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"If you believe it's time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and Common Sense above all -- then I ask you to read this book...." In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. And they find commonsense solutions to the nation's problems. One... (more)

Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear

Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear

by Max Lucado

Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear. They're talking layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flare-ups in the Middle East, turnovers at headquarters, downturns in the housing market, upswings in global warming. The plague of our day, terrorism, begins with the word terror . Fear, it seems, has taken up a hundred-year lease on the building next door and set up shop. Oversized and rude, fear... (more)

For The Tough Times: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope

For The Tough Times: Reaching Toward Heaven for Hope

by Max Lucado

When we feel that life is out of control, He is in control. When tragedy strikes, people desperately search for answers. Believers and unbelievers alike find themselves turning to God. Best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado points to the only real answer to tragedy and crisis: Prayer. In For the Tough Times , Lucado helps us understand how to pray despite our doubt and fear.

The Great Bust Ahead: The Greatest Depression in American and UK History is Just Several Short Years Away. This is your Concise Reference Guide to Understanding Why and How Best to Survive It

The Great Bust Ahead: The Greatest Depression in American and UK History is Just Several Short Years Away. This is your Concise Reference Guide to Understanding Why and How Best to Survive It

by Daniel A. Arnold

The Great Bust Ahead is a concise, straight to the point short book laying out in stark terms the case for a coming depression of historically unprecedented magnitude. It will be worse than the 1930s, beginning nominally in 2012, but perhaps as early as 2009-2010 and lasting up to thirteen years. Centered on hard fact demographics, the book boldly claims that the data presented are so irrefutable, that the outcome... (more)

Tight Times (Picture Puffins)

by Trina Schart Hyman, Barbara Shook Hazen

A small boy, not allowed to have a dog because times are tight, finds a starving kitten in a trash can on the same day his father loses his job.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Book 4

The Battle of the Labyrinth

by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson isn’t expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse. In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the... (more)

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Transformation of America's Economy, Politics, and Society

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Transformation of America's Economy, Politics, and Society

by Robert J. Samuelson

It’s a giant gap in our history. The Great Inflation, argues award-winning columnist Robert J. Samuelson in this provocative book, was the worst domestic policy blunder of the postwar era and played a crucial role in transforming American politics, economy, and everyday life–and yet its story is hardly remembered or appreciated. In these uncertain economic times, it is more imperative than ever that we understand... (more)

Crash Proof

How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse

by Peter Schiff

The economic tipping point for the United States is no longer theoretical. It is a reality today. The country has gone from the world's largest creditor to its greatest debtor; the value of the dollar is sinking; domestic manufacturing is winding down - and these trends don't seem to be slowing. Peter Schiff casts a sharp, clear-sighted eye on these factors and explains what the possible effects may be and how... (more)

A Gap Year or Two

by Jeremy MacDonogh

'Let's hope this book is only Part One. It has everything: adventure, food and wine, exotic locations, sex, wit, scholarship, unforgettable trivia, high-end dialogue, royalty, art and architecture, pathos, and above all the sheer joie de vivre of the author as he careers his picaresque way to adulthood. More! More!' James Burke In 1970, there was no better way to waste time, with a little style of course,... (more)

The World Is Flat

A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

by Thomas L. Friedman

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating... (more)

The Age of Diminished Expectations, Third Edition: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s

The Age of Diminished Expectations, Third Edition: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s

by Paul R. Krugman

The Age of Diminished Expectations is a remarkable achievement, a quick read that tells you much of what there is to know about the great economic issues of the day. -- Peter Passell, New York Times Book Review Paul Krugmans popular guide to the economic landscape of the 1990s has been revised and updated to take into account economic developments of the past three years. New material in the third... (more)

Help! My Life Is Going to the Dogs

by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff

Japan's Great Stagnation: Financial and Monetary Policy Lessons for Advanced Economies (CESifo Seminar Series)

Japan's Great Stagnation: Financial and Monetary Policy Lessons for Advanced Economies (CESifo Seminar Series)

After experiencing spectacular economic growth and industrial development for much of the postwar era, Japan plunged abruptly into recession in the early 1990s and since then has suffered a prolonged period of economic stagnation, from which it is only now emerging. Japan's malaise, marked by recession or weak economic activity, commodity and asset price deflation, banking failures, increased bankruptcies, and... (more)

managing in Turbulent Times

by Peter F. Drucker

This important and timely book concerns the immediate future of business, society and the economy. We are, says Drucker, entering a new economic era with new trends, new markets, new currencies, new principles, new technologies and new institutions. How will managers and management deal with these new realities? This book, the author explains, "is concerned with action rather than understanding, with decisions... (more)

The Tallest of Smalls

by Max Lucado

An encouraging message for children: When you feel like you're the smallest of smalls, Jesus' love can make you feel like the tallest of talls. A delightful rhyming story about the Too-Smalls who live in the Stiltsville. Every evening a six, the Too-Smalls meet in the square where they hope they'll be picked to receive stilts to strut about above the stilt-less masses below. They come to see if they... (more)

Fear Not Promise Book

by Max Lucado

Although fear fills our world, it doesn't have to fill our hearts. No one likes living in a world filled with terror and uncertainty, but in such times, God does some of His most important work. Our part is to trust Him through faith that He will be true to His promises. Brimming with both encouragement and truth, best-selling author Max Lucado's Fear Not Promise Book addresses six major topics of fear... (more)

How to Sell and Market Your Way Out of This Recession and Get Your Business Buzzing Like Never Before (even Though Your Customers Don't Want to Know!)

How to Sell and Market Your Way Out of This Recession and Get Your Business Buzzing Like Never Before (even Though Your Customers Don't Want to Know!)

by Nicholas Bate

Whether you are running a four-man window cleaning business, a one woman consultancy or you are responsible for the EMEA quarterly target, this book is for you. (Hope you don't mind if we refrain from repeating the title too often). Selling is the one and only key to surviving this recession. Here's the very best and latest in thinking and action specifically on selling in a recession. It's an incredibly... (more)

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

by Paul Krugman

The New York Times bestseller: the Nobel Prize–winning economist shows how today’s crisis parallels the Great Depression—and explains how to avoid catastrophe. With a new foreword for this paperback edition. In this major bestseller, Paul Krugman warns that, like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression have made a comeback. He lays bare the... (more)

Adrian Mole: the Prostrate Years

by Sue Townsend

Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Unable to afford the mortgage on his riverside apartment, he has been forced to move into a semi-detached converted pigsty next door to his parents, George and Pauline. His ravishing wife Daisy loathes the countryside, longs for Dean Street and has yet to buy a pair of Wellingtons; they are both aware the passion has gone out of their marriage, but neither knows how to reignite the... (more)

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The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine

by Glenn Beck

by Max Lucado

by Max Lucado

by Daniel A. Arnold

by Trina Schart Hyman, Barbara Shook Hazen

by Rick Riordan

by Robert J. Samuelson

How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse

by Peter Schiff

by Jeremy MacDonogh

A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

by Thomas L. Friedman

by Paul R. Krugman

by Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff

by Peter F. Drucker

by Max Lucado

by Max Lucado

by Nicholas Bate

by Paul Krugman

by Sue Townsend

by Denise Taylor