Author: Sarah Strohmeyer Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101099135 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 356
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The Agatha Award-winning series returns with a new tale of suspicions, steel-town secrets, and homicide by hair product. For years the local ladies of Lehigh, Pennsylvania, have wished aloud that Debbie Shatsky would meet an untimely end-so they could get their hands on Phil Shatsky, sports-hating, dinner-cooking, massage-giving husband extraordinaire. But when Debbie gets hair extensions at the House of Beauty and dies from a reaction to the glue, it's salon owner Sandy who gets the blame. Her best friend Bubbles Yablonsky, reporter and sleuth, is determined to investigate-despite distractions from the two men in her life. And from a mysterious Santa Claus, who warns Bubbles not to cry, not to pout and not to scream...when he tries to kill her.
Author: Abby Cooper Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) ISBN: 0374302928 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 271
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From the author of Sticks & Stones, a novel about friendship, overcoming obstacles, and what it really means to understand the people around you. Twelve-year-old Sophie Mulvaney's world has been turned upside down. Mom lost her job at the TV station and broke up with Pratik, whom Sophie adored. Her teacher is making them do a special project about risk-taking, so Sophie gets roped into doing a triathlon. And to top it all off, she's started seeing bubbles above people's heads that tell her what these people are thinking. Seeing other people's thoughts seems like it should be cool, but it's actually just stressful. What does it mean that Pratik wishes she and Mom were with him to eat dinner? Is her best friend Kaya really going out with their other best friend, Rafael, whom Sophie also has a crush on? And can Sophie's mom ever go back to her old self? In this funny, heartwarming novel from Abby Cooper, BUBBLES shows readers that people are more than what they seem—or what they think.
Author: Margaret Mahy Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books ISBN: 0711254028 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 39
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Little Mabel blew a bubble and it caused a lot of trouble... Such a lot of bubble trouble in a bibble-bobble way. For it broke away from Mabel as it bobbed across the table, Where it bobbled over Baby, and it wafted him away. Follow the hilarious efforts of the townsfolk as they chase the baby far across the town in an effort to get him down from the bubble safe and sound.
Author: Sarah Strohmeyer Publisher: ISBN: 9780755324484 Category : Beauty operators Languages : en Pages : 374
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What Bubbles is all too aware of, however, is that so far this week she's been arrested, shared a cell with a crazed murder suspect who promptly dropped dead and nearly lost her precious daughter in a highly suspicious explosion. She's been kidnapped by mobsters, received a couple of death threats and survived the latest visit from her mother - all without breaking a nail. Now the 21st- century's sexiest crime-fighter must investigate the gruesome murder of Liberty High School's longest-serving Principal while trying to find a missing foot doctor, avoid the Polish Mafioso and fend off the jealous hoards of Mrs Stiletto wannabes...
Author: Kevin Hassett Publisher: Crown Currency ISBN: 1400045126 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 171
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There are only two types of stocks: those safe from bubbles and those that are not. This is a fact of investing many discovered as they saw their fabulous gains whittled away by the extreme calamity of the Internet sector. But what about the future? Is there a way for investors to capture the enormous potential for profit that exists at the frontier of the economy, the place where innovation and genius operate, without placing their fortunes in jeopardy? Is there a way to evaluate price increases—and declines—and identify whether they are happening for good or bad reasons? Bubbleology makes it possible to separate the winners from the losers. It is a brilliant, practical, and original analysis of the stock market that bashes the conventional wisdom about bubbles, showing that such famous examples as Tulipomania were not, in fact, bubbles at all. Bubbleology shows that the traditional way of evaluating risk—equating it with volatility—is inherently flawed and incomplete. If a stock fluctuates a lot in price it is regarded as risky. If the price is stable, then it is not. What this simplistic way of thinking leaves out is the simple fact that companies trying something completely new that may fundamentally alter the economic landscape are operating at the frontier. The stock of such a company swims in a sea of ambiguity, its circumstances uncertain, since there is little to provide guidance about the future. But when nobody knows for sure what will happen, pundits tell us again about Tulipomania, the South Seas Bubble, and now the debacle of the Internet to scare investors away from potentially enormous profits. To realize those profits, however, investors have to understand the role that uncertainty and ambiguity—the absence of reliable information about future events—play in the modern stock market. Those who equate ambiguity with bubbles will miss the great opportunities of the future. Bubbleology provides a new way to observe what is really going on in the market, enabling you to understand whether a stock or a sector is suspicious—whether it is in a bubble and therefore something to be avoided. Finding bubbles requires knowing where to look and what to look for. Bubbleology will help you avoid both streaming into speculative manias and shying away from perfectly good business opportunities. It tells you why you need to avoid both pontificating pundits and overconfident stock analysts. With this unique and forward-thinking book, you can inspect suspicious stocks, accurately discern risk, and diagnose a blossoming bubble before it vanishes along with your money.
Author: Adam Rubin Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 054404536X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 38
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An ordinary bubble may seem pretty harmless to you. To the monsters of La La Land, however, a fragile, shimmering bubble is an object of terror, and when the frightening habits of bubbles are detailed by a fear-mongering monster, Yerbert, Froofle, and Wumpus run away and cry. But with encouragement from the narrator and from readers—“Go on, Wumpus, you can do it. (Tell Wumpus he can do it.)”—the three learn to confront their fears and triumph over the bubbles! An original, offbeat, and giggle-inducing take on conquering fears from the New York Times best-selling team responsible for the groundbreaking Those Darn Squirrels! books.
Author: Publisher: Dial ISBN: 9780803730243 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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When a cute yellow bird catches her eye in a store window, Ruby instantly knows she has just met her very best friend. Ruby s life with Bubbles is as fun and as fancy as a girl could ever wish for. They sing, they shop, they chat and chirp. Until that awful Bratty Hatty shrieks (in front of everybody)-"That s not a friend, that s a bird! And he can t even fly!" Suddenly, Ruby s perfect friend doesn t seem quite so perfect anymore. She knows she loves Bubbles, but maybe she should try and change him - just a little? For readers who like stories with great style and great heart, Rosie Winstead offers an endearing tale of what it takes to be a friend who s true-blue - and yellow!
Author: Axel Bruns Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1509536469 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 83
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There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles on public debate. Is this concern justified, or is it distracting us from more serious issues? Axel Bruns argues that the influence of echo chambers and filter bubbles has been severely overstated, and results from a broader moral panic about the role of online and social media in society. Our focus on these concepts, and the widespread tendency to blame platforms and their algorithms for political disruptions, obscure far more serious issues pertaining to the rise of populism and hyperpolarisation in democracies. Evaluating the evidence for and against echo chambers and filter bubbles, Bruns offers a persuasive argument for why we should shift our focus to more important problems. This timely book is essential reading for students and scholars, as well as anyone concerned about challenges to public debate and the democratic process.
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