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“I will probably be clutching Flowers in the Attic in my gnarled hands on my deathbed.” —Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl The twisted, beloved Dollanganger legend began two generations before Corrine Foxworth locked away her children in Flowers in the Attic...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful and accessible translation of Marcus Aurelius’s timeless book on character, what it takes to be a good leader, and how to live a fulfilling life. Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire at its height, yet he remained untainted by the immense wealth and absolute...

For centuries, mankind has searched for nonhuman civilizations in the cosmos. These lost alien societies have finally been discovered—but they were destroyed long ago. Devin Starn starts off as a lowly rock rat aboard Borag, a mining ship working the dangerous end of the asteroid belt. Slowly, he gains prestige and purpose. When an alien base is uncovered, however, he must risk everything to protect his ship and her crew. What wiped out all the civilizations that came before humanity?

Noam wurde vor 8.000 Jahren geboren, in der Jungsteinzeit, als sich die bis dahin umherwandernden Menschen in Gruppen niederließen. Von seinem Vater, dem Clanchef Pannoam, viel zu jung verheiratet, verliebt sich Noam in die hinreißende Noura. Als er diese zur Zweitfrau nehmen möchte, schockiert ihn Pannoam, indem er Noura selbst heiratet. Noam verlässt das Dorf und findet Unterschlupf bei dem baumstarken Jäger Barak, bei dem er die alten Freiheiten der Jäger und Sammler kennenlernt. Doch eines Tages flieht Noura zu Noam in die Wälder und gesteht ihm ihre Liebe.

The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible circumstances that bring Diana Holland and Lane Christianson together in this passionate novel of first discovery.

W trakcie kampanii na nowej planecie James McGill odkrywa niepokojącą intrygę. Do gry o władzę pragnie dołączyć niespodziewany gracz, chcąc uprzedzić pozostałych i przywłaszczyć sobie tron. Czy nowe mocarstwo zdoła zaprowadzić porządek w Imperium, czy może spowoduje jego ostateczny rozpad?

Un joven hindú, nacido en Trinidad, llega a la antigua metrópoli y al enfrentarse a ese nuevo mundo descubre la necesidad y el placer de aprender de nuevo. El proceso de construcción de una mirada. Llegar presupone una preparación, unas expectativas; produce angustia y deseos. Llegar supone afrontar una separación previa, un desgarramiento, un tránsito, establecer vínculos nuevos. Ocasiona incomodidad y desconcierto, pero también enriquecimientos inesperados, hallazgos múltiples. Llegar, en fin, es transitar por un limbo que no está en el origen ni en el término del trayecto.

Rebel Moon Part Two—The Scargiver continues the epic saga of Kora and the surviving warriors as they prepare to sacrifice everything, fighting alongside the brave people of Veldt, to defend a once peaceful village, a newfound homeland for those who have lost their own in the fight against the Motherworld. On the eve of their battle, the warriors must face the truths of their own pasts, each revealing why they fight. As the full force of the Realm bears down on the burgeoning rebellion, unbreakable bonds are forged, heroes emerge, and legends are made.

Basics of Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary Audio is a convenient and useful audio companion for students wanting to learn and reinforce Biblical Hebrew vocabulary. This audio product includes every term that occurs fifty times or more in the Hebrew Bible. Vocabulary is read in order of frequency and...

Addie LaRue ist die Frau, an die sich niemand erinnert. Die unbekannte Muse auf den Bildern Alter Meister. Die namenlose Schönheit in den Sonetten der Dichter. Dreihundert Jahre lang reist sie durch die europäische Kulturgeschichte - und bleibt dabei doch stets allein. Seit sie im Jahre 1714 einen Pakt mit dem Teufel geschlossen hat, ist sie dazu verdammt, ein ruheloses Leben ohne Freunde oder Familie zu führen und als anonyme Frau die Großstädte zu durchstreifen.

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.

Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night, the world is overrun by demons - bloodthirsty creatures of nightmare that have been hunting the surface for over 300 years. A scant few hamlets and half-starved city-states are all that remain of a once proud civilization, and it is only by hiding behind wards, ancient symbols with the power to repel the demons, that they survive. A handful of Messengers brave the night to keep the lines of communication open between the increasingly isolated populace.

In Relationship Matters in Adult Education, Volume 2, you will discover specific step-by-step strategies to help you thrive and excel in your online learning adventures. Written for adult learners in the online world, the book is a comprehensive exploration of students’ perspectives of “relationships” and of making connections in e-learning communities. Maybe you wanted to take an online course before, but you became anxious or worried about succeeding. Or perhaps, you’d enroll in internet courses before and experienced failure.

Jerry and Diane show us how to look at every relationship as if there were only two emotions: love and fear. Fear, whose motto is "seek, but never find," is a product of our ego - our negative mind that views life as a constant battle in which we must defend ourselves, pass judgments and condemn. Love, the absence of fear and its accompanying guilt, is a beautiful light symbolizing our connection to a Higher Power.

Returning to rural Vermont for her senior year after time abroad, New Yorker Daphne Howard just wants to make it to graduation. She’s still processing the sting of her social circle moving off-campus under the thrall of Serena Vigil, a talented poet from Texas who happens to be Daphne’s nemesis. But when a gruesome story overheard at a local bar leads Daphne to consider an unusual artifact discovered on campus in a new light, friends, lovers, and others unite to confront the collision of present and past, political, and personal.

A Chronicles of Ixia Novel featuring behind-the-scenes notes from the author, exclusive to the audio edition Choose: a quick death…or slow poison… Locked deep in the palace dungeon for killing her abuser, Yelena knows she’ll never be free again. The laws in Ixia are strict, and murderers...

An introduction to generative AI and LLMs, outlining their history, applications, and key concepts like tokens, embeddings, and attention mechanisms. The guide then delves into the mathematical and statistical foundations of LLMs, covering essential topics such as probability theory, linear algebra, calculus, and deep learning basics. The main focus is on practical aspects of designing and training LLMs, including data collection, data preprocessing, model architectures, training techniques, evaluation metrics, and fine-tuning. The text further explores deploying LLMs in production environment

Generative artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on its implementation using the C++ programming language. The text covers fundamental concepts, techniques, and practical applications of generative models, such as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The sources also explain how to build neural networks, train deep learning models, and perform tasks related to natural language processing (NLP), such as text preprocessing and word embeddings.

Cass thinks she might have this ghost-hunting thing down. After all, she and her ghost best friend, Jacob, have survived two haunted cities while traveling for her parents' TV show. But nothing can prepare Cass for New Orleans, which wears all of its hauntings on its sleeve. In a city of ghost tours and tombs, raucous music and all kinds of magic, Cass could get lost in all the colorful, grisly local legends. And the city's biggest surprise is a foe Cass never expected to face: a servant of Death itself.

The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals V. S. Pritchett called her “a genius.” Gore Vidal described her as a “beloved novelist of singular brilliance . . . Of all the Southern writers, she is...