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  From Wall Street to the White...

  Anthony Scaramucci

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  Learn from the successes, the fights, and the failures of businessman and former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci. 
   
  Have you just been fired? Did that job you were hoping to get not pan out? Did you recently end up embarrassing yourself in a major way in front of people you really wanted to impress? 
   
  Not to worry. There’s a way out of whatever you’re going through, and Anthony Scaramucci—or “The Mooch,” as he’s known to his friends—is the perfect person to point you in the right direction. Whatever you’re going through, he’s been through it already. Probably twice.  
  And he’s learned a whole lot of lessons along the way. 
   
  In From Wall Street to the White House and Back, the Mooch sets down twentysix of these lessons. Along the way, he tells wild tales from his time working in finance, politics, and a few strange places in between. 
   
  Readers will spend time in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump, visit the Bahamas with the disgraced crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried, and encounter pearls of wisdom from a few other unlikely sources in the world of business, national politics, and publishing. 
   
  If you’re interested in Eminem, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, or Tony Robbins—all of whom are mentioned at least once in these pages—and you want to learn from the mistakes of one of the all-time great mistake-makers of our age, jump in.

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  Recovering

  Richie Sadlier, Dion Fanning

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  When a career-ending injury saw former Ireland and Millwall striker Richie Sadlier retire from football at age 24, his life spiralled out of control.
  Without structure or a sense of purpose, and fuelled by a dependency on alcohol, he spent years running from the dark memories and feelings that had haunted him since childhood. Until one day he hit rock bottom and decided to confront his demons.
  Recovering written with Dion Fanning is about a life shaped by efforts to escape, and how it is possible to rebuild that life, piece by piece, with the right help.
  Inspiring and ground-breaking, it is an important reflection on the need to move away from perceptions of shame in our discussions about mental health, sex, relationships and addiction.

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  The Great Getty - The Life and...

  Robert Lenzner

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  J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) was a shrewd industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942, ultimately becoming a dominant player in the oil industry. In The Great Getty, Robert Lenzner presents an in-depth biography of the savviest entrepreneur of the 20th century and the world's richest private citizen at the time of his death— worth $6 billion, the equivalent of more than $27 billion in today' s money. As Lenzner chronicles Getty's life— through interviews with those closest to him— a picture emerges of a frugal man, a truly miserly art collector, and a notorious womanizer, but also a puritan and philanthropist— and perhaps a Nazi spy.

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  Summary of Michael Dell’s Play...

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the main key ideas from Michael Dell’s Play Nice But Win 
    
  Play Nice But Win: A CEO’s Journey From Founder to Leader (2021) offers life lessons from Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of one of the world’s leading technology companies. Dell’s journey in the tech industry began even before he was a student selling computers from his dorm at the University of Texas—he was already in the computer business in high school. Dell focuses on the challenges of transforming, enhancing, and keeping his company, with a particular spotlight on his 2012 attempt to take it private again.

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  Virginia Louise Giuffre - Her...

  Sylvia S. Edwin

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   This book chronicles Virginia Giuffre's journey from a vulnerable teenager to a trafficking victim in Jeffrey Epstein's network, through her escape and transformation into a global advocate for survivors. 
  Drawing from court testimony, verified public records, and Virginia's own statements, the book covers: 
  • Her early life and the systemic failures that left her vulnerable to exploitation 
  • Her recruitment by Ghislaine Maxwell at age sixteen at Mar-a-Lago 
  • Life within Epstein's trafficking operation across multiple properties and countries 
  • Her escape to Thailand and rebuilding a life in Australia 
  • The decision to speak publicly in 2015 and the legal battles that followed 
  • The arrests and prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell 
  • Her ongoing work as an advocate for trafficking survivors worldwide 
  The narrative examines how trafficking occurs, why victims struggle to escape, and what it takes to seek accountability against powerful perpetrators. Written with compassion and based on documented facts, this account honors Virginia's resilience while providing insight into exploitation, justice, and healing.

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  The Affair At Coulter's Creek -...

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of books, the written word and the elegance of language.  
  Growing up in Koscuisko County, Indiana poverty and religion were defining features of his childhood, and he would later describe his parents as “unwashed savages” and fanatically religious, showing him little affection but always quick to punish. He came to resent religion, and his introduction to literature appears to be their only positive effect. 
  At age 15 Bierce left home to become a printer’s devil, mixing ink and fetching type at The Northern Indian, a small Ohio paper. Falsely accused of theft he returned to his farm and spent time sending out work in the hopes of being published. 
  His Uncle Lucius advised he be sent to the Kentucky Military Institute. A year later he was commissioned as an Officer.  As the Civil War started Bierce enlisted in the 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment.  
  In April 1862 Bierce fought at the Battle of Shiloh, an experience which, though terrifying, became the source of several short stories. Two years later he sustained a serious head wound and was off duty for several months. He was discharged in early 1865.  
  A later expedition to inspect military outposts across the Great Plains took him all the way to San Francisco. He remained there to become involved with publishing and editing and to marry, Mary Ellen on Christmas Day 1871.  They had a child, Day, the following year.  
  In 1872 the family moved to England for 3 years where he wrote for Fun magazine. His son, Leigh, was born, and first book, ‘The Fiend’s Delight’, was published.  
  They returned to San Francisco and to work for a number of papers where he gained admiration for his crime reporting. In 1887 he began a column at the William Randolph Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner.  
  Bierce’s marriage fell apart when he discovered compromising letters to his wife from a secret admirer. The following year, 1889 his son Day committed suicide, depressed by romantic rejection. 
  In 1891 Bierce wrote and published the collection of 26 short stories which included ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’.  Success and further works including poetry followed.  
  Bierce with Hearst’s resources helped uncover a financial plot by a railroad to turn 130 million dollars of loans into a handout. Confronted by the railroad and asked to name his price Bierce answered “my price is $130 million dollars. If, when you are ready to pay, I happen to be out of town, you may hand it over to my friend, the Treasurer of the United States”.  
  He now began his first foray as a fabulist, publishing ‘Fantastic Fables’ in 1899.  But tragedy again struck two years later when his second son Leigh died of pneumonia relating to his alcoholism.  
  He continued to write short stories and poetry and also published ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’.  
  At the age of 71, in 1913 Bierce departed from Washington, D.C., for a tour of the battlefields where he had fought during the civil war. At the city of Chihuahua he wrote his last known communication, a letter to a friend. It’s closing words were “as to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination,” Ambrose Bierce then vanished without trace.

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