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An interesting story about how a boy goes to school with new mittens his mother wants him to protect. To do so he cannot join in a snowball fight with his friends with parents less scrupulous about clothing and the like. The boy ultimately gives in, gets in trouble with his mother, is made to eat alone, attempts to run away much but only makes it to their cold shed.He then gathers his forces to leave for California - wherever that might be.

An Experiment in Luxury is the book end of all this as a young man visits his rich friend and his millionaire family. It is a conventional scene where the young man's friend, son of the household, encourages him to speak only conventionally to his mother or he will get on her bad side. We see her preoccupied with her worries and the husband/millionaire taking his mind off of it all by playing with a kitten.

Alexander's Bridge was Willa Cather's first novel and one of her best. Bartley Alexander was the world's leading bridge builder, something that was considered an awesome skill in the early 20th century. Alexander has the strength and regret that weave throughout Cather's male characters much as they do through those of her contemporary authors, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dreiser, Anderson, Lewis, and others.

This audiobook focuses first on the strategic issues concerning your organization with regard to its development and what tactics are most productive regarding your office space (including home offices as well). The author points out that most organizations just "get an office" without thinking through their requirements for the people who will populate that office. Much management and employee effectiveness is lost in this way; it is also a huge waste of money and resources....

The 251 poems are read in entirely, with a light commentary at the end. Wilfred Campbell focuses on the English Canadian tradition since French Canadians had their own history & influences, though Montreal & Quebec loom large in many poems. Women poets are not specifically recognized though authoring 40% of the poems.

Paulette Ensign came up with 110 ideas and tips; Simply added seven more plus added thoughts to many of her ideas. These tips include both large and small ways to increase your effectiveness, efficiency, and promotability. They dovetail nicely with other Simply titles, such as Sell Anything, Finance Anything, and Negotiate Anything—all meant to strengthen your career, make you more money, and get you promoted.

This work employs the lessons learned in our audiobook Conflict Resolution in order to analyze the Middle East Conflict, This new landmark audiobook is well worth listening to in order to acquire perspective on this seemingly immutable conflict, as well as a learning process to help you resolve conflicts in your own work and life.

Getting good grades is about working hard but it is also an art, a way of life, a mindset, that carries weight throughout your life: when applying to colleges, graduate schools, jobs, and in the succeess of your career. Learn the art of getting good grades in only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction by Deaver Brown, Harvard AB and MBA who has lectured at University of Chicago, Columbia and Harvard.

A short audiobook on how to recycle and save money. Featured tracks include:

1. Recycling & Saving: Family & Office
2. Food, Liquids, Meals & Food Shopping
3. Composting
4. Furniture, Objects and Other Shopping
5. Reading and Communication
6. Bills, Banking and Mail
7. Cars, Driving and Travel
8. Home Office and at Work
9. Children
10. Community
11. Take Notice of Your Results and Celebrate!

How do you create, focus, and energize a team? Learn what it takes to build a team for success in only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction by the author of The Entrepreneur's Guide who helped bring American Power Conversion (APCC-NASDAQ) public in 1988, a company that recently sold for $6.1 Billion.

Simplify your life so you can focus on things truly important to you. In other words, dispense with the trivial to concentrate on the important. If you do one thing at a time you can get almost everything done in a day. If you multitask, you wind up behind and frustrated. Busy & Stressed will help you find ways to make life better through simplification and focus.

Describes how to choose the career that is right for your temperament and talents as well as avoiding one that is wrong for you by creating a life plan as a work in process. How to learn more about yourself to do this through rules, questions, and open mindedness in seeking advice from others and deciding for yourself.

Strategies, tactics, and tips to Declutter for a Better Life. Number 6 in the Simply Media Better Life series. Shorter than the others in the series since the strategies and tips are straightforward but still takes effort to keep doing it. Therefore this book is cheaper than the others in the series too.

The perhaps greatest and extensive collection of humor ever published.

Moving philosophy and New Age insights given long ago. The Chicago Post reviewer said, “The words bring to one’s ears the magnificent myths of Ecclesiasticus. The work of a great man.”

638 Canadian Words & 23 Phrases extends the Sound Smarter and Be More Respected series into Canada. Over 500 of these uniquely Canadian words do not appear in standard American dictionaries. Listening to these words you get a flavor for the brevity and wit of Canadian speech. In fact, as the author comments, no other dialect of English has such a strong sense of humor.

Description of why escorts are the happiest women

A puzzler that takes expert unravelling.

An innovative embezzlement mystery with several love interests too.

An upside down intriguing kidnapping.