About your Book: Your most important strategic and competitive advantage is right in front of you—grow your culture, and you’ll grow your company! Driving to Perfection: Achieving Business Excellence by Creating a Vibrant Culture is not your average business book. It was written by someone with 25 years (and counting) of hands-on business experience who has been (and still is) in your shoes and successfully guided his company to exponential growth. During this time, author and business … [Read more...] about Excerpt From Driving to Perfection: Achieving Business Excellence by Creating a Vibrant Culture by Brian Fielkow
Excerpt From Playing with Fire by Cassandra Bella @CassandraLBella
About your Book: At the tender age of eighteen, Jessie Bacelli learned the truth of evil. After the murder of her father, Jessie steps in to take care of her younger sister, Annie, while following in her father's footsteps and becoming an agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Dedicating her career to bringing down Luther Rabago, the man responsible for her father's death, she doesn't have time for distractions in her life. Especially when they are as handsomely annoying as fellow … [Read more...] about Excerpt From Playing with Fire by Cassandra Bella @CassandraLBella
Excerpt From The Lotus Cross by Ray Anderson @thelotuscross
About your Book: An adventure mystery full of intrigue, suspense, danger and lost historical inquiry. The Lotus Cross is a thriller pitting personal gain against the promise of redemption. The Novel For over a thousand years, history has kept secret the Lotus Cross, an artifact with blood traces of the risen Christ hidden within it. Now that its existence has been confirmed, many will do anything to have it. In this adventure mystery, a manuscript is discovered which describes the … [Read more...] about Excerpt From The Lotus Cross by Ray Anderson @thelotuscross
Excerpt From Wiki Management: A Revolutionary New Model for a Rapidly Changing and Collaborative World by Rod Collins
About your Book: We now live in a “wiki” world where mass collaboration is not only possible—it’s often the best solution. Conventional management thought assumes that command-and-control is the most effective way to organize the efforts of large numbers of people, but rapid change and increasing complexity have rendered that model obsolete. As a result, most managers today lack the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in an age when networks are proving smarter and faster than hierarchies. … [Read more...] about Excerpt From Wiki Management: A Revolutionary New Model for a Rapidly Changing and Collaborative World by Rod Collins
Excerpt From Chasing A Miracle by Eliot Hartford Bailey @EliotHBailey
About your Book: Have you ever wished for a miracle? Come on now. Of course you have. You know you have. For, which of us on this planet, atheists included, has not at one time or another, and with the heart of a beggar, pleaded, entreated, prayed, even bargained for a miracle of one sort or another to be granted, whether for ourselves or someone else? Now, let us never confuse miracles with magic. Magic is just that - hocus-pocus, fake, sham, not real, no matter how impressive and baffling. … [Read more...] about Excerpt From Chasing A Miracle by Eliot Hartford Bailey @EliotHBailey
Excerpt From Awakening in the Northwest Territories – One man’s search for fulfilment by Alastair Henry
About your Book: Discontented with the passivity of an early retirement, the author went to live and work for two years with a small native band (300 people) in a remote location in Canada’s far north, in search of adventure and a deeper meaning to life. Cultural differences and a challenging environment caused a paradigm shift in his spirituality and life philosophy. When he left the north, he changed his life’s direction and went to less developed countries in Asia and Africa sharing his … [Read more...] about Excerpt From Awakening in the Northwest Territories – One man’s search for fulfilment by Alastair Henry
Excerpt From Energize: Ignite Passion and Performance with User Friendly Brain Tools by Bob Faw @bobfaw
About your Book: Positive change like you've never seen it before. Are you tired of hearing about positive change without any practical advice for garnering positive results? Bob Faw is here for you with his new book, Energize: Ignite Passion and Performance with User Friendly Brain Tools. Bob demonstrates that positive change is now much more than a feel-good concept. It's a process of psychological transformation that uses decades of scientific research to increase confidence, calm fears, … [Read more...] about Excerpt From Energize: Ignite Passion and Performance with User Friendly Brain Tools by Bob Faw @bobfaw
Excerpt From 10 Things I Wish I Knew in High School by Sarah Galimore @eppinspires
About your Book: Colleges and employers continue to grapple with the fact that students in the United States are not prepared for the demands of higher education and the workforce. Students scramble to figure out where to go to school, how to get in, what to study, and how to pay for their education, one of the most important investments of their life. Education is a complex but highly valued system. It's a pathway to opportunities in life and a cornerstone of economic prosperity, but far too … [Read more...] about Excerpt From 10 Things I Wish I Knew in High School by Sarah Galimore @eppinspires
Excerpt From The Stovepipe by Bonnie Virag
About your Book: Bonnie, age four, along with four of her siblings, was taken by force from her home in rural Canada and placed in the care of the Children's Aid Society. Over the next fourteen years, the children are split up and reunited multiple times, moving from foster home to foster home, always hoping to find one another again. By luck or providence, the four sisters spend the majority of their young lives together working on a tobacco farm and living in an attic, where the … [Read more...] about Excerpt From The Stovepipe by Bonnie Virag
Excerpt From Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion by A.R. Taylor
About your Book: Prepare to meet physicist David Oster, a big thinker, a charming cad who flees Caltech and his three girlfriends for the Pacific Northwest, pastoral fantasy firmly in hand. Whatever will he do with all that rain, yet another beautiful woman, and several crazy physicists intent on his ruin? Obviously he needs to discover some entirely new physics principle, as yet unnamed, but can he deliver? Targeted Age Group: 16+ Genre: Humor, Satire, Literary Fiction The Book Excerpt: … [Read more...] about Excerpt From Sex, Rain, and Cold Fusion by A.R. Taylor
Excerpt From My Magical Palace by Kunal Mukherjee @kunalmukherjee8
About your Book: Haunted by dreams of an unforgettable loss, Rahul, a young man of thirty living in San Francisco, suddenly becomes secretive and withdraws from his partner Andrew. When Andrew discovers that Rahul is still interviewing girls sent by his parents for an arranged marriage, he gives Rahul an ultimatum—stop living a lie, or give up their relationship. In response, Rahul tells Andrew a story. About a boy who lived in a palace. A boy named Rahul. Set in San Francisco today and in … [Read more...] about Excerpt From My Magical Palace by Kunal Mukherjee @kunalmukherjee8
Excerpt From A Thousand Years of Johnny Von by Edith M Cortese
About your Book: Sure, Johnny Von is a real life movie star on the rise, but that's no reason to think he won't fall in love with Estella? Right? I'm mean, she's nice, and genuine, and probably pretty enough. After all, this could be what the universe has been planning for her, placing her on the quiet, light dappled street where he lives, walking dogs in the Hollywood Hills. This could be why, at 33, she is still single, why the International Playboy wasn't the 'one!' The universe has … [Read more...] about Excerpt From A Thousand Years of Johnny Von by Edith M Cortese
