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  Early Kings of Norway

  Thomas Carlyle

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  "The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fact, that any little history there is of the Norse Kings and their old tragedies, crimes and heroisms, is almost all due. The Icelanders, it seems, not only made beautiful letters on their paper or parchment, but were laudably observant and desirous of accuracy; and have left us such a collection of narratives (Sagas, literally "Says") as, for quantity and quality, is unexampled among rude nations. Snorro Sturleson's History of the Norse Kings is built out of these old Sagas; and has in it a great deal of poetic fire, . . . and deserves to be reckoned among the great history-books of the world. It is from these sources that the following rough notes of the early Norway Kings are hastily thrown together." (Excerpted from Thomas Carlyle's preface by Karen Merline)

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  Let Me Save You 25 Years -...

  Shawn D. Nelson

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  A raucous and raw tale awaits within the pages of Shawn D. Nelson's part-memoir/part-business book, Let Me Save You 25 Years. As the Founder and CEO of Lovesac, Nelson unveils a magnificent and unvarnished account of his entrepreneurial journey spanning a quarter-century. With unapologetic honesty, he shares both triumphant victories and humbling defeats, painting a vivid and authentic picture of the entrepreneurial rollercoaster. From its humble beginnings as a college side gig through to its IPO and beyond, the Lovesac saga unfolds quickly through 25 gripping micro-chapters, each accompanied by a nugget of hard-earned wisdom. 
   
  These 25 key lessons, born from sweat, tears, and relentless determination, offer invaluable insights for success not only in business but in life as well. The narrative traces the path from those early days to the pinnacle of achievement—going public on the NASDAQ stock exchange—while imparting practical guidance for aspiring achievers in any field." Let Me Save You 25 Years isn't just a book; it's a mentor, a guide, and a source of inspiration for anyone with the ambition to carve their own legacy.

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  Leave the Building Quickly -...

  Cynthia Kaplan

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  Cynthia Kaplan, acclaimed author of Why I'm Like This, once again casts her gimlet eye upon the current state of her affairs. Also of your affairs, and some other people's affairs as well. Journey with her as she humiliates herself in a variety of locales and fearlessly takes on all the important issues of the day—including her family, intelligent design, Narnia, and New England's deer population. Leave the Building Quickly is a hilarious, moving, bitingly honest, take-no-prisoners incursion into the kind of real-life daily circumstances that inspire us to crouch in the linen closet at three in the morning. But that's okay because Kaplan's there, too. And she's brought snacks.

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  Fifty Fast Facts About Napoleon

  Middle Grade Guide

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  Short? Nope. French? Not exactly. There is a lot to discover about France's only emperor. Impress your teachers, students, friends and family with these Fifty Fast Facts about Napoloen. Support your studies with stories that are sure to amaze. Teachers, Fifty Fast Facts gives you easy-to-follow, curriculum-based facts covering what you really need to know to write your next paragraph, project, unit test, or essay for Social Studies, Humanities, History, or English class. These Fifty Fast Facts link up to the core curriculum and include categories like critical thinking, perspective-taking, and the social, political, and economic impact of world events. With sample paragraphs, timelines, a bibliography, and quick quizzes to test your knowledge, you're sure to ace your next assignment using these Fifty Fast Facts. 
    
  Fifty Fast Facts are produced by Middle Grade Guide. Bringing together teachers, writers, researchers, and school administrators from all over the world, Middle Grade Guide brings a global perspective to education. Middle school is hard -- Middle Grade Guide makes it easier.

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  It Looked Different on the Model...

  Laurie Notaro

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  Everyone's favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether it's in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mannequin but leaves her in a literal bind or in her neighborhood after she's shamefully exposed at a holiday party by delivering a low-quality rendition of "Jingle Bells." Notaro makes misstep after riotous misstep as she tries (and catastrophically fails) to gain some ground-delightfully whipping up butter-laden cupcakes for the local vegan kids, finding herself banned from the post office for wanting too many two-cent stamps ("The post-office lady looked at me like I had just asked her if she wanted to buy my sex tape"), and discovering what appears to be a corpse on her front lawn seconds before her sister is due to visit ("I had approximately three to four minutes to move the carcass from my yard into my neighbors' yard so my sister would think it was their dead person"). She shares tales of marriage and family, including stories about the dog-bark translator that deciphers Notaro's and her husband's own "woofs" a little too accurately, the emails from her mother with "FWD" in the subject line ("which in email code means Forecasting World Destruction"), and the dead-of-night shopping sprees and Devil Dog-devouring monkeyshines of a creature known as "Ambien Laurie."At every turn, Notaro's pluck and irresistible candor sets the New York Times bestselling author on a journey that's laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable.

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  Medal Winners - How the Vietnam...

  Raymond S. Greenberg

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  As the ground war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, the US government leveraged the so-called doctor draft to secure adequate numbers of medical personnel in the armed forces. Among newly minted physicians’ few alternatives to military service was the Clinical Associate Training Program at the National Institutes of Health. Though only a small percentage of applicants were accepted, the elite program launched an unprecedented number of remarkable scientific careers that would revolutionize medicine at the end of the twentieth century. Medal Winners recounts this overlooked chapter and unforeseen byproduct of the Vietnam War through the lives of four former NIH clinical associates who would go on to become Nobel laureates. Raymond S. Greenberg traces their stories from their pre-NIH years and apprenticeships through their subsequent Nobel Prize–winning work, which transformed treatment of heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. Greenberg shows how the Vietnam draft unintentionally ushered in a golden era of research by bringing talented young physicians under the tutelage of leading scientists and offers a lesson in what it may take to replicate such a towering center of scientific innovation as the NIH in the 1960s and 1970s.

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