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.

Why philosophers have advocated simple living for 2,500 years—and why we ignore them at our perilFrom Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have associated simple living with wisdom, integrity, and happiness. But why? And are they right? Is a taste for luxury fundamentally misguided? If one has the means to be a spendthrift, is it foolish or reprehensible to be extravagant?In this book*,...

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. But we go deeper. You'll discover strategies to optimize code, leverage multi-threading, and apply cutting-edge methods like lazy load...

This textbook introduces and explains the basic concepts on which statics is based utilizing real engineering examples. The authors emphasize the learning process by showing a real problem, analyzing it, simplifying it, and developing a way to solve it. This feature teaches students intuitive thinking in solving real engineering problems using the fundamentals of Newton’s laws.This book also:· Stresses representation of physical reality in ways that allow students to solve ...

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.

The Wanderer's Notebook is an interconnected series of short stories combining sci-fi, fantasy, and horror elements. These connections range from stories directly following one another, to shared creatures and worlds, to hidden connections that will be revealed over time.The sprites are lured from a world where reality is easily shaped by the mind to one where it is solid and unchanging. Confusion and misunderstanding lead to newfound feelings and horrors.A little girl move...

Sympathy with the sea, with the weird, and with monsters fills the stories of Imperfect Commentaries. Ruthanna Emrys's collection offers listeners feminist and #ownvoices Neo-Lovecraftian fiction, anthropological science fiction, and fantasies of belonging, plus miscellaneous deleted scenes, poems, and secret story origins. Listeners familiar with her novels (Winter Tide and Deep Roots) will see the first appearance of Aphra Marsh, an Innsmouth survivor, still re...

"Wicked for the Cthulhu Mythos" —Seanan McGuire on the Innsmouth LegacyRuthanna Emrys’ Innsmouth Legacy, which began with Winter Tide and continues with Deep Roots, confronts H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos head-on, boldly upturning his fear of the unknown with a heart-warming story of found family, acceptance, and perseverance in the face of human cruelty and the cosmic apathy of the universe. Emrys brings together a family of outsiders...

On the day she was born in 1950 as one of two identical twins, Patty O’Leary Emry’s formidable challenges were only just beginning. The exhilaration of welcoming new life quickly gave way to desperation as doctors discovered that Patty had multiple congenital difficulties. With underdeveloped digestive, urinary tract, and reproductive systems, the prognosis was grim. When the hospital staff declared that the baby would die within a few days, her steadfast parents refused to give up hope, and ...

Two novellas in one bookThe Sheltering Flame by Ruthanna EmrysThree old friends fleeing from their lives in academia take on a unique restoration project in the hills of New England, only to find that the stewardship of their crumbling new property comes with a magical obligation. When a desperate teenager turns up on their doorstep claiming sanctuary, it brings them into direct conflict with an ancient power of the land – one who rules over its debtors wit...