FREE & BARGAIN EBOOKS – {08-31-2021}

The Shoemaker's Sonby S.A. Marano

In a world where traditions shape your life, your destiny is chosen, and honor is expected, an 8-year-old boy becomes his father’s apprentice. Santino Oberlo is taken under his father’s wing to learn the Artistry of shoemaking. This skill passed down from father to son for generations in Vigevano, Italy 1914. While his life unfolds, he manages his training, school, chores, and playdates with his girlfriend, Isabella Lucci. She is also the same age, and a budding Artist, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, painting landscapes and portraits.On their daily “Gelato” playdates in the Piazza Ducale, they take in the flavors and styles of the day. She sets up her easel painting scenes, as he sketches the new footwear styles of the people walking by for inspiration. Together, they dream the days away, ponder the future to come and discover first Love. But as the hourglass of time passes, they grow older and soon realize that things don’t always stay the same. Duty, circumstance and opportunity take hold – and their paths are changed.

Deep Finance: Corporate Finance in the Information Ageby Glenn Hopper

Deep Finance is informative, enlightening, and embraces the innovation all around us – perfect for trailblazing CFOs ready to dive deep into an era of information, analytics, and Big Data.

ARE YOU READY FOR A DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION? LEAD THE AGE OF ANALYTICS WITH DEEP FINANCE.  

Glenn Hopper uses a unique blend of financial leadership and technical expertise to help businesses of all sizes optimize and modernize. Not a software engineer? Neither is Glenn Hopper, but his story shows how any finance leader can embrace the tech innovations shaping our world to revolutionize finance operations. 

Accounting has come a long way since the time of the abacus, computer punch cards, or even the paper ledger. Modern finance leaders have the ability and tools to build a team that harnesses the power of business intelligence to make their jobs easier. Leaders who aren’t aware of these opportunities are simply going to be outpaced by competitors willing to adapt to the 21st century and beyond. 

Deep Finance will take you from asking “What Is AI?” to walking a clear path toward your own digital transformation. 

Elevate your leadership and be a champion for data science in your department. In Deep Finance, you will:  <

• Study the history of accounting–and why the age of analytics is the next logical step for all finance departments.
• Step into the age of artificial intelligence and view the pathway to a digital transformation.
• Expand your role as CFO by integrating business intelligence and analytics into your everyday tasks.
• Weigh the pros and cons of buying or building software to manage transactions, analyze and collect data, and identify trends. 
• Become a “New Age CFO” who can make better financial decisions and identify where your company is moving.
• Develop the language to elevate your entire management team as you enter the age of artificial intelligence.

Don’t get left behind. Your competitors or team members recognize the possibilities that are available to finance departments everywhere. 

Take the first steps toward a digital transformation and evolution to a data-driven culture. Grab your copy of Deep Finance today!

The Women of Chateau Lafayetteby Stephanie Dray

The International Bestseller!

Most castles are protected by men. This one by women.

A founding mother…
1774. Gently-bred noblewoman Adrienne Lafayette becomes her husband, the Marquis de Lafayette’s political partner in the fight for American independence. But when their idealism sparks revolution in France and the guillotine threatens everything she holds dear, Adrienne must renounce the complicated man she loves, or risk her life for a legacy that will inspire generations to come.

A daring visionary…
1914. Glittering New York socialite Beatrice Chanler is a force of nature, daunted by nothing—not her humble beginnings, her crumbling marriage, or the outbreak of war. But after witnessing the devastation in France firsthand, Beatrice takes on the challenge of a lifetime: convincing America to fight for what’s right.

A reluctant resistor…
1940. French school-teacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an orphan’s self-reliance and wants nothing to do with war. But as the realities of Nazi occupation transform her life in the isolated castle where she came of age, she makes a discovery that calls into question who she is, and more importantly, who she is willing to become.

Intricately woven and powerfully told, The Women of Chateau Lafayette is a sweeping novel about duty and hope, love and courage, and the strength we take from those who came before us.

The Granddaughtersby Margaret Belle

Underestimated by crooks and cops alike, three “over-the-hill” women become formidable amateur sleuths when they find themselves entangled in a decades-old, unsolved crime.

Mystery writer Ellie Russo invites her cousins Sandy McCabe and Franny Baker to join her, as she travels to picturesque Orange Lake in Newburgh, New York to research a story for her newest book.

Looking forward to staying in the lake house their grandmother once owned, the mini-reunion turns dangerous for these “women of an age”, when they become targets of the criminals they seek to expose.

Having overcome personal loss, and suffering from ailments not uncommon to older women, Ellie, Sandy, and Franny find that age has not diminished their strength or personal capabilities, and that they are willing to do whatever it takes to protect each other – including murder.

Restaurant Strong: First Principles of Restaurant Outperformance and How to Make Them Yoursby Peter LeSar

Restaurant Strong answer this question: “What do our restaurant leaders know that can help other restaurants to build more financially successful businesses?” Backed by a decade of research into 100+ of the world’s most powerful restaurant brands, Restaurant Strong uncovers 100 insights that literally define who rises to the top and who doesn’t in the restaurant business. Restaurant Strong answers many essential questions such as: What is the true growth model of restaurants? How do restaurants outcompete for talented labor? What is the architecture of high-performing restaurant concepts? And, how do you financially outperform and outlast your competitors so that your brand leads in your market? Supported by independent and chain restaurant leader case studies and valuable training links at the end of each chapter, Restaurant Strong offers a never-before-seen road map of exactly how restaurants shift gears from ordinary to extraordinary outcomes.