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In this book, Art Kleiner, a strategy expert; Jeffrey Schwartz, a research psychiatrist; and Josie Thomson, an executive coach, give a transformative explanation of how cutting-edge neuroscience can help business leaders set a course toward better management. Mapping the functions of a manager onto established patterns of mental activity, they identify crucial brain circuits and their parallels in organizational culture. Strategic leaders, they show, play the role of wise advocates: able to go beyond day-to-day transactional behavior to a longer-term, broader perspective....

A chance reunion with the Italian hottie I once swore off. One scorching look, and I’m caught between hating him… and craving a second round. He was my foreign exchange secret—young, gorgeous, and off-limits. We agreed it was just a summer fling, but my heart knew better. Now he’s back, a full-grown man in a tailored suit, with a cocky grin that still makes me weak. Stacked muscles, piercing eyes, and an arrogant charm that dares me to surrender all over again. His old pet name for me ghosts across his lips—“Cara Mia”—and every shred of caution slips. I’ve changed since he...

Letting no good deal go undone, the Good Buy Girls are ready to pounce on the St. Stanley flea market, where wealthy Vera Madison is selling off her vintage clothing. The widow’s wardrobe is just what Maggie Gerber needs to give her second-hand shop, My Sister’s Closet, the edge over vindictive rival Summer Phillips, who’s opened her own second-hand shop across the street. But when Vera is found dead, it turns out that she collected enemies like Dior gowns - and had more than a few skeletons in her walk-in closet. Now it’s up to Maggie and the Good Buy Girls to find the killer.

On a private island, hot days and steamy nights threaten to consume nineteen-year-old Ivy and the man of the house. Every year, in the month of July they take a trip together celebrate the day Ivy came to live with him. This year, lust, love, and a taboo forbidden passion will push the boundaries of their relationship to the very limit and beyond. Content Warning: This erotic short story contains adult material, graphic language with explicit sexual situations, and descriptions of hot vigorous sex. This work is for mature audiences ages 18+ only.

If she wants to save her job, she’s going to have to accept a punishment from the boss! When Alina makes a coding mistake that creates a lot of extra work for the team, her boss Ruth is furious. Ruth gives her an ultimatum: pack up her stuff and leave, or submit to a spanking. Alina has never been spanked before, so she figures it won’t be too bad. To her surprise, not only is the spanking much more painful than she anticipated, but it’s also turning her on! Even though she’s not a lesbian, Alina has often fantasized about doing dirty things with her beautiful female boss. When Ruth...

Do you set your New Year’s Resolutions as a bit of fun, a joke at the New Year’s Eve party, or do you mean them? And if you mean them, do you succeed? Sadly, most people don’t and by February their shiny new resolutions are long gone, history, another years failure. But if you’d like to change that pattern and actually succeed this time, this is the book for you. It’s full of advice on how to take your dreams and turn them into reality. How to succeed in your resolutions and end the year in a better place than you started it. Whether your resolution is to lose weight Improve your ...

They came for a spanking but discovered their sensual sides! A nondescript office hides a secret oasis: The Spanking Therapy Clinic, a place where men and women can safely explore their fantasies under the firm hands of a stern doctor. Different motivations bring them to the clinic but they all leave with something in common: red bottoms and happy endings. This book includes 5 great spanking stories, light on plot and heavy on steam, including: The Reluctant Bride's First Spanking The Reluctant Bridge Gets Caught The Billionaire Gets Punished The Curvy Reporter Gets Punished Spanked Not ...

This book was previously published as "The Reluctant Bride's First Spanking" by Reba Bale She's going to need a strong hand to get her to the altar! After five years together, Rebecca’s fiancé Jacob is getting impatient. He wants to get married, but something is holding Rebeca back: a nagging sense that something is missing from their sex life. Jacob has always been a gentle and attentive lover, but Rebecca longs for something less vanilla. She longs for passion and something a bit rougher – something to fulfil her secret spank fantasies. When she sees an ad for the Spanking Therapy ...

I didn’t know love was going to plant a seed in my heart today, especially not for a hockey grump hiding from the world. A scandal-ridden, billionaire hockey star appears at the door, unannounced, to share my brother’s cabin. Is this my brother’s idea of a joke? NOT gonna happen. I’m laser-focused on my motivational speaking business, so love hasn’t exactly been a priority. But when Daniel Pierce shows up, everything changes. The town busybody sees us sharing the cabin, no matter that it’s platonic. So now I’m his fake fiancée to avoid public scandal. At first, it’s just ...

Ambrose may seem like an ordinary rabbit, but he has the most extraordinary sense of smell. He can detect any aroma from sweets to kittens - and even niffy foxes! He lives with his family in a hutch and is visited every day by Biddy, who is desperate to take him home to be her pet - if only her mum and dad would let her. Biddy trains Ambrose to become a tracker rabbit - which comes in very handy when Ambrose's little sister, Roly, goes missing. But when Biddy's family find themselves in real danger, can Ambrose's sensitive nose save the day?

With six years of sobriety under his belt, Caleb Rogan changed his life and married a woman whose reserved lifestyle and morals contradicted everything he knew. When the passion dies between them, Caleb is left edgy and resentful until a night of bad judgment from Scarlett turns his life upside down. In a private room of a grungy sex club, Scarlett triggers his secret passion. Caleb is a sex addict who thought he suppressed his compulsive urges and conquered his disorder years ago, but Caleb soon learns he is wrong when Scarlett awakens a fire between them that will never burn out. Content ...

Enchanting Rosie is born post-World War 1—1920—but into what? Those few (male) breadwinners who returned from the bloody combat, would find the East End of London Docklands, ravaged, with little hope of regular work—if they could work, with life-changing injuries and psychological trauma. The women remained strong, but in quiet despair. Families and communities supported each other, with their futures in question. Mothers reigned supreme, but alcohol and the public houses exerted their influence.

When Charity ran away with the Romany Gypsies, she left everything behind: her name, a way of life constrained by English rules, the punishments her cruel father meted out in the name of God, and the young man who made it all bearable. Certain things she can’t hide, even in wild, remote Wale: a secret longing for the ease of English life, the wisps of faith that still linger, and her reaction to a handsome face she thought she’d never see again.

From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories. Three teenagers believe they are witches. A woman defaces a local billboard. A bored landlord tries to influence his son's best friend. A cul-de-sac WhatsApp group discusses eggs at length. A heavily pregnant woman finds a way to time travel and a girl discovers joy on a stolen bicycle. Each tale paints a life in miniature and offers an escape chute from the catastrophes of modern life.

Eavesdropping on a spanking leads to one of her own! When Brandy overhears one of her coworkers getting punished at the office she’s intrigued. Maybe a little turned on. She can’t help but fantasize about her boss Sasha using her famously stern demeanor to redden her behind – and more. When Sasha catches her spying instead of working, the naughty assistant gets a taste of what it’s like to be spanked by the boss. Sasha has a firm hand – and a hard hairbrush – ready to do the job. Brandy never expected that being punished would hurt so good. Or that a spanking could be so ...

Gavin Wilkes is rugby’s biggest star and my older brother’s best friend. He’s tall, dark, handsome… and a notorious player—not just in the sportsball way. For years he’s teased me—flirted with me as a joke—and I’m tired of it. So the night of my parents’ annual Christmas party, I call his bluff, never expecting him to take me up on it.

Ryann Belfont is an eighteen-year-old Manhattan socialite used to getting what she wants however she wants it. Getting the man of the house to relent to her fiery passion and beauty will require her total submission to the hard dominate filthy way he chooses to take her.

Beauty and the Bruiser is a full-length, sexy hockey romance with a happily ever after. Single dad Duke York needs a caretaker for his seven-year-old daughter during the hockey season, bonus if that person can help her with her school work. His team is rebuilding, and he plans to retire at the end of the year. This is his last chance to make a run at the cup.

This book was previously published as "The Curvy Reporter Gets Punished" by Reba Bale She wants to land the big story, but instead she’s going to land right over his knee! Molly is a junior reporter at Channel 7 News trying to get ahead despite her curves. Her boss promises her a promotion if she can bring in a big story during ratings week and Molly finally sees her chance to get the lead reporter spot. If only she can find a good story… When her friend Rebecca tells Molly about visiting a special “Spanking Therapy Clinic”, she is determined to expose the clinic and get her ...

Mickey Bloom: five-foot tall, dyslexic, and bullied at school. With a mostly absent and hostile father, Mickey feels she's no good at anything. Until she discovers running. Mickey's newfound talent makes her realize she's everything she thought she wasn't—powerful, strong, and special. But her success comes at a cost, and the relentless training and pressure to win leaves Mickey broken; her dream in tatters. Years later, when Mickey is working in a dead-end job, her mother becomes ill. While nursing her, Mickey realizes the only way she can overcome her grief—and find herself—is to run again.