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This third Rinehart murder combines a mystery with a boy-girl romance, an old lady stepping out, political payoffs, and more by a woman The New York Times and LA Times both call “The American Agatha Christie” and who outsold Christie in their mutual lives.

A favorite about the annual Vandam gardening catalog that brightened up the winter so avid gardeners could dream about spring plantings. A contest for a great tomato, Numero Uno, between Standard Foods/Vandam's and little Seedmen's, worth millions. Witty, urbane, fun, and ironic in Emma Lathen's style, with the usual cast of characters. John Putnam Thatcher discovers who the murderer is, with written certified documentation, by thinking like a banker. A treat for mystery fans.

Takes us into the consumer product world of candy, sundries, rack jobbers, displays, TV promotions, nonprofits, trusts, trustees, commodities, brokers, cocoa, murder, and more. John Putnam Thatcher solves murder again by penetrating the emotions to get down to the money motive.

A tale of two Armenian brothers who come to America before World War II and scrimp to buy and sell a shipment of oriental rugs. One brother dies and the other takes the company all the way up to a world leader in the category in both wholesaling and retailing. Involves family goings-on, murder, trusts, and more. John Putnam Thatcher cuts through the emotions to get to the practical money reasons for murder.

The Sloan is advertising on the local New York expansion team broadcasts after doing so previously on symphony events. Thatcher gets involved to prevent President Brad Withers making an outrageous statement and winds up in a murder. Thatcher solves the murder by cutting through the emotions to get to the money cause of the murder.

An authentic but not graphic autobiography of Sarah Ann Horn’s one-year and five-month captivity and enslavement by the Comanches until sold to an American to liberate her for no personal gain. She describes her husband’s murder and separation from her children as her loss evermore.

Wall Street and the Black world are agitated by a distinguished Atlanta Black banker being proposed for a seat on the Exchange. Much turmoil about those issues, though the issue, comes back to money, which John Putnam Thatcher is expert at. The usual cast of characters at the Sloan, and elsewhere on Wall Street, show up and participate.

Insightful, telling, ironic, and moving, 14 Native-American legends reflect a nomadic non-property-owning culture, with a reverence for all things natural.

Nine American Indian stories written by noted Native American author and advocate Zitkala-Su, Red Bird, that are endearing, moving, and sad. A must-listen for all students of American history and literature. Helen Keller’s letter of praise in 1919 serves as the introduction.

An Alexander lecture, the most noteworthy in English literature, dealing with pace and nuance in novels, using A Passage to India by E M Forester and his Aspects of the Novel as examples.

Presenting an American voice for this legendary Agatha Christie mystery with one of her best denouements.

The six factors in Western, and particularly American, world dominance are competition, science, property rights, medicine, consumerism, and work ethic. Learn what you need to support or oppose this accelerating trend.

This audiobook describes how salesmanship is the key to get you what you want in life. It describes what steps to take, what skills to develop, and more.

Describes how to pivot in order to get what you want in your personal and work life. Analyzes how to do it, how others have done it, how to turn the proverbial chessboard around to learn from others including a Harvard Business Press case study in hundreds of business schools and a student favorite. Discusses how many great successes pride themselves in pivoting when new trends and facts arise such as Socrates, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Sam Walton, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett.

How to have a better life by finishing things at work and in your personal life for success, happiness, personal satisfaction, and tranquility.

Describes the new deflationary age, which puts new pressures on jobs and pay, has long term interest rates of just 1.2 percent, and creates less money to buy goods and services. Points out how to save and protect your money during our troubled time.

The great 19th-century novel by the first important Irish novelist. The story of a girl whose father died young so the family was impoverished, she never learned to read, and was thrust into the servant class and occasionally into the workhouse. Becoming pregnant, she lost her position and struggled to bring up her son. A must-listen.

The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom in a pig shed.

A Hunger Artist is a short story by Franz Kafka first published in Die neue Rundschau in 1922. The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist, the last book Kafka prepared for publication, printed after Kafka's death. The protagonist, a hunger artist who experiences the decline in appreciation of his craft, is an archetypical creation of Kafka: an individual marginalized and victimized by society at large.

Raw food pies with all the ingredients and instructions. Blueberry, chocolate, pumpkin, the most popular with a nut crust recipe, too.