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Books That Make You Be a Better Leader
Managing a team, leading others…how might one go from being a wide-eyed novice to an in-demand leader people want to work for?
More importantly, how can you move from being a “worker” to a facilitator of an energized team?
In his multi-award-winning book, Be a Better Manager in Five Minutes a Day, Dr. Dominic Mcloughlin illustrates the path to becoming that efficient, productive leader everyone trusts and respects.
With twenty years’ experience in Management and Leadership, Dominic is a highly seasoned Business Management Specialist. He runs his own consulting business and the new online Business Leaders Lab, and has also taught hundreds of university courses on business and management.
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Books That Make You Understand That You Are a Masterpiece
Most of us encounter serious doubts about ourselves, and our lives. We might grow bitter, regretful, assume that it’s simply our lot in life to experience inequity. Thus, it’s sometimes easy for us to let others write us off.
As someone once destined for a life of crime or addiction, Jay Morris might well have been the kind of person most wrote off. A single moment changed the trajectory of his life, however, when he accidentally pulled the trigger of a loaded gun at an innocent girl—and nothing happened.
This experience was just one of many unexplainable events that spurred Jay toward a truly transformative spiritual awakening. Now he is here to help others transform their own lives—because Jay discovered that, like himself, you are a masterpiece.
His debut book, Masterpiece – Our Journey to Spiritual Transformation, merges his rich expertise in corporate leadership with spiritual enlightenment.
With over 35 years of professional experience, Jay Morris harnesses his personal and professional insights to mentor professionals and industry leaders. His strategic insights have helped Fortune 500 companies like Ernst & Young LLP, Allstate Insurance Company, Merck Pharmaceutical, and Yale New Haven Health.
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Books That Make You Travel Back to Oklahoma in the 1940s
Stories with a strong sense of time, place, evoking themes of family and home and all the attendant laughs, loves and drama, are the very ones that make us want to curl up on the porch rocking chair with a lemonade and crack open a book.
Author Caren Simpson McVicker does just that with Henderson House, a book that invites you to lose yourself in the heartaches and hopes of 1940s Oklahoma, and offers a window into a charming boardinghouse with sisters, secrets, and late-in-life romance.
Born in Oklahoma, Caren now lives in Vermont with her husband, a rescue pup, and a barn cat- turned-house-kitty. A mother to two incredible humans, Caren is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. Henderson House is her debut novel.
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Books That Make You Enter a World of Ancient, Mythological Powers and Secrets—in Seattle, Washington
We love epic, gripping, epic tales that mix genres and turn tropes on their, well, tales. Such is what Rebecca Heidt delivers in her Acceptance series, where the peaceful life of the ruling nymph family (Lucas, Rose, and their daughter Selena) is broken by a betrayal from their friend Kieran.
When Lucas and Rose sacrifice themselves, Selena and her guardian Liam struggle to escape. Now, in 2024, Selena is an adult, concealing her mystical heritage as she trains as a covert warrior under Liam's guardianship.
An accomplished, award-winning LGBTQ writer, artist, and lover of history, nature, anthropology and spirituality, Rebecca Heidt has been recognized for her neurodivergent wisdom and impactful advice for aspiring writers. She has also been awarded the 9th rank in the 2023 Iconic 100 Impact Igniters Worldwide.
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Books That Make You Relive the Last Decade of Real Cinema—the 1990s
Pop culture historian and entertainment scholar Scott Ryan has turned his sights on the 1990s in his latest work, The Last Decade of Cinema, a thoughtful, comprehensive book of dozens of essays looking back at twenty-five movies that defined the 21st century’s last generation.
The book offers exclusive interviews and insights from industry giants like Alexander Payne,  Patricia Arquette, Helen Childress and Natasha Gregson Wagner (Natalie Wood’s daughter).
The book also analyzes iconic movies from the nineties, unpacking their cultural impact and legacy. It makes us remember a time when films were communal, when they were “big events”, when they impacted our lives—when things were simpler, at least in the realm of media content. And when it was okay to argue with your friends over what was in the Pulp Fiction briefcase.
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Books That Make You Feel That Anything Is Possible, Even When Things Seem Hopeless
When he was just sixteen years old, Payam Zamani’s parents paid smugglers to carry him safely across over a thousand miles of desert so he might escape brutal religious persecution in Iran.
Not much later, he arrived as an adolescent refugee in America, equipped only with a dream. In just over a decade, he launched a record-breaking billion-dollar IPO, only for it to fall victim to the nineties’ tech bubble, and Wall Street’s subsequent meltdown.
Twenty-three years later, he bought the company back, and, within just a few months, made it profitable once more.
His new book, CROSSING THE DESERT: The Power of Embracing Life's Difficult Journeys chronicles Payam’s story of going from oppression to opportunity, and from financial highs to lows—to highs once more.
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