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Coach John Wooden's teams won 10 NCAA men's basketball championships at UCLA, and Sporting News magazine named him the greatest coach of all time. Decades after he retired, and now after his passing, his wisdom capsulized so clearly in his famous Pyramid of Success continues to guide new generations of athletes, coaches, and people of all walks of life. In The Greatest Coach Ever, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes features 40 tributes to him from athletes, coaches, and other influential leaders.

In The Referral of a Lifetime, author Tim Templeton frames a powerful plan for cultivating clients and customers in a fable about businesswoman Susie McCumber, who feels increasingly like a failure. A friend refers her to the mysterious Mr. Highground, who introduces her to four successful people. They show her how they transformed their businesses and their lives by determining how others view them and how they view themselves.

Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller. Growing up vegetarian in a family of bodybuilders will do that to a person. But William is further weakened by the death of his mother, the arrival of a new stepmother, and his irrepressible crush on his new stepsister, Lulu. As Lulu faces down her own challenges, William watches his life shift into tumult and despair. Once Lulu departs for college, Will goes into the world to find himself....

In 1948, New Orleans veteran trumpeter and singer Louis Prima stumbled into a young girl named Keely Smith. She was barely a performer at all, almost half his age, destined for a relatively quiet life; their encounter was pure coincidence. But they went on to invent The Wildest, the most exciting and successful lounge act Las Vegas has ever seen, an act that became one of the hottest in the U.S. in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Leadership training can be inconsistent in the best of times, and in tough economic times it’s often one of the first things that even the most progressive companies cut back. Nor can you depend on finding that mentor you’ve been hoping for. So now more than ever, if you’re going to advance your career you need to lift yourself up by your bootstraps. But not entirely: Steve Arneson is here to give you a boost.

The Adventures of Atlas and Artesia are a series of books about the lives of a wolf-dog named Atlas and a little red fox named Artesia. When the oldest talking tree in the forest tells them the reason Mother Earth is quaking is because she has become unbalanced, the two adventurers take a journey to the land of Zarah to find the elves that have the secrets of sound.

Success begins with attitude. Yet a truly positive, resilient outlook - the kind that just won't quit - often takes training, self-reflection, and practice. But staying positive in tough times isn't easy. If you've experienced a setback at work, suffered a personal loss, or struggle to make it through the monotony of the workday, A Kick in the Attitude is for you.

The Reiki raccoons, Rachelle and Rocky, are asked to help bring balance and peace to mother Earth, by a beautiful angel. She asks them to take a journey to the planet behind the sun to find the knowledge. The mission is on when their eagle friend, Zenith, responds to their call for help. Together, the three friends embark on another adventure.

The Adventures of the Reiki Raccoons are a series of books about twin raccoons, Rachelle and Rocky. Their curiosity and good intentions take them on adventures that teach them about positive energy. When the longest-living member of their village, Grandma Olive, asks them for their help, they find themselves on an adventure they had dreamed of all of their lives.

Rachelle and Rocky, the twin raccoons, are off on another adventure when the great white spirit bear comes into the Earth's dimension. The spirit bear asks them to go on a mission to help raise the vibration of the planet Earth. Rocky and Rachelle meet the spirit, Elder Ellora, when they travel through the center of the Earth to the Ellora Caves. They visit the sacred waterfalls, and discover the peace and joy of meditation using mandalas, mantras, the labyrinth, tai chi, singing bowls, drums, and dance.

We went our separate ways: us and them. We went on to civilize ourselves and they remained a nomadic and indigenous people. We used the bountiful resources of nature and they simply saw themselves as being nature. Now, we look back and see how they live and how we live. Divergence offers an insightful look at how we came to be separated from our natural environment and even our own basic nature from an anthropological perspective. Divergence explores the basic disconnections in our lives that we’ve come to accept as normal. 

I suppose there were a few of us. The period from 1963 to 1970 was arguably one of the most dynamic periods for social change in the West. Some of us were either blessed or cursed to be teenagers during this eight-year period. Amid a hail storm of raging hormones and psychological uncertainty, I found that the Beatles were there to guide me through a personal upheaval that I wasn’t able to manage on my own. Their music and quirky media personae lent a steadiness to my teen years where there otherwise was none. 

Humanity is being replaced by artificial intelligence. Nothing new. However, what emerges as the most prized natural resource is the creative human mind. The alien hybrids must urgently cull, digitize, and upload those remaining minds to the blockchain for marketing to AI developers before the human extinction event. The hybrids also realize that the creative mind has access to a powerful world that they want to explore and profit from. The hybrid elite meet their match with Cliff, whose creative mind is a little too creative, when he turns the tables on them.

When She Died braves grief's gritty landscape with unflinching honesty. Additionally the in-real-time journal entries point to all the ups and downs, madness, and heart-wrenching immediacy of a spousal loss. This is balanced by a retrospective on the death and its aftermath 30 years later. This book is anything but a clinician's take on grieving. Rather, it is an intensely private and thoughtfully laid out map for all the various stages of grief from a personal vantage point that ultimately emerges as something profoundly universal.