The Delivery Man: The Art of Turning Ideas into Products in Silicon Valley by Sebastien Taveau is a must-read for anyone who would like to build a successful career in today’s complex technological world. It’s a candid and fascinating account by a Silicon Valley veteran...

A big part of being a good leader depends on managing your team, and creating a positive work environment to optimize and fulfill their ultimate potential. In The Human Team, entrepreneurial coach Jeanet Wade draws upon her decades of innovative leadership experience at major corporations...

The Success Equation: S=DPF by Adam Faigen is a guide to achieving success for the right reasons. This is important because it will help maintain your momentum. What are your reasons for seeking success in life and do they stem from revenge or bitterness? Do...

Two Floors Above Grief: A Memoir of Two Families in the Unique Place We called Home by Kevin O’Connor is the best self-published memoir I’ve read this year. This concerns a family of undertakers and provides an examination of the day-to-day concerns of family life...

If roads are considered the bloodline of a country's economy, taxi drivers must be the blood cells that help people reach their destinations, ensuring the smooth running of the country. In The Hidden Lives of Taxi Drivers, Ruth H. Finnegan delves into the world of...

The Linchpin Writer: Crafting Your Novel's Key Moments by John Matthew Fox is required reading if you are an author, are thinking about being a fiction writer, or simply want to take your storytelling skills to the next level. The book is positioned around “linchpin...

The Short-Term Rental Playbook: A Guide to Finding, Analyzing, Buying, and Managing Rental Properties with Risk and Diversification in Mind by Andy Wen is timely and indispensable for those wanting a share of today’s lucrative property market. The book’s opening statement that if it was...

The recollections of a writing teacher and poet, The Writing Party by Ken Waldman, is not what you might think at first. It’s not dull. The situations he chose to retell – of unfairly critical writing professors and their exact opposites – lead the reader...

"To work is to live: for without work there can be no life and without life, there can be no work." So reads the opening statement in The Eloquence of Effort: Beware the Path of Least Resistance by Indar Maharaj. Is this a book that...

The Computer Wasn't in the Basement Anymore: My Fifty + Years on Education Technology (1970-2021) contains insights from Anthony G. Picciano's journey of more than 50 years in the field of education technology and his activities in six public colleges in New York. Some of...