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This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elastic-beanstalk. This developer guide for Elastic Beanstalk teaches you how to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Elastic Beanstalk reduces management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring. Elastic Beanstalk uses highly reliable and scalable services that are available in the AWS Free Usage Tier, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), and others.

First place winner of 2012 International Digital Awards for Short YA fiction.It's 1771 and I've just gotten a secret message from Father who - all of New Bedford says - went down with his ship in the storm. I know I promised Mother never to put to sea, but what's more important - keeping a promise or finding Father? If you want to come with me, help me find a ship bound for the South Atlantic, and we'll search together for a legendary island, and Father.But watch out for a smelly, slim, oily-looking sailor with a tattoo of a viper coiled around his arm. We're going to leave him far behind...

Laerka is Southern Gothic tale of rescue involving a group of teenagers and a Russian crime ring that sells girls to night clubs in Savannah, Georgia. One particular victim, Laerka, is a Danish girl who transforms into a mermaid when in water. The Russian crime boss who masterminds the trafficking changes into a "Vodyanoy" dragon when he hunts girls for the illegal skin trade. Savannah native, sixteen-year-old Stella Delaney finds Vodyanoy's first victim floating face down in the marsh. Can she save Learka from this fate? Is she in danger, herself? Could Laerka be a crook, herself? She and the traffickers share the same prison tattoo so who in this forbidding landscape can be trusted?

In the dying days of WWII, Eve Pritchard is devastated to learn her husband has been killed in a bombing raid. Left with a young family and a business to run, she is forced to take stock and pick up the pieces. While rebuilding her shattered life, she meets Italian widower, Luca Fancelli and the world takes on new meaning. One day a knock at the door changes everything. The unthinkable has happened and Eve is faced with a bombshell of monumental proportions. As the shocking revelation sinks in, unable to cope, Luca disappears. Pregnant and alone, Eve is heartbroken discovering he had been less than honest from the start. But were they blatant lies he’d told, or had he hidden the truth for another reason? Haunted by the many unanswered questions, Eve sets out to solve the mystery of his disappearance and the secrets so carefully guarded.Another Kind of Sunset: A saga of two families coming to terms with tragedy, reconciliation and most of all forgiveness.

Laerka is a Southern Gothic tale of rescue. It features a group of teenagers and a Russian crime ring that sells girls to night clubs in Savannah, Georgia. One particular victim, Laerka, is a Danish girl who transforms into a mermaid when in water. Her pursuer, the crime boss, changes into a "Vodyanoy" dragon when he is on the hunt. Stella Delaney finds the first victim of the crime ring floating face down in the marsh. Can she save Learka from this same fate? Is she in danger, herself? And could Laerka be a crook herself? She and the traffickers share the same prison tattoo. So who, in this forbidding landscape, can be trusted?

Something creeps under the floorboards of the Rutherford Estate, the fortress where Eileen Morgan spends her sixteenth summer, in Fife, Scotland, a usually quiet community but where locals have been experiencing freak accidents -- stampeding by bull and falling to their deaths into the North Sea. The inheritance of the estate is now in question. Will the heir be Ewan Stalker, the estranged grandson who tends the sheep? Will Eileen help him? Will she be gored by Caedmon the bull or chased into a mineshaft by the resident ghost? Whichever her choice, a dynasty may disappear forever should Eileen not come in aid at the Rutherfords' darkest hour.

With the Godmother Guild destroyed by Teague's army, Mina finds herself without the guidance of her Fae Godmother. Alone and confused, she must lean on her friends for support. The dark prince threatens their very existence with a show of power on the human plane that has everyone running for their lives.To save them, Mina must make a deal with the prince to become his prisoner or lose her friends forever. But is there any hope for Jared and the love they briefly shared, or must beauty destroy the beast she created?

A fresh and funny romantic mystery about a witty, down-to-earth heroine with a job you've never seen before... Being an undercover poison taster for the rich and famous might sound glamorous, but for Isobel Avery it means stomaching bad clients and even worse coffee. The one side of the job that lives up to expectations is the money. Which is just as well for Izzy, since she needs an awful lot of it. Who knew when she made a lifelong commitment to a man that it would be one year living with him and the rest of her life paying for it? But even her scoundrel ex-husband doesn't look so bad compared to her new client. He's competent, condescending, and annoyingly attractive, and Izzy doesn't know whether to sleep with him or poison him herself. Throw in a loan shark, a nosy neighbor, and a murder attempt, and Izzy will have her work cut out for her. If you like fast-paced, feel-good humorous mysteries with an intelligent heroine and a generous dash of romance, you'll love this new series. Tuck yourself into your favorite spot and join Izzy on her first adventure!

People have begun disappearing in Pike Cove, a sleepy coastal town in Michigan. When fifteen-year-old Francesca Merriweather—who prefers to be called Frank—accidentally, and literally, runs into an alien fugitive who has crash-landed in the woods, she realizes that the mystery is far more sinister than anyone suspects. Francesca is more comfortable dealing with aliens than with her own peers or even her unhappy family, and she throws herself into investigating the case with a space geek's relish. But when her Dad becomes the latest to disappear, the investigation suddenly takes on a sense of dread and personal urgency.A terrifying plan, cuddly and ugly aliens, a momentous discovery, and unexpected new friends—Francesca lives through a lot in just a few days. And lives—just.

“Secrets Your Textbook Will Not Tell You” is an inside look at the show business industry. For anyone planning to enter the entertainment business, this book has colorful and funny stories, valuable insights, and helpful tips and tricks on how to succeed. Fries shares life hacks he learned by working with Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons, Gene Roddenberry, creator of the original Star Trek television series, Joseph Barbera, co-creator of The Flintstones, and other celebrities he has known. This is a fascinating and fun book.Sandy Fries is a Professor of Mass Communication at the College of DuPage. He was an NBC Fellow at Columbia University and has written over 100 episodes of television shows.

"Don't you know? Animals like you have no soul."Could God ever love a half-blood all of society looks upon with such fear and disdain? Jace once believed so, but when a tragic loss shatters the only peace he's ever known, his faith crumbles as the nagging doubts he's tried to put behind him descend on his grieving heart. With them come the haunting memories of the bloodstained past he longs to forget, but can never escape.Taken from home at a young age and raised to serve the emperor, Kyrin Altair lives every day under a dangerous pretense of loyalty. After her unique observation skills and perfect memory place her into direct service to the emperor, Kyrin finds herself in further jeopardy as it becomes increasingly difficult to hide her belief in Elôm, the one true God.Following the emperor's declaration to enforce the worship of false gods under the penalty of death, many lives are endangered. But there are those willing to risk everything to take a stand and offer aid to the persecuted. With their lives traveling paths they never could have imagined, Jace and Kyrin must fight to overcome their own fears and conflicts with society as they become part of the resistance.