Biography & Autobiography, Business
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Carpe Data: CONNECT
by Jim Ryan
Have you ever had the feeling you were being guided down a specific path in life? A real, deep in your guts, crap in your pants inclination? What if you came to believe you were placed on this earth to do something that would change everything?...
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The Hallman Legacy
Impact of the Hallman Family in Waterloo Region by John G. Fast
In South Central Ontario, the Lyle S. Hallman Foundation has contributed almost $90 million to Waterloo Region for social, educational, and mental health services since 2004. It is one of Canada’s largest philanthropic trusts. Yet, despite this...
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What Scissors Taught Me
by Denise Letienne
Hairstylists make cutting hair look easy. So easy that many of us have tried to do it—on ourselves or someone else—and failed miserably. Forget about bangs, how do they create layers, the right shade of lilac, or balayage? What even is balayage?...
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Man In The Arena
Never Say Quit by David Michael Semas
Throughout his half-century career, self-made businessman David Semas has drawn inspiration from President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous speech on “The Man in the Arena” in 1910, which was about daring to risk everything rather than playing it...
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Create a Money Machine
A Safe and Reliable Way To Build Your Stock Market Fortune. Read this book and get wealthy! by Ken Sciara
The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with a very specific plan to build a stock portfolio that will generate income, give wealth and security, that will last a lifetime. The author has accomplished this plan for himself and his...
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The Lost American Industrialist
The Story of William Madison Wood by Bob Fournier
William Madison Wood was a gifted and successful Portuguese-American industrialist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. His rags-to-riches story is the fulfillment of the American Dream: • His accomplishments in textile...
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A Hotelier
by Gabor Forgacs
If you ever stayed or worked at a hotel, this book will take you to familiar places. The journey of an international hotelier is told through several stories, offering a peek behind the scenes. It also paints a picture of life in socialist...
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Stories From The Road
My Years as a Long Haul Trucker by Don Taylor
This book chronicles my thirty-plus years in the transportation industry. Starting as a taxi driver during a transit strike, to driving Long Combination Vehicles, measuring over 120 feet long, weighing over 130,000 lbs. My travels have taken me...
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Born In Huronia
Recollections of a Kid from Penetanguishene by Robert Popple
On September 28, 1941, the same day that Robert Popple was born in Penetanguishene, Ontario, Ted Williams ended his baseball season with a .406 batting average, a MLB record that still stands today. Patterned after Mark Twain’s recently published...
