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In this hilarious novel, written in the voice of eighth-grader Wyatt Palmer, Dave Barry takes us on a class trip to Washington, DC. Wyatt, his best friend, Matt, and a few kids from Culver Middle School find themselves in a heap of trouble - not just with their teachers, who have long lost patience with them - but from several mysterious men they first meet on their flight to the nation's capital.

How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other laws that get in their way.

Credit, Assets, Debt, & Taxes: 4 Strategies the Middle Class Can Use to Invest Like the Wealthy A practical personal finance guide to building wealth, improving credit, mastering debt, and minimizing taxes Are you tired of working hard but not getting ahead financially? You’re not alone—and you’re not stuck. This personal finance book is your blueprint to start investing like the wealthy—even if you're middle class. In Credit, Assets, Debt, & Taxes, part of the "Speak the Language of Money" book series, author Larry Jones breaks down the four core strategies the wealthy use to build...

Conquer the Class B Contractor Exam: Your Guide to Business and Law for Professional Contractors is a comprehensive study guide designed to help aspiring contractors pass the Class B Contractor Exam and succeed in their careers. This guide covers essential topics such as business structures, legal responsibilities, construction contracts, employment law, and risk management, providing detailed explanations and real-world examples tailored to the construction industry. With chapters on project management, bidding and estimating, building codes, safety regulations, and financial management, ...

The unspooling of Toni Lee Wells' Tiffany and Wild Turkey lifestyle begins with a trip to the Luckett County Jail drunk tank. An earlier wrist injury sidelined her pro tennis career, and now she's trading her tennis whites for wild nights roaming the streets of Rose Hill, Georgia. Her wealthy family finally gets fed up with Toni Lee's shenanigans. They cut off her monthly allowance but also make her a sweetheart deal: Get a job, keep it for a year, and you'll receive an early inheritance.

Written as a practical guide for teachers, this audio edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson’s groundbreaking work covers the fundamentals of differentiation and provides additional guidelines and new strategies for how to go about it.

Acting as a critical pillar for those seeking to build a rock-solid financial foundation, Financial Literacy for All is a must-have book for working professionals, blue-collar workers, members of young families, and established businesspeople looking for a better, more secure future for themselves and the ones they care about.

Wine Simple is full of an unbeatable depth of knowledge, effusive encouragement, and, most important, strong opinions on wine so you can learn to form your own. Imbued with Aldo's insatiable passion and eagerness to teach others, Wine Simple is accessible, deeply educational, and lively and fun, both in voice and visuals. This essential guide begins with the fundamentals of wine in easy-to-absorb hits of information and pragmatic, everyday tips - key varietals and winemaking regions, how to taste, when to save and when to splurge, and how do a wine tasting at home.

He found out what my body does. Now he wants to make it happen again. Lila Moreau thought she could hide it. The shame. The symptoms. The way her body leaks when she’s touched in the wrong place. All she has to do is keep her head down, finish her senior year, and never let anyone find out. Then Ezra Hawthorne sees her. Popular. Cruel. Beautiful. He corners her in the hallway, takes what he wants, and makes her fall apart in front of him. He doesn’t tell. He doesn’t tease. He comes back. Now Lila’s secret isn’t hers anymore. It’s Ezra’s favorite toy. And every time she thinks ...

Negative thoughts are like weeds that grow all the time without any nurturing since it’s in the human nature to think of negative consequences.

On the other hand, positive thinking about health, love, wealth, success are hard to come by, and like everything worth fighting in this life, they require a lot of nurture and care.

This audiobook plans to give you exactly what you need: the means to stay positive through constant affirmations designed to help improve oneself, change a bad behavior, or channel the universe to attract good things in your life.

Peter's "English Grammar & Question Bank Together" is tailored for students in classes 6 to 12, but it is especially beneficial for those who want to study English Grammar as a whole. The book provides an in-depth discussion of English grammar through a series of question sets, covering topics from Parts of Speech to Analysis, Synthesis, and Split-up. It includes essential concepts such as Subject-Verb Agreement, Moods, Voice & Narration Change, Tenses, and the usage of Phrasal Verbs and idioms, as well as the identification of Clauses, Phrases, and Sentences, along with Articles & ...

He found my secret in the locker room. Now he wants to own it. Ellie is a cheerleader with a humiliating secret, one her classmates would never forgive if they found out. She’s spent the school year hiding behind careful routines, nursing pads and fake smiles. But when star pitcher Caleb Jensen corners her after practice and sees what no one else has, everything changes. He doesn’t laugh. He doesn’t tell. He stalks. He tests. He touches. Now Ellie is trapped in a dangerous game of blackmail, shame and reluctant arousal. Caleb wants more than silence. He wants obedience. Submission. ...

This book is written for women, as the Saturn-Venus aspects manifest differently in female astrological birth charts. Women with the disharmonious - conjunction, opposition, and square- Saturn-Venus aspects feel hopeless and doomed with romantic relationships, finances, enjoying life, and developing healthy self-worth. However, the redemption is within reach. The first part of the book is a step-by-step manual for understanding the purpose of these planetary aspects, and for changing your perspective of the hard Saturn-Venus aspects. The second part of the book provides numerous practical ...

From the Orwellian reach of an Amazon warehouse to the time trials of a council care worker and the grim reality behind the glossy Uber app, Hired is a clear-eyed analysis of a divided nation and a riveting dispatch from the very front line of low-wage Britain. We all define ourselves by our profession. But what if our job was demeaning, poorly paid, and tedious? Cracking open Britain's divisions, journalist James Bloodworth spends six months living and working across Britain, taking on the country's most gruelling jobs.

In Second Class, working-class Americans of all races, political orientations, and occupations share their stories—cleaning ladies, health care aides, cops, truck drivers, fast food workers, electricians, and more. In their own words, these working-class Americans explain the struggles and triumphs of their increasingly precarious lives—as well as what policies they think would improve them.

On June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were ringing nonstop. On that historic day, LDS church president Spencer W. Kimball announced a revelation lifting the church's 126-year-old ban barring Black people from the priesthood and Mormon temples. It was the most significant change in LDS doctrine since the end of polygamy almost 100 years earlier. Drawing on never-before-seen private papers of LDS apostles and church presidents, Harris probes the plot twists and turns, the near-misses and paths not taken, of this incredible story.

This book is designed to help those who want to get their license. It includes every topic that shows up on the exam and also 100 test questions with answers.

Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in deep thinking, Peter Liljedahl has translated his 15 years of research into this practical guide on how to move toward a thinking classroom. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12 helps teachers implement 14 optimal practices for thinking that create an ideal setting for deep mathematics learning to occur.

There once was a time when Black Americans up and down the socioeconomic ladder lived in and around the same neighborhoods. Part of this was a consequence of racially discriminatory federal, state, and city housing policies, such as exclusionary Federal Housing Authority practices and racially restrictive deeds and covenants, which prevented those who had the financial means from living anywhere else. Today, many of these neighborhoods are now centers of concentrated poverty.

Introducing an Empowering Guide by Irene Rodway, Esq. - A Compassionate Expert Who Transformed Her Personal Struggle into a Lifeline for Others! In "Preparing, Planning And Paying For Long-Term Care," author Irene Rodway shares her intimate journey of navigating the complex healthcare system when her own husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. As an attorney, she thought she had the knowledge and resources to tackle any challenge. However, Irene was taken aback by the overwhelming difficulty of navigating the system and securing the necessary care for her loved one. Motivated by her...