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Estimating is a smart way of guessing the number of something. Discover tips and tricks to help you guess the number of jelly beans and other fun estimating challenges.

Home prices are too high. Buying a home is the pinnacle of adulthood, but as we all aware, home ownership isn’t exactly easy to navigate, especially for younger folks. Unless you’re completely debt-free, get help from parents, and disciplined enough to live below your means to save money, buying your first home in the future can seem more like a fantasy than an actual possibility.

Gabriel Zurmühlen does not know his origins – he was once found as a newborn in baroque Berlin, wrapped in a silken cloth with a mysterious crest. Driven by this mystery, he has ended up in the service of the unscrupulous Count von Winsterburg. On behalf of his master, Gabriel immerses himself in the glamorous but dangerous Paris of Louis XIV, seduces men and women, makes friends and enemies, steals, murders and risks his life several times. But it is only when fate leads the Count's household back to the Spree that he begins to better understand the background to his life – and thus ...

Read the best mystery and adventure short stories. Be it cozy, historical, detective or murder mystery stories; our collection includes them all: The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Arrow of Heaven by G. K. Chesterton, The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton, The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, The Master of Mystery by Jack London.

Just Joe: Baseball’s Natural, as told by his wife highlights the extraordinary career of South Carolina’s Joseph Jefferson Jackson, more well-known as “Shoeless Joe.” Related from the imagined perspective of his wife Katie, Just Joe examines the life of a couple devoted to baseball, and more importantly, to each other. Jackson’s career, especially his batting prowess and his involvement in the 1919 World Series “Black Sox” scandal, are well known. However, what’s largely unknown is how Joe and Katie Jackson gracefully weathered the criticism and condemnation from fans and ...

How many caramels are in a pound? Who caught the biggest fish? Learn how balances and scales help you with the heavy lifting of measuring weight.

How many hours do you sleep? How many minutes does it take to eat your cereal? Learn how clocks and calendars help you tick off the seconds, hours, days, and years.

This audiobook follows the adventures of Max Axiom as he explains the importance of science safety.

Follow the adventures of Max Axiom as he explains science safety.

What are stars? What are planets? Why are some brighter than others? And which planets can we see from Earth? Learn the answers to these questions and and discover the science behind stars, planets, and their patterns.

Nineteen tales of human connection and disconnection that collide and subvert the half-crazed romantic contemporary, the not-so-distant rosy past, our dodgy-looking promised cyberpunk utopia, and our post-apocalyptic dystopian future. Provocative, wistful, melancholic, nightmarish, darkly funny, and satirical, these episodes must surely play out logically. Or not.

THE MCCARTHY MEN WERE ONCE STRONG AND PROUD. Now they are a family torn apart by lies. With both years and distance between them, they must now come together and seek justice for one of their own. Soon they discover that the truth lies within a core of crime and corruption; buried there by someone they'd never suspect. Will the shared thirst for vengeance finally repair the bond that once held the McCarthy men so close together? Or will it lead to their ultimate destruction?

Life can be tough. You do not want to be fighting yourself in addition to everything else in your life. It is time to take action for a bright and content future. Hey, Can We Just Chill? offers you seven explosive steps to zap anxiety and live a better life. An anxious, bullied, and tainted author explores a series of strategies, through anecdotes and research, that will help improve every aspect of your being as an anxious person. You deserve to be free from anxiety so that you can focus on living a purposeful life.

At 30, Ben Prescott, successfully running the family business and by all accounts living an idyllic life just as planned, is still haunted by thoughts of the girl who got away over seven years ago. At 29, adventure seeker Ky is still traveling the world in search of a place to call home, only she can't help thinking home was never a place, but a boy she left behind when his perfect plans felt like chains they both needed freed from.

Earth lies abandoned. When the Makers left for the stars, civilization descended into ruin. Asp, one of the last remaining sentient cities, fights against the ravages of time, but his resources are dwindling. When at last he swallows his pride and seeks the help of the primitive peoples that remain, he learns the true meaning of courage.

How much water does it take to fill the fishbowl? How much milk do you need for your cereal? From cups to gallons, learn how measuring tools help you fill it up.

How big was the world's biggest cookie? How many dominoes were used in the longest domino wall? Listen to this book to find out!

When the Magistrate of the Rhakotis District calls on Heron of Alexandria - the greatest inventor the city has ever known - to help him solve a series of crimes, he learns the unexpected value of the inventor's unique knowledge. While the "Alexandrian Saga" books detail the clash of empires over technologies unleashed from the Temples never-ending pursuit of coin, these five tales are from a quieter - and earlier - time when Heron helped her friend, the Magistrate of the Rhakotis District, solve strange and varied crimes.

Life is a game, unless you're not the one winning. Gabby DeCorte, top student and reality-hacker extraordinaire, has been doing whatever it takes to keep her best friend, Zaela, from falling behind in LifeGame. Zaela has gifts of artistry that amaze Gabby, but none of those skills translate in LifeGame and with final exams coming up, they can't afford to waste a single minute. But when a mysterious group called the Frags contacts Gabby claiming to know what really happens to the losers of LifeGame, she must choose between winning and what she believes in.

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.