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When they meet, Christopher is smitten, but Ginger...isn't quite so sure. Christopher's gorgeous, and kind, and their opposites-attract chemistry is off the charts. But hot sex is one thing - truly falling for someone? Terrifying. When her world starts to crumble around her, Ginger has to face the fact that this fight can only be won by being vulnerable - this fight, she can't win on her own.

Ditch the labels and embrace positive, healthy practices for eating, exercising, and living an authentic life - your way! Deciding to improve your health, your consciousness, and the world can seem so overwhelming that you don’t know where to begin. Author and actor Alicia Witt isn’t here to dole out lists of dos and don’ts, but she is here to show how adopting the “small changes philosophy” allows you to find balance, eat healthier, and feel better physically and emotionally.

Some of engineering's mightiest achievements are small in scale, even hidden—and yet, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary elements: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the lens, the magnet, the string, and the pump. From the physics behind both Roman nails and modern skyscrapers to rudimentary springs that inspired lithium batteries, Agrawal shows us how even the most sophisticated items are built on the foundations of these ancient and fundamental breakthroughs in engineering.

In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers history’s unsung characters and brings their rich, riveting stories to light for the first time.

Why does paying for things often feel like it causes physical pain? Why does it cost you money to act as your own real estate agent? Why are we comfortable overpaying for something now just because we've overpaid for it before? In Small Change, world renowned economist Dan Ariely answers these intriguing questions and many more as he explains how our irrational behaviour often interferes with our best intentions when it comes to managing our finances.

These 20 superbly crafted linked stories navigate the difficult realm of friendship, charting its beginnings and ends, its intimacies and betrayals, its joys and humiliations. A mother learns something of the nature of love from watching her young daughter as she falls in and out of favor with a neighborhood girl. An intricate story of two women reveals a friendship held together by the steely bonds of passivity. A chance sighting in a library prompts a woman to recall the "unconsummated courtship" she was drawn into by a male colleague.

Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoids is a potpourri for serious historians and casual history buffs. In one of Phil Mason's many revelations, you'll learn that Communist jets were two minutes away from opening fire on American planes during the Cuban missile crisis, when they had to turn back as they were running out of fuel. You'll discover that before the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon's painful hemorrhoids prevented him from mounting his horse to survey the battlefield.

When a recently widowed woman in rural Wisconsin notices her husband’s toolbox is missing, she calls the authorities—and unwittingly starts a chain of events that will forever change her community. What begins as a disarmingly simple mystery blooms into an exploration of loss, the fragility of the environment, and what it means to connect and heal.

A powerful manifesto for CEOs and employees alike: Influential and award-winning business leader Margaret Heffernan reveals how organizations can build ideal workplace cultures and create seismic shifts by making deceptively small changes.

Attorney and CPA Mark J. Kohler targets the leading tax and business issues among small business owners, across all stages of business, and delivers a practical guide to the fundamental tax and legal conflicts faced by new and established entrepreneurs. Coached by Kohler, business owners are armed to seek out the right professionals relevant to their concerns, confidently ask the right questions, and ultimately, save time, money, and in many cases, potential heartache.

AFTER KATELYN LANDER’S EX-HUSBAND DIES in a tragic car accident that her son witnesses, she quits her high-powered banking career and returns to her hometown of Savannah. Her belief that the Low Country's slower, more peaceful life will be the perfect place for her son to heal is quickly upended when a slew of dead bodies connected to Katelyn’s family wash ashore like decaying fish in a red tide, turning a US Marshal's interest in her family into an obsession. US Marshal Nathan Parsi is convinced the esteemed Landers family's financial success is derived from laundering money. But when ...

A Wall Street tech leader explains how small behavioral changes lead to major self-improvement. Whether trying to lose weight, save money, or get organized, we' re always setting goals and making resolutions but rarely following through on them. Determination and willpower aren't strong enough to defeat our mass of ingrained habits; to succeed we have to learn how to focus our self-control on precise behavioral targets and overwhelm them, according to longtime Wall Street technology strategist Caroline Arnold.

Eight months ago Jude Lucen fled his partner, his career, and a hospital in Boston after a suicide attempt. Now back in Philadelphia, he feels like a complete failure. Piano has always been his passion and his only escape. Without it, he has nothing. Well, nothing except a pathetic crush on the most gorgeous man he's ever seen. Faron Locklear came to Philly looking for a fresh start and has thrown himself into tattooing at Small Change. He's only met Jude a few times, but something about the red-haired man with the haunted eyes calls to him.

This is the complete Anderson Brothers series. Includes Finding Ford, Chasing Colt, and Loving Livie. Finding Ford: A teen pregnancy knocks life off course for Hannah. When she decides not to tell her boyfriend about the pregnancy a chain of events are set in motion that no one could have predicted. The bond between brothers will be tested as secrets come to light and a new love is found. Chasing Colt: It's been four years since Colt found out about his child. A successful career hasn't filled the emptiness that comes from past betrayals though. A chance encounter with a beautiful dreamer ...

Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But she’s always been theatrically challenged. That won’t necessarily stop her! But her family life is a tangle of mysteries and secrets, and nobody is telling her the whole truth. Before her brother died, he gave Cinnamon The Chronicles of the Great Wanderer—a tale of a Dahomean warrior woman and an alien from another dimension who perform at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

She’s a renowned medical biologist with the State Department on speed dial––but the world thinks she’s dead! When Dr. Rachel McKenzie suddenly abandons a covert State Department lab, US Marshals Kate Landers and Joleen Parker must uncover the truth behind her mysterious disappearance. Unearthing Dr. McKenzie’s secret, a biological discovery with the power to weaponize a third-world country and turn common men into kings, the two marshals must battle against an unrelenting force to protect the lives of millions. With unexpected twists and powerful emotions, this explosive story ...

Discussion of the climate crisis has always suffered from a problem of abstraction. Data points and warnings of an overheated future struggle to break through the noise of everyday life. Deniers often portray climate solutions as inconvenient, expensive, and unnecessary. But climate change, and its devastating consequences, has kept apace whether we want to pay attention or not. Jonathan Vigliotti has seen that crisis unfold for himself, spending nearly two decades reporting across the United States documenting the people, communities, landmarks, and traditions we’ve already surrendered.

America has fallen. The fight for water has begun. Ten years after the war of 2027, the 34 states left in the union are trying to rebuild the Republic. Sixteen-year-old Jamie and her family moved to a small Michigan town during the chaos. Her mom is a Senator in a fledgling State government. Her dad is a mechanic and outspoken government critic. When her dad is dragged out of their house by military police, Jamie sets out to find out why. She uncovers corruption and a conspiracy that could cost her everything she holds dear.

Family, like the limbs of a tree, grow in different directions, but their roots remain as one. ––anonymous US Marshal Katelyn Landers is shocked when her estranged sister-in-law, Vivienne Chandler, appears on her doorstep. Even more shocked when Viv claims her husband has emptied their bank accounts and abandoned his family. But the unbelievable claim takes a twist and a couple of turns when Vivienne disappears in the middle of the night, leaving behind her three young children. Single parenting has never been a sunny day in the park for Kate. But now she finds herself juggling five ...

In The Small Big, three heavyweights from the world of persuasion science and practice describe how, in today's information overloaded and stimulation saturated world, increasingly it is the small changes that you make that lead to the biggest differences. In the last few years, more research-from fields such as neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and behavioral economics-has helped to uncover an even greater understanding of how influence, persuasion, and behavior change happens.