 years. As ancestors, this book could count Lives of Girls and Women, Winesburg, Ohio, Sunshine Sketches of a...

The stories in this collection represent the coming of age of a young writer. His earliest published work is here along with his later more sophisticated literary efforts. Perry’s fiction explores contemporary life mostly in urban centres like Toronto, though they are not bound by this parameter with stories also set in places such as Venice and Nicaragua. The pieces range from dark satirical perspectives to situational ironies and explore a wide variety of themes such as poverty, family l...

One Hundred Million Energy Credits!The largest bounty ever recovered by Starfire Security.That should gain Ben Frost the respect he desires.If it doesn't kill him and destroy the company in the meantime . . .Yeah, it seemed like a good idea at the time: going after the largest energy credit bounty ever offered in the galaxy. And Ben Frost is just the person to go for it. Of course, he hasn't...

The true-crime saga of the intertwined lives of a Native spiritual leader and a prominent literary figure—and their shared work in their pursuit to right a tragic wrongful conviction.Silas John Edwards—a charismatic Apache medicine man—was known as a controversial figure on Apache reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, where white authorities determined to maintain control over reservation life. When his wife, Margaret, was brutally murdered in 1933, Silas John wa...

"Sir, I don't know anything about my ultimate mission."The general looked at me for a long moment before poking a finger at my chest."It's simple, son: You're going to win the war for us."Wow, that was a lot of pressure to put on a cyborg like me. Of course, I was the most advanced cyborg Humanity had ever built, something they called a 'full-capacity cyborg.' That simply meant my memory hadn't been erased like all the other combat cyborgs ...

Successfully delivering AI projects requires more than technical expertise—it demands a new kind of project management. Managing AI Projects is your practical guide to leading artificial intelligence initiatives from idea to production. Written by seasoned experts Malini Jain Runtasewee and Adrián González Sánchez, this book blends traditional project management principles with the realities of AI development, helping you structure projects, manage uncertainty, and drive real o...

You’ve never heard of Roman Ganzha. But if you lived or worked in America between 1997 and 2016, there’s a good chance he stole from you.The Spider King is the never-before-told true story of a Ukrainian child prodigy who became one of the most dangerous cybercriminals and real-world operators in modern history. By age twelve, Roman Ganzha was hacking government systems. By his twenties, he was earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a week for the Russia...

An EMP strike plunges Las Vegas into darkness.Cars die. Power fails. The city stops. Within minutes, the illusion of control is gone—and panic takes its place.Rosa has spent years moving between two worlds. By day, she works at an exclusive golf club. By night, she disappears into the storm tunnels beneath the Strip. When a helicopter crashes into the course and no help comes, she does the one thing she never does. She stays. She pulls her injured co-worker...

More portals to Earth keep opening, but we can't just sit around on our home planet. There are wars being fought everywhere, and meanwhile, the Original World feels closer all the time.However, the more I find out about it, the more questions I have.Whatever happens, I have my friends with me and I am growing more powerful every day. No one can get in my way, much less stop me from reaching my goal.

I'm just a plug-and-play, Brain-in-a-Box undercover operative . . . and the best line of defense Humanity has to offer.For as long as I last. I'm The Last Cyborg.Fleet Marine Sergeant Alan Ashe thought his Cyborg life was over after his last assignment. After all, he helped Humanity win the war against the Azincor. How about a little time off to savor the moment?But, NO! It seems the powers-that-be ...

Marc Wilson is not giving up. He is determined to turn around the struggling family company and keep it, despite his father's decision to sell. The problem is that they are late on more and more projects and their customers won't tolerate it anymore. Marc is looking everywhere for a solution, when in one of his MBA classes he comes across a unique approach that views operations in terms of flow.The concept of flow is straightforward. It's easy to visualize the stream of projects go...

The open ocean, far from the shore and miles above the seafloor, is a vast and formidable habitat that is home to the most abundant life on our planet, from giant squid and jellyfish to anglerfish with bioluminescent lures that draw prey into their toothy mouths. Into the Great Wide Ocean takes listeners inside the peculiar world of the seagoing scientists who are providing tantalizing new insights into how the animals of the open ocean solve the problems of their existence.