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When Kat discovers that her husband, Griff, has been hiding a secret bank account, her joyful consumerism suddenly loses its appeal. Are their fights about money more serious than she understood? Is he, as her friends suggest, preparing for a divorce? Just in case, Kat decides it's time to start saving and she joins an eclectic but lovable group of savers called the Penny Pinchers Club who teach her that saving time with family is as important as...
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Winner of the American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Awards, Best Picture Book.
Trickster Coyote is having his friends over for a festive solstice get-together in the woods when a little girl comes by unexpectedly. She leads the party-goers through the snowy woods to a shopping mall — a place they have never seen before.
Coyote gleefully shops with abandon, only to discover that fi lling your shopping
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They Just Don't Get It! explores an all-too-common dilemma: when people around us just don't "get" our ideas. Through a charming illustrated fable, it tells the story of Julie Buffet, a hard-charging advertising executive with what she thinks is a fantastic idea for a new campaign. But nobody gets it-not the client, not her boss, and not her coworkers. And Julie can't understand why. We have all found ourselves in this situation at one time or another...
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Domestic diva mystery volume 4
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A scrooge steals the gifts from Sophie Winston's family and neighbors, and even takes their holiday meals. She ends the neighbors' finger-pointing by organizing a toy swap for the kids, which restores the spirit of the Christmas season, until a murder enters the picture. With Sophie's detective boyfriend, Wolf, out of town, it's up to Sophie to solve the murder and thefts so that the town's Christmas won't be ruined.
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"This is a story about learning to save. Ernesto, Victoria, and Joaquín are three happy and playful siblings. But one day, Joaquín starts asking for things left and right: from stickers to toys, it’s never enough and everything spirals out of control. You can help him understand that he can have fun without having to buy things!"--Amazon.
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Russell Roberts is professor of economics at George Mason University, the J. Fish and Lillian F. Smith Distinguished Scholar at George Mason's Mercatus Center, and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is the author of The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism and The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance.
Stanford University student and Cuban American tennis prodigy Ramon Fernandez is outraged when a nearby...
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Ellie Agresti's not sure anything could be worse than being dumped by her boyfriend, Hunter, the first day of senior year. But sharing a "life skills" class with him and his new girlfriend, Brynn? AND getting partnered with a "family" of misfits (A.J., the loudmouth; Isaiah, the horse-racing obsessive; and Luke, the tattooed stunt-biker)? It's a recipe for certain disaster...until an in-class competition allows Ellie to channel her angst into beating...
9) Blue Screen
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Overwhelmed by being laid off, Doug Hawkins goes from a successful career in high tech to being homeless. At the same time, his friend and boss Daniel Martin-who laid him off-tries to atone to Doug for what both of them see as an act of betrayal. But instead of saving his friend, Daniel risks all their trust and questions all that he values and depends upon.
Helpless against the past, and playing Russian roulette with the future, the two friends fall...
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Discover how to train your mind to have more success in your finances. Bring more abundance into your life with lessons learned from a once introverted entrepreneur who takes you on a journey through her life, and shows you how she gained confidence both personally and financially. Poverty no longer has to exist within you, it is a state of mind. This book will open your eyes to the possibility of more personal and financial growth.
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When you are a new company or a young company wanting to grow and build a profitable, vibrant organization, it can be so difficult finding the time AND the dollars to move forward. This book gives you the systems and methods by which you can become a major player in the marketplace. The systems and processes outlined in this book have been used by the author to build a successful company and now he shares them with you. You don't necessarily need...
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This report summarizes results of the workshop "Sustainable Vocational Training toward Industrial Upgrading and Economic Transformation" held from 2 to 5 December 2013 in Beijing and Guangzhou, the People's Republic of China (PRC). A joint initiative of the PRC and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the workshop---attended by more than 90 participants from 16 countries---is part of the annual PRC-ADB Knowledge Sharing Platform and was supported and...
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Fractura expuesta es la historia de un éxito empresarial que empieza a narrarse desde su fracaso. Es también el relato de una fractura, de lo insoportable que resulta lidiar con las propias contradicciones de un hombre que quería estudiar sociología en La Sorbona y acaba creando una marca, Kling, que llegó a tener más de seiscientos puntos de venta repartidos en treinta países y que durante más de diez años vistió a toda una generación...
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This publication is part of a series of six country reports on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Each report presents current arrangements and initiatives in the respective country's skills development strategies. These are complemented by critical analyses to determine key issues, challenges, and opportunities for innovative strategies toward global competitiveness, increased...
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Visionaries are business superstars as rare as pop divas-and richer, too. But instead of using natural talent, they learn their craft: one that powerfully impacts segments of our lives, often in ways that we don't even recognize. And their cunning is accessible, once defined. In Visionarie$ Are Made Not Born, retired Kellogg School of Management Professor Lloyd Shefsky illustrates the concrete steps you can take to achieve, explain and use visions...
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When Peter Otieno finally left formal employment to focus on his enterprises, he did not anticipate a world of politics and backstabbing the private sector. Leaving an illustrious career in a multinational organization that had systems firmly in place, Peter joins murky world of partnerships and weak governance structures.
The book gives a candid account of the behind the scenes shenanigans of partnership that we rarely glimpse in the private enterprises....
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When two priceless impressionist paintings on loan to New York City's Museum of Vegetable Culture go missing, Lupe Reinowski, the museum's chief fundraiser is on the case. Lupe's job and the future of the Museum are in peril, and she enthusiastically dives in to solve the crime. Just as Lupe uncovers substantial clues on the thefts, one of her top donors is kidnapped. Are the crimes connected? Lupe follows multiple leads - from New York's society...
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What is it like to chase the American Dream and succeed?
Eleftherios' Journey to Success: A Greek Immigrant's Story takes readers on an adventure from a quaint village in Greece, across the Atlantic, and right through Ellis Island to the Eastern Coast of the United States. After serving in the Royal Hellenic Army during the Greek Civil War from 1946-1949, Eleftherios immigrates to America with a big dream-the American dream. He works hard, faces...
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How does variations in harmonics frequencies within humanity biosphere influence our evolutionary processes as we explore the neuro-vitality of our kinetic cellular connectivity and technological correspondence to transmit clean energy?
As we continue to address our needs for clean energy and the ability to transform the dialectical process of materialism, We as primary producers on this planet who are in continuous contradiction with renewable...