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A hilarious romp from start to finish, with a lord and his man having a rollicking good time with subtlety of all kinds.

Come to Dust: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This the eighth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. This time involves fundraising for the old Ivy league college, Dartmouth in fact, with various goings-on related to missing checks, possible embezzlement, and more. It's windy twisty road to the solution made by John Putnam Thatcher. Good fun, witty, and informative.

The wit and wisdom of Elbert Hubbard - this is the first book to give your children. It covers everything from people and work, to education, training, medicine, and religion, to courtesy, business, family, and work again, to the key to longevity, the "Creed of the Future", becoming the boss, and America and the importance of freedom. A track on Hubbard's thoughts over many subjects. A must listen.

An Excursion to Canada is a remarkable work by Thoreau, very different from his other works. Here he becomes an American traveler who shows far greater respect for America than Canada, while explaining the details of the chasm between the Church (Black) and the soldiers (Red) in Quebec that Stendhal pointed out in The Red and the Black in France. Something like DeTocqueville's Democracy in America, but here Canada is the country under the microscope.

638 Canadian Words & 23 Phrases extends the Sound Smarter and Be More Respected series into Canada. Over 500 of these uniquely Canadian words do not appear in standard American dictionaries. Listening to these words you get a flavor for the brevity and wit of Canadian speech. In fact, as the author comments, no other dialect of English has such a strong sense of humor.

The story centers on an impoverished clerk who is dedicated to his job as a routine copyist but not recognized for his hard work. Younger clerks mock him for his dedication. His threadbare overcoat is mocked as well. He saves up to buy a new one and wears it for one glorious evening, only to have it stolen that night. He dies soon after from his great loss. Thereafter, his ghost is reported to haunt that part of St. Petersburg where the coat was stolen.

Deaver Brown is a Harvard History Magna & Harvard MBA, with training in economics & philosophy. A serial entrepreneur, author of The Entrepreneurs Guide-Macmillan & Ballantine as well as 50 other books.

Deaver Brown is a Harvard History Magna & Harvard MBA, with training in economics & philosophy. A serial entrepreneur, author of The Entrepreneurs Guide-Macmillan & Ballantine as well as 50 other books.

America's Renaissance Man as author of the Declaration of Independence & Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom. President, founder of UVA, launched the Lewis & Clark expedition, and Bought the Louisiana Purchase, the greatest real estate deal in history.

History from many perspectives.

An Historical Gothic Romance set in Paris and elsewhere in France, Germany, and Spain. A rollicking good tale from Parisian salons to Peasant feasts and more.

Emerson describes the fluidity of thinking and life; how we need to be open to new ideas and not be wed to old ones; how to open ourselves up to these ideas by expanding our circles of knowledge and ideas.

12 Short Kafka stories plus 3 bonus ones. The Great Wall & Tower of Babel, The Pit of Babel, Paradise, The Tower of Babel, Mount Sinai, Abraham, My Destination, The Tiger, Couriers, The Coming of the Messiah, The Cell, The Emperor, The Truth About Sancho Panza, The News of Building the Great Wall & The Wish to Be a Red Indian.

These aphorisms are impressive independently as well as insightful to Kafka's thinking. He carefully numbered and kept them on separate pages. A must-listen to understand Kafka's thinking.

The story of an ape who copied men so as to escape from his cage and be shown off in circuses as well as addressing crowds, with the remarkable insights of Kafka.

A singer is popular with the German people but not particularly good at singing. Kafka uses the story to illustrate Germanic beliefs, tight fistedness, strong work effort, and battles with neighbors. Remarkable insights as always from Kafka.

10 Kafka stories: A Fratricide, The Next Village, The Bucket Rider, Prometheus, Poseidon, The Problem of the Laws, A Little Fable, Give it Up!, On Parables & An Imperial Message.

Brett Swartz describes how to retain the highest percentage of your wealth through deferring capital gains taxes through Deferred Sales Trusts or Delaware 1031 Exchanges.

Smith elevates one’s thinking about how to help others to have a better life for yourself, providing the practical tools to do so.

Emerson describes the existence & nature of the human soul, the relationship between the ego & the soul, the relation between God & the soul, reaching back to all of Western thought starting with Socrates & Plato.