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Great communication means much more than just getting your point across; it means connecting. In this book, author Fareed Raja talks about helpful techniques for building those important connections that make it easier to come to work every day.

Life can be crazy sometimes. It can send you running all over the place. It is messy, fuzzy, and oftentimes chaotic. There will be moments when all you would want is for things to stop even for a little while. You long for things to be quiet. You long to be still. You long to be at peace. You long to take a break from it all. Someone who, like you, also wanted the same things in life wrote this book. He wanted to find peace, happiness and stillness.

While in prison, Ron Trentweiler, a petty thief, is befriended by an itinerant preacher and gets "religion." Upon his release, he founds a small, storefront Pentecostal-style church in his native, rural Alabama. Enter Winona Stepp, a visitor at one of his services who seems to know all about "Brother Ron," as he has taken to calling himself, yet insists upon keeping her own past to herself. Things go smoothly for the pair, that is until Winona suggests using venomous snakes in their "act" and all hell breaks loose.

Full Circle is a devastating introspective into Native American culture and ceremony, spirituality, humanity, and society at large. Told from the perspective of Jackson, a white/Native American mixed blood, Full Circle questions the status quo of American society while revealing the causes and effects of colonialism and manifest destiny.

The Jockey is the true story of a young boy from the wrong side of the tracks who, because of his size and toughness, is offered a position to train as a jockey. It soon becomes clear that the business is less about winning horse races than it is about making money. He resists the temptation to join the extralegal side of the business until he is confronted by the facts of racing life: Horse racing is a blood sport, and jockeys rarely survive without life-altering injuries.