The Foundation of Leadership is essential reading for all citizens -- parents, business people, students, teachers, coaches and others -- who want to help America maintain its place in history as the freest, the fairest, the most productive and prosperous nation in the world. 
In this book, Bo Short, founder and president of the American Leadership Foundation, uses the compelling histories of five great Americans and comments from his discussions with many of today's elected leaders to show us the enduring qualities of leadership that built our nation. The author describes leadership at its finest, providing both practical and inspirational lessons about what it means to be worthy of our American heritage. As a result, those who read this book will find themselves aspiring to new levels of leadership and success. 
The author explores five specific qualities -- vision, courage, perseverance, responsibility and character -- that serve as the foundation of true leadership. These are the hallmark qualities of our Founding Fathers. They are also the same qualities each of us needs to exhibit in our own lives and instill in our children.

The Foundation of Leadership: Enduring Principles to Govern Our Lives

History

Bo Short

Americas

Excalibur Press

Living To Win is a battle cry, to encourage you to step into the fight, to overcome your obstacles and make your dreams come true. Through his years of studying great success stories in sports, business, politics and the arts, Bo offers convincing evidence that there are certain key principles that one must adopt in order to gain victory in all areas of your life. 
This book looks at those principles and gives you clear direction on how to apply them to your personal and professional lives. Each is discussed in detail within the covers of this book. Read it, and go do something great with your life!

Living to Win: The Five Enduring Principles of Success

Just barely under the wire: A collection of contemporary rural humor

Hodgson, Gary

Christmas is a Season! 2009 is a collection of short stories and essays by writers across the country. Because the holiday season is an emotionally charged time, the writers have explored the terrain of feelings, activities, discoveries, events, and memories associated with Christmas. The stories and essays are full of surprises: a pagan celebration, a Santa School transformation, a dog gaining heroic status, a teenager receiving the Christmas spirit, despite herself. Great joy, great longings, much laughter, some sadness, and some regrets -- the stories in Christmas is a Season! 2009 have all of this and more. Stir up a cup of hot cocoa, put a log on the fire, and pull up a comfy chair. Take a few minutes out of the Christmas rush to relax and examine Christmas while walking in a few other pairs of shoes!

Christmas is a Season!: 2009

Literature & Fiction

Parker, Linda Busby

Literary

Isabella’s Libretto is the tale of one orphan seeking her dream in Venice, Italy, in 1715—a time when music permeated the canals and lanes of the floating city. Abandoned as a baby at the Ospedale della Pietà, Isabella dal Cello has spent her entire life wondering why her mother deserted her. Now she is an ambitious teen who has worked hard to earn a place playing her cello in the orphanage’s prestigious orchestra. This remarkable ensemble of girls is directed by none other than Don Antonio Vivaldi, the colorful and complex maestro, destined to be remembered as a great composer, conductor, and violinist. Don Vivaldi recognizes Isabella as a kindred spirit and nurtures her talent. One night, however, Isabella defies the rules of the Ospedale and sneaks out with her best friend. The unusual punishment devised for Isabella changes her life in a most unexpected way, testing her devotion to her musical goals—and her friends. Can Isabella satisfy an impossible choice that is put before her? Challenged by loss and betrayal, she will have to call on her pluck and perseverance if she has any chance of claiming her dream before it slips away.

Isabella's Libretto

Children's Books

Teter, Kimberly Cross

In No Landscape Lasts Forever, Amber Hart explores the interior landscapes of unforgettable characters, some down-and-out, and some who hold tenaciously to their small territories by ragged fingernails. Other stories transport the reader via magnificent flights of the imagination to places never before seen. All of the places—those shockingly real and those that can be reached only by utilizing the mind’s eye—are powerfully rendered. Hart also displays her keen sense of humor; some of the comedy is uproariously funny, some dark, and some tongue-in-cheek. Most importantly, Amber Hart gives us an opportunity to explore characters and places from unique vantages. She reminds us that life pushes forward and sometimes—not always, but sometimes—redemption is just beyond the horizon.

No Landscape Lasts Forever

Hart, Amber Colleen

Short Stories & Anthologies

The Wife Takes a Farmer—a tale of people I most enjoy in fiction, ordinary folks dealing with the joys, sorrows, mishaps and intrigues of daily life. In The Wife Takes a Farmer, Mary Popham captures the lives of rural Kentuckians in the early years of the Twentieth Century. She gathers the language, the dialect, the fashions, the homes, landscapes, and relationships and preserves them for future generations. This novel is a collection of verbal snapshots, people and culture that would be lost were it not for writers like Popham. The story—both warm and conflicted—falls in the category of historical fiction. Yet, the history never gets in the way of the story. The Wife Takes a Farmer is a most satisfying read.

The Wife Takes A Farmer

Popham, Mary

Tripping

Williams, Abby

Genre Fiction

The Journey

Smyth, Jimmy

Knights of the Tele-Round Table: 3rd Millennium Leadership What Every Leader Should Do! What Every Remote Leader Must Do!

Business & Money

Kostner, Jaclyn

Management & Leadership

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