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Listen to the latest insights from Dr. David Kelly, Chief Global Strategist, and Gabriela Santos, Chief Strategist for the Americas at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, as they sit down with a variety of thought leaders for a conversational breakdown of big ideas, future trends, emerging topics, and their investment implications, helping to inform the building of stronger long-term investment plans.

BAMcast is a monthly podcast dedicated to aligning your Brand, Audience, & Message. All resources, support, and topics will be around brand alignment to give you confidence and clarity of the path that is right for your brand’s vision.

Starting middle school is no joke! Isaiah Dunn has more to say in the sequel to the award-winning novel Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero. Friendship, community, and a love of poetry blend in this coming-of-age tale. Things are looking up for super kid Isaiah Dunn. He and his sister, Charlie, are getting...

Bryce Winters risked his life often enough racing Formula One cars, but when his own country’s CIA put a gun to his head, he entered a dark and dangerous world - one filled with criminals, top secret assignments, and few friends, if any. Follow this deadly driver on a path that takes him from the hills of Vermont to the most exciting cities and destinations around the world.

Interpol quickly becomes engaged in searching out and killing terrorists who have threatened their enemies with assassination. Several courageous women spearhead suspenseful police battles. The terrorists’ deadly US and European crime spree soon takes a frightening turn for the worse. The group’s maniacal leader masterminds a bioterror plot to drastically reduce the world’s population. Will it be too late to stop this madness before it can be realized?

Enjoy this collection of origin folktales, also known as pourquoi stories, that explain why things are the way they are. In "Why Alligator Hates Dog", everyone respects M'su Cocodrie, the king of the swamp, except the dogs, who taunt him and make lots of noise.

I believe the most subversive act a woman can commit is to tell her story. The world whispers (or shouts) all our lives: be nice, sit down, be quiet. To the world I shout: I will not, I will not, I will not. I am a woman. I am a writer. This is my story.

Maverick environmental writers William J. Kelly and Chip Jacobs follow up their acclaimed Smogtown with a provocative examination of China’s ecological calamity already imperiling a warming planet. Toxic smog most people figured was obsolete needlessly kills as many there as the 9/11 attacks every day, while sometimes Grand Canyon-sized drifts of industrial particles aloft on the winds rain down ozone and waterway-poisoning mercury in America. Vivid, gonzo prose blends first-person reportage with exhaustive research and a sense of karma, describing the horror of "Cancer Villages", spellbinding "peasant revolts" against cancer-spreading plants, and much more....

Major JJ Jackson, a highly decorated Marine whose focus in life is to seek and destroy terrorists, is tasked by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to test the revolutionary technology that promises the US a military and political edge over foreign and domestic threats. When JJ goes rogue and asks a higher power to save the woman he loves, everyone’s lives will be changed forever. For JJ’s team of six men and women, time travel becomes their magic bullet. But when a new American President comes under siege, those who were Found in Time must lock and load.

A shaven-headed man finds himself in a strange, four-sided chamber with no recollection of how he got there or who he is. The only thing of interest in this chamber is a gargantuan ladder that stretches far beyond the eye can see. There are no doors or windows, no means of escape but upwards. So he begins to climb.

Dooms entangle and karmas collide when a heroine from our mythical past reincarnates to save the future only to find she might be the pawn who seals our fate. Forced to wield metaphysics to break a curse, Cassandra Shavano - newlywed, avid hiker, environmentalist - traps herself along with seven others, a teenage ghost, and our parent species in a quantum labyrinth fraught with seduction, betrayal, and murder.

You see your children every day. You have a handle on their lives, right? But do you know how to read the undercurrents? Can you spot the subtle signs of potentially addictive behavior? Is there a touch of violence hidden in your child? This book shows the exact key behaviors, activities, and personality changes to look for in your child that point to brewing trouble. Designed for every parent with teenagers today, this is the only book that provides honest answers to the questions you have about your child and drug abuse, alcohol and binge drinking, violence and bullying, gambling, and depression and suicide.

The nation's top CE0s share valuable insights and strategies for solving cutting-edge management and leadership issues, and reveal their most important success secrets. Compiled by the CEO of top consulting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the memos relay wisdom relevant to the general business audience. Issues include how to leverage technology and improve performance; guide, stimulate, and measure innovations; promote new programs for managing and developing people; and more....

The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse - it came from within, from Southern California's burgeoning car-addicted, suburban lifestyle. Smogtown is the story of pollution, progress, and how an optimistic people confronted the epic struggle against airborne poisons barraging their hometowns.

A coming-of-age tale about a boy who discovers a love of poetry after finding his late father's journal. Adapted from a story that first appeared in Flying Lessons & Other Stories and perfect for fans of The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson. Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a...

Henrietta “Etta” Maxwell, heiress to the Maxwell fortune, is a hard-hitting investigative reporter for The Enterprise Daily. The catch? Etta must pen her columns under the nom de plume, Henry Mason—a fact that routinely puts a knot in her knickerbockers. Leo Eriksson is a second-generation firefighter with a passion for rendering aid to those in need. When Leo discovers that Henry Mason is really Henrietta Maxwell, the fire department’s wealthy benefactress, he agrees to keep her identity secret.

In this rollicking, rhyming book, a pair of siblings who are supposed to be in bed discover a jazz band playing in their basement.

In this book you will find a collection of thirteen unsettling stories from some of the most talented independent horror authors on the scene today. From otherworldly creatures to tales of revenge, vicious pirates to religious zealots, K is for Kidnap will keep you guessing until the end of each story.

Question your typical perception. See beyond the normal you know. Step into divergent realms. Let this anthology of new and original short stories show you the fantastic and futuristic through a new lens. A struggling father discovers why his autistic daughter becomes consumed with a virtual reality simulator in the wake of her mother’s death.

Shame is a powerful and misunderstood emotion that drives self-sabotage, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and countless other behaviors that keep us small. In a world that runs on shame, it’s easy to believe that you’re flawed, broken, or unworthy. But the truth is, there’s nothing wrong with you—and you have the power to free yourself from shame’s toxic grip.