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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Peter F. Drucker’s The Effective Executive and NOT the original book. Preview: The Effective Executive (1967) by Peter Drucker summarizes the author’s experiences and observations as a time management and team dynamics consultant. Drucker considers...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Travis Bradberry’s & et al Emotional Intelligence 2.0  and NOT the original book. Preview: Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a self-help style book about identifying the reader's strengths and weaknesses in various areas of emotional intelligence...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s The Nest and NOT the original book. Preview: The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney is the story of the Plumb siblings, a group of disillusioned Gen X-ers struggling to navigate their lives in the aftermath of 9/11 and...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's & et al The Dictator’s Handbook and NOT the original book.   Preview: The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (2011) is an examination of what motivates leaders in democracies...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Hal Elrod’s The Miracle Morning and NOT the original book. Preview: The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life Before 8am, by Hal Elrod, is a self-help book that explores the key point that the start of a person’s...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Ina May Gaskin’s Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth and NOT the original book. Preview: Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by midwife Ina May Gaskin explores midwifery as an alternative to traditional hospital delivery. In 1971, Gaskin helped found The...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Don Tapscott’s Blockchain Revolution and NOT the original book. Preview: Blockchain Revolution (2016) by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott describes the potential for blockchain systems to change the way that governments, banks, corporations, and...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman and NOT the original book. Preview: Jean Louise Finch tries to go home again and finds tiny Maycomb, Alabama grappling with the emerging civil rights movement in the mid-1950s. Set nearly twenty years after the events...

  PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train and NOT the original book. Preview: The Girl on the Train is a psychological thriller that tells the story of three women and how their lives intersect. Inside this companion to the book:...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life and NOT the original book. Preview: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara tells the story of Jude St. Francis and the people in his life. Jude, left partially disabled by a terrifying injury as a teenager, is distraught...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Darren Hardy’s The Compound Effect and NOT the original book. Preview: The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success is a self-help book by the publisher of SUCCESS magazine, Darren Hardy. It describes how small attitude and...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Dominic Smith’s The Last Painting of Sara de Vos and NOT the original book. Preview: The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith is a novel that describes the way two lives become intertwined through a mutual obsession with a seventeenth-century...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to David Lagercrantz’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web and NOT the original book. Preview: The Girl in the Spider’s Web: A Lisbeth Salander Novel is the fourth novel in the Millennium Series by David Lagercrantz. This book follows Lisbeth Salander,...

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear and NOT the original book. Preview: Going Clear by Lawrence Wright is an in-depth examination of the founding, principles, and scandals of Scientology using eyewitness interviews and original document research....