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Leadership |
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Women Count: A Guide to Changing the World
by Susan Bulkeley Butler |
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Become the CEO of You, Inc.
by Susan Bulkeley Butler |
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Why Women Should Rule the World
by Dee Dee Myers
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What Happy Companies Know
by Dan Baker, Cathy Greenberg, and Collins Hemingway |
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Blink
by Malcolm Gladwell |
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Good to Great
by Jim Collins |
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell |
Current Events |
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Stones into Schools
by Greg Mortenson |
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Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson |
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America
by Thomas L. Friedman |
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The World is Flat
by Thomas Friedman |
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The Flight of the Creative Class
by Richard Florida |
Biographies |
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Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe
by Jane Goodall
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Traveling Blind: Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side
by Susan Krieger
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Somewhere South of Tuscany: Five Years in a Four-Cat Town
by Diana Armstrong
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Whistled Like a Bird: The Untold Story of Dorothy Putnam, George Putnam and Amelia Earhart
by Sally Putnam Chapman
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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
by Sandy Tolan
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Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue
by Helene Cooper |
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The House at Sugar Beach
by Helene Cooper |
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Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom |
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No Ordinary Time
by Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow |
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The Lady Elizabeth (Biographical Novel)
by Alison Weir |
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Eleanor of Aquitaine (Biographical Novel)
by Alison Weir |
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Kabul Beauty School
by Deborah Rodriguez |
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Stealing Buddha’s Dinner
by Bich Minh Nguyen |
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Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
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Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson |
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
by Eleanor Roosevelt |
Fiction |
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Drowning Ruth: A Novel
by Christina Schwarz |
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The Piano Teacher
by Janice Y. K. Lee |
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A Short History of Women
by Kate Walbert |
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Too Much Happiness
by Alice Munro |
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Knit the Season: A Friday Night Knitting Club
by Kate Jacobs |
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The Friday Night Knitting Club
by Kate Jacobs |
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Annie Barrows |
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Bernhard Schlink |
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The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink |
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The 19th Wife
by David Ebershoff |
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See |
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan |
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini |
Self-Help |
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Fifty Is the New Fifty: Ten Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood
by Suzanne Braun Levine
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What Happy Working Mothers Know
by Cathy Greenberg, PhD, and Barrett Avigdor, JD |
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Now Discover Your Strengths
by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton |
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Strength finder 2.0: Now, Discover Your Strengths
by Tom Rath |
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The Serving Leader
by Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert |
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The ABCs of Authentic Conversation
by Susan Bird |
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Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives
by Theodore Zeldin |
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Crucial Conversations: Secrets for Talking When the Stakes Are High
by Kerry Patterson
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First Impressions: What You Don't Know About How Others See You
by Ann DeMarais, PhD and Valerie White, PhD
(as first recommended in the Institute's May 2004 e-Newsletter)
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How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less
by Nicholas Boothman |
Gift Books |
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Become the CEO of You, Inc.
by Susan Bulkeley Butler |
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The Flavor Bible
by Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg |
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Culinary Artistry
by Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg |
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What to Drink with What You Eat
by Andrew Dornenburg, Karen Page, and Michael Sofronski |
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Becoming a Chef: With Recipes and Reflections from America's Leading Chefs
by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page |
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Chef's Night Out: From Four-Star Restaurants to Neighborhood Favorites, 100 Top Chefs Tell You Where (and How) to Enjoy America's Best
by Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page |
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking
by Julia Child |
Non-Fiction Other |
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84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff |
