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Why Moats Matter is a comprehensive guide to finding great companies with economic moats, or competitive advantages. This audiobook explains the investment approach used by Morningstar, Inc., and includes a free trial to Morningstar's Research. Economic moats - or sustainable competitive advantages - protect companies from competitors. Legendary investor Warren Buffett devised the economic moat concept.

The Haunted House is a skillful portmanteau by Dickens, assembling the best literary talent of his age, including Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Hesba Stretton, Adelaide Anne Proctor, George Augustus Sala and, of course, the literary leviathan himself, to delight us, scare us and occasionally raise a laugh or two before the next moment of fear and dread come calling. 

Do you want to discover the secret for a natural weight loss solution and amazing look with meditation, affirmations, and hypnosis? If your answer is yes, then keep reading. In this audiobook you will learn all the weight-loss-hypnosis secrets to succeed on your journey to maintaining the right body weight. But there is something that must be stressed. Your ideal weight depends on your body and not on the many Influencers. The goal of this audiobook is simple: Showing you how to apply hypnosis to lose weight and having an amazing look in the most natural way.

This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to writers as diverse as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Edith Nesbit. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, while you sit back and take in their words as they lead you on a walk to places you’d perhaps rather not visit on your own. Our stories are "The Wedding Knell" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell, and more.

Losing excess weight and maintaining it is crucial to your health. Apart from lowering your risk of heart disease, keeping a healthy weight staves off chances of diabetes and cancer. Mentally and emotionally, a healthy body weight can boost your self-confidence and self-esteem, leading to a fuller, happier life. But, more often than not, certain factors hamper your ability to cultivate healthy, mindful eating habits.

 You’re not the only one with these problems. At least, 70 percent of people surveyed say that they have experienced stress and found it hard to cope with. This is not surprising, and it is explained with polyvagal theory. Polyvagal theory looks at how we read our environment and respond to it based on a “threat assessment” that tells us whether we need to be stressed or not.  

Did you know that hypnosis is another avenue people are exploring in the name of weight loss? Some weight loss hopefuls are trying hypnosis out after all the other last-ditch efforts, including fad diets and juice cleanses, have failed to provide any noticeable or lasting results. Unfortunately, hypnosis has suffered a bad rap because of how highly misrepresented it is in pop culture, particularly in the entertainment industry. 

Our greatest fears are of the unknown. Usually we think those fears are in front of us...or behind us. But perhaps the human body itself holds the greatest horror. What happens after death? Do our bodies have a new existence either in whole...or part? Will others seek to claim them and do unspeakable things? We don’t know. But our authors do. And they have the talents and wits to make these diabolical stories vehicles for horror, for terror, for the unimaginable.... 

When an elderly widower takes up lodgings in London, she develops an interest in the mysterious house to let across the way. What follows is a collection of stories and poetry of the house's previous occupants that gradually builds up the history of the house before the mystery is revealed.  

Included in this collection: "Who Killed Zebedee" by Wilkie Collins, read by Sean Barrett; "Blue Suit" by Edgar Wallace, read by Paul Panting; "A Mysterious Case" by Anna Katharine Green, read by Liza Ross; "The Crooked Man" by Arthur Conan Doyle, read by Stephen Thorne; "Vendetta" by Guy de Maupassant, read by Liza Ross; "The Sapient Monkey" by Headon Hill, read by Paul Panting; and more....

On Christmas Eve, a party of friends descends on a purportedly haunted country retreat, charged with the task of discovering evidence of the supernatural. Sequestered in their rooms for the holiday, the friends reconvene on Twelfth Night at a great feast and share their stories of spectral encounters.