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[2025]
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English
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"After working as head designer for Oscar de la Renta, Eugenia Ward started her own company when she turned forty, fourteen years ago. She is now a major name in evening gowns and wedding gowns, ready-to-wear and haute couture. But with the fashion business in major downturn, she has recently suffered heavy losses, and Eugenia desperately needs new investors—and new ideas. At the same time, she is the matriarch and guiding light for her five adult...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Set against four tumultuous decades of American history, For Richer, for Poorer is a spellbinding saga of betrayal and love . . . and one woman's quest for revenge The day a brutal massacre turns Bartonville into a battlefield, Kitty is living with her father in a shack owned by the town's most powerful family. When the bloodshed is over, the boy Kitty loves lies fatally wounded. But their child will live on. And Tyrone Duncannon's death will be avenged....
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Canongate Books
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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In September 2006, Victoria Coren won a million dollars on the European Poker Tour. In this, her long-awaited memoir, Coren tells the story of that victory, but also of a twenty-year obsession with the game. It is a journey which has taken Coren from a secret culture of illegal cash games to the high-stakes glamour of Las Vegas and Monte Carlo, and brought with it friendship, laughter and money, but also loneliness, heart-break and defeat. With disarming...
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Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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The Deveraux line is a family curse. The rich must marry the poor or lose their prosperity. Peter Baring is the last of the Deveraux and sinking slowly into poverty. But will marriage to his icy business partner save him? Beatrice Nottham dreams of leaving Earth for a fresh start. But only married couples are allowed to move off-world. Marrying a man she's unsure she loves will solve that at what cost? When Beatrice visits England to research her...
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Publisher:
Policy Press
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. This landmark book shows how, for 200 years, Britain's most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakened social resilience. Stewart Lansley reveals how Britain's model of 'extractive capitalism' - with a small elite securing an excessive slice of the economic...
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Natural disasters don't matter for the reasons we think they do. They generally don't kill a huge number of people. Most years more people kill themselves than are killed by Nature's tantrums. And, using standard measures like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) it is difficult to show that disasters significantly interrupt the economy. It's what happens after the disasters that really matters-when the media has lost interest and the last volunteer has handed...
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English
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4.8 stars
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From the glamorous San Francisco social scene of the 1920s, through war and the social changes of the '60s, to the rise of Silicon Valley today, this extraordinary novel takes us on a family odyssey that is both heartbreaking and inspiring, as each generation faces the challenges of their day. The Parisian design houses in 1928, the crash of 1929, the losses of war, the drug culture of the 1960s--history holds many surprises, and lives are changed...
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Pub. Date:
2011
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English
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A Harvard-trained economist's startling predictions reveal critical challenges in the decades ahead, helping individuals, businesses, and governments to make smarter decisions As individuals, companies, and countries struggle to recover from the economic crisis, many are narrowly focused on forecasts for the next week, month, or quarter. Yet they should be asking what the global economy will look like in the years to come-where will the long-term...
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New York in the late 1970s: Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble. Over the next thirty-plus years, though, it became a different place: kinder and meaner, richer and poorer, more like America and less like what it had always been. Dyja shows that this metamorphosis wasn't the work of a single policy, mastermind, or economic theory. Three New Yorks evolved in turn. After brutal...
16. Who Ya Wit'
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Who Ya Wit' volume 2
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English
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Full-figured diva Desa Rae Jenkins and her lover boy, Roc Dawson, have finally agreed to make their way down the aisle for better or worse, richer or poorer, and no mess whatsoever shall keep them apart. Several weeks before the long-awaited wedding, however, Desa Rae is confronted by a woman from the past who makes her aware of Roc's naughty nights in a place known as Hell House. The betrayal sends them back to what Desa Rae considers square one,...
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Publisher:
Howard J. Gunn
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"How To Save The Nation from Old Conservative Lies" is a political history review and analysis of our political environment. Our government institutions are making the "save" call to save our current "For the People" democracy model of governance. They look to be saved from the plutocracy model of history, where the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. The book covers our political successes and failures on the way to the 2024 elections. We put...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health." We say those words and mean them. Until we don't. This is a book about creating a different, better, new kind of marriage with the exact same person-no matter how dire the circumstances-with vision, commitment, and hope in the Lord. Remember those early days of love? When your heart felt all fluttery, and you saw your person through rose-colored glasses? They could do...
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Publisher:
Xlibris UK
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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This book is full of enlightenments, knowledge and wisdom; it also talks about injustices, mysteries and several questionable things in this world. This book is mainly written to reveal things that may help readers to overcome ignorants in life, it's also to help in knowledge increment especially about the reason why the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer, including several obnoxious laws that is politically or religiously forced...