| The Scarlet Letter
| The classic American story of Hester Prynne, accused of adultery, ostracized by her Puritan community, and abandoned by both her lover and her husband. The story opens in Puritan Boston, a settlement only fifteen or twenty years old. A young woman stands on a scaffold clasping a three-month-old baby. As a married woman with a missing husband and a new baby, Hester Prynne could have been sentenced to death for the crime of adultery. Instead she is condemned to always wear the letter A as a bad...More
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| Steve Jobs
| FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and fer...More
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| Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success
| This is the eBook version of the printed book.Once, there was a remarkable person who led with love. Her company succeeded where its competitors struggled. Its customers were loyal, its employees loved to work there, and it was profitable year after year, for decades. This loving leader began her career as an executive secretary, yet the company's founder chose her to succeed him as president. When asked why, he said, "Because she knows how to love people to success." She is Colleen Barrett, Pre...More
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| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
| In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
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| Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality (FT Press Science)
| This is the eBook version of the printed book.Every day, we all size up each other: It's one of the most important things we ever do. Making Sense of People provides the scientific frameworks and tools we need to improve our intuition, and assess people more consciously, systematically, and effectively. Leading neuroscientist Samuel H. Barondes explains the research behind each standard personality category: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. He sh...More
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| Presentations in Action: 80 Memorable Presentation Lessons from the Masters
| This is the eBook version of the printed book.World-renowned presentation coach Jerry Weissman has spent 20 years helping top executives succeed in the most important business presentations of their lives. Here’s what he’s learned: the best way to get his message across is to show his techniques in action. Weissman does just that: he teaches how to make spectacularly successful presentations by showing exactly how great presenters have done it. Weissman dives into his library of outstanding ...More
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| Persuasion: Library Edition
| At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, "Persuasion" is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, i...More
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| Letters of a Woman Homesteader
| Elinore Stewart was a homesteader in southwestern Wyoming. These letters tell her story. The preface beautifully summarized the book as follows: "The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. Later, seeking to better herself, she accepted employment as a housekeeper f...More
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| Northanger Abbey
| [This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] Jane Austen's first major novel, a parody of the popular literature of the time, is an ironic tale of the romantic folly of men and women in pursuit of love, marriage, and money. The humorous adventures of young Catherine as she encounters ''the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks' residence in Bath'' lead to some of Austen's most brilliant social satire. There is Catherine's hilarious liaison with a paragon of bad manners and boastfulness, her di...More
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| The Call of the Wild (Classic Collection (Brilliance Audio))
| Jack London's stories are classic American favorites. Recorded unabridged in Bookcassette Audio are "Call of the Wild" and three special Klondike stories: "To Build a Fire", "Love of Life" and "To the Man on the Trail". In "Call of the Wild", a domestic dog is kidnapped from his comfortable life on a California estate and thrown into the wild north woods. Buck, half St. Bernard and half Scottish shepherd, is a strong dog but not accustomed to the harsh life of the north and he must fight for ...More
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| Moneyball
| “You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy . . . and incisiveness of [Moneyball]. Lewis has hit another one out of the park.” —Janet Maslin, New York TimesBilly Beane, the Oakland A’s general manager, is leading a revolution. Reinventing his team on a budget, he needs to outsmart the richer teams. He signs undervalued players whom the scouts consider flawed but who have a knack for getting on base, scoring runs, and winning g...More
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| The Secret of Letting Go (The Effortless Path to Inner Success!)
| Discover the unthinkable greatness waiting within you! You've felt its powerful presence ... you know it's there ... a higher and fully conscious dimension of yourself which has never known defeat. This is your True Nature, the part of you that knows each horizon beyond your reach today is really the threshold of a pathway to breakthrough tomorrows - a pathway to inner success you can begin to tread right now. The Secret of Letting Go reveals the ageless, proven gateway to these vast new horizon...More
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| Manifesto of the Communist Party
| Check out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, free audiobook download link at the end of the book, navigable Table of Contents, and are fully formatted. Browse our library collection by typing in ngims or ngims plus the title you're looking for, e.g. ngims Gulliver's Travels.Free ebooks on the web are not organized for easy reading, littered with text errors and often have missing contents. You will not find another ...More
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| How To Win Friends and Influence People
| • One of the best known motivational books in history: Since it was released in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 15 million copies. Carnegie’s first book is timeless and appeals equally to business audiences, self-help audiences, and general readers alike..• Proven advice for success in life: Carnegie believed that most successes come from an ability to communicate effectively rather than from brilliant insights. His book teaches these skills by showing read...More
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| Critical Thinking Strategies for Success (Collection)
| A brand new collection of critical thinking strategies for better decisions and greater success …now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!3 great books help you think more clearly about any problem—and transform better thinking into better results—in business, and in life!Three remarkable books help you think more clearly, flexibly, effectively—and transform better thinking into better personal and business performance! Critical Thinking: Tools for Ta...More
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| Outliers: The Story of Success
| In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way h...More
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| Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition
| This is the eBook version of the printed book. Thirty million presentations will be given today. Millions will fail. Millions more will be received with yawns. A rare few will establish the most profound connection, in which presenter and audience understand each other perfectly…discover common ground… and, together, decide to act. In this fully updated edition, Jerry Weissman, the world’s #1 presentation consultant, shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences...More
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| Interview answers (52 Brilliant Ideas)
| Interview answers is unlike the majority of interview techniques books because it steers clear of blindingly obvious advice such as not to wear track-suit bottoms or turn up drunk to your interview, and instead provides a way into the mind of the interviewer so that you can spot the likely questions and know how to answer them differently depending on the perspective of the interviewer.
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| Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1)
| Storm Front Unabridged CD-MP3 Audio Written By Jim Butcher Read By James Marsters/Spike of Buffy and Angel PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: YOUR CD PLAYER MUST BE MP3 COMPATIBLE TO PLAY THIS CD! MP3 audiobooks on compact disc can be played on CD players that support MP3 technology and on any personal computer that has Microsoft's Media Player or similar software My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I'm a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chic...More
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