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"Paul's Case" was first published in 1905 in Cather's first collection of short stories, titled The Troll Garden. Similar to "The Enchanted Forest" featured in her Nine Stories published by Simply, it is one of the great writer's stories accessible to most young people in high school and college. It relates to what they feel, think, and want to be. Perhaps just as importantly, it depicts young people upset by their current circumstances, their families, and the drabness they perceive in their own lives.

Young readers enjoy this story a lot, because of the safecracking plot. Adults tend to like the growing up part: starting a shoe store, succeeding, getting the girl, and going straight.

Sam Margulies describes how to fix a toxic divorce and how to bring the parties back together to manage their divorce, especially when children are involved. Fixing a Bad Divorce is a magnificent accomplishment and could save your family months of grief and suffering.

Learn what it takes to finance your business in 60 minutes of conversation and instruction.

The Wit and Wisdom of Others is unique collection since it was done by a noted writer and thinker who collected over his lifetime the great thoughts of others, ranging from the Greeks with Socrates and Plato, through the Middle Ages with St. Augustine, to Napoleon, up to the modern age. Writers, dramatists, thinkers, wits, scientists, inventors, politicians, statesman, business people, and all kinds of other thinkers from Louisa May Alcott to Maria Edgeworth, Booker T. Washington to Disraeli.

Alexander's Bridge was Willa Cather's first novel and one of her best. Bartley Alexander was the world's leading bridge builder, something that was considered an awesome skill in the early 20th century. Alexander has the strength and regret that weave throughout Cather's male characters much as they do through those of her contemporary authors, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dreiser, Anderson, Lewis, and others.

A short audiobook on how to recycle and save money. Featured tracks include:

1. Recycling & Saving: Family & Office
2. Food, Liquids, Meals & Food Shopping
3. Composting
4. Furniture, Objects and Other Shopping
5. Reading and Communication
6. Bills, Banking and Mail
7. Cars, Driving and Travel
8. Home Office and at Work
9. Children
10. Community
11. Take Notice of Your Results and Celebrate!

"An Experiment in Misery" in a story similar to "The Men in the Storm" except that it focuses on one character, and a new fellow traveler called the Assassin, who struggle for warmth and a place for the night. The main character stops first at a saloon for free soup with a beer, where he meets the Assassin. The Assassin accosts the man seeking a few cents for a room.

Chickamauga is a heart-rending Civil War story told through the eyes of a lost boy. The child bears witness to the atrocities of war. He sees dying men crawling across the ground, and later returns to his old homestead, only to find it has been largely destroyed. A must read for people interested in the Civil War and Americana in general, this short story by Ambrose Bierce sheds new light war and its aftermath.

>"The Queer Client" is a desolate story about death and revenge. The tragedy of the story is that every character in the story dies or loses - or both. "The Queer Client" is a remarkable and powerful work about the grim realities of debtor's prison and the fertile ground for despair and revenge found therein. Read by an American voice, by listener request.

Conflict Resolution, Volume 2: More Training emphasizes more depth in relating to identify and solve conflicts. The basic plan continues from Volume 1's how-to work, to see if you can conclude by saying, "Let it be as you say," in order to build a bridge to the other side. This volume, however, is more complete than Volume 1. If you wish to listen to only one volume, we would suggest Volume 2 for those who want more depth in analysis and Volume 1 for those who want a quicker listen.

"Flanagan" is a story not dissimilar from "The Open Boat", except that the captain dies in "Flanagan" but not in the "Open Boat". Flanagan is hired to take a ship, aptly named the Foundling, down to Cuba to run guns and people into that country. He does so in a rickety old boat and does a good job. A gun boat finds them and barrels at them at top speed. Rather than just running, the natural instinct, Flanagan turns his ship towards the small gun boat, an unexpected chess move....

Entrepreneurship is more popular than ever: courses are full, policymakers emphasize new ventures, managers yearn to go off on their own. Would-be founders often misplace their energies, however. Believing in a "big money" model of entrepreneurship, they spend a lot of time trying to attract investors instead of using wits and hustle to get their ideas off the ground.

The age of competitive strategy may be past. Sophisticated managers are learning that handsome returns come directly from superior strategic execution - not strategic planning. Their method: hustle and get it right.

Calmness is a core ingredient for happiness and a productive life. This title builds on Busy & Stressed, an earlier title, to provide 98 tips about how to calm yourself for a satisfied and useful life, not to speak of being supportive of your family, friends, and colleagues in your work place. A must have for people interested in wellness for themselves and those in their family.

Learn the art of good manners in only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction.

This is the simplest guide to weight loss, getting your weight in balance for the long term, and living a healthy life. The author lost 40 lbs through this plan. But more importantly, as he says, he kept the weight off, the thing most of us fail to do over and over again. The plan emphasizes the overall goal of changing your food plan, not dieting which never seems to work. The plan emphasizes investing in your calories as you would in a financial plan.

Before McDonald's and Holiday Inn, Jack was on the road with his friends, when interstate highways were a novelty and going coast to coast was just for fun. Jack was pre-Vietnam, more 1950s edgy than 1960s politically correct. He loved Keats and Eliot as he sang the praises of the Odes and "The Wasteland", bars and saloons, writers and barkeeps - all about equally, according to the author, who narrates about his short time with Jack on the road.

Abduct is the second book in the Tom Walker Series; 18 is the first. The story features Patricia Highsmith intrigue with a plot line worthy of Agatha Christie and P. D. James.

>"Killed at Resaca" is the story of a brave man, loved by his fellow soldiers and driven by a heartless, beautiful woman. Full of Bierce's infamous sense of outrage and morality, this is a classic Civil War story.