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Every year hundreds of thousands of restaurants open with great expectations, and every year almost as many close down. The successful restaurateur is a combination of entrepreneur, entertainer, and magician. Your success in owning a restaurant will come as a direct result of solid business practices and your ability to entertain and satisfy your customers.
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With the easy-to-read tips and business strategies taught in this book, readers will learn how to make a handyman business profitable. The book provides tips for both doing the job and the skills needed to run the business. The work life of a handyman can be very rewarding. It means finding creative solutions to everyday problems, learning new things, and enjoying a wide variety of tasks. Handymen can set their own hours and be their own bosses. But...
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There are minimal costs involved in starting a graphic design business which makes it an attractive opportunity for anyone with an artistic eye. All that is required is a computer, an Internet connection, and design skills. It's the kind of business that can easily be run from your home! The graphic design business has changed significantly over the past few years. The popularity of photo- and art-sharing websites and social networking sites, and...
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Today's typical home-buyer wants minimal muss and fuss when it comes to settling into a new home. Many people have an idea of their "dream home," or keep a list of characteristics they want their new house to possess. Many of these sought-after characteristics are common to most home-buyers; but unfortunately for home-sellers, these characteristics are not always readily apparent in a house well lived-in. Many homeowners are beginning to realize that...
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"Aspiring entrepreneurs are told that to launch a business, you must go all in, devoting every resource and moment to making it work. But following this advice comes at an enormous personal cost: divorce, addiction, even suicide. It means sacrificing the intangibles that make life worth living. Sheryl OLoughlin knows there is a better way. In Killing It, she shares the wisdom shes gained from her successful experiences launching a...
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Home cleaning is one of the fastest-growing service businesses in North America. A good cleaning service brings comfort and order into people's lives and in today's world, these are highly sought-after commodities. A home cleaning service can start out small, but it has the potential to grow to be a multi-million dollar business with branch offices and franchises. Your business can grow to the point where you need to lease office space, hire staff,...
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The adult boutique business is a billion-dollar industry in North America. Adult boutiques are no longer hidden down back alleyways; they are mainstream and can now be found in upscale shopping centers and neighborhoods as well as online! Adult boutiques provide comfortable atmospheres in which both men and women can shop freely. This means there is a great opportunity for people who want to sell adult products. Start & Run an Adult Boutique shows...
9) Night diver
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Returning to the Caribbean island of St. Vincent to help save her family's treasure-hunting business, Kate Donnelly must form an uneasy alliance with British military diver Holden Cameron when equipment, treasure, and even divers start disappearing.
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The New Face of Fiction and author of "Touch" has given us a commercial novel with a strong Jane Smiley and John Irving appeal and a King Lear storyline. Set in a fictional bucolic island between Maine and Newfoundland (claimed by both Canada and the U.S.), ruled by the King family for three hundred years, the novel carries a Shakespearean plot of sibling rivalry, love lost and won, art history, and the ins and outs of lobster fishing.
11) Ark
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"Ben Arkin, patriarch of the family, is an artist who has never sold a piece. His children, Sondra, Doris, and Oliver run a record label that has never produced a hit, and that Ben and his wife have bankrolled. When Doris strikes out to form her own label, Sondra sues the entire Arkin family, setting about a series of events that ultimately lead to their demise. The story is told primarily from the perspective of Oliver's daughter, Rebecca, an attorney...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Amelia Bedelia's class is hosting a bake sale to raise money for the school library. She bakes delicious brownies to sell, but so does everybody else! Fortunately, Amelia Bedelia squints hard and sees the surprise in the brownie bounty, and she and her friends learn about basic concepts of business and the importance of giving back"-- Provided by publisher.
13) Kingdom come
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A Shakespearaean take on murder, deceit, and vengeance in the story of King Corporation, a family-owned company that instills greed and competition among friends.
14) The conspiracy
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Maximum Security volume 1
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New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin raises the tension and the passion when family ambition turns deadly...
Harper Winston's brother has disappeared. Pursuing his dream of sailing the Caribbean, Michael hasn't responded to texts or emails in days. When even the Coast Guard can't find him, Harper is forced to take desperate measures. Which means going to Chase Garrett, once her brother's best friend, now the only man she can trust...or...
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A brilliant and utterly engaging novel - "Emma" set in modern Asia - about a young woman's rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old traditions clash with heady modern materialism. On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy - moving through her colorful, stratified world - realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes which threaten to crush her dreams. Desperate to move up in Asia's financial and...
16) The heiress hunt
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Fifth Avenue rebels volume 1
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With their marriages to others looming, Maddie Webster, who is engaged to a duke, and her best friend Harrison Archer, who is engaged to an heiress, wonder if their fate is inescapable or if love will set them free.
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"All businesses today face increasing pressure from customers and legislation to improve their sustainability credentials. Moreover, companies' employees and shareholders are demanding the same. Yet, many companies are playing catch-up and urgently need to get on track for the future. This book explains how companies - small or large - can do that in a series of practical stages. The authors adopt a method that asks a series of questions that then...
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"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...
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Bourbon kings volume 1
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"For generations, the Bradford family has worn the mantle of kings of the bourbon capital of the world. Their sustained wealth has afforded them prestige and privilege--as well as a hard-won division of class on their sprawling estate, Easterly. Upstairs, a dynasty that by all appearances plays by the rules of good fortune and good taste. Downstairs, the staff who work tirelessly to maintain the impeccable Bradford facade. And never the twain shall...
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