Writing “Work Rules!” in a 16-week blitz during the final quarter of 2013, Bock drew on his nine years at Google and previous executive roles at General Electric and McKinsey & Company. The 42-year-old Los Altos resident also had research data, experience and the intangible touch - artistic sensibilities that transform algorithms, charts, metrics, black-and-white photos and personal workplace stories into an engaging mosaic with solid business leadership underpinnings. “This is my day job, so I had a lot of theory in my head,” Bock says. It’s Google, separated into irregularly shaped but perfectly interlocking pieces. The head of “people operations” at Google (what most companies call human resources) departs from the company’s usual “we speak” to craft a first-person narrative that promises to “transform how you live and lead.” Offering 10 “work rules” in a 14-chapter management manifesto aimed at defining meaningful work, the handbook reads like a puzzle in reverse. MOUNTAIN VIEW - Unrolling the geist of Google - the inner spirit of the 50,000-employee, high-tech global company - Laszlo Bock tells all in a list-centric book, “Work Rules!” (Twelve, $30, 416 pages).
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So begins Kristin Hannah’s magnificent new novel. They make a pact to be best friends forever by summer’s end they’ve become TullyandKate. Inseparable. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. On the surface, they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully Hart seems to have it all-beauty, brains, ambition. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. I liked and enjoyed this-but I love lots of the other entries in the series. The story is good space opera in the tradition of the Heinlein juveniles-but with stronger, more believable female characters. Leo Graf, an engineer, finds himself teaching "quaddies," a bioengineered species of human with four arms designed to work in free fall who are disturbingly treated like property-and a new tech is about to make their purpose obsolete. But while Miles Vorkosigan is one of the most memorable fictional characters in science fiction, this merely has likable ones. This is recognizably in the same universe though, and is an entertaining story in its own right. So I'd recommend starting with the omnibus works Cordelia's Honor (centered on Miles' parents) or Young Miles, where Miles finally takes center stage. It's also an early work of Bujold, only her fourth published novel, and I think she's one of those writers who only got better with time rather than peaked early. Show More Miles Vorkosigan-who isn't even mentioned in this standalone story set 200 years before the character that gives this series its name was born. 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And as she travels magically to places both imaginary and real, Beauty eventually comes to understand her special place in humanity's destiny. In 1991 she released the novel BEAUTY, for which she won the Locus award for Best. She is taken to the world of the future, a savage society where, even amongst the teeming billions, she is utterly alone. With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Womens Country, Raising The Stones. Ī magnificent reworking of the Sleeping Beauty story by a master storyteller On her 16th birthday, the princess Beauty sidesteps the sleeping curse placed upon her by her wicked aunt, the fairy Carabosse - only to be kidnapped by visitors from another time and place, far from the picturesque castle in 14th-century England. And as she travels magically to places both imaginary and real, Beauty eventually. Teppers Beauty reinstates the many questions regarding beauty and its value, regardless of the time in which it is present. She is taken to the world of the future, a savage society where, even amongst the teeming billions, she is utterly alone. A magnificent reworking of the Sleeping Beauty story by a master storyteller On her 16th birthday, the princess Beauty sidesteps the sleeping curse placed upon her by her wicked aunt, the fairy Carabosse - only to be kidnapped by visitors from another time and place, far from the picturesque castle in 14th-century England. I am determined to be absolutely and entirely for Him and Him alone. Shut out every other thought and keep yourself before God in this one thing only - my utmost for His highest. When we think seriously about what it will cost others if we obey the call of Jesus, we tell God He doesn't know what our obedience will mean. An undue amount of thought and consideration for ourselves is what keeps us from making that decision, although we cover it up with the pretense that it is others we are considering. It is absolute and irrevocable surrender of the will at that point. It's as if Paul were saying, "My determined purpose is to be my utmost for His highest - my best for His glory." To reach that level of determination is a matter of the will, not of debate or of reasoning. ".my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed." We will all feel very much ashamed if we do not yield to Jesus the areas of our lives He has asked us to yield to Him. My earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. series for middle-grade readers, which started with Gregor the Overlander. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Chant this African voodoo love spell for 5-6 minutes while watching the photo. –Mara Alpert, Los Angeles Public LibraryĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The breathless pace, intense drama, and extraordinary challenges will leave fans clamoring for the conclusion of this fine series. When Queen Luxa gets a message that the mice that saved her life in the jungle are in trouble, she and Gregor head out to investigate, accompanied by her cousin Howard, several bats, Gregors sisters, and a brave cockroach named Temp. Bane, now a half-grown monster of a rat, is surprisingly charismatic yet emotionally stunted and easily controlled by the forces of evil. Ripred has his own problems, largest of which is Bane, the once-sweet little baby Gnawer whom the protagonist refused to kill in Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (Scholastic, 2004). Gregor is supposed to be studying echolocation with his rat friend, Ripred the Gnawer, but hes doing very badly. Gregor and his sister Boots are regular visitors to Underland, where their mother is slowly recovering from injuries incurred in the previous episode. Grade 5-8–No good deed goes unpunished in the fourth installment in the popular series. Despite what The Author and the antagonists have in store for me, whatever it costs.I'll be the one taking charge of my own story. But I know one thing about my fate, for certain. I still don't know if I will be a great protagonist one day. One minute you could be practicing fainting exercises in Damsels in Distress class, sword fighting in a field, or flying on a Pegasus, and the next, BAM! Your book has begun and you're saddled with a prophecy that changes everything. Because here's the thing about living in an enchanted realm of fairytale characters, crazy junk you never planned on happens all the time. I'm talking vicious nightmares about people I've never met, a total stalker prince, and a Fairy Godmother for an enemy.īut I digress. Moreover, for a princess, I had a lot of issues. Unlike most main characters at Lady Agnue's School for Princesses & Other Female Protagonists, I was opinionated, bold, and headstrong. At least that's what my mom, Cinderella, kept telling me. And not just long ago and far away but (sort of) here and now! Enjoy! The next generation - the children of Snow White, Cinderella, and others - have lives and stories of their own. Keane, for his part, is instantly smitten with Poppy and recruits her help in finding his enemy. She’s certainly not expecting the duke to prove charming, kind, and intelligent-or for him to treat her with such remarkable respect and care. Poppy’s distrustful of the nobility due to a painful family history, but she reluctantly accepts. Poppy saves his life and tries to run for help, but Keane reasons he’ll have better luck sussing out his would-be killer if whoever it is believes he’s dead, and offers Poppy an exorbitant sum to hide him instead. He’s Andrew Keane, Duke of Hawking, and a mysterious attacker tried to drown him. Bennett’s tantalizing second Rogues to Lovers Regency romance (after Girls Before Earls) gets off to a memorable start: fisherwoman Poppy Summers catches a man in her net. I so love a good collection of short stories. This incredibly talented group of authors brings us a collection of stories that are at turns romantic and witty, epic and everyday, heartbreaking and real. Jennifer Armentrout writes a sweet story about finding love from a missing library book, Emery Lord has a heartwarming and funny tale of two girls stuck in an airport, Dhonielle Clayton takes a thoughtful, speculate approach to pre-destined love, and Julie Murphy dreams up a fun twist on reality dating show contestants. There’s futuristic flirting from Kass Morgan and Katharine McGee, a riveting transgender heroine from Meredith Russo, a subway missed connection moment from Jocelyn Davies, and a girl determined to get out of her small town from Ibi Zoboi. Readers will experience Nina LaCour’s beautifully written piece about two Bay Area girls meeting via a cranky customer service Tweet, Sara Shepard’s glossy tale about a magazine intern and a young rock star, Nicola Yoon’s imaginative take on break-ups and make-ups, Katie Cotugno’s story of two teens hiding out from the police at a house party, and Huntley Fitzpatrick’s charming love story that begins over iced teas at a diner. |