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The Great Alone
Brief Summary
Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.
Thirteen-year-old Leni, a girl coming of age in a tumultuous time, caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, dares to hope that a new land will lead to a better future for her family. She is desperate for a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown.
At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. The long, sunlit days and the generosity of the locals make up for the Allbrights’ lack of preparation and dwindling resources.
But as winter approaches and darkness descends on Alaska, Ernt’s fragile mental state deteriorates and the family begins to fracture. Soon the perils outside pale in comparison to threats from within. In their small cabin, covered in snow, blanketed in eighteen hours of night, Leni and her mother learn the terrible truth: they are on their own. In the wild, there is no one to save them but themselves.
In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska?a place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature.Age Range: Adult.
ISBN:9780312577230
Author:Kristin Hannah
The Deals That Made the World by Jacq...
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The Deals That Made the World: Reckless Ambition, Backroom Negotiations, and the Hidden Truths of Business.
While the laws that guide our lives are written by the politicians we elect, much of the world around us - from the food we eat to the products we buy to the medications we take - is shaped by private negotiations and business deals few of us know about.
For twenty years, Peretti has interviewed the people behind the decisions that have altered our world, from CEOs of multinational corporations to politicians, economists, and scientists. In The Deals that Made the World, Peretti draws on his vast knowledge to reveal a host of fascinating and startling connections, from how Wall Street's actions on food commodities helped spark the Arab Spring to the link between the AIDS epidemic in 1980s San Francisco and the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008.
He proves a sure guide, combining both eye-opening on-the-ground reporting and a narrative flair that makes esoteric financial and business concepts clear and understandable.
Like Steven Levitt, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Brad Stone, Michael Lewis, and Malcolm Gladwell, Peretti takes the ordinary and turns it inside out to give us a compelling new perspective on our lives and our world.
Flower Girls Bridesmaid Special Occas...
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
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Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama on Selma and the meaning of America, speeches have profoundly influenced the way we see ourselves and society.
Gathered here are some of the most extraordinary and memorable speeches of the last century - from Lenin to Reagan, Thatcher to Malala. Some are well known, others less so, but all helped form the world we now inhabit.
ISBN:9780241982303
Author:Brian MacArthur
Sometimes You Win Sometimes You Learn
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Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn: Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losses
John Maxwell believes that the greatest lessons we learn in life are from our losses. Everyone experiences loss, but not everyone learns from it. In Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn, Dr. Maxwell explores the most common lessons we learn when we experience loss. He then explains how to turn a set-back into a step forward by examining the eleven elements that make up the DNA of Those Who Learn:
• Humility - The Spirit of Learning
• Reality - The Foundation of Learning
• Responsibility - The First Step of Learning
• Improvement - The Focus of Learning
• Hope - The Motivation of Learning
• Teachability - The Pathway of Learning
• Adversity - The Catalyst of Learning
• Problems - The Opportunities of Learning9. Bad Experiences - The Perspective for Learning
• Change - The Price of Learning
• Maturity - The Value of Learning
Learning is not easy during down times, it takes discipline to do the right thing when everything is wrong. This book provides a roadmap to doing just that. As John Maxwell often points out--experience isn't the best teacher; evaluated experience is.
ISBN:9781599953694
Author:John C. Maxwell
The One Minute Millionaire The Enligh...
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Would you like to know the secrets to making all the money you’ll ever want?
Now, two mega-bestselling authors with decades of experience in teaching people how to achieve extraordinary wealth and success share their secrets. Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of the phenomenal Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Robert G. Allen, one of the world’s foremost financial experts, have helped thousands of people become millionaires. Now it’s your turn.
Is it possible to make a million dollars in only one minute? The answer just might surprise you. The One Minute Millionaire is an entirely new approach, a life-changing "millionaire system” that will teach you how to:
• Create wealth even when you have nothing to start with.
• Overcome fears so you can take reasonable risks.
• Use the power of leverage to build wealth rapidly.
• Use "one minute” habits to build wealth over the long term.
The One Minute Millionaire is a revolutionary approach to building wealth and a powerful program for self-discovery as well. Here are two books in one, fiction and nonfiction, designed to address two kinds of learning so that you can fully integrate these life-changing lessons. On the right-hand pages, you will find the fictional story of a woman who has to make a million dollars in ninety days or lose her two children forever.
The left-hand pages give the practical, step-by-step nonfiction strategies and techniques that actually work in the real world. You’ll find more than one hundred nuts-and-bolts "Millionaire Minutes,” each one a concise and invaluable lesson with specific techniques for creating wealth.
However, the lessons here are not just about becoming a millionaire—they are about becoming an enlightened millionaire and how to ethically make, keep, and share your wealth. Whether your goal is less than a million dollars or that amount many times over, there’s never been a better time to achieve abundance. Let The One Minute Millionaire show you the way.
ISBN:9780609609491
Author:Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen
Every business is a growth business
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Every Business Is a Growth Business: How Your Company Can Prosper Year After Year
What's the number one item on every company's agenda?
Profitable Growth.
Every Business Is a Growth Business is your one-stop guide to making profitable growth happen. It's a radical and refreshing source of ideas, inspiration, and common sense, all based on the unparalleled experience and access of Ram Charan and Noel Tichy.
Charan and Tichy have worked with some of the world's leading executives--people such as Jack Welch of GE, Eckhard Pfeiffer of Compaq, Larry Bossidy of Allied Signal, John Reed of Citigroup, Dick Brown of Cable & Wireless, Alex Trotman and Jacques Nasser of Ford, and the senior management of Coca-Cola--who have transformed their companies into profitable growth machines. Every Business Is a Growth Business is a distillation of what the authors and these unique leaders have learned about profitable growth:
If your business isn't growing sustainably and profitably, it's dying. Any business can grow profitably. There is no such thing as a mature business.
A company grows because growth is in the corporate mindset, created by the company's leaders.
The mindset of growth starts at the top, but it must reach all the way to the bottom.
Sustainable growth is profitable and capital-efficient.
"Broadening your pond," changing your company's genetic code, developing a growth strategy from the outside in, and other unique ideas.
Every Business Is a Growth Business includes inside accounts of how GE Medical, Allied Signal, Compaq, Citibank, Reynolds and Reynolds, Praxair, and GE Capital developed profitable growth strategies. It includes "The Handbook for Growth," a highly practical guide that will be an immense help as you and your team develop your company's profitable growth strategy.
ISBN:9780812933055
Author:Ram Charan and Noel Tichy
The 360 Degree Leader
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The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
New York Times best-selling author John C. Maxwell shows anyone how? to lead, regardless of their level in any organization. In his nearly thirty years of teaching leadership, John Maxwell has encountered this question again and again: How do I apply leadership principles if I'm not the boss? It's a valid question that Maxwell answers in The 360 Degree Leader.
You don't have to be the main leader, asserts Maxwell, to make significant impact in your organization. Good leaders are not only capable of leading their followers but are also adept at leading their superiors and their peers. Debunking myths and shedding light on the challenges, John Maxwell offers specific principles for Leading Down, Leading Up, and Leading Across.
ISBN:9781400203598
Author:John C. Maxwell
Fifty Shades Darker
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Daunted by the singular sexual tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.
But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven, and demanding Fifty Shades.
While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront her anger and envy of the women who came before her and make the most important decision of her life. Erotic, sparkling and suspenseful, Fifty Shades Darker is the irresistibly addictive second part of the Fifty Shades trilogy.
ISBN:9781612130583
Author:E.L. James
Two From the Heart
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From the #1 bestselling author of Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas and Sundays at Tiffany's, two heartwarming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to life's possibilities.
Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage falls apart and a hurricane destroys her home she realizes that her life has fallen out of focus. So she takes to the road to ask long lost friends and strangers a simple question: "What's your best story?" Can the funny, tragic, inspirational tales she hears on her journey help Anne see what she's been missing?
Tyler Bron seemingly has it all-a successful company and more money than he knows how to spend. But he has no life. So he hires a struggling novelist to write one for him. There are no limits to the fictional world that Bron's money can transform into a reality, and he soon becomes the protagonist of a love story beyond his wildest imagination. But will Tyler Bron be able to write the happy ending himself?
ISBN:9780316468923
Author:James Patterson
Fifty Fifty
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What are the chances that convicted killer Sam Blue is innocent of the serial murders of three young women? Determined to clear his name, no matter the cost to her career, Detective Harriet Blue accepts a risky reassignment to a remote town where a diary found on the roadside reveals a murderous plan.
And the first killing, shortly after her arrival, suggests that the clock is already ticking. Meanwhile, back in the city, a young woman holds the key to crack Harriet's brother's case wide open.
If only she could escape the madmen holding her hostage.
ISBN:9780316513227
Author:James Patterson and Candice Fox
What to Expect the Second Year From 1...
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What to Expect: The Second Year: For the 13th to 24th Month, this Step-by-Step Guide Explains Everything You Need to Know About Your Toddler
Heidi Murkoff's what to Expect has delivered again. Announcing the arrival of a brand-new member of the What to Expect family: "What to Expect the Second Year." The essential sequel to "What to Expect the First Year, " with 9.7 million copies in print, "What to Expect the Second Year" picks up the action at baby's first birthday, and takes parents through what can only be called "the wonder year"--12 jam-packed (and jam-smeared) months of memorable milestones (from first steps to first words, first scribbles to first friends), lightning-speed learning, endless explorations driven by insatiable curiosity.
Not to mention a year of challenges, both for toddlers and the parents who love them, but don't always love their behaviors (picky eating, negativity, separation anxiety, bedtime battles, biting, and tantrums).Comprehensive, reassuring, empathetic, realistic, and practical, "What to Expect the Second Year" is filled with solutions, strategies, and plenty of parental pep talks.
It helps parents decode the fascinating, complicated, sometimes maddening, always adorable little person last year's baby has become. From the first birthday to the second, this must-have book covers everything parents need to know in an easy-to-access, topic-by-topic format, with chapters on growth, feeding, sleeping, behaviors of every conceivable kind, discipline (including teaching right from wrong), and keeping a toddler healthy and safe as he or she takes on the world.
There's a developmental time line of the second year plus special "milestone" boxes throughout that help parents keep track of their toddler's development. Thinking of traveling with tot in tow? There's a chapter for that, too.
ISBN:9780761152774
Author:Heidi Murkoff
Grooming the Next Generation for Success
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Grooming the Next Generation for Success: Proven Strategies for Raising the Next Generation of Leaders
Raise successful kids today! You can raise successful kids who mature into successful adults by using the right grooming techniques. It’s easy and helps parents become more successful too! Mother of five and successful entrepreneur Dani Johnson has coached and mentored tens of thousands of clients to become successful and without exception, their biggest stumbling blocks to achievement were the things they learned while they were kids.
Dani is uniquely qualified to write this book because of her first hand perspective and experience as a success coach and speaker. The book will help adults discover solutions to why they've struggled throughout their lives to reach the success they desire and also show them how to "groom" their own kids for success in life. This book is jam-packed with easy-to-understand and apply principles and proven practices that give parents, and anyone involved with young people, practical ways to raise children who are successful now - and will continue to be as adults.
Teaching virtues such as respect, honor, obedience, and financial responsibility while young guarantees lifestyle success in adulthood. Instead of fumbling through life, success becomes a natural occurrence rather than an accident that they hopefully run into.
This unique holistic approach incorporates the emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, and financial realms, which feature nine basic strategies including: Self-image? People skills? Accountability? Work vs. play? Financial responsibility? Dreams and goals
These strategic tools help not only children and young people, but also those who are applying them! As parents and caregivers instill the traits of joy and success, all are enhanced and transformed for the better. You can start today breaking through barriers that
ISBN:9780768431551
Author:Dani Johnson
Leadershift Reinventing Leadership fo...
Brief Summary
Leadershift is about adapting and changing traditional models of leadership in response to the influence of mass collaboration, a form of collective action involving large numbers of people working independently on a single project – Wikipedia, for example.
As traditional models of collaboration are radically altered, those in leadership roles need to understand their place in this new hierarchy and how to respond. Mass collaboration requires a form of leadership that is prepared to let go of the experience, expertise and control it holds precious and be able to see mass participation as an opportunity rather than a threat.
Emmanuel Gobillot describes how to adapt traditional leadership roles, and presents the tools necessary to succeed in this new age. His model allows leaders to successfully engage with these communities, recognize and develop talent, and win customer loyalty.
Each chapter concludes with a "30 second recap” that summarizes key ideas.
ISBN:9780749463038
Author:Emmanuel Gobillot
Leadership Roles and Management Funct...
Brief Summary
Hundreds of carefully designed exercises along with clear discussions of theory teach nursing students how to integrate effective management skills with expert leadership skills.
The authors' experiential learning approach makes it easy to put these skills into practice in any health care setting. This book helps students develop the critical thinking ability needed to apply skills on the job—from organizing patient care to motivating staff to managing conflict.
ISBN:9781608316854
Author:Bessie L. Marquis and Carol J. Huston
The Art of Leadership
Brief Summary
Employs an interactive approach to explore Leadership Development. This book combines behavior theory with business practice, as each chapter focuses on central concepts and skills in an important area of leadership development.
It includes self-evaluation questionnaires and practical exercises that can be used for personal development.
ISBN:9780072995688
Author:George Manning and Kent Curtis
Leadership Communication
Brief Summary
The first edition of Leadership Communication was well received by students and instructors, and the second edition builds on that momentum. It continues to help current and potential managers become effective leaders by being better communicators.
It brings together managerial communication and concepts of emotional intelligence to create a new model of communication skills and strategies for corporate leaders. It begins with chapters on the core communication skills of developing strategy, analyzing an audience, writing in all types of business genres, and designing and delivering effective PowerPoint presentations - all from a leadership perspective.
Then, it takes students through chapters on emotional intelligence, cultural literacy, meeting management, and team leadership, before concluding with chapters on internal and external organizational communication.
ISBN:9780073403144
Author:Deborah Barrett
She Persisted 13 American Women Who C...
Brief Summary
Chelsea Clinton introduces tiny feminists, mini activists and little kids who are ready to take on the world to thirteen inspirational women who never took no for an answer, and who always, inevitably and without fail, persisted.
Throughout American history, there have always been women who have spoken out for what's right, even when they have to fight to be heard. In early 2017, Senator Elizabeth Warren's refusal to be silenced in the Senate inspired a spontaneous celebration of women who persevered in the face of adversity.
In this book, Chelsea Clinton celebrates thirteen American women who helped shape our country through their tenacity, sometimes through speaking out, sometimes by staying seated, sometimes by captivating an audience. They all certainly persisted.
She Persisted is for everyone who has ever wanted to speak up but has been told to quiet down, for everyone who has ever tried to reach for the stars but was told to sit down, and for everyone who has ever been made to feel unworthy or unimportant or small.
With vivid, compelling art by Alexandra Boiger, this book shows readers that no matter what obstacles may be in their paths, they shouldn't give up on their dreams. Persistence is power.
This book features: Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Clara Lemlich, Nellie Bly, Virginia Apgar, Maria Tallchief, Claudette Colvin, Ruby Bridges, Margaret Chase Smith, Sally Ride, Florence Griffith Joyner, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor—and one special cameo.
ISBN:9781524741723
Author:Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger
Youth Unemployment in Kenya A Ticking...
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Unemployment is the big burden on the lives of youths. Th¬ey are trapped in slums and in the informal sector, hardly making ends meet. Academic youths are jobless after graduation or not prepared for a job.
Women and persons with disabilities face specific problems in the labor market. ¬ there are state programmes for youths but they are inefficient due to bureaucracy. Youth need education - education for life, for life skills and work ethics.
Th¬ey have to be trained and educated for entrepreneurship. Dual vocational education and training will make them fit for practical work skills as well as for a deeper understanding of a vocation. Th¬ere are opportunities for the youth, e.g. in agribusiness and urban agriculture, but also in the jua kali sector and by being self-employed.
ISBN:9966314210
Author:Helmut Danner, Monica Kerretts-Makau and Johannes Michael Nebe
