'Melody’s tremors had returned. There was only one window. She’d give it a few more seconds then smash it with the bong and make her escape.'Melody Bright, Britain’s latest pop phenomenon, is on a winning streak. Yes, there's a hint of mental instability and a merciless manager, but as long as Melody suffers endless indignities without question success and glory are hers. That is until an innocent comment sets in train events that leave her on the brink of...

Use a master’s lost secret to pick growth companies bound for successIn 1948, legendary Columbia University professor Benjamin Graham bought a major stake in the Government Employees Insurance Corporation. In a time when no one trusted the stock market, he championed value investing and helped introduce the world to intrinsic value. He had a powerful valuation formula.Now, in this groundbreaking book, long-term investing expert Fred Martin shows you how to ...

On Popular Music and Its Unruly Entanglements comprises eleven essays that explore the myriad ways in which popular music is entwined within social, cultural, musical, historical, and media networks. The authors discuss genres as diverse as mainstream pop, hip hop, classic rock, instrumental synthwave, video game music, amateur ukelele groups, and audiovisual remixes, while also considering the music’s relationship to technological developments, various media and material(itie)s, ...

35 Stories of Tough Stuff, Reaching Out, and the Power of Love for Christian TeensTough StuffReaching OutNot Really GoneLove is All You Need

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christian Teen Talk provides support to teens who care about their faith and are navigating their teenage years.This book will have fresh appeal to Christian teenage readers and their parents.Devout Christian teens care about their connection and relationship with God, but they are also experiencing all the normal ups and downs of teenage life. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christian Teen Talk, filled with 101 storiesfrom C...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christian Teen Talk provides support to teens who care about their faith and are navigating their teenage years.This book will have fresh appeal to Christian teenage readers and their parents.Devout Christian teens care about their connection and relationship with God, but they are also experiencing all the normal ups and downs of teenage life. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christian Teen Talk, filled with 101 storiesfrom C...

34 Stories of Family, Growing Up, Miracles, and Life Lessons for Christian TeensFamilyGrowing UpMiracles Great and SmallLife Lessons

“By far the best book on investing ever written.” — Warren BuffettThe classic text of Benjamin Graham’s seminal The Intelligent Investor has now been revised and annotated to update the timeless wisdom for today’s market conditions.The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing"—which shields investors from substantial error an...

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENTWinner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize'Astonishingly accomplished'THE TIMES'Remarkable'OBSERVER'Gripping'NEW YORK TIMES'Fabulously atmospheric'GUARDIAN'Engros...

Antonio is a killer.He's beautiful, educated, a prodigy of a thief and as violent a man as ever came off the boat from Napoli.Theresa knows it, but that doesn't stop her from getting emotionally and physically entangled with him, and this is how she got it in her head that she can protect him.Every time she tries to protect him, she practically gets him killed, and the tighter he grips her, the more dangerous she becomes.It's almost as if pro...

The language of businessIn order to understand how your business is performing right now and to evaluate, assess, and devise new strategies to boost future performance, you need information. Financial statements are a critical source of the information you need.In direct and simple terms, Richard A. Lambert, Miller-Sherrerd Professor of Accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, demystifies financial statements and concepts and show...

Lemon has three mothers: a biological one she's never met, her adopted father's suicidal ex, and Drew, a school principal who hasn’t left the house since she was stabbed by a student. She has one deadbeat dad, one young cancer-riddled protégé, and two friends, the school tramp and a depressed poetFiguring the numbers are against her, Lemon just can’t be bothered trying to fit in. She spurns fashion, television, and even the mall. She reads Mary Wollstonecraft and gets pissed off th...