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Pub. Date
[1998]
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In the revised third edition of this seminal work, author Kevin Cashman offers stories, exercises, and practices to help readers develop heightened awareness, courage, character, authenticity, purpose, agility, service, and contribution. These so-called soft skills no longer can be dismissed as "nice-to-haves." Research shows they are foundational for high performance and enduring value creation.
Balancing timeless principles with emerging research,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this. WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA? is an intimate and admiring portrait of a president, a candid book of advice for young women, and a promising debut from a savvy political star"--
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Competition was more intense than ever and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company's history. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger, think global, and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets. Twelve years later, Disney...
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Series
Kate Reddy novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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"Allison Pearson's brilliant debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, was a New York Times bestseller with four million copies sold around the world. Called "the definitive social comedy of working motherhood" (The Washington Post) and "a hysterical look--in both the laughing and crying senses of the world--at the life of Supermom" (The New York Times), I Don't Know How She Does It introduced Kate Reddy, a woman as sharp as she was funny. As Oprah...
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Paradise: When corporate raider Matthew Farrell targets a department store empire, he crosses paths with stunning blonde Meredith Bancroft -- and a once-in-a-lifetime passion and bittersweet memories are rekindled for each of them. Can Matt and Meredith believe in each other at last? Or will a hostile takeover shatter their tenuous trust? Tender triumph: Stunning Katie Connelly submerged her painful past in a fast-track career and men she could keep...
68) Dead float
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
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"A fast-paced, tightly woven who-dunnit that kept me guessing to the end. Easley's vivid landscapes and well-drawn characters evoke comparisons to James Lee Burke, and Cal Claxton is as determined and resourceful as Burke's Dave Robicheaux." -Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author
Cal Claxton-a former LA prosecutor now practicing law in Oregon's wine country and who works to fish-has to pinch himself when his best friend Philip Lone Deer...
69) In Good Company
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A successful middle-aged ad executive suddenly find himself working for a young hotshot half his age, who also develops a romantic interest in his daughter
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A fictional journal that traces the life of Ben Turnbull, a sixty-six-year-old retired investment counselor living north of Boston in 2020 in the aftermath of a war between the United States and China which has resulted in social chaos, but left him and his family relatively comfortable.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Willing to make the necessary sacrifices even skipping the occasional latte to ensure career success, 31-year-old Cassidy Cantrell invests in a chic pair of boots, certain they ll make a spectacular impression and help seal the deal on a long-anticipated promotion from her Seattle employer. But reality tromps all over her expectations. Cassie s job is abruptly eliminated and her love life obliterated, when her longtime boyfriend dumps her for a ...
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Part two of Ayn Rand?s groundbreaking novel. The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered what may very well be the answer to a mounting energy crisis, a revolutionary motor that could seemingly power the World. It?s a race against the clock to find the inventor...
74) What Women Want
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
A cocky, chauvinistic advertising executive magically acquires the ability to hear what women are thinking.
75) The diagnosis
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
One day Bill Charmers, a junior executive, realizes that he cannot remember where he is or even who he is. His memory returns and he descends into a mental nightmare. With no conclusive medical answers, his wife thinks he is imagining it, while his colleagues are oblivious to his suffering.
76) Tell no lies
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Pub. Date
2013.
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A series of anonymous threats intended for others puts a man, and everyone he loves, in the path of a relentless killer. Daniel Brasher has always been something of a disappointment to his old-money aristocratic San Francisco mother. Daniel left his high-paying job as a money manager to marry his community organizer wife and work at a job he loves, leading group counseling sessions with recently paroled ex-cons. Now he is ready to move on and start...
80) Gone for good
Author
Series
Detective Annalisa Vega volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Gone For Good is the first in a new mystery series from award-winning author Joanna Schaffhausen, featuring Detective Annalisa Vega, in which a cold case heats up. The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers. Then he disappeared, and after twenty years with no trace of him, many believe that he's gone for good. Not Grace Harper. A grocery store...