Wheatmark: 217 books

Nothin' to Be Ashamed of…We'll Get By chronicles the struggles of the Buck family in impoverished Crooksville, Ohio, during the turbulent 1940s. This heart-wrenching work, inspired by real people, explores the role poverty plays in small, bucolic towns across the United States and how hardship bonds...

The New Jersey Nets were mired in mediocrity when an international man of mystery emerged from the shadows. Russian multibillionaire Mikhail Prokhorov came bearing two gifts: a bottomless wallet and a passion for basketball. In return for his money, he expected everybody associated with the team --...

Having your medical practice at peak performance occurs when you draw out leadership from each person on the team. No matter where a person is on the organizational chart, they can provide leadership to make the biggest difference for your patients.Expand your ability to lead your staff in being...

Your child is out of control and you don't know why. You've listened to all the standard tips. You've read more parenting books than you can count. You're frustrated, tired, and at the end of your rope. ParentLeaders takes a fresh approach to childrearing—an effective approach. It works because it's...

A California strawberry farmer. A female cattle rancher. A West Virginia coal miner. A Bolivian immigrant. What do these individuals have in common? Each one achieved recognition as a gifted and dedicated teacher who worked with some of America's most disenfranchised and disadvantaged students.Among...

Great management is difficult. It requires patience, empathy, courage, flexibility, and an understanding of how everybodys efforts contribute to the greater goal. You may possess some of these qualities, but few of us excel at all of them -- at least not right out of the gate. Managing on Purpose is...

Charge Up Your Life is an easy-to-follow guide to discovering the real you. As you embark on a personal journey to build self-confidence and generate happiness in your life, you will find proven insights, information, and tools that help you overcome the key barriers that hold you back. Ellen M. Diana...

On a scorching June day in Buckeye, Arizona, thirteen-year-old Juan Miguel Quilantan discovers a body impaled on a saguaro. The authorities quickly link the crime to radical Islamists who are planning an attack on the four million citizens of the Phoenix area, using some undetermined weapon of mass...

Hollywood made him a blacksmith; Arab chronicles said he was "like a king." He served a leper, but defied Richard the Lionheart. He fought Saladin to a standstill, yet retained his respect. Rather than dally with a princess, he married a dowager queen—and founded a dynasty....

John d'Ibelin, son of the legendary Balian, will one day defy the most powerful monarch on earth. But first he must survive his apprenticeship as squire to a man determined to build a kingdom on an island ravaged by rebellion. The Greek insurgents have already driven the Knights Templar from the island,...

Jillian traded her chef's hat for fresh air, dirty boots, and brown-eyed cows, imagining a lifemore charming than her dreams. Husband Alec, by nature a bit obsessive, felt grateful that his family accepted his quirky ways. Daughter Deanna, having risen to the top of Oregon's running elite, believed Olympic...

In early 1880s America, a young twelve-year-old girl finds herself abused and alone on thestreets. Both of her parents recently died, although she does not miss them. They were nothing butcold and uncaring; yet without them, she has nothing but the clothes on her back. Then, blessedly,a kind doctor takes...

When Jamie Aldrich was eleven years old, she and her siblings spent the summer with her great aunt Elizabeth. She doesn't remember what happened during that visit, and she's avoided Pawhuska, Oklahoma, ever since. But when Elizabeth calls her thirty years later, begging her to come, Jamie arrives to...

"Life is like a butcher counter." That's what they told her at the pub. "You can have whatever you want. You just have to ring the bell." But suppose you don’t know what to order when you step up to the butcher counter of life? What then? Chances are, the...