Home prices are at record highs and nobody will call this a recession, yet the last three years each produced fewer home sales than the worst year of the 2008 crisis, and roughly 160,000 agents have left the business since 2022.This is a practical operating guide for the agents who stay. Not motivation: arithmetic. Six questions to answer every month, a runway calculation most agents have never run, a lead-source scorecard that shows exactly what to cut, and scripts for the seven h...

Almost everyone is waiting. For more money, more certainty, more time, or somebody's permission. Then a crisis arrives, a diagnosis or a death or a marriage ending, and does twenty years of thinking in a single terrified month.The Midlife Method argues you can run that reckoning yourself, deliberately, on an ordinary Tuesday, before something forces it on you.The argument is not carried by the author. It is carried by people who left a record. Charles Darwin, who sat on the...

I don't feel sorry for myself. Today everything is all right. I look at it is this way, it can't ever be as bad as it was then...'Sean Hogan was just eight years old when he was confined in the notorious Artane Industrial School under the brutal regime of the Christian Brothers. In and out of care throughout his childhood, Sean was so badly neglected by his alcoholic parents that he never even knew what day his birthday fell on, or how old he was - things he only learned a...

This Element explores the theme of 'Gothic sympathy' as it appears in a collection of 'Last Man' novels. A liminal site of both possibility and irreconcilability, Gothic sympathy at once challenges the anthropocentric bias of traditional notions of sympathetic concern, premising compassionate relations with other beings – animal, vegetal, etc. – beyond the standard measure of the liberal-humanist subject, and at the same time acknowledges the horror that is the ineluctable and untranslatab...

Abu Dhabi--an obscure Middle Eastern principality that happens to be the richest city in the world. This book tells the story of Abu Dhabi's ambitions to transform itself from a sleepy sheikhdom into a thriving international metropolis and a hub of business and leisure. It traces Abu Dhabi's boom years from 2009 to 2011 from the perspective of a Westerner working for the Urban Planning Council, the government agency that planned and coordinated all of the massive development activity....

The epic #1 New York Times bestselling love story that spans decades and continents as two people at a crossroads—one from North Carolina and one from Zimbabwe—experience the transcendence and heartbreak of true love.Hope Anderson has some important choices to make. At thirty-six, she’s been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at he...

The epic #1 New York Times bestselling love story that spans decades and continents as two people at a crossroads—one from North Carolina and one from Zimbabwe—experience the transcendence and heartbreak of true love.Hope Anderson has some important choices to make. At thirty-six, she’s been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at he...

Treat yourself to an epic #1 New York Times bestselling love story that spans decades and continents as two people at a crossroads -- one from North Carolina and one from Zimbabwe -- experience the transcendence and heartbreak of true love.Hope Anderson has some important choices to make. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she deci...

The New York Times and international number one bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a powerful new love story.There are times when destiny and love collide. This story is one of them.From the number one bestselling author of The Notebook and Two by Two comes an unforgettable tale of enduring love . . .Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. After six years with her boyfriend, she is...

There are times when destiny and love collide. This story is one of them.From the number one bestselling author of The Notebook and Two by Two comes an unforgettable tale of enduring love . . .Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. After six years with her boyfriend, she is no longer sure what she wants, and when her father becomes ill she heads to her family's cottage at Sunset Beach in North Carolina to make...

Jeffreys life is great. It is quiet, structured, and in a wordboring. He has good friends, a great job, and a nonexistent love life. That is all about to change with a lone bike ride and a chance meeting along the Chicago lakefront. Jeffreys life is instantly placed on the dating fast track and takes him a bit by surprise. Peter is a tall, extremely handsome, well-rounded, and grounded kind of guya self-employed, confident businessman who is shy and nonassertive when it comes to matters of...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Embark on a journey around the world with "Global Gardening Traditions," where readers will discover the rich tapestry of cultural approaches to gardening. From the lush rice terraces of Bali to the structured flower gardens of France, this book delves into the diverse traditions, techniques, and philosophies that shape gardening practices across different cultures. Learn about the intimate connection between spirituality and gardening ...