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Language
English
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"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits...
Author
Language
English
Description
Rachel Hollis is sounding a wake-up call. She knows that many women have been taught to define themselves in light of other people--whether as wife, mother, daughter, or employee--instead of learning how to own who they are and what they want. With a challenge to women everywhere to stop talking themselves out of their dreams, Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence,...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old sales executive living in Boston and working for an electronics giant. He's a witty, charismatic guy who's well liked at the office, but he lacks the "killer instinct" necessary to move up the corporate ladder. To the chagrin of his ambitious wife, it looks as if his career has hit a ceiling. Jason's been sidelined. But all that will change one evening when Jason meets Kurt Semko, a former Special Forces officer...
4) Paranoia
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st St. Martin's Press ed.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Adam Cassidy is twenty-six and a low level employee at a high-tech corporation who hates his job. When he manipulates the system to do something nice for a friend, he finds himself charged with a crime. Corporate Security gives him a choice: prison - or become a spy in the headquarters of their chief competitor, Trion Systems.
They train him. They feed him inside information. Now, at Trion, he's a star, skyrocketing to the top. He finds he has talents...
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is complicated by her growing attraction to him.
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Trade
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
x, 403 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maddie, Avery, and Nikki first got to know one another--perhaps all too well--while desperately restoring a beachfront mansion to its former grandeur. Now they're putting that experience to professional use. But their latest project has presented some challenges they couldn't have dreamed up in their wildest fantasies--although the house does belong to a man who actually was Maddie's wildest fantasy once . . . Rock-and-roll legend "William the Wild"...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A clever leprechaun who has amassed a pot of gold by making beautiful shoes for people decides to hide his money at the end of a rainbow, knowing that no one will find it there.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world that moves as fast as finance does, top producers have to think three steps ahead and make snap decisions. Theirs is a blurred version of reality, one that conceals moves as much as it rewards the bold ones. All too easily, scams can be disguised as success, and plotting can be mistaken for killer instincts. And as Grove O'Rourke finds out, "Nothing obscures vulnerability like success. Nothing that is, except for friendships." But this...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"[A] tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, [stealing] its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over 'rising Asia'"--Dust jacket flap.
From impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, our nameless hero amasses an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else: the pretty girl whose star rises along with his,...
10) Heat of passion
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
446 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Win Liberte has it all. He prides himself on never having worked a day in his life. He has everything he wants - fast cars, beautiful women, a racing yacht, a penthouse in Manhattan. Orphaned at eleven, Win inherited an international diamond business that is managed by his uncle.
Then Win loses it all when his uncle commits suicide after investing all of Win's money in a scheme that fails. His single remaining asset is a bankrupt diamond mine in...
Author
Series
Harlequin presents volume 4127
Publisher
Harlequin Presents
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Billionaire Dante's priorities are his business's success and his daughter's happiness. But then the uncle who gave him everything makes it his dying wish to see Dante married. There's only one person Dante trusts enough to make a part of his family... Nanny Kate is stunned when her boss offers her a new contract...to be his on-paper bride! In return, he'll give Kate the money her family desperately needs. It's a business arrangement. Until their...
12) The self-employed life: business and personal development strategies that create sustainable success
Author
Publisher
Page Two Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Caught between entrepreneurship and small business, self-employed people often feel overlooked and left out. Host of the The Self-Employed Life podcast, Jeffrey Shaw believes that as we develop ourselves, we raise the bar--we're capable of even more success. This book is all about creating the environment, the Self-Employed Ecosystem, to attract the success you want. Shaw plots a path forward for the solopreneur who knows that small is better. He...
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In Life and Work, You Can't Fake It to Make It.The Authenticity Code" combines the best of a page-turner parable and a practical tool business book to deliver encouragement and proven tools for cracking the code to becoming a more authentic professional or leader. When you become more authentic, you do what you came here to do and be who you came here to be. You communicate more effectively, and the success you desire in your life and career becomes...