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Becoming an effective IT manager presents a host of challenges - from anticipating emerging technology to managing relationships with vendors, employees, and other managers. A good IT manager must also be a strong business leader. This book invites you to accompany new CIO Jim Barton to better understand the role of IT in your organization. You'll see Jim struggle through a challenging first year, handling (and fumbling) situations that, although fictional, are based on true events.

Twelve-year-old cousins Sophie and Jessica don't have much in common. Sophie loves hiking and her small town. Jessica would rather be shopping in a city. The only mystery is how they'll be able to spend the summer together. Then . . . they find a briefcase in the forest with a surprise inside. When they hear footsteps behind them and bad guys run after them, they have no choice but to work together to solve the mystery of The Feather Chase.

Unwrapping a puzzling package and finding a clue launches twelve-year-old cousins Sophie and Jessica into the dangers of The Treasure Key. They're soon racing against time—and bad guys— to find long-lost treasure. Will they be the first to discover its hiding place?

A flower fairy, a broken shifter and a love that bloomed in a cage. Bane met her by accident but from that moment onward, she became the center of his world. All the strength in his tiny body meant nothing if it couldn’t protect her from her abusive captors. Amira had given up on ever seeing freedom except in her imagination. Day by day she pictures vivid settings without bars, needles or violence. Her wolf spirit was crushed a piece at a time beneath the heels of their cruel experiments. And then she saw him and hope bloomed in her heart once more. But if they could not escape together, ...

Where past sins meet unwavering grace. Kelly uses her psychic gifts to find lost children and save broken families. She’s strong and willing to fight in order to protect the weak and defenseless. She’s had to fight to save her own child and is happy to put her life on the line to help others in the same danger. finding a too-sexy, brainwashed, werewolf assassin bleeding in her backseat might prove more than this curvy, psychic, single supermom can handle. How much will she risk saving a lost broken man? Saxxon knew nothing of kindness or freedom. Captured with his entire werewolf clan ...

In the shadow of death, they found a reason to live. After years of torment at the hands of the Institute, Dain escapes captivity by surrendering to his primal side, taking refuge in his wolf form and vanishing into the wilds of western Virginia. Stripped of everything human, he expects nothing but solitude—until he crosses paths with Isabel Russell. She awakens his desire to fight back. Izzy is no stranger to pain. Facing the final stages of cancer, she’s left behind sterile hospital rooms in search of peace, hoping to spend her remaining days surrounded by nature. What she doesn’t ...

Vengeance was his mission—until she became his reason to live. Caspian was bred for war. Raised by the Aryan Political Movement and forged into a lethal weapon, he has only one goal now—destroy the Institute that turned him and his brothers into killers. Now that his brothers are both free and safe, he’ll do anything to keep them that way. The only option is to destroy the whole group and remove the threat completely. Nothing will stand in his way. Until her. Yasmine is a flower fairy on a rescue mission—and she’s not leaving without saving her brother. Determined, persistent, and...

Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support provides a clinical guide to relational sex therapy with individuals, partnerships, polyships, and alternative family structures where one or more of the clients are erotically marginalized. The book bridges gaps between the past, present, and future in the field of sex therapy and greatly expands the diversity of experiences and identities within the field, particularly the experience of multiple oppressions.

It all began at Black Dawn, that terrible day when so many loved ones from the Eagle Clan died, but centuries pass and time does much to heal bodies and souls. Cradh and Adhar were only children then, but for all their lives they have known they were destined to be mates. But Cradh’s body and magic were broken in the attack and ever since they have been forced to be no more than friends. But time can heal hearts too, and their chance for love has come at long last…

Rath planned on following Dàn for his whole life and the path was likely to be a little strange. A trip to Niagara Falls to find a demon might be odd but not all that unexpected. Before Dàn can get the demon’s secrets, a whirlwind of dangers come at them. But this tourist destination has more to offer than they expect. Including an exotic dancer named Destiny who might be able to make all Rath’s dreams come true. But she has her own secrets and when a terrorizing pedophile targets her daughter, she’ll have to overcome her fears and work with Rath to protect what’s most important. ...

A thousand years in the future, man in all his forms has spread out across the universe. Some races have chosen to live apart and others have attempted to live together, building diversity colonies. One of those is the Planet Rahla and its moon Acacia. But not long after the colony began, it erupted with violence and fell into a civil war between humans, vampires and werewolves. The massive bloodshed was ended with the Acacia Treaty which divided the two surviving races. Humans held Rahla and the vampires were exiled to the domed moon colony of Acacia. The treaty is resented by extremists ...

She’ll protect her family no matter the cost. My name is Toni, and I’m a thief. My life has had a few twists and turns lately that younger me never would have thought possible. Not only did I somehow survive to adulthood and find career that I can excel at, but I met a dragon spirit named Amethyst and a hot nerdy boyfriend named Ben. We’re a family and even have a new baby. But I’m still a thief and now my dragon and I work for a guy who is gathering dragon spirits in order to prevent them from being used to end the world. I’m still not completely sure if he’s a good guy or not,...

She'd do anything to protect her son, even walk right back into Hell. When her son turns to her in desperation, Sadrina knows there is only one place to find the answers he needs. Niflheim, also known as Hell, a place she'd once called home, and also where she'd spent nearly an eternity imprisoned. Regardless of the risk, she chooses to sacrifice her freedom and barter her body to the lord of hell, returning to the arms of the one demon she’s always loved and the place she fears the most. Pahele has no intention of sacrificing his lover again. Instead of being a prisoner or a slave, he ...

When I walked out of his office after the hottest sex of my life, I thought I'd left Max Douglas behind me forever - along with my favorite argyle socks and my self-respect. The last thing I need is the too-serious, too-sexy former Marine living across the hall from me while he acts as a bodyguard for one of my students. Especially since he fired me from my job tutoring his brother... after we hooked up. I shouldn't want him. I should despise him after the way he treated me. But he's exactly my type: older, experienced, in control...and it's obvious the lust is still mutual.

Death is nothing at all. Grief is very real. My husband had a stage 4 cancer diagnosis at 52 and died at 61 years. We had years to plan and explore our plan to write this book together, if possible after he died. I was a grief counselor for Hospice across his whole disease process. The After Death Communication stories of my clients gave us hope that not only would death not truly separate us, but could begin a different form of a continuing relationship. He agreed to provide proof for me that his consciousness survived after his body died. He did just that. This book is our story.

Father Shannon Kearns is familiar with liminal spaces. He’s lived in them his whole life. And while his experience as a transgender man has often made it difficult for him to fit in—especially in the context of Christianity—it has also shaped his perspective in important ways on complicated, gender-transgressing aspects of theology and Scripture.

All the wrong choices, for all the right reasons. Lindsey Hamilton – A male author writing spicy romance to provide for his little brother. All he wanted was a way to pay the bills between his late royalties. All he needed was a miracle. Wysh AKA Scott Wysh – a demon living in hiding among humans. Even if he found safety pretending to be a human, it wasn’t enough. He still had needs that demanded satisfaction. The deal... If you are willing to meet with me, please come alone to the lookout between Lake Sweetness and the north bend of Forever Lane. I’ll be waiting tonight at midnight...

After being stranded among mortals and finding himself too weak to return home, Tarvyn is desperate for a way to recharge his Synn powers. When he meets Captain Bailey, he knows he's found the right man for the job. Together they can find pleasure and power and maybe a future worth risking everything to claim. Together, they embark on a journey of passion and acceptance, where the boundaries between human and demon blur, and love becomes the ultimate source of power. In worlds torn between duty and desire, Tarvyn and Bailey must defy the odds and embrace their bond, knowing that their love ...

He's everything I've never wanted—too young, too weird, too wild. I wasn't impressed that I had to get my weekly massage from a guy with a toe ring. But when I discovered David Cooke's skills as a masseur were literally orgasmic, I couldn't stop thinking about him and his amazing hands, day and night. Especially at night. He's full of surprises. And despite my bad behavior, David's just as eager to explore this chemistry between us. Turns out, there's a lot more to him than hemp pants and tattoos.

Cinderella with a demonic twist! Grant I’ve always taken the easy path, followed whoever seemed to be having the most fun. For nearly four thousand years, I traveled the world and enjoyed every indulgence with my friend and master. But now I’m alone, a demon living among and pretending to be human. It isn’t a bad life. But it seems I’ll never be accepted as one of them. That point is driven home when one of my party-going human friends decides to kill me. Then I met her, Amelia, a human woman who drives my hungers wild. As much as I try, I can’t resist my desire for her blood and ...