Based on the author's work with thousands of managers in his nationwide Effectiveness Training classes, this program will help the reader tap the hidden talent in their group, motivate members to willingly give their best, and make people feel good about themselves, their job, and others.

Delia Grinstead, a 40-year-old mother of three almost-grown children, abandons her family impulsively in search of an entirely new life a few miles from home, becoming secretary to a lawyer. Gradually, she begins to return to her old life--first for her daughter's wedding, then for small occasions, finding that the people she left behind have changed as much as she has.

Santmyer's novel about a book club in a small Ohio town has become a classic for its warm and humorous evocation of American life in the mid-20th century.

Based on the enormously popular "Prairie Home Companion", Keillor's show on public radio, this collection of stories of modern Midwestern life skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists in the mid 1980s, and remained there. In this small Minnesota town, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." The book won the collective heart of the country, and critics found it impossible to refrain from quoting sizable portions of it in their reviews.