Consulting: The Business that
Generates Mega Dollars
and Puts You in Control of Your Financial Future
by Marc Kramer
Entrepreneur Press, 2003
You
want to start a consulting business, but aren't sure where to
start. Mark Kramer's newest book will lend some advice.
After beginning his own consulting practice five years ago, Kramer now puts his knowledge and experience in print so others can benefit. He gives some honest pluses and minuses of working for yourself, and offers guideposts on how to proceed. His step-by-step directions include how to develop marketing plans, how to develop strategic partnerships, how to deal with clients, how to build a Web site, and more.
Father's Troubles
by Carter Taylor Seaton
Mid-Atlantic Highlands Publishing, 2003
Father's
Troubles is a double time frame period piece. It is set in
Depression-era West Virginia. Bank president and real estate
tycoon Lawrence Burgher lets his greed and arrogance overrun
his better judgment and engages in shady financial dealings.
He ends up in prison, and his family is in such disgrace that
they develop a cloak of secrecy in which they shroud the next
generation.
The family's hidden truth comes about when Burgher's granddaughter, Maggie Malone, decides to search the family myth. This fictional account, based on true life, uses letters as an integral part of the story. Maggie, the daughter, soon realizes the impact this secret had on the entire family, and on her own troubled relationship with her mother.
45 RPM: The History, Heroes,
and
Villains of a Pop Music Revolution
by Jim Dawson and Steve Propes
Backbeat Books, 2003
The
authors follow the origins of the 45-rpm record all the way back
to the 1880s, then explain how the record became a popular consumer
product in the '50s and '60s. They explore how the jukebox, the
autonomous disk jockey, and payola and artist rip-offs kept the
45 at the forefront of rock 'n' roll for 20 years. The book incudes
information on record sleeves, how to make the record, and the
most valuable 45s produced.
Orpheus' Blues
by Carlos Rubio
Publish America, 2002
Jack
Stewart is pursuing a career as a jazz musician in New York.
As he travels this journey of self-discovery, he shares his difficulties,
friendships, and his relationship with his mother. It is from
Hans, proprietor of The Empty Hand, that Jack receives words
of wisdom and encouragement so necessary for every artist. But
in the end, when Jack thinks he has made sense of it all, everything
unravels. He then travels home to face his father, his former
friends, and his unresolved past.