Books with author Barbara Rosenblat

After succeeding for decades in a cutthroat, male-dominated profession specifically by using her skills as a woman to become a leader of men, Linda Smith is on a crusade to teach all women how to harness their unique feminine abilities as women to succeed, not by becoming a mini-man, or beating men at their own game, but by using their unique feminine superpowers--what she calls our Kick Assets-to give women a remarkable advantage when it comes to the modern workplace. Women have the power-right now-to succeed and lead in business. Women need to jettison the societal norms fed to them and sustained by male domination. As long as men continue to make the rules and women continue to play by a male playbook, women will never succeed. The game is rigged against them. It's time to change the rules of the game. In order to get ahead, women have to play by women"s rules capitalizing on women's exceptional advantages in the modern business world by using an entirely different playbook--one written by a woman, for women. This is that playbook. Linda provides women a full understanding of their superior emotional intelligence--the universally recognized marker for leadership success. She tackles an "eyes wide open" discussion of the need to slay the two ferocious dragons guarding the doors barring women from equality-the external dragon of male domination and the internal dragon of self-sabotage. She provides women with dragon slayers to defeat both dragons, and goes on to show women how to use the dragon slayers in the workplace. As part of the program, Linda tackles how to handle difficult men and shut down sexual harassment; how to infiltrate the old boys' network and speak truth to power; how to establish dominance and lead with gusto and how to leave a legacy. It's time for women to use their unique feminine kick assets and unleash their power!

Anna Pigeon, a ranger for the U.S. Park Services, sets off on vacation―an autumn canoe trip in the to the Iron Range in upstate Minnesota. With Anna is her friend Heath, a paraplegic; Heath's fifteen-year-old daughter, Elizabeth; Leah, a wealthy designer of outdoor equipment; and her daughter, Katie, who is thirteen. For Heath and Leah, this is a shakedown cruise to test a new cutting edge line of camping equipment. The equipment, designed by Leah, will make camping and canoeing more accessible to disabled outdoorsmen. On their second night out, Anna goes off on her own for a solo evening float on the Fox River. When she comes back, she finds that four thugs, armed with rifles, pistols, and knives, have taken the two women and their teenaged daughters captive. With limited resources and no access to the outside world, Anna has only two days to rescue them before her friends are either killed or flown out of the country, in Destroyer Angel by Nevada Barr.

Cate Fante begins her career as a federal judge with a bang. A high-profile producer, accused of stealing a TV show idea, is murdered just after Cate dismisses the lawsuit. Because of suspicious connections, Cate becomes a prime suspect. Under investigation, her racy alte ego is revealed--Cate escapes courtroom tension with late-night trysts in shady bars. Now she must defend her actions and keep from getting trapped in the legal system she thought she knew so well.

Accomplished storyteller Nevada Barr captivates fans with her tightly-woven plots, vibrant descriptions, and believable characters. In this thrilling mystery, her resourceful sleuth, middle-aged park ranger Anna Pigeon, travels to northern California where she joins the forces battling an out-of-control forest fire. Ever since a fire began raging through Lassen Volcanic National Park, Anna has been acting as medic and security officer for the spike camp firefighters. As the blaze dwindles and the camp demobilizes, she stays behind with a small crew to rescue an injured man. Suddenly a thunderstorm whips the remaining embers into a deadly firestorm. After the inferno passes, Anna discovers a crew member didn't make it-but a knife, not the fire, killed him. Nevada Barr creates scenes so powerful you can almost feel the intense heat and smell the billowing smoke. Narrator Barbara Rosenblat brings out the nail-biting suspense as Anna searches for the killer within the small band of survivors.

When Allison Mack's boyfriend and his family are killed in a car wreck, she suspects that her life will never be the same. She knows it for sure when her dead boyfriend comes to visit her on her sixteenth birthday. He warns her to beware of Under Places and then disappears again, only to reappear later. Is she losing her mind, or is something supernatural going on?Ally finds out something startling about her own family. They are all in terrible danger, and she might be the only one who can save them...My Dead Boyfriend is the first book in the exciting Daughter of the Sidhe series.

Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not just in the present, but in shadows from its gritty past, when it served as a prison for the Lincoln conspirators during and after the Civil War. Here, on this last lick of the United States, in a giant crumbling fortress, Anna has little company except for the occasional sunburned tourist or unruly shrimper. When her sister, Molly, sends her a packet of letters from a great-great-aunt who lived at the fort with her husband, a career soldier, Anna's fantasy life is filled with visions of this long-ago time. When a mysterious boat explosion-and the discovery of unidentifiable body parts-keeps her anchored to the present, Anna finds crimes of past and present closing in on her. A tangled web that was woven before she arrived begins to threaten her sanity and her life. Cut off from the mainland by miles of water, poor phone service, and sketchy radio contact, and aided by one law-enforcement ranger, Anna must find answers or weather a storm to rival the hurricanes for which the islands are famous.