In Build the Fort, Heivly breaks down his personal fort-building experiences and uses them as an analogy to his journey as co-founder of MapQuest as well as The Startup Factory (a seed-stage investor &amp; mentorship program). Build the Fort outlines five basic elements that are common to both fort-building and startups: • Socializing Your Idea without fear or inhibition, • Identifying and Marshaling the People You Trust, • Gathering the Minimal Resources Closest To You, • Acting on the Smallest and Simplest of the Idea, and • Build the Fort. Whether you are 16 or 60, Build The Fort will provide the reader a better understanding of the earliest micro-steps of starting your own business by overlaying Chris’s 30 years of experiences in startups, investments, big-company intrapreneurship and community development.

Build The Fort: Why 5 Simple Lessons You Learned as a 10 year-old Can Set You Up for Startup Success

Business & Money

Heivly, Chris

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Lisa Hagan Books

Nick Redfern’s new, and third, book on the Men in Black is filled with the very latest revelations on the sinister and deadly MIB. Never-before-seen witness testimony combines with papers from some of the leading figures in UFO- and paranormal-themed research to provide an outstanding look at this creepy and disturbing phenomenon. Men in Black: Personal Stories &amp; Eerie Adventures takes the reader on a mysterious, macabre, and menacing journey into the world of the dark-suited silencers. It’s a journey that encompasses tales of UFO conspiracies, government agents, strange and bizarre monsters, the occult, demonology, and psychic attack.

Men In Black: Personal Stories & Eerie Adventures

Religion & Spirituality

REDFERN, NICK

New Age & Spirituality

For twenty-plus years, music critic Bernard Holland heard it all. He reviewed and interviewed many of the most celebrated classical artists - singers, conductors, instrumentalists, composers and the avant garde - of the twentieth century for the New York Times. 
Reporting both sides of the culture war between music history and radical change, Holland writes critiques on Philip Glass to Verdi, Messiaen to Bach, Peter Sellars to Zeffirelli, and Linda Ronstadt to The Three Tenors. 
Throughout, Holland changes the discussion from ‘will classical music survive?’ to ‘what classical music really is’ and, in the process, destroys the myth of ‘high and low art’. He also asks what a music critic really is. 
Along the way, the reader chats with Herbert von Karajan, takes a plane trip with Yo-Yo Ma, joins in with the boos at Bayreuth, and walks the slow walk with Robert Wilson. 
"No one today can match the limpid elegance and intellectual precision of his style, which recalls the heyday of Virgil Thomson." -The New Yorker 
Perhaps the most important of this town's arbiters." The Independent 
Holland has a remarkable ability to conjure up the essence of a composer of a piece of music in a few deftly chosen words. He is, I think, an aphorist of unparalleled virtuosity." - San Francisco Chronicle

Something I Heard

Arts & Photography

Holland, Bernard

Music

This book really makes you want to write! Whether you are starting your first novel or blogging up a storm, this book will make you a better communicator in the 21st century, the Age of Brevity and the Internet. 
If you can keep your writing brief and concise, you can save countless hours of frustration -- for yourself and your readers. It’s hard at first. But by mastering a few simple “tricks of the trade,” you will not only keep it short. You will also discover new ideas, find new angles, and write with more zip. This short guide shows the way. 
If you need to steal or borrow it, go ahead. Otherwise buy a copy. While you’re at it, buy some for your coworkers and friends too. 
“I wrote short for 30 years because I was a journalist and critic for a newspaper, notoriously stingy with column inches. Keep It Short would have been really helpful. Instead, I learned it all on the job. Take if from me, reading this before you start is easier.” -Bernard Holland, former chief classical music critic, the New York Times, and author of Something I Heard 
“If all writing, in one way or another, seeks to solve riddles, as Charles Euchner poses, Keep it Short is a guidebook for a riddle-master. No matter what you write, Keep it Short will help you write a tighter, more focused, more inspired text.” -Kris Spisak, Author of Get a Grip on Your Grammar: 250 Writing &amp; Editing Reminders for the Curious or Confused 
“My ecstatic blurb was considerably longer than this before I read Keep It Short.” - Ben Robinson, Chief Creative Officer, Thrillist.com

Keep It Short: A Practical Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Reference

Euchner, Charles

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Evoking the lyrical precision of Annie Dillard and the exquisite food writing of M.F.K. Fisher, Gabrielle Myers takes us on a Northern California idyll through her 2006 internship at the Tip Top Farm and Produce in Vacaville. Here, the beauty of the land – light streaming through fig branches, carnelian tomatoes exploding in front of rows of sweet peas – is tended by the mysterious frenetic Farmer and her interns, Baker and Chef. Their days are filled with back-breaking farm labor, but their nights are alive with the freshest, most creative meals imaginable. At night, Gabi lies in her yurt pondering her mother’s suicide attempt, working on stories to tell herself to make it all right, while just up the hill another mind, busy as a hive, fights a storm of loss and sorrow that threatens to shatter Eden. And what of these stories do we tell ourselves? Myers asks. Sometimes, they can’t be rewritten.

Hive-Mind

Biographies & Memoirs

Myers, Gabrielle

Professionals & Academics

2016 International Book Award Winner- Multicultural Fiction 2016 Indie Excellence Book Award - Finalist 2016 Paris Book Festival - Honorable Mention - Spiritual 2016 Award of Literary Excellence - Friends of Florida Mid-County Regional Library 2016 Next Generation Indie Award - Finalist Best Overall Cover Design Fiction 2015 Florida Book Award Bronze Medal - Young Adult Literature Selected by Dept. of Education for Talking Book Library for the Blind "... an astounding and never-wavering story." - MariJo Moore, co-editor of Unraveling the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous thoughts Concerning the Universe "...The book gives voice to past truth andhopefully prompts thought change for a future that nourishes the spiritof all the Children of the Earth..." - Barbara Schoenbeck, Ph.D Professor of Education, Concordia University "... here we have a book that could well be used to shatter those symbolicchains fettering not only the individual, but also nations!" - Sam Gilliland, Scottish poet, "This is a cultural gem..." - Debra Ann Morrow, retired Iowa classroomteacher/school librarian "... By showing intolerance and racism as rooted in ignorance, he managesto teach with compassion, without preaching...." - Jason Schoenbeck,Teacher, Alexander Graham Bell School, Chicago, Illinois"... "A generous, searching writer..." and his work "...mesmerizing... lyrical... powerful" - Booklist "...insightful and eloquent" - The Tampa Tribune "...too appealing to resist reading a second time"; - The American Indian Library Journal ".... Horn demonstrates a kind of radical amazement, a deep feeling tingedwith both awe and wonder...." - Spirituality &amp; Health

Motherless

Literature & Fiction

Horn, Gabriel

United States

Part American Gangster, part Real Housewives of New Jersey, Hair Club Burning takes the most dangerous creature on Earth - a woman scorned - and throws her into an improbable comradery with two young highly active gang bangers, all in search of the same thing. Justice and a place to belong.  Just how far will the housewife go to find the gangsta within? And how far will the bangers trust a white woman from the suburbs? All will be revealed as they chase the millions hidden offshore by the soon-to-be ex-husband in this hilarious novel of a suburban housewife and gangster team on the road to their freedom.   This interracial comedy examines who we are and who we think we are in the endless back and forth of race relations in America. And in the final analysis? Love is love, respect is respect and we can all live together and grow stronger.   We can do this thing.   "I met brother Jay in 2000 at Delaware State University. It was the beginning of a long road of ups and downs between two young men determined to survive and defy the odds of the streets. Just as the bangers in this book start earning "straight" money for the sett, so Jay and I escaped the violence to build a life and family of our own."                      -Dashaun Morris, author of                       The War of the Bloods in My Veins

Hair Club Burning: An Inter-Racial Comedy

Romance

Davis, Jason

Wareham, Beth

Contemporary

For more than 20 years, music critic Bernard Holland reviewed the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. He reported both sides of the culture war between an honored past and radical change. Throughout his writings, Holland discusses what classical music really is, destroys the myth of high and low art, and defines the job of the music critic. Along the way, the reader will chat with Herbert von Karajan, take a plane trip with Yo-Yo Ma, and walk the slow walk with Robert Wilson.

Something I Heard: New York Times Critic Remembers 1981-2008

Is there really a Global Financial Ruler? One that dictates policy to the Central Banks of the world? Is there a Central Bank of central banks, that is senior to the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, the Bank of England and the other national banks that control interest rates, inflation, deflation, prosperity and depression? Such a bank not only exists, but John Truman Wolfe exposed this heretofore unseen hand in the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and their plans for the next one. No "conspiracy theorist" Wolfe names names, dates, places and actions. If you have ever wanted to know who's behind the Wizard's curtain of international finance and how to protect yourself, start at page one. And make no mistake, the events of 2007 and 2008 were a prelude: The next crisis, Wolfe predicts, will take the "bail-ins" used in the economic meltdowns in Cyprus and Greece and apply them worldwide, leaving depositors and consumers holding the bag, yet again.

The Coming Financial Crisis: A Look Behind the Wizard's Curtain

Wolfe, John Truman

Economics

All (Wo)men Desire To Know is a journey of love and loss that takes a woman to the mysterious world of the Ancient Greek Philosophers. This moving tale of a lover's grief is a vibrant, poetic, musical portrait of intimacy steeped in Ancient Mysticism. 
Baldwin's courageous, relentless heroine tackles life's sacred questions through dialogues and spiritual practices from the Founders of Western Thought themselves. 
Inspired by Dr. Raymond A. Moody's course, Wisdom Lovers, Baldwin's debut novel is unique, surprising and uplifting. Praise for All (Wo)men Desire to Know "Johanna Baldwin is a magical and original writer whose unique voice has a gift for making allegory and fantasy surprising and emotionally plausible. Her delicate touch brings freshness to unexpected themes and opens a door to worlds hidden within the everyday world." --- Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth "Johanna Baldwin's wonderful novel is the most phenomenal story of history by any measure" --- Raymond A. Moody, Jr. M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Moody talking about Johanna’s book, https://vimeo.com/155540086

All (Wo)men Desire To Know

Baldwin, Johanna

Literary

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