The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call To Defend Them by Wayne Pacelle
659 pages, 68 of 79 reviews are 4 or 5-star
A landmark work, The Bond is the passionate, insightful, and comprehensive examination of our special connection to all creatures, written by one of America’s most important champions of animal welfare. Wayne Pacelle, the president of the Humane Society of the United States, unveils the deep links of the human-animal bond, as well as the conflicting impulses that have led us to betray this bond through widespread and systemic cruelty to animals.
An eye-opening must-read, The Bond reminds us that animals are at the center of our lives, they are not just a backdrop. How we treat them is one of the great themes of the human story.
Irreparable Harm by Melissa Miller
417 pages, 148 of 168 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
When a plane operated by her client slams into the side of a mountain, killing everyone aboard, Sasha gears up to defend the inevitable civil lawsuits. She soon realizes the crash was no accident: a developer has created an application that can control a commercial plane’s onboard computer from a smartphone.
Leaving The Hall Light On by Madeline Sharples
340 pages, 40 of 40 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
Leaving the Hall Light On: A Mother’s Memoir of Living with Her Son’s Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide charts the near-destruction of one middle-class family whose son committed suicide after a seven-year struggle with bipolar disorder. Madeline Sharples, author, poet and web journalist, goes deep into her own well of grief to describe her anger, frustration and guilt. She describes many attempts — some successful, some not — to have her son committed to hospital and to keep him on his medication. The book also charts her and her family’s redemption, how she considered suicide herself, and ultimately, her decision live and take care of herself as a woman, wife, mother and writer.
Night of the Purple Moon by Scott Cramer
188 pages, 72 of 28 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
The epidemic strikes everyone who has passed through puberty.
Abby Leigh is looking forward to watching the moon turn purple. For months, astronomers have been predicting that Earth will pass through the tail of a comet. They say that people will see colorful sunsets and, best of all, a purple moon.
But nobody has predicted the lightning-fast epidemic that sweeps across the planet on the night of the purple moon. The comet brings space dust with it that contains germs that attack human hormones. Older teens and adults die within hours of exposure.
On a small island off the coast of Maine, Abby must help her brother and baby sister survive in this new world, but all the while she has a ticking time bomb inside of her — adolescence.
Death by China: Confronting the Dragon – A Global Call To Action by Peter Navarro and Greg Autry
320 pages, 70 of 91 reviews are 4 or 5-star
252 pages, 62 of 79 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled, Young Adult Paranormal Romance
His long, black lashes fluttered down as he brazenly reviewed the rest of me. He straightened and placed a hand on either side of my head, effectively trapping me against the wall. “Explain.”
His nearness made my head spin. I swallowed. “I–I came to tell you, you are in grave trouble.”
Strider squinted hard at me then threw his head back with laughter. Obviously assuming I wouldn’t run, he dropped his hands and crossed his arms over his chest. “Lass, I must tell you,” a crooked smile punctuated his words, “I am always in grave trouble.”
Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs: The Skills Gap and What Companies Can Do About It by Peter Cappelli
128 pages, 9 of 9 reviews are 4 or 5-star
Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work.
Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply not qualified; schools aren’t preparing students for jobs; the government isn’t letting in enough high-skill immigrants; and even when the match is right, prospective employees won’t accept jobs at the wages offered.
In this powerful and fast-reading book, Peter Cappelli, Wharton management professor and director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, debunks the arguments and exposes the real reasons good people can’t get hired. Drawing on jobs data, anecdotes from all sides of the employer-employee divide, and interviews with jobs professionals, he explores the paradoxical forces bearing down on the American workplace and lays out solutions that can help us break through what has become a crippling employer-employee stand-off.
Among the questions he confronts: Is there really a skills gap? To what extent is the hiring process being held hostage by automated software that can crunch thousands of applications an hour? What kind of training could best bridge the gap between employer expectations and applicant realities, and who should foot the bill for it? Are schools really at fault?
Named one of HR Magazine’s Top 20 Most Influential Thinkers of 2011, Cappelli not only changes the way we think about hiring but points the way forward to rev America’s job engine again.
The Road to Jericho by Steven Carroll
182 pages, no reviews, Lending Enabled
The Road to Jericho – About a boy from Arkansas, and his dog, who get wrapped up into dangerous circumstances. It’s about their travels to Jericho, AR, a hubbub of wanton and reckless living, in the Summer of 1949. It’s a book about charity, and gratitude, and greed and the choices that lead us there.
Blytheville, AR – “Bank-Nappers” on the loose. according to local authorities, the two men who’d held up the First City Bank late yesterday morning are still at large.
“But I continue to have high hopes for their arrests,”says Mississippi County Sheriff, Earl Stevens.
Although, in and around the little town of Blytheville, folks are beginning to fear the worst, as the fate of their young captive, Ronny Gentry, hangs in the balance. The question on everybody’s lips here being : will they save him in time?
The Comeback Kiss by Lani Diane Rich
336 pages, 10 of 11 reviews are 4 or 5-star, Lending Enabled
The thing about being the one who got away is that you really need to stay gone.
Petty thief Dermot “Finn” Finnegan came back to Lucy’s Lake, Vermont, to do one thing—return the car he’d stolen from his high school flame, Tessa, the night he’d disappeared ten years ago. The plan was to be in and out with no one the wiser, especially not Tessa, but when a mysterious fire breaks out and he reluctantly saves the day, Finn’s plans are all shot to hell, along with his ability to resist the love he left behind.
Tessa Scuderi never expected to see Finn again, and that was fine by her. The truth about the teeny-tiny felony they committed could threaten her custody of her teenage sister, Izzy, and getting him out of town is job one. But as the mystery of everything that happened that night ten years ago—including her mother’s death in a strange fire—starts to unravel, Finn gets all weird and loyal. Can love survive lies, theft and arson? There’s only one way to tell…
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