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"April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has...
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Winterborne home volume 1
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"April didn't mean to start the fire. She wasn’t the one who broke the vase. April didn’t ask to go live in a big, creepy mansion with a bunch of orphans who just don't understand that April isn’t like them. After all, April’s mother is coming back for her someday very soon. All April has to do is find the clues her mother left inside the massive mansion. But Winterborne House is hiding more than one secret, so April and her friends are going...
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Suze Orman, the woman millions of Americans have turned to for financial advice, delivers a master class on personal finance and teaches her readers that the "New American Dream" is not the things they accumulate, but the confidence that comes from knowing that which they've worked so hard for cannot be taken away from them.
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
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Over the past thirty years, we've seen a radical redistribution of wealth upward to a tiny fraction of the population. Here, activist Chuck Collins explains how it happened and marshals wide-ranging data to show exactly what the 99/1 percent divide means in the real world and the damage it causes to individuals, businesses, and the earth. Most important, he answers the burning question, what can be done about it? He offers a common-sense guide to...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"Gives readers a strategic and actionable way to look at their financial life with a completely new attitude of confidence, empowering them to make smart decisions regarding how to start and grow a portfolio and when to make better personal choices for changing careers, finding trending college majors, expanding businesses, buying homes, capitalizing on social trends, and more." --
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The history of the last half century in America, Europe, and other major economies is in large part the story of wealth flowing upward. The most affluent people emerged from capitalism's triumph in the Cold War to loot the peace, depriving governments of the resources needed to serve their people, and leaving them tragically unprepared for the worst pandemic in a century. Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, award-winning...
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this wotk the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2010
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Life is getting better-and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down - all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before. The pessimists who...
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Odd Dot
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"Whatever financial shape you're in, you can be wealthier than you are today-without making it your full-time job. Live Richer Now is a collection of a hundred things you can do this very moment to lead a more financially secure and satisfying life. It includes tips on spending wisely, investing carefully, breaking big goals into small ones, extinguishing burnout, networking and negotiating, and working less to do more. With a life-changing tip on...
12) Holding the line
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Love along the wires volume 3
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"When widow Rose Finlay notices a young woman about to be led astray by a roguish aristocrat who could ruin both her and her family's reputation, bitter memories arise and she feels compelled to intervene. Rose and the young woman's uncle, John Milburn, join forces, putting everything they hold dear-including their growing attraction-in jeopardy"--
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Lyons Press
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Is the millionaire next door still out there today? The latest research from Dr. Thomas J. Stanley and his daughter, Dr. Sarah Stanley Fallaw, confirms that, yes, the millionaire next door is alive and well. And he's achieving his financial objectives much the same way he always has: by living below his means, being a contrarian in a maelstrom of hyper-consumption, and being disciplined in reaching his financial goals. The book examines wealth in...
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Choose FI Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
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"Distilling the best of the ... ChooseFI podcast, this book pulls from the collective knowledge of those who have decided to build a lifestyle around their passions instead of allowing their finances to dictate their future. These stories demonstrate universal principles, giving you the opportunity to pick the elements that are the most applplicable to your financial situation and [to] 'choose your own adventure.' ... Whether you have mountains of...
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Private novels. Main series volume 2
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Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2006
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While attending the prestigious Easton Academy on a scholarship, working-class Reed Brennan discovers that her wealthy classmates have some very dark secrets.
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BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2008
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These 100 eye-opening ways to create wealth are drawn from the author's successful careers, with many touching personal stories as well as stories and examples from the hundreds of clients these master coaches have advised. This book is chock full of ways to make money, deepen life's pleasure, increase personal wage-earning power and start fresh entrepreneurial ideas right at home. Written for the age of the home-business entrepreneur, the book appeals...
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Business Plus
Pub. Date
2014
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The Millionaire Master Plan helps give individuals a sense of where they stand on the spectrum of personal wealth and, more importantly, how they can ascend to a higher level. Roger James Hamilton, an entrepreneur and investor, has designed nine steps -- from barely surviving on up to the highest level of ultimate wealth -- and he them out in color-coded manner from red (barely living paycheck-to-paycheck) to ultra-violet (where generating income...
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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"Sowell...argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth production factors such as geography,...
20) Red River deep
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"Six years ago, one fight ended it all... And now Tracey Walker has bittersweet memories and a secret that she keeps close to her heart. A fresh start in a new town is just what she and her five-year-old son need to move on from the past. But when she discovers her old flame lives a few doors down from her, she's confronted with the urge to tell him everything." -- Amazon.