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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

Adam M Grant · Viking
Pages: 322
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas - and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Give and Take"Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled...
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The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes · Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent...
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WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

Abby Wambach · Celadon Books
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College's graduates in New York City, New York Times bestselling author, two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach delivers her empowering rally cry for women to unleash their individual power,...
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

MICHAEL LEWIS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments,...
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Eliza Griswold · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold's Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a devastating...
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How to Make It: 25 Makers Share the Secrets to Building a Creative Business

Erin Austen Abbott · Chronicle Books
Pages: 212
Format: Print book

This is the ultimate tell-all, show-all guide to making a living by making things. Featuring 25 profiles of illustrators, jewelry designers, ceramicists, painters, clothing designers, and printmakers, How to Make It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily rituals and best practices...
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Managing Time

Harvard Business Review · Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Book

Does it seem like you never have enough time to get everything done? Keeping on top of your tasks, deadlines, and work schedule can be daunting. Managing Time quickly walks you through the basics. You’ll learn to:• Assess how you spend your time now• Prioritize your tasks•...
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The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream

BRYAN MEALER · Flatiron Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Think of it as a Texas version of Hillbilly Elegy." -- Bryan Burrough, New York Times bestselling author of THE BIG RICH and BARBARIANS AT THE GATE"Bryan Mealer has given us a brilliant, and brilliantly entertaining, portrayal of family, and a bursting-at-the-seams chunk...
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The Automatic Millionaire, Expanded and Updated: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich

David Bach · Crown Business
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback

What's the secret to becoming a millionaire? For years people have asked David Bach, the national bestselling author of Smart Women Finish Rich, Smart Couples Finish Rich, and Start Late, Finish Rich what's the real secret to getting rich? What's the one thing I need to do? Now, in the newly...
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How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide

Jane Bryant Quinn · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 366
Format: Hardcover

"Jane Bryant Quinn is America's dean of personal finance ... .The book is a true treasure chest of financial secrets." - Forbes With How to Make Your Money Last, you will learn how to turn your retirement savings into a steady paycheck that will last for life.Today, people worry...
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2017: For Preparing Your 2016 Tax Return

J. K. Lasser Institute. · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 816
Format: Print book

America's number-one all-time best-selling tax guide, with 2,500 money-saving tips J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2017 puts America's most trusted tax advice to work to help you with your 2016 tax return. Reader-friendly and easy to use, this book answers your most pressing questions to help...
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Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis

Thomas Piketty · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 212
Format: Print book

Incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, from the author of the bestselling global phenomenon Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality. Without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies...
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FAKE: Fake Money, Fake Teachers, Fake Assets: How Lies Are Making the Poor and Middle Class Poorer

Robert T. Kiyosaki · Plata Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Robert Kiyosaki -- author of the #1 Personal Finance book of all time -- has built a legacy around simplifying complex and often-confusing subjects like money and investing. He continues to challenge conventional wisdom and asks the questions that will help readers sift through today's...
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2019: For Preparing Your 2018 Tax Return

J K LASSER · Wiley
Pages: 848
Format: Paperback

The nation's most trusted tax guide, updated for your 2018 returns J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2019 is the nation's most trusted tax guide, updated to help you prepare your 2018 return. Step-by-step expert guidance walks you through the forms, calculations, and deadlines to help you file...
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