After escaping imprisonment by a ruthless militia, 16-year-old Jess must traverse an unfamiliar and dangerous landscape, relying on her childhood best friend Erin to survive. Together these two brave but traumatized girls struggle against the elements and evade armed gangs, driven forward by loyalty and their dream of home. When a violent attack leaves Erin dead, Jess is shattered but finds new purpose protecting two orphaned children, David and Tina. Forming a surrogate family with the young survivors rekindles her capacity for love and nurturing amidst overwhelming grief and trauma. Guided by an elder named Madge, this group of damaged souls finds refuge in an ancestral cave. Madge's ancestral stories and resilience provide comfort, helping them heal and grow strong. But the threats of the outside world loom, and each day is a battle to hold on to hope and bits of normalcy. Fans of The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison, and The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey will be drawn into this gritty but heartfelt coming-of-age tale set in a starkly rendered post-apocalyptic world. War's End: The Storm is a gripping character-driven narrative of love, loss, and the enduring power of family in even the darkest of times. Haunting yet uplifting, it will stay with you long after the final page.Get your copy today! ***Trigger Alert: This book contains a single, but graphic, description of a main character's rape.***

Master the intricacies of Apache Storm and develop real-time stream processing applications with ease About This Book Exploit the various real-time processing functionalities offered by Apache Storm such as parallelism, data partitioning, and more Integrate Storm with other Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HBase, and Apache Kafka An easy-to-understand guide to effortlessly create distributed applications with Storm Who This Book Is For If you are a Java developer who wants to enter into the world of real-time stream processing applications using Apache Storm, then this book is for you. No previous experience in Storm is required as this book starts from the basics. After finishing this book, you will be able to develop not-so-complex Storm applications. What You Will Learn Understand the core concepts of Apache Storm and real-time processing Follow the steps to deploy multiple nodes of Storm Cluster Create Trident topologies to support various message-processing semantics Make your cluster sharing effective using Storm scheduling Integrate Apache Storm with other Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, HBase, Kafka, and more Monitor the health of your Storm cluster In Detail Apache Storm is a real-time Big Data processing framework that processes large amounts of data reliably, guaranteeing that every message will be processed. Storm allows you to scale your data as it grows, making it an excellent platform to solve your big data problems. This extensive guide will help you understand right from the basics to the advanced topics of Storm. The book begins with a detailed introduction to real-time processing and where Storm fits in to solve these problems. You'll get an understanding of deploying Storm on clusters by writing a basic Storm Hello World example. Next we'll introduce you to Trident and you'll get a clear understanding of how you can develop and deploy a trident topology. We cover topics such as monitoring, Storm Parallelism, scheduler and log processing, in a very easy to understand manner. You will also learn how to integrate Storm with other well-known Big Data technologies such as HBase, Redis, Kafka, and Hadoop to realize the full potential of Storm. With real-world examples and clear explanations, this book will ensure you will have a thorough mastery of Apache Storm. You will be able to use this knowledge to develop efficient, distributed real-time applications to cater to your business needs. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide is full of examples and real-world applications to help you get an in-depth understanding of Apache Storm. This book covers the basics thoroughly and also delves into the intermediate and slightly advanced concepts of application development with Apache Storm.

The shocking conclusion to the YA dystopian H2O duology. The rain may not be the only thing to fear in this post-apocalyptic thriller. Ninety-seven percent of the population is dead. And the killer rain keeps falling. Ruby's not sure she can make it on her own much longer. So when a chance encounter leads her to a camp with the last boy she may ever kiss (it's not easy to date during an apocalypse), Ruby gratefully accepts the army's protection. But safety comes with a price: If Ruby wants to stay, she must keep her eyes—and her mouth—shut. Except Ruby stumbles across a secret she can't possibly keep. Horrified, she flips out and fights back—only to make the most shocking discovery of all. The H2O Duology: H2O (Book 1) The Storm (Book 2) Perfect for those looking for: Post-apocalyptic survival fiction Intriguing and unique takes on a bestselling genre Young adult dystopian fiction A strong female narrative

More than half a century ago, New York City suffered from a drought that lasted through 1949 and into 1950. By February, the desperate city had to try something different. Mayor William O'Dwyer hired a municipal rainmaker. Dr. Wallace E. Howell was an inspired choice. The handsome, thirty-five-year-old Harvard-educated meteorologist was the ideal scientist—soft spoken, modest, and articulate. No fast-talking prairie huckster, he took credit for nothing he couldn't prove with sound empirical data. Howell's meticulous nature often baffled jaded New Yorkers. Over the next year, his leadership of a small ground and air armada, and his unprecedented scientific campaign to replenish the city's upstate reservoirs in the Catskills, captured the imagination of the world. New York's cloud seeding and rainmaking efforts would remain the stuff of legend—and controversy—for decades. Howell's Storm is the first in-depth look at New York City's only official rainmaker—an unintentional celebrity, dedicated scientist, and climate entrepreneur, whose activities stirred controversy among government officials, meteorologists, theologians, farmers, and resort owners alike.

Vivid and personal account of confronting some of the planet's most violent weather.