The Forecast Fatale presents sales tips and techniques in an entertaining and unforgettable way - using a business detective, Bart Steele, as the main character. It's a quick read and a fun way to learn. Author Brian Schlosser, a veteran CEO and sales manager, distilled this entertaining story from years of practical experience with real world challenges. It will give you a new outlook on what it means to be a professional in the world of sales, covering ground like how to forecast effectively, how and when to discount, how to improve prospecting by phone and a host of other important topics. This is a must-read for all sales professionals from beginning novices to seasoned experts who want to improve their skills and boost their careers. Praise for the book- "Brian has combined Magnum,P.I., with Dale Carnegie and made it work in a story about life in enterprise sales. Funny and poignant - well done!" -Mike Dusche, sales executive formerly with IBM &amp; Microsoft "This is one book on sales that's FUN to read AND makes relevant points for any sales professional - novice to experienced. Why get mired down in unrealistic complexities when there's a story to read that sticks with you long after some trick or tactic fades away? -Jeff Rogers, Founder of OneAccord Partners, Kiros.org, DoinGood "I laughed. I cried. I sold two hundred and fifty grand worth of software." -Bob Pinkerton, founder, Management 3.0, Entrepreneur, Investor &amp; Start-up Consultant

The Forecast Fatale

Business & Money

Schlosser, Brian

Marketing & Sales

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How did a young patriotic kid from Brooklyn, end up as a captain in the Air Force on an air base in Thailand, only to discover that the military he respected was illegally bombing villagers in Laos, discriminating against black soldiers and stacking the deck against corpsmen coming clean with the truth of their experience? Why did President Nixon later appoint this man to work in his administration under John Erlichman? Paging Doctor Leff: Pride, Patriotism and Protest is the biography of an idealistic boy from New York who joined the civil air patrol for God and country and never looked back. Dr. Arnie Leff has fought many wars, overseas and at home. He stood up to his superiors during Viet Nam; worked for the White House to evaluate and create drug treatment programs; and has pulled no punches with his often-controversial opinions about drugs, euthanasia, health care, and medical marijuana.

Paging Dr. Leff: Pride, Patriotism, and Protest

Biographies & Memoirs

Constans, Gabriel

Historical

Best friends Terra and Tiluk live alongside the wild orcas of Washington State. On the other side of the continent, Miles wallows in anger and self-pity fueled by his parents' divorce. In a moment of harrowing fate, their lives converge when Miles witnesses a captive orca brutally kill his trainer at a marine amusement park. When Miles contacts Terra and her family of whale biologists to better understand the "killer" whale, the three teens soon realize they are more linked to each other - and the whales - than they ever imagined. Driven by a primal urge to connect with the highly-evolved consciousness of the orca, the teens take extraordinary risks to challenge big business and renew lost traditions. Their journey is set to restore an ancient mystical bond between humans and whales that ultimately reveals The Blackfish Prophecy…a revelation about Terra - and those like her - that's about to change everything.

The Blackfish Prophecy (Terra Incognita and the Great Transition)

Teen & Young Adult

Clark, Rachel

Literature & Fiction

Aspiring illustrator Angelo Koutouvalis is known for his near-flawless sketches, yet he can't seem to render the picture-perfect life he desires. At twenty-four, he lives at home with his loving, yet overbearing mother and grandmother, and struggles to meet women, all while relying on the often humorously ineffectual advice of his few friends, and attempting to find a place for himself within the San Francisco Bay Area Greek community. Angelo believes the secret to gaining fulfillment lies in traveling to Greece for a reunion with his estranged father, who can hopefully pass on the mysterious ways of the kamaki--the classic Mediterranean ladies' man. But first, Angelo must find a way to overcome his crippling fear of flying.A course of mis-adventures--chaotic employment in an exotic bird shop, a disaster of a date with a co-worker, and a close encounter with a stripper--lead Angelo to Greece. During an excursion around the Peloponnesian peninsula, which takes him from the ancient theater of Epidavros to the majestic Lion Gates among the ruins of Mycenae, Angelo, emboldened by the ties to his ancestry, finally has it out with his father and learns the startling truth of the man behind the myth.Rife with references to Greek-American culture, and Oakland color, Wings of Wax evokes the work of Sherman Alexie and Junot Diaz in its tragically comedic scope of ethnic life and modern masculinity in America.

Wings of Wax

Papafrangou, Apollo

Genre Fiction

From Jennifer J. Chow, author of the award-winning The 228 Legacy, comes a young adult novel about immigrant struggles and family conflict. It's 1880 in Fresno, California when 17-year-old Topaz Woo dies after giving birth. She can get an extension in a non-physical body-if she uses The Ten Commandments to influence her newborn. Over the course of ten years, she finds herself stymied in parenting by intergenerational drama and spiritual battle. Will she adjust to an otherworldly existence and give her daughter a solid foundation? Or will she become mired in family disputes and forfeit her soul to evil?

Dragonfly Dreams

Children's Books

Chow, Jennifer J.

A free black man in London wanders too close to the docks on the wrong day.A woman gives birth alone in a barn loft near an Australian outback crossroads.A mother removes her apron, walks away from her family, and tells her secrets only once.  In Paula Marie Coomer's Jagged Edge of the Sky connections of blood and circumstance emerge from a kaleidoscopic narrative in which these and other characters navigate rugged personal terrains of loss and hope. The resulting literary landscape is spare and challenging as the Australian outback, mythical as the American West. With a relentless eye, Paula Marie Coomer flinches from neither the gruesome nor the humorous in this fractured tale of loners, siblings, parents, and lovers. ". . . intriguing, complicated . . . A lusty, tragic tale for readers who are willing to work for its satisfying moments of connection."   ---Kirkus Reviews 

Jagged Edge of the Sky

Coomer, Paula Marie

Julya's screams echo through the metal of the starship. A simple number has destroyed all hopes she had for her life. 101. Dax answers her question with the number. He is the only one who could answer. The other 4,094 colonists lay in deep suspension. They are some of Earth's best, heading to colonize a new world, on a 200-year journey through space. Dax is an engineer. He explains the technical details of the accident that caused them to revive too early. He talks at length on the science behind why they cannot be suspended again. Julya is an artist. She cares little for his talk of light years and the ship's maximum velocity. She interrupts and asks a simple question. How long until we reach the planet? Dax doesn't know how to deal with people, especially women. He tries to break it to her gently, but he fails. After stammering to find the right words, he simply gives the data she requested. 101 years. Julya must discover the answer to three questions. How can she survive on a starship that wasn't designed to be inhabited for a lifetime? How can she love a man she would never have chosen? And how can she deal with the hidden truth that awaits her?

Suspended Between

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Norwood, Travis

Science Fiction

OBSESSED with her job as a medical examiner and lead consultant with the FBI, Dr. Vivienne ‘Vivi’ DeMarco is a woman running from her own demons. And finding the remains of a body on the side of a road in rural upstate New York wasn’t part of her plan. FRUSTRATED that the ghosts from his past won’t leave him alone, Ian MacAllister makes for a reluctant Deputy Chief of Police of Windsor, New York. But as more victims are discovered, all women that bear a shocking resemblance to Dr. DeMarco, he knows he’ll need to call on all the skills he learned as an Army Ranger if he wants to keep her safe. DENIED over and over again of the one thing he desires most, a killer may have finally reached his breaking point. The only question that remains is, will he take Vivi and Ian with him?

A Tainted Mind (A Windsor Series Novel) (Book 1)

Romance

Schultz, Tamsen

Romantic Suspense

Write Within Yourself is not a guide, but a companion. A guide will tell you where to go. As a writer, only you can know that. A good companion, however, can remind you that forgetting where you want to go is different from not knowing where you want to go. Author William Kenower believes that what it takes to write the book you most want to write is also what it takes to lead the life you most want to live. This collection of essays serves as a companion for those times when you need inspiration. Write Within Yourself will help you stay connected to the writer and the life within you.

Write Within Yourself: An Author's Companion

Reference

Kenower, William

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Thirteen-year-old Charis Parks has five days to save mankind. What she thought was mere mythology has become her reality … she alone must reverse the curse of Pandora’s Jar. If Charis is to fulfill her destiny, she has to face her fears against the darker forces of Hades and the blood-thirsty Erinyes Sisters who help him. Together with the gods and her best friend Gabe, Charis takes a fantastic journey to Pandora’s Jar where she must release the only spirit that remains trapped inside – the spirit of Hope. Or else …

Charis: Journey to Pandora's Jar

Walters, Nicole Y.

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