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In this session, you will learn the principles of investing and how you can start immediately with as little as $100. You will walk away understanding the most important financial terms, proven stock market strategies including index funds and dividend stocks and how to use new platforms to build your 6- to 7-figure portfolio in a simple and stress-free way.

Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear has won high praise for her thought-provoking science fiction. The second in Bear’s powerful Jacob’s Ladder series, Chill finds the generation starship Jacob’s Ladder with a new captain—Perceval. As Perceval struggles with the ship’s recent damage, remnants of the rebellion still linger and a threat to the crew grows.

From the author of Turning to Stone, a mediation on the stories that rock can tell us about the deep history of our planet To many of us, the Earth’s crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, the Earth’s crust, and every stone within it, is a richly illustrated...

'Monumental ' IBRAM X. KENDI 'Eloquent, comprehensive and compassionate' LINDA VILLAROSA 'Superbly insightful' HARRIET A. WASHINGTON Fusing science and social justice, Weathering offers an urgent and necessary exploration of how systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people...

"I am learning Kazakh": 300 essential words and phrases, 140 common expressions, the 100 most common verbs, the 1000 essential Kazakh words. Kazakh or Kazak belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages. Kazakh is the official language of the Republic of Kazakhstan and a minority language in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China. It is spoken by around 11 million people. How to learn a language differently? Today, language learning is revolutionized: you do not have to go to traditional language classes anymore.

After her rescue of nearly 50 kidnapped children made international headlines, Amara Alvarez gets what she's worked for: a transfer to San Antonio's Homicide Division. Reality sets in quickly, though, as her first case, the suspicious death of a teenager at a crowded local water park, brings chaos to her personal life. As the investigation moves forward, and she increases the pressure on the suspects, Amara finds herself under attack by cybercriminals. Her every move is being potentially watched online, and she's forced to resort to unconventional methods to find the killer. 

Literary icon Julia Alvarez, the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies, returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling that will be an instant classic. Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn't want to...

Something’s shifting. Sleep feels fragile. Energy dips. A body suddenly unfamiliar. Between fear headlines and “just push through,” you need what works. OWN THE MENOPAUSE is a masterfully structured, evidence-informed blueprint for women over 40 who want clarity, stability, and real physiological traction during one of the most misunderstood transitions of their lives. No sensationalism. No fear-driven narratives. No one magic solution. Just calm precision and a program that strengthens your capacity one small, repeatable action at a time.

Booklist calls the world of Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear’s spellbinding Jacob’s Ladder series “magnificently populated, well worth visiting.” Here the trilogy that began with Dust and Chill draws to its stunning conclusion. The passengers of the generation spaceship Jacob’s Ladder have found a new home at last. But the planet Grail is already inhabited - and its population of genetically engineered humans has no intention of sharing the world.

Jackson Sinclair ne croit ni au destin ni à l’amour. Il est arrogant, bourru, insupportable… et accessoirement milliardaire. Pire : je suis désormais son entremetteuse attitrée. Je n’ai jamais échoué à trouver l’âme sœur d’un client. Jusqu’à lui. Il m’a fait vivre huit...

Il y a des années, Camden est revenu de la guerre. Mais sans son jeune frère, mort au front. Dans sa ville natale, personne ne lui a pardonné de ne pas l’avoir protégé. Rongé par la culpabilité et la douleur, Camden a fui la ville, jurant de ne jamais y remettre les pieds. Jusqu’au...

After living an opulent life with her aunt for the last few years, the last thing 25-year-old Isabella Garcia wants is to have to celebrate Christmas in the small silver-mining town her father and mother founded in the desert. She'd rather stay in California with the handsome Diego Morales, who is courting her. Isabella is further miffed to have to bear the company of Aaron Bailey, a businessman with the Santa Fe Railroad, whom her father has sent to escort her safely home. Aaron finds Isabella spoiled, and she finds him judgmental.    

Tourism, fast becoming the largest global business, employs one out of 12 persons and produces $6.5 trillion of the world’s economy. In a groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Becker uncovers how what was once a hobby has become a colossal enterprise with profound impact on countries, the environment, and cultural heritage. This invisible industry exploded at the end of the Cold War. In 2012 the number of tourists traveling the world reached one billion. Now everything can be packaged as a tour....

Olvídate de la idea de que debes vencer a la ansiedad. No estás en guerra contigo; puedes reconocer tu ansiedad y aprender una nueva manera de vivir con ella y no contra ella. El club de los ansiosos es un espacio seguro para recordar que no estás solo.

Una comedia romántica que nos enseña a dejar de ser princesas para convertirnos en auténticas guerreras. Amar y ser amada es lo que toda mujer… desea. Lo que toda mujer… ansía. Y con lo que toda mujer… sueña. Pero ¿qué pasa cuando el sueño se desvanece, eres consciente de que tu...

A sus cuarenta años, como un road trip, sin más referente que una fotografía vieja, una hija emprende la búsqueda de su padre. Mientras narra la decisión de ir a conocerlo y el viaje que la lleva de Ciudad de México a Michoacán, iremos construyendo, junto a ella, el pasado, los amores, las alegrías, los accidentes, las ausencias.

La maternidad es una etapa desconocida, llena de mitos y miedos, si eres madre primeriza. Y si quieres amamantar a tu bebé, debes saber que se puede aprender a dar el pecho, que no es un acto instintivo. Disponer de información y apoyo es vital para poder decidir sobre cada aspecto de la lactancia. Somos la leche responde a las preguntas más frecuentes que se puede hacer una madre primeriza: ¿Cómo me preparo para la lactancia? ¿Qué pasa si mi bebé no se agarra bien o no gana peso? ¿Hasta cuándo debo dar el pecho y cuándo se recomienda el destete?

Óscar, María y Román se conocen hacia sus diez años, en un internado que será para ellos campo de juegos y espacio sagrado, pero también un puente hacia la noche oscura del alma; ninguno de los tres protagonistas de esta novela puede evadir el dolor y todos comparten grandilocuentes fantasías. Tal vez sea eso lo que los une y los hace atravesar soledad, orfandad y la necesidad de tomar decisiones que involucran dos muertes y habrán de marcarlos por el resto de sus vidas. Luego, el destino los separa y sólo se reunirán veinte años más tarde.

Tercer volumen de la saga que consagró a Megan como la autora más querida del género El laird Kieran O'Hara y sus guerreros son atacados por unos villanos mientras pernoctan en el bosque cercano al castillo de Caerlaveroch, pero una misteriosa banda de encapuchados, liderados por una mujer a...

Cuando Marcos era pequeño le dejaba cartas a su madre antes de ir a la escuela. Ahora se aparece en sus sueños, porque le quiere contar a qué lugar lo llevaron… cuando lo desaparecieron. Ada está en una carrera contra el tiempo, porque teme morir antes de encontrarlo, pero de una cosa está segura: tiene que buscarlo en un árbol.