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"The average college student graduates with nearly $30,000 of student loan debt. The average law student graduates with $160,000 of student loan debt. These numbers are even more significant for Black and Latino students. Many of these young adults are thrown into their careers with little to no personal finance education. This book offers a holistic approach on how to properly manage money, including debt, from the lens of a first-generation wealth...
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[2018]
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English
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"For the 10th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, one of the world's most successful investors, Ray Dalio, shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. This template allowed his firm, Bridgewater Associates, to anticipate events and navigate them well while others struggled badly."--Publisher's description.
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Everyman's library volume 111
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"The book in which Charles Dickens most fully unleashed his indignation at the fallen state of mid-Victorian society"--Prelim.
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[2018]
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English
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"I'm missing out on my life. What's wrong with me? If that's ever crossed your mind, and if you know there's more to life than what you've been living, this book is for you. It sucks to acknowledge that you are what's keeping you from the life you want. You sacrifice what you want most for what you want in the moment. You know everything you're supposed to do, and yet you feel stuck--limited by your past, overwhelmed by your future--in a purgatory...
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[2014]
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English
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"Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems--to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the...
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Shopaholic series volume 1
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English
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Rebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she's never looked better ... Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it -- not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much at all. And lately Becky's been chased by dismal letters...
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"This book strives to develop a new vision of the value of debt in the management of individual and family wealth. Virtually every company examines both sides of its balance sheet--assets and debts--and consciously strives to achieve an optimal debt ratio. In contrast, the vast majority of individuals, wealthy or not, are either dramatically over leveraged (too much debt) or, conversely, believe that debt is always bad and should be paid off as soon...
12) Hollywood dead
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Sandman Slim volume 10
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[2018]
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English
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"James Stark is back from Hell, trailing more trouble in his wake. To return to L.A., he had to make a deal with the evil power brokers Wormwood--an arrangement that came with a catch. While he may be home, Stark isn't quite himself...because he is only partially alive. There's a time limit on his reanimated body, and unless Stark can find the people targeting Wormwood, he will die again--and this time there will be no coming back. Even though he's...
13) The rambling
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[2019]
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"Buddy Pennington is headed to river country, hoping his luck might change. He'll be better off with his daddy, a wandering soul and a local legend for his skills at Parsnit, a mysterious card game of magic, chance, and storytelling. But no sooner are Buddy and his pop reunited than some of Pop's old enemies arrive to take him away. Boss Authority, the magical crime lord who has held the rivers in his grasp for years, is ready to collect on an old...
14) Docile
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2020.
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"There is no consent under capitalism. Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service. To be a Docile is to sell yourself to pay your parents' debts and buy...
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[2019]
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"Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong. When the Luidaeg--October "Toby" Daye's oldest and most dangerous ally--tells her the time has come for the Selkies to fulfill their side of the bargain, and that Toby must be a part of the process,...
17) Mulberry Hollow
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Riverbend romance volume 2
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[2022]
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English
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Avery Robinson decided to be a physician after helplessly watching her mother lose a battle with a terrible disease. Now, at risk for developing the same illness, Avery guards her heart from love. Contract Wes Garrett is hiking the Appalachian trail when an illness fells him and he collapses on Avery's doorstep.
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"Ramsey offers [an] approach to money matters, providing not only the how-to but also a ... hope for getting out of debt and achieving total financial health. Ramsey [examines] the many myths of money (exposing the dangers of cash advance, rent-to-own, debt consolidation) and attacks the illusions and downright deceptions of the American dream, which encourage nothing but overspending and massive amounts of debt"--Publisher's description.
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