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Over 400 leadership and management book titles are available to USGS employees through the USGS Library.

To borrow a book, you’ll need a Library account.  You can request an account by sending an email to library@usgs.gov.

Once you have an account, access the Library Catalog at https://usgs.primo.exlibrisgroup.com.

From the catalog, you can either search for titles by keyword (using the title or author) or “Request a Book/Article” link at the top of the page and you’ll receive a request form. Books will be sent directly to you for a 3-month period. You are required to return the book to the Library in Reston, Virginia.


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TitleAuthor(s)
1001 Ways to Energize EmployeesBob Nelson
1001 Ways to Reward EmployeesBob Nelson
212 The Extra DegreeSam Parker
30 Days To A Better BossThe Arbinger Institute
30 Days To A Simpler LifeConie Cox, Chris Evatt
30 Days To Better CoworkersThe Arbinger Institute
30 Days To Getting Out Of The BoxThe Arbinger Institute
5 Dysfunctions of a TeamPatrick Lencioni
5 Temptations of a CEOPatrick Lencioni
7 Acts of Courage ‐ Bold Leadership for a Wholehearted LifeRobert E. Staub
7 Aspects of SisterhoodDebra J. Gawrych
7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleStephen R. Covey
7 Hidden Reasons Employees LeaveLeigh Branham
7 Moments ...that define excellent leadersLee J. Colan
9 Natural Laws of LeadershipWarren Blank

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TitleAuthor(s)
Abilene ParadoxJerry B. Harvey
AccountabilityTheo Brooks
Accountability RevolutionMark Samuel
Accountable LeaderBrian Dive
Action CoachingPeter Cairo
Action Learning  David Dotlich, James Noel
Action Learning - for Developing Leaders and OrganizationsMichael J. Marquardt, J. Skipton Leonard, Arthur M. Freedman, Claudia C. Hill
Active LifeParker Palmer
Adversity AdvantagePaul G. Stoltz, Erik Weihenmayer
Age of UnreasonCharles Handy
Aging WorkforceJerry Hedge, Walter Borman, Steven Lammlein
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In KindergartenDavid Dotlich
Analyzing Performance ProblemsRobert F. Mager, Peter Pipe
Anatomy of a LeaderCarl Mays
Anatomy of ChangeRichard Strozzi Heckler
Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of ConflictThe Arbinger Institute
Angels Among UsThe Arbinger Institute
Appreciative InquiryDavid Cooperider, Diana Whitney
Appreciative Inquiry HandbookDavid Cooperider, Diana Whitney, Jacqueline M. Stavros
Architecture Of All AbundanceLenedra J. Carroll
Are We Communicating Yet?Carl Mays
Art of CommunicatingBert Decker
Art of MentoringShirley Peddy PhD
Art of PossibilityBen Zander
Art of The Long ViewPeter Schwartz
Artists WayJulia Cameron
Ask And You Will SucceedKen D. Foster
ASTD Reference Guide to Workplace Learning And PerformanceWilliam J. Rothwell, Henry J. Sredl
Attitude Your Internal Compass Denis Waitley, Boyd Matheson
Authentic HappinessMartin Seligman

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TitleAuthor(s)
Be A People PersonJohn C. Maxwell
Becoming a Conflict Competent LeaderCraig E. Runde, Tim A. Flanagan
Becoming a Person of InfluenceJohn C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan
Behavioral CoachingSuzanne Skiffington, Perry Zeus
Best Kept Secrets in GovernmentAl Gore
Best of SuccessoriesKatherine Karvelas
Best Practices for Succession Planning Mark R. Sobol, Phil Harkins, Terence Conley
Better TogetherRobert Putnam, Kim Daus, Lewis M. Feldstein, Don Cohen
Beyond SpinMarkos Kounalakis, Drew Banks
Beyond the Myths And Magic of MentoringMargo Marral, Marna A. Owen
Beyond The Wall of Resistance Rick Maurer
Beyond WordsMilly R. Sonneman
Bird by BirdAnn Lamett
Black ButterflyRichard Moss M.D.
Book Of Metaphors Volume IIMachael A. Gass, PhD
Bootstrap WordsMaura Beatty
Bounce!Barry J. Moltz
Bringing Out the Best in PeopleAubrey C. Daniels
Brothers We Are Not ProfessionalsJohn Piper
Building BeehivesSeth Kahan
Building CharacterGene Klann
Building Conflict Competent TeamsCraig E. Runde, Tim A. Flanagan
Built To LastJames C Collins, Jerry l. Porras
Business Tale: Story of Ethics Choices Success TaleMarianne M. Jennings

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TitleAuthor(s)
Call to ConscienceClayborne Carson, Kris Shepherd, and Andrew Young
Can You Believe Your Eyes?Block and Yuker
Care Packages of the WorkplaceBarbara Glanz
Caught in the MiddleRichard C. Longworth
Change AnythingKerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Marfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
Change At the Core - Unleash Your Team's Energy To Drive ResultsWend Mack, Myron Radio
Change CycleAnn Salerno
Change Your Questions, Change Your LifeMarilee Adams
Coaching and MentoringHarvard Business School Press
Coaching for Improved Work PerformanceFerdinand Fournies
Co-Active CoachingLaura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House, Phil Sandahl
Collaborative Environmental ManagementTomas Koontz, Toddi Steelman, JoAnn Carmin, Cassandra Moseley, and Craig Thomas
Crucibles of LeadershipRobert J. Thomas

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TitleAuthor(s)
Dance of ChangePeter M. Senge and George Roth
Death by MeetingPatrick Lencioni
Death in the MarshTom Harris
Developing High Performance PeopleBarbara P. Mink, Keith Q. Owen, and Oscar Mink
Developing LeadersCatherine Fitzgerald, Linda Kirby
Developing the Leaders Around YouJohn C. Maxwell
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational CultureKim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn
Diamond CutterGeshe Michael Roach, ‎Lama Christie McNally
Difficult ConversationsDouglas F. Stone, ‎Douglas Stone, ‎Bruce Patton
Do You Really Need A Team?CCL, Michael E. Kossler, Kim Kanga

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TitleAuthor(s)
Elusive ObviousMoshe Feldenkrais
EmpowermentJimmy D. Bayes
Encouraging the HeartJames M. Kouzes, ‎Barry Z. Posner
Encyclopedia of Positive QuestionsDiana Kaplin Whitney, ‎David L. Cooperrider, ‎Brian S. Kaplin
Enlightened LeadershipEd Oakley, ‎Doug Krug
EQ EdgeSteven J. Stein, PhD, Howard E. Book M.D.

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TitleAuthor(s)
First Four WeeksMichael Corum
Fish!Stephen C. Lundin
Fish! SticksStephen C. Lundin
Fish! TalesStephen C. Lundin
Flight of the BuffaloJames A. Belasco, ‎Ralph C. Stayer
Force for ChangeJohn P. Kotter
Four AgreementsMiguel Ruiz
Four Agreements Companion BookMiguel Ruiz, Janet Mills
Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary ExecutivePatrick Lencioni
FYI For Your ImprovementMichael M. Lombardo, ‎Robert W. Eichinger

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TitleAuthor(s)
General Theory of LoveThomas Lewis, ‎Fari Amini, ‎Richard Lannon
Generations Working TogetherLaura Bernstein
Gentle Art of MentoringDonna Otto
Getting to Yes - Negotiating Agreement without Giving InRoger Fisher, William Ury
Good to GreatJim Collins
Growing LeadersSteve Yearout, Gerry Miles with Richard Koonce
Gung Ho! Ken Blanchard, Bowles

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TitleAuthor(s)
Hand UpAssociation for Women in Science
Handbook of CoachingTing and Scisco
Handbook of Leadership DevelopmentEllen Van Velsor, ‎Cynthia D. McCauley, ‎Marian N. Ruderman
Hodge's Harbrace College HandbookWhitten, Hosner, Webb
Hard Wired Leadership - Unleashing The Power of Personality to Become A New Millennium LeaderRoger R. Perman
Harvard Business Review on ChangeHarvard Business School Press
Healing the Wounds - Overcoming The Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized OrganizationsDavid M. Noer
Heart of an ExecutiveRichard D. Phillips
Heart of Change - Real Life Stories of How People Change Their OrganizationsJohn P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen
Heart of CoachingThomas G. Crane
Heart of LeadershipRobert E. Staub, II
Heart of Mentoring - Ten Proven Principles for Developing People to Their Fullest PotentialDave A. Stoddard with Robert J. Tamasy
Heart's CodePaul Pearsall, PhD
High Flyers - Developing the Next Generation of LeadersMorgan W. McCall, Jr.
Holding Sacred GroundCarl D. Glickman
How Our Lives Become Stories: Making selvesPaul John Eakin
How Successful People ThinkJohn C. Maxwell
How to Be A Star At WorkRobert E. Kelley
How to Coach an Effective TeamMicki Holliday, Joe Gilliam
How to Form a TeamKim Kanaga, Michael F. Kossler
How to Give It So They Get ItSharon Bowman
How to Launch a TeamKim Kanaga, Sanya Prestridge
How to Manage Your BossChristopher Hegarty
How to Talk So People ListenSonya Hamlin
How We Choose to be HappyRick Foster and Greg Hicks
HR ScorecardBrian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, Dave Ulrich
Human Resource ChampionsDave Ulrich

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TitleAuthor(s)
Idea PowerVan Gundy
If I Live To Be 100Ellis
I'm OK, You're OKHarris
Improv WisdomMadson
Improvement ProcessH. James Harrington
Improving Business Communication SkillsPrentice Hall
Improvise ThisMark Bergren, ‎Molly Cox
Influence Without AuthorityAlan Cohen and David Bradford
Influencing with IntegrityLaborde
Inner Work of LeadersMackoff, Wenett
Inside ViewUlmer
Internalizing StrengthsKaplan
Intuitive PrincipleCorwin Press
InvitationDreamer
It Starts with OneGregersen
It's About TimeJohn Guaspari

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TitleAuthor(s)
John Kotter on What Leaders Really DoKotter

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TitleAuthor(s)
Kitchen Table WisdomNaomi, Remen
Know Your TruthHannegan

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TitleAuthor(s)
Lead RightVentura
Leader as CoachPDI
Leader of the FutureThe Drucker Foundation (a compilation of papers)
Leader to LeaderThe Drucker Foundation (a compilation of papers)
LeadersBennis, Nanus
Leaders of the FutureLTL Inst
Leadership & Self-DeceptionThe Arbinger Institute
Leadership & SpiritCCL
Leadership and the New ScienceWheatley
Leadership by the BookBlanchard, Hubels, Hodges
Leadership ChallengeKouzes, Posner
Leadership EducationCCL
Leadership FactorKotter
Leadership for LeadersNAPA
Leadership from the Inside OutCashman
Leadership is an ArtMax DePree
Leadership JazzMax Dupree
Leadership MachineLominger
Leadership Moment Useem
Leadership MystiqueDeVries
Leadership Secrets of Atilla the HunRoberts
Leadership without Easy AnswersBelnap, Harvard
Leading ChangeJohn Kotter
Leading Dispersed TeamsKossler, Prestridge
Leading for InnovationHesselblein, Goldsmith, Somerville
Leading Knowledge Management and Learning Phillips, Bonner
Leading MindsGardiner
Leading Organizations Through TransitionDeetz, Tracy, Simpson
Leading PeopleRosen
Leading QuietlyBadracco
Leading with AuthenticityCCL
Leading with SoulLee Bolman and Terrence Deal
Leading With the HeartKrzyzewski
Leading Without PowerMax DePree
Learning From LifeCCL
Learning OrganizationsHandy, Kanter, Koffman, Senge
Learning to LeadConger
Let Your Life SpeakPalmer
Life and WorkAntry
Life is More Than Your To Do ListBedrosian
Life MakeoversRichardson
Listening Effectively Kline
Literary MindTurner
Living BigGrant
Living Companyde Geus
Living the 7 Habits: Courage to ChangeStephen R. Covey
Living Your Best LifeLaura Berman Fortgang
Love and ProfitJames A. Autry

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TitleAuthor(s)
Maestro - A Surprising Story About Leading By ListeningRoger Nierenberg
Magic of MotivationKatherine Karvelas
Maintaining Team Performance CCL, Kim Kanaga, Henry Browning
Make Today CountJohn C. Maxwell
Making ChoicesPeter Kreeft
Making Common SenseRon Moore
Making Diversity WorkSondra Thiederman
Making Managers into LeadersEd Oakley, Doug Krug
Making Mentoring HappenKathy Lacey
Man Who Discovered QualityAndrea Gabor
Managers as MentorsChip R. Bell
Managers Communication HandbookDavid Cottrell
Managers Guide to Excellence in Public Relations and Communication ManagementDavid Dozier
Managers Short CourseBil and Cher Holton
Managing Conflict with Direct ReportsCCL, Barbara Popejoy, Brenda J. McManigle
Managing Conflict with Your BossCCL, Davida Sharpe, Elinor Johnson
Managing Conflict with Your PeersCCL, Talula Cartwright
Managing in a Time of Great ChangePeter Drucker
Managing Quality Through TeamsLawrence W. Miller
Managing Succession and Developing LeadershipRalph Bledsoe
Managing the DreamWarren Bennis
Managing with CarrotsChester Elton
Man's Search for MeaningViktor E. Frankl
Masterful Coaching (w/Participant Workbook)Hargrove
Maximizing the Value of 360 FeedbackCCL
Mentor LeaderTony Dungy with Nathan Whitaker
MentoringCrisp
Mentoring 101Maxwell
Mentoring and DiversityThomas Landefeld
Mentoring for SuccessAMI
Mentoring MillennialsEgeler
Mentor's GuideLois J. Zachary
Mindful CoachSilsbe
Miracles of MentoringDortsch
Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)Tavris, Aronsin
Monday Morning  Leadership for WomenSokolsky
Monday Morning LeadershipCottrell
Monk Who Sold His FerrariSharma
Moral Issues in BusinessShaw, Berry
Motivating Today's EmployeesSuccessories Lib
My Grandfather's BlessingsRemen
Myths to Live ByCampbell

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TitleAuthor(s)
Never Eat AloneFerrazzi
New LeadersJossey Bass
Next Generation LeaderStanley
Nine LivesCantando, Zuckerman
No ContestKohn
Now, Discover Your StrengthsMarcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
Nuts n' Bolts LeadershipDr. Jim Bohn

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TitleAuthor(s)
On Becoming a LeaderWarren Bennis
On LeadershipJohn W. Gardner
One day Marketing PlanHiebing, Cooper
Open Space TechnologyOwen
Organizing GeniusWarren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman
Other 90%Cooper
Ouch That Stereotype HurtsLeslie C. Aguilar
Our Iceberg Is MeltingJohn Kotter, Holger Rathgeber
Oz PrincipleConnors, Smith, Hickman

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TitleAuthor(s)
Paper AirplanesMichael McMillan
Paradox of SuccessTarcher, Putnam
Peer Today, Boss Tomorrow: Navigating Your Changing RoleLaura E. Bernstein
Performance FactorMacMillan
Personal AccountabilityMiller
Perspectives of Family CommunicationTurner, West
Phantom TollboothJuster
Philosophy Made SimpleDoubleday
Pizza and the Art of Life ManagementBeatty
Planning and Managing PR CampaignsGregory
Pleasure PrescriptionPearsall
Portable CoachLeonard
Positive DisciplineHarvey, Sioms
Power and InfluenceKotter
Power MentoringEnsher, Murphy
Power of Appreciative InquiryWhitney, Trostan, Bloom
Power of Full EngagementLoehr, Schwartz
Power of GoalsKarvelas
Power of Minds at WorkAlbrecht
Power of PartnershipEisler
Power of PatienceRyan
Power of Personal StorytellingMaguire
Power of PurposeLeider
Power of ResilienceBrooks, Goldstein
Power of Serving OthersMorsch, Nelson
Power Up Bradford, Cohen
Power vs. ForceHawkins
Practical CoachCaproni
Practice What You PreachMaister
PresenceSenge, Schumer, Jaworski, Flowers
Presenting With PizzazzBowman
Principle Centered LeadershipStephen Covey
Productive WorkplacesWeisbord
Public RelationsKitchen
Pulling TogetherMurphy

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TitleAuthor(s)
Quality is FreeCrosby
Quality Or ElseDobyns, Crawford-Mason
Quality: the Myth, the MagicWestland

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TitleAuthor(s)
Ready for AnythingAllen
Real People, Real WorkCheany, Cotter
Real Power ‐ Business Lessons from the Tao Te ChingAufry, Mitchell
Reinvention of WorkFox
Renaissance SoulLobenstine
Responsible RestructuringCascio
Responsible ScienceNational Academy Press
Results Based LeadershipUlrich, Zenger, Smallwood
Retiring the Generation GapDeal
Rule #1Successories
Running with the GiantsMaxwell

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TitleAuthor(s)
Safe Place for Dangerous TruthsSimmons
ServantHunter
Service WithinAlbrecht
Setting Development GoalsCCL
Setting PrioritiesCCL
Seven Life Lessons of ChaosBriggs, Peat
ShapeshiftingPerkins
ShockproofJacobs, Sheridan, Gonzales
Silos, Politics and Turf WarsLencioni
SimplicityThomas
SimplicityJensen
Simplify Your Work LifeElaine St. James
Six Thinking HatsEdward DeBono
Slowing Down the Speed of LifeCarlson, Bailey
Social AnimalBrooks
Social IntelligenceGoleman
Soul of MoneyTwist
Speak The Truth and Point to HopeLisa J. Marshall
Speed of TrustCovey
SpringboardDenning
Squawk! How to Stop Making Noise and Start Getting ResultsTravis Bradberry
SQUIRREL Inc. A Fable of Leadership Through StorytellingStephen Denning 
Stand Up for Your LifeCheryl Richardson
Step Up to SupervisorFull Court Press
Stewardship - Choosing Service Over Self-InterestPeter Block
Story FactorAnnette Simmons
Strategy of the DolphinDudley Lynch, Paul L. Kardis
Strengths Based LeadershipTom Rath, Barry Conchie
Succeeding with TeamsRichard S. Wellins, Dick Schaaf, Kathy Harper Shamo
Successful Coaching ManagerAlan M. Mackintosh
Successful Nonverbal CommunicationDale G. Leathers
Super-LeadershipCharles X. Manz, Henry P. Sims, Jr.
Synchronicity: The Inner Path of LeadershipJoseph Jaworski

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TitleAuthor(s)
Take Command - Leadership Lessons From The Civil WarTom Wheeler
Take Time For You LifeCheryl Richardson 
Take Yourself To The TopLaura Berman Fortgang
Taking Aim On LeadershipPeter Capezio, Debra Morehouse
Taking Charge - Making the Right ChoicesPerry Smith
Taming Your GremlinRick Carson
Tao of Daily LivingJohn Heider
Task Force - A Team Planning ExerciseEffective Strategies Inc.
Team Building - An Exercise in LeadershipRobert Maddax
Team HandbookPeter R. Scholtes and Others
TeamworkGlenn Parker
Tempered Radicals - How Everyday Leaders Inspire Change at WorkDebra E. Meyerson
Terms of Engagement - Changing The Way We Change OrganizationsRichard H. Axelrod
Territorial Games - Understanding and Ending Turf Wars at WorkAnnette Simmons
The 17 Essential Qualities Of A Team PlayerJohn C. Maxwell
The 21 Irrefutable Laws Of LeadershipJohn C. Maxwell
The 360 LeaderJohn C. Maxwell
The 3rd AlternativeSteven R. Covey
Thinking For A ChangeJohn C. Maxwell
Time Management  In An InstantKaren Leland, Keith Bailey
Tipping Point - How Little Thinks Can  Make A Big DifferenceMalcolm Gladwell
Tongue Fu! How to Deflect, Disarm and Defuse Any Verbal ConflictSam Horn
Toxic SuccessPaul Pearsall, PhD
Trainers PocketbookJohn Townsend
Transferring Learning to BehaviorDonald Kirkpatrick, James D. Kirkpatrick
Transforming Your Leadership CultureJohn B. McGuire and Gary B. Rhodes
Transparency - How Leaders Create A Culture of CandorWarren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, James O'Toole with Patricia Ward Biederman
Truth About LeadershipJames M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
Tuesdays with Morrie - An old man, a young man and life's greatest lessonMitch Albom
Turning Dreams Into SuccessBunny and Larry Holman
Turning InwardCheryl Richardson
Turning Outsiders Into Insiders - How To Turn Nontraditional Workers Into A Committed WorkforceFrank Sennett
Turning To One AnotherMarquart J. Wheatley

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Understanding DisabilityJaeger, Bowman
Understanding Leadership CompetenciesPatricia Guggenheimer, Mary Diana Szulc
Unfolding MeaningDavid Bohm
Up Is Not The Only WayBeverly L. Kaye
Using An Art Technique To Facilitate Leadership DevelopmentCheryl DeCiantis
Using Your Executive CoachE. Wayne Hart, Karen Kirkland

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TitleAuthor(s)
Versatile LeaderBob Kaplin, Rob Kaiser

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TitleAuthor(s)
Walk The Talk and Get The Results You WantEric Harvey and Al Lucia
What It Took - A History of the USGS EROS Data CenterRebecca L. Johnson
When "IT" Happens at WorkJulie M. Smith, PhD
Who Moved My CheeseSpencer Johnson M.D.
Why Teams Don't WorkRobbins, Finley
Woman's Guide to Savvy InvestingMarsha Bertrand
Words That Change MindsShelle Rose Charvet
Working In Indian CountryLarry D. Keown
World Waiting to Be BornM. Scott Peck, M.D.
Worlds Most Powerful Leadership PrincipleJames C. Hunter

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TitleAuthor(s)
You Are What You SayMatthew Budd M.D., Larry Rothstein Ed.D.
You Can Be Happy No Matter WhatRichard Carlson PhD

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TitleAuthor(s)
Zapp! The Lightening of EmpowermentWilliam Byham and Jeff Cox

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