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A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)

How My Private, Personal Journal Became a Bestseller

How My Private, Personal Journal Became a Bestseller

by Julia DeVillers

Formerly ordinary fourteen-year-old Jamie Bartlett isn’t so ordinary anymore. Ever since she wrote a story about Isabella (aka IS), the stereotype-defying, popular-girl-crushing super teen, Jamie’s life hasn’t been the same. Suddenly she’s doing interviews and book signings, flying to L.A. to hang out with celebrities, and dating Marco Vega, the hottest guy in school! But will all of this attention go to... (more)

My Father Bleeds History

by Art Spiegelman

Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own... (more)

The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

by Andy Andrews

A unique blend of fiction, history, allegory, and inspiration, The Traveler's Gift has motivated tens of thousands since its release in late 2002. Now this wildly successful parable is available in an affordable trade paper edition. David Ponder's lost his job, his confidence, and his will to live. And just when it seems that things can't get any worse, they do: his only child falls ill, and he's involved in a... (more)

700 Sundays

by Billy Crystal

Hailed as a triumph by everyone from the New York Times to Sports Illustrated¨, Billy Crystal+s 700 SUNDAYS is the crowning achievement of an amazing career. A poignant, hilarious, and personal portrayal of his youth, Crystal+s play broke Broadway box office records and failed to leave a dry eye in the house.To support his family, Billy Crystal+s father, Jack, worked two jobs and long hours and could only spare... (more)

The Feeling Good Handbook

by David D. Burns

With his phenomenally successful Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy , Dr. David Burns introduced a groundbreaking, drug-free treatment for depression. Now in this long-awaited sequel, he reveals powerful new techniques and provides step-by-step exercises that help you cope with the full range of everyday problems. * Free from fears, phobias, and panic attacks * Overcome self-defeating attitudes *... (more)

Secrets of the Spas: Pamper and Vitalize Yourself at Home (Life's Little Luxuries)

Secrets of the Spas: Pamper and Vitalize Yourself at Home (Life's Little Luxuries)

by Catherine Bardey

Learn the secrets of the world's most luxurious spas, treat yourself right and revitalize your face, your body and your hair so you look your best and feel great. Packed with easy and economical recipes for scrubs, moisturizers, masks, oils and many more lotions and positions, Secrets of the Spas offers the best body nourishing treatments to be found anywhere. They're fun to make too. Most... (more)

Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing--in Only 15 Minutes a Week!

Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Successful Investing--in Only 15 Minutes a Week!

by Phil Town

Before I became “Phil Town, teacher of investing principles to more than 500,000 people a year,” I was a lot like you: someone who viewed individual stock investing as way too hard to do successfully. As a guy who barely made a living as a river guide, I considered the whole process pretty impenetrable, and I was convinced that to do it right you had to make it a full-time job. Me, I was more interested in having... (more)

The Devil, The Lovers and Me: My Life in Tarot

The Devil, The Lovers and Me: My Life in Tarot

by Kimberlee Auerbach

An irresistible memoir for anyone who's ever wondered what's coming next... Kimberlee Auerbach has been in therapy. She's seen a Reiki Master. She's even given hypnosis a try. They can't give her want she wants... to know her future is going to be bright, that everything will be okay. So she makes an appointment with Iris Goldblatt, "tarot card reader and mirror of the soul." Instead of predicting the... (more)

American Salvage (Made in Michigan Writers)

American Salvage (Made in Michigan Writers)

by Bonnie Jo Campbell

A lush and rowdy collection of stories set in a rural Michigan landscape, where wildlife, jobs, and ways of life are vanishing. New from award-winning Michigan writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, "American Salvage" is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but... (more)

King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Hero (Vintage)

King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Hero (Vintage)

by David Remnick

"Succeeds more than any previous book in bringing Ali into focus . . . as a starburst of energy, ego and ability whose like will never be seen again."-- The Wall Street Journal "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year"-- Time "Penetrating . . . reveal<s> details that even close followers of <Ali> might not have known. . . . An amazing story." -- The New York Times On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali... (more)

Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry Nalebuff

The international bestseller—don't compete without it! A major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneauvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It... (more)

Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction

Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction

by Janeane Garofalo

"We are professionals. Though not specifically professionals in the field of 'psychology' or 'psychiatry,' we are both highly paid actors and comedians, and as such know more about neuroses than you could possibly imagine. . . ." If you're tired of following the rules, dating people from Mars and Venus, gorging on chicken soup for your soul, or getting lost on a road less traveled, then it's time you listened to... (more)

Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling

by Wayne W. Dyer

There’s a voice in the universe calling each of us to remember our purpose—our reason for being here now, in this world of impermanence. The voice whispers, shouts, and sings to us that this experience of being in form, in space and time, knowing life and death, has meaning. The voice is that of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer explains... (more)

The Power of Intention

by Wayne W. Dyer

Intention is generally viewed as a pit-bull kind of determination propelling one to succeed at all costs by never giving up on an inner picture. In this view, an attitude that combines hard work with an indefatigable drive toward excellence is the way to succeed. However, intention is viewed very differently in this book. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer has researched intention as a force in the universe that allows the act of... (more)

The Affluent Society

by John Kenneth Galbraith

Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in the words of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge to conventional thought." With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world and lays bare the hazards of individual and societal complacence about economic inequity. While "affluent society" and "conventional... (more)

The Life of Thomas More

by Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history. Thomas More (1478-1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political fantasy that gave a name to a literary genre and a worldview ( Utopia ); and, most famously, a Catholic martyr and saint. Born into the professional classes, Thomas More applied his... (more)

The Winner's Curse

by Richard H. Thaler

Richard Thaler challenges the received economic wisdom by revealing many of the paradoxes that abound even in the most painstakingly constructed transactions. He presents literate, challenging, and often funny examples of such anomalies as why the winners at auctions are often the real losers--they pay too much and suffer the "winner's curse"--why gamblers bet on long shots at the end of a losing day, why shoppers... (more)

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's... (more)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

by Stephen R. Covey

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to... (more)

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by J. Kevin Sheehan

by Julia DeVillers

by Art Spiegelman

by Andy Andrews

by Billy Crystal

by David D. Burns

by Catherine Bardey

by Phil Town

by Kimberlee Auerbach

by Bonnie Jo Campbell

by David Remnick

by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry Nalebuff

by Janeane Garofalo

by Wayne W. Dyer

by Wayne W. Dyer

by John Kenneth Galbraith

by Peter Ackroyd

by Richard H. Thaler

by Audrey Niffenegger

Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

by Stephen R. Covey