Business Fiction

"The Prince" is the most famous of Machiavelli's works; it gives very clear, precise and realistic instructions on how to gain and maintain power, fortune, and glory, sometimes at the expense of others. Written in 1513, it is one of the most feared and hated political treatises, taken to be the first work in which the effect the leader desires to achieve is taken as more important than any abstract ideal or ethical value that might prevent him from taking immoral action.

Ora che la sua carriera di attrice hollywoodiana è al minimo storico, April Sinclair decide di tornare alla tranquillità della sua città natale, sull'isola scozzese di Skye. Quale modo migliore per capire come mai tutto è andato a rotoli, se non ripartire dall'inizio? April ha in mente di dedicarsi a una nuova sfida, ovvero salvare la distilleria della sua famiglia. Quello che non si aspetta di trovare è Malcolm Macabe, irascibile ed estremamente attraente master distiller che vive nella casa che lei ha appena ereditato.

Mallory McDonald has her eye on the perfect purse, but it’s too expensive and Mallory’s mom is not buying! So Mallory comes up with the perfect plan to get the perfect purse. She’ll just start a business! Yet starting a business isn’t as easy as it seems. Mallory finally earns enough to buy what she wants. But if her business is such as success, why does Mallory feel like such a failure?

An accomplished woman decides she doesn't want to succeed in business. She becomes the President of a division of a major technology company and is courted by one of the richest men in the world. But, she is not sure she is up to the task. Her family, friends and working associates help her redefine herself.

Decades ago, the Visitors descended on Earth. They claimed to bring peace and prosperity. Their real goal was the total subjugation of humankind. But humanity did not give up its only home without a fight. After a devastating war, the Visitors were driven back to Mars. Their millions of willing human collaborators were left behind. The task of hunting down these former alien collaborators and bringing them to justice falls to Federal Recovery Agents like Nathan Foster.

Many as children learned of the Daniel and the lion’s den story. But fewer have studied the fascinating story of Daniel and his amazing leadership skills that took a kidnapped teenager from being a servant to a tyrant to becoming the second most powerful leader in the world. The Unconventional Leader is a leadership parable inspired by the life and leadership principles of the Biblical character of Daniel. Dan Cox is a modern-day Daniel who finds himself and his three friends forced to move from management trainee positions in a small software company to Silicon Valley. Just like the ...

After achieving her lifelong dream of solving a murder, Beatrice Steele feels like everything is finally falling into place. Accompanied by her ever-trusty chaperone, Miss Bolton, she's traded her small town for London and opened a new office with prickly, annoyingly logical Inspector Drake to solve the city's brutally thrilling crimes. However, nothing is turning out how Beatrice imagined it would. Famed gentleman inspector Sir Huxley is considered the real investigator in London, so the only cases left for Beatrice and Drake are lost pets and spectacles.

A strange blue envelope greets the kids of Coral Canal right before their spring break. Inside it contains a riddle and a set of instructions. Nobody, not even their parents, seems to know who sent the riddle, and the children only have nine days to solve it and send photographic proof.

In Madam C. J. Walker Builds a Business, Sarah Breedlove (a.k.a. Madam C. J. Walker) reinvents and rebrands herself as a forceful entrepreneur whose products still dominate the black hair-care industry today. Born on the same plantation where her parents were once enslaved, Sarah is the first child in her family born free. When Sarah is just a girl, she learns the value of hard work.

Henry David Thoreau is a beloved American author, poet and philosopher. He was a lifelong abolitionist, advocate of civil disobedience againts unjust or corrupted goverments, and he defended the idea of abandoning illusory matters in favor of simple living, in order to discover life's authentic essential needs. He is best known for "Walden, or Life in the woods", the book he wrote during his two-year experiment in minimalist living: having built himself a cabin in the woods, he stayed there to study, write, and enjoy his newfound communion with nature. His political works and theory of civil disobedience have influenced the thoughts and actions of many prominent figures, such as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

A trickster fae has come to Whitmore, and there are only three things he could want: tribute, trouble, or the powerful ley-lines that Wendy Connelly is sworn to protect. Even though Galen's cocky grin makes her knees weak, she’ll be damned if the pointy-eared bastard starts anything in her town.

It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle towering social problems. What’s required is a new, more collaborative and productive economic system. The Solution Revolution brings hope - revealing just such a burgeoning new economy where players from across the spectrum of business, government, philanthropy, and social enterprise converge to solve big problems and create public value.

Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless", "Sassy", "Ambitious", "Aggressive": What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise, and blame, bearing an outsized influence on women's lives - to say nothing of our moods.

Originally published in 1903, James Allen's classic As a Man Thinketh has been one of the most popular self-help books for over a century. Inspired by the biblical quote "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he", the book helps listeners discover the strength in themselves to deal with anything life may bring. Come listen to one of the most powerful books to alter one's thinking for the better.

Do you want to be a more relaxed author? There are plenty of books and tips on writing faster, learning more marketing tactics and strategies, trying to maximize your ranking, hitting the top of the charts, juicing the algorithms, and hacking different ad platforms. While these are all important things - which the authors themselves regularly write and talk about - it's also important to recognize that your author journey is a marathon, and not a sprint.

Made sisters by marriage but not by choice, the bond between Lora and Alice is marred by envy and mistrust. Spurred on by inconsistencies in Alice's personal history and possibly jealous of Alice's hold on her brother, Lora finds herself lured into the dark alleys and mean streets of seamy Los Angeles. Assuming the role of amateur detective, she uncovers a shadowy world of drugs, prostitution, and ultimately, murder.

Jim Rogers and his fiancie, began their "Millennium Adventure" on January 1, 1999. They traveled through 116 countries, including many where most have rarely ventured, such as Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, and Angola. They saw the real world from the ground up - the only vantage point from which it can be truly understood - economically, politically, and socially and have saw the world and understood it as it really is.

Want the most romantic honeymoon experience you can get? I’m your gal. Unfortunately, it isn’t by experience that I know these things. Love doesn’t come easily to an overworked type-A planner who manages romance at the most luxurious resort in the Virgin Islands. I have far too many boxes to check to be checking out anything but forms, schedules, and rose petals. For the longest time, my career has been my ultimate dream and filled me up. Love was for others who needed a partner in life to get by, but not me. Until a class-A hottie shows up and knocks me off my feet—literally.

In the bustling heart of Chicago, where deep-dish pizza meets cutthroat business, Ivy Rowe thought her biggest challenge would be landing the next big marketing contract. She was wrong. When Ivy's client and friend, Celeste Green of Chicago Dogs, is found murdered at a high-stakes Blackhawks game, the savvy marketing executive finds herself thrust into a world of danger she never expected. With the police eyeing the wrong suspect, Ivy knows she must uncover the truth – but at what cost? As she digs deeper, Ivy unravels a conspiracy that goes far beyond a simple business rivalry. From the ...

Son muchas las personas que necesitan un cambio: porque sienten que no progresan, porque atraviesan una crisis de pareja, porque no saben cuál es la mejor forma de educar a sus hijos, porque tienen problemas para relacionarse con los otros o porque tienen capacidades pero no saben cómo expresarlas....