With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the "Bugs," a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Terran...
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Author: HEINLEIN, Robert A.Summary: -
Author: Hastings, MichaelSummary:In June 2010, Michael Hastings published an article in Rolling Stone that made headlines around the world: In "The Runaway General," he reported on a week he spent in Europe with General Stanley...
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Author: Performance Associates, Inc.Summary:This indispensable guide tells listeners how to provide better service than their customers have ever imagined.
Genre: Business and economics -
Author: Schmitt, BerndSummary:
The author shows listeners how to think of the "Big Picture" when considering important business decisions. To succeed in the modern world, you have to have bold ideas, but you also have to have...
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Author: Boggs, Johnny D.Summary:The battlefield itself is a character in this retelling of Custer's Last Stand, when George Custer led his soldiers to annihilation at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876. First-...
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Author: Kriegel, MarkSummary:Pete Maravich was a great basketball player and this is his story.
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Author: Stoltz, Paul GordonSummary:A Wall Street Journal best-selling leadership consultant teams up with an acclaimed international speaker and mountain climber to deliver a landmark program for transforming adversity into a...
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Author: Boggs, Johnny D.Summary:On the western frontier in 1872, twelve-year-old Coady McIlvain is captured by Indians. He escapes and falls in with a Buffalo sharpshooter, and the two face real adventure surviving the...
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Author: L'Amour, LouisSummary:A collection of three stories by Louis L'Amour: "Black Rock," "Gamble of the KT," and "Showdown Trail."
Genre: Western fiction, Short stories -
Author: Harrison, JimSummary:This book gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never before published, into one volume. In these novellas, BD rescues the preserved body of an Indian from Lake Superior; overindulges...
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Author: Enright, AnneSummary:Spanning thirty years, this novel tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, and her four children, who grow up and leave Ireland for lives they could have never imagined. When they...
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Author: Bailey, Kenneth E.Summary:
Kenneth E. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus's relationship to women, and especially Jesus's parables. Through it all,...
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In the digital age, information, both true and false, spreads faster than ever. The same technology that provides access to data across the globe can abet the warping of truth and normalization of...
Genre: Computer science, Social science -
Author: Burriesci, MattSummary:
After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Burriesci set out to write a book for her eighteenth birthday. In short, honest letters, Burriesci teaches his daughter about thirty-two great...
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Author: Bujold, Lois McMasterSummary:
Once a courtier and captain, Lord Cazaril is now but a crippled ex-galley slave, who is suddenly promoted to the exalted and dangerous position of tutor to Iselle, the beautiful sister of the heir...
Genre: Fantasy fiction