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Blazor in Action is a practical guide to building stunning UIs and client-side applications using C# and .NET. You’ll use the Blazor frontend framework to create a fun and exciting web application for plotting hiking routes. As you build up your new application, you’ll master the key features of Blazor, such as routing, forms and validation, and dynamic and reusable components. By the time you're done, you'll be ready to develop beautiful sites and apps that seamlessly execute your C# code natively in the browser.

This audiobook is your roadmap to reclaiming control. It offers real-life, actionable strategies designed to calm the mind, restore balance, and help you break free from anxiety’s grip.

When Thomas Berrington finds the bones of a human hand in his room at Ludlow Castle, he knows he must confront whoever left them. But when Thomas tracks the man down, his throat has been cut, and Thomas believes the killer is an old adversary.

GraphQL in Action gives you the tools to get comfortable with the GraphQL language, build a data API service, and use it in a front-end client application. Reduce bandwidth demands on your APIs by getting only the results you need! The GraphQL query language simplifies interactions with web servers enabling smarter API queries that can hugely improve the efficiency of data requests. In GraphQL in Action, you'll learn how to bring those benefits to your own APIs, giving your clients the power to ask for exactly what they need from your server, no more, no less.

Imagine a slight change to our historical timeline where the Industrial Revolution heated up much quicker than expected. Technological marvels such as airships, trains, battleships, and submarines came into being much earlier. They were followed by steam-powered wonders such as mechanical men, flying ships, and even crafts capable of reaching the deepest fathoms of the sea or traveling to distant celestial orbs. That is the world where Sherlock Holmes and his Boswell, Dr. Watson find themselves in Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of Steampunk.

Mark Vardy returns to the elite and secretive Martial Arts Academy and once again must take on the evil forces of the Shadowlands Ninjas. The Shadowlands organization has discovered that the mysterious Staff of Light wielded by the Academy's White Ninja may be an all-powerful historic artifact that has empowered kings and rulers for centuries. They will stop at nothing to obtain it. Will Mark and his friends learn the secret of the Staff of Light and the source of its power? Will they keep it from falling into the hands of the wicked Shadowlands organization?

Ninja-in-training Mark Vardy is returning to the Academy - but this time, there's more afoot than mastering martial arts. In Mark Vardy and the School of Ninjas, our 12-year-old hero earned his place at the Academy - an elite martial arts institution in England's beautiful New Forest that hones the skills and spirit of a new generation of heroes. As his first year of study begins, he returns alongside new faces and finds himself presented with dangerous new challenges.

Mark Vardy is a boy on a mission - to follow in his policeman father's footsteps and train at the elite Academy of Martial Arts, hidden in the depths of England's New Forest. Mark and his friends train with mysterious senseis, learning the secrets of the martial arts and honing their skills and spirit for future adventures. In a series of challenges, Mark's skills and character are put to the test. When his future, dreams, and ambitions are at stake, can Mark keep his commitment to doing the right thing?

On a alien shore on a far distant world two space explorers find dozens of huge, mysterious sandcastles. Where did they come from? Who built them? And will the men survive long enough to discover the answers? Castles Made of Sand is a short story. It has been published twice, originally in the ezine AlienSkin in 2007, and then as a reprint in the e/print magazine Aoife's Kiss in the December 2009 issue.

The steadily expanding devotees of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street will hail with delight this crowning volume in a series of collections which have now pastiched the entire quintet of the master’s adventures. Here is another collection of “as sparkling a galaxy of Sherlockian pastiches as we have had since the canonical entertainments came to an end,” as Vincent Starrett - who contributes a preface to this book - wrote in his introduction to the first collection of the adventures of Solar Pons 20 years ago.

Nature always fights back. Even after mankind had scorched the Earth with nuclear fire, the forests regrew. New life now flourishes where it can, strange and savage. The distant descendants of the last survivors of Armageddon now live high in the interconnected branches of the vast forest, eeking out a simple existence.

On board a generation ship bound for a new Earth, the teaching device broken, the true nature of the ship long forgotten, the Captain unseen, Glyn stumbles upon the ancient journal of a young crewman of the third generation of travellers. Soon afterwards, a series of malfunctions brings about a revelation as to the true nature of their ship, and only then can their journey begin in a bewildering and dangerous land.

The prospect looked grim for Jed. Alone, his escape pod crashed on an uncharted planet with no hope of rescue. But after he died a painful grizzly death in the dry desert, things began to look up. The lifeless planet that Jed now roams turns out to hold a secret vital to the existence of life itself. D. B. Moreton-Reynolds takes us on a journey of discovery through strange and hostile landscapes, and into the depths of a machine so staggeringly vast and at the same time utterly believable.

Michael Reeves wants you to understand that the doctrine of the Trinity has everything to do with the practice of missions. When a Christian sees the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as divine persons who are so full of love that it radiates and overflows into creation — and into the lives of human beings — our perspective on missions is radically changed. No longer are missions an obligation or a drudgery. Instead, realizing the abundance of love that goes forth from God, we who have received and delighted in such love are motivated to go forth as well.

Marooned on an uncharted Planet, Kal wanders the savage wilderness on the edge of survival until he stumbles upon The Tribe living in a cave, near extinction, and threatened by the local wildlife. Kal instigates the technical and cultural birthing of the tiny people, which takes off at a breathtaking pace. But there is another technological force at play on the strange planet: a relic of some past civilisation, or something more current?

The Revolutionary. Restored to his titles Earl of Leicester, Steward of England, Simon, as permanent ambassador to France, is living contentedly in Paris when Prince Edward commits an atrocity, and the Earl must save him and his friends from Llewellyn.

King Henry III has suppressed the elected Parliament and returned England to the abusive governance that the Provisions of Oxford of 1258 corrected. But a new force is rising to oppose him. Young lords, the common people, even the outlaws of Sherwood and the Weald are organizing, led by Simon’s cousin Peter de Montfort and Gilbert de Clare. Condemned as a traitor, Simon is lured back to England from his refuge in France where he has taken the Cross of a crusader and is about to leave for the Holy Land. Seeing the cause he championed reviving, he agrees to be the leader of this new army.

DS Charlie Stone is struggling. Recently separated from his wife and estranged from his daughter Maddie, Charlie is a single dad trying hard to keep his life together. An apparently cut and dried case of murder piques Charlie's interest. As he delves further into the murky coastal underworld, he realises things are darker than they first appeared. Charlie's family become being dragged into a world of darkness, danger and depravity. Can Charlie find the answers, while keeping all he holds dear, safe from harm?

Delve into the fascinating realm of Artificial Intelligence, and explore its various facets. As technology continues to advance at an unprecedented pace, AI has emerged as one of the most transformative fields, captivating the attention of people from all walks of life. Whether you are a seasoned professional or simply a curious mind over 30, this book, AI Mastery: A Guide for the Curious 30+ Mind, will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of AI and its applications.

Fifteen-year-old Rose has always had worse things to worry about than the foretold end of the world. Ever since her father abandoned them, she has struggled to provide for her poor family and shield her younger siblings from their mother’s drunken rages. But when Doomsday begins on a beautiful morning, Rose finally loses everybody she loves.