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How to Turn Objections to Your Advantage is written by international expert in communication sales techniques, motivation, and personal empowerment Tania Bianchi. In over 25 years, she has trained more than 27,000 managers and employees for hundreds of renowned commercial companies and multinational corporations such as Fiat, Lancia Automobiles, Technogym, Charming Hotels & Resorts of the World, Figurella, Soennecken, tour operators, software distributors, call centers, nonprofit organizations, cooperatives and banks.

Down-and-out Pastry Chef Star Bloom has no choice but to swallow her pride and take a job at a mom-and-pop diner. But the goofy antics of a fellow waiter and the attentions of a sexy patron are starting to lift her sour mood. When her new friends help her land a spot on a televised cooking show, she’s hopeful it’ll be the big break she needs to open up her own bakery.

When Xue Saunders is murdered in her home, the police have little to go on. The mystery deepens as she is discovered next to an unidentified man also shot to death. An unknown bot lies destroyed in her home, its memdrives a ruin. Missing from the home is Xue's young daughter Fa, along with her nanny bot. Desperate for answers, and fearing for the child's safety, the police turn to Lenore and Tick. The human and her robot partner are the best robot mechanics, or botdocs, in Denver. The pair agree to help in an attempt to salvage the damaged memdrives, but it comes with a risk.

Virgin Husband & Wife features Annika is a 25-year-old Russian doll who is trapped in the grip of tradition. No sex before marriage, and no marriage unless her parents approve of it. Virgin Annika wonders if she will ever leave home and experience what it is like to have sex....

Rebecca Griffin has everything she could ever want - or so says her big-hearted, opinionated Italian-American family. But now her marriage is unraveling and her teenage daughter is hurtling toward self-destruction. While Rebecca struggles to hang onto her husband and save her daughter, she learns of the mysterious death of a young woman long ago at a local prison. As Rebecca's mother, Eva, reveals their family's connection to the girl, Rebecca is drawn into the story - it haunts her.

Whether you are merely curious, a beginner, a client, or a professional inside the psychic industry, this book is written for you. With her candid approach, Ms. Love speaks about what it takes to be a professional psychic. The lost art of tasseography (tea leaf reading) from Ms. Love’s Grandmother, a psychic consultant to London’s high society and Ms. Love’s unique numerology readings give our readers new information about ancient techniques. Ms. Love explains from a scientific point of view science’s connection to an authentic psychic reading.

Tess Hardy thought she had put Luke, her violent ex-husband, firmly in her past. Then he calls from Cambodia, where he is working as a mine clearer, and there's something in his voice she hasn't heard before: fear. Two weeks later he's dead.

In the year 2162, a young boy named Jal Valhyn is caught in a maelstrom of violence and conflict. His country is at war and the world government based on humanistic principles that had fulfilled its promise of a halcyon peace for over a century has fallen.

First, we learn that Queen Silver-Bell has lost her fairy, Temper, and that Fairyland has begun to melt away. How will it end? Then we hear that Mother Rook has abandoned her nest. A little girl, Winnie, comes to the rescue. What will happen next?

Punk, the dog; Ponk, the duck; and Pink, the pig help Mrs. Tubbs after she is forced to leave her home. This charming story was written by Hugh Lofting, the Newberry Award-winning author of the Doctor Dolittle series.

Vanessa Haystings is a flourishing entrepreneur who has brought her family’s small business to new heights...and the best boyfriend she could ask for. When things start to go wrong in her relationship, Vanessa discovers that her true love is not as perfect as he appears... A secret room in one of his less-known residences reveals that he has a dark, dominant side to him. In this steamy romance, follow these two lovers as they dive into a whole new world of kinks and fun.

Paris, 1940. Three years ago, talented art restorer Sophie fled to Paris to escape the horrors of the Nazi regime. But now, with her beloved adoptive city under occupation, Sophie is forced to work at the renowned Jeu de Paume, restoring the art ruthlessly stolen from Jewish families. Fabienne was a rising star of the glamorous Parisian art scene, until the Nazis put a stop to her craft. Mourning the loss of her husband, she's a shadow of her former self - until her estranged sister-in-law Sophie arrives at her door with a stolen painting in hand.

Belle Brooks, a red-headed Cupid, ventures into the forbidden human world looking for her aunt. She finds a gorgeous hunk of a biker who’s off-limits because he’s mortal (gasp). She should stay away, except he’s just the man to help her handle the shocking family secret her trip to earth has revealed. Lucky O’Sullivan can’t believe it. For once, he might be as fortunate as his name implies. A stunning red-head just walked into his bar. Turns out, she’s just as handy with a wrench as she is hot, and that pushes all of his buttons.

From pop culture and politics to tourism and heritage, and from the Jazz Age to the climate crisis, it's impossible to imagine the 20th century without the discovery of Tutankhamun - yet so much of the story remains untold. Here, for the first time, Christina Riggs weaves compelling historical analysis with tales of lives touched by an encounter with Tutankhamun, including her own. Treasured offers a bold new history of the young pharaoh who has as much to tell us about our world as his own.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanov comes of age amid a shifting tide for the great dynasties of Europe. But even as unrest simmers in the capital, Olga is content to live the sheltered life her parents have built for her and her sisters: hiding from the world on account of their mother’s ill health, their brother Alexei’s secret affliction, and rising controversy over Father Grigori Rasputin, the priest on whom the tsarina relies.

After a heartbreaking TV bake-off, Star Bloom thought her restaurant dreams were spoiled, until an anonymous donor leaves her a small fortune. She can’t wait for the grand opening and an appearance from the special guest who stole her heart. Tyler Jackman is living every animator's dream. But not even a big-budget movie contract can make him forget the beautiful girl he left behind. When his friend invites him back to town, he plans a romantic surprise. Their celebration ends in a bitter aftertaste when Star’s signature frosting shows up in a poisoned man’s post-mortem.

Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it’s a ghost town - and the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot her new documentary. But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood Bay - or does it? Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to an extraordinary secret.

Once, long ago when I was a pompous rock ‘n’ roll guitar player and Lizzie Delmonico was in a dance crew with Victoria (my girlfriend at the time), Lizzie and I had almost had an affair. We had the kind of chemistry that defies logic. It has been over 10 years. The then-girlfriend has long since become a wife and the mother of my two children. Just when I decide to retire from the rock ‘n’ roll scene to focus on my family, Victoria decides that she has had enough of me. Sadly, she dies in a grisly car accident three days before we are due to sign the divorce papers.

In this playful and provocative, sensual and suspenseful novel, Janice Eidus merges the timeless, romantic myth of the vampire with contemporary life in volatile New York City-and beyond. Unlike most current “Vamp Lit,” The Last Jewish Virgin will appeal to multiple generations as it explores faith and secularism, the complicated love between mothers and daughters, and the allure of "bad boys" to women of all ages. The heroine is Lilith Zeremba, a vibrant young woman rebelling against her emotionally complex feminist mother. Lilith is determined to make her own way-on her own terms-in the world of fashion, but she unexpectedly finds herself in a place where mythology and sexuality collide. She meets two men to whom she is drawn in ways that feel dangerous and yet inevitable: the much older, wildly mercurial and mesmerizing Baron Rock, and Colin Abel, a young, radiant artist determined to make the world a better place, one socially progressive painting at a time.

Waking up in the town of Nofer in Daganland, Brad enters into a world ruled by a Tyrant. It is a planet of darkness where the inhabitants live and work by night. Socialization and friendships are forbidden, except in the formal setting of work-related activities. Brad becomes an elite student, assigned to a graduate program that will lead to his heading the department for incoming immigrants.