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The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
by Patrick Lencioni
Genres: Business, Leadership, Nonfiction, Management, Buisness, Self Help, Personal Development
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.14

There is a competitive advantage out there, arguably more powerful than any other. Is it superior strategy? Faster innovation? Smarter employees? No, New York Times best-selling author, Patrick Lencioni, argues that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre ones has little to do with what they know and how smart they are and more to do with how healthy they are. In this book, Lencioni brings together his vast experience and many of the themes cultivated in his other best-selling books and delivers a first: a cohesive and comprehensive exploration of the unique advantage organizational health provides. Simply put, an organization is healthy when it is whole, consistent and complete, when its management, operations and culture are unified.  Healthy organizations outperform their counterparts, are free of politics and confusion and provide an environment where star performers never want to leave. Lencioni’s first non-fiction book provides leaders with a groundbreaking, approachable model for achieving organizational health―complete with stories, tips and anecdotes from his experiences consulting to some of the nation’s leading organizations. In this age of informational ubiquity and nano-second change, it is no longer enough to build a competitive advantage based on intelligence alone. The Advantage provides a foundational construct for conducting business in a new way―one that maximizes human potential and aligns the organization around a common set of principles.
Leading Change
by John P. Kotter
Genres: Business, Leadership, Nonfiction, Management, Buisness, Personal Development, Education
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.03

Describes the key qualities managers must have to make their companies stronger in a changing market, and discusses the most common mistakes managers make in trying to change their companies
Leadership Is an Art
by Max DePree
Genres: Leadership, Business, Nonfiction, Management, Self Help, Buisness, Psychology
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.00

In what has become a bible for the business world, the successful former CEO of Herman Miller, Inc., explores how executives and managers can learn the leadership skills that build a better, more profitable organization.Leadership Is an Art has long been a must-read not only within the business community but also in professions ranging from academia to medical practices, to the political arena. First published in 1989, the book has sold more than 800,000 copies in hardcover and paperback. This revised edition brings Max De Pree’s timeless words and practical philosophy to a new generation of readers.De Pree looks at leadership as a kind of stewardship, stressing the importance of building relationships, initiating ideas, and creating a lasting value system within an organization. Rather than focusing on the “hows” of corporate life, he explains the “whys.” He shows that the first responsibility of a leader is to define reality and the last is to say thank you. Along the way, the artful leader • Stimulate effectiveness by enabling others to reach both their personal potential and their institutional potential• Take a role in developing, expressing, and defending civility and values• Nurture new leaders and ensure the continuation of the corporate cultureLeadership Is an Art offers a proven design for achieving success by developing the generous spirit within all of us. Now more than ever, it provides the insights and guidelines leaders in every field need.
Lady of Avalon (Avalon, #3)
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Arthurian, Historical, Science Fiction Fantasy, Mythology
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.91

Set in the time before King Arthur, this novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley brings the mesmerizing world of Avalon brilliantly to life with epic grandeur-telling the story of three remarkable women who alter the fortunes of Roman Britain as they fight to reclaim the magic and traditions of a once glorious past...
Legs
by William  Kennedy
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Crime, Literature, American, Novels, 20th Century
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.81

Legs, the inaugural book in William Kennedy’s acclaimed Albany cycle of novels, brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond.  Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s.
Renegade (The Elysium Chronicles, #1)
by J.A. Souders
Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Mermaids
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.75

Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s thought that everything was perfect; her world. Her people. The Law.But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into their secluded little world, she’s forced to come to a startling realization: everything she knows is a lie. Her memories have been altered. Her mind and body aren’t under her own control. And the person she knows as Mother is a monster.Together with Gavin she plans her escape, only to learn that her own mind is a ticking time bomb... and Mother has one last secret that will destroy them all.
Journals
by Kurt Cobain
Genres: Music, Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir, Poetry, Autobiography, Biography Memoir
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.00

Nella sua breve quanto tormentata vita Kurt Cobain, vera e propria leggenda della musica contemporanea, riempì quaderni e quaderni di poesie, schizzi, appunti, annotando i suoi progetti per i Nirvana, le sue riflessioni sulla fama e sulla notorietà, il suo pensiero sulla musica e sull'ambiente di produttori, discografici, fans. Al momento della morte sono stati ritrovati più di venti di questi quaderni che, rimasti chiusi in una cassaforte fino a poco tempo fa, sono stati pubblicati in questo volume, che riporta, oltre ai testi, le riproduzioni fotografiche dei disegni e delle pagine più significative. I "Diari" offrono l'occasione per conoscere il vero volto di un artista poliedrico, uno dei musicisti più importanti della storia del rock.
To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
by Erich Fromm
Genres: Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Sociology, Self Help, Politics, German Literature
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.18

To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence struggle for the spirit of humankind: the having mode, which concentrates on material possessions, power, and aggression, and is the basis of the universal evils of greed, envy, and violence; and the being mode, which is based on love, the pleasure of sharing, and in productive activity. To Have Or to Be? is a brilliant program for socioeconomic change.>
Persuasion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #2)
by Martina Boone
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Gothic, Fiction, Southern Gothic
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.92

Grieving the death of her godfather and haunted by her cousin Cassie’s betrayal, Barrie returns from a trip to San Francisco to find the Watson plantation under siege. Ghost hunters hope to glimpse the ancient spirit who sets the river on fire each night, and reporters chase rumors of a stolen shipment of Civil War gold that may be hidden at Colesworth Place. The chaos turns dangerous as Cassie hires a team of archeologists to excavate beneath the mansion ruins, because more is buried there than treasure.A stranger filled with magic arrives at Watson’s Landing claiming that the key to the Watson and Beaufort gifts—and the Colesworth curse—also lies beneath the mansion. With a mix of threats and promises, the man convinces Barrie and Cassie to cast a spell there at midnight. But what he conjures may have deadly consequences.While Barrie struggles to make sense of the escalating peril and her growing and forbidden feelings for Eight Beaufort, it’s impossible to know whom to trust and what to fight for. Millions of dollars and the fate of the founding families is at stake. Now Barrie must choose between what she feels deep in her heart and what will keep Watson’s Landing safe.
Ella's Love
by Jasmine  Lee
Genres: Romance
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.09

What would you do if you ran into someone and had an instant connection? For Ella Wells and Marcus Townes that is exactly what happens. Fate throws them together and test their strengths. Ella... I know no man truly wants to be with ME... not when I have more than the normal single mom baggage. But when fate intervenes and throws Marcus into my path more than once. I decide maybe it's time to trust fate and see where it takes me. Marcus... I was good with having one-night stands. But when I have a chance encounter with a startling red-head...I start to second guess my choices. She changes everything for me and when she delivers her secret I tuck tail and run. I don't blame her for not wanting to have anything to do with me. But if she'll just give me one more chance I will prove my undying love for her.
The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
by Louisa Lim
Genres: China, History, Nonfiction, Politics, Asia, Journalism, World History
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.26

Despite its emergence from backward isolation into a dynamic world economic power, a quarter-century after the People's Army crushed unarmed protestors--labeled anti-revolutionaries--in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the defining event of China's modern history remains buried. Memory is dangerous in a country built to function on national amnesia. A single act of public remembrance might expose the frailty of the state's carefully constructed edifice of accepted history, one kept aloft by strict censorship, blatant falsehood, and willful forgetting. Though the consequences of Tiananmen Square are visible everywhere throughout China, what happened there has been consigned to silence. In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR's China correspondent Louisa Lim offers an insider's account of this seminal tragedy, revealing the enormous impact it had on China and the reverberations still felt today. Official hypocrisy and the government's obsession with maintaining stability and silence have deepened June 4th's impact on the nation's psyche. Lim interweaves portraits of eight individuals whose lives have been shaped by June 4--including the two women who started Tiananmen Mothers, one of the first and most prominent grassroots organizations outside the Chinese government's control; a student survivor involved in the protests; a soldier who took part in the suppression; and a high-ranking government administrator who played a role in ordering the tanks into the square. In the process she offers a textured, intimate, and haunting look at the national tragedy and an unhealed wound.
Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary
by Traudl Junge
Genres: History, Nonfiction, Biography, Germany, Memoir, War, World War II
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.95

An important and fascinating firsthand account of life with Hitler from 1942 until his death in the Berlin bunker in 1945, by the young woman who was his last secretary.
The Book of Houdini
by Harry Houdini
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.75

The Book of Houdini contains three publications, all focusing on magic, and the great work of Harry Houdini. The first volume was authored in 1922, and is titled 'Houdini, The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist', and is a glance at just that. The second installment was written in 1908 by Houdini, who penned a work on 'The Unmasking of Robert Houdin', a study of Robert Houdin's alleged magical abilities. Book III, written in 1920, and the final volume in The Book of Houdini, is called 'Miracle Mongers & Thier Methods', where Harry again analyzes and exposes the tricks behind magic, while sharing the secrets behind some of his own.
Verse for Ages
by Colleen Thatcher
Genres: Poetry
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.72

Published as a tribute to a dear departed colleague and friend, Colleen Thatcher. As well as her poems and mine, it contains a few classics and some kindly donated by Martin Newell.I have now decided to sell Verse for Ages for Sue Ryder, Duchess of Kent Hospice, and all proceeds will go to this charity.
Born to Run
by Bruce Springsteen
Genres: Nonfiction, Music, Biography, Memoir, Audiobook, Autobiography, Biography Memoir
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.17

“Writing about yourself is a funny business…But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I’ve tried to do this.” —Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to RunIn 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as “The Big Bang”: seeing Elvis Presley’s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals more than we previously realized. Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star’s memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs (“Thunder Road,” “Badlands,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “The River,” “Born in the U.S.A.,” “The Rising,” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.
Lost Illusions
by Honoré de Balzac
Genres: Classics, Fiction, France, French Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.16

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But Lucien has entered a world far more dangerous than he realized, as Madame de Bargeton's reputation becomes compromised and the fickle, venomous denizens of the courts and salons conspire to keep him out of their ranks. Lucien eventually learns that, wherever he goes, talent counts for nothing in comparison to money, intrigue and unscrupulousness. Lost Illusions is one of the greatest novels in the rich procession of the Comedie humaine, Balzac's panoramic social and moral history of his times.
The Other Woman (Gabriel Allon, #18)
by Daniel Silva
Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Espionage, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Spy Thriller
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.14

She was his best-kept secret …In an isolated village in the mountains of Andalusia, a mysterious Frenchwoman begins work on a dangerous memoir. It is the story of a man she once loved in the Beirut of old, and a child taken from her in treason’s name. The woman is the keeper of the Kremlin’s most closely guarded secret. Long ago, the KGB inserted a mole into the heart of the West—a mole who stands on the doorstep of ultimate power.Only one man can unravel the conspiracy: Gabriel Allon, the legendary art restorer and assassin who serves as the chief of Israel’s vaunted secret intelligence service. Gabriel has battled the dark forces of the new Russia before, at great personal cost. Now he and the Russians will engage in a final epic showdown, with the fate of the postwar global order hanging in the balance.Gabriel is lured into the hunt for the traitor after his most important asset inside Russian intelligence is brutally assassinated while trying to defect in Vienna. His quest for the truth will lead him backward in time, to the twentieth century’s greatest act of treason, and, finally, to a spellbinding climax along the banks of the Potomac River outside Washington that will leave readers breathless.
The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)
by Mary E. Pearson
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Young Adult Fantasy, Fiction, High Fantasy, Magic
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.95

In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia’s life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight—but she doesn’t—and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom—to a prince she has never met.On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, hopeful when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—even as she finds herself falling in love. The Kiss of Deception is the first audiobook in Mary E. Pearson's Remnant Chronicles
The Associate
by John Grisham
Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Legal Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.69

If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, wait until you meet Kyle McAvoy.Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential.But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The secret, though, falls into the hands of the wrong people, and Kyle is forced to take a job he doesn't want, even if it's a job most law students can only dream about.Three months after leaving Yale, Kyle becomes an associate at the largest law firm in the world, where, in addition to practicing law, he is expected to lie, steal, and take part in a scheme that could send him to prison, if not get him killed.With an unforgettable cast of characters and villains, from drug-addled trust fund kid and possible rapist Baxter Tate to quiet former math teacher Dale who shares Kyle's cubicle at the law firm, The Associate is vintage Grisham.
The Rules of Life: A Personal Code For Living A Better, Happier, More Successful Life
by Richard Templar
Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Personal Development, Psychology, Philosophy, Reference, Business
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.69

Think about the world’s happiest, most contented, most fulfilled people... How’d they get that way?   Is it their genes? No . Money? Absolutely not . It’s about the small choices they make, every day. Things you can do. Things you can change.   It’s about what they know and you can learn: The Rules of Life .   Here they are:   100 personal, practical rules for dreaming, planning, living, loving, and overcoming even life’s toughest adversities...  For knowing what matters... learning from experience...using your intuition... changing what you can...de-stressing... staying younger... getting stronger .   Read ’em. Learn ’em. Live ’em. You’ll feel better. You’ll live better. You’ll be a better friend, partner, parent, child, human being.   You’ll do it: one small, simple step at a time. One step a day, every day. Starting today .   Introduction  xi   Part I: Rules for You  1 Part II: Partnership Rules  105 Part III: Family and Friends Rules  141 Part IV: Social Rules  171 Part V: World Rules  201
Fences (The Century Cycle, #6)
by August Wilson
Genres: Plays, Drama, Classics, School, Fiction, Read For School, Theatre
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.88

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Now a Major Motion Picture directed by and starring Denzel Washington.From August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, is another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him numerous critical acclaim including the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilson's ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less.
Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw
Genres: Plays, Drama, Classics, Fiction, Theatre, Literature, Irish Literature
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.65

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
by Rob  Fitzpatrick
Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Entrepreneurship, Design, Psychology, Management, Communication
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.37



The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. 

They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone  if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to find it and it's worth doing right .Talking to customers is one of the foundational skills of both Customer Development and Lean Startup. We all know we're supposed to do it, but nobody seems willing to admit that it's easy to screw up and hard to do right. This book is going to show you how customer conversations go wrong and how you can do better.