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Does your business have an "empathy deficit"? Is your business facing an economic or social crisis? Do you want to motivate the new generation of employees, keep the top talent, and create meaningful relationships with leading clients, brands, and business communities? If you answer "yes" to any of these questions, then Mimi Nicklin’s Softening the Edge is a must listen.

Rylee couldn’t believe her rotten luck...Being chosen as one of the agents to play bodyguard to a spoiled billionaire while sailing on a Caribbean cruise depresses her...a lot. The dude - so important to the government that they’re willing to provide the best to protect him - won’t even know they’re in place. The big question - why her? She prefers work that matters, the dirty jobs, on the streets, in the trenches, and her boss knows it.

If love for his father makes a man weak, what’ll happen when he gives his heart to a woman? When Special Agent Finnegan O'Reilly gets shot, and the news brings on his father’s heart attack, he decides to take leave from further undercover assignments. The O'Reilly has suffered enough, and Finn can’t be the cause of more distress for this beloved old rascal. Unexpectedly, his boss forces one more case on him - to take place in their own pub.

“Star Wars” meets “The Princess Bride”… In a conquered galaxy of the far future, only two rebel groups still dare to resist the plague of tyranny – the solar system Gaeas-7 at one end, and the RAT fleet at the other. But the Gaeans and RATs don’t know of each other’s fights, and both are facing imminent destruction. Will they be able to join forces in time for one last desperate stand against an overwhelming evil?

No job. A lost Samoyed. A missing kid. Three accidents. And a blizzard. How can Jasmin’s world get any worse? Maybe because she ends up having to wait out the storm with a stranger. The same man who owns the dog she slammed with her car when blinded by the snow. It gets worse… Turns out the dude is supposed to pick up his newly orphaned nephew who was forced by the courts to stay with his nasty grandmother. Three days before Christmas and the kid runs. Meanwhile, anxious and worried, Dex is stuck with a painful twisted ankle, waiting for the road crew to clear their way. As tensions ...

Christmas is family time in small town, Carlton Grove... Three stories to lift your holiday spirits! Please Keep Me (Book #1) A puppy, a brave little girl and a single mom, who can't refuse her munchkin the chance to get to know her secret father, turn this story into a real heart-warmer. Snow Pup (Book #2) A small town’s lovely deputy & a father, who lost his son years ago to a vindictive wife, team up to save the kid from a foster home he hates. Find Me A Home (Book #3) An accident changes the lives of: a little girl who loses her parents, a crabby puppy who hates men, a soft-hearted ...

A Perfect Storm Should Jenna let her son be home-schooled in the very house of the girl who put him in his wheelchair? And can she trust the handsome father of that unhappy child to teach her son? Alone at Christmas Being alone is Tara’s worst nightmare, especially during the holidays. Her wish comes true when she finds Mr. Right injured and stranded, but will they survive the dangerous storm? Christmas, Puppies & Romance He has his claim on the very fluffball she wants... the fight is on. She needs the puppy to help her mother overcome her grief after losing her husband. What’s his ...

Abandoned puppies found under the porch of their duplex become an issue when Ruby Innes overrides her co-tenant, Thatcher Rollins, in his demand she call in the SPCA. Instead, she becomes a surrogate mother to the tiny balls of fluff… with the cranky good-looker’s unexpected assistance. Not surprising, one of the pups bonds with Thatcher and won’t be put aside. After all, it’s exactly how she’s beginning to feel about the guy whose bluff exterior hides a mushy heart. Seriously, how can a woman ignore someone who loves his mother so much, he’s willing to fly to Vegas to stop her ...

At five years old, Poppy was found alone in the streets of Louisiana, drenched in blood and surrounded by whispers of unspeakable horrors. Years later, she returns to the forgotten mansion deep in the bayou where it all began. But what was meant to uncover the truth soon turns into a nightmare. Something is stalking them, killing her friends one by one. Shadows move in the corners, and Poppy fears the darkness is alive. Vampires? Demons? Or something far worse?

Hooker turned nanny, Faith Whitely, known to her johns as Sunshine, has struggled to be a decent person all her life. And her options were never the same as the good girls in town. Growing up with a sick mother and limited resources, she does the best she can until a man she loves dies in a violent, intolerable situation where she blames herself. Then her world crumbles into drugs and self-hate. She’s saved by the sound of a baby’s cry, an unmanageable child who she bonds with and then needs as much as she wants his daddy. Any luck Steven Corella has with the women in his life has been ...

Sick and alone with her three-year-old daughter at Christmastime, Belle Foster needs help. When her neighbor’s brother gets involved, she welcomes the soft-spoken good-looker into her world. Rescuing her kidnapped daughter isn’t part of the deal, but any man willing to babysit his sister’s menagerie of pets and cares that much about a stranger’s baby is a guy she wants to get to know much better. Jesse has only loved one woman in his life. Years ago, she left him with a broken heart, a crippling dependency, and too many poignant memories. No one can replace her. No other woman has ...

In Feminism Is Queer, Mimi Marinucci provides a valuable introduction to the intimately related disciplines of gender and queer theory, developing the innovative concept of queer feminism, which treats queer theory as being continuous with feminist theory. While there were significant conceptual tensions between second-wave feminism and traditional lesbian and gay studies, queer feminism offers a paradigm for understanding gender, sex, and sexuality that overcomes this conflict in order to foster solidarity between those campaigning for women's rights and those for LGBTQ rights.

Coming of age in the age of excess in the Malibu of the ancient Roman world where heroic charioteers, scheming politicians, beauty and sex mix effortlessly in idyllic surroundings of intrigue, idleness and luxury. Bridget Jones Diary and Sophie's World meet Ben Hur - on the beach. A gender-bending, genre-bending romp through the Bay of Naples in the first century BC. Join Phoebe, Julia and Claudia in their search for true love amid the mad world of the Roman aristocracy. Parties and sex, of course, but also Epicurean philosophers, fascist politicians, international businessmen, billionaire ...

Thayne Lincoln knows hardship and guilt. He’s been living with it his whole life. From being born without the ability to hear to losing his entire family to hunters, the snow leopard never felt worthy of living. Until Colton Alexander, head of the Rogue Enforcers, picked him up off the streets and gave him a purpose. A way to make amends. Scarlet Doe knows loneliness and betrayal. Abandoned at birth, shuffled from home to home, betrayed by those she trusted most, the Darwins fox shifter doesn’t believe in happily ever after anymore. She’s learned the hard way, the only person she can ...

Leni Santino’s happy life turns upside down from five words uttered carelessly, “Sergio Mandalas killed your cousin.” Stunned speechless, her heart closes and the hard facade she’d worn in the past returns. Everything she loves becomes meaningless. While her wonderful Mani, the man who gave up his future for her, died senselessly, how can she carry on, knowing his killer walks free? When her long-lost mother, a woman she’d never met, appears to warn her that a blackmailer has found out the family secret, everything spins unbearably out of control. Detective Mike Kowalski loves the...

In this delightful Christmas love story, Deputy Shawna Mallory finds Billy McCrae - a runaway boy sleeping in a mound of snow with an anxious puppy guarding him. He’s a sad child surviving a terrible existence until she puts a stop to it and becomes his foster parent. She’s drawn to the snarky kid and just wants his life to be happier, his and the stray mutt who won’t leave his side. Not that the boy cares about the dog… or her. Then she meets his father, the one who abandoned the boy when he was five. John Reid McCrae wants only one thing in his life to make it worth living. Years ...

Interracial action like no other with Lucius Apuleius’ metaphor for the universal quest for spiritual enlightenment, the scandalously provocative, politically incorrect, shape-shifting Latin classic, "Asinus Aureus" retranslated and set in modern-day London. Accidentally turned into a horse by his lover (who’s a witch) a young lawyer's plan to defraud a billionaire goes wildly wrong. Destined to see the cruel crazy erotic world through equine eyes until finally he manages to escape, his outlook on life (and animal rights activism) changed forever. BE WARNED: This translation has not ...

When a high-stakes bet goes wrong, Delilah Lundberg finds herself sleeping in the bed of the enemy. Okay. So maybe he’s not the enemy. But Cas McCullough, an NHL goaltender fresh off a championship win, sure is frustrating. Not to mention he’s arrogant, relentless, and too hot for his own good—the exact type of man Delilah’s sworn to avoid. And yet her draw to him is magnetic. As she navigates another summer of career setbacks and family dramas, spending the night in a hockey player’s bed becomes a welcome escape. For the first time in her life, she has room to breathe, look ...

Magic has often been described as “supernatural” – but only by those who don’t understand how intrinsically natural real magic is. Throughout human history all cultures of all places and times have practiced some form of magic, ranging from the most elaborate of rituals to the simplest homespun spells. Magic is a way of communing with the Divine and taking an active part in our own destiny by recognizing that we are part of the Divine, created by and comprised of the same cosmic energy that drives the whole Universe. As such, we have the power to tap into that energy and use it to ...

A Savannah attorney and her private investigator partner bite off more than they can chew when they try to find the origin af an old black-and-white photo. Their search leads to corpses galore, and an alligator with a gourmet diet.