[PDF] Bold Fortune eBook

Author : M. M. Crane
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593335376

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Opposites burn hot enough to melt the snow and ice of an Alaskan winter in this all-new series from USA Today bestselling author Megan Crane. Quinn Fortune is the official protector of all the unspoiled beauty in Lost Lake, Alaska, as the head of the community trust. A rugged frontiersman through and through, he doesn't do soft. But he can't help his fascination with the pink-clad professor who shows up in Lost Lake seeking his approval for her cheerful outsider’s proposal about land that isn’t hers. Still, he agrees to consider it—if she can handle a month of good old-fashioned Alaska living. He’s betting she’ll head back to the safety of the Lower 48 within the week. Violet Parrish is a thinker, not a doer, but desperate times call for extraordinary measures—like taking on the Alaskan wilderness. In January. Off the grid. With a mountain man hot enough to melt a glacier. The frozen Alaskan tundra should be no match for Violet’s determination, but the sheer immensity of the Last Frontier takes her by surprise—as does her attraction to gruff, impossibly handsome Quinn, and the unexpected heat that burns between them during the freezing Alaska nights…

Author : Lester C. Thurow
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0061743984

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Bestselling author and renowned economist Lester Thurow argues forcefully that globalization is not a done deal and we must seize the moment now if we are to create a new global economy in which all can prosper. In this new book, Thurow examines the newly–forming global economy, with a special focus on the role of the US and the dangers to our own national well–being. He examines such questions as: What's at stake for us in the global economy? Why is it important that the system be equitable and that other countries prosper along with us? What should our goals as a nation be – long term and short term? What are the tough choices that need to be made in our relationship with other countries and world regulatory bodies? What role should we be playing globally? What are the political, economic, social choices / tradeoffs we will have to confront? Thurow contends that the huge and growing US trade deficit poses grave dangers to the value of the dollar and is putting our own economy in jeopardy. As the world economy leaps national boundaries, its hallmark seems to be a rising instability and a growing inequality between the first and third worlds. Financial crises in the third world come ever more frequently and seem to be ever more severe. The first world economies seem to be in ever more frantic boom and bust cycles. Globalization causes riots throughout the world and is one factor in the rise of terrorism against the West. Thurow shows how some nations, including Ireland and China, have embraced the concept of globalization and placed themselves into a position to prosper with growing and productive national economies. He contrasts their positive actions with Japan, whose leaders have allowed the nation to drift into stagnation and have destroyed its prosperity. He argues that this is the time to choose globalization or be left behind, the time to "build a global economy that eliminates the defects," and he provides plenty of ideas for corporations, governments, economists, and citizens to act upon.

Author : James W. Walker
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Vietnam War, 1961-1975
ISBN : 9780804116008

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Born in England, James Walker was raised almost exclusively in an orphanage. After he joined the British army as a teen, his mother, living in the States, brought him to America. There he volunteered for the LRRP detachment of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. He soon became "Limey", the only British citizen in the 101st LRRPs. They were given every sort of assignment under the sun. Back in camp, nothing could diminish their reputation as hellraisers. Yet it was in Vietnam that Walker found everything he had ever searched for in the military: respect, camaraderie, loyalty, dedication and courage.

Author : Theodore Modis
Publisher : Ibidem Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783838211978

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In the early twentieth century, a teenage Greek girl in Constantinople loses both her parents and, together with her younger sister, gets thrown into a massive population exchange between Greece and Turkey. She ends up in a refugee camp in northern Greece. With determination she creates a life in her new country, becoming a teacher in a small mountain town near Greece's northwestern borders with Albania and Yugoslavia. She meets and marries a young lawyer from a historic and tragic Macedonian family. Her story extends through a century of war and peace and is peppered with likable characters, horrific events, and a love story. Among the protagonists are two strong women, a charming and indomitable man, and a smart but sickly kid. Now and again her drive, perseverance, and common sense will save the day and reward her with happiness, which nevertheless will come and go like interludes of sunshine in otherwise endlessly stormy weather. The reader will also get candid and authentic glimpses on poorly known historical conflicts such as the Balkan Wars, the world's greatest ethnic cleansing, the occupation loan that the Nazis exacted from Greece, the Greek Civil War, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, and the dispute over the use of the name Macedonia.

Author : Peter H. Diamandis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1476709580

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Bold is a radical how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions. A follow-up to the authors' Abundance (2012).

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Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1452152969

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A treasure trove of inspiring quotations in the tradition of the bestselling Whatever You Are, Be a Good One, this new ebook from beloved author and artist Lisa Congdon gathers rousing wisdom from history's great minds on how to be bold, stay strong, and take courage. Congdon lends her signature style of brilliant hand lettering to sage advice on such subjects as perseverance ("If you fell down yesterday, stand up today"—H.G. Wells), authenticity ("What should I be but just what I am?"—Edna St. Vincent Millay), and confronting fear ("Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced"—James Baldwin). Filled with uplifting reminders to seize the day, Fortune Favors the Brave demonstrates that when embarking on a new adventure, the right words of encouragement can be a priceless gift.

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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9781569713334

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Summer nights, water-balloon fights, young girls in ragged cutoffs, a good band tonight on Carnival Island, and a walk along the great midway starts out this wild story of an impending alien invasion during Flaming Carrot's summer vacation in Smallville. Flaming Carrot leads a rebellion of the Trekkies and Dr. Whovians that were duped into helping the spacemen build their beachhead here on Earth. Plus, an all-new Flaming Carrot text story!

Author : Alexandria Infante
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2018-12-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781791379223

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Jerri had no idea while on a writing binge at Starbucks she'd see an assassin, get kidnapped, then meet two of the hottest men she'd ever had the misfortune to see in her life. Why?All because she'd procrastinated for the last six months with her editor. Her bright idea...follow a hitman instead....Fortunately for Jerri...Adin Kitteridge is far from an assassin, but actually MI6. However, he has no time for the nosy yet gorgeous bint, but he can't just leave her either; due to the fact that Juan Ortega's men saw her following him. So, Adin does the next best thing, hands her off to his old CIA chum Noah Colson.Now both Adin's and Noah's one job...is to keep Ortega's men from making Jerrilinda Sofia Busigo...a permanent memory...

Author : Roselle Lim
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1984803255

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Lush and visual, chock-full of delicious recipes, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food, heritage, and finding family in the most unexpected places. At the news of her mother’s death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn’t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco’s Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She’s even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother’s restaurant. The neighborhood seer reads the restaurant’s fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother’s cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed. Unfortunately, Natalie has no desire to help them try to turn things around—she resents the local shopkeepers for leaving her alone to take care of her agoraphobic mother when she was growing up. But with the support of a surprising new friend and a budding romance, Natalie starts to realize that maybe her neighbors really have been there for her all along.

Author : M. M. Crane
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593335414

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The heat between them is enough to ward off the chilly Alaska weather conditions in the next Fortunes of Lost Lake novel from USA Today bestselling author M. M. Crane. Bowie Fortune has always liked a risky proposition. A bush pilot out in the Last Frontier, flying in and out of places that give most pilots nightmares is what he lives for. That and his off-the-grid home out by Lost Lake, where his family has been living up close with the elements for generations. When his sister dares him to participate in the local version of a mail-order bride contest, he’s not interested—but Bowie doesn’t back down from a challenge. Even when the challenge turns out to be a woman who makes him want every last thing he knows he shouldn’t. Entering a summer-long publicity stunt in far-off Alaska might seem extreme, but Autumn McCall has always had an indomitable spirit. She took care of her sisters and father after her mother died, and this is more of the same—since she intends to win the contest. Immersing herself in the pioneer lifestyle is one thing, but what she isn’t expecting is brooding, sharp-eyed Bowie with his wicked smile. As the sparks fly between them, will they burn each other alive—or learn how to simmer their way to a much bigger prize...together?