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Published Books (Non-Fiction)

Cruel Harvest: A Memoir (Thomas Nelson) by Fran Grubb
"A story that seizes the reader's attention . . . the reader can't look away." ― Publisher's Weekly


A Chance in the World (Thomas Nelson) by Steve Pemberton
"Unfortunately like so many, Steve Pemberton endured more than his share of hardship as a young child. Yet through true grit an dunyielding hard work with a high standard of dignity, Steve has not only become a leader in the business workd but also an inspiration to those of all walks of life. Steve's book ... will open one's heart and leave no doubt on the unconquerable human spirit." - Dave Pelzer, author of #1 New Yortk Times Best Seller A Child Called "It"

The American Spirit: Celebrating the Virtues and Values that Make Us Great (Thomas Nelson) by Edwin J. Feulner and Brian Tracy
"Feulner (Getting America Right), president and co-founder of conservative think-tank The Heritage Foundation, and Tracy (Something for Nothing), an organizational consultant, bring their political and business-world know-how together for this celebration of American exceptionalism." - Publishers Weekly 

How to Say It: Business to Business Selling (Prentice Hall) by Geoffrey James

"... A short, pithy book with real-time examples that resonate - no matter what we sell. Read this book and you not only will sell smarter, but you will increase your success rate ten-fold. Geoffrey removes sales fears and puts the fun back in sales." - Joanne Black, founder of No More Cold Calling

A Slice of the Pie: How to Build a Big Little Business (Portfolio) by Nick Sarillo
"There are only a few CEOs today who have the courage to put people before numbers. Nick Sarillo is one of those leaders. The best part is, his numbers are vastly better than everyone else's. We can all learn a lot about how to treat people and how to run a business from Nick. Inspire on!" - Simon Sinek, author of Start with Why

 
From Idea to Success (McGraw-Hill) By Gregg Fairbrothers and Tessa Winter

"There are many books on entrepreneurship, but this is one of the few that will convert individuals into entrepreneurs." - Desh Deshpande, founder of Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation

The Home Port Cookbook(Globe Pequot Press) by Will Holtham

"Now that Will has finally decided to share his many culinary secrets with the rest of the world, I look forward not only to kicking off the summer with an amazing dinner at the Home Port, but also to having a little piece of it with me all year long." - Michael J. Fox

The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Buddhist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them (New World Library) by Karuna Cayton

"Through his many years of deep study of Buddhist psychology, sincere introspection, and work at helping others, Karuna Cayton has gained genuine wisdom, which he generously shares in The Misleading Mind ... This is a clear, grounded, and useful guidebook for working with the mind and heart." - Lorne Ladner, PhD, psychologist and author of The Lost Art of Compassion

You Can't Fire Everyone: And Other Lessons from an Accidental Manager (Portfolio) by Hank Gilman

"...It's rare to find such an insightful leader who takes the time to reflect on what has worked, and hasn't worked, throughout his career. This book is not only entertaining but a must read." - Ram Charan, Fortune 500 CEO Consultant and bestselling author of The Talent Masters with Bill Conaty

Driving Excellence: Transform Your Organization's Culture - And Achieve Revolutionary Results (Hyperion) by Mark Aesch "This commitment to performance-driven management in the public sector is a very timely message to nurse our nation back to financial health. Through a commitment to courageous leadership, the results that Aesch and his team have achieved give us all a road map for lower taxes and high-performance government." - Rudy Giuliani, chairman and CEO Giuliani Partners, and former Mayor of New York City.

Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation (St. Martin's Press) by Martin Fletcher "Extraordinary...nothing else like it. There is no better guide. Indispensable for understanding Israel." - Brian Williams, NBC News

What Americans Really Want...Really: The Truth About Our Hopes, Dreams, and Fears (Hyperion) by Frank Luntz

"When Frank Luntz invites you to talk to his focus group, you talk to his focus group." - Presidential candidate Barack Obama, spoken on June 28th, 2007, to a PBS-sponsored focus group following the Democratic presidential debate at Howard University.

Evolution Rx: A Practical Guide to Harnessing Our Innate Capacity for Health and Healing (Perigee) by William Meller, MD

The Dead Janitors Club: Pathetically True Tales of a Crime Scene Cleanup King(Sourcebooks) A Memoir by Jeff Klima

Don't Bring It To Work: Breaking the Family Patterns that Limit Success (Jossey-Bass) by Sylvia Lafair

"This book is emotionally engaging and the message is fantastic." - Robert Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule

Singing Was the Easy Part (St. Martin's Press) by Vic Damone with David Chanoff

"A crooner's breezy memoir...Damone looks back at his life and career, recalling his Depression-era Brooklyn boyhood and his vertiginous trajectory up the pop charts and into the inner circle of the Rat Pack...He offers tales of vengeful mobsters, celebrity heartbreak, and carousing in Las Vegas at the height of its glamour...A forthright, compelling look at a vanished, glittering era of show business." - Kirkus Reviews

Border Crosser: One Gringo's Illicit Passage from Mexico into America (Random House) by Johnny Rico

Successful Onboarding: A Strategy to Unlock Hidden Value Within Your Organization (McGraw-Hill) by Mark A. Stein and

Lilith Christiansen

"...This book demonstrates how sound and creative onboarding can prevent a lot of voluntary off-boardinig from high performing employees." - Sonia Narang, Director, Leadership & Organization Development, Sony Pictures Entertainment

The Cost of Bad Behavior: How Incivility Is Damaging Your Business and What to Do About It(Portfolio) by Christine Pearson and Christine Porath

"A fascinating, not-to-be missed book!" - Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There

Who: Solve Your #1 Problem (Random House) by Geoff Smart and Randy Street

"Knowing what to do is not the major challenged faced by executives-finding WHO to do it is! Here's great advice for a talent-hungry world." - Mashall Goldsmith, author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There

Stirring It Up (Hyperion) by Gary Hirshberg, Founder & CEO Stonyfield Farms

"Gary Hirshberg dared to dream new ways of doing business based on respect for customers, employees, and the earth. And, it worked. If you buy or sell anything, or simply want to feel hopeful about the future, this lively and legitimately optimistic book is worth every minute." - Robert Redford

Breaking News (St. Martins Press) by Martin Fletcher

"For decades Martin Fletcher has been the gold standard of television war correspondents, and his new book is a real life, cross-continent adventure story...Its a great and moving read." -Anderson Cooper

Innovation Nation (Free Press) by John Kao

"What most recommends Mr. Kao is that he is an entrepreneur in his own right...If Orson Welles and Peter Drucker were somehow to mate, the resulting progeny might be something like Mr. Kao." -The Economist

Selling the Fountain of Youth: How the Anti-Aging Industry Made a Disease out Getting Old - and Made Billions (Basic Books) by Arlene Weintraub

"Weintraub mixes acute reportage with a censorious tone." - Publishers Weekly

The Man Who Sold America: The Amazing But True Story of Albert D. Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century (Harvard Business Review Press) by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and Arthur W. Schultz

No Mans Land: Where Growing Companies Fail (Portfolio) byDoug Tatum

"This is a really important book...Doug Tatum knows more about the subject, and has thought more deeply about it, than anyone else on the face of the earth." -Bo Burlingham, editor at large, Inc. Magazine

The Satisfaction Economy (Palgrave-MacMillan)by Claes Fornell

"Claes Fornell reminds us if we want to achieve long-term growth and success, companies must invest in their customers...Professor Fornell is providing an important resource for all of us who rely on customer satisfaction to drive the growth of our brands and businesses." -David Brandon, chairman and CEO, Dominos Pizza, Inc.

The Ultimate Sales Machine (Portfolio)by Chet Holmes

"Chet has the best material Ive seen for how to attract an army of top producers and how to get the most out of them once you get them." -T. Harv Eker

Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green (Presidio Press)by Johnny Rico

"'When someone is shooting at you, and you are shooting back at someone,' Rico warns the reader up-front, 'objective perception goes out the door.' With that caveat, Ricoa self-professed 'tall, skinny dork' who joined the army as one of several reactionary choices in his life (another was changing his name to Johnny Rico at age 21)takes a shot at recounting his experiences as a stop-loss veteran of the war in Afghanistan. The result is a biting tale of frustrated ambitions and the curse of self-awareness that appropriately cites The Catcher in the Rye and Catch-22 in the book's epigraph; readers will need to remind themselves that this is memoir and not absurdist satire. Whether detailing the horrors of a roadside bomb, or the masturbation schedules of his comrades-in-arms, he shifts between the indignant adolescence that still rages inside of him and the austere sapience of his fiercely learned adulthood. His precise, evocative prose balances pathos and humor with an almost destructive compulsion for honesty and so much frustrated wit that, even at his most naked and sensitive, he holds nothing sacred. A timeless story of confounded youth and its eternal struggle for meaning, this book may well signal the birth of a titanic new voice" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Words That Work: Its Not What You Say, Its What People Hear (Hyperion) by Frank Luntz

"Language is like music. Unfortunately, the Republicans have a Paul McCartney in the person of Frank Luntz. Somehow, we Democrats got stuck with Yoko Ono." - Al Franken

50+ (St. Martins Press) by Bill Novelli, CEO, AARP

"A call to action to the boomers and their older brothers and sisters to reignite their passion for change and to make America a better place for all generations..." -Juan Williams, NPR senior correspondent.

Where Value Hides (Wiley) by Stuart Jackson

The Brothers Bulger (Warner Books)by Howie Carr

"Not since Chicago and Al Capone has an American city had a relationship with a gangster like Boston had with Whitey Bulger. Howie Carr knows where all the bodies are buried. After reading THE BROTHERS BULGER, I can tell you Howie is lucky his body is still aboveground." -Bill OReilly, Anchor, Fox News Channel

Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulgers Irish Mob (ReganBooks) by Kevin Weeks and Phyllis Karas "Brutally honest. Kevin Weeks lands a knockout punch with this compelling look at one of the most intriguing figures in the American underworld." -George Anastasia, bestselling author of The Last Gangster.

Leading from the Front: Marine Corps Leadership for Women (McGraw-Hill) by Captains Courtney Lynch and Angie Morgan "Learning to lead is important for all women. Leadership skills help you make a difference at work, at home, and in your community. Leading from the Front provides women with 10 relevant principles that will complement any leadership style." -Senator Elizabeth Dole

The Untied States of America (Crown Books) by Juan Enriquez

"Priority number one for all of us these days, from the White House to Main Street to pillow talk about our lives and careers, is thinking deeply about uncomfortable truths and possibilities. I guarantee that Untied will bring on a big case of the intellectual fidgets and provoke deep thought...It is a masterpiece." -Tom Peters

The Case for Peace (Wiley) by Alan Dershowitz

"Alan Dershowitz has been on the forefront of making the case for Israel and against terrorism. Now he turns his attention to making the case for peace. He understands, as I do, how difficult it is to achieve peace with security. He confronts these difficulties with insight and with the benefit of years of experience." - Ariel Sharon

Startups that Work (Portfolio) by Joel Kurtzman

"Startups That Work by Joel Kurtzman shares research and guidance on what makes or breaks a new company. This is a valuable book." -Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One-Minute Manager and The Secret

Winning (Harper Business) by Jack Welch

"New York Times Bestseller - When you talk with Jack about management, his energy and passion fill the room. You get a similar experience with this book the same qualities jump at you from every page." -Warren E. Buffett

Brand Simple (Palgrave-Macmillan) by Allen Adamson

"Will inspire the reader who is hoping to develop a breakthrough idea." -Philip Kotler

The Mortician Diaries (Inner Ocean) by June Nadle

MBA in A Box: The Practical Guide to the Big Ideas of Business (Crown Business)by Joel Kurtzman with Glenn Rifkin and Victoria Griffith

"MBA in a Box can be a valuable resource no matter where you are in your career." -Larry Bossidy, coauthor of Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

The Case for Israel (Wiley) by Alan Dershowitz

"A lively, hotly argued broadside against Israel's increasingly venomous critics." -Washington Post Book World

Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It No Matter What (Portfolio) by Michael Treacy

"Treacy's core argument that companies do not view growth as a discipline in its own right is original and quite profound." -Financial Times

The Other Mother (Beacon Press) by Harlyn Aizley

The Unspeakable (Associated University Presses) by Denise Brown

A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America (Viking) by Senator John Kerry

Get Your Ship Together: How Great Leaders Inspire Ownership from the Keel Up (Portfolio) by D. Michael Abrashoff

"Navy Commander D. Michael Abrashoff uses a leadership model thats as progressive as any in business." -Fast Company

The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of I.B.M.s Founding Father and Son (Harper Business)by Richard Tedlow

Its About Time: Great Recipes For Everyday Life (Steerforth Press) by Michael Schlow

"Michael Schlow is my favorite chef, and this book is just like he is warm, funny, real, and brilliant in the kitchen." -Jack Welch

As The Future Catches You (Crown) by Juan Enriquez

"By far the best book I know to help us understand and cope with the powerful technologies that are about to change every aspect of our lives." -Roger Fisher, coauthor of Getting to Yes.

Natures Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How The Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Organization in the World (Jossey-Bass)by Bill Birchard

Over Promise and Over Deliver (Portfolio) by Rick Barrera

"Overpromise and Overdeliver by Rick Barrera is a splendid book. Dont miss it!" -Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager

America the Broke (Doubleday) by Gerald Swanson

Reengineering the Corporation (HarperCollins) by Michael Hammer and James Champy

"New York Times Bestseller. "An important book that describes the principles behind a new and systematic approach to structuring and managing work." - Peter Drucker

Chutzpah (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster) by Alan Dershowitz

"New York Times Best Seller. "Alan Dershowitz' message to American Jews is that second-class citizenship is intolerable. His mind is keen and quick and his argument is powerful. This is a courageous and important book." - Saul Bellow

Discipline of Market Leaders (HarperCollins)by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema

"New York Times Bestseller. "It's taken over a decade of struggle in the telecommunications wars for AT&T to learn what is conveyed within the covers of this excellent book." - Robert E. Allen, CEO, AT&T

Street Soldier: My Life as an Enforcer for Whitey Bulger and the Boston Irish Mob (Steerforth Press) by Edward Mackenzie, Jr. & Phyllis Karas with Ross A. Muscato

"Reluctant reformed criminal Mackenzie delivers a gritty tale of stunted childhood, vicious criminality, and struggle for redemption, all with the Irish flavor of South Boston. A tour of life on the edge with a charming, terrifying rogue. Kirkus Reviews

Why Smart Executives Fail (Portfolio) by Sydney Finkelstein

"A landmark book, certain to become a classic for illuminating the darkness about leadership failures." - Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Southern California and co-author of Geeks and Geezers.

What (Really) Works (HarperCollins) by William Joyce, Nitin Nohria, Bruce Roberson

"The search for the sources of corporate success has fascinated managers and produced numerous books over the last two decades. What (Really) Works tackles this question with the most comprehensive and careful research ever attempted. Its findings, which are wise, practical, and revealing, represent an important contribution to management thinking." - Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence university professor at Harvard University, author of Competitive Strategy, Competitive Advantage and the Competitive Advantage of Nations.

It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (Warner Books) by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

"A truly great book" - The Honorable Dr. William J. Perry, former U. S. Secretary of Defense

The New War: The Web of Crime that Threatens America 's Security (Simon & Schuster) by Senator John Kerry

"A riveting and penetrating look at the number one problem in international crime - illicit drugs." - Joseph A. Califano, Jr., President, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University

Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires they Built (Harper Business) by Richard Tedlow

"This remarkable book offers an unprecedented perspective on the creation of truly important companies and a revealing window onto the process of entrepreneurial leadership. Each rich portrait is a gem, but the real power of the book is its comparisons across men, across industries and across time." -Michael E. Porter,Bishop William Lawrence UniversityProfessor, Harvard Business School

On the Road with Hillary: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Journey from Arkansas to the U.S. Senate (Viking) by Patrick S. Halley

The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter that Transformed the Middle East (Schocken)by Abraham Rabinovich

Hope Dies Last: The Autobiography of Alexander Dubcek (Kodansha)

"Had we all followed the road Alexander Dubcek pointed out, today we would be different. I pay homage to this man and bow down before him." - Mikhail Gorbachev

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: The Complete Guide to Women's Health and Wellbeing by Dr. Christaine Northrup

"I recommend it to all women and also to all men who want to understand and nourish the women in their lives." - Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Video & DVD Guide 2003 (Ballantine) by Mick Martin and Marsha Porter.

"THE BEST." - People Magazine.

Bankruptcy 1995 (Little,Brown) by Harry E. Figgie, Jr. with Gerald J. Swanson, Ph.D.New York Times Bestseller.

"A convincing case that America is on the verge of economic disaster. It genuinely and straight-forwardly addresses American's fear of the deficit." - Boston Globe

In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust (Viking) by Eugene L. Pogany

"A gripping, wrenching tale, a powerful addition to Holocaust literature." Boston Globe

Minding the Body, Mending the Mind(Addison Wesley) by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.

"Dr. Joan Borysenko provides a clear understanding of the expanding march of medical science. Her book is a superb contribution." - Norman Cousins

Goldwater by Barry Goldwater with Jack Casserly

Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge (Yale University Press)by Alan Dershowitz "How empowering to read a book on terrorism empty of both hypocrisy and polemicism." - David Mamet

The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century (Little, Brown)by Alan Dershowitz

"I am a devoted fan of Alan Dershowitz' Chutzpah. His provocative ideas must be considered by all who care about the Jewish future." - Benjamin Netanyahu

Clients for Life: How Great Professionals Develop Breakthrough Relationships (Fireside) by Jagdish Sheth and Andrew Sobel

"In one fell swoop, master business strategists Jagdish Sheth and Andrew Sobel change that. Clients for Life is a landmark book. All 'white collar professionals' can learn from it. Dare I say it; this book is a 'must-read." - Tom Peters

Reengineering Management: The Mandate for New Leadership (HarperBusiness) by James Champy

"A terrific read! A very well-written, wise and comprehensive guide for executives doing reengineering." - Tony Athos, Consultant, Author of The Art of Japanese Management.

Genesis and the Big Bang: The Discovery of Harmony between Modern Science and the Bible (Bantam) by Gerald L. Schroeder, Ph.D.

When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront their Personal Histories (Lawrence Hill Press)Edited by Bernestine Singley

Buying Dad: One Womans Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor (Beacon Press)by Harlyn Aizley