In the 8th Star Friends adventure, business is slow at the Copper Kettle café until suddenly, mysteriously, everyone wants cakes! Can Mia, Sita, Lexi, and Violet figure out what's going on? With black-and-white illustrations throughout. In this 8th Star Friends adventure, business is slow at the Copper Kettle café until one day when suddenly, mysteriously, everyone wants cakes! In fact, the townspeople want the cakes so much that they get angry when they can't have them. Mia. Sita, Lexi, and Violet suspect that dark magic might be at work—but can they figure out who is behind it with the help of their Star Animals? With black-and-white illustrations throughout. In the Star Friends chapter book series, Mia and her friends Lexi, Sita, and Violet all discover that they are Star Friends -- they can communicate with the animals that have traveled from the Star World. The animals show the girls how to use their unique magic abilities to do good. A whole world of magical adventures awaits!

Uncover the dark secrets of a reclusive mystery author on a private island. Mystery writer JT has hidden away from the world on his private island since he published his first novel. Many fans believe it’s because he’s strange or eccentric, but the truth is much darker than everyone knows. After Emma’s very public, very nasty breakup with one of Hollywood’s hottest actors, she needs a friend to lean on. After hitting it off with JT while filming his movie, she takes him up on his offer to let her stay at his secluded place to recover. She hadn’t planned on her troubles following her there, or on being completely charmed by the man.

You’d think that being stuck working in paradise would be, well, heaven. But for Nicky, it means the end of her career and her lifelong dream of becoming an investigative journalist. After all, nothing exciting ever happens on a small island. The only perk to the job is having to work side by side with her new scuba instructor, the charming and extremely hunky Beau. Beau has only ever wanted to be in one place his entire life. The Hawaiian Islands are the most beautiful place on Earth, and trust him, he’s been to enough places to make that determination. When he’s hired to train and oversee Nicky’s crew, he thinks it’s just another job. But then the bullets start flying and the training that he gained in his years in Special Forces are the only thing that can save the pair of them. That and his knowledge of his beautiful home.

Few-body physics covers a rich and wide variety of phenomena, ranging from the very lowest energy scales of atomic and molecular physics to high-energy particle physics. The papers contained in the present volume provide an apercu of recent progress in the field from both the theoretical and experimental perspectives and are based on work presented at the “22nd International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics”. This book is geared towards academics and graduate students involved in the study of systems which present few-body characteristics and those interested in the related mathematical and computational techniques.

This two-in-one book includes Moonlight Mischief and Hidden Charm, books 7 and 8 in the bestselling Star Friends chapter book series. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. This two-in-one book includes Moonlight Mischief and Hidden Charm, books 7 and 8 in the bestselling Star Friends chapter book series. With black-and-white illustrations throughout. In the Star Friends chapter book series, Mia and her friends Lexi, Sita, and Violet all discover that they are Star Friends—they can communicate with the animals that have traveled from the Star World. The animals show the girls how to use their unique magic abilities to do good. A whole world of magical adventure awaits!

Highlighting Chet Atkins' 50-plus-year career as a virtuoso singer, songwriter and record producer, this book is an analysis and appreciation of the most noteworthy recordings of one of the world's greatest guitarists. Atkins' whole body of work--truly unmatched in the history of modern musical entertainment--and nearly 140 of his all-time greatest recordings are discussed. An overview of his life and work is provided.

Walter Greiner (1935-2016) was a German physicist of the Goethe University, Frankfurt, well-known for his many contributions in scientific research and developments, in particular the field of nuclear physics. He was a well-respected science leader and a teacher who had supervised batches of young collaborators and students, many of whom are now leaders in both academics and industry worldwide. Greiner had a wide interest of science which covered atomic physics, heavy-ion physics, and nuclear astrophysics. Greiner co-founded GSI, the Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, and the multi-disciplinary research center, FIAS (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies). Besides numerous professorship with universities worldwide, including the University of Maryland, Greiner received many prestigious prizes in honor of his outstanding contributions, among others are the Otto Hahn Prize and the Max Born Prize.This memorial volume is a special tribute by Greiner's former colleagues, students, and friends honoring his contributions and passion in science. The volume begins with a writing by Greiner about his early days in science. The subsequent articles, comprising personal and scientific reminiscences of Walter Greiner, serve as timely reviews on various topics of current interest.