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Fix dinner, Ella. Clean the house, Ella. Get the shoes fixed, Ella. Ella is different than most young women in town. She would rather read than watch television. She values kindness over popularity, and she secretly wishes for a family who actually wants her around. Ella has faced loss and tragedy, and yet she keeps a sweet, brave face, no matter how difficult life becomes. Chris has entertained an unrequited love for Aida Mast for years, but when he sees her at a shopping mall in the city, dressed strangely, he goes in search of an explanation. What is she hiding?

Everyone at the Sweet Shop Bakery and the Irish Blessings Cafe is worrying over Bella and her baby and busily trying to convince her to take it easy. Katie is not the only person in town with some big decisions ahead of her. And the busy summer season kicks off with a big surprise for everyone.

The Halls of Trepidation are Verstra’s worst prison - the hell into which criminals and terrorists are thrown, never to reemerge. The Rainbow is all-powerful, the only thing standing between Verstra and the forces of darkness, the demons and vampires and werewolves. Only the threat of looming war could drive the omnipotent organization into the bowels of hell in search of salvation. When Yarra White - notorious assassin and militia leader - is sprung from the prison by the very organization that sent her there, an organization that wants her dead, she fears the worst.

In the small town of Abbott Creek, mystery is as much a part of daily life as The Sweet Shop's sugar cookies. Katie Chupp spends her days at The Sweet Shop...baking for the upcoming holidays and enjoying the changing seasons. It's Valentine's day in Abbott Creek and everyone is sharing their romantic stories. Book five in the Amish Sweet Shop Mystery series.

A short steampunk airship adventure with teenagers, danger, and excitement.

Accessibility is so much more than ramps and physical access. This book explores how we can enable everyone to have a deep knowledge of God’s love.... Love Surpassing Knowledge is about creating an accessible community which reflects God’s heart for all people. Accessibility is so much more than ramps and physical access. This book explores how we can enable everyone to have a deep knowledge of God’s love - a love that surpasses the things we can cognitively know or explain.

A modern romance short story about teenagers from two minorities. They meet at an afternoon job. Both are poor and underprivileged. She balances his anger, and he provides safety and security. This short story of a relationship ended before its time.

Do you like Trivia? Black history? Learning? Then this book has the information you need regarding black history through the years. A few of the stories are well known, others might be new to you.

In a world where each person is gifted, all Alyssia wants is to discover her strength. Her best friend tries to point her to her Creator, but she wants nothing to do with the One she feels has abandoned her. Jaden Cross sees her power to be so similar to his gift.

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As women of color, we are scarce in the travel community, and there are several confusions attached to our experience. We feel a sense of pride after every trip. Anytime we step outside of our homes and set out on a new journey, it’s not just to see something beautiful, or to take great pictures for a blog; it’s about changing the reputation of black women everywhere.

In the small town of Abbott Creek, mystery is as much a part of daily life as the sweet shop's pumpkin pies. Katie Chupp spends her days at the sweet shop...baking for the upcoming holidays and enjoying the changing seasons. Thanksgiving is approaching and the residents of Abbott Creek are preparing to give thanks for their blessings. But between fielding questions from every person in town who is desperate to find out where Mrs. Simpkins has gone, to finding extra help for the busy holiday season, Katie's blessings this year are being outweighed by her problems.

Amelia Simpkins may be a great cook, and have a head for business, but sweet treats are out of her league and the owner of the Irish Blessings Cafe says it's because she adds the tart to the Sweet Shop's new dessert that Katie Chupp insists is only filled with lemony goodness. The two shop owners' constant bickering sends sparks flying through Abbott Creek's usual calm...and this is one mystery Katie wants no part of, but working for Mrs. Simpkins may put her in the middle - whether she intends to take sides...or not.

This revision of Manning's popular The Quick Python Book offers a clear, crisp introduction to the elegant Python programming language and its famously easy-to-read syntax. Written for programmers new to Python, this edition covers features common to other languages concisely, while introducing Python's comprehensive standard functions library and unique features in detail. After exploring Python's syntax, control flow, and basic data structures, the book shows how to create, test, and deploy full applications and larger code libraries.

Hollywood vs. The Author is a collection of non-fiction anecdotes by authors who’ve had the pleasure of experiencing the development room firsthand - some who have successfully managed to straddle the two worlds, seeing their works morph into the kinds of feature films and TV shows that make them proud, and others who stepped blindsided into that room after selling their first or second novels. All the stories in this collection illustrate the great divide between the world of literature and the big or small screen.

From the time she was a child, Mas Arai’s daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa - never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For years now, his resentful daughter has lived a continent away in New York City and had a life he knew little about. But an anxious phone call from Mari asking for his help plunges the usually obstinate Mas into a series of startling situations.

Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win - from a novelty slot machine! - he’s torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas’s pal G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else’s business, but at G. I.’s prodding, he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime.

LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend’s ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy’s death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see justice served.

In the small town of Abbott Creek, mysteries are as much a part of daily life as Katie Chupp's Christmas cookies. It's the most wonderful time of the year. With a winter chill settling in and Christmas right around the corner, no one would expect a mystery, but a mystery does indeed appear. Katie Chupp is spending her days catering to the holiday rush, but she soon finds herself in the midst of a secret project that attracts more attention than she wants. And when one local family finds a very unexpected surprise at their door, this is one mystery that may never be solved... even by Katie.

In the small town of Abbott Creek, mystery is as much a part of daily life as The Sweet Shop's sugar cookies. Katie Chupp spends her days at The Sweet Shop, taking care of customers and baking delicious treats....not exactly a profession where one expects to be thrown into the midst of mysteries and mayhem. But when the bakery is broken into, someone has to find the thief...besides finding another place to do the baking and get the orders to the customers.