Author: Jessica Alejandro
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 9814423521
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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This is the first book in the award-nominated Extraordinary Losers series. So the Extraordinary Losers are just a little bit different. There’s Clandestino. Odd name, eeeww habits. There’s Janice. Drama (and donut) queen. There’s M-Mu-Mu-Mundi who is brainy and quiet... And then there’s poetry-loving Darryl De. Okay, maybe not a little different. A LOT different, with a whole load of weird thrown in. But when they form an unexpected alliance, the incredible happens. It’s time to use their powers. Together. It’s time to be Extraordinary. This is their story right here, right now. And it all begins with a mysterious note...
Author: Scott A. Sandage
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674015104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser is our national bogeyman, and his history over the past two hundred years reveals the dark side of success, how economic striving reshaped the self and soul of America. From colonial days to the Columbine tragedy, Scott Sandage explores how failure evolved from a business loss into a personality deficit, from a career setback to a gauge of our self-worth. From hundreds of private diaries, family letters, business records, and even early credit reports, Sandage reconstructs the dramas of real-life Willy Lomans. He unearths their confessions and denials, foolish hopes and lost faith, sticking places and changing times. Dreamers, suckers, and nobodies come to life in the major scenes of American history, like the Civil War and the approach of big business, showing how the national quest for success remade the individual ordeal of failure. Born Losers is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The Loser--the label and the experience--in the days when American capitalism was building a nation of winners.
Author: Jessica Alejandro
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 981442353X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
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The exlosers are back! Darryl, Clandestino, Mundi and Janice find themselves entangled in another mystery! Weird images appear on the walls of Brightstar Primary School. Then, an act of arson. Is someone trying to send the school a message? Time is running out and they have to uncover the truth before one of them gets framed! Meanwhile, there’s that dreaded basketball match against the Pros! Can they be extraordinary? Will their powers help them or hinder them? or will it be too late...
Author: Jessica Alejandro
Publisher: Monsoon Books
ISBN: 9814423815
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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It is Sports Day and Clandestino is up against the PROS in the ultimate Brightstar race! The anticipation is killing Darryl, Mundi and Janice - this may be their friend’s chance to finally lose his ‘loser’ status. Then, one of them is taken captive and disappears. Someone out there is playing a game of a different sort. Who could be behind it? Can the Extraordinary Losers outplay the kidnapper at his deadly game? Find out in this thrilling adventure that will reveal a dark secret -- that you should trust no one, not even the one who has kidnapped your heart...
Author: Avi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689841574
Category : Children's stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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For use in schools and libraries only. A compulsory soccer team made up of seventh-graders uninterested in sports struggles to keep a winning attitude through a losing season.
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Author: John William Carleton
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Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Author: David S. Nassar
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471752088
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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David Nassar delivers a complete and proven system for aggressively and successfully trading in today's markets in Ordinary People, Extraordinary Profits. He explains the fundamentals of technical analysis and risk management, giving you a solid foundation to approach the market, and then describes a variety of trading strategies that will help you make consistently large profits without undue risk. Unlike other trading advisors who advocate a single approach to trading, Nassar provides a variety of strategies you can choose. In addition, he explains how to use new trading instruments such as E-Mini contracts, options, and exchange-traded funds. If you're looking for a complete, proven system for aggressively trading the stock market, this book is an ideal guide.
Author: Claudia Mills
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466852860
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Ethan Winfield has never been an academic or athletic star like his older brother, Peter. But does that make him a failure? Of course not. Still, Ethan and his best friend, Julius Zimmerman, decide that they qualify to found an exclusive club: Losers, Inc. No sooner have they done this, however, than both boys fall in love with the new student teacher. Ethan knows right away that to impress Ms. Gunderson he has to excel. Instead of reading the shortest book for his report, he has to read the longest. Instead of working with Julius on the worst project for the science fair, he has to make the best one--alone. Unfortunately, it isn't Ms. Gunderson who falls for Ethan, but Lizzie Archer, class nerd. The teasing is unbearable! So without regard for Lizzie's feelings--and over Julius's objections--Ethan helps hatch a plot to prove that he's not Lizzie's boyfriend. The result is that even as he reports on a book that's longer than any Peter read in the sixth grade, and prepares a potentially winning science project, Ethan feels that he doesn't deserve anyone's love--not Ms. Gunderson's, not Lizzie's, not Julius's, not his own. Claudia Mills, creator of Dinah Seabrooke (Dynamite Dinah, Dinah for President, Dinah in Love, Dinah Forever) and other overachievers, portrays a boy who needs a reason to strive, finds one, then realizes that success isn't enough. Smart, funny, and down to earth, this hero engages and entertains as he struggles mightily to grow up.
