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Leonard Riggio is the chairman of Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world's largest bookseller. He is also the chairman and principal shareholder of several privately held companies, including Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, which serves more than 500 colleges and universities across the country. Starting with a single college bookstore in 1965, Riggio built one of the largest enterprises in the history of American retail.

Stacy Richardson is a microbiology graduate student at the University of Southern California, taking her final doctoral exams. In the middle of her "Quals," Stacy learns that her husband, head of the university's Microbiology Department, has "committed suicide" while on sabbatical at a...

From junior high football games to the Sugar Bowl with a national championship up for grabs, Mike Liner has seen it all in football. President and CEO of a bank by day, Liner has been a Texas football official on Fridays and Saturdays for the past 35 years. It’s Not All Black and White offers a view of college football seen through a different set of eyes, the eyes of an official. Liner takes listeners through the story of his ascension up the officiating hierarchy and describes the bumps in the road he encountered along the way.

This wasn't what "keep your friends close" was supposed to mean. But now that the line has been crossed, can they ever make their way back to the twenty-year friendship they've been building? Or, better question—Is that what either of them really wants?

Everything is all fun and games until living on the "wild" side becomes the rule instead of the exception. It's good to be bad... within reason, of course. And in this case? It's very, very good.

Fear Dynamics is a portrait of transformation. It’s also an invitation to listeners—whatever obstacles they’ve had to overcome—to embrace the self-help techniques that Stephen J. Dietrich, JD, developed and applied during his darkest hours. The past has already been written, but the author offers an empowering new script for anyone seeking to acknowledge, accept, and overcome pain that has become part of their story. A successful corporate attorney at one of the nation’s preeminent law firms, Stephen unabashedly shares his journey of overcoming childhood neglect and abuse.

These poems offer little insights on how to thrive in the middle of chaos, find humor in dumbstruck problems, and see joy in everyday details that typically go unnoticed. This collection offers a spectrum of enlightenment, with over a dozen poems about different colors of white paint. And a cover theme poem about mosaic floor tiles discovered in far away Italy. Let your imagination be filled with wonder. Come along for the ride.

Ken believes that everyone has the inner strength to tackle what, to many, would seem to be almost insurmountable odds so that even the most difficult obstacles can be the springboard to the most satisfying success. But “I Dream of Things That Never Were” is about more than overcoming adversity. It is also a love story that leads Ken to marry the woman of his dreams and become the father of triplet boys. A true-life story that inspires and motivates others to fight for their dreams against overwhelming odds.