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Carol Loeb Shloss creates a compelling portrait of a complex relationship of a daughter and her literary-giant father: Ezra Pound and Mary de Rachewiltz, Pound’s child by his long-time mistress, the violinist Olga Rudge. Brought into the world in secret and hidden in the Italian Alps at birth, Mary was raised by German peasant farmers, had Italian identity papers, a German-speaking upbringing, Austrian loyalties common to the area and, perforce, a fascist education.

For years, de Rachewiltz had no idea that Pound and Rudge, the benefactors who would sporadically appear, were her father and mother. Gradually the truth of her parentage was revealed, and with it the knowledge that Dorothy Shakespear, and not Olga, was Pound’s actual wife. Dorothy, in turn, kept her own secrets: while Pound signed the birth certificate of her son, Omar, and claimed legal paternity, he was not the boy’s biological father. Two lies, established at the birth of these children, created a dynamic antagonism that lasted for generations.

Pound maneuvered through it until he was arrested for treason after World War II and shipped back from Italy to the United States, where he was institutionalized rather than imprisoned. As an adult, de Rachewiltz took on the task of claiming a contested heritage and securing her father’s literary legacy in the face of a legal system that failed to recognize her legitimacy. Born on different continents, separated by nationality, related by natural birth, and torn apart by conflict between Italy and America, Mary and Ezra Pound found a way to live out their deep and abiding love for one another.

Let the Wind Speak is both a history of modern writers who were forced to negotiate allegiances to one another and to their adopted countries in a time of mortal conflict, and the story of Mary de Rachewiltz’s navigation through issues of personal identity amid the shifting politics of western nations in peace and war. It is a masterful biography that asks us to consider cultures of secrecy, frayed allegiances, and the boundaries that define nations, families, and politics.

Long before the Romantics embraced nature, people in the West saw the human and nonhuman worlds as both intimately interdependent and violently antagonistic. With its peerless selection of ninety-eight original sources concerned with the natural world and humankind's place within it, The Marvels of the World offers a corrective to the still-prevalent tendency to dismiss premodern attitudes toward nature as simple or univocal.

Gathering together medical texts, herbals, and how-to books, as well as scientific, religious, philosophical, and poetic works dating from antiquity to the dawn of the Enlightenment, the anthology explores both mainstream and unconventional thinking about the natural world. Its seven parts focus on philosophy and science; plants; animals; weather and climate; ways of inhabiting the land; gardens and gardening; and European encounters with the wider world. Each section and each of the book's selections is prefaced with a helpful introduction by volume editor Rebecca Bushnell that weaves connections among these compelling pieces of the past. The early writers collected here wrote with extraordinary openness about ways of coexisting with the nonhuman forces that shaped them, Bushnell demonstrates, even as they sought to control and exploit their environment. Taken as a whole, The Marvels of the World reveals how many of these early writers cared as much about the natural world as we do today.

John G. Johnson, who died in 1917, became a legend soon after his death. His prodigious intellect and energy, his consummate skill in court, his independence of thought and action are still spoken of with the same awe his name provoked when it was considered the magic answer to almost any knotty problem of law.

This is the first attempt to put this remarkable, nationally famous figure between the covers of a book. His career is traced, step by step, from his humble birth, through his rapid rise in legal circles, to the crowning rewards of his later years when he was considered the most brilliant corporation lawyer in America. He is shown as a man of single-minded, tireless devotion to the study and application of the law in all its aspects, who gave equally efficient service to big clients and little. He was one of the last general practitioners of law, handling every kind of case to the total of over 10,000 in his lifetime, but his greatest reputation was made in the early years of the century when he tried the Northern Securities Case before the United States Supreme Court, The Government case against the U. S. Steel Corporation and other legal battles of the antitrust era.

The story of Johnson's life is the story of his legal activities, for he had only one other genuine interest—art collecting. This aspect of his character is also described, but the book deals primarily with Johnson the living symbol of the law who well deserves this lasting record.

Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity, Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one's own sight of it (an awareness of how one is seeing), the greater the insight. Employing the concepts, tropes, and rhetorical methods of literary analysis, he addresses the problem of how to discuss, understand, and appreciate places that are experienced through all the senses, over time and through space.

Hunt questions our intellectual and aesthetic understanding of gardens and designed landscapes and asks how these sites affect us emotionally. Do gardens have meaning? When we visit a fine garden or designed landscape, we experience a unique work of great complexity in purpose, which has been executed over a number of years—a work that, occasionally, achieves beauty. While direct experience is fundamental, Hunt demonstrates how the ways in which gardens and landscapes are communicated in word and image can be equally important. He returns frequently to a cluster of key sites and writings on which he has based much of his thinking about garden-making and its role in landscape architecture: the gardens of Rousham in Oxfordshire; Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770); William Gilpin's dialogues on Stowe (1747); Alexander Pope's meditation on genius loci; the Désert de Retz; Paolo Burgi's Cardada; and the designs by Bernard Lassus and Ian Hamilton Finlay.

Florence Nightingale is best known as a woman of action—a founder of modern nursing, a reformer in the field of public health, and a pioneer in the use of statistics. What is not generally appreciated is that Nightingale was deeply engaged in the religious and philosophical thought of her time and that the primary aim of her life was not to reform social institutions but to serve God.

Although Nightingale gave primacy to her spiritual life, few of the books written about her have done so, and, until recently, few of her own writings about religion have been published. This failure to attend to Nightingale's spiritual life began to change during the 1980s, most significantly with the 1994 publication of Suggestions for Thought, her own presentation of her religious views.

At the heart of The Friendship of Florence Nightingale and Mary Clare Moore are forty-seven letters written by Nightingale to Moore—her "Dearest Reverend Mother"—the founding superior of the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy in Bermondsey, London; ten letters written by Moore to Nightingale; and five letters written by Nightingale about Clare to other Sisters of Mercy. These letters illustrate the personal lives and spiritual struggles and aspirations of two highly influential women in Victorian England: one working to achieve military and governmental reforms, the other designing and implementing new church-related services to the poor-both bound together by their devotion to those who were neglected, by nursing and other skills, by mature Christian faith, and by their engaging affection for one another.

Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain, claimed that he had never wanted the overpowering roles thrust upon him by his illustrious younger brother Napoleon. Left to his own devices, he would probably have been a lawyer in his native Corsica, a country gentleman with leisure to read the great literature he treasured and oversee the maintenance of his property. When Napoleon's downfall forced Joseph into exile, he was able to become that country gentleman at last, but in a place he could scarcely have imagined.

It comes as a surprise to most people that Joseph spent seventeen years in the United States following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. In The Man Who Had Been King, Patricia Tyson Stroud has written a rich account—drawing on unpublished Bonaparte family letters—of this American exile, much of it passed in regal splendor high above the banks of the Delaware River in New Jersey.

Upon his escape from France in 1815, Joseph arrived in the new land with a fortune in hand and shortly embarked upon building and fitting out the magnificent New Jersey estate he called Point Breeze. The palatial house was filled with paintings and sculpture by such luminaries as David, Canova, Rubens, and Titian. The surrounding park extended to 1,800 acres of luxuriously landscaped gardens, with twelve miles of carriage roads, an artificial lake, and a network of subterranean tunnels that aroused much local speculation.

Stroud recounts how Joseph became friend and host to many of the nation's wealthiest and most cultivated citizens, and how his art collection played a crucial role in transmitting high European taste to America. He never ceased longing for his homeland, however. Despite his republican airs, he never stopped styling himself as "the Count de Survilliers," a noble title he fabricated on his first flight from France in 1814, when Napoleon was exiled to Elba, nor did he ever learn more than rudimentary English. Although he would repeatedly plead with his wife to join him, he was not a faithful husband, and Stroud narrates his affairs with an American and a Frenchwoman, both of whom bore him children. Yet he continued to feel the separation from his two legitimate daughters keenly and never stopped plotting to ensure the dynastic survival of the Bonapartes.

In the end, the man who had been king returned to Europe, where he was eventually interred next to the tomb of his brother in Les Invalides. But the legacy of Joseph Bonaparte in America remains, and it is this that Patricia Tyson Stroud has masterfully uncovered in a book that is sure to appeal to lovers of art and gardens and European and American history.

At a time when almost all African American college students attended black colleges, philosopher William Fontaine was the only black member of the University of Pennsylvania faculty—and quite possibly the only black member of any faculty in the Ivy League. Little is known about Fontaine, but his predicament was common to African American professionals and intellectuals at a critical time in the history of civil rights and race relations in the United States.

Black Philosopher, White Academy is at once a biographical sketch of a man caught up in the issues and the dilemmas of race in the middle of the last century; a portrait of a salient aspect of academic life then; and an intellectual history of a period in African American life and letters, the discipline of philosophy, and the American academy. It is also a meditation on the sources available to a practicing historian and, frustratingly, the sources that are not. Bruce Kuklick stays close to the slim packet of evidence left on Fontaine's life and career but also strains against its limitations to extract the largest possible insights into the life of the elusive Fontaine.

A play in which history, memory, and legacy challenge notions of progress and country club ideals. With Radio Golf, Wilson's lifework comes full circle.

It's the late 1990s, and Aunt Ester's onetime home at 1839 Wylie Avenue (the setting of the cycle's first play) is slated for demolition. The goal of this slick real estate venture is to boost both the depressed Hill District and Harmond Wilks's chance of becoming Pittsburgh's first Black mayor.

The play is the final part of August Wilson's Century Cycle, his epic dramatization of the African American experience in the twentieth century.

This edition includes a foreword by Suzan-Lori Parks.

A treasure trove of prompts, provocations, and practical exercises to help you spark new ideas, hone your craft, and unleash your creativity.

In A Year of Creative Thinking, award-winning writer, director, and filmmaker Jessica Swale guides you through 366 fun and rewarding activities—one for every day of the year (including leap years!)—to fire up your imagination and flex your creative muscles.

You'll find a host of writing prompts and imaginative challenges to get you going, quick-fire exercises to help you focus on key aspects of craft (including inventing scenarios, writing dialogue, building subtext, creating atmosphere and plot, and developing your characters), and plenty of quirky and unusual challenges to test your limits and help you explore new avenues. Some are writing exercises, others encourage you to draw, to listen to music, to get outside and find inspiration in your surroundings. Work through the activities day by day, or dip in to suit your needs—the choice is yours!

Fun, engaging and pressure-free, this book is designed to supercharge your imagination and boost your creativity, helping you build a set of expressive tools that you can apply in all aspects of your life.

Desde improbables inconformistas hasta líderes y promotores

En Chasing The Impossible, Rachelle Rutherford, directora ejecutiva de Kids on the Move, desentraña la apasionante historia detrás del surgimiento de esta organización multimillonaria sin fines de lucro dedicada a ayudar a niños con retrasos en el desarrollo y discapacidades. Lo que comenzó como un esfuerzo sincero de dos madres decididas que buscaban apoyo para sus hijos con síndrome de Down se ha convertido en un faro de esperanza para las familias.

Rutherford profundiza y describe la ardua batalla que enfrentan muchas familias al recibir un diagnóstico para su hijo, y la atención continua, que muchos niños necesitarán hasta bien entrada en la edad adulta. Con cruda franqueza, expone la cruda realidad de las comunidades mal equipadas para brindar estructuras de apoyo esenciales para estas familias, dejando al descubierto el costo del estrés y el aislamiento que experimentan.

Sin embargo, en medio de estos desafíos, Rutherford revela el compromiso inquebrantable de Kids on the Move de construir puentes para solventar los vacíos que existen en la atención, combinando la implementación calculada de liderazgo y estrategias de crecimiento con una cultura de contribución y compasión. Desde programas de terapia innovadores hasta redes de apoyo integrales, ella revela las iniciativas innovadoras de la organización que han rediseñado el panorama de la atención de la discapacidad.

Pero el viaje está lejos de terminar. En Chasing The Impossible, Rutherford revela planes en el horizonte, una vez más traspasando los límites y revolucionando la definición de excelencia en la atención integral de la discapacidad. Además de emitir un conmovedor llamado a la acción e instar a las comunidades a apoyar a estas familias, el libro sirve no solo como testimonio de resiliencia sino también como un llamado de atención a la acción colectiva.

Con relatos desgarradores y visiones audaces para el futuro, Chasing The Impossible es más que un libro: es un clamor por el cambio, un plan para un futuro donde cada niño tenga la oportunidad de ser visto, conocido y amado.

Unlocking Potential: Lessons from Sports Legends and an Unlikely CEO

What if the standards designed to measure success are the ones holding us back?

In Less than One Percent, Dr. Imamu Tomlinson takes readers on a journey through the paradoxes of success, challenging the conventions that govern how we assess true potential. Drawing from his personal story as an underestimated CEO candidate who rose to lead a multibillion-dollar organization, Tomlinson explores the hidden brilliance of those who don’t fit the mold.

Less than One Percent will inspire you to rethink everything you know about achievement:

• The myth of standards: Examine society’s obsession with metrics and predictability, and how benchmarks for success often leave extraordinary talent overlooked.
• Stories of disruption: Discover how a revolutionist challenged an empire to claim her freedom, why student outcomes aren’t always determined by resources, and how making skating history is a surefire way to avoid the podium.
• The paradox of potential: Learn why what we believe to be true is often at odds with the actual truth—and how embracing the unconventional can lead to greatness.

Through vivid examples, spanning world-class sprinting to tech startups, Tomlinson reveals how success is found outside the lines. Whether you’re a business leader who is ready to embrace innovation, a coach determined to nurture unrecognized talent, or someone who has repeatedly been underestimated, this book will provide the inspiration to defy expectations and risk achieving the unimaginable!

In The Quest: The Definitive Guide to Finding Belonging, Dan J. Berger guides readers through a metaphorical climb to uncover their sense of belonging.

Grounded in Berger’s personal triumph over childhood trauma and his extensive research on the topic, The Quest is a personalized playbook that helps readers fulfill the innate human need for belonging. Berger challenges commonplace myths on the subject and leads readers through interactive exercises to reveal their unique belonging persona.

As the journey progresses, Berger examines traditional and nontraditional paths to belonging, offering readers strategies to enhance their sense of connection and avoid false belonging paths. At the summit, readers are invited to fine-tune their social skills–what Berger calls "Belonging Intelligence"—and evaluate the various aspects of their current environment that influence their sense of belonging.

The book also includes a bonus chapter on how to apply these lessons to the workplace to foster belonging in corporate settings.

The Quest is a guide for anyone seeking to proudly find their place in the world. Whether you’re dealing with loneliness or looking to improve your relationships, this book offers valuable insights and practical tools to help you find your path.

BIG EYES....it isn't just about achieving success; it's about achieving optimum success. You may be wondering, "What's the difference?" While success is personal and means different things to different people, optimum success takes your personal definition to another level. To reach your highest level, open your eyes and envision all of the possibilities. In this book, you are given a simple, easy-to-implement, "how-to" recipe to achieve excellence in every area of your life.

2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medalist in Biography

A raucous and raw tale awaits within the pages of Shawn D. Nelson's part-memoir/part-business book, Let Me Save You 25 Years. As the Founder and CEO of Lovesac, Nelson unveils a magnificent and unvarnished account of his entrepreneurial journey spanning a quarter-century. With unapologetic honesty, he shares both triumphant victories and humbling defeats, painting a vivid and authentic picture of the entrepreneurial rollercoaster. From its humble beginnings as a college side gig through to its IPO and beyond, the Lovesac saga unfolds quickly through 25 gripping micro-chapters, each accompanied by a nugget of hard-earned wisdom.

These 25 key lessons, born from sweat, tears, and relentless determination, offer invaluable insights for success not only in business but in life as well. The narrative traces the path from those early days to the pinnacle of achievement—going public on the NASDAQ stock exchange—while imparting practical guidance for aspiring achievers in any field." Let Me Save You 25 Years isn't just a book; it's a mentor, a guide, and a source of inspiration for anyone with the ambition to carve their own legacy.

2025 NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite in Nonfiction Book Cover Design
2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medalist in Non-Fiction Cover Design

Few that know Mary Grothe today would guess that her childhood was traumatic. That she was raised by an alcoholic mother and abusive father in a filthy house, where tar dripped down the walls from the profusion of cigarette smoke. That at fourteen she watched her childhood auctioned off beneath a big top before fleeing town as a result of her parents’ criminal mistakes. Or that dance, her original love and ticket to freedom, would be taken from her in an instant. That four whole years of darkness followed. That she briefly married a man so toxic that she had to plot a secret escape to free herself.

What many people do know is that, in spite of all the above, she discovered, to her own astonishment and that of everyone around her, that she was something of a sales prodigy. That her success was meteoric. That her name was synonymous with number one.

Until now, most also don’t know that all of this “success” led her straight back down into the darkness. Into alcoholism, and from there into the front porch of her neighbors’ house, behind the wheel of one of her two cars. Or that years of healing, and grinding away in the trenches, would only bring her straight back to her knees. That finally, one fateful Christmas morning, from the pit of the bottom, she found Jesus. That again, she thought she’d forever changed her life, only to learn that doing so is easier said than done.

And that’s just the first half of this book.

But this isn’t an ordinary business book, or an ordinary autobiography. It’s not merely a rollercoaster, either, but an entire theme park full of them: of being a daughter, a partner, a wife, a mother, a Christian, a founder, and a CEO.

Tap into the empowering realms of communication intelligence to unleash your potential and elevate your communicative presence. In her book The CQ Edge, Su Bridgman reveals and synthesizes profound insights, actionable strategies, and practical exercises to cultivate a resilient, captivating communicative essence.

Whether it’s a high-stakes presentation or an intimate conversation, her strategies empower you to express with confidence, resonate with authenticity, and make an impact with every word spoken. In this book, you will find much more than just a learning experience; you will be able to achieve a metamorphosis into the communicator you aspire to be, transforming not just the way you speak, but the way you are heard and remembered by your audiences.

Embark on this enlightening journey and redefine the boundaries of your communicative landscape. Let every communication and presentation be a powerful interaction, where each word you speak conveys a compelling, authentic message. It’s time to begin your odyssey into the domains of The CQ Edge, where your voice becomes the echo of your soul and message, your ideas have impact, and you are able to become the master and architect of unforgettable impressions your listeners will always remember.

A roadmap to unlocking your inner strength, overcoming adversity, and living a life of authenticity and purpose

In her powerful debut book, The Butterfly Code, D'Yanna Craighead takes readers on a transformative journey of personal growth, resilience, and self-discovery. Drawing on her own remarkable life experiences, D’Yanna reveals a profound framework for navigating life's challenges and emerging as the best version of oneself.

D’Yanna’s story begins in the inner city of Pittsburgh, where she grew up in a close-knit family, dreaming of a life beyond her neighborhood. Through hard work and determination, she embarked on a groundbreaking career as a Black woman in technology, defying stereotypes and breaking barriers in a predominantly white male industry. D’Yanna candidly shares about:

• Her struggles with divorce and the challenges of being a single mother
• Navigating the lack of diversity in her technology career
• Experiencing grief after the loss of her father

Through these trials, she discovered the transformative power of embracing change, trusting the process, and looking within for strength and healing. At the heart of The Butterfly Code is Craighead's unique framework for personal evolution, inspired by the metamorphosis of a butterfly:

• The stages of preparation
• Evolution
• Transformation
• Emergence
• Soaring to new heights

D’Yanna’s writing is intimate, honest, and deeply empowering. She shares her story with vulnerability and courage, inviting readers to reflect on their own lives and the possibilities for growth and change. The Butterfly Code is a celebration of the unbreakable human spirit and a powerful reminder that, like the butterfly, we all have the capacity to transform, evolve, and emerge as our best selves.

When was the last time you pushed yourself beyond your comfort zone and dared to fail?

In Disruptable, Allan Young shows you how embracing your different, getting outside your comfort zone, observing the impossible, daring to fail, and taking purposeful action will set you on a path of intentional personal disruption that will change your world forever. If you are ready to face your fears and embrace your failures, you can also enjoy the freedom of limitless growth. Join Allan on his journey of intentional disruption that has led him from a five-year-old entrepreneur to founder and owner of an Inc. 500 company and multiple start-ups that have generated over $500 million in sales.

Live Your Best Day Ever
Success is something everyone wants, yet it often feels elusive. How do you get it? And once you get it, how do you stay at the top?
This book is a practical guide for achieving what you want in life—and doing it in a way that doesn’t burn you out, break your integrity, or steal from your personal and family time. The secret is living a habit-based lifestyle coupled with a shift in mind-set. Broken down into bite-sized, achievable pieces, it’s easier than it sounds. Deliberately designed to be part factual information, part personal-application guide, and part inspiration for further thought, Best Day Ever is divided into thirty-five easy-to-digest chapters that will tell you how to use your power and resources more effectively.
Author Anne-Marie Faiola has been in the trenches, launching and bootstrapping a multimillion-dollar business while also raising a family and being an active community member. Her experience has allowed her to systemize a style and philosophy of working, living, and thinking that empowers her success. In this book, she’s sharing everything she’s learned, so you can pick and choose strategies to boost you to a higher level—or even set you on an entirely new and exciting trajectory. Stop relying on luck. Plan for success. Choose to be happy!

WHEN YOU START WITH LOVE, YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING
In From GED to Harvard Then Inc. 500, be prepared to fall not just for a city but for a couple who firmly believe that the most wildly successful businesses don’t start with a sale or even a product … they start with a desire to engage with others.
When they bought a run-down little market in 1982, the Wolfes didn’t even consider the idea of failing. At seventeen and nineteen years old, Jane and Scott knew that if they were going to succeed, they needed to put their whole heart into their business. And it worked. The Wolfes found that success isn’t as much about what you sell—it’s about the feelings that your team members project and your customers walk away with. In short, it’s about love.
From GED to Harvard Then Inc. 500 walks with the Wolfes through their journey from the early years of Wagner’s Meat, its growth and utter destruction by Hurricane Katrina, their astonishing rebuilding, and the realization of running a New Orleans icon that has a little bit of everything ... and a whole lot of community engagement.

The Farmer’s Code takes you on a hero’s journey of self-development. It follows a path of transformation and growth to help you become your true, highest self. This journey will lead to a greater understanding of the self and a deeper connection to one’s own values and core principles, which paves the way for a long-lasting legacy.

Legacies provide a roadmap for future generations, showing those who follow your footsteps what is possible as they strive to reach their full potential. Filled with personal stories of the struggles and triumphs of one American farming family, the Code shows how legacies are about more than just personal fulfillment. They can have a profound impact on the lives of others by serving as a guiding light to those who are seeking a better way to live. Just as airline passengers are instructed to see to their own oxygen masks first in the event of an emergency before helping others, legacy building has to start with the self. When you are safe, secure, and strong, you are in a much better position to turn outward to help others. It is then that you can help address societal challenges, advance knowledge and innovation, promote social change, or support the important causes you see in your community.

The Farmer’s Code should spark aspirations, ignite passion, and encourage everyone to strive for greatness. By considering the lasting impact you can make, you will be able to live more purposefully and leave a more positive imprint on the world.

A Treasured Gift from a Father to his Son

As a senior in high school, I received a special gift from my father.

As I was about to leave home for college, my father handed me an eleven-page handwritten letter that contained his best advice for his son. The letter contained quotes from Shakespeare, snippets from classic literature, and candid confessions about things that my dad wished he had done differently.

The letter was written by pen but might as well have been written in granite. I still have this letter in a drawer in my bedroom closet and I read parts of it about once a month. To this day, I treasure my father’s words of wisdom.

As we get older, we realize that there are many lessons that life gives us. These lessons in life are invaluable. But these lessons in life are not serving anyone unless we share them with our family, friends, and even strangers.

About three years ago, I began writing the most important lessons that I’ve learned in my life. The life lessons range from almost every aspect of life, including health and nutrition, financial management, faith, professional goal setting, and virtues such as perseverance, sacrifice, and gratitude.

Ninety-seven percent of these life lessons are based upon abject failures, repeated mistakes, and, in some cases, heartbreak, but our mistakes and failures make us who we are. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Win Today was inspired by my father, James H. Fisher, Esq., who knew better than anyone that the greatest lessons aren’t taught in a classroom.

How the Sum of One Man’s Experiences Led to a Life Well Lived
How does one create a happy and fulfilled life? For Marty Holleran, who had an ordinary upbringing in Scranton, Pennsylvania in the 1940s, he had great things planned for his future. Faced with a lifetime of personal trials and tribulations, successes, heartbreaks, and struggles, Marty rose above the hardships to achieve his desired life. Well Lived is filled with valuable lessons from his eclectic business career alongside heartfelt recollections of his family and the life-changing lessons he’s learned along the way. Well Lived will help readers to reflect on how their moral compasses, their unconditional love for their families, and their relentless dedication can get them through amazing obstacles.

From the outside looking in, Sallie Holder seemed to have it all. A “Top Professional of the Year” before the age of thirty, she was living a six-figure, wildly “successful” lifestyle by society’s standards. But we all know looks can be deceiving. While smiling and confident on the exterior, Sallie had a secret: she was actually miserable living the life she’d chosen. Only she knew that success felt like a role she was playing, and that on the inside she felt like an imposter who simply wanted to be doing anything other than what she was doing.
How in the world would she make a change at this stage of life? And what in the world would she do? If she made a change, what would everyone think? How could she reject society’s conventional definition of “success?”
Sallie’s journey to answering these questions for herself and others became her mission. While the process included both pain and joy, it has ultimately resulted in her achieving her greatest potential. Now she shares everything she’s learned to help people who feel just as unsatisfied and suspect they too are on the wrong path.
In Hitting Rock Middle, Sallie has created a step-by-step plan to help you start creating the path to your greatest potential – a place that includes true fulfillment and success. Through the journey this book will take you on, you will pinpoint who you are, what you want to do with your life, and how to get out of Rock Middle and into the big, bold, successful career that was waiting for you all along.

From a young paperboy in Southern California to a visionary leader in education and business, David R. Jackson’s story is a testament to adventure, ambition, and perseverance. His passion for travel and world exploration began when he was a teenager and led to:

• Earning his private pilot license at 16
• Skiing the Americas; he traveled down the Pan-American Highway to Chile, across the Andes to Argentina, and then to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil before heading back to California
• Competitive skiing at the collegiate level at Brigham Young University
• Spending a year road tripping and skiing through Europe, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, and Scandinavia

His entrepreneurial spirit led him to launch multiple successful businesses before taking the helm at Fairmont Schools, where he transformed a small institution into a leading private school network. A dedicated philanthropist and faith-driven leader, he has spent decades shaping the educational landscape, serving in leadership roles, and giving back to communities around the world.

Now semi-retired, David continues to travel, having visited over 130 countries, while devoting his time to philanthropy and family. This inspiring memoir chronicles a life of adventure, leadership, and unwavering determination—proving that with vision and courage, anything is possible.

Living Sober in an Industry Ravaged by Addiction
As a child, Steve Palmer never belonged—not in school, not in his troubled home, not with friends. After his father and grandfather passed away, he was sent to a series of rehabs and halfway houses before ending up on the streets. Drugs and alcohol soon became a way of life. Eventually, he would go on to a career running some of the country’s most celebrated and innovative fine dining establishments. But first, he had to learn how to be sober in an industry awash with alcohol and drugs. Thanks to coworkers that were able to love him when he couldn’t love himself, Steve got sober. He escaped addiction alive. Many in the industry do not. No other industry has higher rates of alcohol and drug abuse. People are losing careers and families. They’re losing their health. They’re losing their lives. This is the story of one man who found healing and recovery in the industry that enabled his addiction—and he’s on a quest to help others do the same.

Discover how the nation's largest senior living operator answered the call posed by the greatest public health crisis in one hundred years with courage and resilience.
CEO Cindy Baier shares a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes look at how Brookdale Senior Living navigated the COVID-19 pandemic as she stood at the helm of a company with $3.5 billion of revenue in 2020. Woven together with her own personal accounts, Cindy highlights the broad symphony of voices and diverse cast of players who proved pivotal in helping save lives during the most challenging crisis the senior living industry has ever faced. The book is chock-full of heartfelt sentiment and granular insights that serve to redefine corporate leadership as the world enters a new normal. Heroes Work Here is the new gold standard for crisis management, a perfect primer for leaders wanting to stay one step ahead of any crisis, and a keen reminder of the wonders that result from a culture of caring.

RESTORATION ENCOMPASSES BODY, MIND, AND SPIRIT
During the early years of her career, Marisa Faircloth had the good fortune to work with some of the best plastic surgeons in the field. She thought then what she knows now: that less invasive procedures are perfect for people who don't want or need drastic changes to their overall appearance. As she tells her clients, radical changes in your appearance are not going to make you beautiful; the lightest of touches can bring out your natural beauty.

Marisa's unique approach to human connection and empathy allows her to provide more than the aesthetic services she offers. Though clients may come in thinking they need beauty services, they often leave feeling full restoration of body, mind, and spirit. Marisa's mission is to uncover the hidden beauty in each person who walks through her door. Whatever she can do to enhance and empower them, she takes the time and effort to do.

Her book gives readers permission to do something nice for themselves, because if it makes them feel better, it makes everyone they touch feel better too. This is why the benefits of self-care are limitless.

Using her decades of experience in aesthetics, she shares with readers how beauty extends beyond the face and body: true beauty comes from the compassion and connection we extend to others.

Take your front row seat as Steve Heard looks back at his “life lived all the way up,” and shares seven decades of adventures and real-life accounts involving some of history’s most influential decision-makers through one of the most rapidlychanging times in American history.

Steve’s story begins before his own birth, chronicling his family’s roots, particularly his great-great-great grandfather, Colonel Stephen Heard. A soldier and a politician, Steve’s namesake fought with George Washington in the French and Indian Wars and the Revolutionary War before becoming the first governor of Georgia.

Steve’s own account opens with his upbringing in Westwood, Massachusetts, his private education at Milton Academy in the 1950s, and his years of sports, friends, and academics at Harvard. Shortly after receiving his degree, Steve was quickly commissioned in the United States Air Force and served three years as an intelligence officer in Spain. While living on the civilian economy and making local connections, he participated in some of the Cold War’s most challenging episodes, a number of which are still largely classified today.

At the close of his eventful three-year tour, Steve became only the third American to fight bulls in Spain as a licensed matador, earning him a framed picture in one of Barcelona’s oldest and best known restaurants, Los Caracoles, among some of Spain’s most well-known, historical matadors.

After his return to the United States in the 1960s, Steve attended Stanford Law School while working as a Santa Clara Deputy Sheriff. Steve then began five successful, eventful decades of practicing international law in several law firms—two of which he started. He investigated and litigated international transborder transactions, including smuggling and financial matters, cases that took him to the farthest reach of Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

All The Way Up also reveals Steve’s philanthropic side, serving 20 years on the Board of the New York City Fresh Air Fund, the last 13 of which he was president. He also served several terms on Stanford Law School’s Board of Visitors.

Steve now enjoys his retirement with his wife, Susan, in Seabrook, South Carolina.

Borrowing a line from Teddy Roosevelt, Steve’s lifelong friend and Charleston neighbor, John Winthrop, likes to say, “Steve Heard is truly a classic ‘man in the arena.’”

We all want the autonomy and power to change our lives for the better and yet many of us feel stuck in the same bad habits, patterns, and short-term fixes. We know what we should do, but often we cannot get ourselves to actually do it.

In Unstoppable Brain, Dr. Kyra Bobinet debunks today’s over-dependence on performance-driven tools such as calorie counting, SMART goals, and likes/followers that attempt to motivate us into behavior change. These methods work well in the short term but have a long-term downside of negative emotions and harmful behaviors. Yet despite these poor results, we keep using the same performative approaches over and over. Something is missing.

Emerging research into the neuroscience of behavior and motivation has brought to light to a little-understood area of the brain, the habenula; possibly the most powerful controller of behavior ever found. If left untended, the habenula acts as a failure detector and motivation kill switch that can rob you of positive or lasting change, leaving you stuck in relapse, frustration, and suffering.

Understanding the habenula’s inner workings is must-have knowledge to obtain the freedom and agency for the life you long for. New research reveals that the habenula is a primary gating mechanism for everything that does or doesn't happen in your life, what you do or do not do and. It is among our biggest obstacles to change.

In this book, you will learn that an activated habenula can dominate even the dopamine and reward systems that the scientific world for decades has esteemed the most powerful behavioral drivers. We will explore exactly what is wrong with today’s overly used performative approaches and how you can free yourself to reach your optimal health and best life. Dr. Bobinet unpacks mounting evidence on the habenula and other discoveries that change everything about changing behavior. With this new vision and understanding, your natural tendencies, purpose, and passions can emerge organically and inspire permanent, satisfying, and healthy life change.

Unstoppable Brain frees you from being too performative for others and being too hard on yourself. It provides all you need to restore your sovereignty and empowers you to change your life and habits whenever and however you want. It offers a therapeutic dose of three “medicines” that help you go from stuck to unstoppable. This potent elixir is an antidote to recovering your innate motivation wherever you’ve been stopped by the past or overwhelmed by the future. Most importantly, this book gives you the key to unlock lasting change.

Dr. Bobinet shares relatable examples from her own story and impactful research studies in resounding instruction for a full, vibrant life. Throughout the book, her engaging voice, relatable vulnerability, and empowering message infuse readers with the tools and reinvigorated power to unlock true, lasting change. Become unstoppable!

It’s Not the Score, It’s the Trip tells the tale of a man who was driven, smart, and eager to be wealthy, from his early days with his, by most standards, huge family, led by a father who was his guide, mentor, and hero. He fell in love, twice: once with college friend Nancy Tofanelli and later with the insurance industry. Both relationships were defined by compassion, and each came to define his life.
Brian O’Hara is an ordinary man who landed at a place and time in history that gave him the opportunity for an extraordinary life, and who recognized where he had landed and took the lead during some of the most remarkable years in the history of the financial services world.

Are you so wrapped up in the day-to-day tasks of working hard that you've never stopped to figure out where you want to go? Maybe you have goals for yourself, your family, your career, your business and employees, but you face challenges in realizing your dreams. Maybe you worked hard and had achieved success, but today's economy knocked you down. Can you name all fifty states or even all Ten Commandments? How can you remember 282 success principles for business or for life in general? And why should you when there are really only three simple, yet difficult rules for success? If you'd like to get started, or need to start over, on creating the life you truly want, you can do it. With profound and profoundly simple concepts, this book will point you in the right direction and provide you with a roadmap to your destination. Learn to See the End First and live the Three Simple Yet Difficult Rules of Success and you will succeed! • Deciding what you want and understanding what it looks like when you get there is the hardest work you will ever do, but it is the most important work on the journey. You must see the end first! • If we are too fearful of failure, we can go overboard on the work aspect of becoming successful. We can become workaholics or "successaholics." To be truly successful requires balance. We need to play, not just work. We need to build up those around us and not just our own personal success. • What is important in your life? In your heart? What gives you joy, when do you feel maximized, alive and energized? Take an inventory of what you spend your time doing. There you will either find your passion or you will find what holds you back. Are you living a life of quiet desperation, or are you marching toward those things you hold dear? • Sometimes you have to cut off the avenues of retreat to keep your attitude where it needs to be in that moment.

The true story of how lives were lost, taxpayer money squandered, and reputations destroyed as part of an ill-conceived effort to remake Afghanistan into something akin to our own image.

What started as a project to reconstruct the highway between Kabul and Kandahar evolved into an ambitious effort to provide Afghanistan with new roads, bridges, schools, clinics, power plants, and irrigation projects. These assignments fell to a Texas-based security firm, US Protection & Investigation, LLC (USPI), which in the space of a few years rose to become the most pervasive and effective paramilitary force in Afghanistan.The initiatives required weapons, health and death benefits, ammunition, uniforms, and vehicles, which the underfunded Government of Afghanistan could not supply, but still mandated. Amendment 660 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1972 prohibited USAID from funding these items. Aware of these Vietnam-era legal restraints, Del Spier of USPI alerted U.S. officials to the implications and was assured repeatedly that a way would be found to solve the problem.

This is the unbelievable true story of a normal American couple, Del and Barbara Spier, in unfriendly enemy territory, in the middle of a war. Unknown to Barbara, Del was forced to take matters into his own hands to accomplish U.S. objectives. He was caught in the crossfire of Afghanistan's endemic corruption, criminals, and ethnic rivalries and Washington's shifting military strategies and bureaucratic inertia. USPI security personnel worked across the country, where they encountered ambushes, IEDs (improvised explosive devices), warlords, drug kingpins, criminals and ordinary Afghans coping with the horrors of everyday life. These horrors struck a humanitarian nerve in the Spiers and without any government assistance they provided clothing, medicine, training, fuel, food and shelter to the unfortunate.As American troops are being withdrawn from Afghanistan, one overriding question will occupy the public for years: How could an endeavor that began with the toppling of the Taliban regime in Kabul a decade ago have evolved into the longest war in American history?

The Spiers' path ultimately led them into a protracted legal battle. USAID turned on the very company that for years had protected its construction sites in Afghanistan and enlisted the FBI and the Justice Department in a three-year, multi-million dollar investigation vendetta against the Spiers and their company. Only dramatic courtroom decisions handed down in March and July 2010 in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. brought the matter to a surprising conclusion.

The Spiers' tragedy is a microcosm of America's misadventure in Afghanistan.

Have you ever wondered how to lead your teams effectively? In Foundational Leadership, Robert Griggs shares the story of his encounter with Jack Stack, author of The Great Game of Business. This first interaction changed Robert’s life and it formed the basis for an entirely different way to view leadership – one where leaders led with an open book and were willing to share the ins and outs of how a company was run. As Robert shares, this approach, while unsettling in the early days of its implementation at Trinity Products, completely changed the way he and his team did business. Through the utilization of concepts such as profit sharing, benchmarks, scoreboards, and continuous improvement, Robert has created a company that continues to grow from year to year.

Your struggling teenager is going to a residential or wilderness treatment program. Their addictions, learning disabilities, or emotional/behavioral issues have brought you to a moment of decision. Heartsick, anxious, and exhausted, questions bounce endlessly around your mind, "Will this work? Was this really necessary? Will she ever forgive me? Can we handle him at home when the time comes?" Dr. Tim Thayne delivers the answers in his groundbreaking book Not by Chance. As an owner/therapist of wilderness and residential programs, Thayne was frustrated when young people made monumental progress, only to return home where things quickly unraveled. His mission became to vastly improve long-term success by crafting and proving a model to coach parents on their power to lead out through full engagement during treatment and management of the transition home. Not by Chance engages readers through solid research, simple exercises, and captivating stories taken from Thayne's own life and the living rooms of hundreds of American homes. This book serves up concrete tools, hope, confidence, and stamina for families, professionals and mentors.

Topics include:
• Why good programs work
• How to boost—not undermine—treatment
• Nine dangers waiting after discharge
• How to identify natural mentors for your teen
• What to do when the testing begins
• When and how to grant back privileges and freedoms
• How to ease your young adult's transition from treatment to independent living
• When you know you've succeeded

If you are even considering out-of-home treatment for your teen, do not gamble with the outcomes. Not by Chance should claim its rightful place on your nightstand. www.notbychance.com

The Forever Home provides the foundation to confidently explore what you want, plan your dream home, and find the right professionals to make it a reality.

Renowned architect Kevin Harris will guide you through his proven, step-by-step process to design and build a house that fits you so well it becomes your forever home. No matter where you travel, your forever home is the place you feel complete.

Inside these pages, you’ll learn how to:
• Determine when it makes sense to hire an architect
• Evaluate and assemble the design team and construction team that’s right for you
• Understand the residential construction process
• Use the Hierarchy of Design to make the most important decisions first
• Recognize the pitfalls and avoid many common, but ill advised cost-saving schemes

The Forever Home will pave the way for you to design and build not only the home of your current dreams, but the home that will be perfect for your children, grandchildren, aging parents, and even you later in life.

“An extraordinary story of resilience. In his moving memoir, Stephen Thompson opens up about how he broke cycles of abuse, poverty, and neglect to build a better life. It’s filled with lessons for anyone who’s ever questioned their resolve.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again

Left with a gift, in a motel room in Reno

The Rubik’s cube was left behind, and so were they. It was January 1980, in a motel room in Reno. Stephen Jon Thompson was just nine years old, left behind with his four younger siblings, the youngest just a year old. Their mother had left two days before to go to the laundromat. She never returned. Now the power was out, the Nilla wafers were running low, and the Rubik’s cube that his mother had brought home from her waitressing job could not be solved. Stephen, the oldest, had a bigger problem to solve, what to do with the four young souls he was now in charge of. He finally determined they all needed to get out of that motel room. He dialed the front desk. Thus begins Hotel Goodbyes, Stephen Jon Thompson’s gripping memoir about making it in America against incredible odds.

Few knew of Stephen’s past. Maybe he didn’t know it himself. For his colleagues at companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, or Nike, he was a successful human resource executive, who had an uncanny ability to read people, to find the right person for the job, and to convince them that it was right for them. More than anything, they remember his infectious smile. But that grinning face hid a difficult past, a childhood spent in dingy motel rooms, dreary foster homes, and a cold, concrete juvenile home. It took Stephen years to tell his story, to write his memoir, to come to grips with a childhood he would just as soon forget. But when his young son came home with a school assignment to tell his family history, Stephen knew he needed to come clean. He could no longer bury the past, not to his friends and co-workers, and not to his two sons, to whom this book is dedicated.

Hotel Goodbyes is one man’s journey to come to grips with his past. From Ohio to California to Nevada and back, Stephen takes us on his journey from foster child to wildfire fighter to college graduate to blackjack dealer to state assembly candidate to successful technology executive. Along the way, he reconnects with his younger siblings and tracks down his Aunt Ouida, his mother’s sister, to find the answer to the question he has always had: why did his mother leave that day and never come back? In the end, Stephen determines that his mother abandoned him, but also left him with a gift, a gift of a better life.

Paul Owhadi’s improbable entrepreneurial journey began as a first-generation immigrant coming to America with just a few hundred dollars in his pocket. Having learned a remarkable level of self-reliance, as a child sent to a French boarding school at age four, he was educated in London—and then headed to New York City and a whole new life.

After an education and a career in urban planning and city management—one of the youngest city managers in the country—he excelled at creating and transforming cities for the betterment of its people. But it was an unexpected opportunity in the private sector which set Paul on his entrepreneurship path. He took the extraordinary opportunity granted to him to explore the world of property development, discovering a passion for both real estate development and creating companies. He also faced devastating setbacks that would test his mettle and fortitude. Along the way, he formed his own business approach—one combining a passion for innovation and outside-the-box thinking. With the support of family and a fierce work ethic, he conquered his sector. But he also traveled the globe—using intellectual curiosity as his guide.

This is the story of a man who used every challenge to inspire and guide him; this is the inspirational tale of an entrepreneur who grabbed at every opportunity to create a life of passion and innovation.

Breaking through stereotypes, Dr. Esther M. Alegria challenges the notion that promotions are limited to the privileged few. Raised in a low-income area with scarce resources, she overcame obstacles to achieve a thriving career in the pharmaceutical industry.

In From Just Esther to Poly-Esther, Dr. Alegria emphasizes the keys to transforming a vision into reality: passion, persistence, and a willingness to seize opportunities—and a lot of laughter. As she reflects on her humble origins and tells the story of her career, she shares valuable insights and traits for readers to integrate into their lives to find their own sense of self-awareness and fulfillment.

With heartfelt sincerity and playful humor, Dr. Alegria encourages personal growth, empowering others to forge their unique paths. Discover how her journey from adversity to success can inspire you to unlock your true potential.

Grab the controller! Save the World!
One of the gaming industry’s leading women describes how gaming can be a force for global good.

Play is in our DNA, but gaming has always had a bad rap. Since the first humans carved a game board into the dirt, we’ve been told that playing around isn’t a useful way to spend our time. But gaming is as natural as we are. We game to experiment with ideas and to learn. We play to create new worlds so we can change this one. Gaming pushes us to imagine what more we can become. In Push Play: Gaming for a Better World, Dr. Songyee Yoon, Chief Strategy Officer at NCSOFT, lays out how gaming can help us craft a better world together.

While gaming has global implications, it has largely been created by, marketed to and associated with men. The gaming industry’s perception as a “boys club” has kept many talented women from pursuing their passions in STEM. As a leader and expert in the video game industry, Dr. Yoon shares her own experience in this male dominated field and her quest for a more diverse and equitable tech community. From encouraging more female lead characters in games to creating more supportive environments for working mothers, Dr. Yoon works to break down barriers for those who have been shut out of opportunities in STEM. After all, the game only gets better with more players.

Through stories from her career in the gaming industry and her deep passion for tech, she outlines how innovations in gaming push industries forward and create a more equitable world for everyone.

• Learn how gaming inspires Artificial Intelligence to consider everyone’s perspective.
  
• Master tips and tricks from gaming that can be used to lead diverse and thriving business teams.
  
• Explore the digital worlds of Massively Multiplayer Online Games and understand why we need digital communities where all humans can participate.
  

So, get those thumbs flexing with Push Play to unlock your power to play.

At fifty-seven, Dr. Carol Turner was in peak health and avidly participating in the full gamut of outdoor sports that Colorado has to offer. Then, on her way to watch her sons compete in the state’s annual high school mountain bike championship, she pulled into a gas station, received a call from her doctor, and learned that she had cancer. As a doctor herself, she instantly knew that what was to come would have personal and universal significance, and started taking notes immediately, from the passenger seat of the car. Those notes turned into this book―a candid, unvarnished chronicle of her cancer journey, from diagnosis to recovery.

In Waldy, Myelo, & Me, Dr. Turner courageously shares her remarkable journey of resilience, hope, and triumph over two rare blood disorders: Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia and Myelodysplastic Syndrome. With unwavering determination and a heart full of positivity, Dr. Turner takes readers on a compelling ride through her experiences, offering insights and inspiration for anyone facing similar health challenges.

• A Personal Chronicle of Triumph: Join Dr. Turner as she navigates the intricate web of medical diagnoses, treatment protocols, and emotional highs and lows. Through her candid narrative, readers will witness the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity.
• Navigating the Unknown: Gain valuable insights into coping strategies, communication with medical professionals, and the importance of building a robust support system. Dr. Turner's story sheds light on how to approach the unknown with courage and strength.
• Fostering Hope and Positivity: Discover how Dr. Turner’s unyielding optimism and determination became instrumental in her healing journey. Waldy, Myelo, & Me is a testament to the transformative effects of maintaining a positive mindset in the midst of life's challenges.
• Empowering Others: Dr. Turner’s story isn't just about her own journey – it's about empowering others to advocate for their health, seek knowledge, and find solace in shared experiences. Readers will find a wellspring of encouragement to face their health battles head-on.
• A Beacon of Resilience: Waldy, Myelo, & Me stands as a beacon of resilience, offering a heartwarming reminder that even in the darkest times, there is light to be found. Dr. Turner’s unwavering spirit serves as an example of the incredible strength we all possess within.

Dr. Turner's Waldy, Myelo, & Me is an empowering testament to the human spirit's capacity to overcome life's most daunting challenges. With candor, wisdom, and a touch of humor, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking inspiration and guidance on their own path to healing and resilience.

In his latest book. bestselling author, experienced financial services consultant, and actor Charlie Epstein tells his story from the beginning. From his earliest days as a class clown all the way to his 2022 performance of his one-man show, Yield of Dreams, Charlie gives readers a peek behind the curtain and inspires them to make their wishes come true. Through his triumphs, stumbles, and recoveries, Charlie presents a life story that will encourage anyone to face one hurdle at a time and push through to follow their dreams. With humor and wit, Charlie reflects on the past while dispensing advice to anyone hoping to take control of their financial future.

“Oh Yeah … Watch This!” is the story of the making of a man. Born amid tragedy, Lloyd Edward “Ed” Allen Jr. endured an abused and lonely boyhood to become a Naval Flight officer, the Captain of an aircraft carrier, and a Navy Rear Admiral. After his experience in the corporate world, he founded the Executive Success Group, coaching executives, sharing his insights on leadership and achieving business results.

In this powerful and poignant memoir, Allen brings those insights, and much more, to a wider audience. Here you will meet another Ed Allen who was grappling with the lingering pains of the past that drove him to accomplishment. He shares not only the accolades but the anguish. Even as he rose to more senior levels in the military and in business, this was a soul in search of self. You see a hurting man looking upward and asking, “Why?” – and he takes you with him on a journey of forgiveness and closure.

Few other memoirs have dealt so honestly with what it means to be human. “On the way to higher ground,” Allen tells us in the opening pages, “I often slipped and fell and shouted in pain, but I grew stronger as I climbed to where, at long last, I could see the view.” To anyone thinking that making it to the mountaintop is an impossible dream, this is Allen’s challenge: “Oh Yeah ...Watch This!”

In order to transform our world, we must unite behind a new kind of civility.

In a world that is more divided than ever, it will take a radical act to transform our discourse, our lives, and our world. International civility consultant and keynote speaker Shola Richards believes that unifying our world around the power of civility is that radical act, and it’s not for the faint of heart.

Do we want a safer world to live in? Do we want less toxicity in our politics? Do we want a world free of hate and discrimination? Do we want to work in organizations that allow us to do our best work? Do we want our children to learn in schools that are kind and supportive? Do we want to live in a world that prioritizes our mental health and overall wellness? If your answers are “yes,” then we must steel ourselves for the reality that uniting around civility is the only path that will get us there.

This deeply personal—and deeply practical—book will not shy away from addressing the challenging questions, such as: How can civil discourse be maintained during disagreements about topics that are profoundly polarizing, like abortion, gun control, or politics?

How can I be expected to be civil toward someone who has deeply wounded me—the drunk driver who killed my child, the relative who sexually assaulted me, the spouse who left me for my best friend, or the narcissistic parent who abused me?

How can I be civil when confronted with the hatefulness of intolerances such as racism, misogyny, antisemitism, homophobia, or Islamophobia?

How can I have a civil conversation with someone who isn’t tethered to reality and believes in baseless dark web conspiracy theories? It sounds like civility means that we just need to be agreeable, not rock the boat, avoid having opinions or keeping them to ourselves, and refuse to take a firm stand against the policies and people who are trying to harm me and my loved ones. What in the world is positive about any of that foolishness?

These questions—and more—deserve to be answered. To be clear, Civil Unity is not another book about turning the other cheek when faced with harmful or hateful behavior. This book is about providing the practical tactics to disagree more effectively, bridge ideological divisions, actively prioritize our mental health, and fiercely create a more civil world that will sustain over time.

If you are ready to transform our discourse, our lives, and our world, let’s get to work.

Immortal Truths: Timeless Wisdom for Career Success is your gateway to unlocking the secrets of a more rewarding career and life. Ravi Tewari, author and former head of the conglomerate Guardian Group, invites you to embark on a captivating journey through fifteen historical and mythological tales, each illustrating key lessons for building a rewarding career and life.

As we all strive for success, Tewari challenges us to reconsider our approach. Tewari exposes the hidden attitudes that may be sabotaging our pursuit of achievement, like the compulsion to always be right or to win at all costs. Immortal Truths offers fresh perspectives on how to navigate your career and life by embracing humility and compromise, reinforcing personal decisiveness, seeing the world as it is, and making small yet wise and deeply impactful changes in our daily lives.

With personal insights and real-world examples from his own experiences, Tewari guides you toward breaking free from unjust suffering and toxic management styles. This book will serve as your compass, illuminating the path to better careers and happier lives, using the wisdom of the ages as your guiding light. Don’t miss out on the chance to redefine your understanding of success and transform your future.

Boyd Clewis has defied the odds and gravity. He was born dead, changed schools and homes as a child more times than he can count, became a teenage father and a track star, had more than one close brush with the law, and endured unimaginable family tragedy – all by the time he was barely old enough to drink.

He found a brief silver lining in the darkness. When it didn’t last, he found himself unable to even get a job in the produce section at Wal Mart. He refused to fail, and in the process, learned how to turn crisis into opportunity – over and over again. As he relentlessly pursued success, his trajectory shot straight upwards: international success, speaking on major stages – and love. Even then, there were days he couldn’t get out of bed.

Yet again, he reinvented himself, failed, and learned from it. Then, from a place most would consider their peak, he started from scratch to build his own business from the ground up. In the process, he learned what it truly meant to manage success. It can fulfill or destroy you, and it can bring your family closer, or tear it apart. It can isolate you from your community, or raise everyone around you up.

He not only changed his name, but formed an alter ego, and chose to live by a code: The Authority Mindset. Ever since, he’s been teaching it to others, and transforming lives in process. It’s about truly bringing value, instead of chasing certifications – and taking stock of what’s happened to you and deliberately reshaping it into something that gives you power.

This book is about how to expertly play the hand you’re dealt, regardless of how good or bad it is. It’s also about what happens when you try to ignore your calling, and how everything changes when you finally find the courage to follow it. And from every angle, it’s a testament to refusing to be defined by circumstance.

For better or worse, what you focus on determines your character and the trajectory of your life. Focus on any one thing to the exclusion of others, and everything you built can fall apart. There are two sides to every coin, and every seeming misfortune contains a lesson. There’s an alchemy to turning adversity to wisdom, and curses into blessings, and this is the story of how it worked for Boyd, and how it can work for you.

2025 Global Book Awards Gold Medalist in Business Development

Stop drowning in urgency and start living with purpose

Ryan Matt Reynolds is a successful strength coach, business owner, and business mentor. This book is the road map he wished he had many years ago when he felt like he was drowning in urgency. Reynolds’s personal journey as a professional athlete, business owner, husband, father, and mentor lends credence to his practices as he shares his foundational principles.

• Deprioritize to-do lists
• Undo excuses that derail progress
• Embrace voluntary hardship
• Create focused, efficient work that moves the needle

Reynolds’s systematic approach guides readers in laying the foundation for change from the first chapter. No fluff. All substance.

Undoing Urgency also details the GAME Plan (Goals, Actions, Metrics, and Execution), which turns core values into high-priority goals and minimum effective dose actions for maximum impact. The GAME Plan works for all goals, having been used at the highest levels in business, health, life, and the most personal ambitions. It takes readers on a journey of personal discovery to identify what brings them value and joy. Ultimately, Reynolds wants to help people break free of urgency and start living a value-driven life dedicated to what is most important to them.

Harness Your Stress Into A Productive Strength!
Do you struggle with stress? Let’s be honest, that’s most of us. Maybe you’ve even read articles on how to relieve your stress. But in STRESS TEFLON, Luke Mathers and Mick Zeljko explain that eliminating your stress is not the answer. Instead, you can utilise stress to get more out of life, becoming a better version of yourself.
STRESS TEFLON will help you see stress in a whole new way. You will learn: • the evolutionary origins of stress • how to achieve eudemonia, the Greek concept of “objective flourishing” • the difference between your Old and New Brains • the science behind stress and behaviour • how to turn stress on its head for your advantage • the three foundations to becoming STRESS TEFLON
Luke and Mick’s compelling explanation of stress and its benefits will help you understand how we tick and use that understanding to improve your productivity, your relationships, and your outlook on life’s challenges.
By developing self-awareness and contributing to your tribe, you can obtain the pride and confidence necessary to achieve almost anything. If you had the belief that you could handle any situation, what would you have to be stressed about?

Focus On The Final Seconds in the definitive book you have been looking for to discover the winning formula that propelled a poor country boy from rural Florida to international arenas. This book is not like anything you have read before. You will feel challenged to live beyond the levels set by others; encouraged to grow into the person you always knew you could be, and get out of your comfort zone to break through the finish line of life.

In Focus On The Final Seconds you will:

• Learn the winning formula and the role it plays in achieving your maximum velocity performance (MVP)
• Achieve success by aligning your mental and physical goals Identify your strengths and build upon them to achieve your life goals.
• Discover how to use the winning formula to make the quantum leap in the biggest game of your life.

Focus On The Final Seconds will guide you in developing a sharp body and mind that will break through limitations and help you become a champion for all ages. You can do it! You deserve it! NOW FOCUS, THE SECONDS ARE TICKING ...

IF ARAB WOMEN WERE GIVEN A VOICE, WHAT STORY WOULD THEY TELL?
To be a woman is a gift. But that gift does not come without challenges. Historically, women around the globe have fought to be heard. The stories of Arab women in particular have often been veiled in mystery.

In Hear Us Speak, Suzy Kanoo lifts the veil. As a CEO, Suzy has enjoyed great success as an Arab businessperson; as a woman, she has witnessed firsthand how Arab legislation and culture has not always kept pace with a world that continues to evolve. By curating letters from a wide array of women—and one good man—Suzy reveals story after story of courageous, resilient human beings who flourish in the face of impossible odds.
The letters in this book are inspiring, shocking, empowering, harrowing—and a thousand shades between. When read together, they paint a rich portrait of what life is like for Arab women today. These are wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters. They are businesspeople, entrepreneurs, citizens, and refugees. They have seen and done remarkable things, been bruised and emerged stronger for it.

Hear Us Speak is a book by and for women, a chorus of voices that will forever change the way you see the world.

YOU HOLD THE POWER TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Over the last fifteen years, Helen Chong has negotiated millions of dollars of real estate transactions and grossed hundreds of millions of dollars in equity for her clients. Though her successes might appear easily won, in reality she painstakingly built a career, family, and home unlike any she herself had ever known.
Motivated by an early life of financial hardship, Helen moved to the United States from Hong Kong by herself in search of the American Dream. Using her own resourcefulness and her unique mindset, she approached each obstacle with optimism and hope.
In this book, she shares her struggles with an honesty that inspires others to face their own challenges with the same determined attitude. Interspersed with tales of her pursuit of the American Dream, she demonstrates how she secured her financial security so that her readers and clients can discover their own path to freedom.

A unanimous All-American and member of the College Football Hall of Fame, Bill Glass enjoyed a remarkable twelve-year NFL career and was a four-time Pro Bowl selection. But he’s made his greatest impact as a loving family man and servant of God, establishing and running one of the world’s oldest and largest prison ministries.
In From Hero to Zero, Bill recounts his extremely difficult grieving process after losing his lover and spouse of sixty years. In his words, he “wrassled with the heartache, pain, and suffering, sometimes on top and sometimes on the bottom. Because we find ourselves on the bottom too often and it is healthy to admit to going through the valley of the shadow of death. But shadows can’t hurt you!”
Bill’s message is one of raw and complete honesty. His hope is that his struggles will be therapeutic for your pain and suffering—because sooner or later we all go through it.

Overcome Life’s Obstacles and Find Strength in Adversity

We all face obstacles. Whether physical, spiritual, emotional, or financial, we are all working to overcome a roadblock ahead of us. When Shay Eskew’s roadblock—a splash of gasoline and a lit match that set his body ablaze—came at eight years old, he had the choice to either succumb to his injuries or to rise above them. In What the Fire Ignited: How Life’s Worst Helped Me Achieve My Best, Shay shares the trials and tribulations he was forced to face while recovering from his burns and reclaiming his life as an athlete. Despite being told to give up on sports, Shay was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame (Medal of Courage), ran a marathon on seven continents in seven days, and competed in over fifty IRONMAN triathlons on six continents. By sharing his story, Shay hopes to help those struggling to realize the greatest tragedies are often our greatest blessings if we have the faith to stay the course. We are all facing something; we all have the odds stacked against us in some way. In What the Fire Ignited, readers should take comfort in knowing others have been there and not only survived, but thrived.

One devastating accident. A 2 percent chance of ever walking again. Three lives intertwined forever.
Accidents happen. But what if you were involved in an accident so horrific that it left you with a 98 percent chance of permanent paralysis? Would you lose faith? Lose hope? Would you find yourself angry and resentful? Or would you find the courage to forgive? What if you had been the driver of the truck? Or the neurosurgeon faced with putting a man’s life back together as his window of hope to ever walk again rapidly closed?
These three men were faced with such a scenario one steamy Charlotte morning after Dean Otto was accidentally run down by a truck while out for a bike ride. As he lay there broken on Providence Road, his spine shattered, unable to move his lower half, Dean knew his life would be changed forever. But he could never have imagined the journey to come, or the deep bonds he would form with the man who hit him and the doctor who healed him.
Featured on Ellen and the Today show, Dean Otto’s miraculous journey has already inspired millions. This is a story of hope, inspiration, and the power of forgiveness. It’s about the lives of three men becoming forever intertwined because of the choices they made to lean into a single moment of their lives—to allow the best of humanity to shine. And to light the way for others.

The Universe has a dream for you. Are you ready to live it?

Let master coaches Erin Aquin and Steve Haase teach you how to superabound in the most important areas of your life.

If you’ve ever felt a nudge towards greater purpose and impact, this book will help you live it. Most people either dismiss this calling as being too hard or pursue goals they think society will be impressed by. But when you learn to superabound, you become one of the few who actually sets a vision for life and lives it, which frees you to have the impact you truly desire.

You will discover how to:

• Shift your approach to goals so they work for you, instead of losing momentum in the Goal Swamp.
• Approach setbacks and obstacles in a way that helps you overcome any challenge and reach your next milestone.
• Apply new tools of self-reflection and creating inner warmth to be an effective and inspiring leader.
• Create a holistic support system to help you grow your business and fulfill your vision for the long term.
• Find harmony in your personal and professional life so you can enjoy the journey rather than waiting for a reward in the distant future.
  Superabound is more than just a book. It is a movement of business owners who are committed to creating their visionary business and life. Join them and superabound today!

You may think you know a foundation problem when you see one. Cracked or deteriorating walls, uneven floors, and sticking windows and doors are hard to miss. But once you crack open this book by a real foundation repair expert, you will learn about telltale signs that often get missed. Experienced building contractors and ordinary homeowners alike will benefit from author Bob Brown’s plain-language explanation of what causes foundation problems, how they should be investigated, and what solutions apply in different situations.

Get the inside story on what it takes to do a real investigation of foundation problems and come up with the right solution. Learn how contractors who lack knowledge or have conflicts of interest regularly charge homeowners thousands of dollars for “repairs” that are useless or make problems worse. Find out how and why Bob’s Arizona company spent years working with experts to develop a patented solution to remediate a damaging type of problem in which saturated soil heaves up under concrete slab foundations. Find out the questions you need to ask about foundations before a costly repair.

This book clears up common misconceptions about the repair of foundation problems that plague many homes all over the world. An industry insider reveals that product suppliers have trained contractors and their salespeople to perform quick and dirty inspections that can result in misdiagnoses. A real investigation of a foundation problem involves many steps and a thorough understanding of building construction and soil dynamics.

Bob Brown has spent decades working with engineers and scientists to find out how to thoroughly investigate different kinds of foundation problems in all of the unique ways and locations in which homes are built. He shares his proprietary solution for remediating the foundation problems most often given the wrong treatment. Homeowners who read this book will come away understanding more about foundation repair than some people who work in the field.

DISCOVER DR. BALMER’S INNOVATIVE PARENTING STRATEGY
Throughout the history of the world, different cultures have used stories to teach valuable life lessons. We still use many of these parables today to teach valuable lessons to our children. In kissing frogs, Dr. Jared Balmer shows parents how to weave fascinating, personalized fairy tales that will not only entertain children but help them to conquer fears and overcome everyday challenges.
With proven results from his years of experience in children’s therapy, Dr. Balmer explains how parables allow children to discover lessons for themselves. This provides the child with a far more memorable and positive experience. With plenty of examples along the way, kissing frogs will teach you to: • Use metaphors to create interesting stories your children can learn from • Reframe a child’s negative experience into a positive one • Identify different story types to decide the best course of action
By giving your children the tools of discovery, you’ll find that everyone can live happily ever after.

Can an individual turn the pain of a troubled childhood into a recipe for success as an adult?

In Who’s in the Waiting Room?, Neal Goldstein tells his own story of going from high school dropout to lawyer, a dramatic transformation that he achieved by tapping into the power of relationships. Alongside his journey of self-discovery, Neal presents five behaviors anyone can adopt to foster quality relationships: find your people, acknowledge the need for each other, listen more than you talk, recognize the value of face-to-face contact, and find common ground. He explains how the pain of his youth became his power and offers actionable success moves to help anyone recognize how strengthening relationships in their own lives can lead to success and satisfaction.

Since its creation in 1966, Medicare has been a source of medical coverage for millions of Americans—and also a source of confusion. With so many different “plans” and “parts,” it’s easy to feel overwhelmed as you sign up for Medicare.
Authors and insurance advisors Tim Hanbury and Jason Mackey hope to clear up the muddled world of Medicare in Medicare Blueprint. Inside, you’ll discover how to: •sign up for your benefits at the right time; •choose the best plan based on your unique situation; •solve the “gaps” in Medicare coverage; •take charge of your benefits; •partner with a local expert to answer questions and solve problems; and •save thousands of dollars by making the best choices now.
By learning the facts about Medicare, you can be sure to make an informed decision on a plan that maximizes your benefits and protects your well-being.

SUCCESS IS NOT ABOUT MONEY, IT’S ABOUT PEOPLE
Raised in a working-class home as an only child and doted on by parents and grandparents, Mike Leven learned about both work ethic and ethical living. Through a long career, he was exposed to discrimination, corruption, and bad decisions that ruined people’s lives, as well as great humanitarian efforts, acts of kindness, and mentorship. All of these experiences shaped who he became as a business leader, husband, father, and community member.
Over the course of sixty years, Mike directed the marketing and operations of several companies, moving his way up the chain from barely making ends meet to being his own boss. What Mike learned is that success is not about winning but about how you play the game. This is how Mike Leven played the game.

The Inspiring, true story of one man's journey through loss and love, told with
humor and heroism. A survivor of child abuse, upheaval and 13 foster homes,
Tom Watson learned at an early age to overcome adversity. Rescued at the age
of five by the Watson family, he found new hope and love that helped to heal
his deep physical and emotional wounds. Encouraged by a community of
supporters, Tom learned vital lessons in patience, perseverance, laughter and
tradition. Years later, these lessons would be put to the ultimate test as
Tom faced heartbreaking losses that threatened to destroy him. A stunning
revelation of one man's determination to live life to its fullest, Man Shoes
demonstrates that new beginnings are possible at any age and at any stage of
life, no matter what obstacles get in the way. This story is an important
reminder that we can live a better life and influence others to do the same!
A must read for men of all ages, and for the women who love them.

A Wall Street Legend Recounts His Fifty Years in the Stock Market, Hedge Funds, and Philanthropy

Wall Street mogul Leon Cooperman provides a brilliant business memoir encompassing a quarter-century with Goldman Sachs and then the management of his own successful hedge fund, Omega Advisors. Cooperman traces his life story from his roots as the son of immigrant parents in the Bronx through his days as an undergraduate at Hunter College, his subsequent graduate studies at the Columbia Business School, and beyond, all the way to his current role as a subscriber to Warren Buffet’s “Giving Pledge” and a committed philanthropist engaged in giving away the entirety of his multi-billion-dollar fortune. Along the way, Cooperman also spells out his philosophies and “best practices” for stock research and investment, rooted in the classic value-investing approach originated by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd. Additionally, Cooperman makes an impassioned defense of capitalism as the best of all possible economic systems. Cooperman’s narrative also includes meditations on taxes in general (and a wealth tax in particular) and challenges the thinking of political progressives who espouse policies which Cooperman believes would unduly restrain the free market.

Figuring It Out is the fascinating memoir written by Elizabeth “Libby” Connolly Alexander, detailing her role in the meteoric rise of a company started from scratch by her father, a company that later went public at a significant market valuation and after that was sold at an even greater price tag.
After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in History from Tulane University, Libby joined her father’s payment integrity firm, Connolly, learned the business from the bottom up, and quickly advanced through the ranks. With her brother, Larry, and tech-savvy husband, Robert, they formed the proverbial “three-legged stool,” the triumvirate that drove exponential growth by figuring it out.
Figuring it out, indeed…
Initially, the trio created a significant technological competitive advantage by establishing a personal computer-driven data mining and analytics capability.
Then, they pivoted the company into the unknown healthcare payment integrity industry, harnessing a growth engine unlike any previously leveraged.
Libby took the lead in establishing and building the healthcare business, serving as CEO of Connolly Healthcare and subsequently as CEO of the entire company.
Thanks to Connolly’s data analytics capabilities and the incredible growth prospects of its healthcare business, Advent International came aboard as a major private equity investor and strategic business partner. Advent helped Connolly engineer a synergistic acquisition of Atlanta-based iHealth Technologies, at which point both companies merged and Libby became vice chairman of the board of the new company, which was renamed Cotiviti.
Cotiviti subsequently went public in May of 2016 at a market valuation of $2.55 billion.
Two years later, in August, 2018, Cotiviti was acquired by Veritas Capital-backed healthcare data solutions provider Verscend, at a transaction value of $4.89 billion.
That’s called creating serious value… by figuring it out.

Why are we all chasing happiness instead of living it?

Happiness isn’t just a feeling—it’s a skill. Good Mood Revolution: Igniting the Power of Conscious Happiness by Matt O'Neill is your key to mastering it. The only thing standing between you and the life you want are the eight primary bad moods we all experience as human beings. This book will help you expose and conquer these negative emotions, freeing you to create a life where you wake up every day feeling unstoppable.

Discover the Magic Inside:

• Trust God’s Path: Let Divine guidance lead you to happiness, even during challenging times.
• Cultivate Unshakeable Confidence: Discover techniques to create a life of ultimate confidence, while reducing the feelings of stress and anxiety.
• Break Free from Negativity: Unlock the secrets to conquering the eight destructive bad moods (shame, guilt, hopelessness, sadness, fear, desire, anger, and price) that sabotage your happiness.
• Create a Beautiful Mindset: Learn the shifts in perception that allow you to see a loving world that constantly supports your highest potential.
• Master Your Moods: Equip yourself with techniques to snap out of bad moods and into good ones any moment you choose.

Step into a world where happiness isn’t something you chase but something you create, every single day. Good Mood Revolution is your blueprint for a life filled with purpose, passion, and lasting joy. Don’t just read it—live it. Your revolution starts now.

Carla Moore hit a roadblock in life.
She wasn’t heading where she always dreamed of going and it wasn’t until she hit an actual roadblock – a concrete median while cruising at 55 mph, to be exact – is when she realized each passing day was never coming back. If she wanted to live the life she imagined, she needed to make some changes.
And so she did.
Going from 300 pounds to triathlete, and armed with her small-town roots from Centerville, TN, Carla launched the next phase of her HBO career in New York City, where she continued to grow into the vision she longed to fulfill.
Now Carla wants to share with you the rewarding life she is leading and how she achieved it, so you can do the same in your life and career.
When you finish this book you will:
See that “crash moments” are transformational moments in disguise
Have tools to get you through the wreckage and back on your feet quickly
Realize it takes a personal transformation to drive a leadership transformation
Walking in your dreams is an amazing feeling, and I want everyone to experience it. If you feel like you’ve stalled out on your way to your dream life, then Crash! is the spark for your jumpstart!

You Can't Run From Your Past, And You Can't Hide From It.

Author Ray F. Ledon, M.D. didn’t ask to have a seat at the heart of the Cuban revolution—that seat just happened to be at his kitchen table. Ramon Calixto Fernandez-Ledon, Dr. Ledon’s father, a renowned anesthesiologist famous for having created Havana’s first department of anesthesia at the University of Havana at a time when anesthesia was relatively unknown, was more than just a doctor—he was also a renowned Cuban activist and infamous revolutionary, being one of the many thousands to join a political and militaristic offensive against Fulgencio Batista’s increasingly non-democratic and brutal reign.

Exploring themes of sacrifice, dedication, and a sense of belonging, Dr. Ledon presents in his book, A Cold July in Cuba, an image of a terror-stricken Cuba through the eyes of a young boy—his own—whose father is wanted for dead by the very country they both love, and the journey that follows after his father is abducted by a pair of Batista’s men outside of the hospital where he worked in a middle-class Havana suburb of El Vedado.

While personal in nature, A Cold July in Cuba displays familiar images of family, persistence, and humanity that any reader can relate to.

Convert Your Stress Into a Catalyst for Personal Growth

There is a lie you’ve told yourself since you were old enough to tell yourself lies. The lie is “I’ll be happy if I can just get what I want.”

The truth is far more complex and beautiful and powerful than that. The reality is that when we get what we want, our inner reward system turns off—unless it’s tied to another future goal afterwards.

On top of this, modern society bombards us with false narratives that confuse us about what we actually want and what we actually need. This leaves countless people lost and without direction. This feeling manifests itself in feelings of stress, anxiety, and even depression. So what can we do about it?

Since the beginning of time, philosophers have tried to figure out what makes us happy. For the first time, modern technology has allowed biologists to map the inner chemicals that actually cause those feelings, and positive psychologists have used that information to construct the pillars of a meaningful life. Our inner reward systems were designed for a purpose, and understanding that design can allow you to take control of your anxiety and convert it into meaningful action. Through his personal successes in business and health, paired with the knowledge of a master’s degree in I-O Psychology from Harvard University’s Extension School, Mark Congdon has developed a seven-step system for joyful living called the I GOT This framework. In this book Mark will teach you how you can use those steps to develop your own growth mindset and pursue the purpose of your own Ideal Life.

Are you ready to harness your stress, discover your purpose, and achieve your goals? This book is your guide.

2024 Nonfiction Book Awards Silver Medalist
​​​​​​​2024 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Bronze Medalist in Religion & Philosophy

Start developing your own code of conduct for the modern world!

Discover the transformative power of Code of Conduct by Scott Freidheim. This captivating and insightful recollection of life events, whether it’s sprinting out of the World Financial Center on 9/11, navigating business in the Gulf during Arab Spring, engaging with Michael Jackson and George Foreman, or avoiding an attempt on his life by a school shooter, the journey Scott takes readers on is a wild first hand account of many moments in our collective history.

Through 32 chapters on a mix of both noble tenets and moral threats, such as, materialism, balance, love, and more, Scott shares his colorful personal experiences, hard-earned wisdom, and practical strategies that will empower you to unlock your own guiding characteristics. From highs like becoming a CEO of a NYSE-traded company, to the challenges he faced on the brink of bankruptcy in 2008, Scott reveals lived experiences, assigning meaning and lessons to each of them.

Drawing inspiration from Plato’s philosophies, Scott presents a unique framework for finding meaning in your life’s journey. With a professional yet conversational tone, Code of Conduct captivates readers with astute observations and practical advice offering actionable steps for personal growth and guidance.

Whether you're a seasoned executive, an aspiring leader, or a young person looking for direction, this book serves as a trusted companion.

The endorsements for Code of Conduct reflect its universal appeal and value:

• Jack Nicklaus, the greatest champion in golf history; Individual Male Athlete of the Century by Sports Illustrated; one of the 10 Greatest Athletes of the Century by ESPN
• Jerry Greenwald, former Chairman & CEO United Airlines
• Monica Seles, 9x Major Singles Tennis Champion
• Bill Perez, Former CEO Nike, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co & S.C. Johnson & Son
• Wolfgang Schüssel, Federal Chancellor of Austria 2000 - 2007
• Kay Koplowitz, Founder, Chairman & CEO USA Networks
• Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, 9th President of Spelman College and author of widely acclaimed book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
• Henry Bienen, 15th President of Northwestern University
• Sami Inkinen, CEO & Co-founder Virta Health, Co-Founder Trulia.com, Elite endurance athlete with Ocean Row world-record
• Capt. Jeff Frient, U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighter Pilot (Gulf War)
• Alex Ferreira, Olympic Medalist & X Games Champion
• Sara Fagen, White House Political Director
• Dave Bacon, Senior Quantum Physicist, Google
• Trevor Bezdek, Co-Founder & Chairman GoodRx
• Nick Grayston, CEO The Warehouse Group

The author has committed 100% of royalties from the sale of this book to charitable organizations.

From Corporate Professional to Passion-Driven Retiree
Mark Goldsmith enjoyed a 35-year career in the cosmetic business, managing household name brands during Madison Avenue's Mad Men heyday. Looking for new challenges in retirement, Goldsmith took his wife's suggestion to volunteer for the Principal for a Day program, specifically asking to be sent to the toughest New York City school available—which turned out to be Horizon Academy at the city's infamous Rikers Island jail.

Goldsmith instantly connected with the men of Rikers, leveraging the skills he'd honed in decades of corporate experience and his strong desire to help. This passion ultimately led to the creation of his not-for-profit organization Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO), which has helped thousands of young men pursue their goals for their education, employment, and emotional well-being to create a new life for themselves beyond the criminal justice system.

Work-Passion-Life
There’s no question that finding your work-life balance can be challenging. But making room for personal fulfillment at the same time? Close to impossible— until now! In Work-Passion-Life Balance, physician, entrepreneur, and family man Matthew Kolinski shares the secrets of how he took control of his demanding schedule—and found a deeper joy in the process.
Through his unique experiences, you’ll discover how you can make your passion a vital part of your life and work, and possibly even enhance your quality of life in the process. So, go beyond the basics of balance—and, instead, learn how to connect with your inner desires and make them a part of your everyday life!

Betrayal comes in many forms. In the corporate world, there are big lies, white lies, and lies of omission. In relationships, there are cheaters, two-faced lovers and friends, as well as out-and-out family fraudsters. The more trusting the relationship, the more devastating the betrayal. What is it that causes us such deep reaction to betrayal? Why do we relive it with such passion and intensity? Why does even the memory of a betrayal spark such feelings of shame, anger, and resentment?
In Betrayed, Dr. Elaine Eisenman and Susan Stautberg dive into over fifty true stories of betrayal to learn how to successfully handle the trauma in setbacks, overcome the urge for quick revenge, consider the possibilities of forgiveness, and most importantly, to set a positive path into the future.

Divorce Doesn’t Have to Be Scary

What’s holding you back from leaving your failing marriage? If you’re like most women, the answer is probably fear. Fear over where you will live, what will happen to your children, how you will support yourself, and more. Just what will you have to give up in order to finally have the peace you want and deserve? The rumors and misinformation around divorce can be enough to scare some women into staying in marriages that aren’t working—even when those marriages are abusive. But you don’t need to let fear force you to settle for an unhappy life. You can escape your marriage without giving up the things that matter most to you. I Want Out: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Peace Through Divorce will show you how.

I Want Out is written by Bill Gentry, A Georgia divorce lawyer with over 35 years of experience helping women escape failing marriages for better, happier futures. While the book focuses on Georgia divorce law, it provides a comprehensive overview of how the divorce process works in any state, illustrating what happens at each stage, what to expect, and what you can do to ensure the best possible outcome for yourself and your family. Packed with emotional stories of real clients who’ve endured the challenges of divorce and created better lives for themselves, this step-by-step guide will empower you with everything you need to know to take control of your life and find the peace and happiness you deserve.

MAKING A VISION A REALITY
As a kid, even before he could tie his shoes, Elliott Noble-Holt knew he wanted to be boss of his own business. When tensions within his family emerged, they left him an emotionally shattered and rudderless adolescent. Yet, within a few years, Noble-Holt created a multimillion-dollar, top-rated business. He also built his own strong, vibrant family.

How did he do it? In Bald Bearded Boss, Noble-Holt shares the depths of the struggles he faced during his teenage years. He then walks through the ways he addressed those struggles, one by one. In each case, he sought and discovered ways to turn his challenges into triumph. In this powerful and inspiring story, Noble-Holt details his step-by-step blueprint for success.

Take Six: Essential Habits to Own Your Destiny, Overcome Challenges, and Unlock Opportunities is designed to do just that.
Veta’s own life has demonstrated the power of these habits to take her from a shy high school kid aspiring to become a lawyer to the leader of a global bar association. Through the exercises and stories in this book, you’ll discover how to design and execute your career, identify skills, present your achievements, and stand up for your values so that you are prepared for any challenge—including the challenges of leadership in difficult times.
Veta is proud to be called “the best mentor ever” by many of the hundreds of people she has mentored. This book is her effort to extend that helping hand to many more people than she can work with individually.