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"The System" by Eric Lofholm
The subtitle is: The Proven 3-Step Formula Anyone Can Learn to Get More Leads, Book More Appointments, and Make More Sales Some say either you can sell or you can’t. You’re born with it or you’re not. Eric Lofholm disagrees. And he’s in a position to know.
"THE cANCER DANCE" by Barry Spilchuk
The subtitle is “What do you do when cancer catches you with your pants down?” Catchy, doncha think? I think that is because while he was dancing with cancer, he was also going through a separation from his wife and a bankruptcy. Talk about a one-two punch!
"The Wiregrass" by Pam Webber
The Campbell cousins always spend summers in Crystal Springs, in the Florida panhandle, visiting Granny, Ain’t Pitty and Uncle Ben, and assorted other ain’ts and uncles. The area was known as – you guessed it – the Wiregrass, so named for the type of grass that grew there which is – another big surprise – very wiry and sharp and difficult to walk on in bare feet.
"Three Feet From Gold" by Greg S. Reid and Sharon L. Lechter
The title of this book comes from a story in Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, who is widely considered to be the father of the self-help and the power of the mind movement. After the first strike, a prospector could not get his claim to yield any more gold. He finally gave up, sold his equipment to someone who brought in an engineer, as expert council, and found that Darby had stopped drilling – you guessed it – three feet from gold. The problem was he was digging in the wrong direction.
"Six Action Shoes" by Edward de Bono
Dr. de Bono is considered the Father of Lateral Thinking, or, as most of us know it, thinking outside the box. This kind of thinking is encouraged these days, but it was unheard of in the 50s, when he began talking to us about it. One of the most well-known illustrations of the concept is in the second Start Trek movie, The Wrath of Kahn, when Kirk solved the no-win Kobayashi Maru test. Either of the two solutions a Star Fleet Academy student had to choose from would end in death. So, Kirk created a third option: He reprogrammed the computer.
"The Manager’s Daughter" by Matthew Kastel
This is another baseball book. In fact, this author and David Stinton, the author of Deadball, which I reviewed a few months ago, know each other well. He even wrote the review that’s on the back cover. And like Deadball, it’s about minor league baseball. That’s about where the similarities end.
"Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders" by Julianna Baggott
Let me say write off that Julianna Baggott has a bunch of best-selling books. So a lot of people love her work. It’s only fair to say that. So, Harriet Wolf wrote a series of six books, all of which were best-sellers. When she died without publishing the seventh and final book of the series, she is posthumously elevated to cult status and her daughter, Eleanor, is endlessly stampeded by Harriet’s fans, asking if the book exists or if it was never written.
"ATLANTIS: The Lost Continent Revealed" by Charles Berlitz
I first got interested in Atlantis when a book about it literally fell at my feet in a bookstore. Three times. I’d put it back on the shelf and it’d fall right back down. Now, I can believe I didn’t push it far enough back on the shelf once, but three times? So, I figured I was supposed to learn about it.
"Gift from the Sea" by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
This book is for women. Men would get a great deal from it, but it is written for women. It’s a series of essays Ms. Lindbergh – a woman with a husband and five children – wrote while spending time alone at her island home. She is alone there, by choice, and contemplates not only her life, but the situation of woman. We lose our center, she says. We approach the world from the periphery – children, husband, house, community, church, etc. – when we should be getting our core being centered and balanced.
