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Dublin, 1937. A gang of movie-mad kids meet at the Grand Central Cinema on O'Connell Street and form a club to make their OWN films! Jem, Juno, Sylvie and friends are thrilled to meet world-famous child actress Dottie Bright. But they soon learn it's not always good to meet your heroes. Dottie is a spoiled brat. There's no way she is going to help them with their own film. But then danger strikes, and Dottie needs the gang to be her real-life heroes.

His whole life has been a story of hurt and rejection. Is one family’s love enough to turn it all around? Josh lost his parents in a drunk-driving accident and lost track of his two brothers after a tragic fire. By age eighteen, he is an angry young man who only wants a job, an apartment, and...

For centuries, scholars have speculated about a lost book of the Bible. No one has ever found it—until now. A few pieces of centuries-old parchment tucked inside a tattered book lead famed archaeologist Jonathan Weber and his wife Shannon to what could possibly be the greatest find in church...

“Well, he does have a good side.” “You know, it’s probably my fault.” “She’s had a rough life. I need to cut her some slack.” When you really care about someone, it’s easy to get stuck in painful, even destructive patterns—caving in to a spouse’s manipulation, ignoring a...

In this brand new addition to the No B.S. series, you'll learn how to build a business that you can sell for maximum wealth. Every business owner dreams of pursuing a successful, top-dollar exit that'll get them a seven- to eight- figure payday, but few ever achieve it. Those who do manage to sell their business are often bogged down by ruthless investment firms, BS valuation formulas, or their own poor business practices and systems. These stop business owners from getting the maximum amount of wealth that they can from their businesses. Don't be one of them!

This sound primer of basic economics tells all you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask about money, the market, prices, monopoly, competition, land, labor, capital, entrepreneurs, the Federal Reserve, and the distribution of wealth. For those desiring to educate themselves in economic...

‘If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.’ The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen’s writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. 

Bloomsbury presents The Kennedy Half-Century by Larry J. Sabato, read by Christopher Ragland. John F. Kennedy died almost half a century ago, yet because of his extraordinary promise and untimely death, his star still resonates strongly. On the anniversary of his assassination, celebrated...

WELCOME TO THE WOOFMORE, WHERE THE WATER BOWLS ARE ALWAYS FULL AND THERE'S KIBBLE ON EVERY PILLOW! The Woofmore is hosting its first fundraiser, and Rufus’s favorite comedian is scheduled to be the star perfurmer. Rufus can’t wait to help Ms. Coco raise money for the new dog park, and he’s...

From Sue Weldon, founder and CEO of Unite for HER and the national nonprofit's team of expert advisors, this is the essential, whole-person care guide for all affected by breast and ovarian cancer, including guidance on integrative therapies, nutritious food recipes, inspiring stories, and much...

In this panorama of the thirties, Frederick Lewis Allen combines an eye for the significant trivia of everyday existence with a facility for neatly dissecting the political monoliths of the era. Whether discussing the varieties of bathtub gin or elucidating Keynesian economics, Allen displays...

Stonewall Jackson was a military genius at once peculiar and perfect, a fearless soldier in battle but a God-fearing man who hesitated to kill on Sunday. He broke the rules of war to win, and yet his tactics are studied in military academies the world over. Burke Davis brings the color, vivid...

Pete Simon's all-American life was everything he had ever wished for: a good home, a satisfying career, and a marriage still strong and loving after nearly twenty years. But in the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, everything was about to change. It begins with the appearance...

Victoria Lord follows all the rules. Steve Solomon makes up his own. Steve Solomon is the sharpest lawyer ever to barely graduate from Key West School of Law. Victoria Lord is fresh from Yale, toiling for an ambitious DA, and soon to be married. And Katrina Barksdale is a sexy former figure...

An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, as well as his father's more personal violations, Jim Harrison's True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots. The scion of a family...

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own…" So begins The War of the Worlds, the science fiction classic that first proposed the possibility that...

In Getting Ahead, one of the top 50 executive coaches in the United States, Joel Garfinkle reveals his signature model for mastering three skills to take your career to the next level: Perception, Visibility, and Influence. The PVI-model of professional advancement will teach you to: (1) Actively promote yourself as an asset and valuable person inside the organization, (2) Increase your visibility to gain others' recognition and appreciation for your efforts and (3) Become a person of influence who makes key decisions inside the organization.

The bestselling cult classic on anti-theism 'Dazzling' Johann Hari 'Razor-sharp' Independent on Sunday 'Brilliant and fascinating' Irish Independent god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens...

AN AMAZON BESTSELLER IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS & ADMINISTRATION AN INGRAMSPARK BESTSELLER IN HEALTH POLICY Why do some ideas transform entire systems while others never spread? We celebrate startups for changing the world. We rarely ask how innovation happens inside government. Yet some of America's...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Join Axel the Axolotl on a thrilling Halloween adventure filled with mystery, friendship, courage, and spooky surprises. During Maplewood’s Halloween festival, Axel discovers an ancient map hidden in a pumpkin patch. What seems like an ordinary...