Download or read book Alexa For Dummies written by Paul McFedries and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make your every wish Alexa’s command with this in-depth guide to the wildly popular Amazon smart speaker You might be thinking, “All I have to do is plug in my Echo device and start using it!” And you’d be right. But if you really want to explore what that compact little device can do, then Alexa For Dummies is your go-to resource. This book shows you how to customize your device to respond to your requests and enhance your life. Alexa For Dummies takes you on a tour of all things Alexa: its capabilities, tools, settings, and skills. Go beyond the basics of playing music, calling friends, reading the news, and checking the weather. You’ll learn how to make Alexa private and secure, connect it to your smart home devices, and even make it sound like Samuel L. Jackson, if you feel like it. You can also extend its capabilities by adding new skills. Customize your device to respond to your voice Troubleshoot when a light is signaling something’s wrong Add skills to play music and audiobooks Create routines to turn on lights, adjust the thermostat, set your security alarm, and lock your doors Sync your smart devices throughout your home Use Alexa to connect to a Zoom meeting or phone call with your friends or family No matter which device you have—Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, Echo Studio, Echo Flex, Echo Loop, Echo Buds, or Echo Frames—Alexa For Dummies is the perfect companion. Ready to get started? Say “Hey, Alexa, order Alexa For Dummies!”

Download or read book My Last Glass written by Edid Fontecha Barbosa and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a beautiful woman, who lives a life surrounded by luxuries, pleasures and eccentricities, but soon her world will be suddenly shaken by a terrible tragedy, starting a path full of pain in search for her redemption. She will soon discover in the midst of so much suffering that a precious miracle leads her to develop her most valued gift and to accept her mission of life.

Download or read book Dating A Cougar written by Donna McDonald and published by Donna McDonald. This book was released on 2011-03-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring an over 50, successful heroine, Dating A Cougar is an original and unique contemporary romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Donna McDonald. Alexa gave up on finding Mr. Right. No matter how well he kisses, younger man Casey Carter is not for her. After two decades of looking for true love and never finding it, aging model and lingerie designer, Alexa Ranger, had finally given up searching. It’s shocking at fifty to find herself wanting a real sex life again, and even more shocking to be an older woman attracted to a younger man. Thirty-eight-year-old, medically retired Marine, Casey Carter is incredibly sexy, but a relationship with the man is totally out of the question. Casey is related to her daughter’s boyfriend. No matter how well Casey kisses, the last thing Alexa needs is another talk-show-worthy drama in her already complicated life. ABOUT THIS SERIES - Are you tired of younger heroines and heroes getting all the action? How about something really different geared for romance readers over 40? The Never Too Late series is a collection of seven do-over stories about finding love and romance a bit later in life. These contemporary romances are intentionally heavy on humor and light on tears. The strong heroines are successful in life, but not successful in love, as their friends are quick to point out. The alpha heroes are drool-worthy, confident, and know what it takes to make a woman feel loved and wanted. BOOKS IN THIS SERIES Book 1 Dating A Cougar Book 2 Dating Dr. Notorious Book 3 Dating A Saint Book 4 Dating A Metro Man Book 5 Dating A Silver Fox Book 6 Dating A Cougar II

Download or read book Out of the Silence written by Marie Theodore and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of resistance amidst domestic strife Alexa Montgomery is a criminal lawyer, a fierce protector of victim’s rights, who’s made a name for herself as an assistant district attorney in New York City. But when Casimir Johnson—a man who escaped prosecution years ago for the brutal attack on his wife—is arrested again, Alexa knows that she needs to put this dangerous man behind bars—for good this time. In Alexa’s search for justice, the destinies of two women are forever entwined. If the criminal justice system and courts won’t make Casimir Johnson pay, Alexa Montgomery will. In her debut novel, an intoxicating thriller in the style of The Perfect Marriage, Marie Theodore has created a fast-paced, character driven, erotic courtroom drama. Out of the Silence will captivate your heart and keep you turning the pages, while you anxiously look forward to seeing how it all unfolds.

Download or read book Home On the Range written by Arlene Hill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wearing the De Angelis Ring written by Cathy Williams and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern marriage of convenience sparks unexpected passion for a billionaire and his bride in this contemporary romance. Playboy tycoon Theo De Angelis lives life by his own rules. But then a family debt forces him to propose the only merger he’s never wanted—matrimony! Beautiful, inexperienced Alexa Caldini may be nothing like his usual blonde-bombshell “type” but that doesn’t mean their marriage bed must grow cold . . . Forced to marry the son of her father’s rival, Alexa is determined to impose certain ground rules for their inconvenient arrangement. She wants no emotions getting in the way, and definitely nothing physical. But wearing the De Angelis ring is easier than facing the unexpected temptations of becoming Theo’s wife. How long before Alexa’s rules go up in smoke?

Download or read book Harlequin Presents January 2016 Box Set 2 of 2 written by Carol Marinelli and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin® Presents brings you four new titles for one great price! This Presentsbox set includes: THE COST OF THE FORBIDDEN (Irresistible Russian Tycoons) byCarol Marinelli Ruthless Sev Derzhavin is master of getting whatever—and whomever—hewants. Sev has never been refused before. So when his personal assistant Naomi resigns,Sev can't resist the challenge of enticing the beautiful brunette to stay. NEW YEAR AT THE BOSS'S BIDDING by Rachael Thomas Tilly Rogers isthrilled to be offered a prestigious contract for billionaire Xavier Moretti's New Year'sEve party—until she ends up snowbound alone with her boss! The notorious playboy makes ithis resolution to seduce virgin Tilly… WEARING THE DE ANGELIS RING (The Italian Titans) by CathyWilliams Tycoon Theo De Angelis lives by his own rules…until a family debt forceshim into matrimony! Beautiful, inexperienced Alexa Caldini is determined to impose groundrules on their inconvenient arrangement, but how long before Alexa's rules go up in smoke? MISTRESS OF HIS REVENGE (Bought by the Brazilian) byChantelle Shaw Cruz Delgado is the renowned owner of a diamond empire—andaristocratic Sabrina Bancroft is the only woman ever to have walked away from the temptingtycoon. When Cruz sees a chance, he takes his revenge…by making her his mistress! Be sure to collection Harlequin® Presents' December 2015 Box set 1 of 2!

Download or read book Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant written by Dustin Coates and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant is your guide to designing, building, and implementing voice-based applications for Alexa and Google Assistant. Inside, you'll learn how to build your own "skills"—the voice app term for actions the device can perform—from scratch. Foreword by Max Amordeluso. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. You'll find registration instructions inside the print book. About the Technology In 2018, an estimated 100 million voice-controlled devices were installed in homes worldwide, and the apps that control them, like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, are getting more powerful, with new skills being added every day. Great voice apps improve how users interact with the web, whether they're checking the weather, asking for sports scores, or playing a game. About the Book Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant is your guide to designing, building, and implementing voice-based applications for Alexa and Google Assistant. You'll learn to build applications that listen to users, store information, and rely on user context, as you create a voice-powered sleep tracker from scratch. With the basics mastered, you'll dig deeper into multiuse conversational flow and other more-advanced concepts. Smaller projects along the way reinforce your new techniques and best practices. What's inside Building a call-and-response skill Designing a voice user interface Using conversational context Going multimodal Tips and best practices About the Reader Perfect for developers with intermediate JavaScript skills and basic Node.js skills. No previous experience with voice-first platforms is required. About the Author Dustin A. Coates is a developer who focuses on voice and conversational applications. He's currently the voice search lead at Algolia and is also a Google Developers Expert for Assistant as well as cohost of the VUX World podcast. Table of Contents Introduction to voice first Building a call-and-response skill on Alexa Designing a voice user interface Using entity resolution and built?in intents in Alexa skills Making a conversational Alexa skill VUI and conversation best practices Using conversation tools to add meaning and usability Directing conversation flow Building for Google Assistant Going multimodal Push interactions Building for actions on Google with the Actions SDK

Download or read book The Bright One written by T. J. Fier and published by The Three Little Sisters. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bright One is a quirky tale, spinning the traditional views of the unicorn completely on its horns and giving us a journey that is beyond friendship, beyond loyalty, beyond the human and unicorn connection.

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Download or read book The Dark Zone written by Dom Testa and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testa delivers the fourth exciting installment of the epic science fiction series that began with "The Comet's Curse." Life on Earth is over and it's up to the 251 teens aboard "Galahad" to save the human race.

Download or read book The Madonna on the Moon written by Rolf Bauerdick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist transforms his lifelong fascination with the world of the Gypsies into fiction with this exuberant, deeply enchanting debut novel—both whimsical and suspenseful—winner of the European Book Prize, and translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide. November 1957: As Communism spreads across Eastern Europe, strange events are beginning to upend daily life in Baia Luna, a tiny village nestled at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains. As the Soviets race to reach the moon and Sputnik soars overhead, fifteen-year-old Pavel Botev attends the small village school with the other children. Their sole teacher, the mysterious and once beautiful Angela Barbulescu, was sent by the Ministry of Education, and while it is suspected that she has lived a highly cultured life, much of her past remains hidden. But one day, after asking Pavel to help hang a photo of the new party secretary, she whispers a startling directive in his ear: “Send this man straight to hell! Exterminate him!” By the next morning, she has disappeared. With little more to go on than the gossip and rumors swirling through his grandfather Ilja’s tavern, Pavel finds curiosity overcoming his fear when suddenly the village’s sacred Madonna statue is stolen and the priest Johannes Baptiste is found brutally murdered in the rectory. Aided by the Gypsy girl Buba and her eccentric uncle, Dimitru Gabor, Pavel’s search for answers leads him far from the innocent concerns of childhood and into the frontiers of a new world, changing his life forever.

Download or read book The Burden written by Jenni Ward and published by Miraworth Books. This book was released on 2021-07-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She had been raised to fight, but one decision will threaten the only life she knows. Alexa is a warrior and she is destined to be one of the leaders in the village. Her life is full of training while she watches the skies for the threat of dragons. When the dragons attack, wiping out most of the elders, Alexa swears that she is going to end the long-running feud once and for all. She makes a plan but her best-friend isn't going to let her face it alone. With Zen at her side, Alexa discovers that life outside the village is very different. The closer they get to the mountains, the more they learn about the dragons and the burden they carry. Despite all this, Alexa is steadfast in one thing: the dragons must die. Alexa soon has to face the unimaginable and risk breaking her heart to save them all.

Download or read book When Mercy Rains written by Kim Vogel Sawyer and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She left her Old Order Mennonite commuinty, heavily weighted with secrets. But God reveals all things, in His time. And He redeems them. Suzanne Zimmerman was only seventeen and pregnant when her shamed mother quietly sent her away from their Old Order Mennonite community in Kansas. With her old home, family, and first love firmly behind her, Suzanne moved to Indiana, became a nurse, and raised a daughter, Alexa, on her own. Now, nearly twenty years later, an unexpected letter arrives from Kansas. Her brother asks her to bring her nursing abilities home and care for their ailing mother. His request requires that Suzanne face a family that may not have forgiven her and a strict faith community. It also means seeing Paul Aldrich, her first love, again. Paul, widowed with an eight-year-old son, is relieved to see Suzanne again, giving him the chance to beg her forgiveness for his past indiscretion. But when he meets Alexa, his guilt flickers in the glare of Suzanne’s prolonged secret—one that changes everything. Suzanne had let go of any expectation for forgiveness long ago. Does she dare hope for mercy–and how will her uncovered past affect the people she loves the most?

Download or read book SURRENDER TO LOVE written by Rosemary Rogers and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They met in moonlight, their first glimpse of one another silhouettes against the silvery waters of the ocean. The magic of his touch awakens her innocent desires—and her temper at his arrogant assumptions. When they meet again, it is only his voice she remembers…. Many men may pursue Alexa Howard's exotic beauty, but there is only one man to whom she will give herself willingly, body and soul. Though Nicholas de la Guerra sparks fury and desire in her equally, she is lost to his touch. The dark stranger is her obsession. a temptation to which she longs to surrender. And when Alexa's safety is threatened, Nicholas becomes her only chance at salvation.

Download or read book A Wicked Magic written by Sasha Laurens and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern witches must save friends stolen by an ancient demon in this YA fantasy-thriller. “A cinematic, page-ripping debut.” —Kirkus Reviews “A modern day version of The Craft.” —Booklist Dan and Liss are witches. The Black Book granted them that power. Harnessing that power feels good, especially when everything in their lives makes them feel powerless. During a spell gone wrong, Liss's boyfriend is snatched away by an evil entity and presumed dead. Dan and Liss's friendship dies that night, too. How can they practice magic after the darkness that they conjured? Months later, Liss discovers that her boyfriend is alive, trapped underground in the grips of an ancient force. She must save him, and she needs Dan and the power of the Black Book to do so. Dan is quickly sucked back into Liss's orbit and pushes away her best friend, Alexa. But Alexa has some big secrets she's hiding and her own unique magical disaster to deal with. When another teenager disappears, the girls know it's no coincidence. What greedy magic have they awakened? And what does it want with these teens it has stolen? Set in the atmospheric wilds of California's northern coast, Sasha Laurens's thrilling debut novel is about the complications of friendship, how to take back power, and how to embrace the darkness that lives within us all.

Download or read book Breaking Digital Gridlock written by John Best and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic technology strategy for smaller financial institutions Breaking Digital Gridlock empowers credit unions and community banks to make the shift to digital—even without a seven-figure consulting budget. From leadership, to technology, to security, and more, this book provides effective, real-world strategies for taking the leap without tearing your organization apart. With an emphasis on maintaining the culture, services, and features you have carefully crafted for your customers over the years, these strategies allow you to make your organization more resistant to digital disruption by adopting key technologies at key points in their evolution. Expert advice grounded in practicality shows how FinTech partnerships and strategic technology acquisition can foster new growth with minimal disruption, and how project management can be restructured to most effectively implement any digital solution and how to implement and leverage analytics. Specific implementation advice coupled with expert approaches offer the ability to modernize in an efficient, organized, financially-sound manner. The companion website features a digital readiness assessment that helps clarify the breadth and scope of the change, and serves as a progress check every step of the way. Access to digital assets helps smooth the path to implementation, and a reader forum facilitates the exchange of ideas, experiences, and advice. Identify revolutionary versus evolutionary technology opportunities Empower employee innovation, and stop managing all risk out of good ideas Understand blockchain, machine learning, cloud computing, and other technologies Forge strategic partnerships that will drive growth and success amidst technological upheaval It is widely accepted that digital is the future of banking, but knowing is not the same as doing. If your organization has been riding the fence for too long amidst uncertainty and budget constraints, Breaking Digital Gridlock provides the solutions, strategies, and knowledge you need to begin moving forward.