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Everything I Never Learned in School : Darin Colucci
Everything I Never Learned in School: A Guide to Success
There are some lessons that can only come with age and experience; lessons that make us look back and say, “If I only knew then, what I know now.”
And while they’re essential to providing answers about ourselves, how we approach life, and even our professional aspirations, there’s no doubt we wish we’d had those answers long before we got to that point in our lives.
In Everything I Never Learned in School: A Guide to Success , author Darin Colucci aims to help new college graduates, aspiring entrepreneurs, and those with an immense desire to be successful, navigate life’s stumbling blocks by sharing a few insights on how to reach your goals and keep happiness along for the ride.
A straightforward, practical guide for every high school and college student in America, Everything I Never Learned in School: A Guide to Success is made for the relentless spirit within each of us who yearn to get the most out of life.
Filled with easily understood rules for success, humorous and poignant stories, and life lessons, this book demystifies and breaks down success in a way that anyone can understand, including:
- Building a Strong Financial Future
- Scaling the Corporate (or Career) Ladder
- Finding Confidence and Letting Go of Insecurities
- Achieving Goals that Matter to You
- How Success and Happiness Should Always Be Intertwined
- And So Much More
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FIFTY : Eldon H. Kellogg
Their only contact will be through an ancient Chinese coin, but their conflict will decide the fate of millions.
A rogue general within China’s People’s Liberation Army has a 25-year plan to smuggle nuclear weapons into the United States. Lieutenant General Kung Yusheng has been the Commander of 22 Base, the secret underground repository of China’s nuclear arsenal, for over 30 years. He is a collector of artifacts owned by famous military leaders, loves American art, and would like nothing better than to bring the United States to its knees.
Amanda Langford has been recently hired by the CIA at the Mission Center for Weapons and Counterproliferation. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering, and speaks Mandarin, Korean and Japanese. She discovers that China has produced more highly enriched uranium than had been previously estimated, enough material to produce 20-60 nuclear weapons.
When a nuclear weapon is discovered in San Francisco, it leads to a wild search in the United States for more of the devastating devices, even as a 10-megaton thermonuclear weapon is delivered, and hidden, less than seven miles from the White House.
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Whispers on the Wind : Christina McDonald
Whispers on the Wind: A collection of Zen Poetry
This is a first collection of poetry that reflects on the complexities and mystery of human existence.
If you feel like reflecting and taking some time to relax and read something different, then this is the collection for you.
The questions that continually work to define and answer the question ‘Why are we here?’ and why we feel the things we do is what makes us human. The poetry brings our senses to life in a way that gently entices us to seek the multiple meanings in the often beautiful and beguiling contradictions that life can present.
I hope that the reader is drawn into the more hidden aspects of themselves whilst reading, not only to the beauty that surrounds them, but to the beauty inside too.
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Antler Jinny and the Raven : Chris Dews
Set in 65 CE, Antler Jinny and the Raven combines beautifully descriptive narrative and page turning action in a story populated by distinctive, colorful characters. At the book’s center is a young, disabled Celtic girl, Jinny, and the raven princess she is sent to serve as a slave. Both have suffered terrible reversals in their lives and both have overwhelming, irreconcilable reasons to become Queen of the Dragons.
Steeped in magic and the otherworldliness of druids, ogres, and faeries, Antler Jinny and the Raven is a finely tuned coming-of-age story about a young girl overcoming her fears, handicap, and the machinations of her enemies to ride the dragons as their queen against the villainous Fomors, the ancient feeders of hate, jealousy, mendacity and all that is evil.
Celtic mythology, early Scottish superstition, and the history of the Britons inspire and suffuse this tale of Celtic life in 65AD southwest Scotland.
Antler Jinny and the Raven shares some characters with The Druid and the Bracelet, including Druid Lailoken, Erbert the Ogre, and Grizel the faerie. You can read the books in either order, but both are enthralling, and having read one, you WILL want to read the other!
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Venice Is Gone : Emanuele Missinato
Venice Is Gone
The future is now.
An extremely powerful short story about human emotions and awareness of climate change.
A fragile and unique city. A complicated relationship ‘Father & Son’. A journey through a country in ruin.
What are we really doing to contain the effects of global warming?
“Make Think”
She’s Trouble! : Gara Shaw
She’s Trouble!
She’s Trouble!
A Romantic/Comedy/Caper
Nicholas Steel, a top C.I.A. agent finds the worst assignment of his career is protecting a pampered young Heiress.
Desirae Stone, 21, sheltered most of her life and is now a restless woman/child with a wild streak. Her life is endangered when someone in Mexico begins using her father’s property to smuggle drugs. The C.I.A. responds to a kidnap threat by assigning one of their agents as her Bodyguard. The handsome and charming agent, Nicholas Steel, experienced an instant dislike of his feisty charge…and the sentiment was returned.
The pair travels to Mexico posing as boyfriend and girlfriend. With one eye on Desirae, Nicholas intends to find which of her father’s employees is double-crossing him. As Desirae and Nicholas’ passionate dislike transforms into a passionate love, deception threatens to tear them apart. As the heat increases on all sides, the C.I.A. Agent realizes he will do anything, including risk his career and life for the woman he loves.
She’s Trouble! A romantic comedy, caper. A fun and action packed, Novella.
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Kicked Around : Carmine Slate
Kicked Around
Erik is a shy, introverted computer nerd. His primary interests in life are hacking, online gaming and hardcore pornography.
One day, the girl of Erik’s dreams walks into his life, and his world turns upside down. Finally, Erik has the opportunity to become something else.
Meet an interesting cast of characters as Erik’s misadventures of sex, drugs, and technology lead him down a rabbit hole of self-discovery.
Can Erik find himself in this new world or will he continue down the same path that he has known his entire life, being kicked around by other people?
Kicked Around is Open Source Hacker Erotica licensed through the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-CS-SA 4.0).
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Improving Your Sudoku Skills : Patricia O’Connor
TRAIN YOUR BRAIN TO SEE THE POSSIBILITIES.
This book is designed to help readers improve their skills while solving challenging puzzles. The puzzles in Improving Your Sudoku Skills: One Step at a Time can be solved without guessing or writing in tiny candidate numbers.
The reader’s eyes are gradually trained to look at the entire grid, knowing that the answer to a particular square is there waiting for them in plain sight if they only looked hard enough. This is the process by which the author improved, and she thinks it can help many other people to enjoy the game more.
Throw away the eraser and only write down the correct answer. The puzzles can be solved in one of two ways: Readers are led through the puzzle, square by square and can peek in the back of the book for the answer if they have to, or they can choose to work it in their own order, which is the harder of the two alternatives.
This book works best for individuals with prior Sudoku experience.
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That Lucky Old Son : Mark Cote
That Lucky Old Son: Re-Discovering My Father Through His World War II Bomber Command and POW Experiences
A moving work of autobiographical creative nonfiction, That Lucky Old Son takes readers on a journey of adventure, danger, and self-discovery as the author weaves his own memories with his father’s experiences in Bomber Command with No. 158 Squadron RAF during the Second World War.
Writing from a child’s point of view, Mark Cote combines known facts with what he imagines his father doing from basic training through to being shot down and captured by the Germans. He poignantly communicates the terror, uncertainty, and fleeting hope felt by the crew, transporting readers back in time to 1940s Europe.
Having lost his father when he was only eight years old, Cote embarks on a quest to discover the man who left him too soon, but who left behind a legacy of courage, love, and faith. That Lucky Old Son is a book that will educate, inform, move, and inspire readers of all ages.
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My First Love : Miranda Taylor
My First Love
Jennifer thought realising she was in love with her childhood friend and neighbour AJ, was the beginning of a relationship that was meant to be.
What she didn’t count on was his big brother Daniel, saving her from drowning at the beach and insisting on a date with her in return. When he introduces her to an irresistible cocktail called Japanese Traffic Lights, Jennifer’s life takes an unexpected and unwanted turn.
When she finds out she’s pregnant at only seventeen, she chooses to keep her family together and moves away with Daniel. She tries to make a happy home for her and her new son, but a feeling that Daniel is hiding something to keep her with him and away from AJ just won’t disappear, no matter how desperately she tries to love him the way she loves AJ.
When AJ overcomes his grief at losing her, he spends time with her and her baby, but suspicions lead him to discover the shocking truth behind his brother’s lies and he decides to confront him, even if it means losing Jennifer forever.
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