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The Miraculous Millionaire

Name: The Miraculous Millionaire
Author: Prince Ojong
ISBN: 978-0988383203

A SENSIBLE APPROACH TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM

by Prince Ojong ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 23, 2013

Advice for achieving financial success by following the author’s path and by purchasing the products and services he...

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A guide to finance and entrepreneurship, drawn from the author’s personal experience.

This manual for wealth-building draws heavily on Ojong’s background as an immigrant from Cameroon, his Christian faith, his self-taught knowledge of business and finance, and his experience running a number of small businesses. The book draws heavily on earlier work in the genre, particularly Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. The author blends the basics, including a comprehensive section on budgeting, with prosperity theology and the concept of neurolinguistic programming into a theory he calls “$ucce$$tology.” Early in the book, he informs the reader that “if you are not rich in America, the problem is either your ignorance or lack of personal drive,” and he devotes the book to remedying both problems. The author is open about his own financial failures, including an unsuccessful magazine business and some poorly timed real estate ventures, and derives most of his lessons from his own experience, although boldface names like Warren Buffett, Donald Trump and Andrew Carnegie also appear throughout the book, along with a “list of the most popular robber barons,” whom he encourages the reader to take as role models. The author’s name appears even more frequently, along with his sales pitches. “You have to buy my coaching package to succeed,” he says at one point, and his phone and fax numbers appear more than 30 times throughout the book, accompanied by invitations to call now. The book’s entire 11th chapter promotes his multilevel marketing company, the Millionaire Club. Readers may be put off by the author’s unabashedly self-promoting approach to his financial message: “I am the new personal finance messiah.” While the author’s advice for frugal living and responsible saving is worthwhile, obvious errors, like incorrectly naming the chairman of the Federal Reserve—Bernard, rather than Ben, Bernanke—should encourage the reader to do further research before following his more esoteric suggestions for getting rich through tax avoidance and life insurance.

Advice for achieving financial success by following the author’s path and by purchasing the products and services he enthusiastically hawks in these pages.

Pub Date: April 23, 2013

ISBN: 978-0988383203

Page Count: 576

Publisher: OverReacher Empire Corporation

Review Posted Online: May 28, 2013

Review Program: Kirkus Indie

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GENERAL NONFICTION

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NUTCRACKER

by E.T.A. Hoffmann ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 1996

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This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)

Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996

ISBN: 0-15-100227-4

Page Count: 136

Publisher: Harcourt

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996

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GENERAL NONFICTION

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TO THE ONE I LOVE THE BEST

EPISODES FROM THE LIFE OF LADY MENDL (ELSIE DE WOLFE)

by Ludwig Bemelmans ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 23, 1955

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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.