The Nonprofit Board Answer Book: A Practical Guide for Board Members and Chief Executives
By: Boardsource
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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1. Simple Church: Returning to God's Process for Making Disciples
By: Thom S. Rainer , Eric Geiger
3.98
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The simple revolution is here. From the iPod design to Google’s uncluttered homepage, simple ideas … read more
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- leadership
2. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
By: Peter F. Drucker
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
What makes an effective executive? The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is th… read more
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- business
- leadership
3. Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
4.27
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
After his martyrdom at the hands of the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer continued his witness … read more
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- nonfiction
"God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"It is only when he is a burden that another person is really a brother and not merely an object to be manipulated"-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
"The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren. Not in the former but in the latter is the lack."-Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
4. The Holy Bible: English Standard Version
By: Anonymous
3.91
Format: 241 pages,
Now the complete ESV Bible comes alive in audio format! The new ESVHear the Word Audio Bibleprovide… read more
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5. Pigs in Heaven
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Mother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about fa… read more
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6. For the Children's Sake
By: Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
4.44
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Every parent and teacher wants to give their children the best education possible. Everyone would l… read more
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- nonfiction
"Pupils whose foundations have been deeply laid on books and things, using narration to lock their knowledge in place, and who learn not for marks and prizes but because learning is its own reward... …"-Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, For the Children's Sake
"No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country,…"-Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, For the Children's Sake
7. Future Men
By: Douglas Wilson
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
How do we build our sons to be tough but not arrogant? mannered but not soft? imaginative but not l… read more
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8. Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
By: Brian Tracy
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provi… read more
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- business
- leadership
"The Key to Success is Action"-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
"Do anything, but get started."-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
"For you to achieve any kind of success, execution is everything."-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
"Anytime you stop striving to get better, you're bound to get worse."-Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
9. A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
By: Edwin H. Friedman , None , None
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Ten years after his death, Edwin Friedman's insights into leadership are more urgently needed than … read more
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10. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
By: Robert A. Caro
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more
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11. Leading Change
By: John P. Kotter
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
John Kotter's now-legendary eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become… read more
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12. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
By: David Allen
4.01
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and ma… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
- leadership
"My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects."-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
"Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist."-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
"Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stres…"-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
"Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignmen…"-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
13. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
By: David Brooks
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more
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- nonfiction
- leadership
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
14. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
By: Charles Duhigg
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more
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- business
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"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
15. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
By: Morgan Housel
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more
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- business
16. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
By: Harrison Scott Key
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more
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- nonfiction
"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
17. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
By: Tiago Forte
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
>For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has ne… read more
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- business
18. Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation
By: Collin Hansen
4.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Timothy Keller takes readers behind the scenes to meet the people and understand the events that fo… read more
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- nonfiction
- leadership
19. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
20. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
21. A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
By: Cal Newport
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller From New York Times bestselling author Cal N… read more
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"Why bother hiring a hotshot if the bulk of their time is spent doing administrative work?"-Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
"A better strategy for shifting other’s expectations about your work is to consistently deliver what you promise instead of consistently explaining how you’re working."-Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
"… a better objective for support units would be the following: to effectively fulfill their administrative duties with as small an impact as possible on the specialists’ main work obligations. If tak…"-Cal Newport, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
22. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
23. The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
By: Ron Howard
4.27
Format: 393 pages, Hardcover
Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben—these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the… read more
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24. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
By: Arnold Schwarzenegger
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—di… read more
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- business
"The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place."-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
"The beauty of pain, not only is it temporary...is it tells you when you begin to give enough of yourself in pursuit of your dreams. If the work hasn't hurt or cost you anything, or at least made you …"-Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
25. Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World
By: Joe Rigney
4.54
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
Who are you when the teeth come out? For every true act of leadership, there is an equal and mo… read more
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- leadership
"The Scriptures regularly use the metaphor of a body to speak about human social life. The church is the body of Christ, with many members (1 Cor. 12). Marriage is a “one flesh"-Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World
26. The 6 Types of Working Genius
By: Patrick Lencioni
4.15
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni unveils a truly groundbreaking new model that w… read more
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27. The Fourth Turning Is Here:
By: Neil Howe
3.96
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative … read more
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28. A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24)
By: Daniel Silva
4.42
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve… Acclaimed #1 Ne… read more
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29. Reclaiming Masculinity: Eight Biblical Principles for Being the Man God Wants You to Be (Discipleship/ mentoring ministry resource/ Christian book for men on Biblical manhood)
By: Matt Fuller
4.12
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A positive and biblical vision of what it means to be a man In a world where masculinity is often a… read more
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30. The Nonprofit Board Answer Book: A Practical Guide for Board Members and Chief Executives
By: Boardsource
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An essential guide to good governance for board leaders at all levels of experience and expertise T… read more
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31. The Board and the CEO: Seven practices to protect your organization's most important relationship.
By: Peter Greer
4.35
Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition
Good relationships lie at the heart of every successful organization. Yet no relationship is more i… read more
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