The true story of Julian Mantle, whose money-centered, workaholic lifestyle eventually brought him a near-fatal heart attack and forced him to confront life's big questions. Seeking the secrets of true happiness, Julian undertakes an odyssey that leads him to an ancient culture of Himalayan sages. There he discovers the seven lessons and practices ...
Rushdie's controversial bestseller, which earned him a sentence of death from the Islamic hierarchy of Iran, is a magical realist fantasy that examines questions of identity and belief. Two survivors of an airplane crash, Saladin and Gibreel, are transformed from ordinary citizens and public figures into personifications of Good and Evil, ...
Ethan Hawley, descendent of an old and proud New England family, is working as a clerk in a food store owned by a family of Italian immigrants. His wife is restless and dissatisfied; his teenage children are troubled and discontented, hungry for the material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to ...
This is the story of a disabled World War I veteran who returns to civilian life and overcomes almost insurmountable obstacles to become a successful businessman.
When 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen finds two questions in her mailbox: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?", she begins a tour through Western philosophy guided by a mysterious mentor.
The story of a divorced woman, her disillusioned teenaged son, and the events that change their lives in ways both simple and extraordinary. When Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home--inexplicably taking along a motherless baby--his mother is perplexed and terrified. She takes off on a journey of her own to find him. Her pursuit, and what ...
This second edition of the thriller-style story of Alex Rogo's fight to save his plant has an extra 10 chapters which bring the story forward to describe Alex's transition from Plant Manager to Divisional Manager. It incorporates the business principles of the author's Theory of Constraints (TOC).
Charles, a retired theatre director, retires to a small village where he encounters Hartley, the woman he loved years ago when they were both children, and who is now happily married to a man Charles despises.
The sequel to Quinn's earlier novel, "Ishmael", which won Ted Turner's $500,000 prize for a work of fiction that proposed the best solution to the problems of today's world. This book, like its predecessor, is essentially a lecture, by a wise and compassionate gorilla, on how to live.
America's first lady of storytelling is back with the eagerly awaited sequel to her bestselling novel Bright Captivity. After giving up a career as a British Royal Marine, John agrees to his wife's fondest wish: that they return to her family's plantation. Filled with characters drawn from history, lore, and the author's own vivid imagination.
Around a mysterious death is woven a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels: "Fifth Business", often described as Robertson Davies' finest novel; "The Manticore", and "World of Wonders". Luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history and magic, "The Deptford Trilogy" provides an exhilarating antidote to a ...
Margaret Hale moves with her upper-class family to a provincial industrial town in northern England. There she becomes involved in the lives of local factory workers and union members, at one point even participating in a strike. A stormy and difficult romantic relationship with a factory owner, John Thornton, ends happily after Thornton changes ...
Choice! The key is Choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But, hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in that manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options ...
Broken in spirit and body, James Lewis MacFarland, a wounded veteran of World War I, decides to escape from the military hospital before he is sent to a hospital for tubercular patients. He sets out on a great adventure which takes him to the healing sun and ocean of California.
A philosophical novel from Russian-born Ayn Rand, who was known for her belief in the concept of "enlightened self-interest." It portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness.
A love story that embraces the business and economic issues of the day? This text takes a provocative look at business, economics, and regulation through the eyes of Sam Gordon and Laura Silver, teachers at the exclusive Edwards School in Washington. Sam lives and breathes capitalism. He thinks that most government regulation is unnecessary or ...
'A small miracle of a book ...of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power' - "The Washington Post", Book World. Coetzee reinvents the story of "Robinson Crusoe", directing our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself.
Dickens's novel--in its day, one of his most beloved--follows the career of the depraved dwarf Quilp, and introduces poor, innocent Little Nell, who is too good for this world. When Little Nell and her grandfather are forced to flee Quilp's evil clutches, various upright characters try to intervene and save them, but the frail and debilitated Nell ...
Inspired by an anecdote told to George Eliot by her aunt, ADAM BEDE is notable for its extraordinarily realistic characters and convincing depiction of English rural life, complete with the earthy Derbyshire dialect of the title character. It is the story of Hetty Sorrel, the dairymaid who spurns the working-class Adam, a carpenter, for the ...
Absorbing, compelling, and utterly memorable, The Five Temptations of a CEO is like no other business book that's come before. Author Patrick Lencioni - noted screenplay writer and sought-after executive coach - deftly tells the tale of a young CEO who, facing his first annual board review, knows he is failing, but doesn't know why. "This book ...
Five years have passed since the events in "Running with the Demon". John Ross is living in Seattle and Nest Freemark is away at college and trying out for the Olympics, but they will soon be called to do battle once again as a new demon is loosed, and Halloween is rapidly approaching...
In Murdoch's 15th novel, an aging novelist who has led a loveless life retires even further from the real world to write his magnum opus. Instead, he falls obsessively in love with a very young woman. The portrait of the artist is not only a gripping story of human relationships, but a profound consideration of love, death, and art.
Canadian millionaire, Mark Fisher, reveals how everyone can achieve his wealthy status, in a book written in the style of a moral fable. The "get-rich-quick" philosophy is analyzed as an old man sends a young man on the road to riches.
This novel exploring notions of fate and identity is an early work by one of modern Canada's most celebrated writers, the first in his Deptford Trilogy. The story portrays the complicated fortunes of four characters linked together by a snowball thrown on December 27, 1908 in the Canadian town of Deptford: Boy Staunton (who threw it), Mary ...
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