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The First Robot President combines science fiction with political satire, making fun of Democrats and Republicans in equal measure. The novel centers around Thomas Jenkins, a lobbyist, and his robot wife whose political ambitions land her on the Green Party's 2520 Presidential ticket.

En cada generación, hay una ventana en la que la nueva tecnología reescribe silenciosamente las reglas de la creación de riqueza. Para los emprendedores entre 18 y 30 años, esa ventana está abierta ahora mismo—y su nombre es inteligencia artificial. Hace solo unos años, construir un negocio online significaba pasar la noche escribiendo contenido a mano, adivinando qué productos podrían venderse y esperando que el algoritmo te detectara.

An exquisite collection of speculative fiction stories depicting an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora. In his sharply crafted, unnerving first collection of speculative short stories, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora. Robots driven...

A coming of age story for Theloneus and an epic journey by the statuesque paternal figure, Sterling. There is no other way to categorize this experience than life. In this volume of the Relationships series, Lessons Before Dying establishes a foundation of learnings rooted in trials, discoveries and triumphs. If you enjoyed the 2016 box office smash movie Moonlight (winner of 2017 Best Picture Academy Award), this is the book for you!

Turn your weakest, most discouraging moments into your best, most uplifting moments. Listen and discover how God uses the things that seek to destroy us to become the very things that bring us salvation, bring us hope, bring us to prayer, bring us together, and ultimately bring us to heaven.

Christmas is near, so it's time to embrace the festive cheer! Children will have no trouble at all discovering the true spirit of Christmas with this collection of our favourite Christmas classics, with stories commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ.

Despite the best efforts of researchers and campaigners, there remains today a steadfast tendency to reduce the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain to a simple story: it is one that begins in 1948 with the arrival of a single ship, the Empire Windrush, and continues mostly apart from a distinct British history, overlapping only on occasion amid grotesque injustice or pioneering protest. Yet from the very beginning, from the moment humans first stood on this rainy isle, there have been African and Caribbean men and women set at Britain's heart.

This audiobook is a collection of personal stories of people I have come in contact with over my life but mostly over the last 23 years of my career as a Speech-Language Pathologist who specializes in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). For those that don’t know that vocabulary, I usually explain my job by saying “think Stephen Hawking”. He is the most famous person I can think of that used AAC to communicate, and he is also the best example of a person who is highly intelligent but struggles to communicate verbally.

Greater Than a Tourist - Nevada USA, by Hannah Davis, offers the inside scoop on Nevada. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Grieving over a broken romance and her newborn son put up for adoption against her wishes, 17-year-old Cara Walden arrives in 1950s London with her half-brother Gray‚ a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter and closeted homosexual. Gray has looked after Cara ever since her mother‚ glamorous actress Vivien Grant‚ was found drowned in the pool at their estate.

Rutinas para cultivar tu tiempo y bienestar. MENOS REACCIÓN Y MÁS PLANEACIÓN: TRANSFORMA TU MANERA DE TRABAJAR. A diario, miles de empleados de Google, desde ejecutivos hasta becarios, reciben los consejos de Laura Mae Martin para sacarle el máximo provecho a su tiempo. Ahora, con 13 años en la empresa que más ayuda a organizar el mundo, la autora reúne lo más eficaz de sus asesorías para potenciar tu productividad y cuidar tu bienestar personal.

Two years ago, Laura was in a cult. But when the sprawling house in the hollow burned down with Vervain, their strikingly handsome and magnetic leader, trapped inside, Laura had nowhere to go but home. Brokenhearted, she finds herself longing for their lost leader—despite the trauma of that...

In the windswept Scottish Hebrides of 1916, London-born governess Seraphina Tighinn MacKenzie arrives seeking refuge from scandal, only to uncover a world far more mysterious and alluring than the one she left behind. When she discovers a century-old journal belonging to Kate Morag, a spirited island woman caught in a forbidden love with a mythical selkie-man, Seraphina is entangled in secrets that refuse to stay buried.

Miles Carlisle is every teen girl's fantasy. His rugged good looks and exotic British accent have helped catapult his boy band, Seconds to Juliet, to super-stardom. But after two disastrous and very public breakups, Miles isn't interested in dating just any girl; he wants The One. And the only girl he's interested in won't even give him the time of day. As a kid, Aimee Bingham had a huge thing for Miles until he made fun of her for always tagging along. The prospect of going on tour with the childhood crush who broke her heart isn't exactly enticing. Except now Miles seems interested.

The Maker’s Market New Year’s party is the most important night of the year for event planner; Maddy Jones and her best friend caterer Kelsey Armstrong. But they’ve got things well in hand...until a power outage plunges everyone into darkness...Total darkness might be exactly what these four friends need to step out of their comfort zones and take a chance on love. Because for a building without power, there sure are a lot of sparks flying on this dark and stormy night in Rivers End.

After 18 years of marriage, Della Doucet decides she’s had enough of life on a South Carolina military base and reinvents herself in the New York art world while reveling in a series of shallow romantic affairs. Her new life seems to be going well until she finds herself in the arms of a charming younger man.

Fern Marshall has not seen her ex-husband in 15 years. Their parting was less than amicable. Now she is faced him with telling him that their 18-year-old daughter has been in an automobile accident. If her bad news ended there, she could manage. Unfortunately, it does not. Drew Marshall feels keenly his failure as a father. When his ex-wife brings a message that his daughter has been in an accident, guilt gnaws at him. He should have been there for her. Her next revelation shakes the foundation of his world; calling into question all he thought to be settled and sure.

An inspirational book about what it means to be Black in the working world, with practical steps on how to overcome prejudice to find success This book is an exercise in building your network. We've spoken to over 40 successful business people to help you gain from their advice and create space...

Political and cultural wars are tearing communities apart. Issues such as immigration, racism, and guns are driving wedges between people and hampering Christians' impact in the world. In Empowered to Repair, Brenda Salter McNeil looks to the biblical story of Nehemiah for answers. There, she finds an action-based model for repairing and rebuilding our communities and transforming broken systems. McNeil goes beyond theories, offering practical tools Christians need for organizing, empowering, and activat

The award-winning poet weaves a tapestry of literary heritage and intimate reflection as she pays tribute to women artists and mentors, and circles the ongoing mysteries of friendship, love, art, and loss. In this powerful gathering of poems about her own "influencers," as well as poems on...