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Romance

Amber Waves of Grace

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Amber Waves of Grace

Jessica Berg

Aaron showed up promptly at seven o’clock the next morning. With the hot, dry wind whistling over the land, the wheat was ready to go much earlier than in humid summers. Brown grass crunched under his work-worn cowboy boots. He…Read more

Books & Ideas

Why We Can't Wait

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Why We Can’t Wait

Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy…

I had planned to submit myself to imprisonment two or three days after our demonstrations began. It didn’t take long after returning to Birmingham, however, to recognize the existence of a problem that made it unwise and impractical for me…Read more

Business & Innovation

Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

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Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

Geoff Colvin

A Better Idea An explanation of great performance that makes sense Growing up in Crawford, Mississippi (population: 636), Jerry Rice had to be talked into joining his high school’s football team. The coach had reportedly heard that the…Read more

Fiction

The Lost Manuscript

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The Lost Manuscript

Cathy Bonidan

from Anne-Lise to Sylvestre RUE DES MORILLONS, MAY 5, 2016 Dear Sylvestre, Thank you for letting me know that you received that rather peculiar package. Now I feel as though I’ve done a good deed and that makes me happy,…Read more

Food & Cooking

From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen

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From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen

Snoop Dogg, Ryan Ford, Martha…

INTRODUCTION Welcome to My Kitchen Man, I must’ve been around the world and back hundreds of times during the course of damn near three decades. I spend more than half of my life on the road. And while it's hard…Read more

Books & Ideas

Three Wise Men: A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, and How Their Marine Brother Became a War's Sole Survivor

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Three Wise Men: A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, and How…

Beau Wise, Tom Sileo

THE DECISION “Jeremy, shouldn’t you be studying?” my brother’s classmate Paul Sebastian asked him in the fall of 2001. “In a minute, dude,” said Jeremy, his head buried in a Navy SEAL workout manual. “I gotta finish lifting.” Jeremy had…Read more

SF & Fantasy

Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)

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Light of the Jedi (Star Wars: The High Republic)

Charles Soule

A vessel appeared in the Hetzal system, leaping out of hyperspace and rapidly slowing as it returned to conventional speeds. It was deeply sunward, and the gravity wells it needed to navigate would rip a lesser ship apart, or even…Read more

Business & Innovation

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Deciding which problems to work on may be one of the most important decisions you make, because people can lose years (or a lifetime) working on the wrong problem. Dave had a problem once (okay, he’s had a lot…Read more

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