![]() ![]() It’s just bad luck that he’s kidnapped Jin’s daughter. The only way Jason can find the information they need is to pose as a high-rolling playboy romancing Jin’s daughter, so Jason kidnaps a rich girl so they can use the ransom to finance his wealthy disguise. ![]() Taiwan-born Jason and his international crew of friends believe the head of Jin Corp-and inventor of the suits-has been murdering anyone who agitates for cleaner air. Among the Taipei glitterati, Jason’s success rides on his successfully pulling off a disguise as a rich American new to Taiwan. He’s been poor his whole life, but now Jason’s living in luxury and wearing something only the ultrarich can afford: a Jin Corp suit and helmet, designed to keep Taiwan’s polluted air from touching his lungs. Jason’s been alone since his mother died of pneumonia when he was 13, just another casualty of the disease-ridden streets of polluted future Taipei. In a future Taiwan, street kid Jason Zhou disguises himself as one of the wealthy elite in order to take down a murdering CEO. ![]()
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One year after publication, the book ranks in the top 0.1% of all business books sold on with no sign of slowing down. Since publication, The Personal MBA has become an international bestseller, and is currently in the process of being translated for distribution in twelve languages. ![]() ![]() Accordingly, this edition contains updates based on two years of research. The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business was published in January of last year, so a dedicated 2011 edition of the reading list wasn’t published. This year’s update combines the 20 updates into a single edition. The 99 Personal MBA-recommended books will teach you everything you need to know about how to make more money, get more done, and have more fun in the process. The 2012 edition is the seventh edition of the reading list, and is the result of eight solid years of research. 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Annie, the matriarch of the influential Coles family, offers Gertrude employment at her sewing circle, while facing problems of her own at home. ![]() Retta, a first-generation freed slave, comes to Gertrude’s aid by watching her children, despite the gossip it causes in her community. ![]() Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters. ![]() It’s 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a crossroads. For readers of Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettable story of motherhood and womanhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, Mo Yan recreates a world defined by brutality and extends its horizons past wars and cultural revolutions the ultimate cruelty emerges as oblivion. The study objective was to evaluate the effects of the addition of exogenous protease on the fermentation and nutritive value of rehydrated corn and sorghum grain silages during various storage. Eventually, however, his emphasis on the ignoble becomes a protest against the universal tendency to idealize the past. At first Yan's insistence on graphic and gruesome descriptions and his interest in bodily functions make the novel rough going. Mo Yan turns these events over and over, introducing each a fragment at a time and exploring their significance as they pass from one character's experience into another's memory. Proudly recalling the heroic exploits of his grandparents, the first-person narrator begins the story of. Relating the story of a peasant family, the novel is about the hardships, love, hatred, and adventures of the peasants of Shandong. 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Who really killed her parents-and can she bear to know the truth? And each clue she unravels uncovers more secrets. Their search takes Emma from sea caves full of sorcery to a dark lottery where death is dispensed. All Emma, Mark, and Julian have to do is solve the murders within two weeks…and before the murderer targets them. This is Emma’s chance for revenge-and Julian’s chance to get back his brother Mark, who is being held prisoner by the faerie Courts. When the bodies of humans and faeries turn up murdered in the same way Emma’s parents were when she was a child, an uneasy alliance is formed. Shoulder to shoulder with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, she patrols the streets of Los Angeles, where vampires party on the Sunset Strip, and faeries-the most powerful of supernatural creatures-teeter on the edge of open war with Shadowhunters. Parabatai can be everything to each other-but they can never fall in love.Įmma Carstairs is a warrior, a Shadowhunter, and the best in her generation. ![]() In a secret world where half-angel warriors are sworn to fight demons, parabatai is a sacred word.Ī parabatai is your partner in battle. ![]() Also by this author: City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass ![]() |