The Difference

"Thea and Kay are half-sisters, separated in age by more than a decade. After the death of their ailing father, a stern ... (more)

"Thea and Kay are half-sisters, separated in age by more than a decade. After the death of their ailing father, a stern minister at a residential school in Canada, Thea is free to marry her love, the captain of a ship. But she cannot abandon her younger sister, so Kay comes aboard too, and together they embark on a life-changing voyage through the South Pacific and around the Cape of Good Hope. At the heart of The Difference is one crystallizing moment: Thea, after a devastating miscarriage, 'purchases' a young boy from an island in Micronesia for four tins of tobacco, adopting him as her own. The repercussions of this rash act reverberate through the novel."--Provided by publisher. (less)

The follow up to Today show financial editor Jean Chatzky's New York times bestseller, Make money, not excuses. What's t... (more)

The follow up to Today show financial editor Jean Chatzky's New York times bestseller, Make money, not excuses. What's the difference between you and Warren Buffet? Between you and your boss? Or your bosses' boss? What's the difference, for that matter, between you and the millionaire next door? The difference between you and these well-to-do people is not any of the things you suspect it might be. (less)