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Author : Patricia McCormick
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1423141113
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sold written by Patricia McCormick and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-07-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful, poignant, bestselling National Book Award Finalist gives voice to a young girl robbed of her childhood yet determined to find the strength to triumph Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution. An old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family's debt-then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave. Lakshmi's life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. Still, she lives by her mother's words-Simply to endure is to triumph-and gradually, she forms friendships with the other girls that enable her to survive in this terrifying new world. Then the day comes when she must make a decision-will she risk everything for a chance to reclaim her life? Written in spare and evocative vignettes by the co-author of I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition), this powerful novel renders a world that is as unimaginable as it is real, and a girl who not only survives but triumphs.

Author : Grant Cardone
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1608322904
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sell Or Be Sold written by Grant Cardone and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that knowing the principles of selling is a prerequisite for success of any kind, and explains how to put those principles to use. This title includes tools and techniques for mastering persuasion and closing the sale.

Author : David M. Greene
Publisher : Biggerpockets Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781947200371
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sold written by David M. Greene and published by Biggerpockets Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 87% of real estate agents fail within the first five years. Don't become another casualty According to the National Association of REALTORS(R), real estate agents with less than two years' experience have a median gross income of $9,300, while real estate agents with 16 years experience have a median gross income of $71,000. What if there was a better, more efficient way to build your real estate business without waiting 15 years or more? Six-Figure Real Estate Agent gives both new and seasoned real estate agents a practical and proven guide to get more clients, generate more sales, and earn higher commissions. Bestselling author, investor, and top-producing real estate agent, David Greene, shares the exact systems and processes that he used to scale his own real estate agent business, from solo agent to a thriving funnel and referral system with repeat business. This book will teach you an easy-to-implement system that will grow your real estate business quickly--without having to waste your time door knocking, calling FSBOs and expireds, or spending all your money chasing after paid-for internet leads. Inside, you'll discover: Why most agents don't succeed, and how to overcome those common hurdles How to inhabit the mindset of a top-producing agent Steps to build a massive sales funnel that always replenishes itself Tips, tools, and proven strategies for moving clients down the sales funnel How to master the art of the close Ten lead generation strategies (that you'll actually enjoy ) Lead follow-up techniques that will keep you clients coming back How to build a thriving database And so much more

Author : Charles F. McGovern
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080787664X
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sold American written by Charles F. McGovern and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, an emerging consumer culture in the United States promoted constant spending to meet material needs and develop social identity and self-cultivation. In Sold American, Charles F. McGovern examines the key players active in shaping this cultural evolution: advertisers and consumer advocates. McGovern argues that even though these two professional groups invented radically different models for proper spending, both groups propagated mass consumption as a specifically American social practice and an important element of nationality and citizenship. Advertisers, McGovern shows, used nationalist ideals, icons, and political language to define consumption as the foundation of the pursuit of happiness. Consumer advocates, on the other hand, viewed the market with a republican-inspired skepticism and fought commercial incursions on consumer independence. The result, says McGovern, was a redefinition of the citizen as consumer. The articulation of an "American Way of Life" in the Depression and World War II ratified consumer abundance as the basis of a distinct American culture and history.

Author : Megan Stephens
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007594089
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bought and Sold written by Megan Stephens and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years by deception, threats and violence.

Author : Grady Hendrix
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1683690214
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Sold Our Souls written by Grady Hendrix and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A gloriously over-the-top scare fest that has hidden depths. Readers will root for Kris all the way to the explosive, poignant finale.”—Publishers Weekly From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. Only a girl with a guitar can save us all. Every morning, Kris Pulaski wakes up in hell. In the 1990s she was lead guitarist of Dürt Würk, a heavy-metal band on the brink of breakout success until lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom, leaving his bandmates to rot in obscurity. Now Kris works as night manager of a Best Western; she’s tired, broke, and unhappy. Then one day everything changes—a shocking act of violence turns her life upside down, and she begins to suspect that Terry sabotaged more than just the band. Kris hits the road, hoping to reunite Dürt Würk and confront the man who ruined her life. Her journey will take her from the Pennsylvania rust belt to a celebrity rehab center to a satanic music festival. A spine-tingling horror novel, We Sold Our Souls is an epic journey into the heart of a conspiracy-crazed, pill-popping, paranoid country that seems to have lost its very soul.

Author : Johanna S. Ransmeier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067497719X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sold People written by Johanna S. Ransmeier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade in human lives thrived in North China during the Qing and Republican periods. Families at all social levels participated in buying servants, slaves, concubines, or children and disposing of unwanted household members. Johanna Ransmeier shows that these commonplace transactions built and restructured families as often as it broke them apart.

Author : Veronica Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934435922
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not to be Sold for More Than $100 written by Veronica Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among LeWitt's great contributions to art was the invention of his own economic model Not to Be Sold For More Than $100 presents a comprehensive overview of conceptualist pioneer Sol LeWitt's numbered R Series drawings, which he created from approximately 1971 to 1979. As early as 1967, LeWitt had started making cut, folded and torn works, which he intended would always sell for $100. "His wall drawings were already selling for thousands of dollars, so he wanted to have some artwork that everybody could buy," notes Jason Rulnick. This body of work consists of over 800 folded, torn and cut paper works, including cut maps, reproductions, and manipulated silver gelatin photographs. Thanks to extensive research throughout various private and public collections around the world, this volume includes over 100 color plates, along with an index/description of all 870 known works, information that has been made available through the artist's day books and journals uncovered (in the studio) by Veronica Roberts. In the high-flying commerciality of the contemporary art world, LeWitt's intention and foresight for this body of work resonates more than ever today.

Author : Teresa Richenberger
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781475106961
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sold to the Highest Bidder written by Teresa Richenberger and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From using drugs at a very young age and becoming a runaway at the age of 16, Teresa had no way to take care of herself. She literally felt forced to sell her body for a place to stay. Thinking this was the path to take to support herself, she answered a "Dancers Wanted" ad in the local newspaper and became an exotic dancer at the age of 17. In her mind, there was no turning back now. But, by the age of 28, Teresa had reached her breaking point. She knew something had to change because she could not go on like this; she was dying. After being trapped for almost 12 years in strip clubs and prostitution, she had lost herself. One day while looking in another newspaper, she answered a completely different kind of ad -- a church ad to come visit. Teresa went to church that night and that was where her healing process began! She now lives her life for Christ and helps others to overcome their painful past. Teresa discovered the freedom to live victoriously by applying God's Word to her life. From her battle with learning to trust and love again AND the struggles of everyday life, she desires to help others do the same. She is now an advocate for hurting women and girls in the sex trade. She wants to help them discover their true value and self worth. She does know the way out of hell because she used to live there! God has provided Teresa with many opportunities to share her testimony with this life-changing message of the Gospel. She has a real life example with an incredible testimony of the dynamic, redeeming work of Jesus Christ! Featured on The 700 Club and SEEDS TV.

Author : Zana Muhsen
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
ISBN 13 : 9780751509519
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sold written by Zana Muhsen and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 1994 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zana Muhsen, born and bred in Birmingham, is of Yemeni origin. When her father told her she was to spend a holiday with relatives in North Yemen, she jumped at the chance. Aged 15 and 13 respectively, Zana and her sister discovered that they had been literally sold into marriage, and that on their arrival they were virtually prisoners. They had to adapt to a completely alien way of life, with no running water, dung-plastered walls, frequent beatings, and the ordeal of childbirth on bare floors with only old women in attendance. After eight years of misery and humiliation Zana succeeded in escaping, but her sister is still there, and it seems likely that she will now never leave the country where she has spent more than half her life. This is an updated edition of Zana's account of her experiences.