The early days of Airbnb hosting, when anyone could throw a mattress on the floor and start collecting checks, are long gone. The hosts who treat this as a real business are pulling away from the pack. There are plenty of guides that tell you how to start an Airbnb, but there is no book that takes you from one property to ten, from a side hustle to a portfolio, from a host who does everything themselves to a CEO who runs a system. This book fills that gap with practical, battle-tested guid...

If you have spent any time with a modern coding agent, you know the strange feeling that comes with watching one work. You type a description of a feature, and the agent reads your repository, plans an approach, edits files, runs the tests, and reports back like a careful colleague. Then something changes. You notice the agent makes decisions you would not make, follows conventions that are not yours, and forgets constraints you explained 2 weeks ago. You also notice the whole setup belong...

Some journeys begin with a destination. Others begin simply with the need to leave.In The Long Way Home: Poetry of Love, Loss, and Return, John David Smith traces the quiet distances between restlessness and belonging, freedom and responsibility, departure and return.Across five poetic movements, these poems follow a wanderer who believes distance will loosen what binds him, only to discover that some things travel with us: love, memory, absence, r...

You are standing in the cereal aisle at 9 pm, turning a box over in your hands while the person you love waits to eat. The label is a wall of small print, and somewhere in that wall is the word that could send you to the emergency room tonight. Food allergies send families to the ER every 6 minutes in the United States, and studies show even experienced parents miss milk and soy on labels 30% of the time because casein and lecithin look harmless. This book is not a medical textbook and it ...

For 45 years the United States and the Soviet Union never fired a shot at each other and still fought every day. The battle was fought in a Brooklyn photography studio, in a Los Alamos lab, in a tunnel under Berlin, and on a bridge where a Soviet illegal was traded for an American pilot.This book follows 15 true operations that decided more than any missile. A hollow nickel found by a 13 year old boy in 1953 that led to Rudolf Abel. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at Sing Sing on June 1...

Build a business that is clear enough to understand, bold enough to notice, and valuable enough to remember.Many businesses are not overlooked because they lack value. They are overlooked because that value is not always clear, visible, or consistently experienced.The R.A.W. Approach: The Framework to Elevate Your Business from Overlooked to Unforgettable gives entrepreneurs, small business owners, consultants, creatives, nonprofit leaders,...

Black Woman's Fire: A Poetic Voice to Resilience, Liberation, and Legacy is not merely a collection of poems-it is a witness.A witness to the sacred strength Black women have carried across generations.A witness to the quiet battles fought behind closed doors and the loud victories history often forgets to name.A witness to the fire that refuses to be extinguished.Through layered, soul-stirring verse, this collection journeys through identit...

Colonel Bill Jackson has been a Galactic Marine for twenty-one years. His family lineage in the Marines stretches back to the old United States Marines of the nineteenth century. One of his relatives fought in a battle in a place called Iwo Jima. His father is an active duty three-star general working in the Galactic Marines Special Operations Center located in the Southeastern Sector of North America on Earth. Bills youth had been that of a military child moving from duty station to duty ...

Unspoken: 12 Devotions for What We Carry in Silence is a gentle yet deeply honest devotional for anyone who has ever whispered, "Is it just me?" Written with pastoral care and spiritual depth, this book creates sacred space for the quiet burdens that often go unnamed-grief without funeral, fatigue without rest, loneliness in a crowded room, and questions too fragile to speak aloud.Each of the twelve devotions explores one unspoken burden through a Scriptur...

THE DAY THE STAR LEAGUE DIEDShrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine brings you more BattleMech action from the war-torn 31st century and beyond! Celebrate Star League Day with tales of a long-abandoned ’Mech rediscovered and pressed into service, a quest for vengeance in enemy territory, the resurgence of old ghosts, and the threat of bitter betrayal in the face of long odds. Charge headlong into technical readouts, assassin conspiracies, in-depth equip...

An intelligent youth discovers an alien device of staggering power, and he eventually intuits its function. In doing so, he discovers that capability without wisdom is dangerous, including for him. Time, space and creation are at his command, and ultimately he does great harm before all becomes rolled up in a surprise ending.

Encounter with God is Scripture Union's daily Bible reading guide designed to lead you to a deeper understanding about what God is saying to you and to his world today. You'll find its thorough and energetic investigation of the whole Bible inspiring and stimulating. And you'll discover that its biblical exposition is complemented by pastoral warmth from a strong field of writers and contributors. As well as daily content, feature articles provide insights into Christian spirituality, tack...