Hamam Balkania

Disclaimer: This book is for serious readers only, and was not written with the pulp fiction 6th-grade-level reader in mind. Pick up Hamam Balkania at your own risk. (And enjoy every word lovingly spilled onto the pages by award-winning author Vladislav Bajac and translator Randall A. Major.)  One of the most ambitious novels of our time. Goffredo Fofi, Internationale A whole new way to tell a story... -John Ralston Saul, President of PEN International  Zen work, historical novel, philosophical diary, superb exercise of modesty... -Fabio de Propris, Il Manifesto  A work of stunning intellectual, structural and narrative complexity, written in clear, engaging and witty prose. -Drew Adamek, Valley Advocate  A meticulously structured tale of friendship and redemption. -Marcus Agar, Wild Rooster, London  Vladislav Bajac's novel Hamam Balkania has won five awards, been printed in seven bestselling editions, and is finally coming to North America. In the tradition of great modern Serbian novelists, Bajac twists and weaves a tale between old and new, modern and rusted, East and West, water and fire. It's not hard to see why this historical novel has been translated into 15 languages and become a bestseller in its home country.  Bajac's tale dances between its two plots and threads as if it were a couple dancing with no space between them. His prose is at times convoluted, and at times poetic, but always gripping, and fiercely organized.  The author's home country of Serbia is fascinated with its Ottoman roots, and this novel is no exception. Bajac takes the lives of ancient figures and weaves them together with flashing, real, and dirty characters from Western society's recent past - his stories at times dipping their pen into the well of memoir. Bajac has rubbed elbows with Leonard Cohen, and shared words and stages with literary greats - none of that is lost on the reader here.  Two stories collide in the reader's mind, not on the pages, as if learning two different histories from two separate professors. This is at once a story of friendship, and a book of warning: do we really know that which we believe we know so well?  Hamam Balkania received the Balkanika Award for the best novel in the Balkans for 2007/2008, the Isidora Sekulic Award for the best book in 2008 and the Hit Liber Award for the bestselling book in the same year.

Literature & Fiction

Bajac, Vladislav

Literary

Blooming Twig Books (NY)

In 1976, armed with a college degree and a commission as an Army 2nd Lieutenant, Vinny Boles began his leadership journey. After 33 years of service, he has distilled this experience into his book, 4-3-2-1 Leadership: What America's Sons & Daughters Taught Me on the Road From Second Lieutenant to Two Star General. "Leadership is not a solo event, it is a team sport," Boles says. "And in the Army it's a team sport at the highest level. And I was truly fortunate to have great teammates in every one of these 33 years."

4-3-2-1 Leadership: What America's Sons and Daughters Have Taught Me on My Way from Second Lieutenant to Two-Star General

Business & Money

Boles, Vincent E.

Management & Leadership

Executive Presence: 49 Golden Rules for Executives, Managers, and Leaders to Maintain Authority Under Pressure, Communicate Confidence, and Own Any Room

Effective leaders, those who command the room and connect with their audience, make their charismatic talent seem effortless. However, Executive Presence is not a talent one is born with; it is a skill one can learn. Andy Neillie's Executive Presence provides a simple yet substantial toolkit for leaders, and emerging leaders, that need to improve their Executive Presence. Whether you are making a formal presentation, using slides and visuals in front of a room of hundreds, or leading a small meeting in a conference room, Executive Presence has information that can improve your confidence and command.

Neillie, Dr. Andy

Business Culture

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The Art of Spiritual Hypnosis: Accessing Divine Wisdom

C. Roy Hunter

Religion & Spirituality

Outing the Mermaid takes you on a journey into the 1960s and 70s world of civil rights, feminism, Vietnam, gurus, Mafiosi, the Pill, the Beatles, class distinctions, astrology, and the eternal mystery of what's going on between men and women.
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Early readers, in these "lean-in" times, have reported shouting No, don't do that! when Lee makes a wrong move. They've also fist-pumped in triumph when she gets something right. It's a deeply engaging story, to say the least.

Outing the Mermaid

Medlock, Ann

Women's Fiction

Sam: The Cat Without A Tail follows the trials of Sam, a young Manx cat with a soft, white puff of a tail. As he discovers that he is indeed different from everyone around him, he learns and helps to teach the importance and beauty of diversity and self-worth.

Sam: The Cat Without a Tail

Lintermans, Gloria

Children's Books

The exciting new book, The Princess and The Queen explores the huge but ignored problems in the mother-in-law daughter-in-law relationship which plays havoc within the family.

The Princess and The Queen

REYNOLDS, Pamela

Parenting & Relationships

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Outing the Mermaid: A Novel of Love, Fear & Misogyny

Click: The Art + Science of Getting from Impasse to Insight

Among runners, it's called hitting the wall. You've reached the utter limit of your physical abilities. No amount of willpower can keep your legs moving, and your forward progress comes to a crashing halt sometimes literally. 
In business and in life, it's called reaching impasse. You've worked a problem or a decision to the point where you're completely and utterly spent, and your forward progress has come to a crashing halt. Yet the challenge is still sitting there, staring you in the face, unresolved. Mocking you. Double-dog-daring you to try again to solve it. Because it knows you can't. 
What we really need in these situations is an insight. One of those brilliant a-ha moments that suddenly illuminates the truth and fills us with certainty as to the best way forward and gives us the energy and inspiration to get there. The moment when everything just...clicks. 
Unfortunately, it feels like insights have a mind of their own, showing up (or not) whenever they darn well feel like it and rarely when we really need them. But does it have to be this way? What if there were a way to give insight generation a helping hand? To conjure up insights when we really needed them? As it turns out, there is. 
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﻿﻿﻿Drawing on the latest research and her own analysis of hundreds of real-life insight stories, Dr. Meceda explains how insight actually works and how to have more of these eureka moments at work and in life.

Meceda, Eve

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Hamam Balkania

4-3-2-1 Leadership: What America's Sons and Daughters Have Taught Me on My Way from Second Lieutenant to Two-Star General

Executive Presence: 49 Golden Rules for Executives, Managers, and Leaders to Maintain Authority Under Pressure, Communicate Confidence, and Own Any Room

The Art of Spiritual Hypnosis: Accessing Divine Wisdom

Outing the Mermaid

Sam: The Cat Without a Tail

The Princess and The Queen

Outing the Mermaid: A Novel of Love, Fear & Misogyny

Click: The Art + Science of Getting from Impasse to Insight

Click: The Art + Science of Getting from Impasse to Insight