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1) Birnam Wood
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide...
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English
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have...
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this episode, James and Adam discuss another topic covered by the Assemble You course library - harnessing an ambitious mindset. Adam took a risk starting his new business at the time he did - his family circumstances made it particularly precarious to leave a 9-5 and self-finance a start-up. James left a job he enjoyed at a company he'd loved to join Adam and Rich. In this episode, they discuss those decisions, as well as: other obstacles to ambition,...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Audio Learning from Assemble You. Today, you'll learn about adopting an ambitious mindset and how to harness it to fuel growth in your career and personal life. To reach your career goals, you need to be willing to put in the hard work, focus, and effort. Ambitious people use these things to succeed in their work and personal lives. They have an inner drive and resilience that helps them stay motivated when working toward their goals. You,...
5) Vicious
Author
Series
Villains (V. E. Schwab) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Victor and Eli started out as college roommates-- brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I've found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their higher goals above their desire for recognition."--
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Cass was a young, promising playwright, once heralded as a fierce new queer voice in female empowerment. Now, however, following a scandal that forced her abrupt exit from the New York theatre world, she's hiding out in Los Angeles, reeling from her public humiliation, incessantly calling her former agent's assistant in the hopes that she'll put her through, and spying on her next door neighbor, who seems to have a steady stream of mysterious visitors...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at sixty-three, has been a central pillar of the women's movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer, madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can't quite place, feels her inner...
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Language
English
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Storytime @ Home: Celebrate Black Authors, Illustrators, Stories, and Experiences
Women's History - Children
Women's History - Children
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A girl sees a woman labeled as having too much ambition, but when the girl considers its definition she finds herself inspired and realizes ambition is required to make changes to the world and have her voice be heard.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Tracy Flick is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist of Tom Perrotta's Election--and Reese Witherspoon's character from the classic movie adaptation--is determined to take high school politics by storm.Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede,...
11) Farther
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a father who dreamed of being able to fly and how that dream was passed on to future generations.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the beginning of a dream, through all of the trials and challenges, and finally at its realization, your beloved Sesame Street friends offer advice and encouragement in Dream to remind you to dream big, believe in yourself, and never give up--because all that you need for success is already in you!"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Full of empowering wisdom from one of high tech's first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book for readers of Dare to Lead and Start with Why offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals, drawn from the author's own compelling story of how she weathered life's difficulties to build massive success"--
14) The ticket
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After James, a blind man, inexplicably regains his vision, he becomes possessed by a drive to make a better life for himself. However, his new improvements - a nicer home, a higher-paying job, tailored suits, luxury car - leave little room for the people who were part of his old, simpler life: his plain wife and close friend Bob. As his relationships buckle under the strain of his snowballing ambition, it becomes uncertain if James can ever return...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
How far will you go to achieve a dream? That's the question a celebrated coach poses to Katie and Eric Knox after he sees their daughter Devon, a gymnastics prodigy and Olympic hopeful, compete. For the Knoxes there are no limits--until a violent death rocks their close-knit gymnastics community and everything they have worked so hard for is suddenly at risk. As rumors swirl among the other parents, Katie tries frantically to hold her family together...
18) Evil, Inc
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English
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Ken Olson thought he had it all-a loving wife, a beautiful baby, and a career on the fast track. But soon, after his big promotion, his whole world is shattered by a monstrous crime. A crime committed by the CEO of his own company. A crime his company will cover up at any cost.
Stripped of everything but his passion to bring the CEO to justice, Olson uncovers the dark and dangerous world behind the corporate jets and executive mansions-the private...
19) Be a star!
Author
Series
Amazing Stardust Friends volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Allie, Bella, Carly, and Marlo, eight-year-old performers in the Stardust Circus, are normally best friends--but when a film crew comes to do a television special on the circus, Allie's dreams of being a Hollywood star threaten to drive a wedge between them.
20) Blood money
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Hindi
Description
A young man tries to take a dreadful shortcut to success; but his ambitious overdrive lands him in the underbelly of the diamond mafia. Will it be worth the blood?
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