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Written by two successful professional investors - this audiobook exposes some of the most misleading elements of the investment industry - explaining how to navigate the misinformation and produce consistent investment returns. Davis and Shahrestani equip amateur and professional investors alike with the tools to succeed over the long run - by turning some of the industry’s most glaring failings into big opportunities for the thoughtful and rational investor.

With a moneygrubbing father and obnoxious mother, young Jack hasn’t had an easy childhood. But when he’s invited to compete in a painting contest hosted by the legendary Dante De Luca, his life becomes remarkable. With Dante’s mindboggling training, Jack learns to create sensational worlds, like a god.

Sometimes, your case takes a left turn. Or three or four. Marten Mingenstern and Boog Eggstrom are provisional inspectors, fresh out of Inquisitor’s Guild training and eager to prove themselves. Assigned the mundane task of tracking down stolen jewels, they instead uncover a mysterious cult set on destroying the city. After a thief explodes, they earn the enmity of a vicious noble, the Chief Inquisitor gets bought off and goes rogue, they are seized by barbarians, and they are sentenced to death at least a couple of times.

What had previously been a European powerhouse for centuries had become a fractured mess of diverse territories. In the late 18th century, each of these states had fallen under heavy influence from both the French and Austrian nations. Discover the events which took place, including constant suppression from Metternich and the Austrians, three wars for Italian Independence, the attempted assassination of Emperor Napoleon III of the French Empire, and the sensational story of Garibaldi and the thousand.

This bundle contains two books that are very useful for your personal growth and that are full of essential information to make you a better person and help you in many difficult times in your life. The only thing better than one good book is two. You know what we're saying? Who are we? We are Spell Woken Publishing, and we promise you these are both great listens.

Whatever you do, do not listen. Ignore that pull, the need to escape from drudgeries of life and find peace and solitude within nature. It is not the cool breeze and the scent of pine that whispers your name. No, these things within the forest will rip out your heart and devour your soul. You will tremble as they revel in your madness, taking everything from you and leaving you with nothing. Delve inside this anthology of what truly lurks within the shadows of the trees. We dare you to take this journey with us and find out what horrors await you.

In this first of a series of four novels, the Jewish rebellion begins in a backdrop of secret tunnels and assassins, where the dreaded Sicarii can strike like lightning and blend back into the crowd just as quickly. Even trained Roman mercenaries are no match for them.

London-based derivatives trader Scott Carty doesn’t give any weight to the inexplicable dreams he’s been having. That is, until his mercurial boss, Arthur D’albo, summarily dispatches him to an energy conference in Kazakhstan along with the curious instruction to deliver a locked briefcase to one of the delegates. Soon enough, the dream’s premonitions begin to resonate with an alarming clarity as he becomes entangled with his enigmatic translator, Lisa Isotova, and begins to uncover D’albo’s sinister business.

Author Niels Starling shares his unusual and unconventional narrative about information security. In a counterintuitive approach, Niels argues that the majority of internet users have too high a focus on information protection and online security. We all think our information is at risk when actually hiding it away runs the greatest risk.

This book is designed as a practical modern day guide for people who get nervous in everyday life and want to overcome that personality trait. It offers background, outlines, understanding, and a variety of solutions including a 15-step self-help formula. As you listen and relate to the information elements are designed to resonate with you so you can take some inspired action to alleviate your nervousness once and for all.

Seven years after her father was shot by police officers, Holly Samson studies at a college in Lakebridge when a killing spree forces her to face the fact that she, like her father, is a Kinetic. Clarissa Chapman, now a superintendent of psychokinetic investigations, finds herself caught between the desperate hunt for a Kinetic serial killer and a search for the truth behind the ability.

Frederica Stanford has loved Hawthorne Stiles for as long as she can remember. But a merchant’s daughter can never hope to secure the notice of an earl’s son. She doesn’t know that Hawthorne, a man with a passion for justice, has always been captivated by the spirited young woman who grew up near his father’s estate.

Texas in 1835. Still an unruly province of Mexico. An unlikely place for two English expats from opposite social worlds to collide. But revolutions burn with unlikely possibilities. Charlotte Vernon, a genteel painter from the countryside, and Harry Birchfield, a cobbler from London's gritty East End, unexpectedly find themselves on different sides of the fight for Texas independence, she with the Mexican army, he with the rebels.

A historically-based novel with authentic, legendary, and fictional characters interacting across the extraordinary panorama of the Bronze Age Collapse in the Hittite Empire between the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean seas. Diomedes, previously a hero of the Trojan War, and the polyglot Peoples of the Sea raid inland into the Hittite Empire during its final months. The tale is both a study of ancient mythic consciousness and an exciting adventure of love, character, destruction, desperate survival, and the lived mystery of pagan rituals.

A 13th century French priest is recruited by three Italian merchants to aid them in a holy quest to find a secret chamber that allegedly lies buried beneath the crusader held city of Jerusalem. It is a quest that will benefit all of Christendom and bring glory and salvation to those who discover the chamber. They embark on the quest and at once realize that it is far more dangerous than they ever anticipated.

WWII has ended and the occupation of Germany has begun, but the surviving Nazi resistance is still a formidable threat. A suspected clandestine stronghold is found and Allied Command orders an Army squad to infiltrate and silence the Nazi garrison that's hiding dangerously close to the Soviet controlled border. The incursion must be silent and swift, making sure not to strain the ever growing tensions with the adversarial Soviet Union and unintentionally escalate the Cold War.

Verhue and Yinashol are runaway slaves crossing a dangerous and unfamiliar country. Each time the untrained Yinashol uses magic to keep them safe, her power diminishes her soul. As Verhue knows all too well, Yinashol can’t continue this way without it killing her. Traversing the forests, mountains and rivers of the Fractured Scale, they encounter friends and escape from slave hunters, each confrontation calling for the power Yinashol should not use.

This is a historically-based novel with authentic, mythic, & fictional characters interacting across the extraordinary panorama after the Fall of Troy and the Hittite Empire during the Bronze Age Collapse. Diomedes leads his Akhaians (Achaeans) to the Isle of Kyprios (now Cyprus) to meet his lost love, Lieia, the ex-queen of the Hittites. Kyprios is where the Peoples of the Sea have gathered before their final assaults on Canaan and Aigyptos (Egypt). But Diomedes unexpectedly meets the avatar of the Goddess Aphrodite at her Temple in Paphos, the city of her birth.

Combining contemplative spirituality, mysticism, and cosmic wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Day of the Space Voyager is both a fantastic adventure and a provocative parable for the 21st century. James Parker Walker's novel shares the metaphysical wanderings of an old hermit who learns that everything he has ever known is false. His quest for the truth takes him to places he never imagined, experienced on all levels of awareness. The deeper his true identity is revealed, the more he discovers the nature of being and the meaning of life.

December 1776. George Washington’s army is on the brink of collapse on the icy banks of the Delaware River. A missing spy and whispers of a traitor threaten everything. Local militiaman Isaak Moore is sent by Washington on a routine mission—but it plunges him into a deadly web of espionage, secrets, and betrayal.