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Goodpoint
by Roberto F. Canducci
Genres: Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.57

We see only what we focus on. Although what we don´t focus on can change our lives.  Six people. Six stories. And all of them strongly connected.  - An owner of a newspaper stall, who is drowning in troubles. - A millionaire who has it all but the one thing he wants the most. - A careerist with a dilemma. - A womanizer who only looks at the world through money and sex. - An overweight publisher looking for a bestseller. - A young widow trying to save her son´s life.  Can these lives be connected as they are happening in different places all around the world? What if they can't exist without each other? Is everyone looking for their own "Goodpoint"?  You may have missed a bus, or somebody cancelled a scheduled meeting. You may have just not greeted someone on the street, or intentionally not pick up the phone. You may have pushed someone by accident, or your car broke at the most inconvenient time.  Do you think these things are insignificant in life and do not mean anything? What if it is just the opposite? What if life consists of seemingly insignificant things?  More about author: www.RobertoCanducci.com Give me your comment here. Let me know, what you think about this book.
Dead or Alive (Jack Ryan Jr, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #13)
by Tom Clancy
Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Action, Espionage, Military Fiction, Adventure, Mystery Thriller
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.87

Jack Ryan, the former president of the United States, is out of office, but not out of the loop about his brainchild, the Campus, a highly effective, counter-terrorism organization that operates outside the Washington hierarchy. But what Ryan doesn't know is that his son, Jack Ryan, Jr., has joined his cousins, Brian and Dominic Caruso, at the shadowy Campus. While a highly effective analyst, young Ryan hungers for the action of a field agent.The Campus has now turned their sights on the Emir, the number one terrorist threat to western civilization. A reclusive figure and mastermind of vicious terrorist acts, the Emir has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. But now with the help of ex-CIA agent John Clark and pro Marine Colonel Ding Chavez the Campus is in on the hunt. The mission: to bring the Emir in dead or alive.
In Good Faith (Joe Dillard, #2)
by Scott Pratt
Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Legal Thriller, Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.21

A family of four is slaughtered in rural Tennessee. Two weeks later, a retired high school principal and his wife are brutally slain.Two Satan-worshipping teens stand accused. It’s up to prosecutor Joe Dillard to convict them. A former defense attorney who spent way too much time defending people he knew were guilty, Joe is determined to win this case to atone for his past. But an evil young woman named Natasha is responsible for the slayings and Joe knows it. Natasha is walking around free because the two boys who have been arrested are too terrified to implicate her. Now Joe must risk everything -- including his family's safety and his own life -- to bring an evil murderer to justice. "This book was so intense it was scary." -- M. Cottrill, Dallas, Tex."The book ends up moving along like a thriller should; at breakneck speed." -- N. Bilmes, Vernon, Conn."This author is a must read if you love attorney and courtroom thrillers." -- Kenneth J. George, Detroit, Mich." Better than the old Grisham." -- Tompat, Melbourne, Fla.
Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Cycle, #3)
by Maggie Stiefvater
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Magic, Urban Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.27

The third installment in the all-new series from the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater!Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost.Friends can betray.Mothers can disappear.Visions can mislead.Certainties can unravel.
Fifty-one Shades: A Parody
by Andrew Shaffer
Genres: Humor, Romance, Fiction, Comedy, Contemporary, Adult, Adult Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.53

Read the first three chapters of "Fifty-one Shades: A Parody", a rough draft excerpt from the forthcoming full-length parody novel, Fifty Shames of Earl Grey.Shaffer turns the BDSM love story between CEO Christian Grey and virginal college student Anastasia Steele into a comedy of errors. In "Fifty-One Shades: A Parody", the unbelievably handsome Edward — er, “Chris Gray” — sweeps college student Bella — um, “Anna Steal” — off her feet and into his twisted world of kinky sex, dirty money, and board games (because every dark hero needs a lighter side). Will her best friend, the brony Jin, intervene to save her from her wealthy and perverted new boyfriend?
Life is Big
by Kiki Denis
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.17

Alma-Jane, an impossibly curious 11-year-old girl who lives in NYC and the most genetically happy person alive, is about to die due to a rare mutation. Ayrton, Alma-Jane’s older brother and a math prodigy, declares war against Death, “the destroyer of Life,” and then suddenly takes off to Oxford, UK, to examine Albert Einstein’s brain. Meanwhile, Death and his younger brother, O.M. (Obituary Man), are overworked and in desperate need of a short vacation.At the heart of all this, a motley crew of “Minor & Major Immortals” mingle: Socrates, Alma-Jane’s dead grandfather. Dr. Harvey, a neuroscientist who conducts research on “Pure Mighties,” lab engineered mice that lack a fear gene. Sabina, Einstein’s Kunderian mistress. Alfred Butts, Sabina’s best friend and the inventor of the Scrabble board game. Pablo Neruda, who builds bridges for a living and loves kite flying. And, finally, ΩNING, a 7-year-old humanoid who loves playing the piano. What connects all these characters is the belief that “wise-thinking” leads to a longer and happier future, and that it’s the only way to guarantee a “Life bigger than Death.”
Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1)
by Jo Nesbø
Genres: Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Audiobook
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.56

Politimannen Harry Hole er i Sydney for å bistå australsk politi i etterforskningen av drapet på en ung norsk kvinne. På sin vei gjennom lysskye miljøer treffer han horer og halliker, transer, klovner og pushere. Og noen aboriginer, Australias urinnvånere. Harry Hole har reist så langt vekk fra Norge som det er mulig å komme. Saken er komplisert, og i den blinde nattejakten på morderen har han bare svake ekko å navigere etter. «Flaggermusmannen» er den første boken om Harry Hole, og den ga forfatteren både Rivertonprisen og Glassnøkkelen for årets beste skandinaviske kriminalroman.
When No One Is Watching
by Alyssa Cole
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Horror, Contemporary
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.52

The gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning…Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she’s known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community’s past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block—her neighbor Theo.But Sydney and Theo’s deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised.When does coincidence become conspiracy? Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out? Can Sydney and Theo trust each other—or themselves—long enough to find out before they too disappear?
The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy, Spain, Books About Books, Magical Realism
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.98

From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love.The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that when I opened those windows — my new windows — each evening its streets would whisper stories to me, secrets in my ear, that I could catch on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen…In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city’s underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner. Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike anything that has ever existed — a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realizes that there is a connection between his haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.Once again, Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic universe first seen in The Shadow of the Wind and creates a breathtaking adventure of intrigue, romance, and tragedy. Through a dizzyingly constructed labyrinth of secrets, the magic of books, passion, and friendship blend into a masterful story.(jacket)
Arising Son: Part One (The Guardians of the Temple Saga)
by Marie Montine
Genres: Contemporary
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.29

Ryan is successful working independently as a doctor's assistant until his world comes crashing down on him: protecting the woman he's falling for, he discovers he has strength unlike a normal human and a great thirst...for blood.He confronts his mother, Cassandra, on who he really is.With the shocking information his mother finally reveals, Ryan has to chose his own path; either to the Light or to Dark. And he's beginning to like one more than the other...
The Family Nobody Wanted
by Helen Grigsby Doss
Genres: Nonfiction, Adoption, Biography, Memoir, Family, Biography Memoir, Classics
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.31

Doss's charming, touching, and at times hilarious chronicle tells how each of the children, representing white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds, came to her and husband Carl, a Methodist minister. She writes of the way the "unwanted" feeling was erased with devoted love and understanding and how the children united into one happy family. Her account reads like a novel, with scenes of hard times and triumphs described in vivid prose. The Family Nobody Wanted, which inspired two films, opened doors for other adoptive families and was a popular favorite among parents, young adults, and children for more than thirty years. Now this edition will introduce the classic to a new generation of readers. An epilogue by Helen Doss that updates the family's progress since 1954 will delight the book's loyal legion of fans around the world.
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
by Michael E. Porter
Genres: Business, Management, Nonfiction, Economics, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Buisness
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.16

Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity -- like all great breakthroughs -- Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies -- lowest cost, differentiation, and focus -- which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. In the almost two decades since publication, Porter's framework for predicting competitor behavior has transformed the way in which companies look at their rivals and has given rise to the new discipline of competitor assessment.  More than a million managers in both large and small companies, investment analysts, consultants, students, and scholars throughout the world have internalized Porter's ideas and applied them to assess industries, understand competitors,, and choose competitive positions. The ideas in the book address the underlying fundamentals of competition in a way that is independent of the specifics of the ways companies go about competing.  Competitive Strategy has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. By bringing a disciplined structure to the question of how firms achieve superior profitability, Porter's rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter-century.
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
by Phil Knight
Genres: Business, Biography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Sports, Audiobook, Autobiography
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.47

In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today.But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after backpacking around the world, he decided to take the unconventional path, to start his own business—a business that would be dynamic, different.Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream—along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls the formative relationships with his first partners and employees, a ragtag group of misfits and seekers who became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything.
UNSUB (UNSUB, #1)
by Meg Gardiner
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Audiobook
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.06

A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier. Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six months when the killer at the heart of all her childhood nightmares reemerges: the Prophet. An UNSUB—what the FBI calls an unknown subject—the Prophet terrorized the Bay Area in the 1990s and nearly destroyed her father, the lead investigator on the case.The Prophet’s cryptic messages and mind games drove Detective Mack Hendrix to the brink of madness, and Mack’s failure to solve the series of ritualized murders—eleven seemingly unconnected victims left with the ancient sign for Mercury etched into their flesh—was the final nail in the coffin for a once promising career.Twenty years later, two bodies are found bearing the haunting signature of the Prophet. Caitlin Hendrix has never escaped the shadow of her father’s failure to protect their city. But now the ruthless madman is killing again and has set his sights on her, threatening to undermine the fragile barrier she rigidly maintains for her own protection, between relentless pursuit and dangerous obsession.Determined to decipher his twisted messages and stop the carnage, Caitlin ignores her father’s warnings as she draws closer to the killer with each new gruesome murder. Is it a copycat, or can this really be the same Prophet who haunted her childhood? Will Caitlin avoid repeating her father’s mistakes and redeem her family name, or will chasing the Prophet drag her and everyone she loves into the depths of the abyss?
EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
by Dave Ramsey
Genres: Business, Leadership, Nonfiction, Self Help, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Personal Development
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.19

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Total Money Makeover and radio and podcast host Dave Ramsey comes an informative guide based on how he grew a successful, multimillion dollar company from a card table in his living room.Your company is only as strong as your leaders. These are the men and women doing battle daily beneath the banner that is your brand. Are they courageous or indecisive? Are they serving a motivated team or managing employees? Are they valued?Your team will never grow beyond you, so here’s another question to consider—are you growing? Whether you’re sitting at the CEO’s desk, the middle manager’s cubicle, or a card table in your living-room-based start-up, EntreLeadership provides the practical, step-by-step guidance to grow your business where you want it to go. Dave Ramsey opens up his championship playbook for business to show you how to:-Inspire your team to take ownership and love what they do-Unify your team and get rid of all gossip-Handle money to set your business up for success-Reach every goal you set-And much, much more!EntreLeadership is a one-stop guide filled with accessible advice for businesses and leaders to ensure success even through the toughest of times.
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
by Greg McKeown
Genres: Leadership, Business, Nonfiction, Management, Self Help, Personal Development, Buisness
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.99

 Are you a genius or a genius maker?   We've all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drain intelligence, energy, and capability from the ones around them and always need to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who use their intelligence to amplify the smarts and capabilities of the people around them. When these leaders walk into a room, lightbulbs go off over people's heads, ideas flow, and problems get solved. These are the leaders who inspire employees to stretch themselves to deliver results that surpass expectations. These are the Multipliers. And the world needs more of them, especially now, when leaders are expected to do more with less.   In this engaging and highly practical book, leadership expert Liz Wiseman and management consultant Greg McKeown explore these two leadership styles, persuasively showing how Multipliers can have a resoundingly positive and profitable effect on organizationsâ€”getting more done with fewer resources, developing and attracting talent, and cultivating new ideas and energy to drive organizational change and innovation.   In analyzing data from more than 150 leaders, Wiseman and McKeown have identified five disciplines that distinguish Multipliers from Diminishers. These five disciplines are not based on innate talent; indeed, they are skills and practices that everyone can learn to use, even lifelong and recalcitrant Diminishers. Lively, real-world case studies and practical tips and techniques bring to life each of these principles, showing you how to become a Multiplier too, whether you are a new or an experienced manager. Just imagine what you could accomplish if you could harness all the energy and intelligence around you. Multipliers will show you how.
Dark Eyes: White Lies
by M.R. Noble
Genres: Fantasy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.30

Blackmailed into espionage, Karo must lie to one man while she fights her cravings for another. As spy partners, Karo is forced to work with Andre, the vampire she swore to never trust again. The accidental vampiric bond they have threatens to bend her into submission. But is her will actually weak, or does she want an excuse to give in?Roman’s patience teeters on Karo’s deception. Bitter, desperate, and vengeful, Karo dutifully completes her missions while withholding data from her uncle Loukin’s operation. She swore to get out from under his thumb, even if she has to break a few hands. Each assignment brings her closer to uncovering his goal, and using it against him, but she also draws closer to new foes. And they all want the same thing—Karo’s secrets.
The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
Genres: Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Death, Self Help, Science, Sociology
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.11

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.
ابتسم
by عائض القرني
Genres: Islam, Nonfiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.69

"الابتسامة , البشر , البشاشة , الطرب .. كلمات تعددت والمسمى يكاد يكون واحداً , وهو ماتشعربه الروح من خفة ونشاط وطرب , وتسموبه النفس فتنسى همها , وتسلو كدرها , في عصر كرب , وأيام ضيق وأحداث مؤلمة . ولا عجب إن كان في الظرافة والمزاح بلسم للروح , ودواء للنفس , وراحة للبال والخاطر ؛ والشخصية الباسمة أقرب إلى النجاح من غيرها , إذ تستطيع أن تغزو قلوب الآخرين وتستعمرها بسهولة . وإن كبت النفس في مسارات ضيقة , باهتة , وجعلها في زاوية مظلمة , منهكة محطمة مكسورة مقهورة , رهبانية ما أنزل الله بها من سلطان . والمتتبع لأخلاق وسيرة سيد البشر ومعلم الإنسانية صلى الله عليه وسلم يجد أنه كان يبتسم ويمزح , ولا يقول إلا حقاً يحبه الله تعالى ويرضاه . فدونك ـ أخي الكريم ـ كتاباً تقدمه لك مكتبة العبيكان حديقة غناء , فطف بين أرجائها , واستمع بأجوائها , وتفيأ في ظلالها , وإن شئت فشم أهارها , وتذوق ثمارها , واضحك تركل شيء جميلاً"