God fills the world with families!Your family is unlike any other on earth. But why did God make all these families?In this colorful picture book, you’ll visit modern-day families of all shapes and sizes along with families from the Bible. Along the way, you’ll see that families have always been a part of God’s plan! From the beginning, He has used them to do amazing things, and He can do the same with your family today.Whether a family is ...

This two-volume set LNICST683-684 constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, MobiQuitous 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during November 7-9, 2025.The 50 full papers and 1 poster paper presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. They are organized into the following topical sections:Part I: Federated Learning and Large Language Models; Secure,...

Although she is alone in the world without anyone to call family, Mandy Lewis has courageously begun to build a new life for herself. But when she discovers she is pregnant and is soon abandoned by the babys father, Mandy faces a difficult decision. Without finances or a support system to raise a child, she decides to abort the baby.On the day of the scheduled abortion, Mandy feels confused, desperate, and lonely. When she meets Ayala Banks outside the clinic, the widow transforms ...

The last thing she wants is to dig up the past . . .When the body of a celebrated journalist is fished from the Edgartown Harbor, the official report rules his death accidental. But why was he alone on a senator's yacht during a nor'easter? That's only the first question London-based lawyer Kyra Gibson has when she arrives on the idyllic island of Martha's Vineyard to settle her estranged father's affairs.She's not looking for closure. She's not se...

Tales of the city redolent with ritual and drenched in dread.Folk Horror is primarily associated with isolated settings and weird beliefs. Traditionally the isolated setting is rural, but our cities have been around for a long time too, their histories constructed layer upon layer, their secrets long kept and buried deep. And there are other types of isolation than geographical remoteness: housing schemes and suburbs, gilded business districts and gated communities...

James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Force in World War I. This memoir was published 1917, while the war was on-going. “In spite of necessary suppression, or vagueness of names of localities, my comrades of the Fifty-fifth Battalion, to which I was attached, will recognize many of the incidents described, and I can only hope that reading what the padre has to say may cheer them in some lonely...

Some secrets are safer lost at sea . . .London based lawyer Kyra Gibson returns to Martha's Vineyard and the beach house she inherited for an extended summer holiday. Still reeling from her father's brutal murder and the role she and the handsome detective, Tarek Collins, played in uncovering it, Kyra is hopeful for some peace and quiet. But when a summer squall reveals the wreckage of the pirate ship, Keres, rich with rumored treasure, all hopes of peace ...

Murder's on the menu . . .Attorney Kyra Gibson has a lot on her mind this Thanksgiving. She's been working long hours on a multi-billion dollar corporate merger, her family is visiting from London, and her relationship with former police detective Tarek Collins is heating up. When she and her companions are invited by her aristocrat client to attend a formal gala at a historic mansion on Chappaquiddick, Kyra reluctantly agrees.But Chappy is more th...

This two-volume set LNICST683-684 constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, MobiQuitous 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during November 7-9, 2025.The 50 full papers and 1 poster paper included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. They are organized into the following topical sections:Part I: Federated Learning and Large Language Models; Secure, ...

Never had the mind of man conceived so horrible a doom as was reaching for Earth. Never had a greater need for Earth's valiant champions been needed. And yet the only ones who could fight the menace—were five futile humans, prisoners on another world.