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París, 1817. En una pensión "de clase media", regentada con economía por una viuda, coinciden los desechos de la sociedad parisina y los jóvenes que sueñan con entrar en ella. En el último piso, el más barato, viven puerta por puerta un anciano que amasó una fortuna fabricando fideos y que, habiendo casado esplendidamente a sus hijas, ahora es menospreciado por ellas, y un estudiante de provincias que apenas tiene para unos guantes amarillos con los que triunfar en un baile. Un tercer huesped, el misterioso Vautrin, que detecta la ambición del estudiante, le propone un tortuoso crimen que podría enriquecerlo de la noche a la mañana.El pobre Goriot (1835), una de las novelas más justamente celebres de la historia de la literatura, enfrenta a dos hombres en los dos extremos de la vida: el anciano que la concluye en la ingratitud y la ruina y el joven que se abre a ella resistiendose a aceptar que habrá de elegir entre la virtud y la corrupción. "¡Ay, sepalo el lector, este drama no es una ficción ni una novela! & x02013;dice Balzac en las primeras páginas& x02013; ¡es tan verdadero que todos pueden reconocer los elementos que hay en el en su casa y quizá en su corazón!

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position... Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but crave all of the other things he's making her feel. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic...

Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a book about high fiving everyone else in your life. You're already doing that. Cheering for your favorite teams. Celebrating your friends. Supporting the people you love as they go after what they want in life. Imagine if you gave that same love and encouragement to yourself. Or even better, you made it a daily habit. You'd be unstoppable. In this encouraging book, Mel teaches you how to start high fiving the most important person in your life, the one who is staring back at you in the mirror: YOURSELF.