The presence of approaching death always leaves you in a contemplating space. Reliving those exact moments pushes me to find the very culprit who changed my life. It also makes sitting in a classroom a pain in the ass. Having survived my first year at Tracker Hive Academy, I'm left with wondering what's next for me, the eight elements, Junior Tracker with no professional filter. We have to face the culprit who is clearly out to get me, but there has to be more to this, especially with certain allies involved.Things only get complicated when my sexy Troubled Four start having imbalance problems, making it difficult for the rest of the world to know who is who - except me, of course. My Shadow only wants to add to the chaos by attacking the very students we're attempting to protect.My life is definitely a shit storm, and when Alaric himself goes missing during an assignment, all bets are off.I am a Queen in my element and won't be told how to get what belongs to me. With Zeke, Zion, Zackery, and Zeus on my side, there's nothing I need to fear - and with Calvin as our joker card. We're a dangerous threat together, and this Hive goes by one thing: Breaking all the rules. Game On.

When the element of fire burns within your veins, the academy for all things blazing is the best place to learn how to make that flame burn even stronger. Alice Blaze is my name, and I'm your typical adopted sixteen-year-old. My mom disappeared after my birth and my dad was an alcoholic maniac. That left me being raised by my protective grandparents in the single house up the hill that people only come to view on Halloween. Apparently, our house is haunted, but I haven't figured that one out yet. Regardless of my depressing backstory, my life has always been in the line of misery. Since I was little, I always got into trouble, and it always ended up with something combusting into flames. Lighting up the curtains, explosive vials in lab class. Don't get me started with the accidental school fire. Need I say more?The last straw is when I'm accused of shattered all the windows in the entire school, but that doesn't make sense because it has nothing to do with that burning nemesis called fire. With my grandparents having enough of my constant transfers, a letter of invitation lands right onto our doorstep.I'm invited to Blazing Academy, the academy for all things scorching hot. Shifters, demons, and blazing hot witches...oh right. That's apparently what I am. A blazing hot witch. Let's hope that's all I am, and that this first semester goes a lot smoother than I'm imagining.

Bring on the competition and the cheerleader fights. I'm ready to take a stand, prove myself, and save my team once and for all. After triumphing over another exam-gone-wrong, all we want to do is recover. But it seems that there's no rest for the witches, because another challenge immediately smacks us in the face. It's something none of us saw coming, and one thing is for sure: entering Semester Four won't be the same unless the Notorious Four is together once more.I, Brianne Marie Harlow, have to take matters into my own hands if I want to attend my Fourth Semester at Witchling Academy with my four boyfriends. I only have one shot to bring my wayward team member back into the fold, and though I'm confident I can change his mind, I'm worried about the challenges that will surely come if I succeed.Tension is growing, and the dynamic of our team is beginning to morph into something stronger than any of us realize. My relationships with Jax, Connor, Kaito, and Finnick are maturing, and with those changes come experiences I could never imagine happening with any other group of wizards.The Witchling Games are approaching, and our team is ready for the chase. Things are about to get feisty, and while I'm always ready to kick some magical butt, I can't help but wonder if we have what it takes to win. There's only one way to find out. Let's do this, Semester Four.

Finishing our first year at Witchling Academy brings a wave of new experiences. Now with Semester Three approaching it's time for me to decide what path I want to walk as I enter young adulthood. I, Brianne Marie Harlow, am now dating the Notorious Four. It's still quite a shock in my mind, but to be surrounded by my supportive family and friends, it's become something life changing for me and my four amazing boyfriends - Jax, Connor, Finnick, and Kaito.With summer break, brings moments of adventure and exploration, as I begin to figure out what I want in this group relationship and deal with my own insecurities. Adding my new familiar to the mix and having two amazing best friends to help me figure out the goods and bads about dating, summer goes by like a breeze. Semester Three is where things start getting messy. When the professors warned us about the change in dynamic with year one to year two, we never would have thought it would escalate to magic battles, car chases, and end us in the middle of a magic crime case.Adding the continuous bullying, old memories, girl jealousy, and issues developing within my own team, we're going to have to stick tightly together or we'll be pulled apart forever.Thankfully, I won't let that happen. If I'd have to be the middle ground to keep my Notorious Four from tearing apart, I'd do it right here and now. All in the name of protecting the people I love. Now let's all pray this goes as well as it does in my head.

Our world is being revolutionized by data-driven methods: access to large amounts of data has generated new insights and opened exciting new opportunities in commerce, science, and computing applications. Processing the enormous quantities of data necessary for these advances requires large clusters, making distributed computing paradigms more crucial than ever. MapReduce is a programming model for expressing distributed computations on massive datasets and an execution framework for large-scale data processing on clusters of commodity servers. The programming model provides an easy-to-understand abstraction for designing scalable algorithms, while the execution framework transparently handles many system-level details, ranging from scheduling to synchronization to fault tolerance. This book focuses on MapReduce algorithm design, with an emphasis on text processing algorithms common in natural language processing, information retrieval, and machine learning. We introduce the notion of MapReduce design patterns, which represent general reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems across a variety of problem domains. This book not only intends to help the reader "think in MapReduce", but also discusses limitations of the programming model as well. Table of Contents: Introduction / MapReduce Basics / MapReduce Algorithm Design / Inverted Indexing for Text Retrieval / Graph Algorithms / EM Algorithms for Text Processing / Closing Remarks

When being different leads to the best years of your life. Powerful witch Silver Spell Solange always dreamed of getting into S.S.S. School. When she finally achieved it, she couldn't have been happier. Making it through the first year at the prestigious school was more challenging than she could have ever expected, but it also introduced her to four unique shifter boyfriends -- not to mention Star, her adorable uni-kitten familiar.The gang is hoping for a peaceful break between semesters in order to relax and explore their relationship. But summer is breezing by, and after a shocking discovery, Silver and her men must take things into their own hands to learn more about the magical ring on her finger and the powers it truly possesses.Year One may have been hard, but it had nothing on the challenges that Year Two brings. Some students will rise, others will fall, and through it all, Silver must make sure she can keep her men together no matter what crazy obstacles and tests they're about to endure.Silver might be prepared for what S.S.S. School has in store. But something else -- something even darker and more dangerous -- is happening in the shadows of the school, and it has a certain ex-boyfriend's name written all over it. Can Silver manage to juggle everything that this second year will throw at her? Or will she fail before the final exam?

Set in the African bush: a tracker seeks one lion, thanks to lessons that can teach us all how to live--Provided by publisher.

How do you thrive when you're an unwanted, worthless, human female? Simple: alter your reality by switching sides. During the day, I'm William De Luca , the only 'son' of Roberto De Luca, the king of the NYC mafia and Alpha of the deadliest wolf pack -- one this city doesn't mess with. At night, I'm Willow De Luca , cage fighter champion with a slight temper problem.Regardless of which role I'm playing, I'm plagued by the inability to shift, a condition that has Papa Dearest deeming me a 'mistake.' All the same, it's worth enduring my double life if it means staying out of my father's business and ignoring the growing legacy that's waiting for me to claim.Unfortunately, no matter how rich and powerful you are, the universe isn't going to grant you everything you want. In Father's case, it was having a son. In mine? Finding a mate. Without an inner wolf of my own, meeting a wolf shifter who's connected to me is essentially impossible. It's a forbidden dream I'd all but given up on. Then my carefully balanced life is disrupted by the arrival of a new pack that intends to make me the target of a power play to take the De Luca territory. However, one glimpse of Dimitris, Neo, Saint, and Jayce is all it takes -- I want to make them mine. I'm willing to bet everything on a dangerous gamble, because maybe being a wealthy boy by day and lethal girl at night is the double-play I need to earn the grand prize. THEM. Fans of Wolf Tamer and Reflections of You are going to fall in love with this new, gender bender, enemies to lovers romance with thrilling action, suspense, and heated romance. WOLF AWAKENED is a 150,000-word Paranormal Wolf Shifter Romance with enemies-lovers/bully themes.

I lived, fought, and died in the battle between good and evil. But not as a hero... After falling in battle, Lilith, known as Queen Merciless to foe and friend alike, expects to wake up in the toasty halls of hell --not the depths of the Underworld as a candidate for entry into the Academy for the Fallen.Confused, she assumes it's either a misunderstanding or someone's idea of a joke. Forced to prove her strength with three challenging tests, Lilith is determined to dominate, showing she has no need for more schooling.She's no damsel needing protection or rescue.Stuck with a former angel on the outs with God, a hellhound with a dangerous secret, and a trickster shapeshifter posing as the previous King of the Afterlife, Lilith thinks they should change the school's name to Academy for Psychos.Her opinion only strengthens when she meets the dastardly sexy headmaster.There are no math classes. No one cares what books you read. And the only chemistry that matters is deadly.Academy for the Fallen has no use for the weak and pure. Its purpose is to train an elite force of the evilest, blood driven souls to keep the Damned from escaping Satan's grasp and unleashing hell on Earth.Time for Lilith to dust off her crown and fight alongside the irresistible dark trio determined to win her affection. There's a new war to wage -- the battle between evil and evil -- and no one is a badder bitch than Queen Merciless.

The first in the thrilling Fallen Academy series, sitting at the sweet spot between romantasy and dark academia, with an apocalyptic war between angels and demons thrown in for good measure. Get ready for your new obsession. When angels fell from the sky to war with the demons that ravaged Earth, their combined powers infected humanity. Now, the humans are assigned one of two fates: demon gifted or angel blessed. After wings sprout from Brielle's back at her awakening ceremony, she's sure she's an angel-blessed celestial--until she sees black wings and realizes something is terribly wrong. Having sold her contract at a young age to save her father's life means she should be bound for Tainted Academy. That is, until a fallen angel unexpectedly fights for her to be accepted into Fallen Academy, the elite school for those that inhabit Angel City. She's immediately matched with her impossibly handsome celestial teacher Lincoln Grey. Laying eyes on him, her first thought is that her time at the academy might actually be fun, but this theory quickly fades when she and Lincoln clash on day one. To further prove her admission into Fallen Academy is cursed, the entire school is thrown into chaos when an Abrus demon reveals that he knows Brielle's secret. Now, above all else, Lincoln must fight to protect her--and fight his feelings for her.