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Local architect Shayne Reynolds is an art collector, but when it comes to Carrie Lockett he's as interested in the artist as he is in her California landscapes and stunning portraits. The talented and reclusive Carrie, however, rejects his overtures, but she won't tell him why—even though he knows she returns his feelings.

AI Agents for Business Leaders introduces the Agentic Maturity Model—a five-level framework that shows exactly where your business sits today, what the next level looks like, and what changes when you get there. Most businesses are stuck at Level 1 or 2. The ones pulling ahead have reached Level 3 and beyond—where AI doesn't assist work, it owns it.

It’s boys vs. girls when the noisiest, most talkative, and most competitive fifth graders in history challenge one another to see who can go longer without talking. Teachers and school administrators are in an uproar, until an innovative teacher sees how the kids’ experiment can provide a...

What if strategy could instead be clear, simple, bold, and even actually useful? That’s what No Bullsh*t Strategy is all about. It sweeps away all the garbled corporate nonsense and dry academic theorising to leave you with pure strategic sauce, which can be actioned right away. It’ll make you see your business in a totally new light, and effortlessly unlock insights you didn’t know you had in you. Even better, it makes strategy fun.

Fresh from his triumphant and extraordinary achievement at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Michael Phelps—up from working-class, born-in-the-USA roots—shows us the secrets to his remarkable success—from training to execution. For years the world has followed Michael Phelps’s progress from...

A year after the Preston Willoughby case nearly destroyed her café, Sarah Stall has finally found her rhythm again. Bagels & Beans is thriving, her regulars are loyal, and life in Clancy feels blissfully predictable. Then a sleek new sign appears in the vacant storefront across Main Street: Roasted Rivals Artisan Coffee. The owner, charming newcomer Derek Hollister, arrives with big-city credentials, a gleaming professional roaster, and one clear goal—to steal Sarah's customers and crush her business. Within weeks, he's poaching her employees, launching social media attacks, and turning ...

In a career spanning almost three decades, visionary psychological coach, Gilbert Enoka, changed the way the All Blacks played their game. With a 77% winning record in test match rugby, the highest of any professional sports team, they are the only international team to have a winning record...

READ BY THE AUTHOR Future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage by learning the skill necessary to stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way in this essential guide. Faced with tumultuous economic times and rapid technological...

This one-of-a-kind sales guide shows you how to stop wasting your time calling people who don’t want to hear from you and boost your close rate to 80 or 90 percent! Send your commissions soaring, work less, and enjoy it more - all without ever making another cold call. Following Joanne Black’s proven, referral selling system, you’ll discover how to turn current customers and your myriad of contacts into rich sources of referrals - as you establish relationships that ace out the competition.

When the Gulf Coast Cook-Off comes to Pelican Harbor, Blair Whitcome is ready to compete — shrimp étouffée prepped, roux perfected, and her oversized tabby Lil' Beefy already supervising from the prep counter. But the competition barely gets started before television chef Wade Renaud collapses at his station in a crackle of sparks, and what looked like a tragic accident turns out to be something far more deliberate. Someone tampered with Wade's stand mixer. Someone who knew exactly how to make a kill look like a malfunction. With the cook-off suspended and a killer loose among the ...

From the Bronx to beyond!. From Musician to Physician to Builder. I started out with an ideal at an early age. By five I just knew that I was going to be a doctor. We all knew, from my relatives to my parents and really to my friends that I was to become a doctor. Having learned to play piano I graduated to Rock keyboards and guitars and finally , after Woodstock, to a decision. Musician or Physician. That's how my parents put it. The next thing I knew I was off to Medical School. Having received a full scholarship to the University of Guadalajara's State Medical School, through the Social ...

Love is for simpletons. That’s Katalina’s motto. But marriage? That’s a means to an end. With her mother drowning in debt thanks to her late father’s ruinous mistakes, Katalina is determined to win the prince’s heart at the queen’s month-long bride competition—even if that requires changing herself. She’s willing to marry a man she despises to secure her mother’s future. After a chance meeting with Grayson, the prince’s disgraced cousin, Katalina strikes an unlikely deal: he’ll share insider tips about the prince, and she’ll help him avoid the matchmaking frenzy. But...

Like so many other women in Crystal Canyon, Lisa has heard the rumors. The ladies of the city are whispering, wondering aloud if “it” could possibly be true. Is it possible? Men can’t resist any command given by a woman? It sounds impossible, but the girls of the college start to experiment, and they’re enjoying themselves. Lisa graduated a couple years ago, and now, she is competing with Evan for a promotion.

The Griffin Moonstone: A Penmasters Global Fiction Award Winner. No spice. Just chaos, mystery, and underdogs fighting back. Book 3 Stands alone. Jump right in! Some days it doesn't pay to be the hero. Consumed by grief and revenge, Noah can't remember what a shower feels like. When the Estonian Coven plasters his face on wanted posters, Castle Dragon hides him away in the enchanted Cromwell Forest. Tricked into solving a ghost's murder, Noah finds himself on a quest to unravel the mystery of the Griffin Moonstone. Just another day in the life of a probationary apprentice wizard who can't ...

Your sporting performance is 100 percent driven by what goes on inside your head. Your thoughts affect your actions and can make or break you.... The level of sporting excellence is raised every time someone wins a race or game…so how can you succeed in an ever-tougher sporting world?

A deliciously twisted, fast-paced YA horror, where debutante dreams become bloody nightmares—perfect for fans of House of Hollow and Their Vicious Games. It’s 1921, and Mrs. Caroline Reginald Kane, the last surviving descendant of a family of oil barons, has invited four young debutantes to...

Colt Buying back Wild River Equestrian Center is supposed to be my victory lap—the moment the Blackwoods reclaim the legacy we built from the dirt up. Instead, I show up to find Briar Winters already moved in, working her fancy dressage horse like she owns the place. Because she thinks she does. Turns out we were both sold the same property by different scammers, and now the title’s a legal mess. Our lawyers can’t fix it anytime soon, which means we’re stuck sharing a barn, a training arena…and a too-small apartment for the next ninety days. We strike a deal: train our horses, ...

The co-founder and former CEO of Spin Master, a children’s entertainment powerhouse, reveals the secret business advantages of youth—and how having no experience can be the keys to finding success in your twenties. Ronnen Harary co-founded the company that would become Spin Master when he...

What’s the big deal about pricing and price theory, you might be wondering? Some businesses set prices on the basis of a gut feeling while others take the underlying demand curve into account, but their strategies fall apart the minute the demand curve shifts or if the market’s dynamics change. Indeed, in today’s disruptive world such an occurrence is exceedingly common. Therefore, prices should be dynamic so as to adjust not only to market conditions but also to customer segments. Dynamic pricing is a form of price personalization or price discrimination. The truth is that price ...

As a fledgling doctor, what would you choose: practising medicine in rural India or going abroad in search of financial security? How would you face the people who depend on you if your wealth is wiped out in the stock market? How would you pursue a dream project, knowing the many challenges...