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Silent But Deadly Hill: Jonathon Mason is going on a road trip with his dad. When their car veers out of control, Jonathon awakes alone in a cloud of fog. Can he find his drunk dad and escape Slewant Hill? G.I.R.L 2: Rob(erta) Hardlick and her sidekick Mich find themselves locked within a video game universe. To make matters worse, they may not be the only survivors from the last game to have made it over to this new one. Secret of the Old Cock: When mysterious Jebediah Crotchley hires Mimsy Crew to do work around his mansion, Mimsy is in for a grand adventure.

Once you’ve discovered your strengths, you need to discover something else: Your strengths can work against you. Many leaders know this on some intuitive level, and they see it in others. But they don’t see it as clearly in themselves. Mainly, they think of leadership development as working on their weaknesses. No wonder. The tools used to assess managers are not equipped to pick up on overplayed strengths - when more is not better. Nationally recognized leadership experts Bob Kaplan and Rob Kaiser have conducted thousands of assessments of senior executives designed to determine when their strengths serve them well - versus betray them.

Coming In from the Rain features EmmaJean, who must bear childhood emotional scars throughout her life. She comes to a crossroad when these scars rear their heads, and start affecting her life as a leader, a mother, and a spouse.

Sam is a business turnaround artist. And, he has the mentality to match, a deeply ingrained pattern that plays out in all aspects of his life. Nothing about Sam Calastri is easy. Gruff, intimidating, and deeply private, he’s built a career on dominance and grit, not self-reflection. New hire Sally Cain, armed with curiosity, experience, and just enough personal baggage of her own, must find a way to meet him in the middle in their corporate world.

Gideon has spent his life doing things the right way—the disciplined way. He’s built a career on relentless standards, moral rigor, and unyielding ambition. But as judgment day arrives, the cracks begin to show. An explosive confrontation with a fed-up colleague, a shocking admission from his wife, and memories of a distant son collide in Gideon’s tightly controlled world. When the decision doesn’t go his way, he is forced to sit with a kind of failure he’s never known, not just at work, but in his marriage, his faith, and his sense of self.

Veri Archer, an operating executive in her mid-forties, is recruited to be CEO of a high-tech start-up, replacing the founder-CEO, Sanjay Cherry. He stays on as CTO. For Veri, it becomes a rite of passage twice over. Behind the scenes, the transition of power is anything but smooth. Sanjay, a brilliant but beleaguered visionary, is forced to face the harsh truth that innovation alone isn’t enough to lead. Neal Armbruster—venture capitalist, mentor, and the man behind the curtain—must navigate the delicate politics of replacing a founder without fracturing a friendship.

Maxine Cooper is tasked with leading her company headfirst into the introduction of cutting-age technology. At work, she’s all business and no play, but despite her success, struggles to keep her life in balance. Maxine cannot quite shake the feeling of being stuck in her profession, and the quiet voice in the back of her mind asking her for more.

Philip Konig had been recruited personally by the megabank’s CEO, Martin Middleton. His mandate: to fix investment banking. But much more that, Philip was brought in to be the heir apparent to replace Middleton. There were rumblings about Philip, to which Middleton turned a deaf ear, but the corporate head of HR, Frank Brescia, did not.

Arm Wrestling with Myself features Jim Kaplan, whose family was struck by tragedy. Jim must come to grips with its effect and shares his thoughts about how to structure the future he wants at work and at home.

A senior manager who specializes in putting out business fires is combustible when he shouldn’t be. Can he change enough to save his relationship with the love of his life? Can he stop fighting the need to reform?

In GRAPPLING, leadership consultant Robert Kaplan brings real people’s inner battles to life through eight powerful, fictionalized case stories. Each one reveals how hard—and how human—the work of personal change truly is.