Elliott Parker's The Illusion of Innovation critiques Jack Welch’s efficiency-focused management for restricting innovation through inflexibility, contrasting it with Reed Hastings' experimental approach at Netflix, which supports adaptive business model changes. Parker discusses the transition from centralized corporate structures to decentralized models enabled by increased...

The Long Goodbye is a work of non-fiction penned by author Shannon Hayes in the self-help, emotive writing, and grief and hardship genres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience. In this unique and heartfelt work, the author provides an intimate account...

Two Tickets to Paradise: From Cult to Comedy is a heart-rending memoir that depicts a child's resilience in the face of childhood trauma and disillusionment. As a child, Katie Love lived with her mother who struggled with severe depression. One day, Katie returns home to...

Leon Mecham's The Long Way Around is a riveting memoir filled with exciting sports exploits, tumultuous family relationships, and troubling religious experiences. Though Leon was raised in a religious Mormon home, he found his parents' behavior questionable. He had to struggle with surviving his mother's...

In The Fight for Equity in the Bronx: Changing Lives and Transforming Communities One Scholar At a Time, Dr. Elaine Ruiz Lopez describes her life growing up in the South Bronx where the challenges facing the Puerto Rican community are enormous. Poverty, hunger, crime, sex...

The Broken Traveler is a work of creative non-fiction in the autobiographical writing, travel memoirs, and inspirational genres. Penned by author Hugo Smienk, this memoir follows Henri, a protagonist grappling with the aftermath of a painful divorce who stands in the place of our author...

Joan Aubele shares her life story and her extraordinary battle with terminal cancer in The Dance: A Story of Love, Faith, and Survival. In 1990, Joan had just recently given birth to her third daughter, Natalie, when her life turned upside down as she was...

The SuperOptimist Guide to Unconventional Living by Nathaniel Whitten and Walter Morton contains 105 experiments and activities that urge you to reframe the way you were taught to think. These ideas persuade readers to tap into their creativity and experience life from other angles. Whitten...

In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero, the master magician, intones: “We are of such stuff as dreams are made of.” This could be a summation of The Storm Behind Me: A Book of Poems and Pictures by Rory Piontkowski and Sheri Wiseman. It is a compilation...

John Berra's Turning the Giant: Disrupting Your Industry with Persistent Innovation is about facing and coming to grips with what stands before us and taking steps to overcome it. In contrast to the biblical David, who kills Goliath with a slingshot, John guides the reader...