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Nanisé, A Navajo Herbal:
By Vernon O. Mayes and Barbara Bayless Lacy

Nanisé, A Navajo Herbal, co-authored by Vernon O. Mayes and Barbara Bayless Lacy, details 100 plants that are found on the Navajo Reservation, providing the reader with the Navajo name for each plant as well as ways the Navajos used them in everyday life, whether for ceremonial, medicinal or household purposes - complete with illustrations. The 100 plants are some of the most common Reservation flora of over 1,500 species of wild, vascular plants, including ferns, horsetails, conifers and flowering species and were selected by the Navajo Health Authority, Ethnobotany Project staff and approved by the Navajo Medicine Men's Association.
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Excuse Me, Can You Repeat That?
By Cathryn Cushner Edelstein

Inspired by 30 years of teaching, Excuse Me, Can You Repeat That? by Cathryn Cushner Edelstein provides essential information for international students to understand and be understood when communicating in the United States. Included are comments about personal experiences by international students who have studied in the U.S.
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Inside the Minds of Car Dealers
By Ray Lopez

A former “swift talking, blood-sucking salesperson” gives an insider’s look under the hood of car dealerships, revealing every trick they use against you! Learn psychological ploys and manipulative schemes typical dealers employ to squeeze every last dime out of you––while being sold a car you may not even want!
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Granted!
By Chris Taylor

Teachers, who as a group spend in excess of $1.3 billion of their personal funds per year on classroom materials according to the American Federation of Teachers, learn how to easily and successfully tap grant givers instead of their own pockets for much-needed funds with Chris Taylor's newest book, Granted! A Teacher's Guide to Writing & Winning Classroom Grants
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Productivity Plus
By Jim Temme

Written by a consultant with a client list of corporate giants, Productivity Plus is a no-nonsense lifestyle guide that makes the secrets to corporate success and self-actualization affordable and accessible to everyone. It addresses time management, stress, personal and professional responsibility, improving family life, finances, healthy lifestyle, self-esteem, humor, controlling anger and worry. Key behaviors are identified to help goal seekers break self-limiting behaviors and form healthier, productive habits. Each chapter is packed with exercises and ideas to live life with enthusiasm, energy and focus. Following Productivity Plus is akin to being shadowed by a life coach that keeps readers on track with personal and professional goals.
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Fortune in Your Hand
By Elizabeth Daniels Squire

In a newly revised and expanded edition of this classic handbook of the art of hand-reading, author/columnist Elizabeth Daniels Squire takes readers on a step-by-step journey of discovery. Includes illustrations, charts, and real-life examples utilizing the handprints of such notables as Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Salvador Dali, and others.
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Girl Talk
By Gigi Garner

Women are compassionate listeners who seem to know intuitively when to offer advice or merely a hand to hold or a shoulder to lean on. Author Gigi Garner has collected many of these intimate moments and compiled them into a book that offers tips on a variety of subjects for women everywhere.
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Leadership Unbound
By Lawrence W. Corbett and Jerre L. Stead

Benjamin Franklin wrote, "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest . . ." This book is proof of that theory.
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Flying for Peanuts
By Marty Thompson

Filled with inside information from a seasoned traveler, Flying For Peanuts offers an outrageous guide for surviving-and actually enjoying-the Southwest Airlines flying experience.
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The Economical Guide to Self-Publishing:
How to Produce and Market Your Book on a Budget

By Linda F. Radke

Unpublished and published authors alike learn trade secrets to successfully and profitably self-publish and market books from The Economical Guide to Self-Publishing, second edition, written by 24-year veteran publisher Linda Radke, owner of Five Star Publications, a producer of award-winning books for all ages. In addition to the nuts and bolts of publishing, readers receive an invaluable arsenal of conventional--and unconventional--methods for marketing, promoting and obtaining publicity. Beyond being updated to remain current with the ever-changing publishing industry, the new edition includes brief articles from authors, who share their candid experiences on the front lines of book promotions.
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Nannies, Maids and More
By Linda F. Radke

Linda F. Radke takes the reader step by step through the process of hiring—and keeping—household help. Complete with sample ads, interview questions, and sample employment forms, it can help you find the right addition to your household.
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Household Careers:
Nannies, Butlers, Maids & More

By Linda F. Radke


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Profits of Death:
An Insider Exposes the Death Care Industries

By Darryl J. Roberts

In his controversial new book, Profits of Death: An Insider Exposes the Death Care Industries, Darryl J. Roberts, a 30-year veteran of the death care business, breaks the industry's tacit code of silence. By unlocking the doors to the mortuary and swinging back the cemetery gates, he reveals to the American public the unvarnished truth.
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For the Record:
A Personal Facts and Document Organizer

By Ricki Sue Pagano

We've all become frantic from time to time, searching for a document or some bit of personal information that WE NEED RIGHT NOW! The examples are many: "When did the doctor first give me this maintenance medication?" "What was the phone number of my last employer?" "How many more payments are left on this loan?" "What's my spouse's Social Security number?"
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Promote Like a Pro:
Small Budget, Big Show

By Linda F. Radke

Getting a book published is no easy task, but promoting it may be even harder. Linda F. Radke's Promote Like a Pro: Small Budget, Big Show helps self-publishers (and other entrepreneurs with projects to promote) reach the audiences that want their books.
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