Adam Verner

Ira Wagler was born in the small Old Order Amish community of Aylmer, Ontario. One fateful, starless night, seventeen-year-old Ira, frustrated by the rules and restrictions of Amish life, got up at 2 a.m., left a note under his pillow, packed his duffel bag and left. Over the course of the next several years, Ira would leave and return home numerous times, torn between the ingrained message that abandoning one's Amish heritage results in eternal damnation...

Chronicles five epochal years of music in the Big Apple against a backdrop of the high crime and low rents of the mid-1970s, tracing the formations of key sounds while evaluating the contributions of influential artists.

At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases (including more than twenty-five murder trials) during his two-decades-long career, was hired to defend him. Lincoln's debates with Senator Stephen Douglas the previous fall had gained him a national following, transforming the little-known, self-taught...

"Empathy is the ability to emotionally understand what other people fee, see things from their viewpoint, and image yourself in their place. Feeling heard and understood is a human need. Everyone needs to feel understood. Empathy helps us get in touch with our feelings and vies us an emotional understanding of ourselves and others. When a leader can look at a fellow workforce member and put themselves in their shoes, understand the pain and stress...

He's big. He's funny. He's not real. Or is he? This clever twist on "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is told from the point of view of an unexpected narrator and, through snappy text and lighthearted illustrations, demonstrates the value of telling the truth, the importance of establishing trust, and (of course!) the possibility that a beast created can get attention and can become a real-life friend.

Tired of playing small with your life' Feel like you were meant to be so much more' Ready to become spectacularly successful, breathtakingly effective and wildly fulfilled as you work and live at a level called extraordinary' Passionate, inspiring, provocative and full of big ideas that will get you to your ideal life faster than you've ever imagined, The Greatness Guide and The Greatness Guide Book 2 are those rare books that truly have the power...

Learn now to unlock your "prey drive"--The instinctual ability that allows you to "flip the switch" to achieve massive success Getting to the next level of success requires more than hard work and perseverance. In Flip the Switch, championship basketball turned business coach Micheal Burt shows you how the world's greatest achievers have learned to access their inner switch-an instinctive "prey drive" that allows them to passionately pursue a target...

Each one of us is called to greatness. We can have a significant impact on the world around us-if we so choose. If you are looking to craft an extraordinary life, The Greatness Guide is the powerful and practical handbook that will inspire you. Passionate, provocative, and full of big ideas that will challenge and transform, The Greatness Guide is one of those rare books that will release your potential and awaken your best self. Make the leap today...

Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity.

Now, in this life-changing book, handcrafted by the author over a rigorous four-year period, you will discover the early-rising

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"It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. Her latest customer, a bearded stranger, drains his cup and heads for his car, his mind on a boat he's restoring at a nearby lake. But the little girl's pretty yellow dress can't quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. The stranger understands more about it than he wants to admit. And the beat-up bread truck careening...