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1) Sea story
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Step into the exquisite miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge. It was summer and Primrose woke knowing that it was going to be a very special day. The sun was already warm and a light breeze stirred the leaves and branches of Brambly Hedge. It was a perfect day for an adventure. Leaving the hedge behind, Dusty, Poppy, Primrose and Wilfred set off downstream in Dusty's boat the Periwinkle, on a journey that would take them all the way down to...
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Step into the exquisite miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge. It is Midwinter's Eve and the mice of Brambly Hedge are very busy. This evening, after dark, they will all be gathering round a blazing fire for the traditional midwinter celebrations. A grand entertainment is planned and Primrose and Wilfred have chosen to recite a poem. They go up to the attics to rehearse in peace and quiet but there are so many things to look at and places to...
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ANDREA CORT. War criminal. Genius. Outcast. Heroine. Sent to the home-world of the Zinn, a once-powerful race now on the long path to extinction, she's expected to sign the approval for a simple prisoner transfer -- but why are the Zinn so eager to take custody of an unremarkable human murderer? What brutal crime is being planned against an innocent? What hidden agenda threatens to topple the balance of power? This Nebula-Award nominated novella is...
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You'd like to get organized. You need to get organized. But every time you try, you feel like a square peg in a round hole. Nothing ever seems to work. The secret -- as revealed in this clear, concise, and compelling book -- is to organize according to your natural, preferred learning style. Organizing Outside the Box will help you to: Determine whether you are a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learner Pick the filing, storage, and organizing systems...
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Finally, the much-anticipated sequel to Kate & Pippin: An Unlikely Love Story, which stole the hearts of kids, parents, and teachers everywhere. Now the true story continues. And it includes more than Kippin, the deer, and Kate, the Great Dane who nurtured her when she was a fawn. Because now Kippin always brings her fawns with her on visits from the forest to hang out with Kate -- and to visit Henry the cat and another Great Dane in the family, too....
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For years a distinguished family doctor has quietly and effectively helped his patients prevent or deal with diabetes, heart disease, and other problems through his Health First program, which teaches: Mindfulness about health and diet Budgeting of food types through daily/weekly diet plans A decrease in one's diet of sugar, salt, and fat And the adoption of regular, moderate exercise Dr. Hirsch's Health First program has a wonderful triple bonus...
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Love at Work foments a revolution for workplaces of every description and in every industry: a revolution in which leaders understand that engaging people's heart trumps engaging their mind. Wilson shows how leaders who love: Believe in their people Pull out their highest good Serve their success Care for their worth Challenge them to stretch When people's felt needs are met, says author Brady Wilson, they release the energy that triggers discretionary...
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The purveyors of most personal development methods and books focus on logic, facts, willpower, and discipline. But we already know that to lose weight we have to eat less. And to get fit we need to go to the gym daily. And to build stronger relationships we must communicate more. As Benjamin Halpern shows in this remarkable book, we must deal first with the limits we put on ourselves to follow through on what we know and learn and want to do. And...
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Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building. Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging people from all sectors as never before to work together as equals to improve their quality of life. At the heart of this engagement are community conversations, in which common goals are embraced...
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Real Change is Incremental is a broad-ranging collection of essays by a writer with broad-ranging interests, including magic, philosophy, poetry, comedy, and international development. An exploration of change and ideas through a series of reflections on knowledge, experience, and how we see the world, the book urges intellectual humility, being open to the ideas of others, and meeting the challenge of taking practical action together to change the...
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We have always struggled, as human beings. But our struggle today is exacerbated by a gap between the increasingly complicated world we have created and the default ways we think about it. Twenty-first-century challenges are qualitatively different from the ones that generations of our ancestors faced, yet our thinking has not evolved to keep pace. We need to catch up. To make smarter decisions -- as governments, organizations, families and individuals...
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This book explores the efforts of collaborative groups in six different Canadian cities as they work to reduce poverty, as part of Vibrant Communities, a cross-Canada effort of many cities to reduce poverty in Canada by creating partnerships that make use of the most important assets -- people, organizations, businesses, and governments. The six groups in this group are: a project that seeks to get long-term unemployed job seekers trained and transported...
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Kathryn MacKenzie's Speeches That Will Leave You Speechless is an informative and inspiring guide to public speaking. It will inspire you to new heights in giving speeches, making presentations, and communicating clearly in your work. MacKenzie, a dynamic award-winning speaker and coach, walks you through a speaker's alphabet of tools, including: Four A's to Anchor Your Points The Keys of a Killer Keynote Nerves Are Natural and Normal From Boring...
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A Good Home is an addictive read, a profoundly emotional book about the author's early life in rural Jamaica, her move to urban North America, and her trips back home, all told through vivid descriptions of the unique homes she has lived in -- from a tiny pink house in Jamaica and a mountainside cabin near Vancouver to the historic Victorian farmhouse she lives in today, surrounded by neighbors who share spicy Malaysian noodles and seafood, Greek...
16) There's Always a Way to Sell Your Business: 100 Tales from the Trenches by a Master Intermediary
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Funny, entertaining, sobering, and informational "tales from the trenches" by Doug Robbins, a master intermediary who always finds a way to help owners restructure or sell their business. Through these tales Robbins highlights: Best practices for working with accountants, lawyers, and bankers in forming up and conducting a sale Ingenious ways to increase the worth of a business before selling The importance of confidentiality before and during a sale...
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Equal parts inspiration, perspiration, and information -- a book that is sure to take the Vibrant Communities story to new heights as it begins its next exciting phase. In Canada, "poverty reduction" is no longer a "wouldn't it be nice" dream discussed after yet another failure to make a dent in an age-old problem. It's a living, breathing, exhilarating reality. Why? Because all across the country people are approaching poverty in a positive, creative,...
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Just as 90 percent of an iceberg lies under water, so most of your strengths lie below the surface of your life. To realize all of your possibilities, you must find a way to tap those hidden strengths. Motivational speaker and writer Tim Cork shows how you can earn straight A's in life through changing your Attitude, developing your Aptitude, and taking decisive Action.
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Conversations are the key to business success -- in fact, they are the operating system of companies big and small. Not just any conversations, but powerful ones in which we: Inspire others to share their reality with us Invite them into our reality Discover the Bigger Reality between us Release organizational energy Increase employee engagement
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To her surprise, dismay, and eventually relief, Mary Armstrong, a therapist with over thirty years of experience helping people heal from childhood trauma, uncovered her own history of child sexual abuse at the hands of her grandfather and father. As she tells her harrowing but heroic tale, she casts light as never before on the issue of repressed memories and the invisible wounds left by childhood trauma.
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