In this dot.com age, more and more people are striking out on their own to create the businesses they always dreamed of having. But starting a company can feel like an overwhelming amount of work: juggling multiple tasks, keeping track of expenditures, finding customers and keeping them happy. Now Ronni Eisenberg, a nationally recognized time management and organization expert and author of the enormously successful Organize! series, can help with an easy-to-follow plan that makes starting a business seem less like a venture, and more like an adventure. Organize Your Start-UP!will show you ·How to take an organized approach to financing and struturing a business ·The whys and wherefores of location ·What to do about money ·How to promote your business

In all his years in the Chicago Fire Department, LieutenantReed Solliday has never experienced anything like this recentoutbreak of house fires--devastating, vicious, and,in one case,homicidal. He has another problem--his new partner, Detective MiaMitchell. She's brash, bossy, and taking the case in a direction henever imagined. Mia's instincts tell her the arsonist is making this personal.And as the infernos become more deadly, one look at the victims'tortured faces convinces her and Reed that they must work closer tocatch the killer. With each new blaze, the villain ups the ante,setting firetraps for the people Reed and Mia love. The truth isalmost too hot to handle: This monster's desire for death anddestruction is unquenchable...and for Mia he's started thecountdown to an early grave.

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This boastful, boyishly disarming, thoroughly engaging personal history offers an inside look at aspects of financing, development and construction in big-time New York real estate. "I don't do it for the money," maintains Trump, the son of a Queens realtor who, at age 27, bought and transfigured the colossal Hotel Commodore at Grand Central Terminal. Now 40, he has built, among other projects, and owns outright, Fifth Avenue's retail and residential Trump Tower (where he occupies a double-triplex suite); owns and operates Trump's Castle, a casino in Atlantic City; is arguably the most visible young man on Manhattan's celebrity circuit ("Governor Cuomo calls. . . . dinner at St. Patrick's Cathedral. . . . I call back Judith Krantz"); and is currently developing a controversial 100-acre West Side "Television City" project that is planned to include the world's tallest building. For those who would do likewise, Trump articulates his secrets for success: imagination, persistence, skill at "juggling provisional c

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A newly revised edition of this guide to achieving successthrough the art of persuasion offers winning advice on how toincrease self-confidence, cultivate a taste for success, and muchmore. By the author of Think and Grow Rich.

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The author of Think and Grow Rich presents motivational andinspirational passages from his earlier works that show readers howto live their own lives, use their personal magnetism, achievepeace of mind, and more. 50,000 first printing.

As director of an inner-city woman's shelter, Dana Dupinskysafeguards many secrets. Some are new identities; some are newaddresses; and some are even hidden truths about herself.Passionately dedicated to Hanover House and the women she protects,Dana has always been reluctant to look for love. But now, just as acase puts her and a child in mortal danger, it seems that love hascome looking for her. Security expert Ethan Buchanan learned to stalk men in the Afghandesert. Now he vows to track down the ruthless woman who kidnappedhis godson-and falling for Dana is not in the plan. Yet her verypresence seems to chase away the ghosts that haunt him, and herskillful evasion of personal questions raises his huntinginstincts. For there's a deadly new secret at Hanover House. Abrutal killer is weaving a web of revenge with a stolen boy at itscenter. And Dana is the next victim on the list...

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When a mysterious weather balloon crashes to earth in theSwiss Alps, the head of the NSA handpicks Robert Bellamy to trackdown and identify the ten known witnesses to the event. A man whoseobsession with his covert assignments has cost him the only womanhe can ever love, Bellamy now faces the impossible. But as hesearches for clues from Rome to Budapest to Texas, this missionblows up in his face -- and rips the lid off an incredibleconspiracy that stretches around the globe and even intospace... Alone and betrayed on every side, Bellamy must run for hislife -- holding an astonishing secret and the key to the planet'svery survival.

2011 Reprint of 1930 Edition. A highly successful speculator shows how to use your skills as an amateur psychologist and a student of human nature to make money through the stock market. Written in a direct and affable style, "Why You Win or Lose" shares the secrets of an "outsider" on Wall Street, offering a valuable study of crowd reaction to market fluctuations. It identifies the four greatest enemies to stock market prosperity, showing how to recognize and avoid these pitfalls in instructive chapters such as "Vanity," "Greed," and "The Will to Believe." Kelly outlines the benefits of "contrary thinking" and illustrates how this style of thinking outside the box can lead not only to lucrative investments but to success in other endeavors as well.

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