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What if you were guaranteed that every new customer buying from you would spend the next five years buying more products at ever higher price points? Or you were certain every dollar spent on your advertising would return extra dollars to you down the road? Or you could finally look at your marketing efforts as investments, rather than expenses? Now, you can...by following the proven strategies and techniques for buying customers outlined here for the first time by Action COACH Founder and Chairman, Brad Sugars.

Engaging and transforming, The Happiest Man in the World provides a unique and compelling insight into the life and legacy of a man who found true happiness in relinquishment and selfless service.

From the author of Become the Banker® comes a cutting-edge new sequel. It is packed with clearly defined, fact driven solutions to help you achieve financial freedom...as you make more money, save more money, and protect your money from taxation. How do we reach the ultimate goal of financial freedom while surviving potentially devastating, economic storms in life? The answer lies within this audiobook. 

Everyone shares one thing in common. We are all different from each other and it is our diversity, which makes each person unique. Young children will soon cherish Keiko as they hear about the adventure of a Koala bear, who finds himself lost in the forest. As he meets the animals who live there, he quickly learns that he is different from other bears. You feel the anticipation as Keiko searches for a way out of the forest. While on his journey, he meets a young boy named Cody and they become friends.

Saving money doesn't have to be a burden. It also doesn't mean you need to stop spending your money completely. Savings and spending is not an either/or proposition. Instead, being smart with your money means you spend it well so you can save it wisely. Joseph J. A. Quijano, CFP®, CDFA®, is a certified financial planner and a national financial educator. Mr. Quijano has a strong passion for protecting his clients' money against losses.

"Amazing, the pain that can be caused by wielding the sword of charm." Rachel idolizes Miri's charm, beauty and family that represents perfection in contrast to the chaos of her own life. She is often blind to Miri's manipulation of others for personal gain, not only in their early years of growing up together in a Denver Jewish Orthodox community, but also in their adult lives.

This poem, also known as “Twas the Night Before Christmas”, tells of the arrival of St. Nicholas on Christmas Eve at the home of the narrator. It is filled with music and sound effects to bring the listener new joy and appreciation of this classic Christmas tale.

"The Little Red Hen" is a time-tested folk tale about how we reap what we sow. When the hen asks a cat, dog, and mouse for help planting some wheat, she gets no takers. They won't water, cut, or grind the wheat or help bake a cake with it. So guess who eats the cake in the end? Fun and delightful narration by Daniel Lawson.

This is the startling, bewildering, intriguing, and wildly popular account of Stan Romanek's scientifically supported and well-documented experiences of alien encounters and abductions. It is augmented by lab reports, testimonial from prominent professors, and vivid recollections of photo and video stills shots and refers to proven mathematical equations of which Stan should have no known knowledge.

After a lifetime in broadcasting, Greg Dobbs, a two-time National Emmy Award-winning journalist and former foreign correspondent for ABC News, shares the funny, funky, scary, stupid, dangerous, distasteful, unwise, and unbelievable behind-the-scenes stories (including those of his Emmy Award-winning broadcasts) that a journalist can encounter in his lifetime - adventures that are possibly even more interesting than the news being covered. Dobbs tells his stories with the humor, empathy, and enthusiasm that only someone who has covered news in more than 80 countries could muster. 

On June 13, 1999, a rumble began high on a sheer cliff wall, like faraway thunder, at Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. 100 tons of rock rained down on three young climbers. Peter, a college student from Colorado, turned to a long-ago climbing lesson taught to him by his father. As a little boy first astride a mountain, he learned to always protect a partner at the end of the rope...to never let go. He was not anchored and could have easily slipped from his harness and run for cover, but he didn't.

In this contemporary sci-fi dystopian audiobook with a biblical twist, a prophet, Young Buck, and his family are on the run from the tyrannical government of Oceania, formerly the United States. The prophet holds a shocking secret that he must deliver to Russia, which seeks to attack Israel, but his knowledge of an ancient secret endangers him and puts his family in jeopardy.

With our finite scrutiny, Life's adventure can at times appear to be much more of a threat than an invitation. Even so, we do not need to figure anything out or try harder to find our joy and happiness. The truth is we have only to trust! When we let go of our perceived limitations we free the fear that still harbors within us from childhood. We are not here to prove anything! We've been given this Life to learn to unveil ourselves and to shine our brilliant light! 

According to an LA Times, May 14, 2014 article, the following entry came from a notebook of a gold-seeking prospector, Samuel Clemens, in 1864. "Coleman with his jumping frog - bet stranger $50... - stranger had no frog & C got him one - in the meantime stranger filled C's frog full of shot and he couldn't jump - the stranger's frog won." Little did Clemens know that this would be the source for his short story that would launch his career as one of America's greatest authors.

First published in The Saturday Evening Post, "The Ransom of Red Chief" is a humorous short story written in 1910 by O. Henry. A pair of con men kidnap and attempt to ransom a prominent Alabama citizen’s son. Immediately they find themselves at the mercy of a particularly spoiled and clever boy who begins driving them mad. The ironic ending remains the story’s most enduring feature.

Why do some people succeed financially while others struggle? In this uplifting book, the secrets to what determines financial success will be revealed. Joseph J.A. Quijano, CFP®, CDFA®, is a certified financial planner and a national financial educator. He has a strong passion for protecting his clients' money against losses. With over 40 years of successful experience, he has helped thousands of individuals achieve financial security. And he can do the same for you.

An uncomplicated financial book, Become the Banker is for anyone who wants to achieve financial freedom and security. Whether you are just starting your working years or are nearing retirement - or would like to help your children and grandchildren learn a powerful strategy to help them avoid the financial mistakes that most people make - this book is for you.

What happens when you put two of the most irreverent women (one a bounty hunter and the other a case of mistaken identity) together for a rip-roaring, hilariously wild adventure? This time around, join bounty hunter Alex Morgan and her new friend, former mistaken suspect jumper Hope Harrington, as they head to New Orleans during Mardi Gras for the bounty of a lifetime: a descendant of the legendary Marie Laveau!

Guillermo Vicente Vidal's memoir chronicles his journey from Castro's Cuba to the United States - a tapestry of his coming of age, a broken family, and disorientation of political unrest. Vidal was barely 10 years old when he proudly shook the hand of Fidel Castro. Although Vidal's parents were once staunch supporters of La Revolucion, they soon found they could no longer keep their sons safe in the new face of Castro's reign, making the difficult decision to send Vidal and his brothers to the US via Operation Peter Pan in 1961.

A young boy finds a homeless dog desperate for love and brings him into his home. What is frightening about Crane's take on this typical relationship, a boy and his dog, are the parallels between the young boy's treatment of the dog and his abusive, alcoholic father's treatment of those around him.