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"We need to talk." Those four little words have the power to strike fear into the heart of the most experienced business person. Well, not anymore. This practical, step-by-step guide will help you break the silence and open the lines of communication in a new, healthy, productive, and profitable way. It's packed with tested tools proven in real-life scenarios and designed to navigate a full range of difficult business conversations.

Imagine a world devoid of violence - a world where fists can’t hit, guns don’t kill, and bombs can’t destroy. In this tantalizing novel of possibility, this has - suddenly and inexplicably - become our new reality. The US president must find a new way to wage war. The pope ponders whether the Commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is still relevant.

Beside the Troubled Waters is a memoir by an African-American physician in Alabama whose story in many ways typifies the lives and careers of Black doctors in the south during the segregationist era while also illustrating the diversity of the Black experience in the medical profession.

One night in Montreal, an ageless man hires a young female translator to help settle mysterious debts with an array of desperate characters.

Discover art that is beautiful and bloodthirsty. A bedroom fan that sings with wicked messages. A cursed trailer that twists and flips a stereotype into something darkly humorous. Ghosts that ride a time-travelling Ferris wheel. Cursed Ink that seduces and betrays. These are just a few of the delights awaiting you...This is Book 1 in the Horror Lite Anthologies 3-book series. Enjoy the full set!

A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew. Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall.

Much like Lee Chang-dong’s internationally renowned films (Burning, Secret Sunshine, and Poetry), these brilliant, unsettling tales, originally published in Korea in the 1980s and now translated into English for the first time, investigate themes of injustice, betrayal, and terror—on both an intimate and national scale. Lee writes deeply and hauntingly about conflicts between family, the powerful and the vulnerable, conformists and rebels.

>Meet Geena Samuels, a single mother raising two sons in one of New York City's toughest boroughs. This Bronx story is nothing like you've ever witnessed before. Geena encounters violence and betrayal from those who claim to love her most. She is on a roller coaster ride of a struggle to make ends meet and find true love, with emotions raging between love and an anger that sometimes leads to war.

Born in Canada to a Taiwanese mother and a Welsh father, steeped in both literary and scientific traditions, Jessica J. Lee is a perfectly placed observer of our world in motion. In this vibrant book of linked essays she explores the entanglements of the plant and human worlds, and the echoes and counterpoints she detects in the migration of plants and people - and the language we use to describe them.

There are trials and tribulations that come from being a Paladin. Having aliens abduct and torture you is one of them, but every affliction comes with an opportunity. Aliens can travel through dimensions. I hijacked a saucer and escaped Earth to a dimension controlled by ancient Egyptian Gods. Finally, I am free of Jehovah. Finally, I can be my own man.

If you want to learn how to become a player, this audiobook isn't for you. To be a true player, you have to treat women like objects; you can't afford to care about their feelings. In other words - you have to be an asshole. There are enough assholes in the world; I don't need to add to their numbers. If you want to learn how to listen to women, how to become more caring and understanding - again - this audiobook isn't for you. I can only teach what I know and I don't know how to listen, care, or be empathetic.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Frankly in Love by David Yoon. Frank Li is a high school senior living in Southern California. Frank's parents emigrated from Korea and have pretty much one big rule for Frank - he must date only Korean girls. But he's got strong feelings for a girl in his class, Brit - and she's not Korean. His friend Joy Song is in the same boat and knows her parents will never accept her boyfriend, so they make a pact: they'll pretend to date each other in order to gain their freedom.

In a world that is often overwhelming, it’s time to return to the simple things, the AWESOME things, all around us...if only we take a moment to see them. Our Book of Awesome is an injection of joy, a heartfelt gift, and a smacking high five for humanity. Listen to it to be reminded of the endless AWESOME things that give laughter and happiness to our beautiful and brief lives.

Boy Genius is a powerful identity satire, the picaresque odyssey of a child seeking to avenge the wrongs perpetrated on his parents. Park's genius, born into the turmoil of post-war Korea, is used as a puppet by the South Korean government - before being banished to America. From a remote New York city ghetto, the boy wages a clandestine guerilla war against all symbols of authority.

Having been drawn to the wild for a number of years, young Luke McKinney is forced to leave 1839 St. Louis for the North Country even sooner than he expected to go. At 17, along with a female companion and an elderly father figure, he is literally running for his life. With the law pursuing him and the wilderness unforgiving, he finds himself caught up in a survival system that has nothing to do with civilization or laws. Then the unthinkable happens, the only love of his life is taken from him.

Do you wish you were taught personal finance in school? Are you experiencing financial hardship, stressed about money, feeling out of control or simply desire to improve your financial situation? This book is for you. Buy the Milk First is filled with financial wisdom and secrets that will help you secure financial prosperity, regardless of your income.

Five years ago, everyone became a time traveler. Everyone but Luke, who now lives in a world where practical jokes are up 60,000 percent, his roommate insists on having 12-self orgies in front of him, and every potential girlfriend has dumped him for stuff he hasn't done yet. Luke suddenly finds himself on the run from a government agency with the intention of slicing him up for experimentation. No wonder he hates time travelers....

Simon and Emily are in love. They're also damned to hell. It's complicated, but trust me, I'll walk you through the details. Perhaps I should introduce myself: Hi, I'm your narrator, and I talk too much. However, this is a story that requires lots of words to be told, lots of tangents, and far too many expletives.

What if I could tell you, you could accomplish all your goals and dreams without changing anything in your life, that is not already within your reach? The answers to all these questions are in this book. I took the time to lay them out for you, showing you the tips and tricks of how to maximize your day, your week, and your life. Become the best version of yourself and see yourself get propelled into everything you ever wanted, from happiness and health to freedom and money!

Author Tammy Varner Hornbeck has had one consistent thing in her life: God, who talks to her through poetry. Faith, Hope...and the Greatest of These Is Love! contains the first poems by Tammy given to God after her salvation and deliverance from alcoholism. Simple and to the point, the poems will touch the hearts of everyone who listens to them.