Best Independent Books July 3
We are delighted to recommend the following books from the independent publishing sector.
NON-FICTION
Success DNA: Mastering Persistence in Leadership and Life
by Alinka Rutkowska, Manuel R. Aragon, Golshan Barazesh et al.
This isn’t just a collection of inspirational stories — it’s a call to action for those who are ready to take ownership of their journey and lead with courage, clarity and compassion. In this book, 19 accomplished leaders talk about their journeys from adversity to achievement, revealing the personal qualities that fuel enduring success.
Through powerful storytelling, this anthology illuminates the pathways forged by persistence, resilience and adaptability, traits that transcend backgrounds and redefine what's possible. Each chapter in this book offers deep insights into the evolution of leadership, the strength found in overcoming personal and professional obstacles and the purpose discovered when ambition aligns with core values. From redefining success beyond status and wealth to transforming setbacks into stepping stones, these stories provide a roadmap for navigating today’s complex challenges.
Readers get to explore how effective leadership emerges through experience and reflection, how balance and fulfillment go hand in hand and how lasting impact is created when individuals lift others up. Rooted in real-world lessons and emotional truths, this is a guide to cultivating an authentic leadership style.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637353875
Who Moved My Data?: Data-Driven Strategies In Modern Finance
by Craig Fookes and Greg Hood
The role of finance is evolving. No longer confined to spreadsheets and traditional accounting, today’s finance professionals must become data-driven and data-savvy to thrive. This book offers a clear roadmap for navigating this transformation, equipping emerging and seasoned professionals with the tools to embrace data as a core asset.
The authors explore how finance can take ownership of data rather than relying on IT, highlighting the industry’s pioneers who are leading the data revolution. Through compelling success stories, they illustrate how finance professionals have leveraged data to drive strategic decisions and organizational growth. The book delves into actionable insights and data strategies tailored for finance.
This is a practical guide to integrating data into everyday workflows. The authors provide a forward-looking perspective on the future of finance, including the growing impact of artificial intelligence.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637353745
Investpreneur: Real Estate Lessons for the Determined Investor
by Kristin Cripps
This book lays out the proven track that the author followed to become a real-estate mogul and a millionaire before her 30th birthday. She has built an empire from the ground up.
The author explains the first crucial step toward investing. She describes some out-of-the-box ways to save for the first down payment. She explores different types of loans available and discusses the common investments that can result in a loss. When deciding on properties, she points out those that should be avoided like the plague, but also shows the right way to fix up a fixer-upper. There is also guidance on when and why to sell properties and an insider’s scoop on what buyers are likely to be looking for.
The author has spent years learning the ins and outs of real-estate investing. In this book, she shares her hard-earned knowledge so that others can follow her lead.
Honors: seen on CBS, Fox and NBC
Recognition for Author: Bronze Medal, Biography, Readers’ Favorite Book Awards, 2020
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637352441
Leadership GLUE: Be the GLUE in Your Business Without Getting Stuck in the Daily Grind
by Kae Wagner
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that the bottleneck in a business is often its employees. It points the finger instead at the reflection in the mirror — the leader.
In this insightful publication, the author provides a comprehensive roadmap to discovering and mastering leadership glue. She delves deep into the psychological roadblocks that prevent great leaders from realizing their potential and leverages her extensive experience in leader development, marketing and market research to chart a clear, concise path to success. The book offers valuable insights into the three core components of leadership GLUE and how to integrate them into a business structure. It also introduces the ‘hands on to hands free to hands off’ process for developing business leadership and explains the importance of distinguishing between SOPs and roadmaps for a business, and knowing when to implement each.
The book also guides you on how to prepare a team to handle the daily operations of a business, giving a leader the freedom and flexibility to pursue the next big innovation. It also presents the key questions everyone in a business needs to answer before buying fully into a vision. This book is a call to action for leaders to take a hard look at themselves and make the necessary changes to steer their ships away from the rocks and into clear waters.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637352540
Business Success Secrets: Entrepreneurial Thinking That Works
by Tamara L. Nall, Victor Agapov et al.
Every Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs started out as nothing more than a person with an idea – and ideas are a dime a dozen. The mindset, processes and teams behind a business are the keys to success.
Buried beneath the impressive awards and accolades of each successful entrepreneur lies the hard-knocks story of the grit, determination and resourcefulness it took to mount the summit of a dream. This is a book written for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. Forget the flashing banners, false promises of overnight success and the phony Internet gurus. This is business insight straight from the source.
Laying it all on the line, each author in the anthology has come together for one singular purpose: to bring the undiluted truth of what it takes to make a business dream a reality.
A practical and actionable book — GoodreadsHonors: Silver Medal, Non-Fiction Anthology, Readers’ Favorite Book Awards
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637350522
In case you missed the books featured in the last newsletter, here they are again:
NON-FICTION
Mastering the TPS Blueprint: Transforming Trauma into Triumph
by Darius Ross
This is a transformative guide to rewiring mindset, overcoming obstacles and unlocking the discipline needed for lasting success. By shifting perspective and breaking free from mental limitations, readers can take control of their future and reach new heights.
In this book, the author dives into the mental roadblocks that keep people stuck, offering proven strategies to build resilience and confidence. With step-by-step guidance, he reveals how to overcome generational struggles, limiting beliefs and environmental influences. His blueprint provides actionable tools to turn ambition into meaningful change, helping readers embrace their potential. For women and minority communities, this book addresses inherited struggles, societal expectations and systemic barriers, empowering individuals to redefine their stories and build success on their own terms.
Whether improving careers, relationships or personal growth, this book delivers the framework needed to take charge of life and transform trauma into triumph.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 979-8998713002
The Why Whisperer: How to Motivate and Align Teams That Get Your Strategy Done
by Hans Lagerweij
This book is a practical roadmap for aligning teams with a clear and compelling direction. Drawing on decades of international leadership experience, the author demonstrates how to connect purpose, vision and strategy to daily execution.
The author explores how to clarify mission, vision and goals for maximum impact while crafting an organizational direction that resonates with teams. He shows how to align strategy with daily work to drive results, master purposeful communication, and implement reverse elevator speech to inspire and motivate. Using the Six Cs model, he guides leaders in fostering a culture where all team members understand their role in achieving success.
This resource is essential for leaders seeking to transform uninspired teams into high-performing organizations. It challenges readers to rethink their approach to leadership, emphasizing collaboration, motivation and lasting organizational change.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 979-8310573062
Multifamily Apartment Syndications: The Truth about Buying and Selling Your First Value-Add Building
by Chris Roberts
In this book, the author draws on his extensive experience making money for himself and his investors in the real-estate sector to explain how he invests in multifamily value-add projects.
The author explains how to create and build a company with which to purchase and renovate existing multifamily properties, outlining how to source and negotiate multifamily deals with high-profit potential. He provides a step-by-step description of how his company purchased, renovated, and sold a Class C multifamily property for a ROI substantially greater than anticipated. The book provides a comprehensive recipe for learning the skills necessary to purchase, rehab and sell value-add multifamily property.
This book demystifies the process of investing in value-add multifamily real estate, making it a compelling read for anyone interested in learning how investors can profit from this asset class. It includes the story of how the author went from earning uninspiring returns in the stock market to making substantial sums of money running a real-estate company investing in multifamily apartment buildings.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637352366
7-Figure Minds: How to Grow and Lead A 7-Figure Business
compiled by Alinka Rutkowska
In this book, 14 ordinary but remarkable women come together to share the stories — 100 percent raw and authentic — of how they overcame their biggest and darkest challenges by embracing their true power.
With richly vibrant voices from many backgrounds illustrating one and the same message, there’s plenty of inspiration to help people unlock their lives. The women featured in this book tell of going from being an overwhelmed high achiever to moving into the state of flow; finding infinite possibilities after losing everything; going from treating the body as a burden to treating it as a guide; pivoting from seeking externally to looking within; going from saying “I'm not enough” to declaring “I am the answer”; finding freedom from codependency; and going from stating “This is the end” to proclaiming “The best is yet to come!”
The women featured are Suyen Angbetic Bailey, Leslie Sandra Black, Debbie Shuman Espinoza, Heather Ann Fink, Fiorella Garibaldi, Dawn Gomez, Sandra Ann Grant, Aurora Hood Hammond, Judith Krug, Barbara Harumi Otis, Silvia Rios, Dionnie Simone, Trissa Tismal-Capili and Gale Ziccarelli.
Honors: seen on CBS and NBC
Category: Business
ISBN: 978-1637350072
Your True Power: The Key to Your Amazing Life
by Trissa Tismal-Capili
In this book, 14 ordinary but remarkable women come together to share the stories — 100 percent raw and authentic — of how they overcame their biggest and darkest challenges by embracing their true power.
With richly vibrant voices from many backgrounds illustrating one and the same message, there’s plenty of inspiration to help people unlock their lives. The women featured in this book tell of going from being an overwhelmed high achiever to moving into the state of flow; finding infinite possibilities after losing everything; going from treating the body as a burden to treating it as a guide; pivoting from seeking externally to looking within; going from saying “I'm not enough” to declaring “I am the answer”; finding freedom from codependency; and going from stating “This is the end” to proclaiming “The best is yet to come!”
The women featured are Suyen Angbetic Bailey, Leslie Sandra Black, Debbie Shuman Espinoza, Heather Ann Fink, Fiorella Garibaldi, Dawn Gomez, Sandra Ann Grant, Aurora Hood Hammond, Judith Krug, Barbara Harumi Otis, Silvia Rios, Dionnie Simone, Trissa Tismal-Capili and Gale Ziccarelli.
Honors: seen on MarketWatch
Category: Self-Help
ISBN: 978-1637353110
We trust that your readers will enjoy our hand-picked selection.
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Alinka Rutkowska
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