Diane Miller is a high-powered attorney in Port Charles. She represents Sonny Corinthos and Jason Morgan, among others. The role of Diane Miller on General Hospital is played by Daytime Emmy–nominated Carolyn Hennesy. Carolyn also appears in the ABC prime-time series Cougar Town. In addition to The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli, Carolyn is the author of the Pandora’s Mythic Misadventures series for tweens. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her fab husband, Donald, two cool cats, and one groovy dog.
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December 21, 2010
The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli
Brusque Lady . . .
Please meet the Jackal at the bar in the Metro Court at 10:00 PM
sharp. Although it is somewhat past my his bedtime, he must speak with you on a grave matter concerning many of your clientele. Do not fail me him.
Regards,
The Jackal
So begins an evening unlike any other in Port Charles. When high-powered attorney Diane Miller agrees to meet with computer hacker extraordinaire Damian Spinelli, otherwise known as The Jackal, she knows she’s in for an interesting night. But the stories he has to tell about some of Port Charles’s most famous, and infamous, inhabitants are beyond her wildest imagination. Could these tales possibly be true? Or is Spinelli using her for some other purpose?
From the deck of the Smilin’ Lila to the halls of General Hospital, from the Case of the Vamping Valkyrie to the Case of the Contrived Contralto, here are Spinelli’s tales of intrigue, kidnapping, murder, and more. The office of Spinelli/McCall, P.I., has never been busier.
Spinelli may be a gumshoe like no other, but he will save, defend, and protect the citizens of Port Charles until the bitter end!
Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary
Also available as a Hyperion Audio book, click for a sample.
From the New York Times bestselling author and top pollster Dr. Frank Luntz comes an unprecedented examination of communication excellence and how top performers win in all areas of human endeavor by utilizing superb communication skills. From Mike Bloomberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger to business icons Rupert Murdoch, Steve Wynn, and Fred Smith; to the CEOs of MGM Resorts, J. Crew, and Gibson Guitar; to legendary sports superstars like Larry Bird, Jimmy Connors, and Mike Richter; to media legends Roger Ailes, Don Imus, and dozens more, Luntz tells their stories—in their own words—and demonstrates how their style of operation and communication is absolutely essential to their success. Luntz makes it clear that following the rules of effective communication is indispensable in any successful human endeavor.
Dr. Luntz offers more than seventy new “words that work” for private one-on-one meetings with your boss, for public presentations to hundreds of colleagues, or for television appearances that reach millions. There are more than three dozen specific lessons and recommendations—and each one directly illustrates the nine essential action-oriented principles of winning at every level: People-Centered, Paradigm-Breaking, Prioritizing, Perfection, Partnerships, Passion, Persuasion, Persistence, and Principled Actions.
Do you have what it takes? Win is an unprecedented examination of the art, science, and language of winning, and a must-have for people who want to understand and emulate the winners of today.
THE DEFINITION OF WINNING
– The ability to grasp the human dimension of every situation;
– the ability to know what questions to ask and when to ask them;
– the ability to see the challenge, and the solution, from every angle;
– the ability to communicate their vision passionately and persuasively;
– the ability to connect with others and create an enduring chemistry;
and 10 other universal attributes of winners.
DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN?
DO YOU KNOW THE WORDS THAT WORK?
FIND OUT MORE INSIDE.
December 17, 2010
Allison Gilbert
Allison Gilbert is the founder of Parentless Parents, a new and growing nationwide network of parents who have experienced the loss of their own mothers and fathers. Gilbert is also the author of Always Too Soon and co-editor of Covering Catastrophe. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, The Early Show, Extra!, CNN, and ABC News. Gilbert lectures regularly on parenting and loss.
Parentless Parents
Parentless Parents is the first book to show how the absence of grandparents impacts everything about the way mothers and fathers raise their children—from everyday parenting decisions to the relationships they have with their spouses and in-laws.
For the first time in U.S. history, as the average age of women giving birth has increased significantly, millions of children are at risk of having fewer years with their grandparents than ever before. How has this substantial shift affected parents and kids? Journalist, award-winning television producer, and parentless parent Allison Gilbert has polled and studied more than 1,300 parentless parents from across the United States and a dozen other countries to find out.
Through her pioneering research, Gilbert not only shares her own story and the significant and poignant effect that this trend has had on her and hundreds of other families, but also the myriad ways these mothers and fathers have learned to keep the memory of their parents alive for their children, and to find the support and understanding they need.
Agnes Kamara-Umunna
Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna was born in Liberia, where she hosted the radio program Straight from the Heart and was a statement taker for the Liberia Truth & Reconciliation Commission. She lives in New York City, where she takes oral statements from Liberians now living in this country. Emily Holland is an in-house producer and reporter for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), has contributed to Jane magazine, The Princeton Alumni Weekly, and writes a “Dispatches from a Humanitarian Journalist” column for Dave Eggers’s online publication McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
And Still Peace Did Not Come
When bullets hit Agnes Kamara-Umunna’s home in Monrovia, Liberia, she and her father hastily piled whatever they could carry into their car and drove toward the border, along with thousands of others. An army of children was approaching, under the leadership of Charles Taylor. It seemed like the end of the world.
Slowly, they made their way to the safety of Sierra Leone. They were the lucky ones.
After years of exile, with the fighting seemingly over, Agnes returned to Liberia—a country now devastated by years of civil war. Families have been torn apart, villages destroyed, and it seems as though no one has been spared. Reeling, and unsure of what to do in this place so different from the home of her memories, Agnes accepted a job at the local UN-run radio station. Their mission is peace and their method is reconciliation through understanding and communication. Soon, she came up with a daring plan: Find the former child soldiers, and record their stories. And so Agnes, then a 43-year-old single mother of four, headed out to the ghettos of Monrovia and befriended them, drinking Club Beer and smoking Dunhill cigarettes with them, earning their trust. One by one, they spoke on her program, Straight from the Heart, and slowly, it seemed like reconciliation and forgiveness might be possible.
From Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first female president, to Butt Naked, a warlord whose horrific story is as unforgettable as his nickname—everyone has a story to tell. Victims and perpetrators. Boys and girls, mothers and fathers. Agnes comforts rape survivors, elicits testimonials from warlords, and is targeted with death threats—all live on the air.
Set in a place where monkeys, not raccoons, are the scourge of homeowners; the trees have roots like elephant legs; and peacebuilding is happening from the ground-up. Harrowing, bleak, hopeful, humorous, and deeply moving—And Still Peace Did Not Come is not only Agnes’s memoir: It is also her testimony to a nation’s descent into the horrors of civil war, and its subsequent rise out of the ashes.
Sarah Brokaw
Sarah Brokaw is a licensed therapist with a practice in Beverly Hills, California. She holds a Master’s degree in social work from New York University and is the daughter of legendary newsman Tom Brokaw.
Fortytude
In her practice as a licensed therapist and through discussion groups all across the country, Sarah Brokaw has discovered that the women who navigate midlife most smoothly—who go on to prosper and to enjoy the best years of their lives—are those who foster five Core Values in themselves. In Fortytude, she shows how any woman can nourish these qualities in herself, and evolve and thrive.
The five Core Values are:
Grace—when a woman lives with integrity, capitalizing on her own strengths while admiring the strengths of others
Connectedness—experiencing satisfaction in connections with others
Accomplishment—the sense of realizing goals and getting things done—which is necessary in today’s world, when women are expected to cram 48 hours of living into every 24-hour day
Adventure—a willingness to seek challenges outside the normal comfort zone
Spirituality—a personal approach to religion, and an understanding that life has a meaning beyond the day-to-day details
In Brokaw’s reassuring voice and through the stories of incredible women from all walks of life, readers can learn how they, too, can embrace and fully enjoy their forties, fifties, and beyond.
December 16, 2010
Victoria Brown
VICTORIA BROWN was born in Trinidad and at sixteen came alone to New York, where she worked as a full-time nanny for several years. She majored in English at Vassar College before attending the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. Eventually, she returned to New York, where she taught English at LaGuardia Community College. She is now completing her MFA at Hunter College. Victoria lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two young children. She has a part-time babysitter in her employ.
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