Maxwell: 1166 books

What would happen if a top expert with more than 40 years of leadership experience were willing to distill everything he had learned about leadership into a handful of life-changing principles just for you? It would change your life. John C. Maxwell has done exactly that in The 21 Irrefutable...

Smart leaders learn from their own mistakes. Smarter ones learn from others’ mistakes—and successes.   John C. Maxwell wants to help you become the smartest leader you can be by sharing Chapter 12, Your Biggest Mistake Is Not Asking What Mistake You're Making,* ***of *Leadership Gold *with...

Defining success is a difficult task. Most people equate it with wealth, power, and happiness. However, true success is not a thing you acquire or achieve. Rather, it is a journey you take your whole life long. In a refreshingly straightforward style, John Maxwell shares unique insights into what...

Abandoned by his parents and forced by fate to work on the streets of New Babbage shining shoes, Edward Croydon (also known as “Fingers”) has to pick the pockets of rich gentlemen in order to survive. However, his life takes an unexpected turn of events when he discovers a stray Boston terrier...

Have you seen a real live mouse circus? If you have, you’re very lucky indeed, as very few other people have ever seen one. Sometimes a mouse circus will travel around the country as part of a travelling fair. As part of the performance, the mice will climb upon tightropes, perform amazing acrobatics...

A fictionalized account of the life of Susanna Fontanarossa, the mother of Christopher Columbus. Susanna, born in the town of Gorretto in the mountains north of Genoa, Italy, moves with her father to Quezzi, a town east of Genoa where her father works as a Master Weaver. She meets and marries Dominic...

Sophie and her family, Mr. and Mrs. Goggles, lived in the town of Myopia. Everyone in Myopia was short-sighted and so it was no surprise that, when the time came, Sophie should fail her eye test too. Therefore, Mr. and Mrs. Goggles bought their daughter a small kitten, as a present, in order...

Do you believe in the tooth fairy? Not many children do. Even the thirty-two young boys and girls at the New Babbage orphanage knew that Mr. Bagshaw, the resident housemaster, really took their old teeth and left a silver sixpence under their pillows. Even still, a whole sixpence is such a lot of...

Isaac Little was a chimney sweep apprentice who worked for the cruel Mr. Grubber. It was a difficult and dangerous life sweeping chimneys, especially as Isaac was forced to crawl within the flues. It was his awful task to climb up the brickwork and loosen the soot with a brush by hand. Each...

Edward had a special playmate called Teddy, who owned a lot of different hats. Teddy had a smart bowler hat for listening to the BBC news on the radio, a baseball cap for riding his tricycle across the lawn and even a special shabby top hat for talking with Edward in the garden. You might...

Have you ever wandered down the street and seen a shining new penny laying in the gutter? I bet that you didn't pass it by. Very few children would! This is the story of two street urchins who found a whole new penny laying in the snow, one Christmas in New Babbage. As with all stories by Maxwell Grantly, things never go according to plan.  

Teddy was Edward’s favourite playmate. Being a stuffed toy, Teddy found it difficult to change his clothes. Therefore, when Teddy wanted to dress up, he simply swapped his hat. Teddy had such a large number of hats: hats for watching Edward go fishing, hats for exploring in the garden, hats...

This short story explains the origins of two small elven brothers: Maxwell and Skippy. Find out about the tragic event that caused their parents to pass onto The Thousand and then how the young brothers found themselves in the care of the friendly Cardinal Snowfield, Bishop Delaney and Father...

Did you know that the Horse Chestnut tree holds a deep and wonderful secret? No? Well, nor did two small elves, Maxwell and Skippy, until they saw a special picture hanging on the wall of the church study and when Cardinal Snowfield told them of its background. This picture was to provide the inspiration...