Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
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The Sum of Small Things
- By: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
- Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: October 24, 2017
- Language: English
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In today’s world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry NPR tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They... Read more
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The Dynamics of Disaster
Natural disasters bedevil our planet, and each appears to be a unique event. Leading geologist Susan W. Kieffer shows how all disasters are connected.
In 2011 there were fourteen natural calamities that each destroyed over a billion dollars’ worth of property in the United States alone. In 2012 Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast and major earthquakes struck in Italy, the Philippines, Iran, ...
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The Personality Code
The Personality Code clearly and persuasively demonstrates how personality determines why we do what we do and how we can maximize our strengths, work smarter with others, and profit from better relationships in our careers. Based on the IDISC(tm) Personality Profile-an updated and rigorously validated proprietary version of DISC, the world’s most popular form of personality testing-the book ...
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When Christmas Comes
After a confession of murder, a sleuthing English teacher will need a Christmas miracle to prove a condemned man innocent.Colorful Christmas lights dapple the family homes in the idyllic lakeside town of Sweet Haven when Jennifer Dean, a young librarian at the local elementary school, is brutally murdered. There are witnesses and her boyfriend Travis Blake confesses to the crime . . . but ...
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Shades of Stars
One awkward billionaire. One failed psychic.A tale as old as time . . .Lola Pink is in all shades of trouble. Her shop is still under construction, she’s sort-of-fired from her job, and her hottest date this week is with a microwave burrito. However, when Dane Clark finds himself at the center of a murder investigation, Lola slips on her gorgeous vintage sunglasses and takes the case.She’s ...
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Overlord, Vol. 6 (light novel)
The human realm of the kingdom is headed for its greatest disaster yet! After failing to prevent a daring raid on the Eight Fingers’ appalling brothel, the Six Arms are dying for a chance to defend their reputation as the criminal underworld’s strongest enforcers. These criminals are notorious for their brutality as much as their strength, meaning the only people who stand a chance against ...
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The Worlds the Shawnees Made
In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, “We have always been the frontier.” Their statement challenges an oft-held belief that American Indians derive their unique identities from longstanding ties to native lands. By tracking Shawnee people and migrations from 1400 to 1754, Stephen Warren illustrates how Shawnees made a life for themselves at ...
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Cold Iron
For centuries, the Kingdom of Eledore has relied upon the kainen race’s natural magical talents to retain its elevated
and seemingly impervious status in the world, particularly above the humans in Acrasia. Plots and assassination
attempts grow against the royal twin heirs, Nels and Suvi, as the Acrasians seem to be doing more than saber rattling
against what they see as an evil, tyrannical ...
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Islands in the Stream
A later, posthumously published classic following the adventures of a painter in the midst of World War II.First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway’s death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer‚Äîa man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream ...
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The Dog Says How
A popular storyteller and National Public Radio commentator weaves scenes of childhood antics and adult absurdities into tales that provoke laughter-and elicit tears. Kevin Kling is a master storyteller, as anyone knows who has seen him perform or heard him on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Drawing on his memories-an eventful Christmas at the Klings, taxidermy class, hopping ...
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Summary of Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need To Do and Start Doing What You Want To Do by Sarah Knight Book Summary Abbey Beathan(Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book.)If your life is nowhere near as you planned it then this book is for you, time to get your sh*t together.Getting your sh*t together is easy to say but hard to pull off, ...
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