March 2006
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Fri 31 Mar 2006
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This mesmerizing, poetic novel won the 2003 National Book Award for fiction and has earned universal acclaim. Set against the beautiful but tragic landscape of post-World War II Asia, The Great Fire tells a sweeping tale of the search for new beginnings in a world ravaged by tragedy.
Thirty-two-year-old war hero Aldred Leith is in Japan to survey the Hiroshima devastation. His close friend and fellow veteran Peter Exley prosecutes Japanese war criminals in Hong Kong. Striving to rebuild lives shattered by war, both men reach critical turning points. Leith falls in love with a precocious and charming 17-year-old girl, while Exley faces a decision that will forever alter his path.
Author Shirley Hazzard’s first novel in more than 20 years, The Great Fire is an elegant and beautifully crafted story that resonates long past the final word.
Tags: the great fire, shirley hazzard, fiction, hiroshima, japan, hong kong, wwii
Thu 30 Mar 2006
Can you spare three hours to learn how to beat the market? As unlikely as it may seem, hedge fund manager and professor Joel Greenblatt, whose investment firm has averaged 40% annual returns for over 20 years, can teach you how. You can achieve investment returns that beat the pants off even the best investment professionals and the top academics. In fact, you can learn how it’s possible to more than double the annual returns of the stock market averages.
But there’s more. You can do it all by yourself. You can do it with low risk. You can do it without making any predictions, and you can do it by following, step by step, a time-tested, proven “magic formula” that uses only common sense and two simple concepts. Best of all, once you are convinced that it really works, you can choose to do it for the rest of your life.
A runaway best seller even before it was published, The Little Book That Beats the Market shows how successful investing can be made easy for investors of any age. It’s never too early or too late to start investing, and with Greenblatt as your guide you’ll know exactly where to go and what to do. By following the clearly outlined simple steps and magic formula, you can achieve extraordinary long-term investment results with a very low level of risk.
Tags: the little book that beats the market, joel greenblatt, business, self development, stock market, investing, investment, value investing
Wed 29 Mar 2006
In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family’s dignity. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose house is all she has left, and who refuses to let her hard-won stability slip away from her. Sheriff Lester Burdon, a married man who finds himself falling in love with Kathy, becomes obsessed with helping her fight for justice.
Drawn by their competing desires to the same small house in the California hills and doomed by their tragic inability to understand one another, the three converge in an explosive collision course. Combining unadorned realism with profound empathy, House of Sand and Fog marks the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction.
Tags: house of sand and fog, andre dubus iii, education, fiction, parents & family, students, oprah’s book club
Tue 28 Mar 2006
In The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach shares the secret to becoming a millionaire.
The Automatic Millionaire starts with the powerful story of an average American couple (he’s a low-level manager, she’s a beautician), whose joint income never exceeds $55,000 a year, who somehow manage to own two homes debt-free, put two kids through college, and retire at 55 with more than $1 million in savings. Through their story you’ll learn the surprising fact that you cannot get rich with a budget! You must have a plan to pay yourself that is totally automatic, a plan that will automatically secure your future and pay for your present.
What Makes The Automatic Millionaire unique:
You don’t need to make a lot of money
You don’t need a budget
You don’t need willpower
You don’t need to be that interested in money
You can set up the plan in an hourThis one little audiobook has the power to secure your financial future. Do it once, the rest is automatic!
Tags: the automatic millionaire: a powerful one-step plan to live and finish rich, david bach, self development, a powerful one step plan to live and finish rich, retire, savings, debt, budget
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Mon 27 Mar 2006
FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family at Disneyland when he gets a call from the Director. A well-known actress was shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail describing the murder in vivid detail. Alex quickly learns that this is not an isolated incident. The killer, known as Mary Smith, has done this before and plans to kill again. Right from the beginning, this case is like nothing Alex has ever confronted. Is this the plan of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or is it part of something much more frightening? And particularly baffling, how could a woman be capable of these vicious crimes? Members of Hollywood’s A-list fear they’re next on Mary’s list, and the case grows by blockbuster proportions as the LAPD and FBI scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send one more chilling update. Filled with the ruthless and shocking twists that make his fans hunger for more, Mary, Mary is James Patterson’s most sophisticated thriller yet.
Tags: mary, mary, james patterson, mysteries & thrillers, murder, beverly hills, serial killer
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