#1 New York Times Best Seller! " Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it''s like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it''s like to be young and in love with a book."-John Green, The New York Times Book Review Bono met his wife in high school , Park says. So did Jerry Lee Lewis , Eleanor answers. I''m not kidding , he says. You should be , she says, we''re 16 . What about Romeo and Juliet? Shallow, confused, then dead. I love you , Park says. Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers. I''m not kidding, he says. You should be. Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you''ll remember your own first love-and just how hard it pulled you under. A New York Times Best Seller! A 2014 Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Eleanor & Park is the winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Fiction Book. A Publishers Weekly Best Children''s Book of 2013 A New York Times Book Review Notable Children''s Book of 2013 A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013 An NPR Best Book of 2013
Despairing of receiving their critical father's love, Winona occupies herself in books and dreams, while Vivi Ann makes a fateful decision to follow her heart instead of dutifully fulfilling their father's ambitions.
Now in paperback: the powerful, revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation-and the moral implications that affect us all.
Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever expose of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt.
Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. Roughly 75 percent of the world's supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo-because we are all implicated.
Written with the cooperation of Harvard Business School, an instructive and inspiring book for anyone who dreams of starting a highly profitable business In 1998, three Harvard Business School graduates-two men and one woman-turned down six-figure salaries at big corporations, bet on themselves, and launched their own new companies. By their ten-year reunion, their audacity had paid huge dividends. They'd made many millions of dollars, created hundreds of jobs-and left their mark on the world.
Based on dozens of interviews with highly successful entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School professors, and HBS alumni, The Intelligent Entrepreneur tells the compelling and instructive story of how these three young founders developed ideas, assembled teams, built ventures, and achieved their dreams. Along the way, they learned that starting great companies requires much more than a ferocious work ethic or good timing. Their hard-won insights-distilled into ten key rules-will help anyone become a successful entrepreneur.
What they teach you at Harvard Business School is that intelligent entrepreneurship can be learned. In that spirit, Bill Murphy Jr. uses a unique combination of vivid storytelling and lucid instruction to show would-be entrepreneurs how to improve their odds of creating dynamic, lasting businesses.
A successful entrepreneur and student of Harvard Business School strategist Howard Stevenson shares 13 strategies for personal and professional success that encompass such practices as recognizing and acting on opportunities, developing one's skill set and making careful decisions about long-term goals. 100,000 first printing.
A tale set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution follows the struggles of Kai Ying to safeguard her family when her teacher husband is arrested and sent to a "reeducation" labor camp for criticizing the Communist Party.
A Harvard-trained economist's startling predictions reveal critical challenges in the decades ahead, helping individuals, businesses, and governments to make smarter decisions As individuals, companies, and countries struggle to recover from the economic crisis, many are narrowly focused on forecasts for the next week, month, or quarter. Yet they should be asking what the global economy will look like in the years to come-where will the long-term risks and opportunities arise? These are the questions that Daniel Altman confronts in his provocative and indispensable book.
The fate of the global economy, Altman argues, will be determined by deeper factors than those that move markets from moment to moment. His incisive analysis brings together hidden trends, societal pressures, and policy endgames to make twelve surprising but logical predictions about the years ahead. And his forecasts for the future raise a pressing question for today: With so many challenges awaiting us, are our political and economic institutions up to the task?
Outrageous Fortunes tells which industries will grow, which economies will crumble, which investments will pay off, and where the next big crisis may occur. Altman's carefully reasoned text is an essential guide for the road ahead.
In a first work of history by a best-selling conservative author and talk-show host, a riveting narrative describes the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Reprint. 750,000 first printing.
Sixteen-year-old Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city where, after 200 years, society is complacent and coal is diminishing until she unwittingly becomes a catalist for a revolution that destroys the dome, which could mean the end of everything.
Evreux, France, 1788: As the illegitimate daughter of a powerful baron, 16-year-old Lenobia has never quite belonged. Though she lives in the shadow of her entitled half-sister, Cecile, her remarkable beauty draws unwanted attention, and she often hides in nearby stables - with the gentle horses who seem to understand her best.
When fate steps in, Lenobia suddenly finds herself surrounded by other girls, on a ship bound for New Orleans, where they will be betrothed to the city's elite Frenchmen. But they're not alone.. As they set out for a distant shore, an evil bishop makes the same journey. His temper and Dark magic make him a danger to everyone - but most of all to Lenobia, who was the object of his infatuation in France. As she hides from him, she finds comfort in secret visits to the ship's stables, where a handsome young creole and his beautiful Percheron horses soon catch her eye.
Will they make it to land before the bishop discovers her true identity and a powerful evil breaks loose? And will Lenobia follow her heart, even if it puts lives at risk?
Draws on the insights of such leading CEOs as Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and DreamWorks's Jeffrey Katzenberg to identify proven leadership principles as well as the qualities that managers most value in their employees.
When a bizarre phenomenon causes the cataclysmic disappearances of numerous people all over the world, Kevin Garvey, the new mayor of a once-comfortable suburban community, struggles to help his neighbors heal while enduring the fanatical religious conversions of his wife and son. By the best-selling author of Little Children . 300,000 first printing.
Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, this graphic novel about friendship and adventures of Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude and Leo Stein, Erik Satie, Alice B Toklas, and Guillaurne Apollinaire, and paul Gauguin gives a glimpse into the minds and hearts of the modernists.
As a violent anti-technology group led by an enigmatic figure known only as Lazarus prepares to strike against leading research facilities specializing in nano-technology, Lt. Col. Jon Smith is sent by Covert-One to uncover the truth about the mysterious Lazarus and stop a deadly scheme.
Challenges popular wisdom to argue that corruption is an inherent tendency, revealing the sources of corruption in everyday life while outlining a vision for a society that recognizes individuals, in a set that includes a DVD of the author addressing questions from the book. Original. 25,000 first printing.
Rob Lowe is teen idol at fifteen, international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars. This title chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood.
Alavez's life is in ruins. One of his brothers has died, and the other is in jail. Manuel is told that the man who crossed his brothers is running a restaurant in Uppsala. Shortly thereafter, a series of dramatic events leads to murder. Inspector Ann Lindell races to uncover the killer before the grim reaper strikes again.
Ever and Damen have traveled through countless past lives and fought off the world's darkest enemies to be together forever, but just as their long-awaited destiny is finally within reach, a powerful curse threatens them.
