Bøker utgitt av Christa Frost

Bob's Diner is a book about lonely people searching for love and acceptance. There's Bob, the diner's owner, who escapes the world using his diner as his refuge and safe place; Lillian, his wife, childless, and looking for someone to mother; Mr. Twitters, a customer, who enters the diner and finds it life changing; Rosaline, who works as a waitress, wanting desperately to be needed; and Toby, an optimistic middle schooler, trying to fit in and searching for answers. Many other characters, upon entering Bob's diner, wanted to connect, to be seen, and to be heard. A large cast of people were trying to make their way in the world. All were longing for these connections during seemingly simpler times of the 1960s. And yet, as one reads on, one will notice, "Everything changes, and everything stays the same." Places and events within Bob's Diner might be different from today but the core and heart of these people remain timeless and universal. Within Bob's Diner and this small New Jersey town of Woodlake are stories of resilience, joy and optimism.

WHEN THE INTENTIONS ARE CLEAR, SO IS THE WAY. DECIDE WHAT IT IS YOU WANT.AND THE MINUTE YOU DECIDE YOU WANT BETTER FOR YOURSELF IS THE MINUTE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE SHIFTS IN YOUR FAVOR.YOUR LIFE DOES NOT GET BETTER BY CHANCE; IT GETS BETTER BY CHANGE.YOUR DECLARATIONS, COMMANDS, INTENTIONS, VISIONS, AND PRAYERS BEGIN THE CREATION OF A NEW REALITY, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS DECIDE AND NEVER LOOK BACK."NO ONE IS GOING TO RESCUE YOU FROM YOURSELF. YOUR INNER DEMONS, YOUR LACK OF CONFIDENCE, YOUR DISSATISFACTION WITH YOURSELF AND YOUR LIFE.ONLY SELF-LOVE AND CONSCIOUS DECISIONS WILL RESCUE YOU. TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE; ITS NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE DIRECTIONS."LOOKING WITHIN, THERE IS A DIVINE PRISONER THAT HAS BEEN HELD IN BONDAGE BY THE WEAKNESS OF YOUR MIND. AND OF YOUR OWN DISPOSITION THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SAVIOR.

One way or another, Melody Critchfield is going to get her "happily ever after."A few years out of college, and Melody is overworked and underappreciated...but like the idealist that she is, she doesn't mind. The nonprofit she works for is doing a lot of good in the world, so what does she care if it comes at the expense of her sleep, her relationships, or her mental health?When an opportunity comes along to spend a year working for a partner organization, Melody is torn. Should she stay put, move to Germany to work at her dream job, or accept a teaching role in Turkey?And that's where you, dear reader, come into the picture. Melody's choice is left up to you, starting with where she should be and what job she should accept. From there, more choices will come, down to which trope she should play out with her love interest. Will it be instalove? Friends-to-lovers? Enemies-to-lovers? Do you love the drama of a miscommunication or prefer to keep things a little more low stress?It's all up to you. Rest assured, Melody will find her happy ending. But how long it takes her to get there - and which route she will take - is entirely in your hands.

BOOTS AND SCOOTS, two terrier puppies, bring a whole new meaning to the word trouble! Their new home on a cattle farm in the outback brings endless opportunities for mischief and fun, both of which Boots and Scoots continue to find themselves stumbling into. The two pups find plentiful ways to stir up the local community but quickly learn that having fun is not always the best way to stay out of trouble. Then again... being good is not so interesting either!*Age recommended 5 to 8 years old"A funny and entertaining adventure from one of this country's renowned writers... A gem for all ages..." Meredith, Indie Book reviewer

Self LoveDiscover True Joy, Deep Love, and Inner PowerGuided Journal and WorkbookEmbark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and growth with our 90-day guided journal, a tool designed to unlock the profound power of self-love. This journey isn't just about celebrating strengths; it's about embracing your flaws, accepting yourself as you are at this moment, and fostering gentle, consistent growth every day.Our journal is crafted to guide you through understanding and loving every part of yourself. Each day brings new prompts and exercises that encourage you to reflect, accept, and nurture your well-being. It's a pathway not just to self-appreciation but to recognizing and embracing the beauty of your entire being - imperfections included.This journal acts as your personal companion in unraveling the layers of self-love. It helps you take small yet significant steps towards not only acknowledging but also cherishing your unique qualities. Whether it's about finding peace amidst chaos, honoring your needs, or setting boundaries that respect your well-being, this journal supports you every step of the way.Imagine a life where self-love is not an abstract concept, but a daily practice. A life where you greet each day with acceptance and kindness towards yourself, where every cell in your body resonates with the energy of love and acceptance. That's the life this guided journal aims to help you create.So, start this 90-day expedition towards a more loving, confident, and fulfilled you. Let each page turn be a step towards understanding, accepting, and loving yourself a little more. Embrace the journey to self-love and growth - your path to a brighter, more accepting life awaits.Play this music for a calming experience.Deepen Self Love, Embrace Freedom, and Transform Your LifeLasting TransformationIn just 10 minutes a day, experience a profound inner shift within 90 days, unlocking authentic power and presence.Progressive LearningEnjoy easy-to-follow, sequential lessons and practices that lead to full empowerment and self-love in 90 days.Unlock Your Inner LoveHeal past wounds, accept and forgive yourself, fostering deep love and freedom within.Embody LoveTransform your life by embracing self-love, recognizing yourself as an embodiment of love, created from love.

Kira is a fox shifter making a name for herself in a wolf's world. But when she's sent to arrest an alpha who turns out to be innocent, she's tempted to stop following orders like a wolf.

The first and original Enoch calendar is finally here. This ancient and perfect calendar includes beautiful and vivid color photographs representing important biblical characters and details the 12 Hebrew months and the Hebrew Mazzaroth all set apart feast days, Sabbath's, renewed months and even the dates of the martyrdoms of the Holy Apostles, and the births of the 12 Patriarchs are included in this color-coded calendar according to the book of Enoch and the Holy Scriptures. Various Scriptures detail the role of the Messiah's salvation plan within each of the 12 months of the year. This is the original calendar given by divine revelation in 2013 from which ALL other Enoch calendars derive. The author of this calendar also translated the Hebrew book of Enoch text into English, and it is the first available of its kind. This calendar is an inseparable addition to the book and secrets of Enoch.

Salima Siler Marriott Gibbs was born and raised in segregated Baltimore Maryland. Her loving and supportive nuclear included her parents Jesse and Cordie Siler, brothers Jesse, Jr. and James and a younger sister Gloria. From being inspired by the spirit of her great grandmother Eliza Fosque, a midwife on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, to a lifetime of rewarding girlfriend and nurturing women relationships, as well as multiple challenges, emerged the adult activist.When her oldest child entered the public schools of New York City, Salima became a parent advocate. She later embraced multiple dimensions of activism that included national and international racial justice and Black feminism. Integrating activism in government, Salima Siler Marriott Gibbs was an elected delegate to the Maryland General Assembly for sixteen years before being appointed tthe Deputy Mayor of Community and Human Development of Baltimore City, 2007-2010.Bringing Into Being Our Legacy is the story of Salima Siler Marriott Gibbs' life and the legacies of the sixteen women who were the primary influencers of her evolving adult life. The book also shares her conceptualization of a Black feminist theory from the actions and thoughts of women activist of African Ancestry beginning with the trans-Atlantic slave ships to the 21st Century and the application of the theory to African American women activists.

This book is a comprehensive guide to learning the basics of computer vision and machine learning using the powerful OpenCV library and the Python programming language. The book offers a practical, hands-on approach to learn the concepts and techniques of computer vision through practical example. All codes in this book are available at Github.Through a series of examples, the book covers a wide range of topics including image and video processing, feature detection, object detection and recognition, machine learning and deep neural networks. Each chapter includes detailed explanations of the concepts and techniques involved, as well as practical examples and code snippets that demonstrate how to implement them in Python. Throughout the book, readers will work through hands-on examples and projects, learning how to build image processing applications from scratch. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced programmer, this book provides a valuable resource for learning computer vision with OpenCV and Python. The clear and concise writing style makes it easy for readers to follow along, and the numerous examples ensure that readers can practice and apply what they have learned. By the end of the book, readers will have a solid understanding of the fundamentals of computer vision and be able to build their own computer vision applications with confidence. This book is an excellent resource for anyone looking to learn computer vision and machine learning using the OpenCV library and Python programming language.Table of Contents1. Introduction 52. Installation 13 2.1 Install on Windows 14 2.2 Install Python on Ubuntu 16 2.3 Configure PyCharm and Install OpenCV 183. OpenCV Basics 25 3.1 Load and Display Images 26 3.2 Load and Display Videos 30 3.3 Display Webcam 32 3.4 Image Fundamentals 35 3.5 Draw Shapes 42 3.6 Draw Texts 48 3.7 Draw an OpenCV-like Icon 504. User Interaction 52 4.1 Mouse Operations 53 4.2 Draw Circles with Mouse 56 4.3 Draw Polygon with Mouse 60 4.4 Crop an Image with Mouse 62 4.5 Input Values with Trackbars 645. Image Processing 70 5.1 Conversion of Color Spaces 72 5.2 Resize, Crop and Rotate an Image 77 5.3 Adjust Contrast and Brightness of an Image 83 5.4 Adjust Hue, Saturation and Value 87 5.5 Blend Image 91 5.6 Bitwise Operation 94 5.7 Warp Image 101 5.8 Blur Image 107 5.9 Histogram 1146. Object Detection 120 6.1 Canny Edge Detection 122 6.2 Dilation and Erosion 125 6.3 Shape Detection 129 6.4 Color Detection 139 6.5 Text Recognition with Tesseract 150 6.6 Human Detection 161 6.7 Face and Eye Detection 165 6.8 Remove Background 170 6.9 Blur Background 1897. Machine Learning 196 7.1 K-Means Clustering 200 7.2 K-Nearest Neighbors 216 7.3 Support Vector Machine 237 7.4 Artificial Neural Network (ANN) 254 7.5 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) 276Index 305References 308About the Author 310

Un ouvrage de préceptes et de sentences qui fait autorité dans le bouddhisme tibétain.Traduit du Mongol par les missionnaires lazaristes MM. Gabet et Huc, ce texte fut publié en 1850 dans les annales de philosophie chrétienne. La traduction est en outre agrémentée de notes critiques qui permettent d'établir un pont entre christianisme et bouddhisme, les préceptes révélés dans ces pages étant souvent très proches de l'Évangile.Cette édition bénéficie d'une mise en page dont la taille des caractères est destinée à rendre la lecture confortable.

"Agent Tessa Wells-Lancing is an experienced intelligence operative being recruited by Death itself. Jack de Sombras is an accused traitor who 'died' at the hands of his accusers. Together they discover a diabolical enterprise and murderous entity thriving in southwest Colorado. Back home they face enemies and there is every chance they'll have to kill each other before they're done. When crime bosses suddenly turn up dead, no one cares until innocent bystanders are slaughtered in the resulting territorial wars. Rumors abound that ghosts and evil spirits in the ancient dwellings of Colorado's canyons are responsible for the killing. It falls to Tessa Lancing and her burgeoning relationship with Death to find the perpetrator of these bizarre crimes, along with the powerful device capable of mesmerizing sane men into self-destruction"--

To one who has been an eye-witness of the wonderful achievements of American medical science in the conquest of acute communicable and pestilential diseases in those regions of the earth where they were supposed to be impregnably entrenched, there is the strongest possible appeal in the present rapidly growing movement for the improvement of physical efficiency and the conquest of chronic diseases of the vital organs. Through the patient, intelligent and often heroic work of our army medical men, and the staff of the United States Public Health Service, death-rates supposedly fixed have been cut in half. While it is true that to the public mind there is a more lurid and spectacular menace in such diseases as small-pox, yellow fever and plague, medical men and public health workers are beginning to realize that, with the warfare against such maladies well organized, it is now time to give attention to the heavy loss from lowered physical efficiency and chronic, preventable disease, a loss exceeding in magnitude that sustained from the more widely feared communicable diseases. The insidious encroachment of the chronic diseases that sap the vitality of the individual and impair the efficiency of the race is a matter of increasing importance. The mere extension of human life is not only in itself an end to be desired, but the well digested scientific facts presented in this volume clearly show that the most direct and effective means of lengthening human life are at the same time those that make it more livable and add to its power and capacity for achievement. Many years ago, Disraeli, keenly alive to influences affecting national prosperity, stated: "Public Health is the foundation on which reposes the happiness of the people and the power of a country. The care of the public health is the first duty of a statesman." It may well be claimed that the care of individual and family health is the first and most patriotic duty of a citizen. These are the considerations that have influenced me to co-operate with the life extension movement, and to commend this volume to the earnest consideration of all who desire authoritative guidance in improving their own physical condition or in making effective the knowledge now available for bringing health and happiness to our people.

Katherine Bruno's passionate, unfiltered temper makes her the shrew of small-town Sweetheart, Texas. When she's drafted to help the mayor's wife run against her own husband, Katherine meets opposing big city political consultant Ryan Park. The good-looking, flirtatious campaign manager gets under her skin, but fraternizing with the enemy is off-limits.Katherine must battle her lack of experience, campaign sabotage, and her growing feelings for Ryan as she strives to succeed. His unprejudiced acceptance of her strong-willed character beckons her heart, but his jaded rejection of God is an insurmountable barrier. Will Ryan return to his faith and stay with her in Sweetheart or leave when the election ends?

It is with pleasure, and pardonable pride, that the Publishers announce the appearance of The International Jewish Cookbook, which, "though we do say it ourselves," is the best and most complete kosher cook book ever issued in this country.It is the direct successor to the "Aunt Babette Cookbook," which has enjoyed undisputed popularity for more than a generation and which is no longer published. The International Jewish Cookbook is, however, far superior to the older book. It is much larger and the recipes are prepared strictly in accordance with the Jewish dietary laws.The author and compiler, Mrs. Florence K. Greenbaum, is a household efficiency woman, an expert Jewish cook, and thoroughly understands the scientific combining of foods.She is a graduate of Hunter College of New York City, where she made a special study of diet and the chemistry of foods. She was Instructor in Cooking and Domestic Science in the Young Women's Hebrew Association of New York, and is now Instructor and Lecturer for the Association of Jewish Home Makers and the Central Jewish Institute, both under the auspices of the Bureau of Jewish Education (Kehillah).Mrs. Greenbaum knows the housewife's problems through years of personal experience, and knows also how to economize. Many of these recipes have been used in her household for three generations and are still used daily in her home. There is no one better qualified to write a Jewish Cookbook than she.

Love knows no borders, but can it bridge cultural differences?Picking up where Pride, Prejudice, & Turkish Delight left off, follow the conclusion of Eliza's journey as she navigates love, family, and friendship in the beautiful coastal city of Antalya, Turkey.After a summer back home in Michigan, Eliza is thrilled to return to Antalya and the arms of Deniz, her Turkish love. Though they have already overcome professional obstacles and misunderstandings, now their relationship is complicated by the fact that Deniz's traditional family has yet to learn of their romance. As Eliza struggles with the cultural barriers that threaten to keep them apart, she finds solace in the unwavering support of her best friend Crystal, who is learning some lessons about love of her own.In a city where old traditions meet modern customs, Eliza must learn to balance her head and heart as she faces unexpected challenges that test her loyalty, her resilience, and her capacity for love. Will she be able to bridge the gap between her sensibility and her heart's desires, or will she lose everything she holds dear in the process?Set against the backdrop of Antalya's stunning landscapes and colorful culture, this novel is a poignant and heartfelt tale of love, friendship, and self-discovery.

Love is complicated. But then so is a stake through the heart.

Why should you try to make soap yourself? Your soap can be customized to your own specifications. Everything, from the fragrance, to the color, to the shape can be tailored to meet your desires. This is a great advantage which can distinguish your product from others, and make it very unique to you. Useful herbs can be included to get the desired soap suitable for your skin. Herbs like aloe-vera, which has been used for years for its cosmetic, anti-inflammatory and rejuvenating properties, can easily be incorporated into the soap to enrich it and make it more beneficial than the regular commercial soaps. Finally, it is not as harsh and contains fewer chemicals, unlike the commercial ones which are made of pure chemicals with lots of natural components extracted for financial gain. Try producing and using home-made soap, not only will your skin thank you for it, your pockets will as well. This book is written to give you a line-by-line method on how to produce soap safely at home. You will find all you need to know about soap making, including: Soap making equipment and molds Soap making ingredients Soap making safety Soap making methods Using essential oils, herbs, and other natural additives Scenting and designing soap Soap making recipes Try and see how easy and fun it is to make natural homemade soap!

Michael Connor "MC" Dunne led charmed life. He had a plan-finish veterinary school, get married, and take over the local animal clinic. Enter the Vietnam War.MC returns home, injured, to Park Haven, Tennessee, and soon learns there's a new vet in town, hired when the local veterinarian suffered a heart attack. So much for his plan.Violent flashbacks and nightmares pull MC away from his faith and turn him into a hermit. His safe place is the family farm, working on the old cabin and restoring the chapel his great-uncle built in the early 1900s, with the family's heirloom stained-glass window.Nancy Jean Baker struggles to prove herself as a competent veterinarian to the small-town skeptics of Park Haven. Fighting her own demons from a traumatic past, she's driven to succeed.But when war veteran MC Dunne returns home, wounded and wary, Nancy discovers she's standing between him and his dream.Can they help each other overcome their hurts and horrors? Or is their hope of happiness doomed when the past threatens to ruin their future?

This is a journey of healing, hurting, and healing again. The ups and downs of mental health. The highs of healthy relationships and the lows of toxic ones.

Los mendigos de la luz de mercurio -We the other people- hace su debut como novela social dentro de la literatura norteamericana. Narra la fusión del poder político y la pobreza invisible en medio de la crisis de los valores conservadores de la sociedad, la injusticia social, los excesos de los extremismos y la politización del sufrimiento como herramienta de poder.La historia se enfoca en una familia, los Newman, caídos en una desgracia económica que sume a su patriarca en estado depresivo en los años previos a la crisis de salud global, que, a la postre, termina siendo el telón de fondo de la novela. Steve Newman representa al patriarca que lucha por superarse, creando juegos imaginarios en los que mezcla vivencias y ficciones como terapia para espantar la depresión. De su desventura y agobio sin embargo, surge la resiliencia que lo rescata de los demonios que lo persiguen y termina convirtiéndolo en un conmiserado social. Steve sobrelleva su nueva vida conociendo de primera mano el abandono de los invisibles sociales desde la pobreza y no desde el trono de la opulencia como solía percibirla antes de su fracaso. La novela de Castaño-Bedoya recrea la vida de quienes sobrellevan su existencia bajo el desamparo de la Constitución y de quienes claman por su derecho universal a vivir sin miedo.