What They Don’t Teach You ~ Book Blast with Giveaway

What They Don’t Teach You in Sales School

About the Author:

Tony Rea holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Windham College and a degree in electrical engineering, specializing in computer science, from Northeastern University. He has been in high-tech sales for more than thirty years. He has worked in start-up companies and global corporations and has received numerous achievement awards. He lives with his wife, Melinda, and their two children in Massachusetts.

About the Book:

If you’re a salesperson struggling to close sales when you think you’ve done everything right, you could very well be taking missteps without knowing it. In order to help you avoid those mistakes, Tony Rea, a veteran salesperson, explains the basics of selling in this guidebook that can help you exceed expectations.

Rea offers guidance on:

• Sales fundamentals
• Effectively managing the sales environment
• Honing your perceptive skills
• Communicating to infl uence
• The mechanics of selling to close

While selling might seem straightforward, it’s really a complicated mix of politics, techniques, and psychology all mixed together. Figuring out how each one of those things works requires learning the craft and keeping at it.

This guide can be your go-to reference for advice on fi nding creative ideas, responding to objections, and making a great fi rst impression. The techniques you learn won’t just help you close more sales; they can serve to improve other areas of your life as well.

Whether you’re a newbie salesperson or high-level closer, you can start selling more by learning What They Don’t Teach You in Sales School.

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Title: What They Don’t Teach You in Sales School
Author: Tony Rea
Publisher: iUniverse
Genre: Business/Sales
Pages: 258

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If you’re a salesperson struggling to close sales when you think you’ve done everything right, you could very well be taking missteps without knowing it. In order to help you avoid those mistakes, Tony Rea, a veteran salesperson, explains the basics of selling in this guidebook that can help you exceed expectations.

Rea offers guidance on:

• Sales fundamentals
• Effectively managing the sales environment
• Honing your perceptive skills
• Communicating to infl uence
• The mechanics of selling to close

While selling might seem straightforward, it’s really a complicated mix of politics, techniques, and psychology all mixed together. Figuring out how each one of those things works requires learning the craft and keeping at it.

This guide can be your go-to reference for advice on fi nding creative ideas, responding to objections, and making a great fi rst impression. The techniques you learn won’t just help you close more sales; they can serve to improve other areas of your life as well.

Whether you’re a newbie salesperson or high-level closer, you can start selling more by learning What They Don’t Teach You in Sales School.

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Becoming Alice ~ Book Blast with Giveaway

Becoming Alice

About the Author:

Alice Rene holds a master’s degree in social welfare. She lives with her husband in Southern California.

About the Book:

“Strongly recommended a deftly written memoir that will hold the reader’s rapt attention from beginning to end.”
-Midwest Book Review

“Her ability to authentically capture the bewilderment and pain of dislocation through a child’s eyes – including the disharmony in her immediate family – makes for engaging reading that will resonate with young adults everywhere.”
-Beth B. Cohen, Ph.D., author of Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in America, 1946-1954

Six-year-old Ilse watches Nazi soldiers march down her street in Vienna, Austria. It is the beginning of an odyssey that will take her to Riga, Latvia, and finally to Portland, Oregon. Becoming Alice chronicles her Jewish family’s harrowing escape and struggle as immigrants to fit into the American landscape. The added problems of growing up within a troubled family cloud her childhood and adolescence.

Ilse changes her name to Alice. Not until she moves into a boarding house in Berkeley, surrounded by girls from a patchwork of cultures, does she make peace with her true identity. Becoming Alice brilliantly showcases Rene’s triumph over adversity, identity crisis, and the sometimes debilitating power of family ties.

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Title: Becoming Alice
Author: Alice Rene 
Publisher: iUniverse
Genre: Memoir 
Pages: 284

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“Strongly recommended a deftly written memoir that will hold the reader’s rapt attention from beginning to end.”
-Midwest Book Review

“Her ability to authentically capture the bewilderment and pain of dislocation through a child’s eyes – including the disharmony in her immediate family – makes for engaging reading that will resonate with young adults everywhere.”
-Beth B. Cohen, Ph.D., author of Case Closed: Holocaust Survivors in America, 1946-1954

Six-year-old Ilse watches Nazi soldiers march down her street in Vienna, Austria. It is the beginning of an odyssey that will take her to Riga, Latvia, and finally to Portland, Oregon. Becoming Alice chronicles her Jewish family’s harrowing escape and struggle as immigrants to fit into the American landscape. The added problems of growing up within a troubled family cloud her childhood and adolescence.

Ilse changes her name to Alice. Not until she moves into a boarding house in Berkeley, surrounded by girls from a patchwork of cultures, does she make peace with her true identity. Becoming Alice brilliantly showcases Rene’s triumph over adversity, identity crisis, and the sometimes debilitating power of family ties.

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My Father and Albert Einstein ~ Book Blast with Giveaway

My Father and Albert Einstein 
By Joan Rothman Brill

About the Author: 

Joan Brill is uniquely qualified to present David Rothman’s tape-recorded description of his friendship with Albert Einstein, since David Rothman is Ms. Brill’s father. Ms. Brill met Dr. Einstein, and was present at many of the events that are described in the narrative. Joan Brill is also a Juilliard-trained pianist-harpsichordist, with degrees from Long Island University and SUNY at Stony Brook. 

About the Book: 

Joan Rothman Brill presents the life story and 1918 marriage diary of her parents, David and Ruth Samuel Rothman. David Rothman was forced to leave school after the eighth grade in order to help support his family. However his thirst for knowledge and self-study led to his friendship with an icon who changed man’s concept of the universe. David Rothman relates, through taped reminiscences, his word-for-word intellectual discussions and musical evenings with Dr. Albert Einstein. 

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Title: My Father and Albert Einstein 
Author: Joan Rothman Brill 

Publisher: iUniverse 
Genre: Biography 
Pages: 160 

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 Joan Rothman Brill presents the life story and 1918 marriage diary of her parents, David and Ruth Samuel Rothman. David Rothman was forced to leave school after the eighth grade in order to help support his family. However his thirst for knowledge and self-study led to his friendship with an icon who changed man’s concept of the universe. David Rothman relates, through taped reminiscences, his word-for-word intellectual discussions and musical evenings with Dr. Albert Einstein. 

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November CSFF Blog Tour ~ The Shadow Lamp Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of November's CSFF blog tour.  This month our focus is Stephen Lawhead's The Shadow Lamp, which is the fourth book in his Bright Empires series.  To fully comprehend and appreciate these books you need to read them all and in order.

The Shadow Lamp
Bright Empires # 4
By Stephen R. Lawhead

The nearer one is to the beginning of a line, the closer one seems to be in relation to its origin point in time.  ...but don't trust your life on it - there are too many exceptions.

For the final day of The Shadow Lamp blog tour 

I decided to do something a little different.  

So enjoy the video and let me know what you think.

 

 Youtube link

I hope you'll enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

When Shadow Lamp was offered I just knew this book (and series)

needed a special post to wrap-up the tour.

 Looking forward to book 5 The Fatal Tree coming 2014 and a most interesting and intriguing conclusion, I'm sure.

On a side note has anyone noticed that the whole Flinders-Petrie bloodline is problematic for the universe (or multiverse/omniverse).  So one has to wonder, do they have to die out therefore negating the entire series because there was no Skin Map to even be searching for because it was never preserved at Arthur's death?  Just a thought....

In Conjunction with this CSFF blog tour I was provided a copy of The Shadow Lamp by the publisher Thomas Nelson in exchange for my honest review.

All 4 books are available for purchase at the following:

The Skin Map  The Bone House  The Spirit Well  The Shadow Lamp 

Visit Stephen Lawhead online or on Facebook 

Be sure to check out my post from Day 1 and Day 2.

For more from November's CSFF blog tour and The Shadow Lamp be sure to check-out all the other blog participates below who will be posting throughout the tour November 11 -13.

Julie Bihn  Red Bissell  Thomas Clayton Booher  

Thomas Fletcher Booher  Beckie Burnham 

Jeff Chapman  Karri Compton  Theresa Dunlap  

April Erwin  Timothy Hicks  Christopher Hopper

Becky Jesse  Becca Johnson  Jason Joyner  

Carol Keen  Rebekah Loper  Shannon McDermott 

Meagan @ Blooming with Books  Rebecca LuElla Miller  

Mirriam Neal  Writer Rani  Nathan Reimer

Chawna Schroeder  Jojo Sutis  Rachel Starr Thomson  

Robert Treskillard  Steve Trower  

Rachel Wyant  Phyllis Wheeler  Deborah Wilson

November CSFF Blog Tour ~ The Shadow Lamp Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of November's CSFF blog tour.  This month our focus is Stephen Lawhead's The Shadow Lamp, which is the fourth book in his Bright Empires series.  To fully comprehend and appreciate these books you need to read them all and in order.

The Shadow Lamp
Bright Empires # 4
By Stephen R. Lawhead

The nearer one is to the beginning of a line, the closer one seems to be in relation to its origin point in time.  ...but don't trust your life on it - there are too many exceptions.

Ley travel is imprecise, but it can be done to within a few days of when one wants to arrive, unless something goes wrong.  And as is often the case something does go wrong for several of our ley travelers.  But this is all part of the journey.  The journey to reach the Spirit Well that Kit discovered by accident when he was misdirected into the Stone Age.  But the Bone House is no longer accessible and a large tree is in its place.  And the gargantuan yew is channeling an enormous amount of energy from the ley in which it is growing.

Cassandra points out an amazing coincidence to Kit in that the yew tree is a symbol immortality and eternity and in a sense that is what they are searching for in the Spirit Well.  But little does Kit know that he may hold the answer to saving the Omniverse, the known and unknown, from complete and total annihilation!

Time from the first moments of Creation is at stake if the event that caused the imbalance is not found. The ever expanding universe is beginning to retract upon itself and time is growing short.  An act of Arthur Flinders-Petrie may destroy everything, and we will be alive to witness our own obliteration!

I have to admit I really enjoyed all the twists and turns that The Shadow Lamp took.  It answered some questions while creating new one and left me wondering how it can all possibly be wrapped up in one final book!  I found the suggestion that we (humanity) are the elusive dark energy/matter that scientists have been unable to locate a fascinating hypothesis.  Looking forward to book 5 and a most interesting and intriguing conclusion, I'm sure.

In Conjunction with this CSFF blog tour I was provided a copy of The Shadow Lamp by the publisher Thomas Nelson in exchange for my honest review.

All 4 books are available for purchase at the following:

The Skin Map  The Bone House  The Spirit Well  The Shadow Lamp 

Visit Stephen Lawhead online or on Facebook 

Be sure to check out my post from Day 1 here.

Come back tomorrow for more from November's CSFF blog tour and The Shadow Lamp.  In the meantime be sure to check-out all the other blog participates below who will be posting throughout the tour November 11 -13.

Julie Bihn  Red Bissell  Thomas Clayton Booher  

Thomas Fletcher Booher  Beckie Burnham 

Jeff Chapman  Karri Compton  Theresa Dunlap  

April Erwin  Timothy Hicks  Christopher Hopper

Becky Jesse  Becca Johnson  Jason Joyner  

Carol Keen  Rebekah Loper  Shannon McDermott 

Meagan @ Blooming with Books  Rebecca LuElla Miller  

Mirriam Neal  Writer Rani  Nathan Reimer

Chawna Schroeder  Jojo Sutis  Rachel Starr Thomson  

Robert Treskillard  Steve Trower  

Rachel Wyant  Phyllis Wheeler  Deborah Wilson

Goddess Tithe ~ Review

Goddess Tithe
by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

Munny has gone to sea like his father.  He did this in the hope that his mother would return to the home of her father.  The life of a sailor isn't an easy one as Munny is learning on this - his first voyage.

But when a foreign stowaway is found hidden in the hold, Captain Sunan defies what is deemed acceptable when he doesn't toss this western devil to the sea giving Risafeth her tithe.  The crew is on edge waiting for this sea serpent to come claiming her tithe.  But when Risafeth comes will she claim only the foreign devil or will she claim the Kulap Kanya and her crew?

Readers of the Tales of Goldstone Wood series will soon recognize the foreign devil who has stowed away aboard the Kulap Kanya. On a mission to save both his family and his people Leonard is attempting to reach Lunthea Maly and Ay-Ibunda.  But if the crew of the Kulap Kanya has their way Leonard's mission will end in the ocean deep.

This delightful story takes place during Heartless and Veiled Rose, providing yet another layer to Leonard's story while introducing us to another land within the Goldstone Wood universe.

I was provided a digital copy by the author in exchange for my honest review.

Available for purchase 11.12.13! 

The Vengeful Goddess
Demands Her Tithe

When a stowaway is discovered aboard the merchant ship Kulap Kanya, Munny, a cabin boy 

on his first voyage, knows what must be done. All stowaways are sacrificed to Risafeth, the evil goddess of the sea. Such is her right, and the Kulap Kanya's only hope to return safely home.

Yet, to the horror of his crew, Captain Sunan vows to protect the stowaway, a foreigner in 

clown's garb. A curse falls upon the ship and all who sail with her, for Risafeth will stop at 

nothing to claim her tithe.

Will Munny find the courage to trust his captain and to protect the strange clown who has 

become his friend?

November CSFF Blog Tour ~ The Shadow Lamp Day 1

Today is the first day of CSFF's November 3-Day blog tour.  To kick off the tour I decided to recap the the first three books in Stephen R. Lawhead's Bright Empires series.  This is a series that should appeal to a wide range of readers, but especially fans of Star Trek and the Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis series and the time paradox shows.  These books have a complexity that is brilliant - time and space and their relationship is taken to a new dimension.

The Bright Empire series by Stephen R Lawhead opens with The Skin Map.  In this we are introduced to Cosimo "Kit" Christopher Livingstone who is about to begin the adventure of a lifetime.  Kit is about to follow his great-grandfather Cosimo Livingstone on a search for the Skin Map, a search that will span centuries and dimensions.  A search that could destroy everything in the omniverse if they accidently change history in just one dimension.

But what is this Skin Map and why is it so sought after?  The skin map was created by Arthur Flinders-Petrie as a series of various symbols tattooed upon his body that were turned into parchment upon his death.  The greatest of his various mapped symbols lead to the greatest of treasures - the Well of Souls.

But nothing is ever easy and Kit, his great-grandfather and the Questors are not the only ones seeking the map.  Burley and his men are seeking it too and he plans to use the power he would gain in untold evil.

But due to his inexperience Kit, Cosimo and Sir Henry have a secondary quest, to rescue Kit's girlfriend Wilhelmina "Mina" from whatever time/dimension she was pulled into.  But nothing ever goes as planned and the three are separated.  The Skin Map is filled with unexpected twists and turns up until the very end so that you are left wondering what comes next in The Bone House book 2.

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The Bright Empire series by Stephen R Lawhead continues with The Bone House.  

With the unexpected deaths of Cosimo Livingstone and Sir Henry at the hands of Archelaeus Burleigh, Kit  must rely on the Ley traveling skills that Mina has developed since she was transported to 17th century Prague.

But with time/dimensional travel there are a variety of trips covered in The Bone House including Kit's visit to Egypt in 1822 where he meets up with Doctor Thomas Young, where both are on a mission that was brought about by Mina. While Kit is in Egypt with Dr. Young, Mina and Giles are with Dr. Young in Edinburgh.

Arthur Flinders-Petrie's life is further revealed as are the exploits of his great-grandson Douglas Flinders-Petrie to obtain the Skin Map that Arthur created. 

When Mina, Kit and Giles finally arrive at Mina's new home in Prague, they are shocked to discover the one man that they are trying to avoid is there!  Burleigh is in Prague and all too soon discovers that Kit and Giles did not die in the Egyptian tomb they were imprisoned in.  In their attempt to escape Burleigh, Giles is injured and Kit manages to make it to the Ley line that Mina had directed them to.  But Kit finds himself in the Stone Age where he makes a discovery he was not expecting the Bone House.

 The Bone House is filled with trips that span the centuries and the globe will leave you anticipating what will come next in The Spirit Well book 3.

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The Bright Empire series by Stephen R Lawhead continues with The Spirit Well.  

The Bone House left us with Kit having discovered what he believes to be the Spirit Well, a conclusion he came to after observing Arthur Flinders-Petrie enter a deep water filled environment with a dead woman who is restored to life.

Mina, after being warned by Haven of Burleigh's suspicions, has left Prague in the hopes of somehow locating Kit.  When she can find no sign of him, Mina goes to Spain in the hopes that Brother Lazarus can help her in her quest.

Meanwhile we are introduced to Cassandra Clarke who, while on a dig in Arizona, discovers by accident the Ghost Walk.  But when she determines to study this phenomenon she jumps to other places and becomes lost to her time and place, ending up in 1950s Damascus.  There she finds the Zetetic Society who are seeking to achieve God's purpose for His creation - unity and harmony as the Creator intended and to be fully realised at "the end of time and the beginning of eternity.

In the Spirit Well we discover the circumstances that resulted in the creation of the Skin Map and its separation as well as Burleigh's discovery of the ley lines. 

The Zetetic Society is searching for Sir Henry, Cosimo, and Kit.  The three have disappeared as has Sir Henry's portion of the map.  The society feels that discovering them is of the highest priority and assign this task to Cassandra.

Treachery and betrayals abound as many search for the greatest discovery of Arthur Flinders-Petrie.  A discovery that Kit has discovered, but can he find his way back?

As is often mentioned by various characters throughout the series There are no coincidences.  There is a purpose behind everything that happens in our lives though we may not be able to ascertain it at the time.

The Spirit Well is filled with trips that span the centuries and the globe will leave you anticipating what will come next in The Shadow Lamp book 4.   

Get ready to go on an adventure that will test your ability to adapt and prepare to grow your mind!  The unknown is greater than you ever imagined!

All 4 books are available for purchase at the following:

The Skin Map  The Bone House  The Spirit Well  The Shadow Lamp 

Visit Stephen Lawhead online or on Facebook 

Come back tomorrow for more from November's CSFF blog tour and The Shadow Lamp.  In the meantime be sure to check-out all the other blog participates below who will be posting throughout the tour November 11 -13.

Julie Bihn  Red Bissell  Thomas Clayton Booher  

Thomas Fletcher Booher  Beckie Burnham 

Jeff Chapman  Karri Compton  Theresa Dunlap  

April Erwin  Timothy Hicks  Christopher Hopper

Becky Jesse  Becca Johnson  Jason Joyner  

Carol Keen  Rebekah Loper  Shannon McDermott 

Meagan @ Blooming with Books  Rebecca LuElla Miller  

Mirriam Neal  Writer Rani  Nathan Reimer

Chawna Schroeder  Jojo Sutis  Rachel Starr Thomson  

Robert Treskillard  Steve Trower  

Rachel Wyant  Phyllis Wheeler  Deborah Wilson