Books like Breaking the rock by Jolene Babyak

The Obstacle Is the Way teaches readers how to turn adversity into advantage using Stoic principles, illustrated with stories of historic figures and modern success.

"As a result of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, producing excessive rain, frost, and snowfall across much of the northeastern United States, Canada, and Europe in the summer of 1816. ... The Year Without Summer examines not only the climate change engendered by the eruption, but its effects on politics, the economy, the arts, and social structures."--Jacket flap.

An account of American business, examining how America became a consumer society.

"Kit Devigny could have loved rock guitarist Noah St. John. Their friendship burned with the promise of intense passion and searing tenderness until the night Noah deliberately shattered her heart. Noah knows that he destroyed something precious the night he chose to betray Kit, but he'd rather she hate him than learn his darkest secret. All he has left is his music. It's his saving grace, but it doesn't silence the voices that keep him up at night. When a media error sees Noah and Kit dubbed the new 'it' couple, Kit discovers that her chance at the role of a lifetime hinges on riding the media wave. Wanting, needing, to give Kit this, Noah agrees to play the adoring boyfriend. Only the illusion is suddenly too real, too painful, too beautiful ... and it may be too late for the redemption of Noah St. John"--Back cover.

"A true crime narrative about the life and misdeeds of Helen Spence in Arkansas during the Depression"--