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Say It Ain't So

By: Josh Berk

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Lenny, Mike, and Other Mike are back in school for the glory that is seventh grade, and this year, Mike is determined to make catcher on the middle-school team. When Mike's hard work pays off and he wins the coveted postition, Lenny is a little jealous, but he'll settle for being the team's unofficial announcer. The team has a brilliant new pitcher, Hunter Ashwell, and though he's a bit of a jerk, he and Mike have a great pitcher/catcher dynamic that could make the team champions. But things take a strange turn when Hunter's perfect pitching streak goes downhill, and Lenny suspects foul play—specifically, someone stealing Mike's catcher signals. But who could be responsible, and why?

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Yearling

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0307930076

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9780307930071

Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator

By: Josh Berk

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Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator

By: Josh Berk

Guy Langman can't be bothered with much. But when his friend Anoop wants Guy to join the forensics club with him in the (possibly misguided) hopes of impressing some girls, Guy thinks why not. They certainly aren't expecting to find a real dead body on the simulated crime scene they're assigned to collect evidence from. But after some girlish, undignified screaming, the two realize it is indeed a body. Which means they have stumbled across a real, dead murder victim. Meanwhile, Guy has been looking into the past of his father—a larger-than-life character who recently passed away. He was much older than Guy's mom, and had a whole past Guy never even knew about. Could his father's past and the dead body be linked? Does Guy want to know? He's going to need all his newfound forensics skills to find out. . . .

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Ember

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0375846271

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9780375846274

The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin

By: Josh Berk

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The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin

By: Josh Berk

Being a hefty, deaf newcomer almost makes Will Halpin the least popular guy at Coaler High. But when he befriends the only guy less popular than him, the dork-namic duo has the smarts and guts to figure out who knocked off the star quarterback. Will can’t hear what’s going on, but he’s a great observer. So, who did it? And why does that guy talk to his fingers? And will the beautiful girl ever notice him? (Okay, so Will’s interested in more than just murder . . .) Those who prefer their heroes to be not-so-usual and with a side of wiseguy will gobble up this witty, geeks-rule debut.

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Ember

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0375846255

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9780375846250

Strike Three, You're Dead

By: Josh Berk

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Strike Three, You're Dead

By: Josh Berk

Lenny Norbeck and his friends The Mikes set out to investigate the suspiciousdeath of a young pitcher at a Philadelphia Phillies game.

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Knopf Books for Young Readers

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0375870083

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9780375870088

Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator

By: Josh Berk

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Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator

By: Josh Berk

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Ember

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Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship

By: Josh Lerner,Ann Leamon

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Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship

By: Josh Lerner,Ann Leamon

In the newly revised second edition of Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship, a dedicated team of researchers and professionals delivers an authoritative and comprehensive account of the world of active investing. This important work demonstrates how venture capitalists and private equity investors do business and create value for entrepreneurs, shareholders, and other stakeholders. The authors, drawing on decades of combined experience studying and participating in the private equity markets, discuss the players, dynamics, and the incentives that drive the industry. They also describe various possibilities for the future development of private equity. This latest edition is perfect for advanced undergraduate students of finance and business, as well as MBA students seeking an insightful and accessible textbook describing the private equity markets.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119559669

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9781119559665

Starry-Eyed

16 Stories that Steal the Spotlight

By: Ted Michael,Josh Pultz

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Starry-Eyed

16 Stories that Steal the Spotlight

By: Ted Michael,Josh Pultz

No light is as unforgiving as the spotlight, but to be in it while being a teenager is just plain brutal. This collection of fictional short stories highlight the struggles, hopes, failures, and triumphs of young aspiring singers, dancers, actors, actresses, and performers. While these characters may feel out of place during their everyday lives, they are able to find a home onstage and in rehearsals. Woven throughout the anthology are personal anecdotes from several of today's most celebrated performers of stage, screen, and television. Whether hilarious or romantic or devastating or suspenseful, these diverse coming-of-age stories are perfect for anyone who is reaching for the stars.

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Running Press Kids

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0762450789

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9780762450787

Patient Capital

The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing

By: Victoria Ivashina,Josh Lerner

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Patient Capital

The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing

By: Victoria Ivashina,Josh Lerner

How to overcome barriers to the long-term investments that are essential for solving the world’s biggest problems There has never been a greater need for long-term investments to tackle the world’s most difficult problems, such as climate change, human health, and decaying infrastructure. And it is increasingly unlikely that the public sector will be willing or able to fill this gap. If these critical needs are to be met, the major pools of long-term, patient capital—including pensions, sovereign wealth funds, university endowments, and wealthy individuals and families—will have to play a large role. In this accessible and authoritative account of long-term capital investment, two leading experts on the subject, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner, highlight the significant hurdles facing long-term investors and propose concrete ways to overcome these difficulties.

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Princeton University Press

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0691217084

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9780691217086

You Never Forget Your First

By: Josh Lewin

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You Never Forget Your First

By: Josh Lewin

Having already penned Getting in the Game, his inside scoop on the mayhem within baseball's winter meetings, Josh Lewin once again gives baseball fans a window into the big leagues. By interviewing big league ballplayers about their first day in the majors, Lewin creates fascinating mini-biographies of the players, highlighting the personalities hidden behind the on-field accomplishments. He lets the players recount their own memories of how they made it to the big leagues. In You Never Forget Your First, Lewin shares the stories of players great and less so. Tony Gwynn recalls singling in his first at bat and finding Pete Rose waiting for him at first base with a wink and a warning: "Don't break my record all at once, kid." Bob Brenly heard of his call-up on the car radio while on a family trip to the Grand Canyon. He then stood helplessly in the middle of the Arizona desert after his transmission gave out, trying to convince passersby he was a ballplayer heading to the big leagues and needed a lift to the airport. Duane Kuiper witnessed a fight both on the field and in his own clubhouse his first day in Cleveland. Greg Maddux recalls being stuck at the Chicago River drawbridge, convinced he'd never make it to Wrigley Field in time for his debut. Lewin interviews modern star players such as A-Rod, Barry Bonds, and Manny Ramirez, as well as Hall of Famers such as Jim Palmer, Don Sutton, and George Brett. More than 100 popular baseball players are profiled, complete with the box scores of their big league debuts.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1612344127

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9781612344126

The New Old Economy

Networks, Institutions, and the Organizational Transformation of American Manufacturing

By: Josh Whitford

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The New Old Economy

Networks, Institutions, and the Organizational Transformation of American Manufacturing

By: Josh Whitford

American manufacturing is in obvious crisis: the sector lost three million jobs between 2000 and 2003 as the American trade deficit shot to record highs. Manufacturers have increasingly decentralized productive responsibilities to armies of supplier firms, both domestically and abroad. Many have speculated as to whether or not manufacturing is even feasible in the United States, given the difficulties. Josh Whitford's book examines the issues behind this crisis, looking at the emergence of a 'new old economy', in which relationships between firms have become much more important. Whitford shows that discussion of this shift, in the media and in the academic literature, hits on the right issues - globalization, de-industrialization, and the outsourcing of production in marketized and in network relationships - but in an overly polarized way that obscures as much as it enlightens. Drawing on the results of extensive interviews conducted with manufacturers in the American Upper Midwest, Whitford shows that the range of possibilities is more complex and contingent than is usually recognised. Highlighting heretofore unexamined elements of constraint, contradiction, and innovation that characterize contemporary network production models, Whitford shakes received understandings in economic and organizational sociology, comparative political economy, and economic geography to reveal ways in which the American economic development apparatus can be adjusted to better meet the challenges of a highly decentralized production regime.

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OUP Oxford

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0191536652

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9780191536656

Acquisitional Wealth

The Fastest, Most Proven Way to Create Life-Changing Prosperity

By: Josh Tolley

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Acquisitional Wealth

The Fastest, Most Proven Way to Create Life-Changing Prosperity

By: Josh Tolley

Discover the fastest, safest proven method of creating wealth in the history of the world. For millennia, the wealthiest amongst us—including Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, and so many others—have known the secret to real wealth creation. Find out how you can access the same results in as little as 90 days. If you’ve had a job longer than a year, you probably wish there was a way to leapfrog ahead of where you are financially. With this life-changing approach, you can go from earning $50K per year to $500K with the stroke of a pen. Acquisitional Wealth is a time machine for wealth that will teach you how to: Buy a proven and profitable business and instantly reap the profits Use your 401(k) as your down payment without taxes or penalty fees Make sure you know how to identify the right business for you Provide the information you need to negotiate a great deal and keep the profits coming for years to come Avoid the wrong businesses that might appear cheap but end up costing you a fortune From Josh Tolley, leading business strategist and host of The Josh Tolley Show and Acquisitional Wealth, this methodology is easy to put into action regardless of age, income, education, or other typical limiting factors. All you need to decide is how soon you’re ready to get started.

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BenBella Books

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1637744838

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9781637744833

Grokking Streaming Systems

Real-time Event Processing

By: Josh Fischer,Ning Wang

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Grokking Streaming Systems

Real-time Event Processing

By: Josh Fischer,Ning Wang

Grokking Streaming Systems introduces real-time event streaming applications in clear, reader-friendly language. This engaging book illuminates core concepts like data parallelization, event windows, and backpressure without getting bogged down in framework-specific details. As you go, you'll build your own simple streaming tool from the ground up to make sure all the ideas and techniques stick. The helpful and entertaining illustrations make streaming systems come alive as you tackle relevant examples like real-time credit card fraud detection and monitoring IoT services.

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Simon and Schuster

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1617297305

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9781617297304

The Ultimate Dividend Playbook

Income, Insight and Independence for Today's Investor

By: Morningstar, Inc.,Josh Peters

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The Ultimate Dividend Playbook

Income, Insight and Independence for Today's Investor

By: Morningstar, Inc.,Josh Peters

Many people believe that the key to success in the stock market is buying low and selling high. But how many investors have the time, talent, and luck to earn consistent returns this way? In The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight, and Independence for Today’s Investor, Josh Peters, editor of the monthly Morningstar DividendInvestor newsletter, shows you why you don’t have to try to beat the market and how you can use dividends to capture the income and growth you seek.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118045041

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9781118045046

Sunset Empire

By: Josh Weiss

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Sunset Empire

By: Josh Weiss

The Korean War rages on in this thrilling alternate history sequel to Beat the Devils: Morris Baker, now a private investigator, must solve a missing persons case in the midst of an endless battle. December, 1959: The Korean War rages on. Protesting the bloody conflict, a Korean-American man by the name of William Yang suddenly blows himself up in the middle of a Los Angeles department store just before Christmas, which leads the U.S. government to reopen the internment camps used during World War II. President Joseph McCarthy's America has never been more on edge, paranoid, and above all, dangerous. Several weeks later, a woman hires Morris Baker, now working as a private investigator, to track down her missing husband — Henry Kissinger — who may have a shadowy connection to Yang's purported terrorist attack. The ensuing investigation for the missing State Department consultant working for Vice President Richard Nixon sends Baker on another thrilling adventure of deceit, intrigue, sex, murder, and conspiracy where the safety of the entire world may hang in the balance.

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Grand Central Publishing

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1538719460

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9781538719466

Camp Murderface

By: Saundra Mitchell,Josh Berk

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Camp Murderface

By: Saundra Mitchell,Josh Berk

Summer camp turns sinister in Camp Murderface, a spooky middle grade read perfect for fans of scare masters like R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike. The year: 1983. The place: Ohio. The camp: Scary as heck. Camp Sweetwater is finally reopening, three decades after it mysteriously shut down. Campers Corryn Quinn and Tez Jones have each had more than enough of their regular lives—they’re so ready to take their summer at Sweetwater by storm. But before they can so much as toast one marshmallow, strange happenings start…happening. Can they survive the summer? Or will Camp Sweetwater shut down for good this time—with them inside?

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HarperCollins

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006287165X

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9780062871657

Camp Murderface #2: Doom in the Deep

By: Saundra Mitchell,Josh Berk

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Camp Murderface #2: Doom in the Deep

By: Saundra Mitchell,Josh Berk

A long-abandoned—and long-haunted—summer camp sets the stage for the sequel to Camp Murderface, perfect for fans of old school scare masters like R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike. There’s no such thing as an uneventful summer at Camp Sweetwater. Now that the Vampire Devils beneath the lake have been awakened, the camp is in big trouble. The first victims? Tez and Corryn’s counselors, Gavin and Scary Mary. The Camp Director insists that the missing counselors are just quitting and going home, but Tez and Corryn don’t believe it. They know something much more eeeeeeevil is afoot. With the help of their cabinmates, Tez and Corryn set out to investigate the disappearances. But what they find is a horror closer than the bottom of the lake... and it might just spell the end for all of them.

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