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“Absorbing...Eastman is a riveting...presence who demands to be loved and remembered.” —The Boston Globe An ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life. One of Esquire's Best books of...

Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work -and what to do when they break. Blueprints, the New York Times bestselling novel from Barbara Delinsky, is the story of two strong women, Caroline MacAfee, a skilled carpenter, and her daughter Jamie, a talented architect...

This Is Where We Live tells the story of Claudia and Jeremy, a young married couple (she’s an aspiring filmmaker, he’s an indie musician) who are on the verge of making it. Her first film was a sensation at Sundance and is about to have its theatrical release, he’s assembled a new band and...

カリスマ性がなくても、自信がなくても大丈夫！「リーダーの自分」を「素の自分」と切り離して考えることで、“最強のリーダー”として人を動かす話し方ができるようになります。著者はNHKでキャスターとして活躍しながら大学院でスピーチ研究に取り組み、博士号を取得。 現在は国立大学教員として研究を続ける傍ら、スピーチコンサルタントとして経営者や政治家などトップリーダーのトレーニングを行っています。

Spending the night in juvie wasn't the worst thing to happen to seven-year-old Teresa that summer. When her much-anticipated cross-country vacation turns to abduction, Teresa is forced to care for her mother, sister, and twin brothers. Homeless, abused, and afraid in the slums of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, Teresa finds joy in her adventures while fantasizing of a better life. Keeping this dream alive throughout her childhood is what drives her to end the cycle of abuse and poverty.

Communication is the exchange of information between two or more people. This can be verbal, for example when two people converse, or it can be non-verbal, like the information we perceive through facial expressions or gestures that us know if a person is angry or cheerful. Within non-verbal communication, physical communication is of great importance: A kiss, a handshake, or a hug transfers a lot of information. Communication can be positive, negative, effective or ineffective.

Play It Forward details the remarkable journey of Joan Barnes, founder and former CEO of Gymboree, and how she learned to align her inner life with outward success. Forty years ago Joan Barnes founded a play center in a church basement with $3,000. Determined to enable women to achieve personal and entrepreneurial success, Barnes led Gymboree to become an innovative leader in a new industry: activity-based early childhood development.

Joe Massengale grew up a poor African-American boy in Depression-era Texas, never imagining that he would one day be a successful businessman, race-horse owner, and father. In this book, Massengale distills his success into six learned principles: confidence, fortitude, persistence, pride, fearlessness, and focus.

Maternal Optimism: Forging Positive Paths Through Work and Motherhood aims to provide listeners with stories and research that support the notion of women owning and feeling confident in the choices they make as they navigate a complex series of work and family transitions. This book challenges the impulse to reduce work/life challenges to a single point in time, such as the decision to return to work after the birth of a child; instead, it recognizes that work and family decisions are anything but stagnant.

For the ambitious mother who dreams of starting her own business while juggling mom life, work life, wife life, fill in the blank life, this book was written for you. Marisa Volpe Lonic, mom of four and former corporate executive turned entrepreneur, shares practical tips and advice on turning your side hustle into your main hustle, vulnerable stories of the entrepreneurial journey, and the undeniable chaos of what it’s like to birth businesses and babies simultaneously.

The Parent Entrepreneur will show you how to balance family and business life, manage your time and money, test your business, market it to the right people in the right places, and get stuff done around kids. All supported and illustrated by Terry’s own experiences, hard times, and good times. If you’re a parent with a great business idea, or an existing business owner with kids on the way, this book will help you succeed at both.

Virginia Jacko's extraordinary odyssey begins at Purdue University, where she is diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa while serving as a highly successful senior financial executive. As the darkness grew around her, she realized that she would slowly, but surely, go completely blind. Refusing to retreat to bemoan her fate, Virginia starts over as a vocational rehabilitation client at the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Sara Fay Egan has never lived a “by-the-book” kind of life. From orchestrating high-profile events to grappling with her daughter's life-threatening illness, she’s faced more twists and turns than most. In The Through Line, Sara Fay shares her deeply personal journey, blending raw emotion with the practical know-how she’s gained from years of balancing a successful career with family responsibilities.

When Dolly had her children, the idea of returning to work felt daunting. The thought of having to combine the challenges of career and family was unfamiliar yet, despite it being the experience of so many millions of women, she struggled to find material to help galvanise and reassure her; and to make her feel that anything was possible. In this book, Dolly aims to change all of that and provide women with practical advice, as well interweaving her own personal experiences.

Learning how to create a plan can be tough if you’ve never done it before, but it doesn’t have to be. Creating a fair and equitable family business legacy plan is possible if you start with the right mindset and your desired goals and objectives. Author and financial advisor Maria L. Ellis, MBA, has spent decades helping people achieve their financial goals so they are best prepared for their futures. In Family Business Legacy Plan, Maria will teach you why you do not need to have all your legacy issues figured out to create a plan, and more.

Throw on a pair of running shoes and join Dave, Jim, Winville, Alan, and Julie on their midday run as they converse about life and the complex world of family-owned businesses. Running, planning, and transitioning the ownership of a business is hard, particularly when it requires the maintenance of family relationships as well. Negotiate the pavements and streets with them, and learn from real-life experiences as they unpack a toolbox of useful strategies that can be utilized everywhere from the boardroom table to the dining table.

How You Leave Them Feeling is an inspirational book written for anyone who wants to live a happier and more fulfilled life. Whether you are the CEO of a multinational company or a student attending college, the simple steps offered by Jesse Ferrell in How You Leave Them Feeling can be incorporated into your everyday life to achieve immediate, effective and rewarding results.

After being thrown out from a moving car on a motorway and rescued from the dog pound by Brian Porter and his wife, Dexter had a happy life in their family of rescue dogs. On the June 8th, 2019, Dexter - a Labrador-Staffy Crossbreed - passed away after a year-long fight against illness. Part funny, part serious, and part tragic, this is the story of Dexter’s life.

In The Working Mom, Vicki Broadbent, founder of HonestMum.com, shares her manifesto for surviving and thriving at work and at home. Vicki writes about everything from juggling work and family to regaining your confidence after having a baby and battling imposter syndrome. An award-winning blogger and vlogger, in this audiobook Vicki shares how to turn your passions into a business that suits the modern mum's lifestyle.

No one wants to feel like a failure, especially when the pressure and expectation of others is weighing you down. You want to make yourself and others proud and prove that you can do anything you set your mind to, so what’s holding you back? It’s that little voice inside saying, “Are you crazy? Of course, you can’t really achieve your goals.” No, you most certainly can. You are in a world where you choose the life you want to live. You deserve freedom and happiness.