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And every week, there was the unspoken question, the one I didn’t know enough to ask myself : Have you found her yet? The one who reminds you of you?

Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer Now thirty-four years old and a successful writer, she’d changed her life for the better; now she wanted to help someone else–someone like the girl she’d once been.

Then she met Sam. A brilliant nineteen-year-old junkie savant, the product of a horrifically abusive home, Sam had been surviving alone on the streets since she was twelve and was now struggling for sobriety against the adverse health effects of long-term drug abuse.

Soon Janice found herself caring deeply for Sam, following her through detoxes and psych wards, halfway houses and hospitals, becoming ever more manically driven to save her from the sickness and sadness leftover from Sam’s terrible past. But just as Janice was on the verge of becoming the girl’s legal guardian, she made a shocking discovery: Sam was sicker than anyone knew, in ways nobody could have imagined.

Written with startling candor and immediacy, Have You Found Her is the story of one woman’s quest to save a girl’s life–and the hard truths she learns about herself along the way.

“A rich and compelling account . . . Ultimately this is a book about the narrator’s journey and the dangers that attend the urge within us all to believe we can save another soul. A terrific read.”
–Cammie McGovern, author of Eye Contact .
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Includes the major gardening categories, from annuals and perennials to trees and shrubs, including lawns and vegetables

The Month-by-Month series provides credible information on maintaining plants throughout the year in a specific state. These books contain monthly advice on what to do in the garden and when to do it, along with the author's personal recommendations on specific plants that perform well in the state.

Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. More homeowners are enjoying the beauty and satisfaction they derive from improving their home landscape.

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Beating the market is never easy, especially in tough times. But a handful of pros have managed to outperform the averages by 16 to 1 over the past three years. They've done it by buying under-priced stocks and riding them to hefty gains. In fact, these value managers regularly outperform both their peers and the market. In Value Investing with the Masters, investment expert, author, and media commentator Kirk Kazanjian interviews 20 of the world's leading value stock pickers. Under his skillful questioning, he uncovers how they pick promising investments and make big money even when the rest of the market is in the red. In this series of one-on-one interviews, the managers, who follow in the footsteps of such greats as Warren Buffet and Benjamin Graham, discuss their backgrounds, investment techniques, biggest mistakes, best bits of advice, and more. They explain in detail how they stay ahead of the competition, and give their take on everything from indexing to which sectors and industries stand to do best in the years to come. Kazanjian also provides readers with "The 10 Keys of Successful Value Investing" -- detailed rules for selecting stocks using a value approach. Plus, because all of the featured managers run publicly traded mutual funds, their performance records are well documented, their names are familiar, and readers can actually hire them to invest their own money. As a result, whether investors are looking for the best value managers around, or simply want to learn how to select winning stocks from the top pros in the business, Value Investing with the Masters provides all of the information investors need to profit and profit big..
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Bruce Cutler, one of the most famous lawyers in America, has never told his story—until now. Best known for his tenacious and highly publicized defense of John Gotti in the 1980s and early 1990s, Cutler personified a confidence, passion, and legal thoroughness that repeatedly defied a government determined to bring Gotti to his knees. A ubiquitous presence at Gotti’s side in and out of the courtroom—and on the front pages of newspapers around the country—Cutler became almost as infamous as his client. And, as John Gotti became a lightning rod for every prosecutor seeking glory, reputation, or promotion, Cutler too became a lightning rod for controversy. According to the feds, Bruce Cutler may have gotten too close, and they made sure that both he and his client paid the price.

Cutler, the son of a detective turned lawyer, resolved his choice of profession early in life and plunged headlong into the tumultuous and at times surreal world of the New York legal system. In Closing Argument, Cutler recounts his time as an aggressive, tireless assistant D.A. in Brooklyn; how he switched sides and became a fiercely dedicated defense attorney working with Barry Slotnick, one of New York’s
premier criminal attorneys; and the path that led him to John Gotti’s side in court. It was March 28, 1985,
to be precise: He was thirty-six years old, and it was a moment that would change both men’s lives forever.

Closing Argument is the inside story of how Bruce Cutler and John Gotti frustrated the feds so much
that they finally had to break the rules themselves to convict the so-called Teflon Don. The years Cutler and Gotti spent together were a kind of golden age of criminal (and in particular organized crime) litigation, and both lawyer and client were at the red-hot center of it all. What neither man may have realized then is that the famous trials were mostly about the government’s wanting to put an end to a certain way of life, one that John Gotti and his like embodied. The conviction of Gotti, and his subsequent death in 2002 while serving a life sentence in solitary confinement, marked the end of an era. Closing Argument is a glimpse into the world of John Gotti: the talk around the table at the notorious Ravenite social club; the murder of Paul Castellano; Gotti’s feelings about the treachery of Sammy “The Bull” Gravano and the alleged betrayal by Wilfred “Willie Boy” Johnson; and what it took to make it in a world with its own set of unbreakable rules.

This fascinating document makes clear that Gotti and Cutler were perfectly matched. Their inability to compromise, their full-throttle approach to their defense, and the charisma that made them the favorites of the press, were their strengths and, ironically, what made them such inviting targets to a host of prosecutors.

Bruce Cutler, in typical style, pulls no punches in Closing Argument. It is very rare for a practicing lawyer to talk with the kind of candor he does here, and it is rarer for any lawyer to ever become as passionate
and emotionally involved as he did with his client, John Gotti..
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No one has satirized New York society quite like Dawn Powell. In this classic novel, she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the publishing industry. "(Powell) identifies every sort of publishing type with the patience of a pathologist removing organs for inspection."--Joseph Ferrandino, San Francisco Review of Books..
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The Career Knowtes Series as presented on national radio...

Ever dreamed about how you can earn a living shopping in the nicest department stores, boutiques, furniture stores, and warehouses for other people? You can by being a personal shopper. In this career guide, find out how you can become a personal shopper, where the opportunities are, and how to do the job. While there are many ways to get into this fun and exciting career, this book includes information about the best ways to enter personal shopping, what employers look for, how to prepare a resume that stands out, how to contact employers, and even how to begin your own business.

Not a textbook or intended to replace a vocational course, but a simple, straight-forward career guide in the Career KNOWtes Series about "How to Have Fun and Make Money in" a career you love. These guides are designed to give you an overview of a fun and fulfilling job, the basics on how to get started, and the tools on how to get going. Learn about a Career or Business before you devote years to it.

Look for other great books in the Career KNOWtes Series of How to Have Fun and Make Money Books: Mystery shopping, Personal Shopping, Public Relations, Promotions, Advertising, Event Planning, Wedding Planning, Tour Operator, Catering, Bed and Breakfast, Food Writer, Travel Writer, Romance Writer, Screenwriter, TV Sitcom Writer, TV Drama Writer, Game Designer, Professional Organizer, Etiquette Consultant, Day Care, Make-up Artist, Graphic Artist, Photographer, Seminar Producer, Fashion Stylist, Greeting Cards, and more. Written and researched by veteran journalists, researchers, career counselors, and practitioners in the field, these Career KNOWtes guides have been compared to a Cliff’s Notes version of career guidance..
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