Warren Adler

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

Warren Adler stands out as one of today's most skillful storytellers, crafting tales that are provocative, intricately plotted and peopled with complicated, emotionally engaging characters. In "Mourning Glory", he once again delivers a brilliant and bitter-sweet, daring and darkly humorous story that pulls us into one woman's quest to lose herself -- and gain a fortune.

Grace Sorrentino is an attractive woman approaching 40, who is determined to jump off the treadmill of failure and despair in order to secure a worry-free future for herself and her daughter. After being fired from the cosmetics counter at Saks for being a little too honest with a good customer, Grace takes the advice of her boss and concocts a plan to reinvent herself and snare a grieving, socially-desirable rich widower in posh Palm Beach.

In order to maintain her new persona and hang on to her new life, Grace soon becomes enmeshed in a web of her own lies that will force her to confront the emotional consequences of her deception.

Mourning Glory

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Jia Jiang

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection

Drawing on his "100 days of rejection" experiment during which he willfully sought rejection on a daily basis, the founder of the popular blog and video series of the same name, who came to the U.S. from China with the dream of being the next Bill Gates, shares the secret of successful asking, overcoming fear and daring to live more boldly.

Rejection Proof

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Dave Ramsey

20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches

Offers advice on growing a business, including setting and attaining goals, time management, and operating debt free.

EntreLeadership

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Mary Gordon

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

Monica Szabo, a middle-aged, moderately successful painter, encounters B, a wealthy commodities broker who collects her work. B volunteers to be her muse, offering her everything that male artists have always had to produce great art: time, space, money, and sex.
Passionate, provocative, and highly engaging, Spending displays Gordon's maverick feminism, her extraordinary wit, and her unique perspectives on art, money, men, sex -- and the desires of women.

Spending

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John Dufresne

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana Power and Light

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Shannon Kaiser

21 Ways to Transform Your Habits and Reach Your Full Potential

"Discover twenty-one innovative emotional explorations to boldly confront the habits that are holding you back in this breakthrough guide that provides the tools you need to fearlessly embrace your innermost desires"--

Adventures for Your Soul

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Bernard MacLaverty

And Other Stories

"This new collection from the noted Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty examines worlds in collision, relationships fragmenting, innocence coming face to face with real life and real death. A Catholic schoolboy playing football has a theological debate with a Protestant policeman; a chess game in Spain is a catalyst for grief and redemption; in the haunting title story a Belfast man out walking his dog is kidnapped at gunpoint." "It is only once we enter the world of the stories that we begin to make out the huge shapes that move there: loss, love, disappointment, fierce joy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Walking the Dog

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Rebecca Godfrey

"The Torn Skirt is a hot book, a thrilling romance of teen rage and longing -- like S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, except about girls."  -- Mary Gaitskill, author of Two Girls, Fat and Thin

At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Justine, the outlaw girl in the torn skirt. The search for Justine will lead Sara on a daring odyssey into an underworld of hookers and johns, junkies and thieves, runaway girls and skater boys, and, ultimately, into a violent tragedy.

The Torn Skirt

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Jim Collins

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Good to Great

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Rosamund Stone Zander

Benjamin Zander

Transforming Professional and Personal Life

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover the twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity and a sense of possibility into all of your endeavors in this bestselling guide from the author of Pathways to Possibility Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment. The authors' harmoniously interwoven perspectives provide a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of life. Through uplifting stories, parables, and personal anecdotes, the Zanders invite us to become passionate communicators, leaders, and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world.

The Art of Possibility

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Cassi Tiedeman

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