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A seasoned, award-winning professional money manager delivers an eye-opening and insightful take on a frequently overlooked - and critically important - investing strategy. The author walks listeners through a crash-course in how to take full advantage of the greatest opportunity for wealth accumulation: a bull market. Unloved Bull Markets is the perfect book for investors who seek to base their decisions on data and logic, rather than fears and intuition, and want to focus on the profitable climb instead of distressing worries.

Seeking a new life, the Oberstrasse family lands on the wild Maine coast in 1753. They find that the American frontier teems with conniving swindlers, hostile French and Indians, killing diseases, and then a powerful movement for independence from Britain. They have come because Christianne has decided that their infant sons will never soldier for the Landgraf of Hesse like their father, hired out to serve King George of England. Expecting to till the soil, Johann finds that opportunity on the rocky coast comes from the forest, not land, so he learns carpentry and trapping.

For centuries, the West has produced stories about the future in which humans use advanced science and technology to transform the Earth. Michael Rawson uses a wide range of works that include Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, the science fiction novels of Jules Verne, and even the speculations of think tanks like the RAND Corporation to reveal the environmental paradox at the heart of these narratives: the single-minded expectation of unlimited growth on a finite planet.

B.J. Harrison reads Louisa May Alcotts famous novella "Behind a Mask", which is widely considered to be Alcotts masterpiece in sensation fiction. A wealthy Victorian-era family recruits Jean Muir as sixteen-year-old Bellas governess. But soon enough, Jean Muir appears to have everyone under her spell, and to have the power to do everything as she pleases. This novella from the late 19th century was initially published under Louisa May Alcotts pseudonym A. M. Barnard...

Career Diplomacy takes listeners inside the world of American diplomats in the US Foreign Service. Members of the Foreign Service represent the country abroad, protect and support American citizens overseas, manage government programs and facilities, and move foreign policy from the abstract to the actual.

H.P. Lovecraft considered The Willows to be "the finest supernatural tale in English literature", and its appeal is obvious. In his tale of an adventurous duo who embark on a seemingly innocuous river trip down the Danube, Blackwood personifies the desolate willows to be ominous, alive, and menacing. The river itself brims with human passions, and the elemental winds and heavenly forces all combine to create a sense of a supernatural intelligence orchestrating it all.

John Carter has exposed the fraudulent Martian religion, and now there are many who want him to pay. Among them are the defrocked and black-hearted Thurid, and the bitter patriarch Matai Shang. These two villains concoct a plot that will not only plunge the Martian governments into perpetual chaos, but will condemn the plucky Dejah Thoris to a life of cruelty and misery.

Only one yellow rose bush exists in the whole of the Hungarian Plain known as the Hortobágy, and its flowers are only given by the maiden who runs the Hortobágy Inn. But when she has a lover’s spat with her betrothed, and remembers a recipe for love she learned from a gypsy woman, how could she know that she would poison her beloved?

All Kimt ever wanted to be was a healer in the temple of Ran. But an evil sorceress stole her body, and lived the life Kimt was meant to live. When her granddaughter is threatened, Kimt hatches a plan to take her life back. What she hadn't bargained for was starting life over again, as a young woman, and a powerful sorceress.

Rotiaqua was the unwanted daughter of the Baron Reik. Her only crime was being born a woman. Rotiaqua makes friends with a distant wizard child born of low birth. When Reik finally decides to accept her as his heir, he calls her from exile to the castle and court where she learns her childhood friend is hawking a new religion and calling himself a priest, and he wants her to be his priestess.

How would you like to learn how to utilize your greatest asset properly? In addition to this, you’ll also learn how you can fast-track your route to success and techniques that will help you get there faster! Backed by scientific insight and psychological research, the information in this book will change your life. Create a new reality for yourself right now, and leave the tired old vision of a limited life behind.

Chris Jenkins, alpha werewolf, wants the woman who destroyed his life dead. Then, he finds her imprisoned and beaten by her own family. So, he rescues her instead. Too make things worse, her soul is bound to a grimoire of black magic and he volunteers his pack to protect the book from falling into the wrong hands. Now, Jade has to live with him. It’s the only way to keep his city safe.

Gustav Braun, former Nazi and physics professor at the University of Heidelberg, spent the better part of his life trying to unravel the mysteries of time. Now in the '80s, time was running out.

It’s going to be so much fun! All of the kids in the neighborhood are playing a super fun game - Invasion!

Three hundred years after his death, William Lantry awakes from his coffin. One thing is very clear to him - this sterile world without superstition, fear, or imagination must be destroyed.

How will Click and Irish survive being marooned on a pirate’s asteroid with only a single gun and a news reel camera to defend themselves?

The Phantom Hearse means death. Death always comes to the house where it’s sighted on moonlit evenings. But why does wicked old Jones love to talk about it so much?

The world stands on the brink of the rocket age, and everyone is thrilled that humanity has attained this stunning achievement. But William Stanley isn’t convinced we should be here. Will he really stop the launch of this incredible rocket that he has helped to create?

Dr. Fu-Manchu’s deathless existence seems to defy the very laws of nature itself. He has returned, and this time, he is not alone. Having teamed up with a ruthless terrorist organization, the Si-Fan, Fu-Manchu and his associates are determined to shift the balance of global power in their favor - and only Sir Denis Nayland Smith and his associates stand in their way.

When a failed attempt to end the rise to the Temple of Ran leads Sulrad to the truth, he discovers that the near extinct dragons might just be the weapon he needs to put an end to the scheming of the wizards of Amedon once and for all. But dragons are crafty and not to be trusted. If it were not for the magic of Sulrad's one true childhood friend, all would be lost. But even with the help of the dwarves and the dragons, the wizards of Amedon are nothing to be trifled with.