Phillips: 3002 books

This is a lesson in consulting. It is for talking with a person who knows what is good for them, but can't seem to do it. In the example given, the topic is going to a retreat. Almost any topic could be substituted for it.

I reject moves into a tiny mobile home that his great uncle bought after World War II. He great aunt feeds him while he sweats and shivers and writes with pencil and paper.

Each day Nicholas Furr goes to the library. He reads, but that is not why he spends his day in the library. Instead, he uses the little pencils next to the card catalog computer; he uses paper from the trash can, and he uses the Internet computers to write one hour each day.

A writer has a cabin by the lake for a week to write. Everything was perfect. Then a predator arrives - a small brown mouse. Can the writer defeat the mouse all alone without outside help?

In the future, all motor vehicles drive themselves. You summon one, it comes to you, and you ride. Yawn. A few people want to have some fun. The people administering the system learn that they system worked to well to do anything.

A man wakes with a clear mind. Something is wrong in his home. A conversation with his son reveals that a period of time doesn't exist in his mind. This isn't Rip Van Winkle or some fable. It is, however, dementia disappearing from one person's mind.

Jay Palmer is a computer programmer who works 16 hours a day. Now he rediscovers his passion for playing the guitar. Will his passions kill him?

I stopped going to work. My walks in the woods wouldn't let me. I couldn't bring myself to tell anyone why. How could I tell of the bullets that I had shot into the eye sockets of those people who weren't really people anymore wandering about at the edge of the woods?

Will is the grandson of migrant workers in California. His escape from that life is his writing. When he gets his big break, he learns that his patron owns the rights to all his work. Can Will, and two friends find a second escape?

The old man walks from his porch to his mailbox every afternoon. He grabs the junk mail, reads the newspaper, and watches the future of mankind pass by in a crowded school bus.

Someone is crashing one IED-laden aircraft into the United States each month. No one claims credit or seeks negotiation.

Lance Thibodaux is hunting in the Honey Island Swamp of Louisiana. A snake bite leads to a battle of man versus nature, until God enters the conversation.

A candidate for Congress is Iowa astonishes the crowds and earns the suspicions of the New York media crowd. What is that black box in front of him and who is the engineer at his side?

A boy sees his family as high-achievers - all except himself. His grandfather and a guitar change that view and take him through his life in the blink of an eye.