Steven Gaines takes us from New York's most expensive condominiums and co-ops to the offices of its most powerful real estate brokers to reveal the outlandish displays of ego, bad behavior, and status hunger that come into play when the best addresses in the city are on the line.

With his signature elan, Gaines weaves a gossipy tapestry of brokers, buyers, co-op boards, and eccentric landlords and tells of the apartment hunting and renovating adventures of many celebrities - from Tommy Hilfiger to Donna Karan, from Jerry Seinfeld to Steven Spielberg, from Barbra Streisand to Madonna.

Here, too, is a fascinating chronicle of the changes in Manhattan's residential skyline, from the slums of the nineteenth century to the advent of the luxury building. Gaines describes how living in boxes stacked on boxes came to be seen as the ultimate in status, and how the co-operative apartment, originally conceived as a form of housing for the poor, came to be used as a legal means of blackballing undesirable neighbors.

A social history told through brick and mortar, The Sky's the Limit is the ultimate look inside one of the most exclusive and expensive enclaves in the world, and at the lengths to which people will go to get in.

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In Reposition Yourself, bestselling author T.D. Jakes shares insights that will help you adjust to the many changes that life brings. This is a shrill wake up call to take charge of your life now, confronting areas where subtle passivity or even poor choices may have stifled your creativity, and instructing how to manage change and maximize life now. Covering financial, relational, and spiritual creativity, Jakes shows how adapting to transitional moments is the path to an enriched existence filled with contentment at every stage.

Jakes accepts the inevitability of change, teaching how to embrace and expect it rather than fear it.  Mixing both sacred and secular insights, he shares a unique mix of practical and pragmatic steps coupled with the sage wisdom of scripture for which he is noted. A makeover for the soul, Reposition Yourself gives you permission to succeed and the how-to's necessary to position yourself for the limitless potential that comes from making minor adjustments in your thinking and plans.

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His bestselling audio and video programs have been translated into 14 languages and are used in 31 countries. More than one million people have attended his programs on success, sales effectiveness and personal fulfillment.

Now in Maximum Achievement, Tracy presents a proven system of powerful ideas and principles you can use to rapidly improve your life.

He has combined insights and methods from psychology, philosophy, metaphysics and human potential research to create a unique program that will:

* Streamline your focus for maximum results

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By following the principles of Maximum Achievement's Master Plan, you can build a foundation for a life of happiness, health, harmony and prosperity.

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The event thrusts Jackson into the orbit of the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a washed-up comedian, a successful crime novelist, a mysterious Russian woman, and a female police detective. Each of them hiding a secret, each looking for love or money or redemption or escape, they all play a role in driving Jackson out of retirement and into the middle of several mysteries that intersect in one sinister scheme.

Kate Atkinson "writes such fluid, sparkling prose that an ingenious plot almost seems too much to ask, but we get it anyway," writes Laura Miller for Salon. With a keen eye for the excesses of modern life, a warm understanding of the frailities of the human heart and a genius for  plots that twist and turn. that turn and twist, Atkinson has written a novel that delights and surprises.

KATE ATKINSON'S first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread' First Novel Award and was then chosen as the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year. She is the author of a short-story collection, Not the End of the World, and three other critically
acclaimed novels, Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, and Case Histories. She lives in Edinburgh.

"I am an enormous fan of Kate Atkinson's. One thing I've said about her is that she abides by Henry James's maxim: the first task of the novel is to be interesting. Her plots are rollicking" and engaging, flawlessly constructed, filled with hooks and secrets. That she's able to pull that off with characters who are real and sympathetic, who are involved in moving entanglements, is a little miracle." - HAVEN KIMMEL

ROBIN ATKIN DOWNES has been working as a professional actor for over eighteen years. He is proficient in over forty dialects and has acted in over one hundred of the top interactive titles in the industry. Robin's fans recognize him from Babylon 5, where he was the recurring character Byron. He has guest starred on Charmed, Nash Bridges, CSI Miami, Beverly Hills 90210, ArliSS, Angel, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His London theatre credits include the starring role in Dracula, Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, The Homecoming, and What the Butler Saw.

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