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Sam is very in touch with their own queer identity. They're nonbinary, and their best friend, TJ, is nonbinary as well. Sam's family is very cool with it... as long as Sam remembers that nonbinary kids are also required to clean their rooms, do their homework, and try not to antagonize their teachers too much. The teacher-respect thing is hard when it comes to Sam’s history class, because their teacher seems to believe that only Dead Straight Cis White Men are responsible for history.

Annja Creed is in London on a secret archaeological dig on the grounds of Hampton Court Palace. The body of a decapitated medieval woman is unearthed. Annja helps to determine her cause of death and identify her. Who murdered her and why was she silenced? The grisly discovery leads Annja and Roux Dupree to a secret society of knights as they uncover a royal conspiracy. In the 1500s, King Henry VIII had two of his wives arrested and beheaded. Is this new body connected to the dead queens?

Daylight Robbery tells the hidden story of hi tech heists stealing Australians’ real estate and retirement wealth: no sirens, no police and very little chance of getting your money back. This silent plunder stolen by sharks operating across the digital economy is funding crime, slavery and even terrorism. We get to the bottom of how it happens and explain how you can stop your money and savings being plundered.

When a two-thousand-year-old jewel of Cleopatra’s is discovered in a Brooklyn construction zone, Annja, Roux, and Garin team up to hunt for the missing tomb of Cleopatra. From the sand dunes of The Sudan, to the misty avenues of London, and the ruins of ancient Alexandria beneath the Mediterranean Sea, Annja uncovers Egyptian mysteries. The great pyramids on the River Nile have secret chambers, mummies, and tombs full of endless gold.

Legions of self-help authors rightly urge personal development as the key to happiness, but they typically fail to focus on its most important objective: hardiness. Though that which doesn't kill us can make us stronger, as Nietzsche tells us, few authors today offer any insight into just how to springboard from adversity to strength. It doesn't just happen automatically, and it takes practice. New scientific research suggests that resilience isn't something with which only a fortunate few of us have been born, but rather something we can all take specific action to develop.

The Internet and smartphone are just the latest in a 250-year-long cycle of disruption that has continuously changed the way we live, the way we work, and the way we interact. The coming Augmented Age, however, promises a level of disruption, behavioral shifts, and changes that are unparalleled. While consumers today are camping outside of an Apple store waiting to be one of the first to score a new Apple Watch or iPhone, the next generation of wearables will be able to predict if we're likely to have a heart attack and recommend a course of action.

Intermittent fasting is one of the best ways to lose weight that has ever been devised, simply because our bodies were designed to eat like that. From as far back as our earliest ancestors, our bodies had to adapt to fluctuations in food availability, meaning that we could often go for long periods without eating. Now this method has been adopted for a weight-loss program like never before that is finding enormous success with participants. 

Keep your family close, because your enemies are closer. University student Matt Pine has just received devastating news. Nearly his entire family have been found dead while holidaying in Mexico. The local police claim it was an accident, but the FBI aren't convinced – and they won't tell Matt...

If you're in sales, fear has cost you millions of dollars, and this audiobook is for you. You will learn exactly how to overcome this destructive fear in sales and replace it with confidence, optimism, gratitude, joy, and proactive sales work. These are the powerful principles in the new field of positive psychology that are transforming how we work and succeed. Selling Boldly is the first audiobook that leverages positive psychology to help you sell more.   

“A well-crafted page-turner that addresses the most important issue of our time. It will keep you reading well into the night.”–Vince Flynn A New York Times reporter has drawn upon his experience covering the occupation in Iraq to write the most gripping and chillingly plausible thriller...

Put your headphones on. Turn off the lights. Listen to this rule before you close your eyes tonight... Make yourself comfortable. Adjust your pillow, pull the blanket over your shoulders, and let your head sink into the mattress. But do not close your eyes just yet. When the house goes quiet...

Polisen Johan Lind kallas till ett ensligt hus vid en sjö där en man hittas strypt under märkliga omständigheter. När en okänd symbol kopplad till det hemlighetsfulla "Projekt Noll" dyker upp på brottsplatsen, inser Johan snabbt att detta inte är ett vanligt mord. Tillsammans med den...

Cómo evitar que el ego y la competencia nos hagan pagar de más Hace más de treinta años, Richard Thaler introdujo a los lectores en la psicología económica con su influyente sección periodística «Anomalies», escrita con colaboradores como Daniel Kahneman y Amos Tversky. Aquellos...

Sofia und Layla wollen gemeinsam eine zauberhafte Parade anführen, haben aber unterschiedliche Vorstellungen. Etwas später hat Zane ungewöhnliche Schwierigkeiten bei einem neuen Tanz und sucht nach einer schnellen Lösung. Camila möchte eine sensationelle Zauberin werden, doch als sie einen...

Das erste Schuljahr an der königlichen Zauberschule startet mit einem Rennen, bei dem Sofia und ihre neuen Freunde Layla, Camila und Zane ein magisches Tier gewinnen können. Kurz darauf müssen sie bei einem magischen Wettstreit verschiedene Aufgaben meistern. Dabei ist nicht nur Magie gefragt...

Ein Foto, das seit Jahrhunderten niemand gesehen hat. Und eine Karte, die zu Atlantis führen soll. Als eine über Jahrhunderte verschollene Fotografie zusammen mit einem Brief und einer Karte das PROJECT erreicht, ahnt niemand im Team, wie weit diese Spur reicht. Sie führt zur versunkenen...

The USA Today bestselling follow-up to Red Rabbit, Rose of Jericho is a supernatural horror where ghosts and ghouls are the least of a witch's problems in nineteenth-century New England. Something wicked is going on in the town of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and...

To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It not just incomplete or inaccurate but deeply wrong, as wrong as Ptolemaic astronomy. We no longer believe that the earth is the center of the universe. Why do we still believe in historical narrative? Our attachment to history as a vehicle for understanding has a long Darwinian pedigree and a genetic basis.

The remarkable story of the heroic effort to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife-and a culture that derives immense pride and a sense of national identity from its natural landscape. Postwar Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty...

Are you at risk of being trapped in an uncompetitive business? Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to strategy and the way the real world works now. In short, strategy is stuck. Most leaders are using frameworks that were designed for a different era of business and based on a single dominant idea - that the purpose of strategy is to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.