Jahangir is a kid who knows how to make nitroglycerine. Lorelei's mother is a high-class hostess. A true grime tale set around Lyme Road School, where everyone except their friend Frank is totally weird.Lyme Road Community School is no ordinary school, servicing a sprawling South London estate. Some of the students are in gangs, some the children of drug addicts, and some are drug dealers themselves. Others are refuges from war-torn countries, and a few were even soldiers. Jahangir...

Millions of people feel dissatisfied and depressed about their jobs, yet curiously many still like what they are doing.Their complaints are almost always about "the other stuff" that causes their distress. These other factors include clashes with internal and external bureaucracy, micromanaging supervision, lack of participation in decisions, and uncertatinty about their job security.The irony about Miserable@Work is that resolving our distress on the job is often ...

Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories!Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be excited by "Four: The Traitor," the fourth of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and told from Tobias's point of view."The Traitor" takes place two years after "The Son" and runs parallel with the early events in Divergent. In this robust story, readers follo...

TIMELESS PRINCIPLES OF EMPOWERING LEADERSHIP | OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD‘One of the 12 best business books of all time’ USA Today‘The best how-to manual anywhere for managers on delegating, training, and driving flawless execution’ Fortune‘David Marquet is the kind of leader who comes around only once in a generation. His ideas and lessons are invaluable' Simon Sinek, Start With Why-------Captain David Mar...

If you liked THE HUNGER GAMES, you will Love ARENA ONE. --Allegra Skye, Bestselling author of Saved. From Morgan Rice, #1 Bestselling author of THE VAMPIRE JOURNALS, comes a new trilogy of dystopian fiction. New York. 2120. American has been decimated, wiped out from the second Civil War. In this post-apocalyptic world, survivors are far and few between. And most of those who do survive are members of the violent gangs, predators who live in the big cities. They patrol the countryside look...

A fully revised and updated installment from the bestselling author of The Oz Principle Series.Two-time New York Times bestselling authors Roger Connors and Tom Smith show how leaders can achieve record-breaking results by quickly and effectively shaping their organizational culture to capitalize on their greatest asset-their people.Change the Culture, Change the Game joins their classic book, The Oz Principle, and their ...

Book I in a Coming of Age TrilogyWhat if death forgot you?In a future eerily similar to be ours, Lizzie, a suicidal teen-age girl, barely navigates her own life. Then everything falls apart. In an apocalyptic land nearly deserted by disease, she lacks reasons to live until a shocking turn of events reveals a phone number. Her call pulls her dangerously cross-country seeking a stranger she thought was dead.Along the way, she will find w...

"Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing myself fully to the social revolution." —Larry Downes, author of The Killer AppIn Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-pa...

Most of us are terrified of conflict, says Arnold Mindell, PhD, author of fifteen books and internationally recognized for his innovative synthesis of Jungian therapy, dreams, and bodywork. But we needn't be. His burning passion is to create groups and organizations where everyone looks forward to group processes instead of fearing them. He calls this the deep democracy of open forums, where all voices, thoughts, and feelings are aired freely, especially the ones nobody wants to hear....

It has been nine months since the virus hit, wiping out almost everyone it touched. Seventeen-year-old Cora and her little brother, Coby, haven't left home since.When a blistering drought forces her to go in search of water, she discovers that the world isn't quite as abandoned as she thought when a drop-dead sexy army deserter ambushes her, and forces her to take him home to her stockpile of supplies. There she finds her home decimated, and her brother missing, kidnapped by the mi...

John T. Chain, Jr., rose from a second lieutenant to four-star general and led our national missile defense program.Mike Harper led ConAgra Foods from $636 million to $20 billion in 20 years and increased its stocks value 150 times over.Ask Gary Cohen what these remarkable leaders have in common and his answer will be straightforward: They use questions to generate fresh ideas, inspire committed action, and build an army of forward-thinking leaders.

"I honestly wish I could believe that things will end perfectly, with one big bright happy ending. But these last few days have taught me that life isn't made up of shiny moments. Life is hard; it's gritty. One day you are filled with joy and the next, you are crawling through the muddy trenches with no inkling of when you might be able to climb your way back up again." ~Willow Mosby, Exposing ELECan Willow expose Project ELE for what it really is?Just when Willow Mosby tho...