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Corporate finance is the heartbeat of the business world—the rhythm that drives investment, valuation, and strategic decision-making. But beyond balance sheets and ratios lies a deeper elegance: the harmony of risk and reward, the tempo of markets, the story told in numbers.

Meetings are broken. They are relics from a bygone era of top-down hierarchies and factory-like procedures—designed to issue orders, flaunt power, and keep the hierarchy intact. In today’s digital, collaborate-or-bust era, this model isn’t just inefficient, it actively harms employees and organizations. Drawing on decades of research and stories from leading companies like Google, Salesforce, Pixar, YouTube, and Dropbox, Your Best Meeting Ever provides a blueprint to transform your meetings from monotonous, soul-crushing time sinks into powerful tools for collaboration.

One woman's desperate search for answers reveals hidden lives and unexpected connections in a twisty novel of betrayal and secrets. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Liane Moriarty, Ruth Ware, and Lucy Foley! Wrongfully accused, Libby Luck has just been fired from a well-paying nanny position she needs to support her terminally ill father. Desperate to get back on her feet quickly, she takes a new position with a family in the middle of nowhere New Hampshire. Nervous she's made a rash decision, Libby's fears are put aside when she sees the lavish home she'll be living in.

Tsultrim Dolma, born in a tiny village in the stunning mountains of eastern Tibet, always knew there had to be more than the life expected of her: More than no education, because her family was poor. More than being married off at a young age, because she was a girl. More than barely getting by under oppressive Chinese occupation, because she was Tibetan. When she was sixteen, Tsultrim found more, joining protests for the Tibetan independence movement, the call for her beloved country’s liberation from the People’s Republic of China.

Rebecca Torrellas rips open the wounds of her heart, letting anguish, fury, and uncertainty carve a path through loss, while hope fights to hold its ground. Thorns in the Rose is a powerful collection of poetry that pulls listeners through love's deepest cuts, its lingering scars, and the breathtaking blooms that emerge when survival becomes triumph. If you can endure the thorns, the beauty that awaits is worth the pain.

From an early age, young girls are taught anger isn’t an emotion they should express. They’re told—either implicitly or explicitly—to spend their lives keeping their fury locked inside for the benefit of others. But partly, Traister argues, that’s because the anger of women and girls has been a crucial catalyst for change, putting in motion some of the most defining social and political movements in our nation’s history. And it’s that anger that will blaze the path forward for the future.

The women of the Novak family were each born with a gift: they can, just once, turn back time. Lauren has known since she was fifteen that her mother Marcella saved Lauren’s father from a deadly car accident. Dave is alive and happy, and out on the Malibu waves. But ever since, Marcella, her power spent, has lived in fear of what she won’t be able to reverse. Her own mother, Sylvia, is her polar opposite: a free-spirited iconoclast with a glamorous past she only hints at. Lauren has spent her life between these two role models—and waiting for her own catastrophe to strike.

It's been eighteen years since the accidental explosion that killed The Cedrics Band lead singer Jonny Rake, and a special documentary is bringing the rest of the band back to play together for the first time. With Jonny's daughter, Monet, stepping into her father's role, and a private island secured as the perfect reunion backdrop, it's set to be a special occasion. But everyone remembers what happened on that fatal night differently, and as questions are asked about the band's rise and sudden tragic fall, not everyone likes the answers.

It’s 1997, and snow is blanketing a New England beach. Two befuddled seven-year-olds watch as their mother’s body is tipped overboard a crumbling boat. A Viking funeral, followed by a raucous wake. A send-off fit for soap opera star: Susan Bliss. Fifteen years earlier, Susan is a blazing, beautiful young woman, passionate about her art. It’s impossible not to fall in love with her, and so Alcott, a practical professor, does—hopelessly.

Moms have it hard; whether it's ingrained beliefs, the pressures of everything from social expectations to social media, or their own childhood wounds, even the best moms can feel like they are flailing—and failing. Psychotherapists and moms Jessica Tomich Sorci and Rebecca Geshuri see this every day in their practices. With compassion, humor and paradoxical wisdom, Tomich Sorci and Geshuri address difficult and often suppressed emotions such as: fear, anger, guilt, disappointment, ambivalence, and the shame and grief that ubiquitously accompany motherhood.

Shared Moments with a Stranger is a moving true story of resilience, intuition, and holistic healing through the eyes of Martine, a mother navigating the terrifying yet hopeful journey of premature birth during the COVID-19 pandemic. After an unexpected pregnancy just a month into lockdown, Martine gave birth at only 24 weeks.

Twelve-year-old Collin is always prepared for something to go wrong. Ever since he lost his mom in a car accident, he's filled his journal with careful research on how to survive any disaster: avalanches, riptides, even halitosis. Too bad there's no guidebook on what to do when your dad starts hoarding. Determined to hide his increasingly messy home life from his friends, Collin navigates middle school alongside the hilarious and clueless Liam, and Georgia, Collin's maybe-crush. Can Collin learn to be vulnerable around those he loves, even when he can't control every possible scenario?

Would the world change if only one story was ever told? This is the question that keeps a young, blind boy named Princeton awake at night. He is growing up in an unusual world called Magnolya and navigating the mysteries of his upbringing while being without sight. As Princeton seeks to find answers, he becomes clear on his mission: to find the forgotten story and bring it back to the people.

Bluesky has been taking the social media world by storm. The platform offers users a high degree of control over what information they view and share, abilities they've lost on other platforms. Bluesky for Dummies serves as your guidebook to navigating the new platform.

The year is 1990: The X-Men all perished more than a decade ago, and Kitty Pryde is no hero. Emma Frost rescued Kitty from an obscure existence as a mere rebellious teen kicked out of boarding school, terrified of ever being discovered as a mutant. After growing up under the tutelage of the White Queen, Kitty is an apex predator of a superior species, yet she lives alone in a tiny, rundown apartment, preferring isolation to a knife in the back. Betsy has a wild theory and if it's right, Kitty's only shot at changing the present is to free-fall into the past.

Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change. In some cases, women make up almost 90 percent of casualties during dangerous climate events, and the majority of those displaced in the aftermath are women. Despite this disparity, women are underrepresented at every level of decision-making about the future of our planet. In Intertwined, writer and wildlife biologist Rebecca Kormos elevates the voices of women working to prevent the climate crisis, weaving together their stories to make a powerful case for why women are essential to changing our current trajectory.

Avere come vicina una maestra in pensione dalla personalità esplosiva e invadente può rivelarsi un'esperienza estrema, soprattutto se si viene da un periodo nero nel quale la vita sentimentale è andata a rotoli, insieme a quella lavorativa. Questo direbbe Carolina Bassani, cardiologa, dirimpettaia dell'arzilla Eufemia. Due anni prima, una terribile disgrazia ha distrutto la carriera lavorativa sua e di un collega, Ascanio Sangiorgi, chirurgo plastico.

Torn from her husband Reid’s arms and dragged back to her homeland in chains, Vaasa is no longer a ruler, but a political pawn. Now under the control of Ozik – a cunning Zetyr witch with a stranglehold on her magic – she faces annulment, forced betrothal and a kingdom that no longer feels like her own. As Ozik’s machinations aim to install himself as the true power behind the Asteryan throne, Vaasa is forced to take part in his game.

For fifty years, Iris has accepted the curse that blighted her life. By night, she is a lonely immortal in human form, destined to walk the shores of the place that was once her home. By day, she is Moireach, a terrifying sea creature imprisoned in the murky depths of Loch Moine. But when bodies begin appearing on the misty banks of the loch, Iris suddenly finds herself in mortal danger. The residents of Kilmara fear that the monster, which for centuries has been rumoured to haunt the deeps of the loch, has awoken again.

Uncomfortably Dark presents DARK DISASTERSIn this third installment of the Dark Dozen series, stories collide with the real-life horror of Mother Nature in all her glory. See what happens when twelve spectacular authors rise to the challenge to combine the worst natural disasters imaginable with something evil and nightmarish hidden at its core. Curated and edited by Candace Nola, with a foreword by Patrick R.