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""[A] beautifully multifaceted story... Highly recommended." -The New York Times Andrea Hairston's historical fantasy Will Do Magic for Small Change presents a tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other. Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But she's always been theatrically challenged. That won't necessarily stop her! But...
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Help people help themselves: That's the idea behind microcredit. Small loans-sometimes no more than $50-can radically improve the life of a poor family. Where development aid and billion-dollar loans fail, microcredit is emerging as the success story in the battle against world poverty. People who were previously considered "unbankable" no longer have to look to loan sharks for funding. With microcredit, they can become owners of small businesses....
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As we consider the plight of our consumer-driven economy, it is easy to forget that money is about relationship: between individuals and between communities. In our current financial mess, it is worth reminding ourselves of community-based alternatives, and to look, closely at microcredit, a model of peer lending, to enable people to move out of poverty. From Bangladesh, from South Africa, from Ghana, and from the East End of London, we are, given...
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A captivating 1-hour read on how to adopt a mindset of success both personally and professionally. A classic bestseller-over one million copies sold!
For fans of Brené Brown, Angela Duckworth, and Jack Canfield, 212º The Extra Degree, written by expert authors, Mac Anderson and Sam Parker, shows you how to change your life with a simple concept for success: At 211º, water is hot. At 212º, it boils. And with boiling water comes steam. And steam...
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Timothy Goes to School volume 3
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Nora doesn't like change. Today, everything is changing, her favorite shirt, her favorite breakfast, even Dad is repainting her room. Thankfully at Hilltop, nothing changes. However, when a surprise game of musical tables forces Nora to change her seat and sit next to Lilly, she learns new and interesting things, and begins to embrace change. / When it becomes clear that Charles enjoys spending time alone, he develops a reputation for being shy and...
87) The feel good effect: reclaim your wellness by finding small shifts in thinking create big changes
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Ten Speed Press
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[2020]
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"A radically easy, refreshingly sane, and ridiculously doable book that will shake up and simplify your health and wellness in the most necessary way -- from the host of the top-rated podcast The Feel Good Effect"--
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What if disrupting an industry doesn't have to happen with a big breakout idea but can unfold by making small, consistent changes?
The Game of Inches offers a revolutionary and sustainable plan for business success and innovation, one improvement at a time.
Entrepreneur Nigel Collin has tapped the wisdom and insight of more than 80 of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs and leaders to distill the surprising truth of what it really takes to...
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America's economy does not currently live up to our country's core values.
We are a nation founded on the ideals of coming together across differences to forge a common future. Yet, over the past fifty years, our economy has been, pulling us apart at unprecedented rates. By allowing top income earners and the wealthiest Americans to hoard wealth like almost never before, we belie what makes our country great. This is a threat to our well-being, our...
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Small Change Big Change is the follow up book to 'CrimeSon', the exceptionally popular autobiography by Justin Gardner. This remarkable book explores the fascinating financial journey that Justin has been on since finding God. Homeless at just 14 years old, Justin lived a criminal life until the age of 22, when he miraculously became a Christian. Justin was in debt, had no savings and had a poverty mindset. Justin is now a senior minister, author...
91) Small Change: A Casebook of Scherer and Miller, Investigators of the Paranormal and Supermundane
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While chain-smoking Roy Scherer might aspire to fill loafers better worn by Marlowe, Hammer and Spade, reality wears such a whim thin. His clients veer from immortal to monster-brow-beaten, and he's up against foes that howl at the moon, one case of Lazarus Syndrome, dismembered talking heads, and a vengeful Japanese spirit. Scherer's only allies? Ditzy, bookish assistant Suzie Miller, her gung-ho, mostly inebriated father Art, an ageless ballet dancer...
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Depression can feel like a downward spiral, pulling you into a vortex of sadness, fatigue, and apathy. In The Upward Spiral, neuroscientist Alex Korb demystifies the intricate brain processes that cause depression and offers a practical and effective approach to getting better. Based on the latest research in neuroscience, this book provides dozens of straightforward tips you can do every day to rewire your brain and create an upward spiral towards...
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S. hrg volume 114-617
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2017.
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La depresión puede sentirse como una espiral descendente, empujándolo hacia un vórtice de tristeza, fatiga y apatía. Basado en las últimas investigaciones en neurociencia, este audiolibro ofrece docenas de pequeñas cosas que puede hacer todos los días para reconfigurar su cerebro y crear una espiral ascendente hacia una vida más feliz y saludable. La depresión no ocurre de una vez. Empieza gradualmente y gana impulso con el tiempo. Si atraviesas...
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It's 1960, and the Axis powers dominate the world. Life goes on, because, as we see in "Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction," history is driven both by big events and by small temptations...
Following the appearance of her first two novels, The King's Peace and The King's Name, Jo Walton won the 2002 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Two years later she won the World Fantasy Award for Tooth and Claw. Her Small Change trilogy, comprising...
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Eight months ago Jude Lucen fled his partner, his career, and a hospital in Boston after a suicide attempt. Now back in Philadelphia, he feels like a complete failure. Piano has always been his passion and his only escape. Without it, he has nothing. Well, nothing except a pathetic crush on the most gorgeous man he's ever seen. Faron Locklear came to Philly looking for a fresh start and has thrown himself into tattooing at Small Change. He's only...