Smart Home Simplified is a practical, beginner-friendly guide for homeowners and renters who want the benefits of a connected home without the confusion. If you have ever wondered which devices actually work together, whether you need a hub, what Matter or Thread really mean, or how to avoid buying gadgets that create more problems than they solve, this book gives you clear answers in plain American English. It shows you how to choose compatible products, build useful automations, improve ...

The video is fourteen seconds long. The man who fired the shots is the man who filmed them.By the time it reached a phone on Greene Street, in downtown Manhattan at four in the morning, it had been screen-recorded off a repost of a repost. Millions watched it on Instagram and Youtube. The recording ends before the only fact that matters is determined. The man on the sidewalk was an I.C.E Officer.In April 2025, the Manhattan District Attorney unsealed two indictments against...

Does your dog seem to have endless energy?Does your dog jump on people, pull on the leash, bark excessively, chew things, struggle to settle down, or become distracted by almost everything?You are not alone.High-energy dogs can be incredibly loving, intelligent, playful, and enthusiastic—but without the right structure and training, that energy can become difficult to manage.Training High Energy Dogs Made Easy is a practical guide designed to help dog owners...

You ran your hand across a crafted wallet and thought, could I make that. The answer is yes, if you start with a 20 minute key fob and not a messenger bag. This book is a staircase, not a catalog. 30 projects are ordered so each teaches 2 new skills and hands them to the next, so you are never tested on something you have not quietly practiced on scrap.You do not need a workshop, a $500 kit, or natural talent. You need a $120 starter set that fits in a shoebox, a bag of vegetable t...

I am evil. I am no longer human. Blood is my mainstay, and we kill for blood in my world. Also, revenge is the sweetest truth I know.I rule one of the most notorious Mafia families in New York City, the Prattori family.For five hundred years, I have walked this earth, spilling my evil upon humanity. Now, in the twenty-first century, I know I am not the last of my kind. All Mafia men live as they please, sharing their evil with the modern world, a world...

Bob Dylan’s art and image are at once rivetingly iconic and eternally elusive. Yet one aspect of his career remains underexplored: his appearances and depictions on screen. Since the mid-1960s, Dylan has been the subject of documentaries, an actor in feature films, and the auteur of his own film projects, as well as the inspiration for both traditional and unconventional biopics.I’m Glad I’m Not Me explores Dylan on film, from D. A. Pennebaker’s direct cinema classic D...

When covert operations go wrong, CIS sends in . . . The Corrector.After loosing his wife in a tragic accident and never wanting to lose in any way again, Javin Pierce has buried his feelings in work. Fixing every mistake anyone else has made in hopes it will redeem his own guilt for not being able to save her life. When an elite CIS team botches a retrieval operation, the agency calls Javin in from Albania to fix it. But they want him to t...

At seventeen, Ilan Leclerc shines through his intelligence and his passion for the stars. But at school, his brilliance makes him a target. When he finally refuses to obey his bullies, violence erupts — and a brutal incident shatters the fragile balance of his world.At the same time, in Sengoku‑era Japan, young samurai Souta fights to save his besieged clan. A prodigious strategist and soon‑to‑be father, he reads the constellations to anticipate the enemy’s moves. Watching over him...

They were never meant to meet.Even less to care for one another.In 1917, a Frenchman and a German flee the war and find, in each other, what the world has taken from them.In a grieving farmhouse and along the roads, they learn to breathe again, to believe in something that resembles peace.But war never loosens its grip.And some bonds are born precisely where everything should fall apart.

Silence is the norm. Emotion is a failure. Identity is a number.In the city of the Hive, order is absolute. Under the iron rule of the Hexatech Corporation, the population is subjected to strict "calibration." Bodies are optimized, minds are smoothed, and every trace of feeling is eradicated by a technological protocol whose origins no one dares to question.2-21 is nothing more than a serial number among thousands. But behind his hollow gaze, an anomaly persists. He is the ...

Under the ever-changing skies of Connemara, where the peat bogs stretch as far as the eye can see and the ocean roars against the cliffs, Baptiste thought he had found a sanctuary. First in Dublin, then in Galway, his path crossed Finan’s—a flamboyant young Irishman whose tenderness and raw passion act as a balm on his wounds. Together, between rain-soaked Gaelic football matches, shared complicity in a microbrewery, and passionate embraces, they try to build a haven sheltered from the wor...

A research-backed, story-driven guide that shows how humility—properly understood—multiplies personal growth, connection, and influence—from the co-author of The One-Minute Entrepreneur and Prosper.In a culture where the loudest voices dominate business and politics, it can seem like humility is a liability. But what if it is actually the key to lasting success?Entrepreneur and best-selling author Ethan Willis shows that humility—not ego—p...