The Winner

by David Baldacci
The Winner
Author: David Baldacci
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2002-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0759524912
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A rags-to-riches deal for single mother LuAnn Tyler is deadlier than she ever could have imagined in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci. THE DREAM She is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when LuAnn Tyler is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever. THE KILLER It's an offer she dares to refuse...until violence forces her hand and thrusts her into a harrowing game of high-stakes, big-money subterfuge. It's a price she won't fully pay...until she does the unthinkable and breaks the promise that made her rich. THE WINNER For if LuAnn Tyler comes home, she will be pitted against the deadliest contestant of all: the chameleon-like financial mastermind who changed her life. And who can take it away at will...

Pig the Winner

by Aaron Blabey
Pig the Winner
Author: Aaron Blabey
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2016-05-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1407171992
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From award-winning creator of PIG THE PUG (9781407154985) comes a brand new tale about the world's greediest pug. Pig the Pug is back and this time he is being a great big cheat. But when his latest attempt to beat his best friend, Trevor, backfires will Pig the Pug learn his lesson at last?

You May Already Be a Winner

by Ann Dee Ellis
You May Already Be a Winner
Author: Ann Dee Ellis
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2017-07-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101993871
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For fans of Ali Benjamin’s The Thing About Jellyfish and Katherine Applegate’s Crenshaw comes the humorous and heart aching story of one girl’s struggle to keep hope alive for her and her younger sister in Sunny Pines Trailer Park. Twelve-year-old Olivia Hales has a foolproof plan for winning a million dollars so that she and her little sister, Berkeley, can leave behind Sunny Pines Trailer Park. But first she has to: · Fix the swamp cooler and make dinner and put Berkeley to bed because her mom is too busy to do all that · Write another letter to her dad even though he hasn’t written back yet · Teach Berk the important stuff, like how to make chalk drawings, because they can’t afford day care and Olivia has to stay home from school to watch her · Petition her oddball neighbors for a circus spectacular, because there needs to be something to look forward to at dumb-bum Sunny Pines · Become a super-secret spy to impress her new friend Bart · Enter a minimum of fourteen sweepstakes a day. Who knows? She may already be a winner! Olivia has thought of everything . . . except herself. Who will take care of her when she needs it? Luckily, somewhere deep down between her small intestine and stomach is a tiny voice reminding her that sometimes people can surprise you—and sometimes your family is right next door.

For the Winner

by Emily Hauser
For the Winner
Author: Emily Hauser
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473525527
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Some three thousand years ago, in a time before history, the warriors of Greece journeyed to the ends of the earth in the greatest expedition the world had ever seen. One woman fought alongside them. Abandoned at birth on the slopes of Mount Pelion, Atalanta is determined to prove her worth to the father who cast her aside. Having taught herself to hunt and fight, and disguised as a man, she wins a place on the greatest voyage of that heroic age: with Jason and his band of Argonauts in search of the legendary Golden Fleece. And it is here, in the company of men who will go down in history as heroes, that Atalanta must battle against the odds – and the will of the gods – to take control of her destiny and change her life forever. With her unrivalled knowledge and captivating storytelling, Emily Hauser brings alive an ancient world where the gods can transform a mortal’s life on a whim, where warriors carve out names that will echo down the ages . . . and where one woman fights to determine her own fate.

The Winner-Take-All Society

by Robert Frank
The Winner-Take-All Society
Author: Robert Frank
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1996-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0140259953
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Disney chairman Michael Eisner topped the 1993 Business Week chart of America's highest-paid executives, his $203 million in earnings roughly 10,000 times that of the lowest paid Disney employee. During the last two decades, the top one percent of U.S. earners captured more than 40 percent of the country's total earnings growth, one of the largest shifts any society has endured without a revolution or military defeat. Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook argue that behind this shift lies the spread of "winner-take-all markets"—markets in which small differences in performance give rise to enormous differences in reward. Long familiar in sports and entertainment, this payoff pattern has increasingly permeated law, finance, fashion, publishing, and other fields. The result: in addition to the growing gap between rich and poor, we see important professions like teaching and engineering in aching need of more talent. This relentless emphasis on coming out on top—the best-selling book, the blockbuster film, the Super Bowl winner—has molded our discourse in ways that many find deeply troubling.

The Winner

by Karl Stevens
The Winner
Author: Karl Stevens
Publisher: Retrofit Comics
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2018-03-27
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781940398747
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Karl Stevens uses the graphic novel to dissect the line between the worlds of high and low art. While working as a museum guard he contemplates the plight of his aesthetic choices, and how they have affected his life thus far. Where is his place as an artist? How has his world changed since he met his wife and muse Alex? Has he become boring since he quit drinking? Painted visions of autobiographical reality swing into experiments with fantasy and science fiction.

And the Winner is

by Mitch Albom
And the Winner is
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2008
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822222217
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THE STORY: AND THE WINNER IS tells the comic story of Tyler Johnes, a self-obsessed movie star, who is finally nominated for an Oscar, then dies the night before the awards. Outraged at his bad luck and determined to know if he wins (even though he

Discovering the Winner Within

by Bishop Darryl Husband Sr.
Discovering the Winner Within
Author: Bishop Darryl Husband Sr.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2009-09-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0557050359
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Discovering the Winner Within is a Character Training devotional manual, on how to live life by Kingdom principles. This book will assist you on your journey toward fulfilling your God ordained Destiny; 'for attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight; for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair; for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young' (Proverbs 1:2-4)