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  • First Chance: How Kids with Nothing Can Change Everything

    The book examines the challenges facing kids who have endured foster care or the incarceration of a mother (a soaring number) and their triumphs against all odds. Author Bob Carr hopes that readers acknowledge the great and often untapped talents of kids who have overcome adversity, both economic hardship and family woes, and the power of a helping hand and pivotal guidance, as Carr has proven ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Through the Fires: An American Story of Turbulence, Business Triumph and Giving Back

    This is a triumphant story of comeback in life and business. Robert Carr experienced decades of struggle that took him to the brink of home foreclosure at age fifty. He would later make a fortune in the card payments industry, only to lose almost everything in 2009, after one of the most devastating data breaches ever.Daring to go public about the cyber attack, Carr saved his company from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Through the Fires

    An American Business Story of Turbulence, Triumph and Giving Back

    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 37 min

    Through the Fires is a triumphant comeback story in life and business. Robert Carr reflects decades of struggle that took him to the brink of financial ruin at age fifty. Carr would later make a fortune in the card payments industry only to lose almost everything in 2009 after one of the most devastating data breaches ever. Carr's story is a vulnerable and honest depiction of holding on and ... Read more

    $21.98 USD

  • Working Class to College: The Promise and Peril Facing Blue-Collar America

    Unfortunately, many economically struggling families today see college as beyond their reach--academically, culturally and financially. Working-class young people need a college degree to earn a living wage in today's economy. Yet financial obstacles and a cynical belief that the system benefits only the comfortable and connected seem to place a university education off-limits to tens of millions ... Read more

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  • Worldly Philosopher

    The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman

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