The Art of Negotiating: How to Become a Skilled Negotiator
Gerard I. Nierenberg calls negotiating an art. And as a world-renowned negotiator, he should know. The Financial Times of Canada referred to him as the "American Negotiation Guru," the Wall Street Journal observed that he makes a profession of convincing adversaries that nobody has to lose, and the editors of Fortune wrote that he "discovered the depth of interest in negotiating some years ago."
In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all of life's questions. Inspired by these stories, Minli sets off on an extraordinary journey to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask him how she can change her family's fortune. She encounters an assorted cast of characters and magical creatures along the way, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer.
Percy Darling, 70, the narrator of Glass's fourth novel, takes comfort in certitudes: he will never leave his historic suburban Boston house, he is done with love (still guilty about his wife's death 30 years ago), and his beloved grandson Robert, a Harvard senior, will do credit to the family name. But Glass (Three Junes) spins a beautifully paced, keenly observed story in which certainties give way to surprising reversals of fortune. Percy is an opinionated, cantankerous, newly retired Harvard librarian and nobody's "darling," who decides to lease his barn to a local preschool, mainly to give his daughter Clover, who has abandoned her husband and children in New York, a job.
A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico -- and on the sea bed below it. Now reissued in a new cover style. A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn't do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin.
A reputedly wealthy and eccentric old man dies in Vermont.His home,the House of a Thousand Candles,so called for the owner's preference to candle light,is left empty save a faithful servant--his fortune mysteriously vanished,though rumored to still have been hidden in the house somewhere. John Glenarm,the late old man's grandson,stands to inherit the estate(and so the secret fortune)under the stipulation that he live in the house for one year.If he fails,the house will be forfeited and awarded to Marian Devereaux,the niece of the nun who operates the nearby Saint Agatha's School for girls....
