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How to Win American Scholarships
- Avoid These 10 Mistakes & Go to College for Free!
- Narrated by: Kirk Hanley
- Length: 44 mins
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Want a quick and dirty guide on how to set yourself above the thousands of other students worldwide that are competing with you for scholarship money? Josh Barsch has been a scholarship judge since 2003, and he's identified 10 big essay-writing errors that students make every year that rob them of a chance at big-time college money. For the price of a McDonald's value meal, you can get a giant leg up on the fierce worldwide competition for scholarship money.
Warning: "Judge Josh " is direct and pulls no punches, and in some cases even uses a little bit of adult language. This book is seasoned with biting humor, and you may find yourself laughing as much as you're learning. If you're a prim-and-proper, buttoned-down type with no sense of humor, do NOT buy this book!
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- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
What does it mean to be an adult? In the 20th century, psychologists came up with five markers of adulthood: finish your education, get a job, leave home, marry, and have children. Since then, every generation has been held to those same markers. Yet so much has changed about the world and living in it since that sequence was formulated. All of those markers are choices, and they’re all valid, but any one person’s choices along those lines do not make them more or less an adult.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not the book that was advertised
- By M. Rogers on 04-13-21
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The Dream Chaser
- If You Don't Build Your Dream, Someone Will Hire You to Help Build Theirs
- By: Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
- Narrated by: Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story5 out of 5 stars 100
Does your daily effort at work build your dream, or someone else's? Do you do your job for the paycheck or the fulfillment? It's possible to have both, and this book shows you how to get there. The key is in following your passion and purpose. You have a natural-born talent - whether you know it or not - that can make the world a better place. You have a unique story and vision that can lead you to the life you love.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Author says he wrote it in a week. I believe him.
- By Scott on 03-06-23
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Leap
- Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want
- By: Tess Vigeland
- Narrated by: Tess Vigeland
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Until recently Tess Vigeland was a longtime host of public radio's Marketplace. It was a rewarding, high-status job, and Tess was very good at it - but she'd begun to feel restless. Without any definite, clear sense of what she wanted to do next (but an absolute certainty that what she'd been doing was no longer truly satisfying), she walked away from her dream job and into a vast unknown. Suddenly she was no longer " Marketplace's Tess Vigeland"; she was just Tess Vigeland.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Everything Mrs Vigeland says is true, but ...
- By Claude on 10-10-15
By: Tess Vigeland
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Don't Eat the Marshmallow... Yet!
- The Secret to Sweet Success in Work and Life
- By: Joachim De Posada, Ellen Singer
- Narrated by: Michael McConnohie, Dan Worren
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 235
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 193
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Story5 out of 5 stars 194
Arthur is a chauffeur who is intellectually gifted. Jonathan is no less bright than Arthur, equally hard-working, yet a billionaire. So why is Jonathan in the back seat of the limousine and Arthur in the front? What explains the difference between success and failure? Joachim de Posada found the answer in a Stanford University study of children who were able to delay gratification by not eating a marshmallow with the promise of receiving another one if they resisted eating the first for 15 minutes.
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1 out of 5 stars
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horrible! so disappointed
- By Linda on 12-16-18
By: Joachim De Posada, and others
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The Art of Non-Conformity
- Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World
- By: Chris Guillebeau
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 398
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Story4 out of 5 stars 295
If you've ever thought, "There must be more to life than this," The Art of Non-Conformity is for you. Based on Chris Guillebeau's popular online manifesto "A Brief Guide to World Domination," The Art of Non-Conformity defies common assumptions about life and work while arming you with the tools to live differently. You'll discover how to live on your own terms by exploring creative self-employment, radical goal-setting, contrarian travel, and embracing life as a constant adventure.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Redundant
- By Louis on 03-11-11
By: Chris Guillebeau
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The Entitlement Trap
- How to Rescue Your Child with a New Family System of Choosing, Earning, and Ownership
- By: Richard Eyre, Linda Eyre
- Narrated by: Sandra Burr
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 123
New York Times–bestselling authors Richard and Linda Eyre have spent the last twenty-five years helping parents nurture strong, healthy families. Now they’ve synthesized their vast experience into an essential blueprint for instilling children with a sense of ownership, responsibility, and self-sufficiency. At the heart of their plan is a “Family Economy”, complete with a family bank, checkbooks for the kids, and a system of responsibilities that teaches children to earn money for the things they want.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Parenting Book Ever!
- By Paul on 07-11-15
By: Richard Eyre, and others
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The Real Man's Handbook
- 12 Commitments of a Real Man
- By: Larry Winget, Chris Widener
- Narrated by: Larry Winget, Chris Widener
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,400
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,184
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,172
There was a time when everyone knew what a real man was. Now, with changing times, values, and roles, many men struggle with what it means to be a "real man" in the 21st century. What does a real man look like? How does he act? What are his values and morals? What role does a real man play in society? The 12 commitments that Chris and Larry share cover the gamut of life, from family, including your spouse and children, work, health, finances, service, and friendships. This little book will cause you to think about what kind of man you are and what kind of man you can become.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This book really sucks
- By Anonymous User on 01-28-21
By: Larry Winget, and others
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How We Can Win
- Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
- By: Kimberly Jones
- Narrated by: Kimberly Jones
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 111
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Story5 out of 5 stars 110
In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions - those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves in the fight against a system that is still rigged.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Valid points made, but contradictory as well...
- By Julian C. Young on 01-28-22
By: Kimberly Jones
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Debt-Free U
- How I Paid for an Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, or Mooching off My Parents
- By: Zac Bissonnette, Andrew Tobias
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
These days, most people assume you need to pay a boatload of money for a quality college education. As a result, students and their parents are willing to go into years of debt and potentially sabotage their financial futures just to get a fancy name on a diploma. But Zac Bissonnette is walking proof that the assumption is not only false, but dangerous.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too long winded
- By Raquel on 08-06-13
By: Zac Bissonnette, and others
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What Teachers Make
- In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
- By: Taylor Mali
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Former middle school teacher and teachers' advocate Taylor Mali struck a chord with his passionate response to a man at a dinner party who asked him what kind of salary teachers make - a poetic rant that has been seen and forwarded millions of times on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Based on the poem that inspired a movement, What Teachers Make is Mali's sharp, funny, reflective, critical call to arms about the joys of teaching and why teachers are so vital to America today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!!
- By Anonymous User on 02-16-22
By: Taylor Mali
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Excellent Sheep
- The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
- By: William Deresiewicz
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 462
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 379
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 377
Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale's admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to "practical" subjects like economics and computer science, students are losing the ability to think in innovative ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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skip the book read the essay
- By Amazon Customer on 05-07-15
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Somebody's Gotta Say It
- By: Neal Boortz
- Narrated by: Neal Boortz
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
With its outrageous brand of conservative talk, The Neal Boortz Show has been one of talk radio's hottest commodities for more than 25 years. Boortz entertains his rabid followers with commentary on everything from corruption in Washington to the troops overseas. Now, with Somebody's Gotta Say It, Neal gives us his greatest jeremiad yet: a hilarious but serious-as-taxes screed covering all the issues that get Neal and his millions of listeners hot under the collar on a daily basis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For the Logical not the Emotional.
- By Jon on 03-16-07
By: Neal Boortz
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The Education of Millionaires
- It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late
- By: Michael Ellsberg
- Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 286
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 282
The Myth: If you get into a good college, study hard, and graduate with excellent grades, you will be pretty much set for a successful career. The Reality: The biggest thing you won't learn in college is how to succeed professionally. Some of the smartest, most successful people in the country didn't finish college. None of them learned their most critical skills in an institution of higher education. And like them, most of what you'll need to learn to be successful you'll have to learn on your own, outside of school.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I can't get past the introduction
- By DaveO on 01-30-13
By: Michael Ellsberg
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Against the Grain
- A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love
- By: Bill Courtney
- Narrated by: Bill Courtney
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story5 out of 5 stars 30
In Against the Grain, Bill Courtney shares his convictions on the fundamental tenets of character, commitment, service, leadership, civility, and others that, in his decades of success as an entrepreneur and educator, have proven to be the keys to a winning and meaningful life and career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing man
- By Richard Langel on 03-04-24
By: Bill Courtney
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Evangelpreneur
- How Biblical Free Enterprise Can Empower Your Faith, Family, and Freedom
- By: Josh Tolley
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 193
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 168
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Story5 out of 5 stars 167
The truth shall set you free. Ignoring it will cost you a fortune. It has become clear that we are living a lie, and it has brought devastating results: Bankruptcy among churchgoers is equally as high as for those who don't attend. Financial misconduct is destroying marriages, families, individuals, and churches. A record number of churches are in foreclosure.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not biblically sound or financially accurate
- By John E on 11-05-20
By: Josh Tolley
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Letters to a Young Sister
- By: Harper Hill
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Winner of two NAACP awards for his writing, bestselling author Hill Harper is an acclaimed actor known for his role on CSI: NY. A Brown University and Harvard Law School alum, Harper is also a passionate public servant. In this book he offers comforting advice for today's youth through his own wisdom as well as that of such luminaries as Michelle Obama and Angela Bassett.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Keep writing young brother.
- By Charles Henderson on 03-02-10
By: Harper Hill
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- Antonio Emanuel
- 08-09-15
Must have for all potentials college students
I appreciated the honest and truthful responses that judge Barsh provided. I will use these techniques to definitely get a scholarship for my children.
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- Sue
- 02-23-17
Loved it!
Excelent resource on what to NOT do when applying for scholarships. Straight yo the point.
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- Lori
- 07-10-18
Scholarship winner
I found this very informative for those who are applying for scholarship now. I would strongly recommend this to anyone who is getting ready to graduate from high school.
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- Kelwyn
- 01-09-16
Opposite Thinking
book lists what to avoid in an essay and gave some extreme comparisons. Left me wondering what to include in an essay that helps my child stand out. Thought the $150k scholarship tip at the end would be more proactive
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