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To be a bookseller or librarian...you have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. A brilliant listener. A person who creates a kind of magic by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, 'You've got to read this. You're going to love it'. In this love letter to the heroes of literacy, James Patterson uncovers true stories from booksellers and librarians.

To be a bookseller or librarian… You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary. A person who creates “book joy” by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, “You’ve got to read this. You’re going to love it.” Step inside The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians and enter a world where you can feed your curiosities, discover new voices, find whatever you want or require. This place has the magic of rainbows and unicorns, but it's also a business. The book business.

1871—Manistee County, Michigan. The lumber industry is the predominant and most powerful business in Northern Michigan and is used to doing whatever it wants to do, wherever it wants. It is trampling on the rights of a small group of homesteaders whose small 80-acre farms surround Portage Lake. A dam is used to operate a water wheel-driven sawmill, and when the dam's gates are closed, Portage Lake floods the homesteaders' otherwise tillable land. The Cut tells the David and Goliath story of the farmers' resolve to overcome Big Lumber's abuse.

US Army Major David Keller was already identified as one of those leaders who would one day become a general. A West Point graduate with six combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, he was the consummate professional soldier - until a roadside bomb in Afghanistan took his legs. Angry, grieving, and carrying a loaded gun, David returns home to mend a few fences. Then, he would end his wheelchair-bound agony by taking his own life. But his family, community, and a woman, Maggie McCall - someone he tried to forget - begin to show him otherwise.

Core values are the things we care about. Jack Fallon has based the foundation of his company, Total Life Changes (TLC) on his personal core values. Jack wants to share with others how these seven core values became the driving force of how he lives his life and manages his company. Each chapter highlights one core value and provides insight into his life, the people who mean the most to him, along with the journey to get him where he is today. Jack hopes to inspire others by sharing his personal story. 

 How We Can Build a Better World is a practical guide for building a better world. This is a realistic objective because, with the awakening catalyzed by the global crisis, we can now change the world. This manual shows how we can change it effectively and for the better. 

Jake Wyler bought a cemetery. It was one of those impulse buys and now he was having to spend a large portion of his life savings to be a property owner. He had returned to his hometown to find his life turned upside down and involved in murder, missing money, and love letters. He meets an old high school classmate, and she handles his money in the bank where she works. Jake has no idea how to run a cemetery, and since the former owner was murdered, he was now really lost.

Getting bored with residential real estate? Do the exact same thing in the commercial space for ten times the profit—with no extra time, money, risk, or corporate red tape. Most commercial real estate books leave you with plenty of information but no idea where to start. That’s why Commercial Real Estate Investing provides one simple, proven, step-by-step roadmap for doing your first commercial deal. Stop competing against rookies who watched an HGTV episode and decided they were house flippers. Everything you need to find and fund your first deal is right here.

You’ve strived to be your best in every step of your career. Now you’re starting a new leadership role, one with more responsibility in areas and organizations where your experience is limited. The template for success you’ve always relied on may no longer apply. In Changing Altitude, Dennis O’Neil and Greg Hiebert provide you with a framework for optimizing your impact and maximizing growth. Dennis and Greg show you how to identify values that underscore who you are as a leader, define what success means to your organization, and take your team into the future.

With Ultimate Vacation, Randy Carver shares the personal vision planning process that he and his team have developed and refined to help thousands of clients maintain and advance their standard of living. You'll learn how to define what's important today and create a vision for what the future looks like.

How would you cope if everything and everybody you ever loved - your friends, your family, your very identity - were suddenly gone? Hans Kokx was born in a small town in the suburbs of Detroit to a middle-class family. Life should have been easy: go to school, do well, go to college, get a job, have a family, grow old, and die surrounded by loved ones. Life rarely happens the way we expect it to, though. 

Vocational discernment, says R. Paul Stevens, is a lifelong process - one that takes on even more significance in later life. Stevens argues that our calling does not end with formal retirement; to the contrary, we do well to keep on working, if possible, till life’s end. Stevens delves into matters of calling, spirituality, and legacy in retirement, showing that we must continue to discern our vocation as we grow older in order to remain meaningfully engaged for the rest of our lives. He reframes retirement as a time of continued calling and productivity.

Sarah Keller and her live-in boyfriend, Sheriff Dave Chandler figured it was all over with the serial killer following Sarah from their last adventure. They had no idea of the danger from this new serial killer now stalking their sleepy little town dropping headless bodies all over the place. He claims they are gifts for Dave and after a threatening note, Dave must also protect Sarah. Along with two FBI agents and a bounty hunter, they go after the killer before he can take his revenge out on Dave and Sarah in this second of the Fatal Murder series.

Gus Mackie was relaxing in his new office in a better part of Detroit when he saw the young girl in front of his building. She was reading the sign in the window telling the world that a private investigator worked there. Gus could see she was homeless and went to open the door as she stood looking apprehensive. She finally came in and told Gus about how she wanted to find her mother who gave her up for adoption when she was a child. The girl lived on the streets most of her life and wanted a family now.

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of cold cases and with his partner, Mary, and their ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victims' spirits to the hereafter. They are asked by their captain to help his brother-in-law once again. It seems the company has a job to clean out an abandoned mental asylum in northern Michigan under restoration. The workers won't go in the buildings, fearing the ghost inhabiting four buildings.

Gus Mackie's police detective friend, Bernie Longmire, comes to Gus with an offer of a special case. It has to be handled quietly since a country's fate is at stake. The country has a king and his daughter is missing. Bernie is tasked with finding her, before the king and queen go back home from the United State for an important celebration. But if they don't have the daughter with them, the king's rule may be in jeopardy.

From the East coast to the West coast the NY Slasher carved his murderous spree on thirty women, and then just disappeared. Derek Harcourt wrote about the Slasher's crimes in his first book. Now writing a second book, Harcourt has ulterior motives for this novel and is following the Slasher's journey all the way from New York to Washington state. Sarah Keller is Harcourt's editor and the unsuspecting victim of horrible crimes in her past and maybe her future.

Rose Carmichael lands the job of her dreams at Pucker Perfect Lipstick Corporation, a top rated-cosmetic firm based in her hometown of Dallas, Texas. However, she soon discovers the job is not as cushy as she first thought and the CEO's expectations may be far greater than what Rose can deliver.

In this third of the Doyle, P.I. books, Doyle is hired by the curator of a Detroit Art Gallery. It seems nine valuable Egyptian statues were stolen from the gallery. They were replaced with fakes, and the gallery doesn't want the Egyptians to know their artifacts are missing. So Doyle and his partner Oscar Drew go on a hunt for the missing objects.

Dexter Nash was a killer. He murders for money and it was a business to him. He came out of a bad marriage and decided that with all the money he earned murdering people, that he had hidden away, he would retire. A visit to a bar he used to frequent to get his hits from the man who procured other hitmen was his first mistake. His misfortune was to meet the woman who would turn his world around and not in a good way.