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In this pulse-pounding thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last minute, a beautiful young lawyer is hired by a colleague to find out if one of his clients is trying to kill him.

Packed with extensive enhancements, including new international case studies and more strategies to introduce and maintain action learning programs within an organisation, Optimizing the Power of Action Learning delivers an innovative and fresh perspective - making it a must-have for any organization looking to heighten competitive advantage and sustain success.

Dumb things. We've all done them. And we wish we could go back to do things smarter. Be smarter in our relationship choices, our money decisions, our family situations, and our spiritual lives. Is there a way to do and be smarter? Absolutely there is!

Der Auftakt zur großen queeren Romantasy-Saga von Bestsellerautor T. J. Klune. Oxnard Matheson ist zwölf, als sein Vater die Familie verlässt. Ox fühlt sich ungeliebt und wertlos – und irgendwie anders als andere Jungs in seinem Alter. Ox ist sechzehn, als die Familie Bennett ins Nachbarhaus einzieht. Die Bennetts sind lebensfroh und charismatisch – und Werwölfe. Ox fühlt sich unwiderstehlich angezogen von dieser aufregenden neuen Welt voll Magie, Freundschaft und Abenteuer. Doch als Ox dreiundzwanzig ist, geschieht ein Mord und nichts ist mehr wie zuvor ...

You’re about to discover the freedom in life that God wants for all of us. Everyone has an innate desire for freedom in life. What if you lived a life with total freedom? If you want it, you can have it, but you’ll have to create it. Freedom doesn’t just happen on its own. Most people will never create freedom in their lifetime because they don’t answer two powerful questions: What is freedom to you? How can you create it? Creating a Life of Freedom brings you a complete, simplified process for creating freedom in your life. This book is the second of three in Dr. Michael J. ...

Roaming the oceans in the prehistoric era were sharks that reached 70 feet in length, with teeth the size of shovel blades. Imagine a great white as big as a plane and you've got it. Megalodon ate killer whales for lunch and were unquestionably the most awesome predator in the ocean for millennia. An eating machine with fins the size of sailboat sails that a whaler's harpoon would bounce off of it like a toothpick. As "mega" as it possibly gets, explore Megalodon, the Great White Godfather.

Hiding from the world in her little white cottage on the shores of a loch, Annie Jackson is fighting to come to terms with the world of the murmurs, a curse that has haunted female members of her family for centuries. While she is within the ancient, heavy stone of the old dwelling, the voices merely buzz, but the moment she steps outside the door they clamour to torment her all over again, bringing with them shocking visions of imminent deaths. Into this oasis comes her adoptive mother, Mandy McEvoy, begging for Annie's help. Mandy's nephew Damien has gone missing.

When Chris Weathers finds an oddly alluring artwork in a beachtown coffeehouse, he thinks he's found the answer to the visions invading his button-down life. But when he becomes the patron of its creator, a semi-homeless painter named Marcello, he unsettles the balance of his family. Being the "walking wallet" for a genius daughter and her ultra-nervous mother has its rewards, but aren't parents allowed to have lives of their own? A touching family drama from the author of the award-winning novel The Popcorn Girl.

Das Diebespaar Hadrian und Royce, bekannt unter dem Namen Riyria, wollte sich eigentlich längst aus den gefährlichen Geschäften zurückziehen. Da erreicht die beiden ein Auftrag des Königs: Sie sollen des Agenten Merrick Marius habhaft werden, der allem Anschein nach im Kampf um das Königreich Melengar die Fäden in Händen hält. Als sie dafür auf dem mächtigen Segler Smaragdsturm anheuern, können sie noch nicht wissen, dass ihre Feinde längst an Bord sind.

A fast-paced novella about a woman with a dark past who enters the Order of the Holy Sisters to escape the demons that haunt her. She was earlier involved in an unsolved murder and wants to put it all behind her. While saying her prayers, she is consumed by a troubling thought concerning the one person at the crime scene who could identify her. She takes a leave of absence to find him to give her the peace of mind she so desperately seeks.

"…Antifa is fundamentally committed to the abolition of the U.S. government and the violent overthrow of the United States Constitution. It is committed to the use of both subversion and violent extremism to enforce its political views by terrorizing American citizens."

Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon’s remembrances track the influence not only of his literary pater familias, Norman Mailer, but his actual father, a booze-bitten blue-collar bibliophile with his own reputation for genius, and how together these mentors forged and focused the 20/20 literary vision Lennon takes to the work of some of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century, from Baldwin and Bishop to Didion and DeLillo and, not least, Mailer himself.

The Corner Scribblers is a small writer's support group in the Chattanooga area comprised of writers, authors, and storytellers from a wide range of skills and backgrounds. We come together once a month to discuss our current projects, recent accomplishments and to share what we have each learned about the craft. Within this cover, you will find a collection of holiday-themed flash fiction stories and poetry, displaying a small sample of those combined skills.

Three years have passed since General Robert E. Lee routed the Union army at Gettysburg and caused the Lincoln government to flee Washington, D.C. Now, as president of the Confederacy, Lee realizes the hollowness of his victory as he watches the South he loved and defended slowly crumble before his eyes. Lee must reach out to the only man he believes can help him save the South - the disgraced and out-of-office President Abraham Lincoln. Amidst intense opposition, the two men secretly devise a plan that, if successful, could reunite the country once again.

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

Madison Lee is the proud co-owner of the only premier BDSM club in Seattle. Her life is perfect but for one thing - she’s a “single” married woman nearing the end of her patience with a gorgeous, but no-show husband. An accomplished and world-renowned yogi, Kinson Lee believes his wife hangs the moon. She holds down the fort so he can travel the world living his dream. But will his dream become a nightmare as the woman he loves beyond measure considers taking her own leave of absence?

Same-sex marriage has become one of the most volatile issues in American politics. But if most young people support gay marriage, and if there are clear indicators that a substantial majority of the population will soon favor it, why has the outcry against it been so strong?

Channel more confidence, creativity, and joy in your life with a basic understanding of your body's energy centers. Chakra yoga is the practice of using yoga postures and controlled breath, known as pranayama, to cleanse, balance, and open the chakras, or energy centers, of the body. Learn how to balance and stabilize your physical body and your subtle body through asana (yoga posture) practice. This realigns the chakras, which regulate specific behaviors, and makes it easier to overcome outdated patterns, beliefs, and habits.

It was the age of Aquarius, a time of civil unrest and radically different viewpoints creating a radical divide among the populace; not unlike the political divide we are experiencing today. Drug use and psychedelic experimentation exploded onto the scene like nothing before, and people from all generations were tuning out to tune in to a wholly different consciousness via transcendental meditation and other means. What they didn't expect was outer space listening in.

From J.C. Michael, author of Pandemonium, comes Everything’s Annoying, a collection of dark fiction and horror. Covering a variety of themes, Everything’s Annoying provides an array of unsettling tales that will stay with you long after listening.