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Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, shares what he has learnt in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems. He explains how the world can work to build the tools it needs to get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions - investing in research, inventing new technologies and deploying them quickly at a large scale. Gates is optimistic that the world can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis.

In this book, Melinda will reflect, for the first time in print, on some of the most significant transitions in her own life, including becoming a parent, the death of a dear friend, and her departure from the Gates Foundation. The stories she tells illuminate universal lessons about loosening the bonds of perfectionism, helping friends navigate times of crisis, embracing uncertainty, and more.

Gary Paul Gates’ testimony, “Surviving What Could Have Been,” is a personal reflection on his childhood leading into his high school years, drawing parallels to the tragic events at Columbine High School and the impact they had on him. The book is inspired by the story of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed at Columbine, and the author’s realization that his own experiences were not as unique as he once believed.

The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education.

Bookish divas delight. The urban romance omnibus you've always craved is here! With African American fiction heavy hitters like Aisha Hall, Jamila T. Davis, Sunshine Smith Williams, Angel Santos, and Reds Johnson, there are stories of bad girls, book boyfriends, and tender romantic moments. Wahida Clark Presents Innovative Publishing delivers!

In a factual firsthand account of this turbulent period in our nation's history, Donald Trump's 2016 deputy campaign chairman takes us deep behind the scenes to examine the truth about how Trump won, why the Mueller investigation failed, and how the current state of presidential politics is tearing apart the very fabric of our democracy.

The world is connected, and so are our stories. In this book, adapted for audio, we're introduced to short versions of Aesop's Fables as they're told in various corners of the globe.

The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over. But even as governments around the world try to get it under control, they’re also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent another pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this? Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and he has written a largely upbeat book that lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should learn from COVID-19, explains the science of fighting pandemics, and suggests what all of us can do to help prevent another one.

It officially began on February 28, 2006, when a handful of protesters from the nearby Six Nations reserve walked onto Douglas Creek Estates, then a residential subdivision under construction, and blocked workers from entering....

In a world of online drama and screen interactions, Wahida Clark Presents is keepin’ it old-school with this brand-new collection of Thug Letters. This spin-off series of vignettes is taken from Wahida Clark’s Thug series, now compiled into one box set so you can get all the dramatic back-and-forth in one place! Dive into the heated correspondence between Trae, Tasha, Kyron, and Charli, where you’ll get all the devastating heartbreaks and steamy make-ups uninterrupted. This set includes “The Letter”, “The Response”, and much more! Get your collection today!

Trae and Tasha Macklin fell in love and came to life in Wahida Clark’s best-selling Thug series. Now, they’re flexing their own creative muscles in this brand-new bundle containing three of their hard-hitting novels: Baller Dreams, Flippin’ the Hustle, and Game of Gwop. Each novel thrusts you into a new world of the author’s making but will have you remembering exactly what part of Trae and Tasha’s lives inspired these Street Lit masterpieces.

As the war begins, Hanna Rombauer, a young German woman, is sent to live with her aunt and uncle after her mother’s death. Thrown into a life of luxury she never expected, Hanna soon finds herself unwillingly matched with an SS officer twenty years her senior. The independence that her mother lovingly fostered in her is considered highly inappropriate as the future wife of an up-and-coming officer and she is sent to a “bride school.” There, in a posh villa on the outskirts of town, Hanna is taught how to be a “proper” German wife.

In the middle of Budapest, there is a river. Csilla knows the river is magic. During WWII, the river kept her family safe when they needed it most--safe from the Holocaust. But that was before the Communists seized power. Before her parents were murdered by the Soviet police. Before Csilla knew things about her father's legacy that she wishes she could forget.

Aki Sato is not your typical teenager. She has weathered the loss of her parents and joined her brothers, Kenji and Hiro in a struggle to keep the family business, and themselves, together. Aki has also inherited the Amida Syndrome, the power of time travel. In a series of misadventures, Aki must guide her brothers through time, space, and the world of the blues. In time, Aki not only discovers her own voice, but the power of music.The journey through time and life is just getting started in Searching for Roy Buchanan.

Calling all women to walk in their full potential by awakening the queen inside of them. Clean Mirrors forces each woman to stare at her own reflection and come to terms with her own self debilitating behavior that has been holding her back. Whether the debilitating behavior is constantly choosing toxic relationships, procrastinating on life goals, or simply lacking the confidence it takes to walk in purpose. This audiobook acts as an aid to break the chains of limitations so that women around the word can finally thrive!

It's been five years since Paul Connert's fiancée died of a drug overdose and he's never forgiven himself for not trying harder to help. Now he plans to atone. He seeks a woman who reminds him of his lost love and fantasizes about getting her into rehab, even if by force. But then he meets the feisty, alcoholic, Vika Koslava, a beautiful Russian model who was sent on an erotic website assignment to Santa Barbara with her heroin-addicted sister. When her sister goes missing, Vika is left homeless.

In the fall of 1866, a twenty-year-old stenographer named Anna Snitkina applied for a position with a writer she idolized: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A self-described “girl of the sixties,” Snitkina had come of age during Russia’s first feminist movement, and Dostoyevsky—a notorious radical turned acclaimed novelist—had impressed the young woman with his enlightened and visionary fiction. Yet in person she found the writer “terribly unhappy, broken, tormented,” weakened by epilepsy, and yoked to a ruinous gambling addiction.

Teaflet and her brother, Roog, are ready to throw their annual strawberry jam party for their friends in Trefldom. They want it to be the best party ever, even 10 times better than the best party ever! But the inspector of neatness is coming to examine their higgledy-piggledy house from top to bottom. If she finds even one pinch of dirt, or one messy bed, the party will be canceled.

Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems compares the Copernican or Heliocentric system with the Ptolemaic or Peripatetic, system of the cosmos. Published in Florence in 1632, it resulted in him being tried before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, Galileo masterfully shows the truth of the Copernican system that the Earth revolves around the Sun. The Dialogue is one of the most important treatises ever written. A work of supreme clarity and accessibility, it remains as accessible now as when it was published.

A decaying prison hides a dark secret. Robert Deville, the youngest prison warden in the history of the state, never expected to feel a supernatural connection in a prison. After discovering a diary, Robert learns a prisoner, rumored to be the Devil, was hidden away under his feet. Was this prisoner responsible for a fire that killed hundreds of prisoners? Did he play a part in the murder of a local family years earlier? Robert must learn the prisoner’s true identity and unravel why he hasn’t aged in decades.