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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK
Named one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year by Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews
"An unforgettable memoir about fighting for your home and your heart." —Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club November '24 Pick)
From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist comes an impassioned memoir about an indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the
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Flying in the Face of Fear shares Campbell's leadership journey as a combat-proven fighter pilot and senior military leader. Fighter pilot culture is unique. They spend their lives working in an environment where the stakes are high, where they must make split-second decisions to survive, and where training missions can be just as dangerous as actual combat. They must work together as a team, or they will fail. Because of their high-risk environment,...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"From Academy Award nominee, Emmy nominee, and Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson comes an inspiring book about family, friends, the hustle required to make it from DC to Hollywood, and the joy of living in your own truth. With a sensibility that recalls her beloved screen characters, including Yvette, Queenie, Shug, and the iconic Cookie from Empire, yet is all Taraji, the screen actress writes of her families, the one she was born into and the...
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English
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Television journalist Megyn Kelly reflects on the enduring values and experiences that have shaped her -- from growing up in a family that rejected the "trophies for everyone" mentality, to her father's sudden, tragic death while she was in high school. She goes behind the scenes of her career, sharing the stories and struggles that landed her in the anchor chair of cable's #1 news show. Speaking candidly about her decision to "settle for more, "...
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English
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From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues...
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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Español
Description
For soccer fans, the unstoppable Cristiano Ronaldo has become a household name. What goes into the making of such a phenomenal player? What was he like when he was young and still learning? This book takes a close look at one of the greatest soccer players in the world right now. Young readers will love to learn about his jaw-dropping achievements and also learn about what shaped him into a record-breaking athlete. Ronaldo's story will inspire
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 sound file)
Language
English
Description
At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the taxpayer lifeline, but Ford decided to save itself. Under the leadership of charismatic CEO Alan Mulally, Ford had already put together a bold plan to unify its divided global operations, transform its lackluster product lineup,...
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Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 sound file)
Language
English
Description
In the century since its founding, Harvard Business School has become the single most influential institution in global business. Twenty percent of the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are HBS graduates, as are many of our savviest entrepreneurs (e.g., Michael Bloomberg) and canniest felons (e.g., Jeffrey Skilling). The top investment banks and brokerage houses routinely send their brightest young stars to HBS to groom them for future power. To these...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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"Write to Shoot teaches budding screenwriters and screenwriting filmmakers how to write a short script with production in mind. Beker instructs them how to showcase their strengths, tailor projects to shoestring budgets, resources, and practical production parameters without sacrificing the quality and punch of their screenplays, whether they're creating a sizzle short for an unproduced feature script, an independent creative work, or a soapbox to...
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Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 268 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Antonia Fraser's memoir of growing up is not only an attempt to recapture the experiences of her Oxford childhood and youth -- in Shakespeare's phrase, to 'call back yesterday, bid time return.' It is also a chronicle of the progress of her love of history since her first discovery of it as a private pleasure when she was a child in the 1930s--her history, as she believed it to be, for the study of history (as her books subsequently attest) has always...
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Gildan Audio
Pub. Date
p2020
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (4 hr., 24 min.)
Language
English
Description
In this inspirational chronicle, entrepreneur Cody Lowry shares how the events in his life led him to become a motivational force in the lives of others. He'll share how being raised by a single mother prepared him for an extraordinary life. His odd job stories will demonstrate how reinvention is always possible. And with his marvelous storytelling technique, Cody will encourage listeners to look at their lives differently. Through humorous, real-life...
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English
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Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food-service automation, franchising, shared national training, and advertising have earned him a place beside the men and women who have founded not only businesses, but entire empires. But even more interesting than Ray Kroc the business man is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical self-made tycoon, Kroc was fifty-two years old when...
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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 online resource (233 pages)
Language
English
Description
"This ultimate introvert's guide to surviving and thriving in the globalized workplace is written by an "extreme introvert" who is also a bestselling international author and a successful sports agent, businesswoman, and philanthropist"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Discover the strategies and secrets behind a billion-dollar Australian success story In How to Build a Billion-Dollar Business, former Swisse CEO Radek Sali unpacks how his unique approach to product, people, and branding took Swisse Wellness from an Australian favourite to a blockbuster brand that sold for $2.1 billion. At the heart of How to Build a Billion-Dollar Business is Radek's passion for finding purpose in work. This book shares inspiring...
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Publisher
RIBA Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ix, 179 pages)
Language
English
Description
Terry Farrell is one of Britain's most influential architects of the twenty-first century. Offering a compelling personal account of his life in architecture as an influential postmodern designer, architect-planner and principal of a leading global practice, this autobiography includes anecdotes and invaluable insights into Terry's life and work from the 1940s to the present day. An inside view of what it's like to be an architect at the top of his...
19) John Cena
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Series
Publisher
Kaleidoscope Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
This series introduces readers to eight popular contemporary wrestlers, covering their early lives, wrestling careers, skills, and signature moves. Each title features informative sidebars, engaging infographics, vivid photographs, and a glossary.
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Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 201 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1940 Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning reviews for The New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements. But then came Lolita, and suddenly...
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