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Alice and Jewel have been best friends since grade school. Together, they don’t need anyone else, and together they blend into the background of high school. Invisible. To Alice, Jewel is the opposite of invisible. Jewel is her best friend who goes to Indie concerts and art shows with her. Jewel scoffs at school dances with her. Alice is so comfortable around Jewel that she can talk to him about almost anything. But she can’t tell him that she likes the cool, popular Simon. And then Simon asks her to the school dance the same day that Jewel kisses her for the first time. Still, she can’t say no to Simon. He seems like the easy choice, the one she’s attracted to, the one she’s ready for. But will it mean losing Jewel? In a bright debut novel set against the lively backdrop of Seattle, Alice must learn the difference between love and a crush, and what it means to be yourself when you’re not sure who that is yet.
Ms. Gallagher writes an honest book about the internal struggles of an insecure girl. We all have that same insecurity inside of us and can understand what Alice has to figure out on her own. Definitely a book that everyone can relate to from some point in their lives.
Difficult people: they’re those people you can’t stand and who don’t do
what you want them to do or do what you don’t want them to do—and you
don’t know what to do about them! Good news: you don’t have to be their
victim anymore. And while you can’t change difficult people, you can
communicate with them in such a way that they change themselves. In
this book, we define the four key areas you’ll have to focus on to
solve your people problems.
A guide to attracting, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring the best technical talent.
A comprehensive system for hiring top–notch technical employees
Packed with useful information and specific advice written in a breezy, humorous style
Learn how to find great people—and get them to work for you—in an afternoon!
The top software developers are ten times as productive as average developers. Ten times. You can’t afford not
to hire them. But if you haven’t been reading Joel Spolsky’s books or
blog, you probably don’t know how to find them and make them want to
work for you.
In this brief book, Joel reveals all
his secrets—from his years at Microsoft, and as the co–founder of Fog
Creek Software—for recruiting the best developers in the world. You’ll
learn:
How to create a pipeline of excellent developers using internships—and why this is not optional
How to build a workplace where the best programmers want to work
The secrets to reading resumes, interviewing technical people, and deciding when to make an offer
If
you’ve ever wondered what you should be looking for in a resume, if
you’ve ever struggled to decide whether to hire someone at the end of
an interview, or if you’re wondering why you can’t find great
programmers, stop everything and read this book.