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The Best Life Stories
150 Real-life Tales of Resilience, Joy, and Hope-all 150 Words or Less!
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Carefully selected from more than 6,500 essays, this wonderful collection of more than 80 stories reveals pure, common wisdom at its best, shared by ordinary people who look at life in an extraordinary way. From heartbreaking accounts to amusing snapshots, The Best Life Stories will leave you feeling...
by Laurel House
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Based on the popular QuickieChick website, lifestyle expert Laurel House's new book QuickieChick's Cheat Sheet to Life, Love, Food, Fitness, Fashion, and Finance on a Less Than Fabulous Budget (St. Martin's Griffin/May 2012) offers quick tips for smart, sassy, independent chicks. This is the essential...
Life...The Reader's Digest Version
Great Advice, Simply Put
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Life... is what you make it
Getting the most out of life can be so much easier if you know the coordinates. Whether you want to take the scenic route, make a quick detour, or find the simplest shortcut, there can be no substitute for a good roadmap. Part instruction manual, part GPS, part beloved...
by Brian O'Leary
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
Book publishers have long used free content as part of their marketing and selling efforts, with the vast majority of free content distributed in printed form. Digital distribution of free material, either intentional or via unauthorized availability through peer-to-peer sites and other Web outlets,...
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8
True Stories from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel Writing in 2004, the obvious next step was an annual collection of the best women’s travel writing...
Solve it Like Sherlock
Test Your Powers of Reasoning Against Those of the World's Most Famous Detective
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
If you’ve always fancied yourself a bit of a Sherlock Holmes, there’s no better way to test yourself than against these ingenious puzzles. In this intriguing book, Stewart Ross presents 25 new Sherlock Holmes cases and challenges you to pit your powers of deduction against those of the Great Detective....
Being Geek
The Software Developer's Career Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
As a software engineer, you recognize at some point that there's much more to your career than dealing with code. Is it time to become a manager? Tell your boss he’s a jerk? Join that startup? Author Michael Lopp recalls his own make-or-break moments with Silicon Valley giants such as Apple, Netscape,...
Greenspan's Fraud
How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
For two decades Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has held reign over economic policy, outlasting three presidents. His long tenure has had a profound effect on global economics and on individuals. In this hard-hitting exposé, international bestselling author Ravi Batra takes sharp aim at Greenspan's...
There's An Egg in my Soup
... and other adventures of an Irishman in Poland
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Five years in the Polish wilderness.
Queues for groceries, unfathomable bus timetables, inexplicable traditions and truly bizarre soup – this is Poland in the mid-1990s, where Tom Galvin innocently went as a trainee teacher.
Without a word of Polish, he is plunged into a strange and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In thirteen electrifying stories, our very first all-Latin-American issue takes on the crime story as a starting point, and expands to explore contemporary life from every angle—swinging from secret Venezuelan prisons to Uruguayan resorts to blood-drenched bedrooms in Mexico and Peru, and even,...
by Editors of Reader's Digest
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
If laughter is the best medicine, then look no further to cure whatever ails you. The column “Offbase,” formally known as “Humor in Uniform,” has appeared in the Reader's Digest magazine for over half a century, and has published more than 3,500 jokes, quotes, and funny stories from the more...
The Duchess's Tattoo
Thoughts on THE AMERICAN HEIRESS
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
"Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind." --Allison...
I'm Wild Again
Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2000
She's back and causing jaws to drop as always! As bold and amusing as ever, Helen Gurley Brown, who made her mark in publishing history when she became editor in chief of Cosmopolitan in 1965, has written her first memoir, I'm Wild Again: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts. While the...
by Allison Vale, Alison Rattle
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Do you feel like all your friends are 'getting old and boring', but you are getting younger by the day? Can you be heard saying the phrase '40 is the new 20'? Is your wardrobe on-trend, but for the second time round? It's official, you're in denial. You are middle-aged! You Know You're Middle-Aged...