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. |
 Without Fear or Favor: A Novel by Robert K. Tanenbaum In the twenty-ninth novel in the New York Times bestselling Karp-Ciampi series, Butch Karp and his wife Marlene Ciampi must stop a radical organization of armed militants bent on the cold-blooded murder of uniformed on-duty police officers. |
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>> |
| Jonathan White | |
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Jonathan White is an active marine conservationist, a sailor, and a surfer. His first book, Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity, is a collection of interviews exploring our relationship with nature and features Gretel Ehrlich, David Brower, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gary Snyder, Peter Matthiessen, and others. White has written for the Christian Science Monitor, The Sun, Orion, Surfer's Journal, and other publications. He holds an MFA in creative nonfiction and lives with his wife and son on a small island in Washington State. More>> |