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1) Some luck
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"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher.
On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different children. Each chapter covers a single year, beginning in 1920, as American soldiers like Walter return home from...
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Travel through time following a charming little mouse called Minim, who happens to love cheese and music. With great courage, he braves a cold Venetian winter night to visit an orphanage. His mission is to replace the tooth fairy by leaving a little gift under the pillow of each child. Little does he know that this task is fraught with danger. A tomcat is lurking about in the building, always on the lookout for his next meal. Luckily, it's also home...
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Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving...
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Last hundred years trilogy volume 2
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In 1953, the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of post-World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the...
5) Golden age
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the much-anticipated final volume of her magnificent, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the beloved Langdon family into our present times and beyond. A lot can happen in 100 years, as Jane Smiley has shown to dazzling effect in her astonishing, critically acclaimed Last Hundred Years Trilogy. When Golden Age, its last installment, opens in 1987, the next generation of the Langdon family is facing economic,...
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Clancy Peters was only hoping to strike some luck on a newly purchased mine claim outside of Buena Vista, but the town, or more particularly its tyrant, Dane Sampson, had other plans for the lone cowboy. On the run from a mob of Sampson's goons, Peters finds a hidden valley deep in the mountains, where the MacNeil family, also victim to Sampson's greed, has built the foundations of a peaceful life. This peace is shattered, however, as Sampson and...
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Take one heartbroken Chicago girl.
Literary editor Antonia Harper had it all-the career, the man, the future. That was then. Now Antonia is jobless, alone and at a crossroads. What better time to travel the world? A solo honeymoon on the Emerald Isle will be like hitting the reset button. No distractions, no drama.
Add some luck o' the Irish
Aiden Byrnes may be a literature professor, but words fail him when he meets the woman staying in...
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Another role-playing game of Champion's Quest awaits our young champions, but this time they are tricked into leaving the real world and tossed into the fantasy game that is a dangerous trap filled with new and challenging foes.
Teammates Lucas, Miles, and Jasmine-known as the Wild Crows-have been summoned by the wizard Gamemaster, Hob, to play another magical, adventurous game of Champion's Quest. When the three friends are ambushed and forced...
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Affiliate Marketing Mastery: The Comprehensive Guide on How to Be Successful in Affiliate Marketing and Have a Big Income
What you're really going to learn then is a set of tools and strategies: a number of different methods and concepts that you can apply when selling anything, that will help you to be highly successful. You'll still need to choose the right products and you will still need some luck. But you'll also find that by applying these...
11) Millionaire Mindset: Wealth, Prosperity and Abundance Affirmations. Attract Prosperity Developing Th
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Yes, You Can Become A Millionaire - All You Need Is The Right Mindset And Some Luck
What would you do if you were a millionaire?
Maybe you'd spend your time chilling on a tropical island.
Maybe you'd invest your money to have even more money.
Maybe you'd support a good cause that you believe in.
Anyway, it's up to you. At first, let's figure out how to become a millionaire.
Every year, thousands of new businesses are registered. However, only a...
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LEADERSHIP LESSONS is a book that is all about How to Improve Organizational Performance. According to the Oxford dictionary, an essay "is a short piece of non-fiction about a particular topic." The essays in this book are an accumulation of various projects that I have been involved in for more than a dozen years. The term "projects" spans quite a range of subject matter, and purposes for their existence. The reality is that the central focus of...
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LEADERSHIP LESSONS Volume 2 is a book that is all about How to Improve Organizational Performance. According to the Oxford dictionary, an essay "is a short piece of non-fiction about a particular topic." The essays in this book are an accumulation of various projects that I have been involved in for more than a dozen years. The term "projects" spans quite a range of subject matter, and purposes for their existence. The reality is that the central...
14) The helpline
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"Germaine Johnson doesn't need friends. She has her work and her Sudoku puzzles. Until, that is, an incident at her insurance company leaves her jobless--and it turns out that there are very few openings these days for senior mathematicians with zero people skills. Soon enough though, Germaine manages to secure a position at City Hall answering calls on the Senior Citizens Helpline. But it turns out that the mayor has something else in mind for Germaine:...
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Although the ancient world was for the most part a patriarchal place, more than a few women rose to prominence and were able to exert political power. Hatshepsut (ruled 1479-1458 BCE) was ruler of Egypt's mighty New Kingdom, and nearly 1,500 years later the more famous Cleopatra VII (reigned 51-30 BCE) was the regent of the Nile Valley. Many other women in Babylon, Assyria, Greece, and Rome played significant roles as regents for their young sons...
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The co-host of "The View" and ABC News senior legal correspondent traces her journey from a biracial child in a South Bronx housing project to a successful and influential Washington, D.C. attorney and journalist.
Growing up half Puerto Rican and half African-American, raised by teenage parents in the South Bronx, Hostin escaped poverty and the turbulence of her early life through hard work, a bit of luck and earning academic scholarships to college...
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"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work." – Neil Armstrong. At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, time stood still throughout the world, as thousands converged on the Kennedy Space Center and millions tuned in on live television. At that instant, the first rumbles began to shake the ground, as a small spacecraft attached to the giant Saturn V rocket several hundred feet tall started lifting...
19) Bad luck
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"Clay's adventures at a magical camp continue as he befriends a new ally and faces new adversaries in his journey to find his magical talent and solve new mysteries of Price Island"--
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"You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King...
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