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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the first time, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback-from tragic personal loss to thriving businessman and cable's highest-paid executive-in this unique self-help guide, his first since his blockbuster New York Times bestseller The 50th Law.
In his early twenties Curtis Jackson, known as 50 Cent rose to the heights of fame and power in the cutthroat music business. A decade ago the multi-platinum selling rap artist decided...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and grew up under the drab, muddy, grey mantle of one of communism's most mindlessly authoritarian regimes. Escaping with her family as soon as possible after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, she lived in Britain, New Zealand, and Argentina, and several other places. But when Bulgaria was formally inducted to the European Union she decided it was time to return to the home she had spent most of her life trying...
1223) My father's business: the small-town values that built Dollar General into a billion-dollar company
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A first-person account of the family that changed the American retail landscape. Long time Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father, Cal Turner, Sr., and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned Depression-era entrepreneur. Cal's narrative is at its heart a father-son story, from his childhood in Scottsville, Kentucky, where business and family were one, to the triumph of reaching the...
1224) Keep your brain alive: 83 neurobic exercises to help prevent memory loss and increase mental fitness
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Neurobics is a unique brain exercise program that can be done anytime, anywhere. Based on the latest neuroscience, these deceptively simple exercises stimulate brain nutrients to help new brain cells grow. The key to keeping your brain strong and healthy is to break routines and use all five senses in unexpected ways. Offbeat, fun, and easy, these 83 exercises will result in a mind fit to meet any challenge---whether remembering a name, learning a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Uncover the unique qualities within YOU that will lead you to find your true purpose, a meaningful career, and show you how to live your biggest life.
I know I have a bigger purpose, but how can I find it?
Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand shows you how to turn your unique traits and experiences -especially the ones you may think are your biggest setbacks, into the tools you need to make your dreams a reality.
This is not a memoir. This is the journey...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"After two decades in the study and practice of medicine, Sarah Seidelmann took a three month sabbatical to find a way to feel good again, undergoing a bewildering vocational shift from physician to shamanic healer. During that tumultuous period, Sarah met an elephant who became an important spirit companion on her journey"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When Lauren Pizza was thirteen, she died. Caught under a small sailboat, she struggled to reach the surface, only to find that what she thought was up was actually down . . . and that's all she remembers. Ever since being resuscitated by two strangers, Pizza has felt a presence in her life from the spirit world. Is it crazy? Maybe. Her family sure thinks so. Growing up the sometimes forgotten youngest of five in Little Falls, New Jersey, Pizza continues...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The wait is over. Humanity is going through a major learning curve on its path to maturity and we are already fully immersed in the adventure. Ideas that seemed impossible just five or ten years ago, are today becoming a part of the mass consciousness. Every person on Earth is playing a vital role in that global transformation of consciousness that we are presently experiencing, and every person's personal thoughts and actions are intricately intertwined...
1232) Run like a girl 365 days a year: a practical, personal, inspirational guide for women athletes
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
No matter how hard it is to get out the door, it's on the road that we meet our strengths and weaknesses, have the space to contemplate our hopes and dreams and ultimately find what makes us happy. Not every workout is an epiphany. Instead, each time out on the road-no matter how much of a battle it was to get there-is an exercise in getting to know ourselves a little bit better. It's on that road that we learn our strengths and weaknesses, ponder...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Moms-to-be get tons of advice on strollers, sleep training, and post-baby workouts. What they don't get is straight talk about navigating the workplace during pregnancy and new parenthood - factors that put many women's jobs in jeopardy. That's why Babygate is essential: the first and only guide to supply parents with the tools they need to keep their jobs. Babygate breaks down the laws on topics across the parenthood spectrum in clear, conversational...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
At forty, Margaret quits her sales job to follow her husband's hotel career to Paris. She's setting sail on this adventure with a glass half full of bravery, a well-traveled passport, a journal in which she plans to write her novel, and the mentally engrained Davis Family Handbook of Rules to Live By.
Everyone tells Margaret she's living the dream, but she feels adrift without a professional identity. Desperate to feel productive and valued, she...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Laura Hall was born in a small city on the San Francisco peninsula to a straight mother and a gay father who lived in the shadows. She grew up in the post—World War II era of hopeful optimism and entered her teenage years during the rebellious sixties.
Laura's father, it turned out, also longed to rebel, although social constriction prevented him from doing so. By the time he came out to her in 1975, she was a twice-divorced, twenty-four-year-old...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A lighthearted look at how to bring more humor, happiness, and joie de vivre into our lives through French literature. Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age 11, and spent every vacation in France, desperate to escape her Englishness and to have some French chic rub off on her. In Au Revoir, Tristesse, Groskop mixes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
So says Hall of Fame quarterback and hugely successful serial entrepreneur Fran Tarkenton.
Don't get him wrong-there's no one more competitive or keener on winning than Fran.
But in his inspiring and insightful new book, The Power of Failure, Tarkenton illustrates with hard, real-life examples why the most successful entrepreneurs are those with the courage, the resilience, the intelligence, and the competitive spirit to fail often, fail faster,...
1238) Book love
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Book Love is a gift book of comics tailor-made for tea-sipping, spine-sniffing, book-hoarding bibliophiles. Debbie Tung's comics are humorous and instantly recognizable-making readers laugh while precisely conveying the thoughts and habits of book nerds. Book Love is the ideal gift to let a book lover know they're understood and appreciated.
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