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For Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman, executive assistants to the CEOs of newly merged Bexley-Gamin Publishing, it's hate-at-first-sight. So begins a series of daily passive-aggressive maneuvers, including the staring game, the mirror game, and the HR game, each played with the intensity of the Hunger Games. Their mutual antipathy grows when a new executive position opens at Bexley-Gamin, and both their bosses put their names up for the promotion....
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2013.
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English
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"Top Dog" exposes the hidden factors behind every sort of win and loss--from bringing home a gold medal in Olympic swimming to bombing the SAT. Exploring the psychology of rankings, the neuroscience of mistakes, and the DNA of fearlessness, "Top Dog"'s filled with cutting-edge science.
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2022.
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English
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When the final four women in competition for an aloof, if somewhat sleazy, bachelor's heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest, they mentally prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation, invasive interviews, and of course, the salacious drama that viewers nationwide tune in to eagerly devour. Each woman came on "The Catch" for her own reasons--brand sponsorships, followers, and yes, even love--and they've all...
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"Between taking night classes for her MBA and her demanding day job at a cruise line, marketing manager Henley Evans barely has time for herself, let alone family, friends, or dating. But when she's shortlisted for the promotion of her dreams, all her sacrifices finally seem worth it. The only problem? Graeme Crawford-Collins, the remote social media manager and the bane of her existence, is also up for the position. Although they've never met in...
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MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The authors' research into leader character demonstrates its effect on judgment and finds that fostering a culture where character is valued equally alongside competence can result in better decisions and outcomes. Furthermore, they find that, as with competence, character can be developed through education and practice.
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"When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother's bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two women stabbing and killing their Russian bodyguards...
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2019.
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"Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read."-Meg Wolitzer.
"This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and...
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Tiny pretty things volume 1
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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©2015.
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English
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Three top students at an exclusive Manhattan ballet academy compete for the status of prima ballerina, with each willing to sacrifice, manipulate, and backstab to be the best of the best.
10) Dino-Boarding
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English
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Meat-eating and vegetarian dinosaurs compete in surfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding events.
11) Set on you
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2022.
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English
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Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. After her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym, her place of power and positivity. Enter firefighter Scott Ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite squat rack. Sparks fly as these ultra-competitive foes battle for gym domination. But after a series of escalating...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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To win a lucrative scholarship to one of the nation's best culinary schools, seventeen-year-old Carter Lane travels to Savannah to compete in a cooking contest and finds herself falling in love with her main rival, Reid Yamada.
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Criterion collection volume 215
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2003]
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Polish
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The suspenseful story of three people isolated for 24 hours aboard a yacht.
14) Bad habits
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2021.
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English
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"A grad student becomes embroiled in a deadly rivalry that changes her into someone unrecognizable to her struggling family, her ambitious academic friends, and even herself"--
"Claire "Mac" Woods--a professor enjoying her newfound hotshot status at an academic conference--finally has the acceptance and admiration she has long craved. But at the conference's hotel bar, Mac is surprised to run into a face from a past she'd rather forget: the moneyed,...
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Life in the wild volume 3
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Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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This is a comic-adventure story of a mild-mannered moose who learns how to take life by the antlers. This moose may live in the wild, but he doesn't act it --- he watches from the sidelines as his friends have fun. Every now and then, he wonders if he's missing out on anything. The moose's unlikely hero-journey is a lighthearted, contemporary fable that celebrates living life to the fullest.
16) Number one Sam
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Publisher
Disney*Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
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English
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"A competitive race-car driving dog learns that some things are more important than being number one"--
18) The Hating Game
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English
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Resolving to achieve professional success without compromising her ethics, Lucy embarks on a ruthless game of one-upmanship against cold and efficient nemesis Joshua, a rivalry that is complicated by her growing attraction to him.
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League of griefers volume 1
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"In this first installment in a new series for Minecrafters, Noah and Violet have to battle the league of griefers, including the tricky and powerful rainbow griefers"--
20) King of the ice
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Miles Lewis volume 1
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"When his friend RJ bets that Miles will wipe out at the ice rink, he is determined to prove him wrong."--
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