Family Engagement

In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams. Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group.

Join Dr. Steve Constantino as he outlines a pathway and process to engage every family on the journey toward improved student learning, including the traditionally disengaged. Revisions and additions include updated research to ensure a firmer foundation for each of its five simple principles.

The Emmy award-winning news anchor of Outnumbered Overtime with Harris Faulkner and co-host of the talk show Outnumbered shares the lessons she learned growing up in a military family paying homage to the military ideals that shaped her and showing how everyone can benefit from bringing the wisdom of military service into their lives. Born into a military family, Harris Faulkner revered her father, a decorated career officer who served three tours of duty in Vietnam and raised his children with the values and ideals of the US military.

A billionaire and a single mom have the perfect deal—until love breaches the contract. Paul needs a fiancée to inherit the family business. When his motorbike fails on way to an all-important meeting, he's stranded late at night in a large, wintry forest. After trusting the wrong guy, Nina is left desperate for a job to keep a roof over her little girl's head. When Nina saves Paul from the snowstorm, he's quick to offer her the perfect deal: a few days pretending to be his fiancée to keep her daughter's home. They shake-- and soon find that fooling others is easy. But can they fool ...

Aleksandr Berinksi is a Russian biochemist in the United States on a visa that is about to expire. Marriage will allow him to stay - marriage to Julia Conrad. If Julia's going to save her Seattle-based company, she needs him as much as he needs her. There's a Groom Wanted in Julia's life. And not just any groom!

I’ve discovered the recipe for the perfect fake boyfriend. This one is five stars. Highly rated. But I can't keep him. It was a total accident. I went to Thanksgiving dinner with the boss's son and came home fake engaged. Jonah’s got all the ingredients to make a perfect boyfriend, even though he's clueless. I can work with that. Literally. I’m spending the month of December with a swoony fake fiancé and his gorgeous twin in Vermont while they prep for a cooking competition. Too bad this engagement has a built-in expiration date. Jonah's not the kind of guy who gives up easily, and ...

A rock star, a social worker, and a teen in need of a family. Can their pretend relationship become real? Still blaming herself for a long-ago tragedy, not to mention a failed marriage, social worker Tessa Loughty focuses all her energy on redeeming herself through her job. But when she takes Ollie, a foster teen she bonded with, to the concert of a rock star he idolizes, the failures she’s hiding from catch up with her. Ari McFarland was a childhood friend and the lifelong crush she lost touch with. When they want to adopt Ollie, Ari suggests they form an unlikely union to increase their...

In today's fast-paced digital world, technology has seamlessly integrated into every aspect of our lives. While this connectivity offers unparalleled access to information, learning, and social interaction, it also poses significant challenges. From the allure of social media and endless notifications to the pressure of constant availability, it’s easy to become overwhelmed and lose sight of what truly matters. Mindful Technology Use is the essential guide for anyone looking to reclaim their focus, foster meaningful relationships, and establish a healthy balance with digital devices. This...

Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiancé who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as "killed in the line of duty." Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.

Fairytale romances can’t happen in real life. Or can they? It’s love at first sight when reclusive inventor Jesse Buckley meets unemployed music teacher Bronte, moonlighting as a take-out delivery driver. Okay, so splattering guacamole and sour cream over them both wasn’t the best way to impress the woman he hopes to make his wife, but from here on the only way is up, right? Still, maybe offering her a job as his chauffeur and personal assistant wasn’t one of his best ideas. It means he’ll see her almost every day, sure. It also means, as one of his employees, she’s out-of-...

In this moving story about losing and finding love again, a woman sets out to find the perfect matches for those closest to her. Forty-eight-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others, her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man, call it meddlesome. But there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance.

Get ready to be swept away on a journey of forbidden love and intense passion as three sizzling couples fight for their happily ever afters.❣️ Lose yourself in the world of irresistible billionaires, intense second chances, and forbidden love affairs in this collection of steamy contemporary romance novels that will set your heart racing and leave you craving for more❣️ This three book series brings you: Book One: "Forbidden Billionaire Playboy Boss" Sparks fly in this scorching world of power, seduction, and desire as Noah and Nina set the boardroom ablaze in "Forbidden Billionaire...

Mary Rose had been born and raised in Canada, but when love called her to her fiancé’s Far East, she packed up her bags, flew to Singapore three days early — and walked in on him with another woman. Unwilling to turn around and go back home, she stayed on and proved her value as a nurse at a big Singapore hospital, but after three months of being the target of well-meaning pity, she was ready to look for some other place in which to make her way in life. And to her surprise, she got one — when one of her patients, a handsome Kiwi war hero, who through an unfortunate series of ...

"Hands off, my sister," Liam warned. My mission was clear: Protect Olivia during her Rio vacation without her knowing. The real battle was not letting my raging lust call the shots. When another man flirted with her, a mix of rage and desire exploded within me... I lost the war, making a daring, possessive move: a fake engagement to mark her as mine. Liv isn't just my best bro's little sis anymore. She's the breathtakingly stunning, sultry woman I can't resist, no matter how off-limits I know she should be. As Rio's sun blurs the lines between reality and pretend, rules fade away along with...

How could I forget Will Myers? Wrinkled shirts, ripped jeans, and a devil may care attitude. He was my teenage bad boy. My first real love. Until the day I left town and broke both of our hearts. Four years later, I've come home, prepared to start my life all over again. But my heart never strayed too far away from Will Myers. My bad boy is a man now. The local mechanic with a perfect smile and strong, trained hands. He took one look at me and made up his mind. He still loves me and he'll do whatever it takes to have me in his bed again. We've been down this road before. It left both of us ...

To quell his grandfather’s fears of a 300 year old curse coming to fruition, the del Castillo brothers have agreed to marry or become engaged to appease the old man. All Reynard de Castillo had been looking for with Sara Woodville was an open-ended engagement with no prospect of seeing it into marriage. Stinging from the fresh wounds of a broken engagement, Sarina Woodville accepts her identical twin sister’s invitation to join her on Isla Sagrado, but on her arrival she finds herself involuntarily masquerading as her twin. Unwilling to take part in the charade, Rina is determined to ...

Levi is a wanderer at heart and he’s got his sights on getting out of Mistletoe, Montana. Now. When he gets in a horrible accident and is rescued by a beautiful stranger, Levi starts to question if what he thinks he wants is really what he wants. The only things holding him in place at the woman’s house are some bruises and a winter storm that, like all good things, must eventually come to an end. He learns her name is Tarryn and she’s more interesting than anyone he’s met in a long time. But the storm ends and he has to leave. He wants to stay, and there are a thousand reasons why ...

What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And most importantly, is there a scientific formula for love? Drs. John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman are the world’s leading relationship scientists. For the past forty years, they have been studying love. They’ve gathered data on over three thousand couples, looking at everything from their body language to the way they converse to their stress hormone levels. Their goal: to identify the building blocks of love.

The stories in Paul Alan Ruben's Terms of Engagement explore father and son as intimate enemies, each yearning to be understood, acknowledged, and validated by the other. Raw and gripping as delivered by a cast of incredible narrators, these nine stories take place in collision territory - where father and son engage in trying to repair their alienation.

An artist, a cowboy, and a fake marriage. Nothing can go wrong… I’m in the middle of my art show when the biggest jerk in a cowboy hat says my work isn’t worth wasting time on, let alone hard-earned money. I’m so mad I could spit! Oh, well. Doesn't matter. I'll never have to see him again. Wrong. The cowboy turns out to be my blind date the next night and I can’t leave because my sweet grandma set it up. How do you tell someone you love they have horrible taste in men? Why, oh, why, do the crazy things have to happen to me? Well, my friend, things go from lame to worse when he ...