Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

Leadership and Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems

"James Moore boldly demonstrates that for many vibrant companies, the future is now; that today's great enterprises no longer compete for product superiority or even industry dominance. What matters now, and from now on, is total system leadership. Make no mistake - business rivalries have never been more intense. But the playing field is raised, the speed and stakes multiply geometrically, and the strategic options have never been more diverse." "Grasping the complex, hidden patterns in today's competitive terrain, Moore envisions a future characterized by organized chaos. As the old powers wait and wonder, vast new fortunes flourish where entrepreneurs jostle to integrate technologies and cultivate utterly new markets of unimaginable richness." "Inviting readers to approach their own businesses with equal boldness, Moore introduces biological ecology as a metaphor for strategic thinking about business coevolution and radically new cooperative/competitive relationships." "From his vantage point at the hot centers of global economic competition, Moore provides a topographical map to competitive systems, enabling readers to position their own companies within interlocking business networks, to identify the development stage of their system, and to pursue the strategy most likely to prevail and ultimately dominate the whole." "But a business model for one's own firm is simply not enough. Leaders must build strong communities of shared meaning, yielding a special resiliency, flexibility, and resistance to catastrophe."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Death of Competition

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This brilliantly funny and talented author delivers another winner in the acclaimed bird themed mystery series readers have come to love.￼ A Meg Langslow mystery.

Maryland

The brilliantly funny and talented Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed mystery series readers have come to love.

 

Meg Langslow’s eccentric parents have a new hobby: growing roses and entering them in highly competitive shows. Dad’s gardening skill and Mother’s gift for selecting and arranging the blossoms should make them an unbeatable team---and Meg is relieved they’ve taken up such a safe, gentle hobby. She even volunteers to help when the Caerphilly Garden Club sponsors its first annual rose show. But after a few hours of dealing with her parents’ competitors, Meg is worried. Rose growers are so eccentric that they make Meg’s family seem almost normal, and so competitive that they will do nearly anything to take home the show’s grand prize---making them prime suspects when Meg discovers that someone is attempting to kill the wealthy woman on whose estate the competition is being held. Of course, the intended victim had other enemies---her treatment of her farm animals had aroused the interest of several animal welfare activists, including Meg’s zoologist grandfather. Meg tries to leave the detecting to the local police and focus on protecting her parents’ chances to win the coveted Black Swan trophy, but she soon finds herself compelled to solve the crime before any more rose growers die.

 

It’s Swan for the Money, two for the show, three to get ready... now go, Meg, go!

Swan for the Money

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

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Financial expert Larry Burkett is recognized for offering adults Scripture-based financial insights. Now, in this simple, entertaining children's story, Larry and Lauree Burkett teach these principles in a way that helps kids learn the basic of stewardship.

What If I Owned Everything?

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New York

A Novel

"Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read." - Meg Wolitzer Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a previously happy group of friends and parents that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens in the community This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege. Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held secrets and lies. Seen through the lens of four families who've been a part of one another's lives since their kids were born over a decade ago, the story reveals not only the lengths that some adults are willing to go to get ahead, but the effect on the group's children, sibling relationships, marriages, and careers, as simmering resentments come to a boil and long-buried, explosive secrets surface and detonate. It's a humorous, keenly observed, timely take on ambitious parents, willful kids, and the pursuit of prestige, no matter the cost.

The Gifted School

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#hardcover #familydrama #botm #fiction #contemporary #bestseller #competition #family #NeverRead #BruceHolsinger

Massachusetts

#paperback #romance #fiction #lindalaelmiller #western #rancher #competition #highCountryBride #mcKettrickCowboysTrilogy 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

In this first novel in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling McKettrick Cowboys trilogy, three brothers are in a race against time to inherit their father’s ranch. One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit, and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides. Rafe McKettrick loves only one thing more than his freedom—the Triple M ranch. In his bid to win it, he marries a woman he’s never met. To his surprise, Emmeline is as beautiful as she is spirited…but she’s clearly hiding a secret. Emmeline Harding discovered she couldn’t hold her liquor the hard way. Uncertain why she woke up next to a stack of gold coins in a brothel and fearing the worst, she fled town as a mail-order bride. Now, she must confess her past to her handsome new husband. But as the newlyweds are suspiciously circling each other, a visitor from the past enters the high country. Can Rafe and Emmeline give up on a marriage in name only and seek a union that satisfies them body and soul?

High Country Bride

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Library discard #historicalfiction #fashion #paris #WWII #Nazis #competition #cocochanel #schiaparelli #chanel #politics #bookclubbook 

New Jersey

A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel

Paris, 1938. Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli ('Schiap') are fighting for recognition as the most successful and influential fashion designer in France, and their rivalry is already legendary. When Lily travels to Paris to visit her brother, he insists on buying her a couture dress for her birthday - a Chanel. But Lily is interested in Schiaparelli, not Chanel. Her brother's girlfriend, one of the most beautiful and prominent women in Paris, also begins wearing Schiap's designs as well, and soon much of Paris is following in her footsteps. Schiap takes an interest in Lily and offers the budding artist a job at her shop. Lily soon finds herself increasingly involved with Schiap and her personal war with Chanel.

The Last Collection

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#hardcover #fiction #familydrama #bestseller #family #contemporary #competition 

Virginia

#hardcover #running #booksaboutrunning #fitness #run #competition 

Everything You Need to Know to Run for Fun, Fitness and Competition

The sport of running is ever changing, be it the shoes we wear or the goals we set, the training methods we use or the role models we emulate. But there is one constant: For 30 years, Runner's World magazine has been recognized worldwide as the leading authority on running. Now, the collective wisdom of some of the most savvy running writers and editors can be found in one book. Whether you are a beginner or veteran runner, here is advice-- both timeless and cutting edge-- guaranteed to maximize your performance and pleasure.

In-depth coverage of training and racing, including:
* A surefire plan for beginners to get "hooked" on running
* 15 surprising foods to boost your running performance
* A program to double your endurance
* Nearly 20 running ailments and how to self-treat them
* A proven method to achieve a breakthrough
* Top 25 training advances over the past 30 years
* Tips from triathletes to maximize your training efficiency
* 11 rules to run a great marathon
* A woman's encyclopedia of running
* The big-five running injuries and how to prevent them
* How to incorporate speedwork into your training
* How to think like a champion
* How to taper your eating, and your training, before a race

Valuable advice from world-class runners, coaches, and doctors:
* Joan Samuelson, 1984 Olympic Marathon gold medalist
* Mark Allen, six-time Hawaii Ironman triathlon champion
* Jeff Galloway, U.S. Olympian and best-selling author
* Joe Ellis, D.P.M., author of Running Injury-Free
* Bob Kempainen, 1992 U.S. Olympic Marathoner
* Doug Kurtis, who has run 60 marathons under 2:20

Runner's World Complete Book of Running

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#hardcover #fiction #botm #familydrama #bestseller #family #contemporary #competition 

Florida

#hardcover #fiction #botm #familydrama #family #bestseller #competition #contemporary 

Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life

It's Not About Perfect is inspirational memoir of the most decorated gymnast in American history, her recovery from cancer, and her miracle pregnancy.

"When the odds were against me, I was always at my best."

When she retired at age 19, Shannon Miller did so as one of the most recognizable gymnasts in the country. The winner of seven Olympic medals and the most decorated gymnast, male or female, in U.S. history, Shannon tells a story of surviving and thriving. A shy, rambunctious girl raised in Oklahoma, Shannon fell in love with gymnastics at a young age and fought her way to the top.

In 1992 she won five Olympic medals after breaking her elbow in a training accident just months prior to the Games. Then, in 1996, a doctor advised her to retire immediately or face dire consequences if she chose to compete on her injured wrist. Undeterred, Shannon endured the pain and led her team, the "Magnificent Seven," to the first Olympic team gold medal for the United States in gymnastics. She followed up as the first American to win gold on the balance beam.

Equally intense, heroic and gratifying is the story of her brutal but successful battle with ovarian cancer, a disease from which fewer than fifty percent survive. Relying on her faith and hard-learned perseverance, Shannon battled through surgery and major chemotherapy to emerge on the other side with a miracle baby girl.

Her story of trial, triumph and life after cancer reminds us all that its life's bumps and bruises that reveal our character. From early on in her career, Shannon knew that life wasn't about perfection. In this incredible and inspirational tale, Shannon speaks out so as to be seen and heard by thousands as a beacon of hope.

It's Not about Perfect

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#hardcover #fiction #familydrama #family #bestseller #contemporary #competition #schooldrama

Iowa

#hardcover #fiction #botm #familydrama #family #bestseller #contemporary #competition 

California

Nevada

Book of the Month Club

#fiction #paperback #boxing #mma #competition #katiekitamura

Alabama

Abrilliant, spare debut novel that follows a former mixed martial arts star and his longtime coach over the course of three fraught days as they prepare for his momentous comeback match. Four years after Rivera knocked Cal from dominance, Cal’s coach, Riley, has set up a rematch—it will be good for Cal, and he’s ready for it. He’s been training harder than ever, trying to shake the lethargy that’s plagued him ever since he lost. Knowing he’s going to face Rivera again, he gets his focus and energy back. He agrees with Riley: he’s ready. But Rivera has never lost a fight, and in the final days before the match, both Cal and Riley secretly begin to doubt that he can be beaten now. The stakes are high for them—not only do they have no idea what else they’ll do with themselves besides MMA, they’re also desperate not to let each other down. In taut, rhythmic language, Katie Kitamura—a journalist who has followed MMA for years—renders the urgency, discipline, and mutual affection of athlete and coach with depth and subtlety. As an excruciating tension builds toward the final electrifying scene, their plight becomes our plight, the looming fight becomes every challenge each of us has ever taken on, however uncertain the outcome. This striking debut upholds a tradition of literary writing about gritty subject matter that includes Denis Johnson and Norman Mailer and goes back through Dos Passos, Steinbeck, and Hemingway. Fans of literary fiction will be drawn to The Finish’s stylized, sensitive portrait of two men striving to stay true to themselves and each other in the only way they know how.

The Longshot

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#dog #obedience #competition #dog-training #AKC #dog-companion #canine

Minnesota

The New Best Foot Forward

Successful Obedience Handling

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Pennsylvania

#hardcover #youngadult #yascifi #fiction #scifi #competition #ya #nyxia #scottreintgen #yafiction 

Colorado

The first in a new three-book series called the Nyxia Triad about a group of broken teens who are taken to the far reaches of the universe and forced to decide what they're willing to risk for a lifetime of fortune.

Nyxia

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Like new condition! #paperback #childrens #school #5th #gradeschool #kids #childrens #fiction #competition #AllanWoodrow

Missouri

Unschooled

Signed by the author. #hardcover #youngadult #yascifi #fiction #scifi #ya #competition #signededition

Tennessee

Bottom of spine is damaged, see pics! #paperback #fiction #baking #cupcakes #kids #competition #childrens #sweets #gradeschool #elementary

It's Raining Cupcakes 

See all pics for blemishes! #paperback #fiction #childrens #school #kids #lemonade #competition #action #adventure #juvenilefiction

Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn 100 dollars. Includes mathematical calculations and tips for running a successful lemonade stand.

Lemonade War

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#hardcover #fiction #competition #romance

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noël comes the first book in the Beautiful Idols series. With mystery, suspense, and an insiders-only look at Los Angeles that echoes Gossip Girl’s racy and real New York, fans of Pretty Little Liars and readers who crave pulse-pounding romance will love Unrivaled. Everyone wants to be someone. Layla Harrison wants to be a reporter. Aster Amirpour wants to be an actress. Tommy Phillips wants to be a guitar hero. But Madison Brooks took destiny and made it her own a long time ago. She’s Hollywood’s hottest starlet, and the things she did to become the name on everyone’s lips are merely a stain on the pavement, ground beneath her Louboutin heel. That is, until Layla, Aster, and Tommy find themselves with a VIP invite to the world of Los Angeles’s nightlife and lured into a competition where Madison Brooks is the target. Just as their hopes begin to gleam like stars through the California smog, Madison Brooks goes missing. . . . And all of their hopes are blacked out in the haze of their lies.

James F. Moore

The Death of Competition

Donna Andrews

Swan for the Money

Larry Burkett

What If I Owned Everything?

Bruce Holsinger

The Gifted School

Bruce Holsinger

The Gifted School

Linda Lael Miller

High Country Bride

Jeanne Mackin

The Last Collection

Bruce Holsinger

The Gifted School

Amby Burfoot

Runner's World Complete Book of Running

Bruce Holsinger

The Gifted School

Bruce Holsinger

The Gifted School

Shannon Miller; Danny Peary

It's Not about Perfect

Bruce Holsinger

The Gifted School

Bruce Holsinger

The Gifted School

Bruce Holsinger

The Gifted School

Katie Kitamura

The Longshot

Barbara S. Handler; Betty J. McKinney (Editor)

Successful Obedience Handling

Bruce Holsinger

The Gifted School

Scott Reintgen

Nyxia

Allan Woodrow

Unschooled

Scott Reintgen

Nyxia

Lisa Schroeder

It's Raining Cupcakes

Jacqueline Davies

Lemonade War

Alyson Noel

Unrivaled