What Goes Around


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Two girls. Two secrets. Two gritty, critically acclaimed novels in one. For Parker, perfection is all that matters. No one will know how wrong she is inside if everything she does ends up right. But when the pressure proves too much, she makes a devastating mistake she'll do anything to keep hidden—even if it means becoming a perfect mess. For Regina, popularity comes with a price. When she's kicked out of her clique, she finds out what it's like to be those she's bullied and destroyed. Everyone says she has it coming . . . but is there something they don't know? There is more to these two girls than meets the eye. With unflinching honesty and a razor sharp voice, Courtney Summers brings the tensions of high school terrifyingly alive in What Goes Around.




What Goes Around Comes Around


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You can be the master of your own fate. Learn why the title of this book, a concept that has been referred to in various ways over the ages, is actually a law of physics, no different than gravity or electricity or the turning of the tides. Gain understanding of how it places in your own hands the key to either successful living, or a life of regret for you and the those closest to you. Grasp how you can make it operate to your benefit and that of your loved ones, rather than your and their detriment, how it works and how it can work for you. It has been confusing and confounding people for as long as there have been people. The answer has been right there in front of us, yet so tricky in the human expression, to clearly discern, describe and explain. Until now that is For some reason, whatever it may be, you've come to the right place and I'm truly glad you made it. Read this illuminating book to learn why.







What Goes Around Comes Around


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What Goes Around Comes Around follows the adventures of Brian McNulty, the red-diaper-baby bartender who (abetted by his father and son) attempts to keep Manhattan's crime solved and cocktail glasses brimming. Filling in for a friend at the fancy East Side saloon and eatery called The Ocean Club, McNulty finds more than he bargained for: a body floating in the East River. Combining complex characters with strikingly offbeat perspectives on left versus right, old versus new, and the good guys versus the bad guys, What Goes Around Comes Around is the stunning follow-up to Lehane's series debut.




What Goes Around Comes Around


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What Goes Around Comes Around


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A historical study of the Federal Music Project (FMP) investigates the paradoxical mission of employing popular musicians during the depression and "raising" musical tastes by emphasizing European classical traditions. Bindas (history, Kent State U.) reveals the obvious tensions between FMP leadership and its musicians, particularly the racial and ethnic segregation perpetuated by its policies. However, in an even-handed treatment, the project's successes in bringing music to millions of listeners is also highlighted. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




Karmic Management


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Readable in fifty-eight minutes: Traditional Eastern wisdom and real-life business experience come together in this brief and practical guide, which offers a step-by-step plan that will help readers adopt a more successful way of working and living. KARMIC MANAGEMENT is a little book with a revolutionary message. It turns traditional business mentality on its head by stating simply that helping others become successful—suppliers, customers, even competitors—is the real key to success in life as well as in business. Drawing from their own entrepreneurial experiences, the authors explain how, in eight basics steps that take less than one hour in total, readers can learn to apply KARMIC MANAGEMENT to meet goals, both personal and professional. Each lesson opens with a quotation from a Buddhist text and explains how it applies to life and work in the twenty-first century. The authors show readers how to identify the things that aren’t working for them, discover their most valuable assets, and use their new insights to improve the lives of others. To-do lists throughout the book provide practical tools and exercises, and real-life examples highlight the power of KARMIC MANAGEMENT to make dreams come true.







What Goes Around


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When the body of bored housewife and high-priced call girl Ginger Pass is found outside the most exclusive men's club in California, the other members of her self-help group—Polly, Kat, Charlotte, Dinah, and Justine—are convinced it was foul play. Determined to find a way to prove it, they track down the trio of rich, powerful men they know are responsible for their friend's death. Hidden behind walls of money, connections, and respectability, these men seem to be untouchable. But like Robin Hood's merry men, King Arthur's knights, and the Girl Scouts rolled into one, the adventurous and brave quintet of women will risk everything to bring these men down. They know what will happen if they fail. But Polly, Kat, Charlotte, Dinah, and Justine don't count on the ways their lives will change when they succeed. What goes around comes around . . . and Ginger's friends may finally get the lives they most want.




Circle


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When recent divorcee Kate Whitny meets her new financial advisor, Frannie Herron, they each have serious doubts about the other. Kate, an astrology expert and yoga enthusiast, is spiritual and whimsical. Frannie, an expert in investments, is pragmatic and grounded. A snowstorm strands Kate, a New Jersey resident, in New York City after a meeting with Frannie. The hotels are either full or beyond affordable, and Frannie offers Kate her apartment's guest bed, launching their odd couple friendship. The sting of past painful relationships is their first common bond. Adapting to life as a single has its challenges for Kate, but more than anything, she wants to make her own money and prove she has what that takes. Frannie realizes the only way she'll ever truly move on from a humiliating event in her past is to find a way to exact revenge. Together, they hatch a plan that takes them half way around the world. Through the ups and downs of single life, online dating, and dealing with dreadful in-person dates, the two of them influence and change each other until, one day, they realize they've come full circle and have, at last, attracted what they wanted.