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A matter of attitude
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Hayden. |
America's Next Top DesignerFashionista with the fiercest style sense and head-turning clothes? That's Angela Jenkins. Even though her cutting-edge designs and graphic legwear sometimes draw criticism… |
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Personal strivings as a predictor of emotional intelligence
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Ferenc Margitics,Zsuzsa Pauwlik |
Book Description:
Personal aspirations constitute an important element of a successful way of life. These include the decisions of the individuals regarding things important for them in life and th… |
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Strange bedpersons
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Jennifer Crusie |
Tess Newhart knows her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson isn't the right guy for her. He's caviar and champagne, she's take-out Chinese pot stickers. He's an uptight Republican lawyer, she was raised in a c… |
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The White Tiger
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Aravind Adiga |
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and t… |
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Paradise
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Jill Alexander |
Teenaged Paisley Tillery dreams a career as a professional drummer will take her out of her small Texas town, but when her country rock band gets a handsome new lead singer from Paradise, Texas, thos… |
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Take a bow
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Elizabeth Eulberg |
Emme, Sophie, Ethan, and Carter are seniors at a performing arts high school in New York City, preparing for the senior recital and feeling the pressure to perform well and take the next step in thei… |
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Broadway baby
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Alan Shapiro |
"As a little girl growing up in Boston, Miriam Bluestein fantasized about a life lived on stage, specifically in a musical. Get married, have a family--sure, maybe she'd do those things, too, but fir… |
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Revenge
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Sharon Osbourne |
Amber and Chelsea Stone are sisters who share the same dream--huge, global fame, but while both have the looks, the talent, and the star quality, only one has the ruthless ambition to make it to the … |
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Serious men
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Manu Joseph |
"Low-caste Ayyan Mani lives in a Mubai tenement and works in an esteemed research institute as the assistant of top researcher Arvind Acharya. Forever spiteful toward his privileged superiors, Ayyan … |
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Spellbound
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Janet McDonald |
Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to… |
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Nodame kantābire
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Tomoko Ninomiya |
Noda Megumi ("Nodame") is a piano prodigy who has no discipline and prefers to play by ear. By chance, she meets Shinichi Chiaki, the top student in the piano program of a prestigious music college i… |
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Life class
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Ann Charney |
Nerina is living in Venice after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, is looking for a way to move to America. She successfully adapts to the social and professional expectations of working with cre… |
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The Fourth Estate
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Jeffrey Archer |
Richard Armstrong narrowly escaped Hitler's atrocities in Eastern Europe on his courage and his wits—skills that served him well in peacetime. Having turned a struggling Berlin newspaper into a succe… |
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Speckle the spider
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Emma Dodson |
Speckle's love of dance leads him to leave his home in the Bahamas, where he feels underappreciated, and travel the world in search of fame but the attention he finally gets is not what he had in min… |
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Master of the Game
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Sidney Sheldon |
**One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered… |
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The female persuasion
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Meg Wolitzer,Laura Vidal Sanz |
Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women… |
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Little diva
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LaChanze |
Nena wants to be a Diva, with a capital D, just like her mommy, who's a star on Broadway. So she learns all she can about singing and dancing when she is at the theater and trains day and night to ma… |
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Farther
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Grahame Baker-Smith |
Tells the story of a father who dreamed of being able to fly and how that dream was passed on to future generations.
When a father who dreams of flying goes off to war and does not return, his son d… |
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Ego is the Enemy
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Ryan Holiday |
Many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego. Early in our careers, it impedes learning and the cultivati… |
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The strays
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Emily Bitto |
On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia … |
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