Admin Bookshelf
Here are some of the best reads for administrative professionals navigating an accelerated admin world. You’ll also find some fiction books that you might enjoy reading (staff favorites). If you have a book (available through Amazon) that you would recommend to your peers, please let us know at membership@asaporg.com.
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The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
Published by The Penguin Group
A modern classic, The Help has been a cultural touchstone for the millions of readers who have cheered on Skeeter, laughed with Minny, and hissed at Hilly. The noble and strong Aibileen has become a heroine for countless fans whose letters have poured in from all over the world.
Kathryn Stockett has written a wondrous novel. You will be swept away as her characters work, play, and love during a time when possibilities for women were few but their dreams of the future were limitless. A glorious read.
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Sarah’s Key
By Tatiana de Rosnay
Published by St. Martin’s Press
In Sarah’s Key, Tatiana de Rosnay offers up a mesmerizing story in which a tragic past unfolds, the present is torn apart, and the future is irrevocably altered.
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Drive
By Daniel H. Pink
Published by Riverhead
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money--the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink in Drive. In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction--at work, at school, and at home--is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
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Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom
By Jennifer S. Holland
Published by Workman
Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a hamster. The well-documented stories of Koko the gorilla and All Ball the kitten; and the hippo Owen and the tortoise Mzee. And almost inexplicable stories of predators befriending prey—an Indian leopard slips into a village every night to sleep with a calf, among other tales!
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Outliers: The Story of Success
By Malcolm Gladwell
Published by Back Bay/Little Brown
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?
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