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The widow of a rich older man, Paige Sorensen is younger than - and hated by - her stepchildren. And they’re dead set on proving that Paige forged their father’s signature on his will, which left his entire estate, including the Sorensen Academy, to her. Intrigued by this real-life soap opera, Claudia soon breaks one of the cardinal rules of business: Never get personally involved. But Claudia has grown attached to a troubled Sorensen student, and when disaster strikes, she’ll realize that reading between the lines can mean the difference between life and death.

There’s nothing more exciting than writing and publishing a book, but if you’re like most authors, your book sells for the first couple of months and then quietly and alarmingly sinks to the bottom of Amazon’s rankings. Or maybe your book never saw success. There are thousands of book authors who thought their book would achieve success who are still waiting for those elusive sales. Sadly most authors simply accept that it’s just the way things are.

What should have been a routine afternoon on the witness stand for forensic handwriting expert Claudia Rose turns into a shocking assault that leaves her bruised and bloodied. Following on the heels of a series of other traumatic events, the attack sends Claudia to the brink of a breakdown. Her fiancé, LAPD Homicide Detective Joel Jovanic, learns of the attack while leading a homicide investigation into a mailbox bomb.

After recovering from amnesia five years ago, Jessica Mack never told anyone she had started hearing voices from the spirit world. Now, forced to use her “gift” to help find missing four-year-old Ethan Starkey, she can no longer ignore the voices. Time is running out for little Ethan as Jessica, and Sage Boles, a man with a mysterious past, are guided by the voices to a séance, where they hope to get clues to the child’s whereabouts.

Home-based business startups are exploding all across the world as more and more people realize that the best way to take control of your life - and your finances - is to work for yourself. But what many people forget to do is brand their small business. That's a mistake. You see, business branding isn't only for the big guys. Home-based business owners also need to focus on creating a brand that will speak to their customers and forge that ever-important bond between the business and the public.

Nearly everyone who cares about dogs or cats knows that they have a sense of self that renders them unique. Yet traditional science and philosophy declare such feelings irrational and anthropomorphic. Animals, they say, have only the crudest form of thought and no sense of self at all. Leslie Irvine's If You Tame Me challenges these entrenched views by demonstrating that our experience of animals and their behavior tell a different story.

Project Management for Small Projects shows you how to tailor bureaucratic planning processes to a sleek minimum while still keeping your project running like a well-oiled machine. This third edition has been updated to align with the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) and provides new tools, templates, and techniques to support the revised processes. In addition, there is new material on agile project management and on the essential leadership skills for small-project managers.

As Gabriella begins to put together the pieces of why her parents abandoned her, she soon learns they were victims of powerful forces that threatened to tear apart the quiet little village by the sea. And that knowledge, along with all the other losses she's experienced, causes Gabriella to view God with great suspicion and fear. So when her young son experiences a dramatic conversion and begins to serve him, an all-out battle ensues.

When thinking about writing this book, I read other books on the topic, and found myself walking away shaking my head in frustration. Many of the ideas presented were outright ridiculous and could never lead to legitimate passive income. So I decided to write a better book. The idea of structuring your life around passive income is real. I currently have four streams of passive (or semi-passive) income (I'm working on the fifth), and would never again consider trading my time for money. But it’s not as easy as some books suggest.

After years of writing nonfiction about handwriting psychology and mystery fiction, I tackled a memoir. This book details my spiritual path, starting with a strict religious background that allowed for no belief in an afterlife, to the freedom of understanding that there is no death, only life after Earth.

Is it a social experiment, a prison, or a tool for driving one man mad? The dome city is all those things. For Ef and his followers in City of England, it’s a kind of laboratory, a place to test Ef’s theories about how to give humanity a new way forward. For the founders of the Happiness-Program, awakened from stasis, the dome city is a prison where they are fed bizarre lies about the state of the world. For Iris, the dome city is the perfect opportunity to take revenge on the man who assaulted her, distorting his perception of reality until he cracks under the strain.

Bill and Sebastian don’t get along. Yes, they need to work together to solve the problems facing City of California… but Bill despises the Aussie in the top hat, and nothing will change his mind on that point. That wouldn’t be a problem if they just avoided each other. Unfortunately, Sebastian is Maria’s partner, and Maria is one of Bill’s best friends. Sebastian is also the greatest salesman the world has ever known, and he’s using that skill to build a sinister cult, completely obedient to his every whim.

Normal was still less than a week in the past; those who still fought felt as though it was much, much more. The quest for resources has begun as does the hunt for the Good Doctor who plans his greatest feat. The majority of the living left to bear witness of his macabre utopia as a new predator takes up his trail. Survivors flee the capital city of Little Rock drawing a horde of a magnitude never imagined. They flowed like a river with nothing but two Hot Springs cops to lead the willing against insurmountable odds. Brawn and steel blended into creative intellect would have to be enough against a quarter million marching dead.

Jovan and Luna are running out of time. They have only thirty days to make Project Green Gates work, convincing the Chipped to abandon their dying society and return to a more natural way of life. If they don’t succeed, Ef and his team have a plan of their own…a plan that frankly terrifies them.

Niccolò Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about - innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson and journalist Susan Salter Reynolds explore how to bring into being systems that transform human experience and make the world more livable and sustainable.

The Execution Factor offers a straightforward approach to success - deliberately designed in a way that anyone can master. Perell flips the notion on its head that success is all about having a great idea, an advanced degree, or a high IQ. Because people around the world have achieved their dreams without any of those things. Perell believes the ability to execute is the difference between success and failure.

Iris has spent her whole life trying to please someone more powerful than her: first her mother, then her riding instructor Timothy Walker, then the great scientist Laura Solomon, head of the Happiness-Program and would-be savior of the world. But now Laura is dead, her consciousness uploaded into the cyberspace Egg… and she doesn’t need Iris anymore.

In this eye-opening and compelling work, psychologist Melanie Joy reveals the common denominator driving all forms of injustice. The mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse humans is the same mentality that drives us to oppress and abuse nonhumans and the environment, as well as those in our own groups working for justice.

Tired of sitting on the defensive, Chris and Tyler go after the hive - the dark entity created when humans and demons join forces. When they disappear, Reese and the others must continue the hunt. An abandoned warehouse, a possessed teen, a children's home, a rural community, and a trail of murders - all lead to final confrontation with the enemy. And, with the truth that if the Oneness turns on itself, it becomes the greatest danger in the world.

The line between good and evil blurs in this pause-resisting, suspenseful Christian fantasy on the border between earth and spirit. After the events in Attack, the Oneness returned home in triumph - all except Reese and Tyler, who remain on the road with the subversive cult leader called Jacob. Jacob’s challenge - to lay aside peace for the sword and bring true justice in a world torn apart by evil - haunts Reese, and though all she wants is to go home, it isn’t clear anymore who or what “home” is.