Three Very Different New Biographies

You might be hard pressed to find a more diverse three people than the ones in our most recent group of biographies.  Each of the ones mentioned here can be found in our New Non-Fiction shelves.

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 The first is 'A Time for Truth' by Ted Cruz, who is currently campaigning to be the GOP candidate for the presidency.

The son of a Cuban immigrant whose father experienced brutality in the Cuban prison system, Cruz became a success story who not only made it into an Ivy League school, but became the 34th US Senator from Texas.

In this autobiography, he covers both the history of his parents as well as his own story from his birth in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to his current campaign.

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The second biography, 'Model Woman' by Robert Lacey, is about Eileen Ford who, along with her husband Jerry, created the Ford Modeling Agency - the largest and most successful modeling agency in the twentieth century with many of fashion's best known models on their roster : Suzy Parker, Naomi Campbell, Christie Brinkley, Jerry Hall, Christy Turlington and many others.

This biography on Eileen Ford draws on four years of interviews with Ford herself prior to her passing in 2014 as well as interviews with her associates.  He was also allowed exclusive access to agency documents and other memorabilia all of which he uses to flesh out the story of the modeling agency and the woman at its center.

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Finally, the third biography is 'Deal' by Bill Kreutzman with Benjy Eisen - a rock 'n roll memoir of one of the founding members and the drummer of the Grateful Dead.

This memoir covers the founding of the Grateful Dead and follows along the path of their thirty year/over 2,300 concert career.  Kreutzman not only gives an insider view to the band and the other groups that they interacted with over the years.  He also lets the reader in on what he felt and thought about the events and people making it a very personal account that any Grateful Dead fan should enjoy.

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These and many other biographies are waiting for you at our library.  Enjoy!

Download Audio Books to Your Personal Device or Computer.

Our library patrons can now download audio books to their personal devices and computers through OneClickdigital. The OneClickdigital app can be found for both Apple and Android devices.

Just click on the link and sign up for your account using your library card number for access to thousands of books, both new and classics - http://warrenms.oneclickdigital.com/

Need help getting started? There is as step-by-step tutorial at http://warrenms.oneclickdigital.com/#help

Once in, you can choose titles from twenty-seven different genres, listed below :

1. Arts and Entertainment
2. Biographies, Autobiographies and Memoirs
3. Business and Economics
4. Classics
5. Comics and Graphic Novels
6. Fantasy
7. General Fiction
8. General Non-Fiction
9. Historical Fiction
10. History
11. Humor
12. Juvenile Fiction
13. Language
14. Literary Fiction
15. Mystery
16. Poetry
17. Politics and Current Events
18. Religion
19. Romanace
20. Science
21. Sci-Fi
22. Self-Help
23. Short Stories
24. Sports
25. Suspense and Thrillers
26. Western
27. Women's Fiction

Taking the first steps to launching the career of your dreams.

According to Ben Arment, the author of 'Dream Year : Make the Leap from a Job You Hate to a Life You Love", there is no such thing as a 'dream job'.  A job is where you are working for someone else to fulfill their dreams, not your own.

In his coaching classes, he has worked with hundreds of people to help them identify their dream career, plan it out and launch it in one year.

His new book is full of insights and advice, but most captivating part is the stories of the people who have followed his step-by-step program to switch from the jobs that paid the bills to work that they are enthusiastic about and enjoy while still making a living.

The book covers the steps in individual chapters starting with finding and defining your dream career and follows through to growing and sustaining it.  One of his main points - never give up and he gives several examples of those who had to make multiple tries before they reached their own goals, including Abraham Lincoln.

A Recipe for Business Failure

The Library recently purchased a book that has been popular with our patrons, Donald R. Keough’s The Ten Commandents for Business Failure. Mr. Keough is the former President of the Coca-Cola Company, and if any of you enjoy drinking Coke products, then you know how enormously successful the company is. Mr. Keough spent almost sixty years pursuing his career path, and he maintains that he does not know a “proven path to success” that any company can follow that can guarantee its growth and existence. However, Mr. Keough believes that there are “ten serious blunders” that companies and individual people make in their lives that almost always lead to failure. Keough presents each one of these “commandments” in well-written chapters and includes specific examples from his Coca-Cola experience as well as from other companies (such as Xerox). This is a great book for any business owner who is starting a business or experiencing stagnation. If you want to read another book about business failures, try also Lynne Jeter’s Disconnected: Deceit and Betrayal at WorldCom. Jeter was the primary WorldCom reporter for “The Mississippi Business Journal” and a native Mississippian, and gives a unique spin on the events that caused the company’s demise.