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Meet the Frugalwoods: achieving financial independence through simple living
By Elizabeth Willard Thames. 2018
Presents the deeply personal story of how award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the…
city and embraced frugality to create a more meaningful, purpose-driven life, and retired to a homestead in the Vermont woods at age thirty-two with her husband and daughter. 2018.Master your debt: slash your monthly payments and become debt free (Your coach in a box)
By Bill Westrom, Jordan Elliot Goodman. 2010
The world of borrowing and debt management has changed dramatically, leaving people confused about how best to secure their financial…
future. This audiobook is the only guide with detailed advice to help you become debt-free or master the debt you have, based on the latest laws and new government programs and policies implemented under the Obama administration. 2010.Deux innocents en Chine rouge
By Alexandre Trudeau, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Jacques Hébert, Marie José Thériault. 2007
Depuis que l'Occident a découvert la Chine, notre imaginaire est hanté par son exotisme lointain, sa culture mystérieuse et sa…
population prodigieuse. En 1960, fascinés par ce grand pays, Pierre Trudeau et Jacques Hébert visitent ses usines, ses hôpitaux et ses musées avant de publier " Deux Innocents en Chine rouge ". Un récit d'aventures passionnantes appelé à devenir plus que jamais un classique de la littérature canadienne. 2007.Live well, retire well: strategies for a rich life and a richer retirement
By Patricia Lovett-Reid, Jonathan Verney. 2006
Lovett-Reid, one of Canada's leading authorities on wealth management, challenges conventional views on retirement by offering a comprehensive, four-step plan…
that will enhance the financial and emotional quality of retirement living. While recognizing the different stages of retirement, she includes the investment knowledge and tools, insurance and tax tools needed to move seamlessly and prosperously into a new life. 2006.Letters from China
By Maureen Hynes. 1981
In 1980, Hynes was selected by the Canadian external affairs department to teach at Sichuan University in China. Letters, diary…
entries, and narrative commentary portray a vivid picture of the day-to-day adventures and experiences of a Canadian "foreign expert" in China. 1981.Love & money: a life guide for financial success
By Jeff D Opdyke. 2004
Opdyke's book has been praised for combining the financial and the personal - giving couples a guide for how to…
discuss money matters and how to plan their financial futures. Part relationship manual, part financial roadmap, this wise and entertaining primer provides priceless guidance. 2004.Long road home: a China journal
By Vera Schwarcz. 1984
An exchange student at Peking University gives an account of her insights. Includes descriptions of the 30th anniversary celebration of…
the People's Republic of China, and her journey through 13 provinces. 1984.Le libraire de Kaboul: récit
By Åsne Seierstad. 2003
L'auteur a vécu le printemps suivant la défaite des Talibans chez Sultan Khan, libraire à Kaboul. Elle nous fait partager,…
dans ce récit très vivant et toujours respectueux, la vie quotidienne des épouses, enfants, frères et soeurs jumelles d'une famille où chaque destin est riche démotions et dont le ched incontestable est Sultan, l'amoureux des livres. 2003. Titre uniforme: Bokhandleren i Kabul et familiedrama.L'enfant de la jungle: récit (J'ai lu. Récit)
By Sabine Kuegler, Barbara Fontaine. 2007
Officiellement, les taux d'imposition au Canada augmentent en fonction du revenu. Conséquemment, les gens dont les revenus dépassent les 200,000$…
paieraient, en principe, un taux d'impôt très élevé. En réalité, cette version officielle n'est qu'une amusante fiction. Ce livre nous révèle le véritable univers de l'impôt. 1987. Titre uniforme: Behind closed doors.Le roman de Pékin (Le roman des lieux et destins magiques)
By Bernard Brizay. 2008
Pour les Chinois, comme pour les Occidentaux, jamais capitale n'a autant mérité le statut de ville mythique. Résidence du Fils…
du Ciel, capitale administrative, culturelle et religieuse du plus vieux, du plus peuplé et du plus grand empire au monde, Pékin et la Cité pourpre interdite où vivait l'empereur, entouré de ses concubines et de ses eunuques, fait toujours fantasmer. Le palais impérial est resté pendant cinq cents ans le centre sacré de l'Empire, le siège du gouvernement, où s'est écrite la grande histoire, celle de la Chine. Et la petite histoire, car la Cité interdite fut aussi le lieu privilégié d'intrigues, de drames et de crimes. 2008.Le lumineux destin d'Alexandra David-Néel
By Jean Chalon. 1985
Mme David-Neel ne s'est jamais arrêtée: anarchiste, bourgeoise, bouddhiste, cantatrice, orientaliste, exploratrice (elle fut la première parisienne à pénétrer à…
Lhassa en 1924), journaliste, écrivain... Quelle leçon de persévérance que cette femme qui, à 100 ans, faisait renouveler son passeport! 1985.Last moments of a world
By Margaret Gaan. 1978
Reminiscences of life in Shanghai from the early 1920s to 1950, when the author and her mother, the only remaining…
members of a Euro-Chinese family, left for Hong Kong and eventually America. Includes portraits of her wacky family and their unscrupulous, but faithful, Chinese household staff. 1978.Easy money (Good reads)
By Gail E Vaz-Oxlade. 2010
The author will show you how to make your money work for you. Budgeting, saving, and getting your debt paid…
off have never been so easy to understand or to do. 2010.Jasmine and arnica
By Nicola Naylor. 2001
Many would balk at the idea of a white woman traveling India alone - and in particular, a blind woman.…
Throughout her childhood Nicola Naylor had been fascinated by images of the subcontinent and was determined both to realize her dream of visiting and to push back the stifling constraints imposed by perceptions of her disability. While depending on her third eye - or sixth sense - she explores India from the inside. 2001.Arousing the goddess
By Tim Ward. 1996
During his two years meandering the "Dharma Trail" through Asia, Ward met and fell in love with an Austrian Indologist…
who was in India doing research. Working as her assistant, Ward travels India with her. Together they find themselves sharing their discovery of the tantric path, in which all acts and emotions, including sex and passion, become part of the search for spiritual liberation. Some strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. c1996.Mauldin asked 12 of today's most successful investors to share their most valuable investment secrets. The result is a dozen…
clearly written essays, distilling decades of financial experience into easy-to-grasp tips anyone can put into practice. 2006.Journey to the Middle Kingdom
By Christopher West. 1991
Christopher West fills a rucksack, and heads for the country most unlike his own he can imagine. He travels up…
the eastern coast of China by train, bus, bicycle and boat, meeting peasants, racketeers, monks, entrepreneurs, veteran revolutionaries and former Red Guards. The climax comes on the Great Wall, where he experiences a moment of intense revelatory happiness. 1991.Japan, where East meets West (Discovering our heritage)
By Judith Davidson. 1983
An introduction to the history and culture of Japan including a discussion of Japanese in the United States. Discusses Japanese…
legends, festivals, home life, schools, and sports. Grades 5-8. 1983. (Discovering our heritage)I have something to tell you
By Natalie Appleton. 2017
On the eve of Christmas and a proposal, Natalie Appleton discovers she doesn’t want to settle for sevens, and starts…
over. So, she abandons everything in Alberta for Bangkok. Along the way, Natalie unpacks the past that caused her to flee: cheating hearts, small-town suffocation, a tattered family and a genetic disposition to madness. In Bangkok, Natalie kills an albino gecko, crawls into bed with a lampseller and nearly calls off her quest when she’s almost attacked by a leather vendor. And then, at a grimy guesthouse one year after arriving in Thailand, everything changes. 2017.