This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a world that took everything, she found the only thing that mattered.Eight years after the fall, the creatures roam in hordes and the survivors cling to whatever warmth they can find, food, shelter, each other.Niki is sixteen and alone, searching for a father she fears is already gone.Ben is a man trying to rebuild a life the world keeps destroying.And somewhere, the truth about how it all started is buried in th...

Intended to become the emperor's concubine, she died at the bottom of a cliff near Prince Atsuhira's private villa. The palace covered up the scandal. Months later, Akitada is drawn into the case when his best friend is accused of treason. Atsuhira, his alleged co-conspirator, refuses to defend himself. The mystery of the lady's death unravels slowly, bringing danger to Akitada, whose household is already threatened when an ill-fated relationship between Genba and a prostitute leads to his...

“A stellar debut . . . about an unconventional family, fear, hatred, violence, chasing love, losing it and finding it again just when we need it most.”—The New York Times Book ReviewWINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD • “A wonder . . . [This book] teems with real, Trinidadian life.”—Claire Adam, award-winning author of Golden ChildSEMI-FINALIST FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE • One of the Best Books of the Summer: Time...

In this Shamus-Award-winning short story, the young Akitada becomes a detective when a father asks him to find his daughter. To Akitada’s dismay, the young woman has been murdered and the suspect is a convenient peddler. But this seems all wrong, and Akitada persists in his search for the real killer though it involves great risks to himself.

Redeeming Eden stands out by highlighting the often overlooked but significant role of women in shaping redemptive history. It weaves together a cohesive narrative that demonstrates how women, despite being frequently undervalued in Ancient Near Eastern cultures, courageously initiate and advance key movements in Scripture. From Eve, who anticipates God's redemption, to Tamar, whose boldness transforms Judah, Rahab, who saves the two spies, and many others, each chapter builds upo...

Eleven short stories about crime and detection in eleventh century Japan are arranged chronologically for Akitada's career. They include cases that happened during traditional holidays and contain clues such as moon cakes, Chinese lutes, feral cats, and incense competitions.

Hitler’s Forgotten Children is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program in World War 2.Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children from across Europe. Through a process called Germanization, they were to become the next generation of the Aryan master race in the second phase of the Final Solution.In the sum...

The massive growth in the popularity of yoga as a form of exercise and as a method of maintaining whole-body wellness has led to thousands of published research studies confirming what yoga practitioners already know: Yoga relieves stress, improves mental and emotional health, enhances sleep, relieves low back pain and neck pain, promotes weight loss, and even enables smoking cessation. Further study has proven that yoga helps individuals with disabilities improve their functional activiti...

His lies stole my heart, the truth broke it into a million pieces.Drevan Morningstar opens his mouth and lies pour out.What did I expect? He is Lucifer’s son, and the feelings I allowed to grow are my fault. Yay to naivety!But life goes on, and humanity’s future still hangs in the balance, and I must keep working with Drevan to redeem five more sinners. That is challenge enough. However, things are never easy when dealing with evil demons, and to co...

If you are getting started in cybersecurity operations, evolving your existing security operations center (SOC), or engaging with a SOC regularly, 11 Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center helps you understand what it takes to stand up, grow, and evolve a truly great SOC. Fully revised, this second edition includes new material and evolved thinking to bring a fresh approach to excelling at cybersecurity operations.This book guides cyber professionals through ap...

This book features research contributions from The Abel Symposium on Statistical Analysis for High Dimensional Data, held in Nyvågar, Lofoten, Norway, in May 2014.The focus of the symposium was on statistical and machine learning methodologies specifically developed for inference in “big data” situations, with particular reference to genomic applications. The contributors, who are among the most prominent researchers on the theory of statistics for high dimensional inference, prese...

Outrageous Pippi Longstocking has no parents around and no rules to follow, so she lives according to her own daredevilish ways. She's been treating her friends Tommy and Annika to wild adventures, too--like buying and eating seventy-two pounds of candy, or sailing off to an island in the middle of a lake to see what it's like to be shipwrecked. But then Pippi's long lost father returns, and she might have to leave Villa Villekulla!From the Hans Christian Andersen Medal-winning aut...