Working Partners

A thirteen-year-old secret is buried in the Colorado mountains. A K-9 handler and her aging German Shepherd are about to dig it up. When skeletal remains surface on a remote trail outside Elk Creek, newlywed SAR handler Gemma Hartley-Reyes and her veteran air-scent dog Kira are pulled into a cold case that no one in town wanted reopened. As Gemma trains a new recruit and navigates married life, the investigation uncovers a web of silence stretching back over a decade. Someone in Elk Creek knows exactly what happened. And they're watching Gemma get closer. Perfect for fans of Margaret ...

A hilariously candid account of one woman's quest to bring her post-baby marriage back from the brink, featuring life-changing, real-world advice. “Preserve the greatest gift you will ever give your baby: a loving relationship between the baby's parents” —John Gottman, clinical...

He sat in the dark with a gun on the table. Not a soldier coming home from war. A cop. A Texas K-9 deputy constable who was parked off Interstate 10, doing paperwork, when another vehicle hit his patrol car at sixty miles per hour. The driver’s door was pushed twenty-two inches into the driver’s side. His dog survived. He survived. But something broke that day that the hospital never found on the X-ray. What followed was PTSD — not from the battlefield, but from a single moment on a Texas highway. PTSD does not only come from combat. It comes from any moment that shatters the way you ...

Take a transformative journey to a deeper level of connection, and discover how to train animals through compassionate wisdom… In Mindful Partners: The Zen art and science of working with animals, Dr. Jenifer A. Zeligs teaches pet owners and animal care professionals how to fulfill their dreams of being like Dr. Dolittle, able to speak joyfully with animals. Dr. Zeligs combines breakthroughs in behavioral sciences with centuries of contemplative wisdom, revealing deep insight into behavior. This is the “Zen” of her approach—not only to teach students what to do, but especially to ...

Written by the authors of How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free, this book is a handbook for couples who need tools to be happy in their relationships. It’s a handbook on how to achieve mutual happiness, through cooperative negotiation and communication. Couples are led through a step-by-step process whereby each one learns how to take care of what he or she wants and care for a partner’s happiness at the same time. The clear and concise instructions and guidelines teach couples the skills they need to create a mutually supportive partnership allowing each individual to be satisfied in ...

Three deer cross the lawn. A cat watches through the screen. And on my phone, an AI assistant confesses to spamming three thousand people. Six weeks earlier, Steve Alcorn didn't have an AI partner. He had a to-do list that never got shorter, a business he ran alone, and the growing suspicion that the most hyped technology of his lifetime might actually be real. Harnessing the Machine is the true story of what happened when a retired theme park engineer set up an AI agent on a twenty-dollar server and built something he didn't expect: a partnership. From building control systems for EPCOT to...

Equip yourself with trauma-informed strategies to confidently manage intimate partner violence in the therapy room. Whether you are listening on your daily commute or preparing for a complex clinical session, this grounded audio guide acts as an experienced supervisor in your ear. It replaces...

She’s lost a friend. He’s lost his sight. Can this unlikely duo solve an untouchable murder? College student Alexandra Neve never backs down from a challenge. So when her BFF Irina dies of an apparent suicide, she channels her grief into cracking the case police refuse to touch. After discovering a mysterious list of Russian names in her friend’s room, Neve’s attempts to retrace Irina’s steps nabs her an unexpected crime-solving partner. With the help of her blind history professor Ashford Egan, Neve connects the suspicious death to a recent London murder. But as the Russian mafia...

In this fascinating and informative book, Jim will introduce beginners to the world of forex trading, with step-by-step explanations suitable for beginners. Find out if Forex trading is something suitable for your personality and emotional style and learn how much money you can make.

Have this ambitious private eye and her blind sidekick just accepted the wrong client? Newbie investigator Alexandra Neve is sick and tired of tracking down cheating spouses. Fearing her business partner won’t stick around without something to sink his teeth into, she’s excited when an elderly woman tasks them with recovering a priceless family heirloom. And her curiosity becomes an obsession when she discovers the same piece of jewelry went missing once before—in Nazi Germany. Convinced the robberies are connected, the persistent PIs dig through holocaust records and trace the twice-...

You have already worked a full shift of domestic labor before you ever open your work laptop. If you are an employed mother balancing career responsibilities with primary caregiving, generic motivational advice will not protect your schedule. *Boundary Books for Working Mothers* is a practical self-help guide that gives you concrete communication tools and structured boundary systems. It provides word-for-word dialogue scripts and real-time strategies to help you stop people-pleasing and establish limits with colleagues, supervisors, and family members. Inside, you'll find: - How to address...

The Timekeepers are a secret organisation of kids who keep the course of history on track – and history needs them – a villain called DeLay is causing chaos! When the hands on their watches start to spin backwards, the Timekeepers know that DeLay has been up to no good, and it’s up to them...

"We never see each other anymore." Every shift-working household knows the sentence — and the helpless feeling that nobody chose this. Here is the fact that changes the conversation: two-fifths of employed Americans work mostly outside the standard nine-to-five. The strain on partnership and family life is structural. It ships with the roster — and it responds to coordination, not to guilt. This book is the coordination machinery: One shared map of the household's time — and the fifteen-minute habit that keeps it true The day-sleep conversation that ends the quiet war, held once, as a...

In order to be a success, a CIO needs to be able to find and work with partners. These partners have to be committed to the same things that the CIO is: the overall success of his or her company and IT department. However, finding the right partners can be quite a challenge. All too often alliances don't work out. CIOs need to take the time and study why some of these relationships are successful while others are not.

In this extra spicy romance novelette, Annie, Summer, Fawn, and Tabitha have been brunching weekly since they graduated college. Sometimes a new girl joins with salacious tales of hot love, but whether they come or go, it's always these four sharing their most intimate sexual encounters. This particular brunch day, Tabitha needs to talk about a new club in town. She joined her client at a new club downtown where partner swapping had less to do with the styling salon and more to do with the bedroom. He's offered her a membership, but she's not sure she should take it. He said he'd like to ...

The Timekeepers are a secret organisation of kids who keep the course of history on track – and history needs them – a villain called DeLay is causing chaos! When the hands on their watches start to spin backwards, the Timekeepers know that DeLay has been up to no good, and it’s up to them...

‛Tis the season to be jolly. But unless one detective can find a missing ballerina, it won’t be a happy Christmas… Private investigator Alexandra Neve is determined to live up to her newfound fame. Delighted that clients are coming their way, she’s barely squeezing in dates with her cute cop boyfriend and lending festive cheer to the bah-humbugs of her blind partner Ashford Egan. But when they take on the case of a disappearing dancer, Neve’s improved spirits plummet… Her distress deepens when the police uncover a nearby murder scene featuring a young woman, arranged with her ...

They took down his partner. Can a blind detective bring a dark conspiracy to light? Professor-turned-PI Ashford Egan owes everything to Alexandra Neve. So when his kind-hearted colleague is shot and slips into a coma, he vows to take revenge. But even using every trick she taught him, a sightless investigator may be no match for London’s most ruthless criminal kingpin. Desperate to leave no stone unturned, Egan teams up with cops and criminals alike. But someone is hiding their true allegiance, and the professor fears he’s being played for a pawn. With Neve’s life hanging in the ...

Feel close again without finding extra time. If you and your partner love each other but spend most of your days talking about schedules, chores, work, and childcare, The MODE Switch offers a more realistic way back to connection. Instead of asking busy couples to create perfect date nights or long daily check-ins, this book shows you how to use the moments you already have. Through the MODE framework—Mark, Open, Direct, Engage—you will learn how to turn brief transition moments into meaningful points of reconnection. Inside this book, you will learn how to: shift from productivity mode...

Turn diabetes anxiety into an empowering health strategy by building a dynamic partnership with your endocrinologist. Whether you are navigating a new prediabetes diagnosis or managing Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, this audio guide replaces fear with actionable medical clarity. Stop reacting to...