Dandelions Are Nice, But Roses Are Better tells about the humorous adventures of Eric and his wife Tina Kane who own a famous restaurant and belong to a motley group called the Springvine Irregulars in a small town in Georgia. With the help of Lotty Dotty, Hitching Post, Loony Evans, and other colorful friends with specific habits, they enjoy helping others and sticking up for one another.

When twenty-one-year-old Greg Bounder, a brash, wealthy college student, meets his one-time singing idol, Sally Testata, at a Scranton bar, he seizes the opportunity to create an exciting career for himself by managing her comeback.

With the half-million dollar inheritance from his grandfather, Greg intends to restart the career of this forty-something, washed-up singer. But first, he must convince her, his conservative Philadelphia family, and all the doubters that he has what it takes to make it big before he blows through his inheritance. With the help of his gay brother, Marcus, a DJ in New York-and a lot of money-Greg orchestrates Sally's return.

The result is a whirlwind year in New York as their hit single "Grind" climbs up the charts, but Greg soon finds that Sally might be more than he bargained for. While struggling to reap a return on his investment, Greg needs to figure out how to keep Sally clean and out of trouble, and keep her from grabbing the wrong kind of headlines.

Create delectable desserts and other dishes with this strawberry-themed cookbook, featuring 50 recipes complemented by full-color photographs of each dish. Strawberries rank among the world’s most popular fruits. Juicy and sweet yet slightly sour, they’re easy to grow and delicious to eat. They’re wonderful on their own and even better when paired with other flavors, such as chocolate or rhubarb. Strawberries is a cookbook by Corrine Kozlak that features 50 easy recipes geared for busy cooks who enjoy great tastes. The author is a professional writer, recipe developer, recipe tester, food stylist, and television/media demonstrator, so you can be certain that every recipe is a crowd-pleaser! The book’s full-color photography by Kevin Scott Ramos adds to the enjoyment of cooking. Plus, an entire section is devoted to helpful information like tips on growing, picking, and storing strawberries. Corrine further provides fascinating information on the history of strawberries and their nutritional value. People love strawberries because they power some of our favorite dishes, from ice cream to pie. The warm fragrance of strawberries reminds us of abundance, freshness, and purity. Add Strawberries to your cookbook collection, and savor this wonderful variety of salads, drinks, desserts, and more.

At a time when nearly every vertical, regardless of domain, seems to need software running in the cloud to make money, microservices provide the agility and drastically reduced time to market you require. This hands-on guide shows you how to create, test, compile, and deploy microservices, using the ASP.NET Core free and open-source framework. Along the way, you’ll pick up good, practical habits for building powerful and robust services. Building microservices isn’t about learning a specific framework or programming language; it’s about building applications that thrive in elastically scaling environments that don't have host affinity, and that can start and stop at a moment’s notice. This practical book guides you through the process. Learn test-driven and API-first development concepts Communicate with other services by creating and consuming backing services such as databases and queues Build a microservice that depends on an external data source Learn about event sourcing, the event-centric approach to persistence Use ASP.NET Core to build web applications designed to thrive in the cloud Build a service that consumes, or is consumed by, other services Create services and applications that accept external configuration Explore ways to secure ASP.NET Core microservices and applications

After initially researching Scottish history pre 1000 AD, and finding very little straightforward information, this guide now delivers, in an easily accessible form, all relevant dates and sequence of events, as they unfolded. Ideal for schoolchildren, adult browsing and quiz preparers alike-this is a good companion for anyone who wishes to check up on those formative times in our nation's history.

An illustrated A-Z of most, if not all, of Scotland's known water creatures born from myth and legend, with superstitious sailors still acknowledging some of their very existences to this day,accounting for strange disappearances and goings-on!

It started out as a professional gem heist, but blossomed into a romance not just with the country and its rich history and culture, but with the very people themselves. The sights, sounds, smells, towns and countryside will instil the desire to explore this extraordinary country further yourselves.

Attending a New Science exhibition on Virtual Reality and its boundless opportunities, Adam Baillie dares to interact, whilst `immersed' in an imaginary world. The only thing is -there seems to be more true reality than he could ever have imagined. Faced with the re-inception of Creation itself, our Adam comes face to face with Genesis, in the totally unnerving form of his namesake-Adam, Earth's first human, and Eve. Endeavouring to understand just how, and more interestingly why, God, their father, has both created and expelled his new progeny from the newly inspired Garden of Eden, we follow our own Adam Baillie's adventure, as he uses the new science technology of virtual reality to transport himself between the two periods in time.

Google the strategic town of Berwick-Upon-Tweed, and you will find it changed hands 13/14 times, as is commonly thought. Kevin Scott has found another 9 such recaptures of this pivotal base in England's NE, or is that Scotland's SE? Join the stories, as they unfold, about the drawn out fighting for this important,now scenic, holiday coastal town.

In an unlikely mix of 'Highlander' meets 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', we find a vengeful Calum MacDuff hell-bent on retribution for his distant ancestor. Breaking out from their Highland mental institution, MacDuff, and similarly motivated fellow inmates, unite behind a common goal ie. to finally right the wrongs perpetrated on their ancestors. But just who are their intended victims, and will they achieve their long yearned for result?