![]() ![]() ![]() Kakeibo: The Japanese Art of Saving Money by Fumiko Chibaįor all of those Marie Kondo fans out there, here is your opportunity to bring Japanese minimalism to your finances. ![]() He is providing guidelines to do the best one can with the income one has. Plus, unlike some of the other finance fanatics on the list, Wecks is not wealthy and is not here to teach readers how to build wealth. Specifically for those who struggle with paying their bills, this book provides a reality-based path to financial stability in today’s turbulent economy. How to Manage Your Money When You Don’t Have Any by Erik Wecks It’s about everything from the clothes you buy to the food you choose to eat. The Financial Diet brings tools for creating a budget, but it doesn’t end there! Fagan believes being smart about money doesn’t stop at the bank. The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner’s Guide to Getting Good with Money by Chelsea Fagan and Lauren Ver Hageįrom the minds behind the popular finance blog of the same name is the personal finance book for people who don’t care about personal finance. Yes, you can! With this step-by-step guide, you will be able to improve your spending patterns, prepare for emergencies, and plan for the future. This is an essential guide for people who want to stop living paycheck to paycheck and start enjoying the money you didn’t even know you had. By signing up you agree to our terms of use The Everything Budgeting Book: Practical Advice for Saving and Managing Your Money by Tere Stouffer ![]() Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. ![]()
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![]() ![]() If Ramsey fails, his blackmailer will ruin him. His whole life has been based on a lie why change now? Although it pains him to deceive the tantalizing Gabrielle, he’s working toward an altogether different objective: unmasking the Scarlet Pimpernel. Ramsey Barnes would not say he is an honorable man. The man is not to be trusted-nor is Gabrielle’s body when he’s near. Accompanying her is the Earl of Sedgwick, a thief in his own right and an enticingly masculine presence. ![]() After being recruited by the Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious do-gooder spiriting aristocrats out of revolutionary France, Gabrielle crosses the Channel for the most daring mission of her life. In the intervening years, her skills have not gone unnoticed. After her late husband leaves her in debt to some dangerous people, Lady Gabrielle McCullough is forced to become a thief. Two morally compromised souls wage a battle of wits-and seduction-against the backdrop of the French Revolution in this slow-burn romance from bestselling author Shana Galen. ![]() ![]() ![]() This difficult mission is compounded by the fact that Superman is currently on a self-imposed exile. in the DC-verse) and is tasked with warning Superman about the coming apocalypse. ![]() The reader is guided through the narrative by Norman McCay, a pastor, an everyman, who is visited by Spectre (the hand of Big G. The story starts with a simple pitch - observing a world full of humans with superior abilities (metahumans) and its implications on the normal population. It is also eerily prescient, for it deals with larger themes and philosophical questions that we may find ourselves pondering as we consider the socio-political world around us today. ![]() Kingdom Come is one of the most acclaimed graphic novels in the DC-verse, and is considered to be one of the prime inspirations for the movie depictions of the DC-verse as we see it today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These inspirational non-fiction picture books celebrate winning in the face of immeasurable odds and how one person can make a difference. Agent: (for Pinkney) Rebecca Sherman, Writers House (for Flint) James Burns, the Bright Agency. Alexandra is also the illustrator of the New York Times 1 bestselling picture book She Persisted, written by Chelsea Clinton as well as its New York Times bestselling companion She Persisted Around the World. With activities and resources “to honor Harriet Tubman’s determination and bravery,” an interactive final section titled “How You Can Persist” challenges young readers to think about how they too can persist beyond the pages of this luminous first installment. ![]() Pinkney’s six-chapter narrative spans from Tubman’s birth until her later years as a spy for the Union Army, allowing readers an in-depth review of Tubman’s life, while interior artist Flint delivers powerfully tender black-and-white mixed media images of Tubman’s journey. Pinkney then launches into how Harriet Tubman, born enslaved, persevered not only to gain her own freedom, but helped many others gain liberation through the Underground Railroad. In a brief introduction, Clinton explains that she “wanted all of us to see examples of persistence in the face of different challenges to help inspire us in our own lives” Boiger provides cover art that embodies this sentiment. In this chapter book series opener expanding upon Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger’s She Persisted picture book series, Coretta Scott King Award winner Pinkney ( The Red Pencil) presents an accessible portrait of American abolitionist, activist, nurse, and spy Harriet Tubman. ![]() ![]() The only real issue I had with the book was some of the pacing. The sex scenes were decent, and overall I enjoyed the romance. To really move the story along, the connection did have to happen faster. I think the connection is a little quick. There are some exciting scenes with the poachers, but plenty of time for romance. While the story might be a little farfetched in parts, if you kind of just let go, and let you imagination run wild, it is more enjoyable. ![]() I found myself getting into the story pretty quickly. Is one of the woman willing to give up her lifestyle for the other? Or will poachers put their romance to a deadly end? The more time they spend together, the more an attraction grows. After committing horrible acts in her life, she feels it is up to her to stop poachers any way possible. Leandra, has spent the past 4 years in the wild. Instead what she finds is a jungle women protecting the area from poachers. Ashley, is a world renown photographer, on the hunt for pictures of the rare white tiger. I have never read a lesfic book like this, so that is always a plus. While the story does have some similarities with Tarzan, the premise still felt pretty fresh for me. ![]() Think Tarzan but with a tiger jungle lady. I had not read the older version so I am not sure what has changed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own-as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Īward-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, NEWSWEEK, PASTE, and POP SUGAR ![]() WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD Description WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONįINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, in Sam’s waking life, strange missives from the Titanic have been finding their way to her, along with haunting visions of people who went down with the ship. where she’s been walking the deck with first-class passengers, like her aunt and uncle. This time, Sam is having recurring dreams about the Titanic. But having survived one curse, she never thought she’d find herself at the center of a new one. Samantha Mather knew her family’s connection to the infamous Salem Witch Trials might pose obstacles to an active social life. ![]() ![]() The Titanic meets the delicious horror of Ransom Riggs and the sass of Mean Girls in this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Hang a Witch, in which a contemporary teen finds herself a passenger on the famous “ship of dreams”-a story made all the more fascinating because the author’s own relatives survived the doomed voyage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “There are little signs everywhere in the library now that say BREATHE! BREATHE!” she notes. It’s not hard to trace the impact of library wandering on Offill’s fiction – not least because in her third novel, Weather, her narrator, Lizzie, works in a university library in Brooklyn. Of Speculation was loved by readers and praised by writers for blowing open the possibilities of the novel. An experimental story about marriage, creative hunger and loneliness, fizzing with comedy and sorrow, Dept. “It’s probably the closest I come to a religious ritual in my life, this library wandering,” Offill explained, in an interview with Foyles bookshop around the time her second novel Dept. She will wander around a library – “preferably a second-rate university library, with out-of-date reference books” – opening up random volumes, searching for something that “pings”, some snippet or fact that is “beautiful or momentous”. She has even come up with her own game, which she calls Library Roulette. ![]() The US writer has declared herself a “fan” of the musician’s Oblique Strategies cards, which feature prompts such as: “Use an old idea” “Ask your body” and “Work at a different speed”. Jenny Offill, like David Bowie, Talking Heads and Coldplay before her, has credited Brian Eno with improving her artistic process. ![]() ![]() What more could I ask for? Seems selfish to expect anything more. I have the closest thing to a mother I’ve ever known. I haven’t been attacked or threatened or followed by anyone who might still want me dead. ![]() I’m living a ‘normal’ life, doing normal things with normal people. ![]() It’s been eight months since I escaped the compound in Mexico where I was held against my will for nine years. Table of Contents CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CHAPTER NINETEEN CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE CHAPTER TWENTY-TWOĬHAPTER TWENTY-THREE CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE CHAPTER THIRTY Other names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events, locales, persons living or deceased, is entirely coincidental.Īll rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part and in any form.Ĭover photo by Michelle Monique Photography Cover model: Nicole Whittaker ![]() ![]() Any references to real people, events, or locales are used fictitiously. REVIVING IZABEL Book Two In the Company of Killers ![]() ![]() If so, they should know that Shaker Heights is indeed named for the Christian sect called either the Shakers or the Shaking Quakers because of their ecstatic behavior in services. Some people might be curious about the city’s name. Later, Ng’s family moved to Shaker Heights, OH, which can be considered a Cleveland suburb. However, it was successful in changing the nature of its economic base, though it has never managed to return to its previous population heights. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Pittsburgh was one of the cities that were affected by industrial restructuring in the second half of the 20th century. On the one hand, this made it a popular destination for people from both within and without the United States on the other hand, this resulted in huge amounts of pollution being released into its surroundings. It is interesting to note that said city was once an industrial center of the United States. Glenn Research Center for NASA, while Ng’s mother was a chemist who taught at Cleveland State University. For proof, Ng’s father was a physicist who worked at the John H. ![]() ![]() As mentioned earlier, Ng’s parents immigrated to the United States from Hong Kong in the 1960s. ![]() |