Die erfolgreiche Reise-Bloggerin Sophie kehrt zu Weihnachten widerwillig in ihre Heimatstadt zurück, um ihrer Mutter bei den Vorbereitungen zum jährlichen Charity Event zu helfen. Seit sie hier vor vier Jahren in der Weihnachtszeit vor dem Traualtar stehengelassen wurde, hasst Sophie das Fest der Liebe. Ihre Mutter teilt sie ausgerechnet dem Arzt Finn zu, der das Event für das Kinderkrankenhaus organisiert. Die beiden sind sich direkt unsympat...
What really happened to Sara-Jane?It's been fifteen years since Gem's eight-year-old daughter Sara-Jane went missing, snatched with her best friend Abby right outside their school. A frantic search united the community at first, but after Abby was found and brought home, single mother Gem's dogged persistence only led to accusations that she was stirring up class tensions. Even that she was somehow involved.When Gem hears that human remains ha...
What really happened to Sara-Jane?It's been fifteen years since Gem's eight-year-old daughter Sara-Jane went missing, snatched with her best friend Abby right outside their school. A frantic search united the community at first, but after Abby was found and brought home, single mother Gem's dogged persistence only led to accusations that she was stirring up class tensions. Even that she was somehow involved.When Gem hears that human remains ha...
A celebration of the history and tradition of whole-hog barbeque from the ?most famous? pitmaster in North CarolinaEd Mitchell's journey in the barbeque business began in 1991 with a lunch for his mama, who was grieving the loss of Ed's father. Ed drove to the nearby Piggly Wiggly to buy a thirty-five-pound pig?that's a small one?and fired up the coals. As smoke filled the air and the pork skin started to crackle, the few customers at the fami...
This book provides valuable new information to those interested in Chinese history, international legal history, and international relations. Its new explorations of archives and other primary sources are helpful for researchers in these fields. It also appeals to general readers eager to learn more about China's role in world affairs.
It's twenty years since Eva, a biracial woman, was adopted as an eight-year-old, and Cherry and Carlton 'Sugar' McNeil have always been the only parents she's wanted or needed. But when she's dealt the double blow of Cherry's death and her own suspension from work, Eva decides it's time to discover who she was before she was theirs. Against Sugar's advice, Eva joins a DNA database, desperate for a match that will unlock her identity. And when ...
If programming is magic then web scraping is surely a form of wizardry. By writing a simple automated program, you can query web servers, request data, and parse it to extract the information you need. The expanded edition of this practical book not only introduces you web scraping, but also serves as a comprehensive guide to scraping almost every type of data from the modern web.Part I focuses on web scraping mechanics: using Python to reques...
In the dark, nothing—and nowhere— is off-limits, and anything can happen. Saundra Mitchell presents original stories of the dangers, possibilities, and hopes born of darkness by . . .Sarah Rees BrennanKate EspeyTessa GrattonRachel HawkinsChristine JohnsonValerie KempMalinda LoMyra McentireSaundra MitchellSarah OcklerJackson PearceAprilynne PikeDia ReevesBeth RevisCarrie RyanJon SkovronCourtney Summers
Tiny Houses Built with Recycled Materials is full of ideas for using reclaimed materials and upcycled goods to construct a tiny house that is good for the earth and truly unique.
Tim Dixon wants to be home playing video games like most teens. Instead, he's paddling a boat, through the swamp, at night, searching for a bird that's been extinct for years.Tim's cousin, Abby, insists they prove that a Cape May Woodpecker is still alive, and living in their small Kentucky county.Felix Wilson recently spotted the distinctive bird-right where a road is to be built. But Felix has also witnessed UFOs: the flying saucer kind. Sti...
Two Northern Kentucky teenagers are racing against the clock to write, shoot, edit, and produce a short detective movie in just 48 hours. Nothing follows the script, though, as precious minutes tick away.
Twelve-year-old Victoria Johnson reluctantly enlists in the Union Army. She's a little late, the Civil War was fought nearly 150 years ago. But Vic's sixth-grade class has joined adult re-enactors staging the October 8, 1862, Battle of Perryville. Grudgingly, Vic trades her iPod, cell phone, and TV for a kepi, wooden rifle, and bug-infested tent for one weekend.
