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MPH Bestsellers for the period: 27 January - 9 February 2012
Title: American Dervish ISBN: 9780316198998 Author: Ayad Akhtar Synopsis: AMERICAN DERVISH, the most sought after debut at Frankfurt Book Fair 2010, is a novel that paints a rich and enlightening portrait of an often‐discussed but littleunderstood segment of American society. Hayat Shah was captivated by Mina long before he met her: his mother's beautiful, brilliant, and soulfully devout friend is a family legend. When he learns that Mina is leaving Pakistan to live with the Shahs in America, Hayat is thrilled. Hayat's father is less enthusiastic. He left the fundamentalist world behind with reason. What no one expects is that when Mina shows Hayat the beauty and power of the Quran, it will utterly transform the boy.	Title: Gideon's Corpse ISBN: 9780446564373 Author: Douglas Preston Synopsis: A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff. A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before. Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: in ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack. Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from the suburbs of New York to the mountains of New Mexico, learns the end may be something worse--far worse--than mere Armageddon.
Title: I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did ISBN: 9781451650518 Author: Lori Andrews Synopsis: Leading expert on social networks and privacy Lori Andrews shows, through groundbreaking in-depth research and a host of stunning stories of abuses, as we work and chat and shop and date (and even sometimes have sex) over the Web, we are opening ourselves up to increasingly intrusive, relentless, and anonymous surveillance—by employers, schools, lawyers, the police, and aggressive data aggregator services that compile an astonishing amount of information about us and sell it to any and all takers.	Title: I Can Make You Smarter ISBN: 9780593064054 Author: Paul Mckenna Synopsis: You're Smarter Than You Think! As you read, you will learn to...increase your intelligence; have exam confidence; supercharge your memory; improve concentration; access your creative genius; make smarter decisions; stay sharp at any age ...and much, much more! Within the pages of this book is a groundbreaking new system that will teach you how to apply the strategies of some of history's greatest geniuses and the latest research into the science of the brain, to help you live an extraordinarily effective and creative life. Wherever you're at in your life right now, simply read the book, enjoy the hypnotic CDs, and become smarter.
Title: This river Awakens ISBN: 9780593067789 Author: Steven Erikson Synopsis: In the spring of 1971, Owen Brand and his family move to the riverside town of Middlecross in a renewed attempt to escape poverty. For twelve-year-old Owen, it's the opportunity for a new life and an end to his family's isolation and he quickly falls in with a gang of three local boys and forms a strong bond with Jennifer, the rebellious daughter of a violent, alcoholic father. As summer brings release from school, two figures preside over the boys' activities: Walter Gribbs, a benign old watchman at the yacht club, and Hogdson Fisk, a vindictive farmer tormented by his past. Then the boys stumble on a body washed up on the riverbank...	Title: 1Q84 ISBN: 9780307593313 Author: Haruki Murakami Synopsis: The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer.
Title: Micro ISBN: 9780062091413 Author: Michael Crichton Synopsis: In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company—only to find themselves cast out into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them. An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.	Title: Private: #1 Suspect ISBN: 9781455506644 Author: James Patterson Synopsis: Since former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan started Private, it has become one of the world's most powerful investigation firms, sought out by the rich and famous to discretely handle their most sensitive problems. When a former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect. While the police are investigating Jack, the mob strong-arms him into recovering $30 million in stolen pharmaceuticals, and the beautiful manager of a luxury hotel chain persuades him to quietly investigate a spree of murders occurring on their properties. Fighting for his life on both sides of the law, Jack realizes that he may not be able to save himself this time.
Title: The Best Of Me ISBN: 9781455502530 Author: Nicholas Sparks Synopsis: THE BEST OF ME is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they've taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world. When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made, and ask whether love can truly rewrite the past.	Title: Time Of My Life ISBN: 9780007350445 Author: Cecilia Ahern Synopsis: Lying on Lucy Silchester′s carpet one day when she returns from work is a gold envelope. Inside is an invitation - to a meeting with Life. Her life. It turns out she′s been ignoring it and it needs to meet with her face to face. It sounds peculiar, but Lucy′s heard of this before. Anyway, she can′t make the date: she′s much too busy despising her job, lying to her friends and avoiding her family. It turns out that Lucy′s life isn′t what it seems. Some of the choices she′s made - and stories she′s told - aren′t what they seem either.
Title: Steve Jobs: Biography ISBN: 9781451648539 Author: Walter Isaacson Synopsis: Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.	Title: Midas Touch ISBN: 9781612680958 Author: Donald J. Trump, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Mark Burnett Synopsis: In this title, two entrepreneurial Icons share experiences and insights into creating and building successful businesses. What makes some business owners wildly successful? What separates the entrepreneurs who build businesses from ones who just seem to create more work for themselves? How, exactly do the world's most prominent business builders seem to hit home run after home run? The answer: They have the Midas Touch.
Title: The Shadow Market ISBN: 9781439109168 Author: Eric J. Weiner Synopsis: Acclaimed financial journalist Eric J. Weiner reveals how foreign countries and private investors are increasingly controlling the global economy and secretly wresting power from the United States in ways that our government cannot reverse and about which the average American knows nothing.	Title: 3rd Alternative ISBN: 9781451626261 Author: Stephen R. Covey Synopsis: From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People—hailed as the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century—The 3rd Alternative introduces a breakthrough approach to conflict resolution and creative problem solving. One of Time magazine’s 25 most influential Americans, Dr. Stephen R. Covey has helped millions transform their lives. In The 3rd Alternative, Covey turns his formidable insight to a powerful new way to resolve professional and personal difficulties and create solutions to great challenges in organizations and society.
Title: Great By Choice ISBN: 9780062120991 Author: Jim Collins Synopsis: Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. This book is classic Collins: contrarian, data-driven and uplifting.	Title: The Five Levels Of Leadership ISBN: 9781455504046 Author: Jay Elliot Synopsis: With his seminal work, New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell returns to Center Street, sharing five stages of leadership and how to maximize each. True leadership isn’t a matter of having a certain job title. In fact, being chosen for a leadership position is just a first step toward becoming an influential, respected, and effective leader. To rise beyond merely being “the boss”—someone people follow only because they have to—one must be dedicated to helping others. To create an effective and motivated team, a leader must also commit to achieving results. But to master leadership requires an investment in developing the ability of others to also grow into achievers and leaders in their own right.
Title: Smart Trust ISBN: 9781451667295 Author: Stephen M. Covey Synopsis: After illustrating the global relevance of trust with his book The Speed of Trust by selling more than one million copies in twenty-two languages, Stephen M. R. Covey again illuminates the hidden power of trust to change lives and impact organizations in Smart Trust. In a compelling and readable style, he and long-time business partner Greg Link share enlightening principles and anecdotes of people and organizations that are not only achieving unprecedented prosperity from high-trust relationships and cultures but—even more inspiring—also attaining elevated levels of energy and joy.	Title: Are You Smart Enough To Work At Google? ISBN: 9780316187671 Author: William Poundstone Synopsis: Trick questions, Zen‐like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need to Know to Get a Job in the New Economy. More than 100 new puzzles from America's toughest job interviews and the advice you need to land your dream job—NOW! You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in 60 seconds What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of America's best companies, you need to have an answer to this and other puzzling questions.
Title: Too Many Bosses, Too Few Leaders ISBN: 9781451646672 Author: Rajeev Peshawaria Synopsis: In this lively and remarkably empowering book, Peshawaria offers readers the opportunity to experience the highest level of leadership training available in the world. Introducing the three core principles he has observed are the foundation of the best leadership––that great leaders clearly define their purpose and values; that nobody can motivate another person because everyone comes premotivated; and that a leader's job is not to directly produce results but to create the conditions that will harness the energy of others—he details his unique and proven program for achieving leadership excellence.	Title: Steve Jobs Way ISBN: 9781593157050 Author: Jay Elliot Synopsis: Through this book, Jay Elliot gives the reader the opportunity of seeing Steve Jobs as only his closest associates have ever seen him, and to learn what has made him capable of creating tools so extraordinary that they have remade three industries and have transformed the way we create, consume and communicate with each other. Jay Elliot worked side by side with Steve as Senior Vice President of Apple and brings us his deep insider perspective of Steve's singular iLeadership style. Jay shares the lessons that come out of Steve's intuitive approach to show how the creative and technological brilliance of iLeadership can be utilized to drive breakthroughs in any organization.


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