Chloe Cannon
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"You can be the leader you want to be--today and every day. Do you find yourself wishing you had more hours in the day? Do you want to do more, yet feel you just can't add another thing to your plate without being overwhelmed by stress or compromising your health, relationships, and integrity? No doubt, as a leader, there are some days when you feel the flow. You're able to make a difference and achieve big goals. You feel confident and energized....
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Why the gender gap persists and how we can close it Women have made up roughly half of the college-educated workforce for years, and before the onset of the economic crisis of 2020, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the labor force was the lowest on record. But women remain underrepresented in positions of power and status. The gender pay gap, for example, shows little movement, largely because high-paying jobs...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Fall has come to Fort Connor, Colorado, and the cool air has inspired the knitters at the House of Lambspun to start on their hats and mittens. It's also brought an influx of students to the university town - and into the shop for knitting classes. Kelly Flynn is happy to teach them the tricks of the trade - until one of them is found dead on the river trail near Kelly's house. Compelled to investigate, Kelly finds herself following a path that twists...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a small town in the 1990s, this is the story of a girl on the edge--of a breakdown, of family secrets, of learning who she really is. Life has been a struggle for Toby Goodman. Her mother died by suicide five years ago, and her father left before Toby was born. Now a teenager living on her grandparents' dairy farm, Toby has trouble letting people in. Convinced that she is destined to follow her mother's path, she creates a plan to escape her...
45) Purl up and die
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kelly Flynn's summer in Fort Connor, Colorado, is off to a great start with romantic celebrations with her boyfriend, Steve, and enjoyable--albeit challenging--knitting classes taught by her friend Barb at the House of Lambspun. But while Barb's advanced stitches are giving Kelly the slip, a more deadly problem soon has her friend coming apart at the seams. A young woman has accused Barb's son, Tommy--a young doctor doing his residency--of assaulting...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Three-time Olympic medalist shares behind-the-scenes insight into the beloved Canadian National Women's Hockey Team. Men's hockey in Canada may hog the limelight, but interest in women's hockey has never been higher. The Role I Played is a memoir of Sami Jo Small's ten years with Canada's National Women's Hockey Team. Beginning with her experience as a rookie at the first-ever women's Olympic hockey tournament in Nagano in 1998 and culminating with...
47) Knit to be tied
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"... Kelly Flynn and the Lambspun Knitters must come together before their whole town unravels. In Fort Connor, Colorado, the friends at the House of Lambspun knitting shop are welcoming a new face into the fold. Shy, sweet, and pregnant Nancy Marsted would like to knit a baby hat, and the Lambspun ladies are more than happy to show her the ropes. They share their own pregnancy yarns and soon learn the father of Nancy's baby isn't quite the man she...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Monsanto Papers is the inside story of Lee Johnson's landmark lawsuit against Monsanto, a David-and-Goliath showdown pitting a dying cancer victim and an eclectic team of young, ambitious lawyers against one of the world's most powerful corporate giants. For Lee, the case was a race against the clock, with doctors predicting he wouldn't survive long enough to take the witness stand. For the public, the legal challenge presented a question of...
49) The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems—and What to Do about It
Author
Publisher
Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
There is a force in our everyday lives that we aren't even aware of-and it's so powerful it threatens to derail otherwise promising careers and lives: microstress. It's the hidden epidemic of small moments of anxiety that infiltrate both our work and personal lives. Because each individual microstress is so small, it doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, the microstress just embeds in our minds,...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Merger Masters presents revealing profiles of monumentally successful merger investors based on exclusive interviews with some of the greatest minds to practice the art of arbitrage. Michael Price, John Paulson, Paul Singer, and others offer practical perspectives on how their backgrounds in the risk-conscious world of merger arbitrage helped them make their biggest deals. They share their insights on the discipline that underlies their fortunes,...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in early twentieth-century Illinois, Ruby Drake is a happy child. But one winter's night, her beloved parents perish in an accident and suddenly Ruby finds herself penniless and nearly alone in the world. Her new path eventually takes her to Harvester, Minnesota, where she finds work on the farm of the Schoonovers, who soon become a second family to her. Ruby falls in love with Roland, a married neighbor. When Ruby is asked to care for...
52) Letting Ana go
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Required by her cross-country coach to keep a food diary, an insecure teen finds that writing helps organize her thoughts, especially about issues that she, her best friend, and her mother face related to weight and eating.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
English
Description
Two young women embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm and the other woman is saddled with burdensome debt and a low GPA. In an era of skyrocketing tuition and mounting concern over whether college is "worth it," the authors assess the state of American higher education. They provide a powerful exposé of unmet obligations and misplaced priorities, and explain...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
English
Description
"A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions of how the brain translates sensory information. Decades of cognition research have shown that external stimuli "spark" neural patterns in particular regions of the brain. This has fostered a view of the brain as a space that we can map: here the brain responds to faces, there it perceives a sensation in your left hand. But it turns out that the sense of smell-only recently attracting...
55) Mayhem
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 1987, when sixteen-year-old Mayhem and her mother leave her abusive stepfather and return to Santa Maria, California, May learns she is heir to magical power, destined to stop evildoers.
56) Blood and salt
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Ash Larkin finds out her family is involved in a centuries-old saga of love and murder, alchemy and immortality when she follows her mother to an isolated settlement in the cornfields of Kansas"--
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"April Falcon Doss, a cybersecurity and privacy expert with experience working for the NSA and the US government, explores the most common types of data being collected about individuals today and delve into how it is being used-sometimes against us-by the private sector, the government, and even our employers and schools"--
60) Heart of Ash
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After escaping the cult that killed her mother in Kansas, Ash starts to search for her missing twin brother Rhys, and she turns to her immortal mate Dane, who is possessed by the diabolical Coronado, for help.