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To Serve Them All My Days by R. F. Delderfield from Sourcebooks Landmark ($1.99) is the Kindle Deal of the Day (November 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "R. F. Delderfield’s depiction of life between the wars in England is a masterpiece of storytelling."
The beloved classic saga from master author R. F. Delderfield, subject of a landmark BBC miniseries.
To Serve Them All My Days is the moving saga of David Powlett-Jones, who returns from World War I injured and shell-shocked. He is hired to teach history at Bamfylde School, where he rejects the formal curriculum and teaches the causes and consequences of the Great War.
Eventually David earns the respect of his students and many of his fellow teachers, against the backdrop of a country struggling to redefine itself. As David falls in love and finds himself on track to possibly take on the headmaster role, he must search to find the strength to hold true to his beliefs as the specter of another great war looms.
To Serve Them All My Days is a brilliant picture of England between the World Wars, as the country comes to terms with the horrors of the Great War and the new forces reshaping the British government and society.
Subject of a Landmark BBC Miniseries
Includes Bonus Reading Group Guide
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The Christmas Secret By Donna VanLiere from St. Martin's Press ($2.99) is the Kindle Romance Deal of the Day (November 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This touching and inspiring tale of a young single mother delivers a great story with a perfect message for the holidays."
When a struggling young single mother saves the life of an elderly woman, she sets into motion a series of events that will test her strength, loyalty, and determination, all the while setting her on the path to finding true love.
Christine Eisley is the mother of seven-year-old Zach and five-year-old Haley. Her ex-husband provides little, if any, child support and makes life difficult for Christine by using the children as pawns. She works long hours as a waitress to make ends meet, but her job is in jeopardy because she's often late to work due to the unreliable teenaged sitters she's forced to use.
When Christine saves the life of a woman who works in Wilson's department store, the owner of Wilson's wants to find her, to thank her, but Christine has disappeared, losing another job once again. He sets his grandson, Jason, to the task of finding the mysterious "Christy". Jason, an accountant by trade who has lost his job to downsizing, thinks he is "above" working at Wilson's. Soon he discovers that this new task gives him more than he bargains for.
The Christmas Secret is a novel for anyone who wants to see how love is a gift that keeps giving back, that hope is a treasure that never runs dry, and that faith is a miracle that is reborn with each new day.
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The Lorik Trilogy by Toby Neighbors from Mythic Adventure Publishing are $1.99 each as the Kindle Sci-Fi / Fantasy Deal of the Day (November 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Today only, The Lorik Trilogy by Toby Neighbors are $0.99 each.
Customer review: "This is a fun series. Anyone who likes books with wizards and fighting will like this series."
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The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits by Zeynep Ton from Amazon ($1.99) is the Kindle Business & Money Deal of the Day (November 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This is a powerful and insightful read that shows that happier employees make for more successful businesses."
Almost one in four American working adults has a job that pays less than a living wage. Conven*tional wisdom says that's how the world has to work. Bad jobs with low wages, minimal benefits, little training, and chaotic schedules are the only way companies can keep costs down and prices low. If companies were to offer better jobs, cus*tomers would have to pay more or companies would have to make less.
But in The Good Jobs Strategy, Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, makes the compelling case that even in low-cost settings, leaving employees behind—with bad jobs—is a choice, not a necessity. Drawing on more than a decade of research, Ton shows how operational excellence enables companies to of*fer the lowest prices to customers while ensuring good jobs for their employees and superior results for their investors.
Ton describes the elements of the good jobs strategy in a variety of successful companies around the world, including Southwest Airlines, UPS, Toyota, Zappos, and In-N-Out Burger. She focuses on four model retailers—Costco, Merca*dona, Trader Joe's, and QuikTrip—to demonstrate the good jobs strategy at work and reveals four choices that have transformed these compa*nies' high investment in workers into lower costs, higher profits, and greater customer sat*isfaction.
Full of surprising, counterintuitive insights, the book answers questions such as: How can offering fewer products increase customer sat*isfaction? Why would having more employees than you need reduce costs and boost profits? How can companies simultaneously standardize work and empower employees?
The Good Jobs Strategy outlines an invaluable blueprint for any organization that wants to pur*sue a sustainable competitive strategy in which everyone—employees, customers, and investors—wins.
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Little Red Hot by Eric A. Kimmel and Laura Huliska Beith (Illustrator) from Two Lions ($1.99) is the Kindle Kids Deal of the Day (November 21) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking
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Customer review: "This is a wonderful and fun retelling of the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood."
Age Level: 6 - 8 | Grade Level: 1 and up
Little Red Hot loves red hot chilli peppers. She eats them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When her grandmother catches a cold, Little Red makes her a hot pepper pie that will "knock those cold germs right out of her". But before Little Red shares her pie with Grandma, she meets Seņor Lobo. The pie comes in very handy when the wily wolf tries to trick her into thinking he's her grandmother.
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