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Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done
Mick Ebeling · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover |
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What if you discovered by accident that you could change the world? Mick Ebeling - a film producer by trade, optimist by nature - set out to perform a simple act of kindness that quickly turned into a lifelong mission. In the process he discovered that he could, indeed, change the world... |
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Uncommon Marriage: Learning about Lasting Love and Overcoming Life's Obstacles Together
Tony Dungy · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,
Pages: 234
Format: Print book |
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What does it take to build a marriage that will last? Tony and Lauren Dungy have together known the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. They fell in love, built a family, and made sports history when Tony became the first African American head coach to win the Super Bowl. Yet they've... |
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When Someone Dies: The Practical Guide to the Logistics of Death
Scott Taylor Smith · Scribner; Original edition |
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Scott Taylor Smith, a venture capitalist and lawyer, had plentiful resources, and yet after his mother died, he made a series of agonizing and costly mistakes in squaring away her affairs. He could find countless books that dealt with caring for the dying and the emotional fallout of death,... |
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How Successful People Grow: 15 Ways to Get Ahead in Life
John C. Maxwell · Center Street
Pages: 139
Format: Hardcover |
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Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years, and here, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential. In the way that... |
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Stand Strong: You Can Overcome Bullying
Nick Vujicic · Waterbrook Press
Pages: 213
Format: Hardcover |
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With no arms, no legs, and no defense, Nick Vujicic was once a bully's target and knows what it feels like to be picked on and pushed around: It makes your stomach hurt, gives you nightmares, and feels like there is no hope in sight. But Nick shows how you too can overcome and rise... |
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Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
George Saunders · Random House Inc
Pages: 64
Format: Hardcover |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThree months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had been shared more than one million... |
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Rising Above a Toxic Workplace: Taking Care of Yourself in an Unhealthy Environment
Gary D Chapman · Northfield Publishing; New Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Toxic organizations are rife with conflict, fear and anger. The environment causes people to have physiological responses as if they're in a fight-or-flight situation. Healthy people become ill. Colds, flu and stress-related illnesses such as heart attacks are more common. By contrast,... |
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A History of Silence
Lloyd Jones · Text Publishing Company |
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"A daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today."—The Guardian"Jones' rejection of isolationism and imaginative embrace of so much that the world has to offer... |
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Timeless: Love, Morgenthau, and Me
Lucinda Franks · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover |
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"Words by the millions have been printed about you, but none have revealed your real life, your secret life--which is that you belong to me."In this beautifully rendered literary memoir, Lucinda Franks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, tells the intimate story of her marriage... |
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