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Imagine taking a computer algorithm's complex yet straightforward functions and applying them to your personal life. The results would lead to success, happiness, and confidence. Through THE SECRET SUCCESS ALGORITHM, understand how small steps can make a big impact, but more importantly, uncover the powerful potential of your mind and changes you can make to be better.

With the grand re-opening of her Urban Tails Pet Shop just days away, Shell McMillan has her hands full planning entertainment for the festive event, including a fortune-telling parrot. But her jubilant mood is soon threatened by ominous rumors of the return of Johnny Draco, a former investment guru who swindled money from most of the residents of Fox Hollow and then vanished without a trace. And when the parrot predicts a dire future for Draco and his dead body is found just hours later, no one can say they're surprised—but no one will say who did it.

The second wave of the Siberian Flu catches the country completely unprepared. Instead of killing the old and frail, the young and healthy are dropping . . . in hours, not days. Kate, a new doctor, will sacrifice everything to break her and her sister free from a controlling stepfather and a dead-end small town existence. Moments from landing the critical job she needs, St. Louis falls apart around her.

Both sisters are trapped. Kate fights to escape a city with closing borders as the leaders desperately try to contain the outbreak. Betrayed by family and embroiled in the chaos of an organized crime syndicate, Alisa struggles to get out before she breaks under the unbearable strain. Even if she escapes, Kate still faces miles of lawless country with dangers even worse than the virus. Back home, Alisa can’t turn her back on the other trapped victims and is determined to find a way to save them all.

Hundreds of deadly miles stand between Kate and her sister fighting for her life back home. Kate fights through the desperate people and a terrain that becomes more treacherous by the day. No longer waiting to be rescued, Alisa braves the powerful cabal that has taken over their small town and risks her own life to protect the innocent. The sisters can’t give up. They won’t. No matter the cost.

An audacious street rat, Pax scrambles to develop powerful and forbidden magic before his enemies can capture and ruin him. A monstrous beast, capable of shattering the city's defenses, is coming. Panic ensues, and the capital mobilizes for war, pushing Pax's strategic abilities to their limits. With time running out, the corrupt ruling families of the Astan Empire will stop at nothing to track down and extinguish any hint of rebellion. Pax races to strengthen his crew and navigate new alliances as the stakes skyrocket.

Do you try to share the lessons you learned in life with your children? Do they listen? Karen S. Veazey shares with us more humorous life lessons she has tried to share with her children. This, her second book, contains 150 funny stories about family, friends, pets, growing up in the South, being married for decades, aging parents, and many other unlikely places to find humor. The lighthearted lessons learned will NOT give you the answers to life’s big questions, but they might help you find humor in life’s mishaps.

Una novela que es mucho más que un fenómeno literario. Una voz que se queda a vivir en quienes la leen. «Recomiendo leer La mala costumbre para hacerse una idea de cuánto sufrimiento, cuánto dolor, cuánto riesgo hay en el hecho de nacer en un cuerpo equivocado.» Pedro Almodóvar «Si...

From the Printz Award-winning author of Dig comes a young adult novel about a teenage boy struggling with the scars left by a dysfunctional family. “A.S. King is one of the best Y.A. writers working today.”—New York Times Book Review “A compulsively readable portrait of two imperfect...

From the Michael L. Printz Award-winning author of Dig comes a story about four teenagers as they navigate the pressures of high-stakes modern education and the standardization tests that will define their futures. “At once a statement on the culture of modern schools as well as mental health...

Conoce las historias que los padres contaban a sus hijos en el siglo XIV en España. El conde Lucanor es un libro de cuentos escrito por don Juan Manuel, sobrino del rey Alfonso X. Todos los cuentos tienen la misma estructura: el joven Lucanor le pide consejo a Patronio, su consejero, sobre algo que le preocupa. Para ayudarlo, Patronio le cuenta un cuento como ejemplo. Estos cuentos están basados en relatos populares, ya conocidos en muchos países, que los padres contaban a sus hijos porque, en aquella época, casi nadie sabía leer ni escribir.

Conoce las historias que los padres contaban a sus hijos en el siglo XIV en España. El conde Lucanor es un libro de cuentos escrito por don Juan Manuel, sobrino del rey Alfonso X. Todos los cuentos tienen la misma estructura: el joven Lucanor le pide consejo a Patronio, su consejero, sobre algo que le preocupa. Para ayudarlo, Patronio le cuenta un cuento como ejemplo. Estos cuentos están basados en relatos populares, ya conocidos en muchos países, que los padres contaban a sus hijos porque, en aquella época, casi nadie sabía leer ni escribir.

Miguel de Cervantes retrata a la sociedad de su tiempo sin dejar títere con cabeza. El licenciado Vidriera cuenta la vida del estudiante Tomás Rodaja, que viaja a Italia como soldado, y cuando vuelve a España, se vuelva loco a causa de una pócima de amor que le da una dama y se obsesiona con que es de vidrio y se puede romper. Pero se vuelve tan ingenioso que todos le piden consejo... Escuchar historias es una manera eficaz y placentera de aprender un idioma extranjero mientras conduces, cocinas, paseas o descansas en tu sillón favorito.

Descubre la extraña idea que la España del siglo XVII tenía del honor de las mujeres. Cervantes cuenta la historia de Leocadia, una hermosa joven que es raptada y violada por un joven desconocido. Como consecuencia, la joven tiene un hijo al que sus padres hacen pasar por su sobrino para salvar el honor de su hija. Pero el destino tiene preparada una sorpresa.

In an instant, life as it was known is gone, replaced by a System called The Connection. It doesn't come quietly as earthquakes rock the planet, the chosen survivors falling unconscious as the Connection takes their bodies and Adapts them. Lochlan Brady and his family were on their way home from a camping weekend when the Connection appears. He awakens with a new Adapted body, finding his wife missing. Now Loch must survive and thrive in this new world with his two teenage daughters, Harper and Piper. All Loch wants to do is protect his daughters and find his wife.

From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family. Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane's mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian...

Move through your divorce strategically with ease instead of stress. You can be strategic and confident, not emotional, in navigating your divorce process. How? With the right answers to your questions you can dominate the divorce process instead of it dominating you. Author, Jadinah Gustave, is an experienced, compassionate, communicative, relentless, and assertive divorce attorney. She does not skip steps.

Eva ist eine vierundzwanzigjährige blonde schwedische Sissy mit einem Drang, den sie ausleben muss. Sie war noch nie mit einem Schwarzen zusammen und das muss sich einfach ändern!Als ihr Traummann, ein amerikanischer Sänger, nach Göteborg kommt, tut Eva alles, was in ihrer Macht steht, um mit ihm allein zu sein.

A peaceful morning is shattered by an active shooter on Mitchell’s office floor. When pulses return to normal, he gets an unexpected visit from a former antagonist. Eleanor Marbury-Coyne is a wealthy, entitled, acid-tongued woman whose husband is in way over his head with a ruthless loan shark. Mitchell agrees to serve as an intermediary, but in the process he is drawn into a job for the gang leader. Walking a tightrope of excruciating tension, he must track a devious online blackmailer while staying on the right side of the law.

If you’re like me, you probably have a horror story or two about a not-so-great boss or a soul-crushing teacher—and you have the battle scars to prove it. Such significant figures, whom we cross paths with throughout our life’s journey, have enormous power over us. And while we all need good mentors, it seems that finding that one unparalleled unicorn is definitely an outlier. Yet becoming an exceptional leader should be the rule and not the exception.