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In Baltimore, Jelena Lengold offers an exquisite portrayal of a Belgrade writer, a woman in her forties, whose tightly packed, unresolved inner conflicts with herself and the people closest to her have led her to a sobering dead end. She is compelled to turn around and look closely at the routine of her everyday life - her marriage, family, friends, loves, lies and the likes. What she finds is a strange mixture of uncertainty and boredom, insecurity and determination which grow into fullblown frustration at sessions with her therapist. The writer's block the protagonist suffers from is a metaphor for a blocked life, a life led in the recesses of reality represented in bouts of silence, web cam voyeurism and Internet flings. Lengold's prose style - witty, sharp and somber- strikes a resounding tone for telling the truth of one of our lives.

In 1976, armed with a college degree and a commission as an Army 2nd Lieutenant, Vinny Boles began his leadership journey. After 33 years of service, he has distilled this experience into his book, 4-3-2-1 Leadership: What America's Sons & Daughters Taught Me on the Road From Second Lieutenant to Two Star General."Leadership is not a solo event, it is a team sport," Boles says. "And in the Army it's a team sport at the highest level. And I was truly fortunate to have great teammates in every one of these 33 years."

What if Lake Wobegon's favorite teacher were diagnosed with cancer? What About the Hair Down There? Chemo Chuckles and Treatment Tears: One Woman's Story of Family, Friends, Love and Sex After Being Diagnosed with Breast Cancer is the autobiographical story of Abby Brown, a 25-year veteran educator in the little elementary school on a hill perched above the St. Croix River in Minnesota - a teacher who has been beloved by two generations of school children in the small town upon which Garrison Keillor largely based his fictional Lake Wobegon. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer, the entire town took to the Caring Bridge website to support every step of her discovery and recovery. Both witty and wistful, terrifying and beautiful, this is not just a cancer journal. It's a secret guide both to the horrors of cancer treatment, and to the incredible power and stability of true love - both familial and romantic. Although this doesn't read like a romance novel, Abby's at-times gritty, at times steamy, love for her husband knows no bounds, and his support and love for her is the red thread that holds the book's chronological narrative together. Her two boys and their wide-eyed innocence and fear are incredibly poignant, and the author doesn't hold back in describing the altogether too common, yet complex struggles of a family trying to cope with the fallout of a cancer diagnosis. Abby writes in her Introduction about the loss of her hair (which the title of the book is based on): 'In musing about possible titles for this book, I considered, 'What About the Hair Down There?' At first, it seemed too bold for the front cover, but it was an honest question I had in my own mind as I started the road trip of my cancer treatment. Mine left, like all body hair, and returned with a new look straight and dark, in contrast to the silver waves that grew back on top of my head. With enough length, some 'curl' has returned. I'm not embarrassed to share this with others. It s a fact. And this book isn't 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. It's real life.' This is a story not only of overcoming breast cancer, but of revisiting the value of family, love, vocation, and faith. Bring out the tissues - there are tears of sadness and joy in these pages.

Journey through the boardrooms of North America and trek along the Himalayas to discover the formula for brilliant leadership in Boardroom to Base Camp. After 25 years of exceptional success in the boardrooms of North America and 25 days trekking to Mount Everest base camp, Millar reveals new, powerful habits in leadership that will revolutionize your approach to work and play. With advancing technology and the expectation of instant exchange, the world is shifting. But Boardroom to Base Camp confirms that the naked characteristics of winning leaders never change, just the way that they're harnessed. In the book you'll find stripped-down rules to live by and wisdom that will stick for those who are ready to understand a new way of looking at life from the top.