Featured Books
 Grief Cottage by Gail Godwin After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation. |
 Knoll by Stephen Hillard "Their list keeps getting shorter. Pray you aren’t on it.". A young protégé of Edward Snowden flees the NSA after she learns that her project (KNOLL) is designed to detect and destroy any person with new facts about the conspiracy to assassinate JFK. |
 The Trial of Prisoner 043: A Novel by Terry Jastrow On a glorious autumn morning in St. Andrews, Scotland, former US president George W. Bush approached the first tee of the world-famous Old Course to play a round of golf he would not finish. Unceremoniously abducted off the course by a team of paramilitary commandos, he was transported to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to stand trial for war crimes in connection with the Iraq War. |
Featured Experts
| Robin Fisher Roffer | |
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As one of the world's premiere brand strategists, Robin Fisher Roffer has launched and reinvented powerhouse brands such as A&E, AMC, Aon, Animal Planet, Bloomberg, CB Richard Ellis Investors, CNN, Comedy Central, Discovery, Disney Channel, Food Network, FOX, FX, History, Lifetime, MTV, Oxygen, Sony Pictures, and TNT. Drawing on her branding experience, in 2001 Roffer became the pioneer of personal branding when she penned her first book MAKE A NAME FOR YOURSELF: Eight Steps Every Woman Needs to Create a Personal Brand Strategy for Success. The critically acclaimed and top selling book guides readers to build a concrete plan to find professional success by applying tested branding principals to personal image, enabling them to hone themselves as their own best asset. THE FEARLESS FISH OUT OF WATER: How To Succeed When You're The Only One Like You came next- showing professionals how to stay connected and relevant at work while maintaining a unique identity, how to fit in without blending in, and how to transform exclusion into high impact. Inside the pages of her latest book YOUR NO FEAR CAREER, Roffer guides executives to push through adversity and let go of what no longer works to navigate today's dynamic marketplace fearlessly. Utilizing material from her books, Roffer develops and leads corporate training programs and workshops for top potentials and sales teams at major companies like Philips, Mattel, Microsoft, Walmart, Cox Media and UBS. The programs teach professionals how to build their own personal brands to create lasting impressions and increase revenue. More>> |
| Jess Shatkin | |
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Nationally recognized child and adolescent psychiatrist Jess P. Shatkin, M.D., M.P.H., is one of the country's foremost voices in child and adolescent mental health. He serves as Vice Chair for Education at the Child Study Center at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital of New York at NYU Langone and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine. He has been featured in top print, radio, TV, and Internet outlets, including the New York Times, Good Morning America, Parade, New York Magazine, Health Day, CBS Evening News, New York Daily News, Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. In addition, for the past eight years Dr. Shatkin has been the host of "About Our Kids," a two-hour call-in radio show broadcast live on SiriusXM's Doctor Radio. He lives in New York City with his wife and two teenage children. More>> |