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Stock Investing For Dummies is full of practical and realistic stock market guidance. Today's market is full of surprises, and this book will help you understand all aspects of the investing process, so you can thrive as an investor, come what may. With straightforward direction from a renowned best-selling author and national financial authority, this book discusses the many different ways you can invest in stocks, so you can create a portfolio that works for you.

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them - for a price.

A mysterious cargo plane, flanked by a squadron of Russia’s most lethal fighters, has just taken off from a remote airbase. Closely monitored by the United States, no one inside the Pentagon has any idea where it’s going or what it’s carrying. A high-level Russian defector, a walking vault of secrets that could shatter the West, seeks asylum in Norway. Across the continent, in the heart of Paris, a lone French agent stumbles upon a conspiracy so explosive it could ignite a global firestorm.

In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian mercenary unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield. With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village, committing horrific war crimes, they meet little resistance as all able-bodied men are off fighting the war.

Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed’s living presence has only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes offers the definitive narrative of Reed’s life and legacy, dramatizing his long, brilliant, and contentious dialogue with fans, critics, fellow artists, and assorted habitués of the demimonde.

From their first meeting in 1981, the Bangles were ambitious, focused, and intentional; their hard-work and determination resulted in millions of records sold across the globe, before becoming the first all-girl band to have five “Top 10” hits. Not long after coming together, they toured the world, released #1 records, and collaborated with the biggest artists of the day. They seemed unstoppable—until tensions within the band, artistic differences, and the pressures of sudden celebrity tore them apart less than a decade later. Eternal Flame is the story of those eight years.

Sinful Promise is the sixth and final book of the Kolslov Bratva series. Each book in this series features a different couple and can be listened to as a standalone, but for better understanding of the world, you might want to read previous books first.

He rescued me from certain death but refused to reveal his identity to me. He told me he’s been watching me for years. I should be scared. But for some crazy reason, I trust him. He’s in my room while I sleep, protecting me, But I crave more. I beg him until he gives me what I want. Yet he still refuses to show me who he is. He’s intoxicating. I can’t breathe without him. But he’s hiding something from me. Even when I discover the truth, I can’t keep away. And then I learn that I’m pregnant.

I should hate Anton for what he did to Maxim, but the more time I spend with him, the more I realize he’s not the monster my father makes him out to be. Before long, I’ve fallen in love with him. He has no idea who I really am or who my father is. Our whole relationship is based on lies. I need to tell Anton the truth. And I’m about to…when I discover I’m pregnant.

Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun — until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems. The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather die than betray their terrifying leader.

At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.

“The energy and artistry Ericksen puts into her presentation make for an exciting listen.”—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner) The #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war… His passport read Giovanni Rossi...

Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a 12-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now. In the end more of the important stuff gets done and the impact on results is profound.

Nathan Tyler is an unassuming professor at a middling American university with a rather obscure specialty in mathematics—in short, a nobody from nowhere. So why is the White House calling? Summoned to Washington, DC, for a top-secret briefing, Nathan discovers that he’s the key to a massive foreign intelligence breakthrough. Reading between the lines of a cryptic series of equations, he could open a door straight into the heart of the Kremlin and change the global balance of power forever.

Married Eva Griffin has been caught with a prominent congressman, and is ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid hush money to protect the politician. But first Perry Mason tracks down the publisher of the blackmailing tabloid and discovers a shocking secret, which eventually leads to Mason being accused of murder. This is the first Perry Mason mystery and our introduction to secretary Della Street, detective Paul Drake, and the great lawyer himself.

Robert Langdon, el célebre profesor de simbología, viaja a Praga para asistir a una conferencia revolucionaria impartida por Katherine Solomon, una brillante científica noética con quien ha iniciado una relación. Katherine está a punto de publicar un libro cuyos asombrosos descubrimientos sobre la naturaleza de la conciencia humana prometen desafiar siglos de creencias consolidadas. Pero un brutal asesinato desata el caos, y Katherine desaparece sin dejar rastro junto con su valioso manuscrito.

Han pasado cinco años desde que el doctor Starks acabó con la pesadilla que casi le cuesta la vida y que arrasó con todo lo que había sido hasta entonces, descubriéndole las facetas más oscuras del alma humana, también la suya. Desde entonces, ha logrado reconstruir su vida profesional y vuelve a ejercer de psicoanalista instalado en Miami y atendiendo a adolescentes con graves problemas psicológicos y también a pacientes adinerados de la sociedad de Florida.

Tras su precipitado matrimonio con Octave de Fonneuve, Aldara, refugiada de la Guerra Civil, llega al Domaine de Clair de Lune, una imponente bodega de Borgoña. Cuando estalla la guerra en Francia, su marido cae prisionero y la deja sola frente a los recelos de su suegro, el acoso de su cuñado y la ocupación alemana.

Una pareja queda devastada tras la muerte de su hija adolescente. Sienten que no pueden seguir sin ella. Un misterioso hombre se les acerca y les ofrece algo que puede resolver sus problemas. Se trata de un servicio de "inmortalidad" que le genera una vida virtual a su hija por medio de un sofisticado sistema de inteligencia artificial. Los padres contratan el servicio y desde ese momento comienzan a vivir como si su hija siguiera con ellos.

Susana Macaya, de padre gitano pero educada como paya, desaparece tras su fiesta de despedida de soltera. El cadáver es encontrado dos días después en la Quinta de Vista Alegre del madrileño barrio de Carabanchel. Podría tratarse de un asesinato más, si no fuera por el hecho de que la víctima ha sido torturada siguiendo un ritual insólito y atroz, y de que su hermana Lara sufrió idéntica suerte siete años atrás, también en vísperas de su boda.

Nahum -la ciudad de Jesús- abre una nueva etapa en la serie "Caballo de Troya". En esta séptima entrega del mayor norteamericano que viajó a la Palestina del siglo I todo cambia.

Mi nombre es Amber Reynolds. Hay tres cosas que debes saber de mí: 1. Estoy en coma; 2. Mi marido ya no me ama; 3. En algunas ocasiones miento. Amber despierta en un hospital. No puede moverse. No puede hablar. No puede abrir sus ojos. Es capaz de escuchar a todos los que la rodean, pero ellos no lo saben. Amber no recuerda que fue lo que le sucedió, pero sospecha que su marido tuvo algo que ver en ello.

Evie Porter tiene todo lo que cualquier chica podría desear: un novio que la quiere, una casa con jardín y unas amigas fantásticas. Pero Evie Porter no existe. La identidad es lo primero: Evie Porter. Una vez que su misterioso jefe, el señor Smith, le da un nombre y una ubicación, aprende todo lo que hay que saber sobre la ciudad y sus habitantes. Luego, el objetivo: Ryan Sumner. La última pieza del rompecabezas es el trabajo.

La estatua del Dragón de Oro permanece oculta en un reino pequeño y misterioso, enclavado en la cordillera del Himalaya. Y según cuenta la leyenda, este magnífico objeto, un poderoso instrumento de adivinación incrustado de piedras preciosas, preserva la paz de estas tierras. Una paz que ahora, por la codicia en el alma de los hombres, puede verse perturbada.

El cráneo del dinosaurio carnívoro más grande del mundo ha desaparecido del remoto sitio de la Patagonia donde estaba siendo excavado. Teresa Estévez, la paleontóloga que lidera la expedición, descubre que el ladrón ha dejado en su lugar una falange humana y una críptica nota con una única interpretación posible: el hueso pertenece a su mentora, Sara Lombardi, desaparecida en ese mismo lugar cuatro años atrás.

Cuando Dakota Adams volvió a casa, tras pasar varios años en el extranjero, lo que menos esperaba era encontrarse que su madre se había casado en secreto.

Novelista magistral, Daniel Silva ha fascinado a los lectores con una veintena de meticulosas y emocionantes novelas de espías en las que hace acto de presencia el “tan querido Gabriel Allon” (Booklist) en ingeniosas tramas que lo han llevado alrededor del mundo y de regreso, de Estados Unidos a Europa, Rusia o el Medio Oriente.

Silva regresa con otro éxito: una novela poderosa que muestra sus destacadas destrezas y su brillante imaginación y está destinada a ser una lectura obligatoria para la multitud de sus seguidores y la creciente legión de convertidos.