Métis millennial Lucky St. James is barely hanging on when she learns she'll be evicted from the tiny Toronto apartment she shares with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella. But then one night, something strange and...
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From the bestselling author of The Circle and What Is the What, the true story of a young Yemeni-American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a...
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Author:Topol, Carolyn LevineSummary:Craig just got fired from his dead-end job, and Jeff just got kicked out of his dead-end relationship. Frustrated with their unhappy lives, the two friends decide to let off some steam by going out to the Music Box, the town’s most...
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"Deeply reported and bracingly written, this book is an indispensable guide to modern innovation and entrepreneurship."--Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Code Breaker. A definitive look at the origin of...
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William C. Durant did big things the big way: he overreached, but, until his final failure, he picked up the pieces time after time to confound his competitors. From a turbulent childhood in the small town of Flint, Michigan, to his...
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Author:Donovan, KevinSummary:A top journalist crosses the yellow tape to investigate a shocking high-society crime.
Billionaires, philanthropists, socialites . . . victims. Barry and Honey Sherman appeared to lead charmed lives. But the world was shocked in...
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"Your time is limited. . . . have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."-Steve Jobs From the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one...
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Author:Knight, PhilSummary:In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic,...
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Between taking night classes for her MBA and her demanding day job at a cruise line, marketing manager Henley Evans barely has time for herself, let alone family, friends, or dating. But when she's shortlisted for the promotion of...
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Author:Lee, HidiSummary:Hidi Lee asked the question, “What is sexy?” And America answered. In this compilation of personal stories comes the image of what is sexy—of what sexy really is, without the gimmicks, without the prejudice which we often believe...
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Branson argues it's time organizations end their rabid devotion to profit and start doing good. Instead of wrecking the planet with pollution while creating an ever-poorer lower class, businesses have an opportunity to create a more...
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Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant...
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A unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the highest realms of power and money in China and whose wife was disappeared, Red Roulette reveals the truth of what is happening inside the country's wealth-making...
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Author:Clavell, JamesSummary:Set in Hong Kong in 1963, the action of Noble House spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes-fire, flood, landslide. Yet they...
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Author:Howe, Ben RyderSummary:A former senior editor of "The Paris Review" recounts his participation in a family effort to buy and run a Korean convenience store for his in-laws, a pursuit that raised issues about work and family while he shuttled between...
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Presents Martin Dressler, son of an immigrant cigar maker, who, in dedicating his life to the American dream, becomes a symbol of it.
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Caught in a sticky situation . . . With Juliet Brody and Reverend Brook tying the knot in Ohio's Amish Country's most anticipated nuptials of the year, Bailey King is determined to do everything in her power to make the event...
- Author:Stevenson, RobinSummary:
Throughout history people have experimented, invented, and created new ways of doing things. This book tells the stories of a diverse group of brilliant thinkers in fields like technology, education, business, science, art, and...
- Author:Vitale, JoeSummary:
This is the first audiobook to explain how to sell--without resorting to hype, scare tactics, manipulation or settling for low response rates--through an amazing step-by-step formula anyone can use. It is the answer for every...
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