Diversion Books: 923 books
As Is
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2014
The debut novel from the author of Help Yourself and Settling—a moving story of love, loyalty, and going on with life when there’s not much left to go on . . .
Gwendolyn Golden and Armand Leopold are America’s go-to couple for home decorating tips, letting the cameras into their “So...
TransForm
Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life…One Simple Step at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
TransForm is based on four years of advice from bestselling ghostwriter, leading Inc. Magazine columnist, and LinkedIn Influencer Jeff Haden. It provides concrete, practical, real-world ways anyone can increase personal productivity, improve professional relationships, achieve goals, become a better...
Putting First What Matters Most
Proven Strategies for Success in Work and Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
JUGGLE MULTIPLE PRIORITIES WITH CONFIDENCEIf you feel as if you can’t ever get caught up at work or in life—this book is for you! World-renowned speaker and author, Jane K. Cleland, shares proven priority-setting strategies and time management and communications tactics—ideas that you can customize...
by Jerry Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
In these acclaimed essays, Jerry Dennis, widely recognized as one of our finest writers on nature and the outdoors, turns his attention to old passions and finds new reasons to appreciate them. This engaging collection explores the quintessential American sports of canoeing and camping and pays tribute...
by Jerry Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
In this remarkable collection of essays and stories, winner of the Best Book of the Year Award from the Outdoor Writers Association of America, Jerry Dennis demonstrates why he has emerged as one of America's finest writers on nature and the outdoors. In prose that has drawn comparisons with John Voelker,...
My Own Medicine
A Doctor's Life as a Patient
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Approaching his forty-first birthday, Dr. Geoffrey Kurland was a busy man. His work as a Pediatric Pulmonologist , caring for children with lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis and asthma, led to long hours on the wards at the University of California, Davis Medical Center. At the same time, he was...
by Madelyn Cain
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Whether childless by choice, by chance, or by happenstance, women without children today are alternately pitied and scorned, and are rarely asked directly about the reasons for, and their comfort with, childlessness.Asking the right questions, Madelyn Cain thoughtfully uncovers the reasons for childlessness...
Business Writing for Results
How to Create a Sense of Urgency and Increase Response to All of Your Business Communications
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Effective writing is accessible, professional, and direct. In the business world, the best writing must be friendly but not too conversational, professional without being dry, and results driven without feeling like a “hard sell.” Business Writing for Results shows you how to write emails, reports,...
Your Best Year Yet!
Ten Questions to Change Your Life Forever
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Feel you're not getting anywhere? Putting off what matters most because you’re too busy? Know you have talent and intelligence you're not using? Translated into 12 languages and in its 19th printing in the UK, Your Best Year Yet! is considered the source book for personal transformation and planning...
It's Raining Frogs and Fishes
Four Seasons of Natural Phenomena and Oddities of the Sky
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
It's Raining Frogs and Fishes is a generously illustrated inquiry into wonders of the sky: Why is the sky blue? Where do meteors originate? What causes rainbows, mirages, and the colors of the sunset? Why do some birds and insects migrate, and how do they navigate over hundreds or thousands of miles...
by Ellen Gilchrist
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Originally published in 1984, this collection of 14 short stories set in Arkansas and Mississippi went on to win that year’s National Book Award for fiction, confirming Ellen Gilchrist’s place as one of the preeminent literary talents of her generation. Victory Over Japan takes us into the lives...
by Jill Althouse-Wood
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
She thought that her family was an open book, without secrets. Even as a child, Barbara Jean Ellington knew her grandmothers were lesbians, a truth they never concealed. During BJ's summer vacations at their home on Blue Lake, Nonna and Lena taught her to swim and play cards, provided a lively contrast...
by Rosanne Bittner
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Blue Hawk was born into the Cheyenne culture of his parents, but when he is adopted by a white trapper and renamed Caleb Sax it is difficult for him to adjust to the white man’s ways. He encounters prejudice everywhere he goes and struggles to remember his true blood despite his upbringing. Caleb’s...
by Ellen Gilchrist
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
At the heart of Ellen Gilchrist’s novel is the incorrigible Amanda McCamey. Leaving a troubled past behind, she marries into New Orleans’ high society but finds the privileged world stifling and unsatisfying. Seeking a quieter, more meaningful life, she divorces and moves to the Ozarks where she...