Currency Of The Heart

Shaina Sterling hates the lie she’s living but feels she has no choice. Soon after the shocking death of her husband, the young widow learns how deeply entrenched in debt his lavish lifestyle has left her. To protect the legacy of his name, as well as her own reputation and her stately home at Sterling Hall, Shaina secretly sells off valuable possessions, piece by piece, and hopes that her wealthy Denver friends never discover the truth. Successful rancher Sloan Remington knows far more about Shaina than she realizes, but because of a promise he made to her husband as he lay dying, he guards her secrets as carefully as he looks after her safety. But soon, a series of additional misfortunes make Shaina beholden to him—and threaten to expose a truth about himself that he’s long worked hard to keep hidden. Will trials and tragedies bring these two together? Or will secrets—and the cost of exposing them—drive them apart forever?

In 1998, Don Nichols returned regularly to Iowa from his life and job in Washington, D.C., to be with his dying father and to oversee his parents’ investments. A veteran investor and investment author, Nichols found that managing the portfolio entrusted to him brought a larger understanding of mortality, family, love, work, and the choices he had made as “an agri-kid who took the road out of town and kept going.” In this insightful and money-wise book that grew out of that experience, he merges the emotions of a dutiful son with the actions of a knowledgeable investor. Nichols uses money in myriad forms—a grandfather‘s silver dollar, stocks and bonds, salaries, pallets of coins at the U.S. Mint, on-the-job dealings with coin collectors—as touchstones for reflections on relationships, motives, and a career "like one of those moving walkways in airports." His father's health is measured, tested, and evaluated in part by the health of his finances; at the same time, the turmoil and mystery surrounding both money and relationships are reflected in this memorable story. Wry, unsentimental, and financially savvy, Currency of the Heart is about rediscovering family, managing a portfolio, honoring promises, grieving, and healing; it is about a father and a son who once “fought like medieval villagers in a Thirty Years‘ War” and the deepening bond between a middle-age son and his aging mother. It is a multilayered story for everyone who will manage, financially and emotionally, a parent's death.

Mason Bittner was arguably the best country singer of his time, respected and loved by music fans across all genres. Then he lost everything. Disgraced and mostly forgotten, Bittner was living in his car and playing music for meager wagesuntil he was murdered. Masons daughter, Grace, is haunted by his memory, the loss of her childhoodand worst of allher harsh treatment of him when he needed her most. She wants nothing more than to clear his name. When Grace turns to a pair of unconventional private investigators for help, she gets far more than she expected. Using their unique style of personal intimidation and shady maneuvering, John Travers and Wally Karpinski address the unconscionable destruction of a good man. Questions abound, but answers are elusive. Meanwhile, Grace struggles to come to terms with her own extraordinary musical talent in the face of terrible pain. In this suspenseful thriller, two unusual PIs help a young woman seeking to restore the legacy of her murdered father and accept the musical gift she possesses.

With this book Axel W. Tiemann captivates everyone who is prepared to travel to their true self. In powerful and moving imagery he takes the reader on an exciting and life-changing adventure to their own heart. On this adventure each reader gains access to 21 highly energetic heart notes, which lead to true inner wealth if used consciously. A book that is a travel guide to awaken your own heart. Simultaneously inspiring and powerful. It stimulates and motivates you to become the champion of your own life.

"In Denver in the 1880s, a young widow and a prosperous rancher must learn to open up about their pasts if they expect to have a future together"--

The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs. Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century. At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money. Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, created paper money backed by nothing, centuries before it appeared in the west. John Law, a professional gambler and convicted murderer, brought modern money to France (and destroyed the country's economy). The cypherpunks, a group of radical libertarian computer programmers, paved the way for bitcoin. One thing they all realized: what counts as money (and what doesn't) is the result of choices we make, and those choices have a profound effect on who gets more stuff and who gets less, who gets to take risks when times are good, and who gets screwed when things go bad. Lively, accessible, and full of interesting details (like the 43-pound copper coins that 17th-century Swedes carried strapped to their backs), Money is the story of the choices that gave us money as we know it today.