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"Misadventures In Small Business" shares humorous, personal stories and funny anecdotes from years of being a small business owner and manager. There are countless examples of employees, random strangers, or even the author doing things that would qualify as stupid or embarrassing.

Valyra is dying. In less than two years, the magnificent world of eighteen oceans and four moons—and more than a trillion lives—could cease to exist. Fifteen-year-old Mora Vale should be worried about surviving her first days at Vanguard Academy, where the next generation of Valyra’s protectors is trained. Instead, she discovers that her father, one of the planet’s leading scientists, has been hiding an impossible truth: an experiment meant to unlock a revolutionary source of energy has destabilized their world. And the countdown has already begun.

Ambessa Medarda hat Schlachten geschlagen, Armeen geführt und legendäre Bestien bezwungen. Doch der gefährlichste Kampf wartet in den eigenen Reihen. Nach dem Tod ihres Großvaters will Ambessa an die Spitze der Medarda-Familie aufsteigen. Doch schon bald entbrennt ein Machtkampf zwischen ihr und ihrem Cousin Ta'Fik, der die blutigen Geheimnisse aus Ambessas Vergangenheit kennt.

Eleito um dos melhores livros do ano por New Yorker, The Economist e Financial Times, esta obra-prima da historiografia oferece uma interpretação original de 1848, que traça paralelos com a contemporaneidade. Do autor de Os sonâmbulos. Poucos momentos da história da Europa se comparam à...

What listeners really don’t like are dull werewolf stories. So, we tasked the horror community with writing the weirdest, wildest, most creative, utterly bonkers tails (ha!) of lycanthropic lunacy possible.

Mary Higgins Clark, the "Queen of Suspense," has crafted a very special holiday story about a child's courage in the face of danger, and the power of love. Charged with menace and thrilling suspense, it is the #1 New York Times bestselling author's gift to readers for all seasons. When Catherine...

Adam Eberhardt has always felt different, but he never would’ve guessed he was a clone of Albert Einstein. Science geeks don't usually live inside the body of a hulk. A brain that never shuts off can be a blessing or a curse, but Adam hasn’t felt many blessings during his sleepless nights, regular victims of his severe anxiety disorder. Weaving through harrowing childhood memories, science research, and self-doubt, he most enjoys spending his mind power thinking about his wunderkind fellow student, Margot. . .who remains oblivious to his interest.

Orthodoxy is the dominant form of Christianity in Greece, Russia, parts of Eastern Europe, and the Balkans. Its practices are largely unfamiliar in the West and have remained essentially unchanged since the earliest days of the faith. This lucid introduction outlines the tenets, nature, and holy days of Orthodox belief with the Western listener in mind. It describes the physical church, especially icons, services, and common practices, and it offers advice to visitors on how to conduct themselves so that they are accepted and feel comfortable. 

'This is an extraordinary book. It moves in and around you like a ghost. I feel lucky to have experienced it' -- Daisy Johnson - author of Everything Under In the archives of the national library, a researcher named Linda sees a nine year-old girl's face in the pages of a yellowed newspaper, and...

Warring samurai clans fight with swords and magic for the Emperor's favor with these collected Legend of the Five Rings novellas, including a brand-new novella of the Crane Clan.

There's a big difference between being alive and knowing how to truly live. Live, from New York Times bestselling author Sadie Robertson, addresses life's most difficult issues and choices in fun, practical, and biblical ways, leading you to engage with God's truth in a world that is growing...

Thomas McGurrin is a fourth-grade teacher and openly gay man at a private primary school serving Portland, Oregon's wealthy progressive elite when he is falsely accused of inappropriately touching a male student. The accusation comes just as Thomas is thrust back into the center of his unusual family by his younger brother's battle with cancer. Although cleared of the accusation, Thomas is forced to resign from a job he loves during a potentially life-changing family drama.

The following audiobook will discuss 30 strategies you can use in order to help you properly manipulate anyone. Whether you are trying to sell a product, a service, or simply get someone to do you a favor, you will learn manipulation can help you get those types of results.

It is 2415, and Corporate City is in the vice-like grip of its dictator. Social division based on IQ is marked by colored overalls. A new Great Wall is under construction to keep lower IQs isolated from the world. But a major problem arises for the tyrant who must seek an answer in London. Treachery abounds, plans for world domination are afoot, and a nasty surprise is in store for delegates of world cities invited to a meeting in the Great Southern Land.

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention....

If you read the original Buffettology, you only know half of what you need to effectively apply Warren Buffett's investment strategies. Published in 1997, the bestselling Buffettology was written specifically for investors in the midst of a long bull market. Since then we've seen the internet...

This is a highly informative step-by-step guide that demonstrates the fundamentals of hemp jewelry-making in a fun and whimsical way. It supplies a treasure trove of information where everything is covered: from tools that are needed, to the history of macramé, to choosing beads and hemp to work with. There is even a section dedicated to dying hemp. The main focus is in teaching basic macramé knots, along with other techniques such as braiding and weaving, to give the listener a well-rounded, cognizant base on which to start making jewelry of his or her own.

On Christmas Eve, while his wife and children sleep, a man awakens to noises outside his house. Looking out the window, he spies landing on his roof St. Nicholas in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. The saint enters the house through the chimney. The man watches Nicholas filling the children's stockings hanging by the fire. They share a conspiratorial moment before the saint bounds up the chimney again. As he flies away, Nicholas wishes everyone a happy Christmas.

 The Truth About College Admission is the easy-to-follow, comprehensive, go-to guide for families. The expert authors - with inside knowledge from both the high school and university sides of the experience - provide critical advice, thoughtful strategies, helpful direction, and invaluable reassurance during the long and often bewildering college admission journey. 

From America’s Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, an investigation into the connection between a long-ago murder and a plastic surgeon’s obsession with a perfect face catapults prosecutor Kerry McGrath into the strange and ominous territory of those so hungry for beauty they’ll kill for...