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"An interactive companion to the world’s most popular job-search book, updated for 2021, that helps you translate your personal interests into marketable job skills. This fill-in workbook for the career classic What Color Is Your Parachute? is a helpful tool for recent grads, workers laid off mid-career, and anyone searching for an inspiring work-life change. Featuring: • New information that addresses the job-market in the pandemic era • The...
24) Parachute
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"Even when I have nothing left, I'll have everything I need." -Phoenix.
With her 10-year plan working out just the way she'd mapped it 6 years ago, Phoenix welcomed the life she'd crafted for herself. There seemed to be no rain threatening her sunshine, but as legend tells it, when it rains, it indeed pours.
At the peak of her professional success, she silently fights the most challenging battle she's ever been up against. But her parents...
26) Parachute Man
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Parachute Man tells the story of an unusual and intriguing visitor who reveals a huge, old silk parachute to a group of children. After some initial reluctance and scepticism they are amused, enthused and enthralled by the movements and shapes made by the material as air fills and spills from the parachute. Together they create a story, rich in images and vocabulary, and are transported into an ancient narrative where imagination and reality...
27) Parachute Murder
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The Parachute Murder, first published in 1933, is a classic 'golden-age' murder mystery, opening with a unique twist (from the dust-jacket): "MURDER in the air! The body of a popular Broadway star is found in an Ohio field, under an opened parachute, with a bullet through his heart. Police of two states find themselves up a blind alley, and the New York District Attorney calls in a new type of amateur detective-Kirk Kemerson, character actor, who...
30) Parachute Kids
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From New York Times bestselling comic artist Betty C. Tang comes a funny, fast-paced, and heartrending story about three siblings living on their own as undocumented new immigrants, inspired by the author's own childhood as a parachute kid. Perfect for fans of New Kid and Front Desk.
★ "Emotionally moving and beautifully executed." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ "A compelling story of immigration and family bonds; highly recommended."...
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Pitfalls and Parachutes is a collection of fifteen short stories. The stories are youthful and lively. Entertainment is at the core of each of the stories. Watch out for exciting endings. A glimpse of the collection: 1. The protagonists decision to help a lost lady might cost him his job. 2. Television news becomes a reality in the life of Cyrus. 3. Pramaniks reputation is at an all-time low. Someone can make it worse. 4. Can anything other than ragging...
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Tes hanches sont mon navire, Promis insubmersible, Vaporeux souvenir à ma bouche sensible, Mais déjà, tu t'éloignes et deviens intangible, Ton ombre intempestive, Ton corps incorrigible, Cambrure impérissable de tes cervicales, Que j'aurai tant aimé servir encore mais je ne le puis, Je te connais, je te connais occulte, Comme tu vois, je me tais, Quand le tonnerre ausculte, Et qu'on a beau lutter, Docile je te regarde, Partir puis j'oscille,...
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Robbie MacKenzie is a shy and kind-hearted boy who lives on a remote island in the Outer Hebrides. He dreams of flying like the seabirds that soar over the island of St. Margaret. One day, his life changes when a storm brings an injured albatross to his doorstep. Robbie and his mother Joanna nurse the bird back to health. His name is Alfonso. Robbie and Alfonso form a special bond and become inseparable friends.An evil widow named Fiona Tornleaf,...
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From a master of World War II espionage, a thrilling tale of an adoptive mother and a lost boy fighting to survive in occupied France The moment Angélique arrives in Paris, she is taken prisoner by the SS. In a lonely little room, she is put in a chair with leather straps and a bloodstained seat and ordered to tell her captors everything she knows about the resistance. But Angélique knows nothing. She cares only for poor Martin, the boy who has...
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Do you need help understanding the best way to manage your career? Do you sense a need to change your career direction? Or maybe change is being forced upon you? Not sure how to get to the next step in your career? Want to change jobs, but you're not sure how to do it?
Women go through many transitions in life and career. This book will help you understand the natural cycles of careers and how to maximize yourself at each point. Besides the usual...
37) Hey, Did You Pack Your Parachute? What Every Employee Must Know About Securing Their Income & Their
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This book answers the simple but crushing question..."How Do I Change Being Stuck And Frustrated As An Employee".
The answer is what Conrad calls the 7 C's (clarity, change, convert, catch, command, construct, & create...) which is simply about:
1. Understanding The New Workplace Game... (clarity)
2. Shifting Your Work Mindset... (change)
3. Rearranging You Money Mindset... (convert)
4. Re-framing How You Reach For Success... (catch)
5. Uncovering...
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