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You cannot ask your most successful competitors and peers their secrets of rainmaking. That would be awkward, impractical, and sometimes illegal. But it pays to compare yourself to your successful peers. So, we did it for you. We went behind closed doors and asked the tough questions. We asked more than 100 successful rainmakers what they are investing more in, what they are cutting back on, and what are their go-to strategies. In other words, how are they investing their time, treasure, and talent. Think of us as your rainmaking R&D department.

Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi discover themselves working on two sides of the same case when a set of double homicides rocks downtown Manhattan. A bloody warning scrawled on the wall above a murdered elderly couple sends the Jewish community reeling into a tension-filled confrontation with the city's Arab population. In neighboring Brooklyn, a 16-year-old Arab runaway seeks refuge in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, where she becomes caught up in the ugly world of prostitution and drugs.

After the accident, the chief was pushing me to retire. Being a firefighter was all I had ever wanted, what I lived for. Well, other than my 12-year-old daughter, Abby. Raising her as a single dad, much less a busy firefighter, wasn't easy, but life never is. Then, a call came in from an all-too-familiar area code. I was being beckoned back to my hometown, back to Canon. I had left that small town years ago, leaving behind a lot, including...her.

Joe Trona is scarred in more ways than one. Rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a charismatic Orange County politician who sensed his dark potential, Joe is swept into the maelstrom of power and intimidation that surrounds his adoptive father's illustrious career. Serving as Will's right hand man, Joe is trained to protect and defend his father's territory - but he can't save the powerful man from his enemies.

Julia and Logan are getting married. Theirs has been a whirlwind romance: First, her daughter Trinity was abducted, but Logan found her. Julia can no longer fight her feelings for Logan, even though, deep down, she worries about the former marine and the nightmares he carries. However, when she finds out she’s pregnant, causes a car accident, and is served a child custody suit by her lying and cheating ex-husband all in one day, Julia feels that her life is spiraling out of control. She begins to question everything - including Logan’s love for her. But Logan can never let her go.

This is the story of these men and of the families who lived in the shadow of the dam: the daughter of the lawyer who filed the charter for an exclusive club on the shore of the artificially created lake; the Quaker steel mill owner who tried to stop the dam's construction; a librarian, escaping to a bustling mountain city from a loveless life in Boston; a young man determined to expose and undermine the greed and carelessness that shaped the last years of the 19th century.

This is the first dig on which Kayla Tucker is part of the "command staff" and she is determined nothing is going to go wrong. This archaeologist has plans for her future, and nothing is going to stand in her way. No man. No love affair. No distraction, at all. But then everything turns out differently. Navy SEAL Shane Freeman has always wanted to serve his country. Unfortunately, when it was discovered that he was a dragon shifter, he was discharged at once.

It's not easy being a shifter without a clan. But finally, Jasmine Rowland has a job, at least. Well, being a nanny is not what she had dreamed of, but it pays the bills.Also, there are worse places to be than around that handsome Doctor Alava with his tight clothes, showing every vein and muscle of his body. But something is definitely wrong with him. What is he hiding?

For Nat, a shining all-American boy with blue-collar roots, acceptance to New England's exclusive Inverness College seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. The chilling events that follow are nothing like what he imagined. It begins at Christmas break. Nat, unable to afford going home for the holidays, remains alone on the deserted campus. Alone - until he meets Grace and Izzie Zorn, twin sisters who, although biologically identical, are utterly different.

Walter Rogue is a shark. At the age of 19, he took his father's crumbling business and built it into a massive tea empire - but 15 years on and the luster has worn off. He’s bored. And when the opportunity presents itself for him to apply a little pressure to the man who'd wrecked his plans for property expansion, Walter thinks that it's just the sort of cat and mouse game to bring some excitement into his life.

When his butterfly-collector father is swindled to within an inch of his life, a vengeful Hector leaves the city of Urbs Umida in pursuit of a fiendish villain with a glass eye. The trail leads to Withypitts Hall, a forbidding Gothic mansion as warped as its inhabitants and their secret schemes. Soon Hector finds himself embroiled in mysterious deeds more poisonous than his worst imaginings, but every twist and turn brings him closer to his revenge.

What would you do? What would you do if you got away with murder? Would you stop there? Could you? Susie and Roy thought that they committed the perfect crime. Their planning was meticulous. Their execution was flawless. But, there is always a loose end, isn’t there? Always a singing bone. Now, while enemies multiply and suspicions abound, their perfect world begins to crumble. The hunters have become the hunted. In this blisteringly relentless sequel to his debut shocker, Eye for Eye, J.K. Franko takes listeners on a breathtaking journey of cat and mouse.

As a child, Peter O' Banyon's life changed irrevocably when his family was killed in a car accident. He was sent to live with his Uncle Billie, the keeper of the Port Hope Lighthouse in Massachusetts. From Billie, he learns the secret of keeping love alive, even when tragedy strikes. World War II takes Peter away from the lighthouse and his beloved Anna, but he isn't prepared for the ravages of war and the brutality that can kill a man's soul. But Peter is tested even further when he returns home.

In the not-too-distant future, UNIT JHEU198, a Safety and Street ROBO, has malfunctioned. It has attacked an innocent man. This shouldn’t be possible. No one was truly harmed, and no real blood was spilled, but still, Amir has the board breathing down his neck for answers.

Henry Matthews is a hotshot associate at the most successful law firm in Chicago. His mentor at the firm likes the promise he sees in Henry and has decided to oversee his transformation from an ambitious young lawyer into an unscrupulous legal menace. Desperately wanting to shed his small-town past, Henry is only too willing to enlist in legal boot camp, working eighty hour weeks in the hopes of future rewards.

Adam Helios is a bully magnet without many friends. When he starts hearing a voice that claims to come from the stars, he fears he’s losing his mind, so he withdraws even further. On the way home from a meeting at the school, he and his parents are involved in a horrible car crash. With his skull cracked open, Adam’s consciousness is abducted by the alien who has been speaking to him for months.

Here are 16 tales from one of the great works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled for a while the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio’s answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled teenage son Brandon, Julian seems like the answer to a prayer. He's bright, courteous, refined, and connects with Brandon in a way neither of his parents can. They embrace Julian almost as a member of the family. But the tutor has his own dark agenda. For Julian, the Gardners are like specimens in jars, creatures to be studied - and manipulated.

Thanks to an opportunity provided to him by his friend, lawyer turned model Enrique Munier travels from Paris to Venice to shoot his first commercial. Upon his arrival, he meets the tour guide assigned to him, Alonzo Giordano, and the self-proclaimed player hopes the guide will show him a little more than the beautiful city. What he doesn't plan for is falling hard only to be rejected by the one he wants. How did the man who doesn't do feelings find himself and his life turned upside down? Did the player get played, or could this be the real thing?

Man-eating crocodiles have invaded the Everglades. In a desperate effort to save lives, Ranger Daniel Reid has partnered with Gator Glades reptile park to trap and remove the invasive hybrids. But crocs breed in high numbers, and park director Jen Summers predicts an ecological disaster. Abigail O'Neil has returned home, just ahead of a past come back to haunt her. A man named Colin Mason is coming to settle a score, and he is privy to the darkest secrets of Abigail's life—her crocodile-infested home has now been invaded by a monster more cold-blooded than any reptile.