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This book is a practical, non-technical guide for business leaders, professionals, and curious minds navigating the next frontier of AI.

In a world where ChatGPT took us by storm, a far more powerful revolution is now unfolding: AI Agents. Like Jarvis in Iron Man or Samantha in Her, these intelligent systems can execute actions, learn from experience, and orchestrate digital interactions with minimal human supervision. They promise to redefine business and society.

However, behind the excitement lies a crucial reality: a significant gap between promise and reality.

This comprehensive guide on agentic AI cuts through the hype and offers a clear, jargon-free strategic roadmap to understanding and applying this technology. The authors bring a rare perspective, having implemented agentic AI across diverse organizations - from global enterprises to agile startups - witnessing both remarkable successes and sobering failures.

The question isn't whether AI agents will transform your industry - it's how you will lead that change. Every revolution demands foresight and responsibility. This book challenges you to not just adopt agentic AI, but to shape it with purpose and integrity. Through illuminating case studies and hands-on experiments, the authors reveal:

• A step-by-step method for identifying high-value agentic opportunities and building impactful agents in your business, work, and personal life
• The secrets behind today's most successful agentic transformations at scale: cutting costs by over 25% while boosting customer satisfaction by over 40%
• Approaches to seize the new opportunities of the Agent Economy - new business models, Agentic-driven startups, rapid scaling, and game-changing revenue opportunities
• Hands-on guidance to navigate common pitfalls such as workflow integration, error handling, data quality, agent control, and user adoption
• The new mindset and skills required to lead effectively in a world where humans and AI agents need to work seamlessly together
• The profound impact of agentic AI on society, employment, education, and our personal lives

AI agents create what the authors call "compounding intelligence advantages" - the more they're used, the smarter and more valuable they become, creating an accelerating gap between early adopters and laggards. Hence, those who understand and leverage AI agents today will define the next era of business.

Seven years ago, award-winning journalist, Jake Hansen released an unsanctioned drug cartel story on the Internet, destroying his career, marriage and life. Now, he finds himself drowning in booze, women and gambling. He runs a dive bar with his best friends, Pete Mills, a retired NYPD detective, and Lamar Wagner, an ex-con. They also take on the occasional private eye case. A big shot from the Casinos Commission hires Jake and his pals to find his missing daughter. A simple job quickly leads them into the depths of the underworld Jake once investigated. Jake and his team have one goal find the girl and bring her to safety. Jake s determined to succeed, and hopefully, he ll also rediscover his passion for his life and job and find his long-lost self-respect.

The legal forms and state rules every
landlord and property manager needs

To keep up with the law and make money as a residential landlord, you need a guide you can trust: Every Landlord's Legal Guide.

From move-in to move-out, here's help with legal, financial, and day-to-day issues. You'll avoid hassles and headaches--not to mention legal fees and lawsuits. Use this top-selling book to:

• screen and choose tenants


• prepare leases and rental agreements


• avoid discrimination, invasion of privacy, personal injury, and other lawsuits


• hire a property manager


• keep up with repairs and maintenance


• make security deposit deductions


• handle broken leases


• learn how to terminate a tenancy for nonpayment of rent or other lease violations


• restrict tenants from renting their place on Airbnb, and


• deal with bed bugs, mold, and lead hazards.

The 17th edition is completely updated to provide your state's current laws on security deposits, rent, entry, termination, late rent notices, and more. It also provides tips and guidance to help landlords navigate new state and local laws on screening tenants.

Attorneys Ann O'Connell, a Nolo editor and real estate broker, and Janet Portman, Nolo's Executive Editor, specialize in landlord-tenant law. Together, they are also co-authors of Leases and Rental Agreements and Every Tenant's Legal Guide.

This is a story about community - about how a single place can shape friendships, love stories, and memories that last a lifetime.

Beginning in 1960s Brooklyn, when 'travel' meant visiting the next neighborhood and your community was your whole world, the Palms Shore Club in Sheepshead Bay became both a hub and a symbol of its time.

By day, families swam, played cards, and lingered over Mahjong in the sun. By night, the doors opened to dinner dances, casino nights, disco, and live entertainment. Politicians, performers, and neighborhood regulars mingled together. Think The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel meets Dirty Dancing with a hint of Goodfellas.

The Palms reflected the changing times around it. Yet across four decades, one thing remained constant: from Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Palms was a summer home to the middle-class Jewish and Italian families who returned year after year.

Danielle Berfond was just eleven when her grandparents, Bob and Gloria Berfond, closed the gates on this Brooklyn institution they had built. Twenty-five years later, she returns to reclaim its story, capturing the voices, the history, and the unforgettable characters who made the Palms Shore Club an irreplaceable Brooklyn landmark.

Part family legacy, part oral history, and wholly alive with nostalgia and heart, this is the story of a place that shaped a generation.

When you're from the Bronx, people perceive a certain toughness. It is that Bronx attitude that permeates this memoir. A childhood surrounded by family imbued the author with a sense of duty and empowerment that got this daughter of Puerto Rican parents through a journey in uncharted territory like a college application process and so many things that people in her family had not experienced but expected from her. She writes about culture shock in college and lovely moments of identity and purpose, which lead her to a thirty-year career in New York media.

The author describes her challenges and victories as a young reporter covering city hall during the Koch administration to the role of publisher and CEO. Her career mirrored and coincided with the unprecedented growth in New York's diverse Latino community. From her Bronx childhood to a seat at the table in New York's iconic boardrooms, the author demonstrates how Latinas lead.

This memoir is a celebration of family, traditions, heritage, and good old hardcore New York City hustle.

Seattle 1945 A compelling story of four families coping with hate and exclusion in a city transformed by a world war.A female defense worker turned labor activist endangers herself and her family.A Negro war hero faces a racial battlefield at home. A Japanese internee learns the end of war did not end the hate. A British war bride discovers the American dream isn't for everyone.A novel about a city plagued with racial tensions, labor unrest, and cold war hysteria that will shatter the myth of an enlightened and inviting Seattle. Welcome to the City on the Sound where no one is sure where they belong.

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Never bashful about pursuing a dream, David J. Jepsen walked away from a 30-year career in journalism and corporate communications to fulfill a lifelong passion-history. His goal was to do what he is doing now: writing and teaching history. Today, he finds great satisfaction teaching Pacific Northwest and U.S. history at Tacoma Community College. He holds a master's degree in history and a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Washington and lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. This is his first novel.

Books can help make the nightmares go away. At least, that's what Cordelia was told after the sudden death of her mother. But when the books become sources of the nightmares themselves, Cordelia is left to suffer without any hope for a cure. While trying to fight the unseen forces which plague their family bookshop, she awakens secrets in the books themselves, forcing her to make sacrifices no child should have to make. Ultimately, Cordelia discovers what truly led her mother down the path to her own demise, as well as uncovering the secrets that lie deep within the bookshop, and the shadows that use books as means to communicate with the living.

In this cute and spicy office rom-com, Maki prefers her perfect virtual boyfriend to real men after a bad relationship left her deep in debt. But when the hot new VP at her company proposes a fake relationship to help solve each other's problems, that line soon starts to blur. A Kodansha Print Club series.

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27-year old Maki Enomoto is done with relationships. One year ago, her terrible boyfriend made her the joint guarantor on a loan before promptly ghosting her with a mountain of debt. Now she just wants to be left alone to her quiet otaku life, working her office job to make her ex's monthly repayments and devoting what scant little is left to her hobbies. Namely, her virtual boyfriend Allen-kun, who is hot, kind, and dependable in a way that real-life men aren't--least of all the hotshot young VP who keeps getting on her case about deadlines and deliverables. But when said VP shows up with a rather interesting proposal, Maki must decide if she's ready to roll the dice one last time...

Mary's Sword stems from the passage of Luke 2:35. Simeon speaks a prophetic word over Mary, the mother of Jesus, "Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul also." This story is a fictional account of what Mary experienced during the execution of her Son, Jesus of Nazareth. One of the soldiers pierced the side of Jesus, a sword also pierced Mary.

Your nervous system runs like a phone battery.

At 100%, you can handle anything.

At 15%? Everything becomes overwhelming.

That difference is your load capacity.

Here's what most people miss: load capacity is biological. Low iron means your brain isn't getting enough oxygen. That's load. A sluggish thyroid means your neurons fire slower. That's load. You can't meditate or journal your way out of iron deficiency or hypothyroidism.

Brains Like Ours connects what's happening in your body to what's happening in your mood, your energy, and your brain. It's a science-backed survival manual for women tired of being told their labs are "normal" while their biology runs on empty. Tyla shows you what's draining your battery, gives you the science to restore it, and the language to ask for it.

Written by a clinical scientist with over a decade in hospital pathology, this is not a self-help script or a wellness to-do list. It's a science-backed survival manual for women who are tired of being told their labs are "normal" while their nervous systems are running on empty.

Inside you'll learn:

• How nutrition directly builds or drains your brain's capacity: from omega-3s and B vitamins to blood sugar, gut health, and the nutrients most providers never check
• How your hormones, cycle, perimenopause, and thyroid shape your mood at the biological level, and what to ask for on your next lab order
• Why movement, connection, mindfulness, and even hobbies are not luxuries but measurable nervous system restoration tools

Every chapter ends with Clinical Cues (the signals your body sends when capacity is compromised), bare minimum action steps, and a lab tracker so you can match your symptoms to what's actually happening in your biology.

This book doesn't ask you to fix yourself. It shows you what's draining your battery, gives you the science to restore it, and the language to ask for it.

What if the writing life isn't about daily word counts--but about daily attention to your whole self?

You don't need to write every day to be a writer. You don't need perfect conditions, endless hours, or a life free from doubt. What you need is permission to bring your whole, imperfect self to the page--and practices that nourish your soul as you write.

All of life is the writing life.

Drawing on her experience as a spiritual director working primarily with writers, Charlotte Donlon offers something rare: a book that honors both the craft of writing and the care of the soul. Through contemplative practices, personal stories, and wisdom from writers like Toni Morrison, Margaret Walker, and Kaveh Akbar, she invites you to discover how rest, doubt, grief, and joy all become sacred ground for creative flourishing.

Structured around five essential movements--"Begin," "Belong," "Become," "Behold," "Bestow"--this book offers practical rituals and gentle companionship for the real conditions of your life. Whether you're navigating resistance, recovering from burnout, or simply longing for a more sustainable practice, you'll find permission to write from exactly where you are.

Writers of all backgrounds are welcome here. People of deep faith and profound doubt. Those who write every day and those who write in stolen moments. Published authors and private journalers. This is a sanctuary, not a system--a space where your creative identity isn't measured by output but nourished by attention.

Spiritual Direction for Writers doesn't promise to make you more productive. It promises something better: to help you become more fully yourself, on and off the page. Because when writing helps make you a kinder, wiser, and more generous human being--when it opens you to what matters most--you've already succeeded.

"Charlotte's book makes space, supports readers, writers, and listeners, and truly cares about the people who encounter its pages. It is a place to land and rest, a place to be curious, to experiment, to pray, to breathe, to feel, and to embrace the truth of your identity as a writer."
--Ashley M. Jones, poet laureate emerita of Alabama

The new Captain America has a big shield to carry. Is he up to the task? Find out in these subversive, exciting and uplifting short stories inspired by the Marvel comic book universe, written by celebrated Black authors.

The new Captain America has a heavy shield to hold. As a black man in America, Sam Wilson knows he has to be twice as good to get half as much credit. He must be a paragon of virtue for a nation that has mixed feelings towards him. In these thirteen brand-new stories, the all-new Captain America must thwart an insurrectionist plot, travel back in time, foil a racist conspiracy, and save the world over and over again.

As the Falcon, Sam Wilson was the first African-American superhero in mainstream comic books. Sam's trials and tribulations reflect the struggles many Black Americans go through today, as Sam balances fighting supervillains and saving the world with the difficulties of being the first Black Captain America. This action-packed anthology inspired by the Marvel comic book universe, will see Sam team up with familiar friends like Steve Rogers, Redwing and Nomad, while fighting Hydra, Sabretooth, Kingpin, and other infamous villains.

These are stories of death-defying courage, Black love and self-discovery. These are the stories of a super hero learning what it means to be a symbol.

These are the stories of Sam Wilson.

Featuring original stories by Maurice Broaddus, Jesse J. Holland, Gar Anthony Haywood, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Kyoko M., Sheree Renee Thomas, Gary Phillips, Danian Jerry, Gloria J. Browne Marshall, Glenn Parris, Christopher Chambers, Alex Simmons.

A Legal Roadmap for Your Divorce

This book explains the divorce process, from knowing how to file or answer a divorce petition to figuring out how to divide assets and debts and share parenting time. The author gives particular consideration to finding ways out of conflict that impose the least amount of emotional damage, particularly to children. It includes suggestions for dealing with various roadblocks.

This book explains:

• how the legal divorce process works and how to get through it in the least damaging way possible for yourself and your children


• how divorce mediation can help you reach fair agreements about custody, property, and support


• where to find the state-specific forms and information you'll need, along with more do-it-yourself resources


• how to get help from a lawyer without losing control of the process, and


• how to prepare a settlement agreement to document what you and your spouse decide about property, custody, and support.

Throughout this book, one theme is constant: it's to everyone's benefit, and especially children's benefit, to make a divorce as civil as possible. Avoiding fighting now will make life easier later. There are other important benefits as well, such as saving thousands in legal fees and getting a better night's sleep.

This book is intended to be a legal companion to those going through divorce, providing practical and supportive advice and information along the way, and helping them through the process.

Get the educational services and support your child needs and deserves

If your child has special education needs, their Individualized Education Program (IEP) is your school's plan to meet those needs. As a parent, you want to understand and participate in the IEP process and to be able to advocate for your child This powerful book covers:

• eligibility rules and assessments


• working with outside experts


• developing your child's ideal educational program


• preparing for and attending IEP meetings, and


• resolving disputes with school districts.

The 12th edition explains the law and provides key forms, sample letters, and resources you need at every stage of the IEP process. This book can help you to advocate for the education your child deserves.

Wildsam Field Guides: Iowa Prarie leads travelers through the Hawkeye State, with guidance from trusted locals. Contributors include noted faculty from the Iowa Writers Workshop, including Ethan Canin and Tracie Morris; travel writer Tree Meinch; and local business leaders Zachary Mannheimer and Mike Draper. This handsome volume features a deep dedicated section celebrating Iowa's literary heritage and the craft of writing, as well as itineraries and insights on food, farming, outdoors and arts and culture.

What happens when love feels divine, but the cost is your soul?

What if the love you were willing to sacrifice everything for was built on deception?

When Catrina fell in love, she believed she had found a rare, soul-deep connection. He was charismatic, attentive, and transparent about his terminal kidney disease. She devoted herself fully, emotionally, physically, spiritually, even preparing to become his living kidney donor. But beneath the devotion, something was off.

As the relationship unfolded, compassion became obligation, patience became self-erasure, and love quietly blurred into control. When the truth finally surfaced, it revealed not a single betrayal, but a calculated pattern of manipulation that had been repeated long before her.

Dialysis of the Soul is a raw, unfiltered memoir drawn from real-time journal entries and reflection. It explores how illness can be used as camouflage, how love can blind even empowered women, and how intuition speaks long before the mind catches up.

This is not a book about blame or diagnosis. It is a story of awakening, self-trust, and reclaiming power after psychological deception. For any woman who loves deeply, gives freely, and wonders why something doesn't feel right, this book offers clarity, language, and the courage to choose herself.