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The Bell family are terrorized by an invisible, talking poltergeist that has taken up residence in their home. While the children are beaten and harassed in their beds, their father is stricken by seizures, and visiting skeptics are confounded by a hateful, disembodied voice that ridicules their attempts at investigation. Centered around the person of young Betsy Bell, the Bell Witch haunting has been called the 19th century's answer to The Exorcist and has been the inspiration for such popular films as The Blair Witch Project and An American Haunting.

Rediscover childhood in this vast collection of illuminating stories that are reminiscent of classical rhymes and tales. The second part to Timeless Tales, Nursery Rhymes and Poems shares in adventures we had as children and introduces new and imaginative possibilities for young listeners. With so many captivating stories, children will never cease to be enchanted.

... und in der Dunkelheit lauert die Gefahr. Das muss der junge Arlen auf bittere Weise selbst erfahren. Schon seit Jahrhunderten haben Dämonen, die sich des Nachts aus den Schatten erheben, die Menschheit zurückgedrängt. Das einzige Mittel, mit dem die Menschen ihre Angriffe abwehren können, sind die magischen Runenzeichen. Als Arlens Mutter bei solch einem Dämonenangriff umkommt, flieht er aus seinem Heimatdorf.

Two friends, Ambrose Merrion, a clerk of the court of Massachusetts, and Danny Hilliard, a rising politician, agree that politics is the way to help society take care of its own. With Merrion shrewdly managing his friend's campaigns, they make an excellent team, managing to revitalize the local economy and to protect the unfortunate snared in the criminal justice system. But trouble starts brewing when Merrion unexpectedly inherits ill-gotten gains from a corrupt predecessor.

In best-selling author George Higgins' electrifying legal thriller, Jerry Kennedy, the guy his ex-wife calls "the classiest sleazy criminal lawyer", must defend the man that no one else will: Billy Ryan.

In 1950, publisher Fawcett Books founded its Gold Medal imprint, inaugurating the reign of lesbian pulp fiction. These were the books that small-town lesbians and prurient men bought by the millions - cheap, easy to find in drugstores, and immediately recognizable by their lurid covers: often a hard-looking brunette standing over a scantily clad blonde, or a man gazing in tormented lust at a lovely, unobtainable lesbian. For women leading straight lives, here was confirmation that they were not alone.

Lilly may be losing a husband, but she's gaining a toy poodle. That could be seen as a win-win, since her new adopted pooch, Aggie (named after Agatha Christie), is cute and adorable and Lilly's dirty dog of a spouse is cheating on her with a blonde bimbo - except for one problem: Albert Echosby's just been murdered, and Lilly is the number-one suspect.

Comprehensive guide to large language models (LLMs), artificial intelligence systems designed to understand and manipulate human language. It covers the history and evolution of LLMs, including key concepts like the Transformer architecture and attention mechanisms. The document then explores popular LLM models, such as GPT-3 and BERT, along with their use cases and applications in various industries, including business, finance, marketing, entertainment, and healthcare. The text further details the training process for LLMs, including data collection, preprocessing, and optimization technique

A comprehensive guide for developers who want to build Generative AI applications. The text explains the foundations of Generative AI and introduces AWS Bedrock as a cloud-based platform designed for building these applications. The book outlines how to choose the right Foundational Models, fine-tune them with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) for specific tasks, and write effective prompts to guide the models' output. The book also explores key aspects of building a Generative AI application, such as user interface design, integration with other AWS services, and security considerations.

provides a comprehensive guide to understanding, building, and deploying large language models (LLMs) in enterprise settings. It covers fundamental concepts in natural language processing (NLP), common LLM architectures like BERT, GPT, and T5, data collection and preparation techniques, model training, and fine-tuning methods. The text further explores crucial production aspects, including infrastructure optimization, security, compliance, and continuous monitoring.

Based on The Action Bible, this extensive guide to Bible characters includes fascinating facts and figures about the Bible’s most curious but sometimes relatable people. From Adam and Eve’s most embarrassing moment to the details of a Roman soldier’s armor to Zechariah’s hometown, this jam-packed guide will engage kids’ minds and hearts as they meet people just like them whom God used in His redemptive story.

Being dared to kiss a man in the moonlight is all well and good, but men and moonlight do not fall from the skies at will. Until they do. Under instruction from a friend, drab Alice Dowding lingers alone on a moonlit balcony. Not the most sensible course of action for a usually sensible girl. Yet, being sensible has gained Alice a seat among the wallflowers, and her only likely chance of marriage to a man she finds nigh on repulsive. Something must be done.

The ISO/IEC 23894:2023 standard is a guide for organizations to manage the risks associated with artificial intelligence systems. The standard provides a framework for identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks throughout the AI system lifecycle. It covers a wide range of topics, including data quality, algorithmic transparency, bias mitigation, ethical oversight, adversarial resilience, and governance

My female matches two Vetusians: me, and the warrior she just killed. Fate is unpredictable. One moment I lose my destined female. The very next, I walk in on the kill of the other male who intended to claim her. For the Empire, the punishment for murder is death; her execution inevitable. Until I steal Katie and her daughter away to Odheim. A planet where all the ugliness of the universe comes together, including the darkest memories of my past. I’m a sgu’dal, an ex-addict. The shame of the healer stratum. But unsuitable, I am not, and now is the time for me to prove it.

Eroe, mercenario, sognatore, corsaro, liberatore, scrittore, marinaio, playboy, generale, contadino, rivoluzionario...

Saving a champion show jumper from a burning horse trailer gives young rider-trainer Robb Slaughter one job: finding out who tied that horse in that trailer and making them pay. For Robb, avenging that horse means atonement. It’s the horses who’ve saved him from the torrent of unanswered cries inside his head. Clearing the big jumps on horses he cares about has given him a hard-won mental peace. He has built a good life for himself as a professional show-jumping rider, on his way to Grand-Prix stardom . . .Until that fire.

Sie bringt den Tod. Ist er bereit, für sie zu sterben? Eine Berührung von Kaythara ist tödlich. Immer. Daher lebt sie in einem von der Welt abgeschotteten Tempel, unter den strengen Gesetzen des Königreichs des schwarzen Mondes. Bis ein geheimnisvoller Wärter plötzlich alle Regeln für sie bricht ... und sie über ihre magische Gabe und das Leben außerhalb der Mauern aufklärt: Kaythara soll für den bevorstehenden Krieg genutzt werden. Als Soldatin, gefährlich und zum Gehorsam erzogen. Als Braut, magisch begabt und schön, geeignet für einen mächtigen Lord.

The authors of The Phoenix Encounter Method don't advise safety. In fact, their method of leadership thinking requires you to imagine burning your business to the ground - throwing yourself into a firestorm change - and turning the upheaval to your organization's advantage. It can then rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes, stronger and more powerful than ever.

Der Podcast zum Restless Legs Syndrom (RLS) bietet euch gleichermaßen spannende, informative und valide Informationen rund um das Thema „unruhigen Beine“. Hier kommen Betroffene und Angehörige ebenso zu Wort wie Ehrenamtliche, RLS-Experten sowie Vertreter aus Politik und Gesundheitswesen. Moderiert werden die Talks von Waltraud Duven, Vorstandsmitglied der RLS-Vereinigung, und dem Selbsthilfe-Podcaster Marius Schlichting.

Everything changed when I witnessed an alien crash near my home. It carried two things: a beautiful blue-skinned woman who can fly, and an artifact capable of granting superpowers. The government got the ship, I got the girl...and the power. Now men are mutating into monsters, and only I can stop them. Well, myself and a trio of superheroines created to counter me and my extraterrestrial roommate. I need to find that ship, because something worse is coming.