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★★★★★ Combining practical financial advice with research into what defines happiness and tips about living well, The Retire Sooner Method is an inspiring guide. Financial planner Wes Moss’s illuminating financial planning guide The Retire Sooner Method is about amassing wealth toward retirement. About stretching out one’s income, saving for happiness in retirement, and finding bliss, this…
★★★★☆ The encouraging self-help guide Better at Life is about making the best decisions to achieve a meaningful life while doing rewarding work. Chris Mullen’s illuminating self-help book Better at Life is about finding fulfillment via work-life balance. Calling for a work-life negotiation to achieve one’s career goals while maintaining a strong quality of life, this book suggests means of…
★★★☆☆ Lies and Spies is a suspenseful historical thriller with a twist: Its hero has split personalities. In Gary Kidney’s zany thriller Lies and Spies , an American spy is called upon to pursue the last vestiges of the Nazi regime and keep whatever he finds out of Soviet hands. In 1946, World War II has ended, but not for deep-cover agents like Fred, whose alter ego and split personality Zelly…
★★★★☆ Targeting the structural deficiencies within the managed IT services sector, MSP to MVP is an actionable business guide. Chris Day’s structured leadership guide MSP to MVP is about transforming managed service providers into indispensable, strategic business partners. Reframing customer success as a core operating discipline for information technology managed service providers (MSPs), this…
★★★★☆ Emergence is a a useful general primer on AI that forwards technical explanations of the human mind and technology. Bob Burgin’s speculative technology book Emergence explains how artificial intelligence came to be and imagines where it’s going. Structured as a history amid a broader philosophical inquiry, this book considers how AI was developed, how the brain learns, and how AI learns. Its…
★★★☆☆ A clear chronicle of grief, The Porcelain Heart is a mother’s memoir about her first year without her son. Marcy Kelly’s probing memoir The Porcelain Heart is about the year after her son died. Soon after forty-five-year-old Michael opted not to come to a family gathering, he was found dead in his apartment. But Kelly’s ability to grieve was delayed by practical tasks like informing people…
★★★☆☆ A revealing book that aims to help family members protect their vulnerable loved ones, in particular in California, Stolen Inheritance is an insightful legal guide. Michael Hackard’s disquieting legal guide Stolen Inheritance addresses the principles and implications of California’s elder laws. Noting the financial risks faced by elderly family members, including exploitative people who try…
★★★☆☆ The Line of the Ball is an intriguing memoir and leadership guide that mines general lessons for life and business from a healthcare founder’s varied experiences. Beh Chun Chuan’s sage business memoir The Line of the Ball concerns how polo shaped his life in business. The book recounts lessons learned on the polo grounds and how they helped Beh lead the BP Healthcare Group in Malaysia. It…
★★★★★ A mathematician and his ally combat an alien plot to take over Earth in the gripping graphic novel Essentials Vol. 2 . A human scientist teams up with an alien to hold off an enemy that wants to absorb the minds of Earth’s inhabitants in Luke Arnold and Chris Wyatt’s grand graphic novel Essentials Vol. 2 . Pax, a mathematician, allies himself with Buttons, an alien refugee from a collective…
★★★☆☆ A thoughtful, reflective memoir, A Journey of Insights mines general leadership guidance from a long career in multiple fields. James G. Ellis’s candid memoir and leadership guide A Journey of Insights models being attentive to others as a path to professional success. Arguing that “listening to voices around you throughout life is the key to success,” this anecdote-centered book reflects…
