by Sidney Sheldon, Tilly Bagshaw
Beloved number one internationally bestselling author Sidney Sheldon introduced the glamorous, scheming Blackwell family and its unforgettable matriarch, Kate Blackwell, in his worldwide bestseller Master of the Game. Now a generation has passed, and as the world has changed, so too has America's own royal family.
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Movies are pushing it, television shows are plotting it, books and Web sites have sprung from its fertile soil.
This philosophy is getting a lot of attention, thanks to ancient beliefs and astronomy and New Age religion – all hyped by anxiety overglobal warming. Of course, this includes a blockbuster movie, 2012, which opens Friday.The subject: Dec. 21, 2012. That's the day, according to people pointing to an ancient Mayan calendar, either the world will come to an end or the universe will witness a grand transformation toward peace and harmony.
After years of writing feverishly, Charles Dickens desperately needed a break from his demanding schedule and money to finance a year abroad.
England's best-known author hoped "A Christmas Carol," a tale about ghosts haunting the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, would be his ticket to a yearlong Italian vacation for him, his wife, five children and servants.
"He lived very lavishly. He entertained very lavishly. ... Money was a concern," said Michael Slater, a London-based scholar and author of a new Dickens biography from Yale University Press.
But Dickens also had a nobler motivation. During "the hungry 1840s," rural people crowded into urban tenements and children worked under frightful conditions in factories and mines.
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America
New York Times columnist Friedman tackles the 21st century's most hotly debated issue, arguing that an energy technology revolution would jumpstart the American economy and address climate change in a one-two punch.
Hot, Flat, and Crowded is classic Thomas L. Friedman: fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common sense about the challenge--and the promise--of the future.
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One solution we're all looking for these days is a way to accomplish more in our limited time. Author Amy Jones takes us back to the basics in Twice as Much in Half the Time- Secrets to Simplifying Your Life. It's loaded with nuggets that will make a positive difference in your life.
Here's an excerpt. Enjoy!
What does it mean to manage your time (and life) better? Simply put, it means to live your life in such a way that you are able to accomplish more, so that at the end of each day you can realize measurable results and enjoy a sense of fulfillment. This often involves learning to do things differently so that the outcomes are more efficient and effective (and even less time-consuming) than before. After reading from countless resources and speaking to over half a million people on the subject of time management, I have come up with a simple truth. Learning to manage your life and your time isn't rocket science. Anyone can do it! In fact, it is often the simple things you can do that will make profound differences. Sometimes you even have to go backward in order to go forward; so let's go back-to-basics with this example.
First, grab a pencil and paper. Think back to the time you started school, all the way back to kindergarten. One of the first things you learned was how to identify shapes. Next you learned to draw them. On that sheet of paper I want you to do something very simple. Draw one triangle. That was simple, wasn't it? Now, draw as many triangles as you can in twenty seconds. Stop. Count how many you were able to draw. Write down that number. Do you think there might be another way to complete this activity and draw more in less time?
Start at one side of the paper and draw connected W's all the way across the page. Now put a line across the top and the bottom. See how many you can draw in twenty seconds using this method. Wow, that creates a lot of triangles! In only a few seconds you have learned to do this activity more efficiently and effectively in a much shorter amount of time. A seemingly insignificant change can make a significant difference in what can be accomplished in a given amount of time. In fact, you most likely made up to four or five times as many triangles the second time around.
What if you could do four or five times your sales volume by making a simple change? Or what if you could get four or five times as much done each day by making a simple change? Would that work for you?
If so, always be on the lookout for "new" ways to do "old" things, and keep your mind open to using alternative methods and plans of action. This book is filled with simple things that can make a profound difference. Are you ready to learn some new ways to manage your life and your time even better?
Then let's get started!
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The Definitive Book of Body Language
by Barbara and Allan Pease
This international bestseller reveals the secrets of nonverbal communication to give you confidence and control in any face-to-face encounter–from making a great first impression and acing a job interview to finding the right partner.
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by Annie Proulx
The steely Proulx (The Shipping News, Brokeback Mountain etc.) returns with another astonishing series of hardscrabble lives lived in the sparse, inhospitable West, where one mistake can put you on a long-winding trail to disaster. Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck—unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy.
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This Friday Brain-Teaser from xrefer tests your knowledge of novels and novelists. (I filed this away in 2005 and just stumbled on it again now. It is just as relevant now as it was then)
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by Monique Roffey
When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England George instantly takes to their new life, but Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill at ease with the racial segregation and the imminent dawning of a new era. Her only solace is her growing fixation with Eric Williams, the charismatic leader of Trinidad's new national party, to whom she pours out all her hopes and fears for the future in letters that she never brings herself
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