In today's fast-paced networked economy, professionals must work harder than ever to maintain and improve their business skills and knowledge. But technical mastery of one's discipline is not enough, assert world-renowned professional advisors David H. Maister, Charles H. Green, and Robert M. Galford. The...

The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive for the myriad sentient races enslaved for ten centuries, as an even greater terror arises. The Naxids—a powerful insectoid species themselves subjugated until the...

Since its first publication a decade ago, Jack Canfield’s The Success Principles has helped thousands transform their lives, and in this newly revised and updated edition, the cocreator of Chicken Soup for the Soul offers timeless strategies for today’s changing world. With 64 proven...

In October 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast from Bar Harbor to Kittery and are soon racing out of control from town to village. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers...

Throughout history, many great prophets endured madness—a breakdown followed by breakthrough, spiritual death followed by rebirth—but in the age of modern psychiatry, these budding visionaries are too often pathologized and silenced before they can flourish. As humanity faces a tipping point between extinction and...

Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context—the war, the campaign, the weapons. However, battles across the centuries, whether fought with spears and swords or advanced technology, have much in common. Fighting is, after all, an intensely human affair; human nature...

Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet seems to have the perfect life with her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, until the Nazis march into the city, threatening everything she holds dear. Joining the Resistance...

No one ever said life was easy, but Ponyboy believes he has it all figured out: he can rely on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop, and on true friends like Johnny and Two-Bit, who would do anything for him. Beyond that, life is mostly...

Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair...

At seventeen, Lenora Hope allegedly murdered her family on the Maine coast in 1929, leaving a legacy that became a chilling schoolyard chant. While many assumed she was guilty, the police could never prove it, and Lenora herself has remained silent—until 1983, when home-health...

Odessa, 1931: Daria—born Dvora Kaganovitch—marries the wealthy Edward Gordon, fulfilling her mother’s dreams, yet finds that a woman’s plans are no match for Stalin’s oppressive Soviet state, forcing her to rely on the kindness of a man proud of his own coarseness. Odessa, 1970:...