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With the help of industrialist Andrew Carnegie, the author of this remarkable book spent two decades interviewing hundreds of people renowned for their wealth and achievement. Napoleon Hill's all-time bestseller in the personal success field offers priceless advice on positive thinking and overcoming adversity by distilling the collective wisdom of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, and other successful figures from the worlds of finance,...
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Series
Junie B. Jones volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Lucille invites Junie B. and her friend Grace to sleep over at her very rich nanna's house, where everything is beautiful, expensive, and breakable.
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English
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Over the last two years, Tim Ferriss has collected the routines and tools of world-class performers around the globe while interviewing them for his self-titled podcast. Now the distilled notebook of tips and tricks that helped him double his income, flexibility, happiness, and more is available as Tools of Titans.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"You can baby step your way to becoming a millionaire. Most people know Dave Ramsey as the guy who did stupid with a lot of zeros on the end. He made his first million in his twenties-the wrong way-and then went bankrupt. That's when he set out to learn God's ways of managing money and developed the Ramsey Baby Steps. Following these steps, Dave became a millionaire again-this time the right way. After thirty years and millions of lives changed, the...
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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 685 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns and shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities. He argues, however, that the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth will generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values...
Author
Series
Inheritance Games volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
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English
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"When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success...
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Thanks to a DNA test, Avery Grambs knows that she is not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. Grayson and Jameson, the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions. Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons ... and there are those who will stop at nothing...
11) We were liars
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Series
We Were Liars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
13) Juniors
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lea Lane must navigate a complex web of friendships and relationships after she and her mother move into the guest cottage of a fabulously wealthy family in Honolulu.
14) Closed casket
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Series
Hercule Poirot volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 302 pages : 24 cm. map ;
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English
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"What I intend to say to you will come as a shock ..." With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford -- one of the world's most beloved children's authors -- springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will. As guests arrive for a party at her Irish mansion, Lady Playford has decided to cut off her two children without a penny . . . and leave her vast fortune to someone else: an invalid who has only weeks to live. Among Lady Playford's visitors...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a house party goes terribly wrong, a small town fractures along lines of privilege, exposing disturbing truths about the community, perfect for fans of Little Fires Everywhere and Ask Again, Yes"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--Provided by publisher.
17) Very rich
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Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Rupert, from a very large, very poor family, accidently becomes part of an eccentric rich family's life beginning at Christmas, and soon sees that wealth is not everything.
18) Robin Hood
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Series
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Reinforced library bound ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When evil Prince John tells the Sheriff of Nottingham to collect unreasonable taxes from the animals of Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood and his merry men wage a battle against their evil foes.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 430 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone and convincing the country...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune.