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A career advisor explains why many talented, hardworking people often miss out on their full career potential, revealing the tells, blind spots, secrets, and unspoken rules you need to know in order to play the game to win.

An American Tragedy is the story of Clyde Griffiths, who spends his life in the desperate pursuit of success. On a deeper, more profound level, it is the masterful portrayal of the society whose values both shape Clyde's ambitions and seal his fate; it is an unsurpassed depiction of the harsh realities of American life and of the dark side of the American dream.

In the past several years, there has been a great deal of hyperbole disseminated by mass media about "The Top 1%". Most of this press has been negative - casting the 1% as the villains, and the 99% as the victims. Most every major problem in our society, and in individuals' inability to progress, has been blamed on this "elite" income class. Yet, the paradox is that the vast majority of people in America strive every day to become part of that 1%.

For decades, alarms have sounded about declining engagement. Yet companies continue to struggle with toxic cultures, and the low productivity and unhappiness that go with them. Why is "culture" so difficult to improve? What makes so many good employees check out? Neuroscientist Paul Zak shows that innate brain functions hold the answers. It all boils down to trust. When someone shows you trust, a feel-good jolt of oxytocin surges through your brain and triggers you to reciprocate.

Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner’s death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes has been locked in the state pen for years. But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cozy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Rose’s unmistakable trademarks appears to be back to his killing ways.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens. At the start of the 20th century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds.

One of Silicon Valley’s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez. After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. In Chaos Monkeys, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it is invading our lives and shaping our future.

In 2012, on his third tour of duty in Afghanistan, an improvised explosive device left Dan Crenshaw's right eye destroyed and his left blinded. Only through the careful hand of his surgeons, and what doctors called a miracle, did Crenshaw's left eye recover partial vision. And yet, he persevered, completing two more deployments. Why? There are certain stories we tell ourselves about the hardships we face—we can become paralyzed by adversity or we can adapt and overcome. We can be fragile or we can find our fortitude. Crenshaw delivers a set of lessons to help you do just that.

Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down with a stomach bug. What at first seemed like a case of food poisoning quickly turned critical, and by the time Tom had been transferred via emergency medevac to the world-class medical center at UC San Diego, where both he and Steffanie worked, blood work revealed why modern medicine was failing: Tom was fighting one of the most dangerous, antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the world.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects—unless they must. As Bueno de Mesquita and Smith show, democracy is essentially just a convenient fiction.

When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night - dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows her. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of loving Margo from afar, things are finally looking up for Q...until day breaks and she has vanished. Always an enigma, Margo has now become a mystery. But there are clues. And they’re for Q.

If a no-strings hookup is required, then I'm the perfect guy. When I meet Danny, I can't believe my luck. A sexy wolf shifter who's also a fireman? Who runs from relationships just as fast as I do? Sign me up. The night that follows is one for the history books and the best part? Neither of us is looking for a repeat. That doesn't mean we won't see each other again. Without even realizing it, we become friends. Friends who do everything together. Everything with Danny is perfect, but when I start to yearn for more from my hookups, I know something needs to change.

I've never been good at doing the right thing. A series of bad choices have left my life in tatters. Everyone is telling me to move on, but how can I? What I did was unforgivable, even if some believe otherwise. My whole world imploded the night I left a human dying on a classroom floor. I don't deserve anything good in my life, I know that. But I'm desperate for peace. Just a few moments where I can escape from everything I've done. When Toby offers me a solution that promises just that, I jump at it. I never imagined having a Dom but with Toby in that role?

In other words, How to Pray Always is one of those rare books that actually fulfills the promise of its title. It helps us become better Christians by showing us how to know, to love, and to serve God, and to live prayerfully and constantly in His loving presence.

Samuel sees me in an embarrassing moment! I’m ticked off and not paying attention to where I’m going, which is why I end up falling into a mountain stream. I’ve been visiting this mountain forever, so I wouldn’t care ordinarily. I’ve had a crush on this mountain man forever, though. Well, I’m soaking wet but he helps me to his cabin so I can dry off.

Don’t ask me how I end up locking myself out behind the coin laundry without a stich of clothing on my body. I don’t know what the heck to do, and it gets even worse when a tall, handsome, and muscular mountain man drives to the back parking lot. Talk about humiliating! Who wants to meet the perfect man under circumstances like these, right? Well, this curvy girl is stuck, and there’s nothing she can do. Except the man is so nice!

Even thinking about what I want to do with Brock is a forbidden thing. I can’t help it, though. He’s tall and sexy and so strong and powerful. He’s the best kind of mountain man. He’s also been a very close friend all my life. Any affair with him would be forbidden. I can’t help myself, though. I want him and he’s always around to tempt me more. I finally can’t help myself. Naturally, this morally upright older man tries to resist but I’m very persuasive. The night of passion is perfect but now what?

I’m just sneaking down to the bed and breakfast kitchen to get a drink when a tall, sexy mountain man kisses me! Out of nowhere! See, it’s dark, and he thinks he’s giving his ex-girlfriend one final kiss goodbye. Instead, he’s kissing me. What a crazy situation, huh? Well, when I run into him the next day, it’s a crazy situation then, too. And when I take back to the bed and breakfast, I can promise you that this curvy girl wants more than just a kiss. But now what’s going to happen? How can I keep from being just another ex-girlfriend?

I’m thrilled when I get a ride from the very sexy mountain man. After all, I’m on the run, and anything that keeps me moving is wonderful. Then, I have a scare about the police finally catching me, and before I know it, I’m throwing myself at the mountain man so I’ll have a place to hide. He doesn’t know my motives. He just…he just cares for me. The problem is I’m starting to care for him, too!

Devin Donahue's thrill-seeking brother Ricky has ventured out in to the Black Hills, the infamous location where three documentary film makers vanished without a trace ten years prior. Now, weeks later, Ricky still hasn't returned home, and it's up to Devin to venture in to the Black Hills to find him. Will Devin find his brother? Or will something find Devin first?