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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The ghost tree
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Barbara Erskine |
"Before you follow the path into your family's history, beware of the secrets you may find. Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile. Left rootless by the death of her estranged fathe… |
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A perfect ambition
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Kevin Leman |
"The firstborn son of the powerful Worthington family has been groomed for political power since his first breath. Will family secrets keep him from getting there?" -- |
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Being Billy
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Dianne Wolfer |
Billy loved his big brother, Andrew, and when they were together, Billy forgot he was different. After Andrew went away to high school, their relationship changed until the discovery of Billy's actin… |
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Ambition, Glory and Giving Your All
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R. T. Kendall |
xix, 140 pages ; 20 cm |
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Fierce King
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Sadie Kincaid |
Today is my wedding day.
In a few breathless moments, I will be Mrs Alejandro Montoya.
He is the King of L.A, and everything a woman could want. Handsome, powerful, rich, and hotter than hell its… |
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American dreams, lost and found
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Studs Terkel |
Presents 100 interviews with a cross section of American people, both famous and non-famous, who discuss their personal lives and ambitions. |
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Little Toot
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Hardie Gramatky |
Little Toot the tugboat conquers his fear of rough seas when he single-handedly rescues an ocean liner during a storm. |
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Jude the Obscure
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Thomas Hardy |
Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of individuals who are trapped by forces beyond their control. Jude Fawley, a poor vill… |
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Ambitious men
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Srully Blotnick |
338 p. ; 24 cm |
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Le rouge et le noir
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Stendhal |
The story of an ambitious youth without birth or fortune in France in the 19th century. |
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The third child
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Marge Piercy |
Under her mother's constant scrutiny and lost in the shadow of her famous senator father, Melissa is the third child in the politically prominent Dickenson family, where ambition comes first and Meli… |
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