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With 'In This Economy?', Kyla Scanlon provides a definitive, approachable guide to the key concepts and mechanics of economics and the most common myths and fallacies to steer clear of. At a time when experts overcomplicate simple things loudly, choosing to generate smoke rather than clearing the air, this book shows that understanding the markets - and the systems they operate in - is easier than you think. Scanlon is TikTok's favourite economy...
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In 'Say More', former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons shes learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation. Psaki has served as the 34th White House Press Secretary under President Biden, as White House Communications Director under President Obama, as the spokesperson for the State Department under then Secretary...
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What holds women back at work? Bonnie Hammer, one of the most powerful women in corporate America, debunks the bad advice that too many women get - and reveals the surprising, yet straightforward truths that will help all of us succeed. Bonnie Hammer is Vice Chair of NBCUniversal, where shes spent decades transforming every facet of the television business. Under her leadership, the companys cable group and studios achieved record-setting profits...
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Maze runner trilogy volume 1
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Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
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Basics: In this program, Jenny Cornero leads a simple yoga class with easy-to-follow instructions that will leave the viewer in a peaceful state of mind after the final relaxation.
Headaches: In this program, viewers will be driven through a routine of positions that will help to alleviate the tension and stress that come from the symptoms of the headache.
Depression: Yoga has proved to treat such states of mind as feeling blue or depression. This...
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As the number of students on the autism spectrum attending college steadily climbs, schools and students alike are trying to figure out how to manage the unique challenges experienced by this community. Getting accepted is often easy enough, but once on campus, navigating college can be challenging in many ways, often leaving students to figure it out as they go along. Five students on the autism spectrum — Guillermo, Jasmine, Caroline, Jonathan,...
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm-except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthurs story. 'Somewhere Beyond the Sea' is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it. From the author of 'The House in the Cerulean Sea' (9781250217288).
10) Radical Wolfe
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From a beat reporter at the Washington Post to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement, Tom Wolfe was at the forefront of reshaping how American stories are told. Recognizing the importance of overlooked subcultures and communities, Wolfe documented everything from rural stock car drivers to hippies in Haight Ashbury to the Apollo Astronauts, and his ability to bridge cultural and class divides while tackling stories central...
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Alias Emma volume 2
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"An MI6 operative is found dead, locked in a suitcase inside his own apartment. Despite an exhaustive search, no fingerprints are found at the scene. Emma Makepeace and her handler, Ripley, know an assassination when they see one, and such an obvious murder can mean only one thing: Someone is sending a message. As she digs into his past, Emma discovers that the unfortunate spy had been investigating two Russian oligarchs based in London. He'd become...
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Crescent City (Sarah J. Maas) volume 1
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"Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. By day, she works for an antiquities dealer, selling barely legal magical artifacts, and by night, she parties with her friends, savoring every pleasure Lunathion-otherwise known as Crescent City-has to offer. But it all comes crumbling down when a ruthless murder shakes the very foundations of the city-and Bryce's world. Two years later, her job has become a dead end, and she now seeks only blissful...
13) James: a novel
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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Nigella Parker, Detective Inspector with the City Police, has a deeply rooted fear of fire and a talent for solving deadly arson cases. When a charred figure is found curled beside Sir Christopher Wren's Monument to the Great Fire of London, Nigella is dragged into a case pitting her against a murderous artist creating sculptures using burnt flesh. Nigella partners with Colm O'Leary of Scotland Yard to track the arsonist across greater London. The...
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"Eve Hatch is pretty content with her life. Her apartment in Brooklyn is cozy, but close to her childhood best friend Willa, and far from her midwestern, religious upbringing where she always felt misunderstood. While her position as an administrative assistant at the Wildlife Federation of America is a dream-adjacent job, she's hoping her passion and hard work will help her land a more glamorous role where she could actually make a difference someday....
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PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: A RELATIVE MURDER, ISBN 9780778311836. Jude Deveraux continues her popular cozy mystery series with this fifth 'Medlar Mystery'. When a skeleton is discovered in a home about to undergo renovations, novelist Sara Medlar and her partners in solving crimes, Kate and Jack, put their amateur sleuth skills to work to solve a crime that has deeply personal connections to all of them.
18) Crayola: Steam
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Using curiosity, imagination, open-mindedness, persistence, and growth mindset, work together to design a game that explores many paths to STEAM careers.
20) Tess
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An exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge. With its earthy visual textures it is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.
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