Make Yourself At Home In Alix E. Harrow's House Of Secrets

Welcome to Eden, a gloomy, decaying former coal-mining town in Kentucky and a misnomer if there ever was one. All known coal deposits are mined out, and thanks to a coal-fired power plant, air quality is poor and the water tastes strange. Some of the denizens would leave for greener pastures, if they could.

Opal is one of those who probably couldn't. A high-school dropout with bad teeth, a menial job, and a history of delinquency, she and her younger brother Jasper have been orphaned for years after their mother died in a car crash that Opal survived. Seeing Jasper's performance in school and talent in filmmaking, Opal strives to pave a way out of Eden for him.


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Starling House

Alix E. Harrow
Pan
448 pages
Fiction
ISBN: 9781529061147

Leadership Lessons From The Kampung For The Global Village

When it was first published in 206, Boonsiri Somchit's When the Chicken Dies, Everyone Cries promised "authentic leadership and life lessons from the heart of the kampung" because textbook leadership skills aren't bridging the gap between management and people. Was the author aware of how much that chasm would grow since then?

A finance and operations professional with over three decades of experience, Somchit spent nearly 20 years in Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and established AMD's Global Business Services, the US-based chipmaker's first accounting and financial shared services organisation. She also co-founded the Penang-based training and consultation firm Xtrategize.


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When the Chicken Dies, Everyone Cries
Authentic Leadership and Life Lessons from
the Heart of the Kampung

Boonsiri omchit
Clarity Publishing
256 pages
Non-fiction
ISBN: 9786299812203

Can't Read? Take Up These Reading Challenges

Who doesn't love reading challenges? Well, some of us have days where picking a book feels like a pain already, never mind sitting down to read for a couple of hours. That to-be-read pile, however, is not going to read itself. Nor will you be doing anything to jump-start your reading habits by staying away from books. But where to start?

Well, we humbly suggest...


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