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Finding motivation and inspiration to power through life’s daily hurdles can be challenging. The stresses in life, your career, amid family and non-family relationships can take a mental toll on a leader. Looking to other inspiring leaders within your circle and the world at large can help keep the flame of positivity burning bright in your life (at any age!). Finding ways to gain an optimistic perspective could be one of the best things leaders can do for themselves. My Monday Morning Motivational Muse, my weekly LinkedIn post, which I started in 2022, has helped many find the spark to kickstart each week. These short, powerful, and often funny reflections, written excerpts, and snippets of personal stories and historical speeches provide a much-needed spark of motivation. This book is a collection of My Monday Morning Motivational Muse. These positivity-inspiring perspectives will uplift you and prepare you for what lies ahead of your week, month, and year.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A critically acclaimed, intimate and no-holds-barred memoir by Canada’s top defence lawyer, Nothing But the Truth weaves Marie Henein’s personal story with her strongly held views on society’s most pressing issues. Marie Henein, arguably the most prominent lawyer in the country, has written a memoir that is at once raw, beautiful, and altogether unforgettable. Her story, as an immigrant from a tight-knit Egyptian-Lebanese family, demonstrates the value of strong role models—from her mother and grandmother, to her brilliant uncle Sami who died of AIDS. She learned the value of hard work, being true to herself and others, and unapologetically owning it all. Marie Henein shares here her unvarnished view on the ethical and practical implications of being a criminal lawyer, and how the job is misunderstood and even demonized. Ironically, her most successful cases made her a “lightning rod” in some circles, confirming her belief that much of the public’s understanding of democracy and the justice system is based on popular culture and social media, and decidedly not the rule of law. As she turns fifty and struggles with the corrosive effect becoming invisible has on women, Marie doubles down on being even more highly visible and opinionated as she deconstructs, among other things, the otherness of the immigrant experience (Where are you really from?), the pros and cons of being a household name in this country, opening her own boutique law firm, and the commoditization of women’s previously unpaid labour popularized by the likes of Martha Stewart. Nothing But the Truth is refreshingly unconstrained and surprising—an account by a woman at the top of her game in a male-dominated world.

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Part lyric essay, part prose poetry, Where Things Touch grapples with the manifold meanings and possibilities of beauty. Drawing on her experiences as a physician-in-training, Orang considers clinical encounters and how they relate to the concept and very idea of beauty. Such considerations lead her to questions about intimacy, queerness, home, memory, love, and other aspects of human existence. Throughout, beauty is ultimately imagined as something inextricably tied to care: the care of lovers, of patients, of art and literature and the various non-human worlds that surround us. Eloquent and meditative in its approach, beauty, here, beyond base expectations of frivolity and superficiality, is conceived of as a thing to recover. Where Things Touch is an exploration of an essential human pleasure, a necessary freedom by which to challenge what we know of ourselves and the world we inhabit.

"The Ideal Bartender" is a collection of cocktail drinks recipes. Writer Tom Bullock worked for over a quarter of a century as the bartender at the Pendennis Club of Louisville and the St. Louis Country Club of St. Louis where he refreshed and delighted the members and their friends with his legendary concoctions. Some of the recipes included are: Ale Sangaree, American Pousse Cafe, Apollinaris Lemonade, Apple Jack Cocktail, Boston Cooler, Bottle of Cocktail and Country Club Punch.