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How You Too Can Make at Least One Million Dollars (But Probably Much More) in the Mail-Order Business

Business & Money

Joffe, Gerardo

Industries

Advance Books

The most important book about salesmanship ever written . . . 
Karl Bach was a penniless and uneducated German-Jewish immigrant. He spoke very little English and, to top it off, he had a physical impediment. Not being able to get any other job, he enlisted as a Fuller Brush salesman. Within two months, he became the most productive salesman Fuller had ever had. From a standing start, he had developed irresistible sales techniques. He applied those methods and insights to the life insurance business. Within three years, he became one of the most successful life insurance producers in the US. He founded and became principal owner of the San Francisco Life Insurance Company, which eventually merged with the Philadelphia Life Insurance Company. He became a very, very wealthy man. In this book, Karl reveals his enormously successful salesmanship methods. Here are some of the revealing chapters: 
 Ch. I: Selling is Never Work -- It's Fun! 
 Ch. III: Selling is Knowing Human Nature 
 Ch. VI: Selling While Listening to Your Own Questions 
... And there is much, much more! 
If you are in any area of selling, you should be able to at least quadruple your performance by reading this groundbreaking book and following its precepts. There is no reason why you shouldn't be as successful as Karl Bach -- you have so much more going for yourself than he did. 
If you are in any area of sales and want to multiply your performance and your income, you owe it to yourself to buy this book. You and your family will be glad you did.

Selling Is Simple ... If You Don't Make It Complicated

Bach, Karl

This is the extraordinary Odyssey of Gerardo Joffe, the author of Weaned on Carrot Juice. He was born in Germany, lived through the Nazi period and left the country on almost "the last boat". This is the story of his travels, adventures, and accomplishments on three continents. 
After his escape from the Nazis, Gerardo Joffe spent eight years working in the tin, tungsten, and antimony mines of Bolivia, living at altitudes of up to 16,000 feet. In this book he tells us of his outstanding adventures and experiences and how by dint of effort, wit, and know-how he became at the age of only twenty-three years, chief engineer of the second-largest tin mine in the world. His story of the corpse in the ore pass and how he single-handedly rescued a miner from almost certain death will keep you on the edge of your seat. 
Gerardo Joffe followed the girl he believed to be his true love to the United States. We learn how this romance fizzled out. He graduated as a mining engineer from the University of Missouri at Rolla and, after work as a hardrock miner in the lead-silver mines of the Panhandle of Idaho, the deepest in the country, he worked for eight years in the oil fields of Arkansas as a petroleum engineer. His keen insight into events and people, his ability to observe and to report make it a delight to follow his path. 
After graduating from the Harvard Business School, he worked for a large company in New York and then in the development of a huge project in Argentina. After many adventures -- some of them hair-raising -- he founded haverhills, which became one of the oldest, most innovative and most successful direct-marketing firms in the United States. The story of how he developed the TarGard Cigarette Filter (just what the Surgeon General had ordered), the Shaver that Went to the Moon, and how he introduced electronic calculators in direct marketing are classics of business acumen and success. 
After having written several best-selling books, he capped off his career by becoming a major factor in Jewish philanthropy -- as founder and president of FLAME (Facts and Logic About the Middle East) and president of Friends of the Danish Jewish Museum. This is a story of adventure, perseverance, enterprise, success and enlightenment that is told with charm and humor. It is an inspiration and a page turner. Once you get started on it, you will not be able to lay it down. 
Here is what critical readers have to say about this book: 
Steve Sloan (Juris Doctor), Mill Valley, CA: Gerardo Joffe has presented a remarkable tale about his fascinating life, danger, courage, insight, and triumph. His life exemplifies the power of what can be accomplished by perseverance and a positive attitude. 
David Rubin (real estate developer), Boston, MA: Joffe's story of his arrival in Bolivia, 18 years old and totally penniless, and his description of his work and tribulations in the tin mines of that country is gripping and compelling. This book is an inspiration to all who read it. 
Don Dible (author of best-selling Up Your OWN Organization), Murrieta, CA: Adventure, romance, hookers, and studs for hire. Joffe is one hell of a storyteller. It's a page turner -- you will not be able to lay it down. 
Jennifer Clark (school teacher), Augusta, GA: A touching, yet humorous memoir that shows how grit and perseverance can overcome even the most difficult and daunting situations and can lead to true happiness and success. 
Bob Greenebaum (publishing executive, retired), Hillsborough, OR: . . . a story that is warm and humorous . . . an absorbing picture of an extraordinary life . . . it is a wonderful book, a page turner if there ever was one.

Weaned on Carrot Juice (or How I survived the Nazis and landed at the Golden Gate via the tin mines of Bolivia and the oil fields of Arkansas)

This cookbook contains over 175 recipes for the soul-satisfying Southern and Southwestern dishes from the days before fat-free--cakes, pies, cookies, other desserts, breads, main course dishes, salads, and more.

Old Fashioned Recipes for Modern Cooks : Recipes With All the Flavor You Remember in Grandmothers Cooking

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cobb, L.B.

Regional & International

Attorney Bill Glasscock's mid-life crisis gets even more complicated when his soon-to-be-ex-wife's lover washes up on the beach below his girlfriend's bayview house. Quirky characters and wry humor make for a delightful mystery. Great reviews!

Splendor Bay

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Bill Glasscock, a suspended-for-malpractice attorney, wakes from his girlfriend Sally Solana's bed to a crystalline May morning in Splendor Bay. Before noon, Bill faces the challenge of his life. The stiff the local cops have found on the beach below Sally's bayview mansion is Bill's soon-to-be-ex-wife Eleana's lover, Governor Wallace Moreno. Bill's girlfriend Sally, the state's attorney general, is missing. So is wife Eleana, head of the state archives. And, in addition to having a complicated love life, Bill is quickly the prime suspect of a host of cops--local, state, and federal. All of which is just the catalyst Bill needs to abandon his sabbatical from life for a quest to save those he loves from a murderer. Suspense, sensual relationships, quirky characters you will love and remember, crisp dialogue, wry humor, and a feel-good ending are a few of the reasons SPLENDOR BAY grabs you by the heart and sweeps you along on waves of emotion to its surprising conclusion.

Winslow is a sleepy Southern town where everyone knows everything about everyone, or at least they think they do until Edna Potter, the resident dragon, shocks the community by suddenly retiring from her post as the high school English teacher. It seems the dour spinster has been taking mail-order detective courses over the years and is ready for a new career as a private eye. Edna turns from terrorizing teens in the classroom to tailing suspects and uncovering dirt. Quickly Winslow is bubbling with mystery as Edna’s former students, neighbors, and friends turn to Miss Potter to help solve their problems. Edna’s first case is to find runaway teenager, Carrie Owens. Soon Edna is up to her second chin in trouble. Police Chief Wayne Duncan warns Edna to stop, says Winslow doesn’t need a detective. Then her home is burglarized and she’s attacked by vicious dogs, but Edna keeps on coming, discovering family scandals, a missing wife, and finally a murdered high school football hero. Armed and dangerous, Edna is too busy turning up the truth to be scared off. Soon it’s her suspects who are running for cover, because they know there’s no way around the indomitable Miss Potter.

Potter's Field

Biery, Janet

A federal prosecutor, the nemesis of Washington elite, is murdered at a posh Bayou City hotel. His wife is found with the gun at the scene and her motive is obvious -- he did her wrong and she caught him in the act. The wife is arrested quickly. Perhaps too quickly, Assistant District Attorney Virginia Rodriguez soon realizes, but a dismissal isn’t that simple. Powerful people want a conviction and more than Virginia’s career is on the line -- calculating killers have added her name to their list. Virginia is smart and sassy, and she can hold her own against Leo Zachmann, the high-profile defense attorney who has taken up the wife’s cause. But can she deliver Texas justice in a case where the truth is much more elusive than the evidence? Promises Town delivers a rich blend of memorable characters, a fascinating view of the two-sided search for truth in criminal cases, an intriguing mystery, wry humor, and Virginia Rodriguez, a woman who has it all -- a killer of a job, a child and a dog to feed, a house to keep, promises to remember, and no Prince Charming in view.

Promises Town

Literature & Fiction

L.B. Cobb

Contemporary

A federal prosecutor, the nemesis of Washington elite, is murdered at a posh Bayou City hotel. His wife is found with the gun at the scene and her motive is obvious -- he did her wrong and she caught him in the act. The wife is arrested quickly. 
Perhaps too quickly, Assistant District Attorney Virginia Rodriguez soon realizes, but a dismissal isn’t that simple. Powerful people want a conviction and more than Virginia’s career is on the line -- calculating killers have added her name to their list. Virginia is smart and sassy, and she can hold her own against Leo Zachmann, the high-profile defense attorney who has taken up the wife’s cause. But can she deliver Texas justice in a case where the truth is much more elusive than the evidence? 
Promises Town delivers a rich blend of memorable characters, a fascinating view of the two-sided search for truth in criminal cases, an intriguing mystery, wry humor, and Virginia Rodriguez, a woman who has it all -- a killer of a job, a child and a dog to feed, a house to keep, promises to remember, and no Prince Charming in view.

Promises Town: A Texas Mystery

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How You Too Can Make at Least One Million Dollars (But Probably Much More) in the Mail-Order Business

Selling Is Simple ... If You Don't Make It Complicated

Weaned on Carrot Juice (or How I survived the Nazis and landed at the Golden Gate via the tin mines of Bolivia and the oil fields of Arkansas)

Old Fashioned Recipes for Modern Cooks : Recipes With All the Flavor You Remember in Grandmothers Cooking

Splendor Bay

Splendor Bay

Potter's Field

Promises Town

Promises Town: A Texas Mystery