Jewish Wisdom for Business Success: Lessons from the Torah and Other Ancient Texts


Levi Brackman - 2008
    Yet only the smartest and most successful business professionals take advantage of these powerful collections of advice. Using real-world business situations as illustrative examples, this book reveals a four-thousand-year-old blueprint for success.Readers will find practical insights on:conquering fear - harnessing will power - removing ego from the equation - mas-tering negotiation techniques - dealing with failure - utilizing spiritual entre-preneurship - harvesting the power of positivity - and finding the right balance of character traits to succeed in any career or business ventureThe ancient Jewish writings contain a breadth of knowledge anyone can use, in business and in life. This enlightening and practical guide gives readers the direction they need to make it work for them.

LORDS of LOVE


A.J. Blue - 2014
    More than 700 pages of thrills, humor and sensual reading pleasure from the bestselling author A.J. Blue. …Liam studies me over the rim of his coffee cup. “You could stay here for a bit,” he suggests. “What?” I am stunned. Marcus looks at Liam in surprise. “How’s that supposed to work?” “Same way it always does,” Liam replies. “Could turn out quite interesting. You like her, I like her and Alex isn’t picky.” I glare at the three of them. “What exactly is going on here?” “We often have ladies here for a few weeks. In exchange for certain services,” Marcus explains with an expression that makes me shudder. “What kind of services?” I pant, hoping the answer won’t be the obvious. “The ladies live with us and we pay them handsomely. In exchange they have sex with us. Only if they want to, of course.” Liam’s blue eyes are firmly fixed on me while he explains. I jump right up and spill my coffee in the process. “Are you nuts? Do I look like a hooker?” … It’s her 29th birthday when Kate’s life is suddenly falling to pieces. Dumped by her boyfriend and fired from her job, she decides to spend the night in a bar. There, she unexpectedly meets an attractive and charismatic young man called Liam along with his two friends. After a few drinks the three men offer her to spend the night in the guestroom of the apartment they share. What appears to be a nice gesture soon turns out to have a hidden agenda. The three men regularly pay women to live in their apartment and to render certain services. Is Kate going to accept Liam’s immoral proposal? Readers’ Comments: "An absolute must for every fan of this genre and everybody else as well." "The author is a master of erotic literature. I especially like her style of writing – never boring or elongated. Everything harmonizes perfectly from beginning to end." "One of the best sensual novels I've ever read, and there have been many." Complete Edition: Lords of Love (Penthouse of Pleasure).

Best Seller


Martha Reynolds - 2014
    "Everything can be fixed by writing a check." Words to live by for Robin Fortune's wealthy father, until he can't buy her way back into college after she's expelled for dealing pot. Now he chooses not to speak to her anymore, but that's just one of the out-of-whack situations Robin's facing. At nineteen, she feels rudderless, working in a diner by day and sleeping with a buddy from high school by night - all so strange for her because she was always the one with the plan. While her college friends plotted how to ensnare husbands, she plotted a novel, which she scratched out into a series of spiral-bound notebooks she hides in the closet. But now, there's nothing. No vision, no future, no point. In fact, the only thing she feels she has to look forward to is that her favorite author, Maryana Capture, is paying a visit to the local Thousand Words bookstore. Robin surmises that if she can convince Maryana to help her get her novel published, she'll finally get herself back on track. Except that life never takes a straight path in this intensely satisfying coming-of-age novel.

Wild by Cheryl Strayed - A 30-minute Chapter-by-Chapter Summary


Instaread Summaries - 2014
    We read every chapter and summarize it in one or two paragraphs so you can get the information contained in the book at a much faster rate. This is an InstaRead Summary of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed. Below is a preview of the earlier sections of the summary: Prologue The year is 1995. Cheryl, the narrator and author of the story, explains that she was 26 years old when at the lowest point of her life she began her solo trek on the Pacific Crest Trail. She describes the trail as being 2,663 miles long and two feet wide, stretching from Mexico to Canada and including nine mountain ranges. She has embarked on her journey just 38 days before in an effort to find herself. As she stops to rest at the peak of a mountain, one of her hiking boots tumbles away down the mountain and into some trees far below. Realizing the other is of no use to her anymore, she tosses it out into the trees as well. She reflects on her situation and decides that though she is alone, battered and bruised, shoeless, and at least days from the next supply stop, she must walk on. Part One: The Ten Thousand Things Chapter One: The Ten Thousand Things Cheryl reflects on when her journey actually began and decides that it truly began a over four years ago, on the day that she had learned her forty-five year-old mother was going to die of advanced stage lung cancer. She recalls being at the Mayo clinic with her mother and stepfather on the day of the diagnosis and cursing the smaller town doctors that had given the same diagnosis in the weeks leading up to the visit to Mayo.  She had wanted them to be wrong. Angry at her absent older sister and younger brother, and refusing to believe that her extremely health-conscious, non-smoking mother could possibly have cancer, she argues with the doctor, then crumbles at the news that her mother has a year, at most, to live. She describes the deep love and devotion of her mother to her and her two siblings. Pregnant at nineteen, her mother had married her father only to find out within three short days that he was brutal and abusive. Her mother left him several times, but not permanently until she was twenty-eight years old. A single mother of three, her mother worked all the time, but never seemed to get ahead. She sugar-coated poverty for her children, making games out of their plight and dating an interesting slew of men. Her mother finally met Eddie, a man eight years her junior, and he married her and took on the roles of husband and father with ease. After a disabling accident and settlement, the couple bought forty acres of land an hour and half from Duluth, Minnesota...

Breaking Point


Aric Davis - 2013
    Ken Richmond hits his breaking point when he puts a gun to his head and pulls the trigger. When his plan misfires—literally—he interprets the failed suicide as his calling to a higher purpose. Fueled by long-simmering hatred, Ken sets out on a murderous mission—but in order to get away with it, he’ll have to leave a trail of blood through the city.Detectives Dick Van Endel and Phil Nelson start chasing Ken toward a special spot in hell. But can the detectives put an end to the fiend’s sprees for good, before more bodies pile up?

When Money Destroys Nations: How Hyperinflation Ruined Zimbabwe, How Ordinary People Survived, and Warnings for Nations that Print Money


Philip Haslam - 2015
    The warning signs are clear, and the collapse of the Zimbabwean dollar in 2009 after years of rampant money printing is a frightening example of what lies in store for the world's economies if painful, but necessary, reform is not enacted soon. When Money Destroys Nations tells the gripping story of the disintegration of the once-thriving Zimbabwean economy and how ordinary people survived in turbulent circumstances. Analysing this case within a global context, Philip Haslam and Russell Lamberti investigate the causes of hyperinflation and draw ominous parallels between Zimbabwe and the world's developed economies. The looming currency crises and possible hyperinflation in these major economies, particularly the United States, have the potential to turn the current world order upside down. Zimbabwe's lessons must not be ignored. This is the story of When Money Destroys Nations.

Recession-Proof Real Estate Investing: How to Survive [and Thrive!] During Any Phase of the Economic Cycle


J. Scott - 2019
    After the crash, many real estate investors lost everything they’d worked so hard to achieve—but not every investor suffered that fate. Even during the worst parts of the downturn, some real estate professionals were able to grow and scale their businesses. Not only did they come out the other side unscathed, but they also created a better financial situation than ever before. In Recession-Proof Real Estate Investing, accomplished investor J Scott dives into the theory of economic cycles and the real-world strategies for harnessing them to your advantage. With a glossary of terms, articulate visuals, and clear instructions for every type of investor, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to make money during all of the market’s twists and turns. Inside, you'll discover: The basics behind how our economy works and how to make it work for you The four major phases of the economic cycle: Expansion, Peak, Recession, Recovery How to know when economic shifts are likely to occur and strategies to withstand those impending changes The positive and negative impacts the economic cycle has on real estate investing and businesses Strategies to continue to profit and grow your business during every point in the economic cycle Multiple strategies to modify your investing tactics—not only to survive economic downturn, but to also thrive!

How Money Works: Stop being a SUCKER


Tom Mathews - 2019
    The few who know how money works take advantage of those who do not - the suckers. This book is designed to help you break the cycle of endless debt, foolish spending and financial cluelessness so you can stop being a sucker, start being a student and take control of your financial future.

Rock Retirement: A Simple Guide to Help You Take Control and be More Optimistic About the Future


Roger Whitney - 2017
    Traditional retirement advice usually boils down to saving more, sacrificing more, and settling for less. This approach makes people dependent on systems outside their control, such as the market, economy, and investment returns. The result: people lose power over determining their life. What sets Rock Retirement apart is its holistic approach to helping people take back control and act intentionally towards the life they want. It addresses the fears, hopes, and dreams that people have about retirement, goes way beyond the numbers, and shows them how to balance living well today and tomorrow.

Live It, Love It, Earn It: A Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom


Marianna Olszewski - 2009
    Strapped-for-cash beginnings motivated her to strive for abundance and financial independence-goals she exceeded by age thirty as the founder of a multimillion-dollar business.Now she reveals the lessons she learned and the savvy strategies of other amazing women like designer Diane von Furstenberg and Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn. She shows how to: Say Yes to Yourself: Turn toward people and situations that enhance your well-being, and away from those that don't. Fall in Love with Your Money: When you treat your money with respect, keep track of it, and spend and save wisely, your money will always love you back. Act as If: Start your transformation by acting as if you already are as successful, intelligent, and prosperous as you want to be.

Introducing The Icarus Family: The Origin Story


Sage Young - 2021
    Will they ever be able to lead normal lives? Or has evil already corrupted them?After their parents and sister are killed, they flee Russia, looking to start a new life in America. They begin working for a Russian Mob family, and soon realize that they want very different things out of life. Dimitri wants nothing more than to live happily with the woman he fell in love with.And he does. For a little while.Dimitri and his wife start a family and fill their home with happy, healthy sons. They started an incredibly successful business, and best of all, they’re happy. Nicholas, however, has chosen a different path. That of a crime boss.But envy begins to grow in Nicholas. And soon, the brothers find that not even blood can save them from the evil within Nicholas’s heart...FOR MATURE READERS ONLY 18+!There are several triggers in this book.

Obedience in Finances


Kenneth E. Hagin - 1983
    Learn the importance of obedience to God's Word in planting seed for finances.

Beginning Magic Money: A Course in Creating Abundance, Book One (Magic Money Books 1)


Holly Alexander - 2017
     This book shares my simple Magic Money Philosophy and the steps needed to go from striving to thriving, from lack to abundance. If you’re like me, you watched The Secret, attended seminars, and studied every other new-age and new-thought authors and teachers, but with little success. Eventually, I combined the different advice I’d received and started to develop what I’ve nicknamed "Magic Money." But don’t get me wrong—this isn’t the woo-woo, Law of Attraction stuff you’ve heard before. Magic Money is practical prosperity that, when you practice it, works like a charm. And, it usually starts within 24 hours! Once I started thinking, saying, and doing a series of practical actions on a consistent basis, I have never been without exactly what I needed. This Course shares everything I’ve discovered, including the exact process I used, and continue to use, to this day. Many people fail at engaging in new ideas because they try to do everything all at one. I know from experience that taking small steps consistently over time is the true secret to success. Each book carefully takes you down your own path from lack to abundance with simple, easy to do action steps that make sense. • Book One of this course, Beginning Magic Money, includes a 30-day Experiment. This experiment will eliminate your doubt once and for all. You’ll prove to yourself, once and for all, there is an abundance of everything you want and need (including money) available to you. • In Book Two, Advanced Magic Money, I share next-level techniques and instructions for activating magic money into your life—along with money, clients, goods, services, and opportunities. You’ll know how to allocate your money to activate your own stream of magic money, now and forever. • Finally, in Magic Money Mastery, Book Three in the series, I’ll share my extra-special, high-level advice for how to effortlessly expand your abundance until your every desire and whim is granted almost instantaneously. Scroll up and get your copy of Beginning Magic Money and start your own flow of abundance today!

An Average Joe's Pursuit for Financial Freedom: Change Your Perception of Money


Michael Warren Munsey - 2014
    The reason there is such a discrepancy between the wealthy and the poor is due to the difference in the way money is perceived. We are not born with the ability to maintain wealth: it is something that is learned. The knowledge of knowing how to make money work to generate passive income is something that anyone can learn as long as they are disciplined. An Average Joe’s Pursuit for Financial Freedom is based on practical concepts and discusses the problems that the majority of us face with our personal finance. The concepts in this book are based on theory by an author that practices what he writes about.

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future


Chris Guillebeau - 2012
      Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth – he’s already visited more than 175 nations – and yet he’s never held a “real job” or earned a regular paycheck.  Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back.    There are many others like Chris – those who’ve found ways to opt out of traditional employment and create the time and income to pursue what they find meaningful.  Sometimes, achieving that perfect blend of passion and income doesn’t depend on shelving what you currently do.  You can start small with your venture, committing little time or money, and wait to take the real plunge when you're sure it's successful.   In preparing to write this book, Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $100 or less), and from that group he’s chosen to focus on the 50 most intriguing case studies.  In nearly all cases, people with no special skills discovered aspects of their personal passions that could be monetized, and were able to restructure their lives in ways that gave them greater freedom and fulfillment.   Here, finally, distilled into one easy-to-use guide, are the most valuable lessons from those who’ve learned how to turn what they do into a gateway to self-fulfillment.  It’s all about finding the intersection between your “expertise” – even if you don’t consider it such -- and what other people will pay for.  You don’t need an MBA, a business plan or even employees.  All you need is a product or service that springs from what you love to do anyway, people willing to pay, and a way to get paid.   Not content to talk in generalities, Chris tells you exactly how many dollars his group of unexpected entrepreneurs required to get their projects up and running; what these individuals did in the first weeks and months to generate significant cash; some of the key mistakes they made along the way, and the crucial insights that made the business stick.  Among Chris’s key principles: if you’re good at one thing, you’re probably good at something else; never teach a man to fish – sell him the fish instead; and in the battle between planning and action, action wins.   In ancient times, people who were dissatisfied with their lives dreamed of finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or streets paved with gold.  Today, we know that it’s up to us to change our lives.  And the best part is, if we change our own life, we can help others change theirs.  This remarkable book will start you on your way.