Bøger af Deborah Richards

George and his little sister, Esme, believe that two aliens are being held prisoner by the military authorities in an underground nuclear bunker. The aliens made contact with George through an internet chat room and claim that they are being subjected to horribly painful experiments. But is this true? Naturally, George is dead-set on rescuing them, but Esme has misgivings. Nevertheless, she goes along with him for fear of being left out of the adventure. The two kids are in for a terrible shock. Things are not what they thought they were and Grandad's warnings are proved right. They're in mortal danger and their only hope is that Remiel, the skywhale from Iceland, will save the day. But how can they make contact with him? Skywhales are wild creatures of the air and not like pet dogs that come when you whistle. 'Evil Aliens Stole My Grandad' is the sequel to 'The Skywhale'. Over the course of several days, we learn more about the mysterious powers of skywhales and celebrate their long-held secret relationship with humans. It is a cautionary tale that warns kids about the potential danger of meeting strangers they have made contact with in online chat rooms.

Everyone assumes UFOs are space craft full of aliens. But ten-year-old Esme and her big brother, George, are about to discover the truth when they find a mysterious creature, part animal, part plant that looks like a UFO but can communicate with them telepathically. The adventure is about to begin. Esme and George unwittingly awaken a skywhale as he sleeps under the mud of an English riverbed. Skywhales are amazing beings-huge, part plant and part animal, and pandimensional. Esme discovers that she is still young enough to communicate telepathically with the skywhale, but George cannot, giving Esme a rare chance to best her bossy sibling. Despite their constant bickering, the two find one thing in common: a love for their new friend, Remiel. Together, they pack a lifetime worth of adventure into a single wild day. As life goes on, Esme and George wonder if they'll ever see their new friend again. Because they were sighted in the skies over London, both fret for the skywhales' safety. If they shot down a UFO at Roswell, what's in store for the skywhales should they fall into the wrong hands? The Skywhale is a cleverly delivered tale that will spark young imaginations and inspire children's curiosity about the natural world.

In 1909 two young Indian boys are playing on the sandy banks of the River Adyar in Tamil Nadu when an old man with a long grey beard rises up out of the water next to them. They are terrified because they think he is a ghost, but he talks to them in English. What they don't realise is that he is a clairvoyant and Master of the Occult. He will soon declare the oldest boy, Krishnamurti, to be the future Messiah who will lead the world into a new age. The boys watch him warily. Krishnamurti will be isolated, stripped of his Indian culture and groomed for greatness within the ex-pat British community that resides nearby. Their lives will be changed forever. This is a true story.

After surviving an early abusive marriage in her native England, Deb Richards fled with her life and her young daughter for the dream of sunny skies in Los Angeles. It was there that she met the handsome and successful songwriter Jake, who along with Alan Merrill wrote one of the most famous rock and roll anthems of all time, "I Love Rock and Roll." Together, Jake and Deb put that dime in the jukebox of life and had a dream marriage where they balanced Hollywood, famous exes and blending families. Deb faced a second nightmare when both her daughter and stepdaughter began to experiment with drugs. Her eldest daughter selected crystal meth as her drug of choice. In her debut novel, Richards shows how one mother's love and courage shines through despite overwhelming odds. Deb would need her own lifelines later after her husband's tragic suicide. Now a life coach, Deb proves that you can always reinvent. You can always shift your thoughts and shine your light. Shift & Shine is a must read for anyone who has loved an addict or lost someone to suicide. More than a self-help book, Shift & Shine is a comforting - and at times humorous - companion for those that face or have faced addiction and suicide in their own lives or in the lives of those they love. Chock full of meditations and prescriptive advice, Shift & Shine is an honest and inspiring story of hope. Recently released, Shift & Shine is currently a 5 star book on Amazon.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, PKAW 2014, held in Gold Cost, Qld, Australia, in December 2014. The 18 full papers and 4 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 initial submissions. They deal with knowledge acquisition, expert systems, intelligent agents, ontology engineering, foundations of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, Web mining, information systems, Web and other applications.