An Old Acquaintance. [A story.]
Author | : Frank FOSTER (pseud.) |
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Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1866 |
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Author | : Frank FOSTER (pseud.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1866 |
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Author | : John Kotter |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0399563954 |
What’s the worst thing you can hear when you have a good idea at work? “That’s not how we do it here!” In their iconic bestseller Our Iceberg Is Melting, John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber used a simple fable about penguins to explain the process of leading people through major changes. Now, ten years later, they’re back with another must-read story that will help any team or organization cope with their biggest challenges and turn them into exciting opportunities. Once upon a time a clan of meerkats lived in the Kalahari, a region in southern Africa. After years of steady growth, a drought has sharply reduced the clan’s resources, and deadly vulture attacks have increased. As things keep getting worse, the harmony of the clan is shattered. The executive team quarrels about possible solutions, and suggestions from frontline workers face a soul-crushing response: “That’s not how we do it here!” So Nadia, a bright and adventurous meerkat, hits the road in search of new ideas to help her troubled clan. She discovers a much smaller group that operates very differently, with much more teamwork and agility. These meerkats have developed innovative solutions to find food and evade the vultures. But not everything in this small clan is as perfect as it seems at first. Can Nadia figure out how to combine the best of both worlds—a large, disciplined, well-managed clan and a small, informal, inspiring clan—before it’s too late? This book distills Kotter’s decades of experience and award-winning research to reveal why organizations rise and fall, and how they can rise again in the face of adversity.
Author | : Robert Frothingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : American poetry |
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Author | : Alice Munro |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2012-04-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307814599 |
A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.
Author | : Natalie Goldberg |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2009-03-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416535039 |
In her first book to focus solely on writing since her classic work "Writing Down the Bones," Goldberg reaffirms her status as one of the foremost teachers by redefining the practice of writing memoir.
Author | : Fred Saberhagen |
Publisher | : JSS Literary Productions, LLC |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2020-01-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1937422194 |
Dr Emile Corday, aka Dracula, is summoned to the aid of the Sutherland family, descendants of his great love, Mina Harker. Corday finds himself facing a rebellious faction of American vampires out to see him and anyone he cares for annihilated. Leading his adversaries is the evil and alluring enchantress Morgan Le Fay. Corday, the Sutherland family, and policeman Joe Koegh will cross paths again in Saberhagen’s Dracula series.
Author | : Ian McEwan |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2018-06-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525564586 |
A jewel of a short story from the bestselling, award-winning author of Atonement—“My Purple Scented Novel” follows the perfect crime of literary betrayal, scrupulously wrought yet unscrupulously executed. Published to celebrate Ian McEwan’s 70th birthday. “You will have heard of my friend the once celebrated novelist Jocelyn Tarbet, but I suspect his memory is beginning to fade. . . . You’d never heard of me, the once obscure novelist Parker Sparrow, until my name was publicly connected with his. To a knowing few, our names remain rigidly attached, like the two ends of a seesaw. His rise coincided with, though did not cause, my decline. . . . I don’t deny there was wrongdoing. I stole a life, and I don’t intend to give it back. You may treat these few pages as a confession.”
Author | : Tracy Kidder |
Publisher | : Rosetta Books |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2014-05-20 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 079533768X |
A Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “touching, funny and inspiring” true story of daily life in a New England nursing home (The New York Times). Ninety-year-old Lou quit school after the eighth grade, worked for the rest of his life, and stayed with the same woman for nearly seventy years. Seventy-two-year-old Joe was chief probation officer in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, holds a law degree, and has faced the death of a son and the raising of a mentally challenged daughter. Now, the two men are roommates in a nursing home. Despite coming from very different backgrounds, the two become close friends. Focusing on these two men as well as introducing us to the other aging residents of Linda Manor in Northampton, Massachusetts, literary journalist Tracy Kidder examines the sorrows and joys of growing older and the universal struggle to find meaning in the face of mortality. From the New York Times–bestselling author and National Book Award–winning author of The Soul of a New Machine, this is an extraordinary look inside an often-hidden world. “As in his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the best-selling Among Schoolchildren, Kidder reveals his extraordinary talent as a storyteller by taking the potentially unpalatable subject of life in a nursing home and making it into a highly readable, engrossing account.” —Library Journal “Rich detail and true-to-the-ear dialogue let the brave and determined elderly speak for themselves—and for the continually surprising potential of the human spirit.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author | : Constance M. Burge |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2005-05-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0689878761 |
Binding Ties The most important thing in the Charmed Ones' lives isn't magic, and it's not their jobs or their clothes. It's family. Piper, Phoebe, and Paige are Warren witches -- the latest in a long line of women with incredible supernatural strength. For more than two centuries, the Warren witches have fearlessly practiced magic: From Melinda Warren in the 1600s to the Charmed Ones in 2005, the power of these witches is unsurpassed. The Warren Witches recounts never-before-told stories of their lives -- as women, as witches, and, most important, as members of a family of considerable magical strength and power. Above all, they are family; beyond all, they are witches.
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Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1848 |
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