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  HR? I Barely Know Her - How to...

  Maha Amer

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  You got the offer letter. Your family celebrated. Nobody explained the notice period, the "eligible for bonus" line with no number attached, or why your manager just said "let's circle back" for the fourth time this month. 
  This isn't a legal guide. It isn't a management textbook. It's the version a smart, slightly exhausted friend would give you — if they worked in HR and were finally off the clock. 
  Listen in for straight answers on:Why job descriptions lie, and how to survive the interview anywayWhat your offer letter is actually saying (and what it's carefully not saying)The real difference between gross and net pay — explained with pizzaHow to ask for a raise without apologizing for existingWhat a PIP actually is, and how to survive one without panickingWhy HR ghosts you, and the follow-up that actually gets answeredThe difference between "culture fit" and just being liked by people who play golfKPIs, DEI, unions, workplace safety, and everything else nobody explained at orientation 
  Plus bonus material you'll actually use: a full HR-to-Human jargon decoder, a survival kit for your next PIP meeting, 15 true(ish) horror stories from the corporate trenches, and an analogy bank that finally makes HR-speak make sense. 
  Whether you're already deep in the corporate grind or about to walk into your very first offer letter, this audiobook hands you the reality behind the buzzwords — funny on purpose, because sarcasm is just how the truth gets past people's guard. 
  Coffee in one hand, receipts in the other. Let's go.

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  Pocket Guide to Pretty Stitches...

  Karen Hemingway

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  Ready to continue your adventures into hand embroidery stitching with Pocket Guide to Pretty Stitches? Karen Hemingway has compiled a variety of hand embroidery designs in a convenient, compact (just 4" x 6") reference guide. Readers won't just get 50 new embroidery stitches to perfect. They'll also receive step-by-step instructions--packed with informative illustrations--so everyone from beginners to experienced embroiderers can follow along. This guide is more than an addendum to Hand Embroidery Stitches at a Glance. It's a comprehensive book for anyone who considers themselves a budding embroidery or sewing enthusiast. With an emphasis on embellishing and visible mending, you'll learn everything from simple running stitches to the four-legged knot, all while embracing artful designs to indulge your creative instincts. It's a perfect way to step up your game and learn all that hand embroidery has to offer!

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  William Stanek's Badlands - A...

  The Editors of Our American...

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  Badlands is where prairie suddenly loses its surface.
  
  Grass gives way to gullies, ridges, pinnacles, pale bands, fossil beds, and exposed earth. The landscape looks severe, yet the apparent barrenness is surrounded by one of the great grassland worlds of the northern plains.
  
  William Stanek's Badlands helps readers understand that relationship. Scenic roads, short trails, long views, changing light, wildlife, geology, fossils, prairie weather, heat, wind, and the history carried by the surrounding country become one connected field experience.
  
  Because the park can be crossed quickly, it is easily mistaken for a drive-through spectacle. This guide argues for a different pace: stop where the land changes shape, walk enough to feel the surface, let prairie and erosion remain in the same frame, and understand why distance behaves differently under the enormous plains sky.
  
  For road trippers, families, hikers, photographers, wildlife watchers, and return travelers, Badlands becomes far larger than its famous formations.

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  Buen Camino

  Gordon J. Bernhardt

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  Lots of people take a walk to clear their heads, but have you ever walked over six hundred miles to do it?On a misty, gray morning in the summer of 2018, Gordon Bernhardt set out from a small town in the French Pyrenees to walk the ancient pilgrim route of Camino de Santiago, seeking clarity for his business, his relationships, and his priorities in life. The lessons he learned as a peregrino—a pilgrim—ranged from insights on financial advising and investing to the importance of noticing the tiniest details of each day: like the ant trails winding across the path at his feet or the “smiling sunflower” that lightened his steps in the middle of a hot summer day.An investing book like no other, Buen Camino: What a Hike through Spain Taught Me about Investing and Life will remind you that although we’re all walking a different path, we’re all headed for a common destination.

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  Gaming for Cheap Bastard's

  Brandon Gayle

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  Stop paying $`70 for broken launch builds. 
  They want you stupid, impatient, and subscribed. The gaming industry runs on your impulse buys, your forgotten subscriptions, and your fear of missing out — and it's costing the average gamer hundreds a year. 
  Gaming for Cheap Bastards is the no-BS playbook for beating the system: 
  The 24-Hour Rule — kill impulse buys forever 
  Content-to-Cost tiers — know what a game's actually worth before you pay (a 10-hour game is never worth `$70) 
  Kill auto-renew — stop the $252-a-year subscription drain 
  Spot the dark patterns — dodge day-one traps, deluxe-edition bait, and FOMO marketing like a pro 
  The One-In-Two-Out backlog mandate — build a backlog you're proud of 
  This isn't a 300-page lecture. It's 69 pages of pure tactics — every chapter pays for itself the first time you don't buy a game at launch. If this book saves you from one bad $70 purchase, it's paid for itself seven times over. 
  Stop feeding the machine. Start playing it.

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  The Royal Heritage Cookbook -...

  The Hon. Sarah Macpherson

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  During the eighteenth century, ladies of high society kept handwritten notes on recipes and it became fashionable to exchange the most successful with friends and neighbours. This charming book is a compilation of fifty of the best recipes taken from the archives of the country houses of Britain and Ireland. Each recipe is shown in its original form accompanied by an up-to-date version created by professional chefs so that the recipes can be recreated today. In a world dominated by additives and synthetic foodstuffs, these traditional recipes contain only natural ingredients and show that simple ways are often the best when it comes to creating dishes that stand the test of time.

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