Creative writing teacher Ken Murray’s powerful debut novel, Eulogy, explores an unusual, Rapture-obsessed fundamentalist Christian family that places all of its hopes on catastrophic destruction.
Katherine Neville’s immensely popular historical quest novels The Eight, A Calculated Risk and The Magic Circle are available digitally for the first time. People Magazine says “With alchemical skill, Neville blends modern romance, historical fiction, and medieval mystery…and comes up with gold.”
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Ken Murray’s debut novel Eulogy follows the controlled and calm life of William Oaks after it is shattered when his parents suddenly die in a car crash. Now he must face the obsessions and denials that have formed him. threatening to derail his life as he feverishly prepares for one of the most important moments in his career. Murray is a teacher of creative writing whose works have appeared in numerous periodicals, and he has numerous awards such as the inaugural Marina Nemat Award and the Random House Award.
Katherine Neville’s immensely popular historical quest novels The Eight, A Calculated Risk and The Magic Circle are available as eBooks for the first time from Open Road Media. A #1 international bestseller in 40 languages, The Eight made edge-of-your-seat historical thrillers popular long before Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code. The Washington Postdeclared The Eight “a feminist answer to Raiders of the Lost Ark” and has captivated readers since its publication in 1988. Neville’s novels have been published in more than 80 countries, enriched by her 20 year career as an international computer executive and consultant, which took her to live in six countries on three continents and 26 of the United States.
What’s the difference between making a purchase from need, from habit, or from ritual? If you’re looking to build customers for life, you need to understand how to create a brand ritual and Zain Raj tells us how in Brand Rituals: How Successful Brands Bond with Customers for Life. He’s a sought-after speaker on the changing marketing landscape, espousing the view that marketing needs to change people’s behavior to forge strong relationships with core customers.
Carrol Vallone Mitchell’s new book, Breaking Through “Bitch”, takes an innovative, sometimes controversial approach, using stories from executives at the highest corporate levels to show how women can hone their innate skills, rise to the top, and be effective, outstanding leaders. It addresses head-on why women cannot and should not “act like men.”
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Brand Rituals: How Successful Brands Bond with Customers for Life provides a new approach to building brands in today’s digitally-led environment. Author Zain Raj emphasizes innovation and a strong belief in empowering others. Zain is the Chairman and CEO of Shapiro + Raj, a top-ten independent research and insights company. Zain is also the founder and CEO of zednext, an ideas incubator that takes an objective and disruptive look at issues and trends to help marketers and business leaders realize their full potential in a data-driven, digitally led and insights-driven world. Most recently he was CEO of Epsilon Agency Services (EAS), the largest global CRM.
Creative Strategy Generation: Using Passion and Creativity to Compose Business Strategies That Inspire Action and Growth by Bob Caporale explores the connections between the strategic and creative processes, and demystifies the complexities of developing a strategic plan. He combines his two areas of expertise, parelleling the process of composing music with the process of developing business strategies. Bob is the president of Sequent Learning Networks, a New York City–based training and advisory firm specializing in product management, product marketing, and strategic planning. Throughout his career, Bob has held leadership and executive roles in engineering, marketing, product management, and general management for multi-billion-dollar companies. He is also an accomplished keyboardist, composer, and songwriter. He has written and produced over 100 independently released songs, albums, and soundtracks.
Breaking Through “Bitch” takes an innovative, sometimes controversial approach, using stories from executives at the highest corporate levels to show how women can hone their innate skills, rise to the top, and be effective, outstanding leaders. It addresses head-on why women cannot and should not “act like men.” Author Carrol Vallone Mitchell describes the unique profile of behaviors that top women leaders have in common, reveals why such stereotypically feminine characteristics as nurturing, empathy, and inclusiveness are the keys to power, not signs of weakness, and shows how these characteristics can be equally effective for men in our fast-changing world. Carol is co-founder of Talent Strategy Partners, a talent management consulting firm and has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies to identify and develop leaders who can build and nurture the right workplace culture and drive results. She uses her expertise as a doctorate in organizational behavior and 20 years of leadership development experience as a go-to speaker for companies and professional associations.
Homefront 911: How Families of Veterans Are Wounded by Our Warstakes a look at the battles that families face in getting care for returning veterans. Author Stacy Bannerman is not only a military family advocate and public speaker on the issue who has testified before congressional committees, she writes from personal experience as her husband served in Iraq.
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John J.B. Anderson, PhD, and Marilyn C. Sparling, LDN have discovered a way to eat that will decrease the risk of chronic disease, aid in weight management and make you healthier overall. In The Mediterranean Way of Eating: Evidence for Chronic Disease Prevention and Weight Management they break down the facts and show how eating a Mediterranean inspired diet can help prevent and even treat diseases such as certain cancers, type 2 diabtetes, cardiovascular diseases and even obesity. They also provide recipes and strategies to integrate the diet into your life. John J. B. Anderson, PhD, has been on the faculty of the Department of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1972. He has published several books and written over 150 scientific articles. Mariyln C. Sparling, LDN, recently retired from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, where she was a clinical dietitian in the outpatient endocrinology division. She has coauthored several journal articles on nutrition and health
Ten years ago, before he got a job at Esquire magazine and way before he became the etiquette columnist at Entrepreneur magazine, Esquire Senior Editor Ross McCammon, editor at an in-flight magazine, was staring out a second-floor window at a parking lot in suburban Dallas wondering if it was five o’clock yet. Everything changed with one phone call from Esquire. Three weeks later, he was working in New York and wondering what the hell had just happened. Works Well With Others: An Outsiders Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting Up, Handling Jerks, and Other Crucial Skills in Business That No One Ever Teaches You is McCammon’s honest, funny, and entertaining journey from impostor to authority, a story that begins with periods of debilitating workplace anxiety but leads to rich insights and practical advice from a guy who “made it” but who still remembers what it’s like to feel entirely ill-equipped for professional success.
It’s no secret that returning combat veterans have an enormous amount of obstacles to face to re-integrate into civilian society, and while things have improved, it’s not nearly enough. In Homefront 911: How Families of Veterans Are Wounded by Our Wars, author Stacy Bannerman examines some of the key components in paving the way for our combat veterans to make the transition easier, including proposed national solutions to provide better care for returning vets and their families, the need to establish House and Senate Veterans affairs subcommittees, and one often overlooked aspect in the added stress that overwhelms caregivers coupled with combat trauma and how it inversely affects the children and grandchildren of both the combat vets and caregivers. Stacy is a military family advocate who has addressed congressional committees. Her husband served in Iraq.
Are there still lost cities waiting in the jungle to be discovered? In the 21st century, can an explorer, fired only by the romantic lure of lost civilizations, still find one? The answer is yes. National Geographic filmmaker and explorer Steve Elkins shares the amazing story of his decades-long quest in Explorer: Legend of the Monkey God.
Ocean Country by conservationist Liz Cunningham is an adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic meditation on the state of the seas. But most importantly, it is one woman’s personal journey to find true hope in the midst of one of the greatest crises to face humankind.
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For twenty-two years, National Geographic filmmaker and explorer Steve Elkins has been searching in the dense jungles of Honduras’ Mosquitia region for a legendary White City. National Geographic hosts the documentary of his quest in Explorer: Legend of the Monkey God. The film tells the amazing story of his decades-long search, his astonishing discovery and how archeologists are just now starting to unravel the mysteries of an ancient culture.
Ocean Country: One Woman’s Voyage from Peril to Hope in Her Quest to Save the Seas by conservationist Liz Cunningham “reveals how immersion into the problems that overwhelm us is a blessing of self-discovery. Where there is carelessness, we find our tenderness; where there is human suffering, we find our sense of compassion. Where there is damage and degradation, we find faith in ourselves,” according to author Paul Hawken. Liz has a B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic in Maine, and in addition to her work as a conservationist has been published in numerous newspapers, magazines and journals.
