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2) Witch please
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Danica Waterhouse is a fully modern witch. After a messy breakup, she makes a pact with her cousin: they'll keep their hearts protected and have fun, without involving the overly opinionated Waterhouse matriarchs. No need to add criticism on top of heartache! Titus Winnaker has family trouble of his own. After a tragic loss, all he's got is his sister, his bakery--Sugar Daddy's--and a romantic curse that's left him doomed to be alone. Until he meets...
Author
Language
English
Description
With his previous book, Give and Take, Adam Grant introduced a new paradigm for success. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all? Using surprising studies and stories spanning...
Author
Series
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Language
English
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Description
Presents practical advice for increasing productivity on creative projects and improving their chances for success through strategies of networking and sharing works and ideas with like-minded members of the community and on the Internet.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xvi, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, this book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world's top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture"--
Raz has interviewed highly successful entrepreneurs, and here he shares tips for every entrepreneur's journey. From the early days of formulating your idea, to raising money and recruiting employees, to fending off competitors, to...
6) Lunch money
Author
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Shares advice for transitioning away from unfulfilling jobs to embark on adventurous, meaningful careers, outlining recommendations for starting a personal business with a minimum of time and investment while turning ideas into higher income levels.
8) Don't let go
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Brady Conners is hardly the settling type, but when tragedy strikes in his family, he has no choice but to return home to Hope, Oklahoma. Setting up shop to work on custom motorcycles and pass the time, Brady has no intention of letting anyone get close--until he meets Megan. Pastry shop owner Megan Lee is drawn to quiet, brooding Brady. Their connection is undeniable, and it quickly develops from physical attraction into something much stronger....
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Series
Nancy Clancy volume 7
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Nancy Clancy and her friend Bree try to start a business to get rich, but when things don't go as planned, Nancy learns a valuable lesson.
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 254 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"How did Ron Shaich, the visionary founder of Panera Bread, build a little bakery in St. Louis into 2,400 restaurants with 6 billion dollars in revenue and annual returns of 25 percent, outperforming Starbucks, Chipotle, and all others? By seeing the future and clearing a path to it, leading and innovating from the future back. Now, Shaich shares his story, starting with its humble entrepreneurial beginnings: the college-campus convenience store he...
11) Sweet on you
Author
Series
Bradford Sisters romance volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Britt and Zander have been best friends since they met thirteen years ago, and Zander has been in love with her all those years. When Zander's uncle dies of mysterious causes, he returns to Merryweather, Washington. As they work together to uncover his uncle's tangled past, will the truth of what lies between them come to light?"--Provided by publisher.
12) Stay sweet
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Amelia has looked forward to her last summer before college working at the Meade Creamery, but when the owner of the local landmark passes away her nephew has big changes in mind.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxxi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book will provide everything a YouTube creator needs to optimize their content strategy, including in-depth, applicable strategies for how to launch a channel, drive massive view and subscriber growth, build a brand and increase engagement, improve searchability, and drive commerce through YouTube. This book will explain things about YouTube's algorithms that haven't been taught in any other book about the platform, and it will be done in an...
14) Iggy the legend
Author
Series
Iggy volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Iggy needs to make a bit of money, he conjures up a scheme to help kids con the Tooth Fairy for profit"--
Grownups are always changing the rules! When grown-ups make money, its good. But when Iggy makes money, all of a sudden its bad. When grown-ups find something interesting on the sidewalk, its finders keepers. But when Iggy finds something (very) interesting, finders keepers turns into Youre In Trouble. Why is Iggy being blamed for something...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Mikaila Ulmer was four, she was stung by a bee--twice in one week. She was terrified of going outside, so her parents encouraged her to learn more about bees so she wouldn't be afraid. It worked. Mikaila didn't just learn what an important role bees play in our ecosystem, but she also learned bees are endangered, and set out to save them. She started by selling cups of lemonade in front of her house and donating the small proceeds to organizations...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Language
English
Description
"A funny thing has happened on our way to the digital utopia: we find ourselves increasingly missing reality. In this spirited book, David Sax has found story after story of entrepreneurs, artisans, and creators who make real money by selling real things. And they're not just local craftspeople, either. As paper is supposedly vanishing, Moleskine notebooks--a company founded in 1997, the same year as the first dot-com boom--has grown into a large...
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Series
Girl of the year. Grace volume 2
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her grandparents' bakery and her recent visit to Paris, nine-year-old Grace leads her friends in starting La Petite Patisserie, making and selling French pastries at school and special events, but they soon discover that starting a new business is not always easy--or fun.
Author
Series
Poplar kids volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
460L
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A friendly neighborhood business competition between sixth-graders Rachel Chambers, so quiet she is practically invisible, and Peter S. Gronkowski, future mogul, turns into a ruthless rivalry.
Author
Publisher
Harper Horizon
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For the millions of followers who turn to Syd and Shea McGee for advice on building a beautiful home and life, Make Life Beautiful is a behind-the-scenes look into how the couple transformed Shea's small room of fabric samples and big dream of becoming a designer into one of the most successful and fastest-growing interior design businesses in the country."--Back cover
The powerhouse couple behind the Studio McGee design firm traces the rise of...