QUIET VALOR: EVERYDAY AMERICANS BY LARRY NOUVEL

Some acts of courage never make the news, yet they keep the world turning. In every community, there are people who hold things together simply by showing up. Quiet Valor: Everyday Americans opens with this familiar truth and builds a clear, steady narrative around it, highlighting the men and women whose everyday decisions sustain families, neighborhoods, and local systems when it matters most.

Larry Nouvel brings forward stories that feel close to home: workers, neighbors, teachers, caregivers, and first responders who operate without fanfare, but whose actions carry real consequence. These are not celebrated figures or public heroes. They are people whose sense of responsibility guides them to act when circumstances demand it.

This volume reads like a portfolio of lived experience. Each vignette captures a moment when an ordinary individual steps forward because the moment requires it. A teacher moves through a storm to steady anxious children. A bus driver manages an evacuation with careful timing. A construction worker shields a stranger on subway tracks. A deputy dives into dark water to recover a lost child. An airman refuses to stop until every family in a flooded town is accounted for. Together, these moments underscore a simple truth: communities endure because everyday people choose to act.

Nouvel’s style is measured and respectful, reflecting long-standing values of commitment, steadiness, and quiet work ethic. Each story is lean and focused, designed to show how character carries real operational weight. These are not headline-chasing accounts, but reminders of the reliable hands that keep families supported and neighborhoods functioning.

FROM FOUNDER TO FUTURE: A BUSINESS ROADMAP TO IMPACT, LONGEVITY, AND EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP BY JOHN ABRAMS

Winner of the NYC Big Book Award in Business-Entrepreneurship & Small Business and silver winner of the Nonfiction Book Awards, this acclaimed handbook shows you how to transition leadership, implement shared ownership, and preserve your organization’s core values—setting the stage for your business to thrive for generations to come.

This visionary but practical guide offers mission-driven business owners a roadmap for ensuring their company’s lasting impact, building leadership internally, and fostering participatory management. Through inspiring real-world stories of B Corps, worker co-ops, ESOPs, and employee ownership trusts, this book demonstrates how to create resilient organizations that benefit workers and communities.

HOLDING UP THE SKY: INTERGENERATIONAL LESSONS OF FATHERHOOD BY TIM CAMPBELL

A deeply personal exploration of what it means to be a father when life doesn’t go as planned. The moment he learns that his infant daughter is not expected to live, Campbell starts on a journey of love, struggle, and resilience. Through the lens of raising three children—two with disabilities and two who are gifted (one is both)—he delves into the pain and joy of fatherhood. He uncovers what has to be learned, and unlearned, from wisdom of the past. And from his children, he learns ways to adapt as he traverses the arc of fatherhood. His book is for parents seeking solace in shared experiences, for families navigating the complexities of raising children with disabilities, for fathers probing masculinity, and for anyone who believes in the transformative power of love and perseverance.

BUILD IT BOLDLY: HOW DARING BUSINESS LEADERS CAN GAIN INFLUENCE AND CREATE IMPACT BY KIMBERLY MCGLONN

Dr. Kimberly McGlonn’s life is a story of two childhoods and two Americas. Born on the Northside of Milwaukee, a city Dr. Martin Luther King called “the Selma of the North,” she was afforded all the comforts of middle-class life. However, when McGlonn was twelve, all that changed. What came next taught her about the consequences of poverty, the nuances of criminality, and the obstacles women in poverty navigate.

In Build It Boldly, she calls on the world’s 524 million entrepreneurs to embrace a new kind of activism and legacy-building: one that puts people and the planet in the balance of the pursuit of profit and that promotes the kind of optimism necessary for climate resilience. A unique voice, Dr. McGlonn offers timely wisdom on what daring leadership requires and how we might use business design to create powerful impacts on behalf of the common good.