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January 09

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Relentless - The True Story of the Man Behind Rogers Communications

By Ted Rogers, with Robert Brehl
In takes Ted Rogers only a few pages to compel his readers to appreciate his innovating and daring way of doing business. The book’s first anecdote sees a younger Rogers charming Angelo Drossos, a notoriously prickly Texas businessman, in order to save a deal that
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Outliers: The Story of Success

By Malcolm Gladwell
In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell finds patterns in how successful people become successful. The reasons some folk do astounding things is attributed to everything from those “outliers” having the right parents to having a particular birth date. Gladwell illuminates some very interesting
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A Thousand Splendid Suns

By Khaled Hosseini
Unlike his huge best-seller “The Kite Runner”, Hosseini takes another approach in Splendid Suns – focusing on relationships between women instead of men, which might seem at the outset like a big undertaking. Luckily, Hosseini does it beautifully. Although a somewhat gentler story than The
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