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There are three kinds of employees: Some are saints: they're always accountable. Some are sinners: they're never accountable. But most are save-ables: sometimes they make good choices; sometimes they don't. What makes the difference? Leadership Without Excuses has the answers. Jeff Grimshaw and Gregg Baron help you put an end to the save-ables' poor choices and excuse-making - and convert them into saints. The secret is to communicate clear and credible expectations, create compelling consequences, and lead conversations grounded in reality.

Dashing sea captain Nathaniel Morgan sails into the life of prim and proper Bermuda heiress Patience Whitestone and threatens to expose her family secrets - ruinous secrets she wasn't aware of. The two are immediately at odds when Nathaniel moors his vessel in front of her estate and refuses to leave until he finds the cache of Swiss gold he's convinced was buried somewhere on the property during World War II.

Merritt Saxe, newly hired public relations specialist with the Florida prison system, answers an urgent plea from their division’s director, Willard Ware Baintree. Following his orders, she finds him in the apartment of his mistress, his bloody T-shirt and the mistress’s dead body convincing her the criminal justice superstar is himself a criminal. The director claims he didn’t kill the woman and coerces Merritt into being his alibi.

Landscape artist Alexandra Newborn dreams of a one-woman show at the Diamond Gallery. But the gallery owner dismisses her paintings as old, tired, and dull and lacking excitement. Those words also describe Alex's unhappy marriage. Alex's shocking reunion with her college art professor, Dominick "Nick" Anselmo - once a world-celebrated Italian artist, now a homeless lawn man - reignites their passion and fuels a creative spark for both, helping Nick recover from his wife's death.

When Julie Paver’s husband Matt moves his business to Atlanta, she is forced to leave behind her thriving jewelry boutique, Stones. The move threatens their 25-year marriage, because now if Matt isn’t out of town negotiating a merger, he’s spending late hours on overseas phone calls with his sexy-sounding second-in-command.

For Honey Palladino, the holidays have lost their magic. She is sure her husband is cheating on her. Her daughter plans to spend the time with a friend. Her widowed mother sees the image of Jesus in a live oak tree. As if that's not enough, her mother is also talking about going on a Christmas cruise with some old geezer, without benefit of marriage.

Partie à la découverte du Japon, j'ai pu parfaire mon éducation sensuelle au contact des célèbres Geishas... Maitresses dans l'art de la séduction et du raffinement érotique, elles prodiguent le plaisir comme but ultime. Moi Cassandre, je suis une Nouvelle Amazone et je vous raconte comment je suis devenue la plus grande Geisha de Kyoto ! Dans l'Antiquité, les Amazones étaient un peuple de guerrières, d'une beauté irrésistible. Aujourd'hui, les Nouvelles Amazones allient, comme leurs ancêtres, la séduction et l'indépendance. Maîtresse-femmes, elles savent ce qu'elles veulent. Où et quand, ce sont elles qui décident.

Amelia Rushing is an inexperienced South Florida realtor with weather issues and a loser at love. Her grandmother asks her to sell some property on an isolated North Carolina mountaintop. Upon investigation, Amelia finds the tract is landlocked. Determined to make her first sale and right the injustice to her grandmother, Amelia travels to the town of Confrontation and enlists the help of local real estate attorney Alec Brady who thwarts her at every turn.

The psychic detective team of Crystal & Hale, former Atlanta police detective Jack Hale and his bride “Crystal Ball Kate”, is on a two-week transatlantic cruise. They are called in to investigate the threat to a high-profile European Union banking conference aboard ship and to calm the fears of the superstitious crew, who thinks the ship is cursed. Before long, they realize they also need to catch an art thief and find a murderer.

Aurora Dawn Hale, the ravishing daughter and granddaughter of psychics, wants to take a bite out of the boy next door, reformed vampire Lancelot “Lance” Lakeland, who repents his past and desperately desires to be good. Lance has given up immortality to be with the woman he craves. He must convince Aurora Dawn he is worthy of her trust. Will she love him for who he is and leave her fiancé at the altar? Or wake up from her spell in time to recognize the evil presence of the fiend who has terrorized her family for centuries?

Since the death of her husband, Abigail has been lonely and drifting in a house that’s too big and a town that’s too small. When she literally runs into sexy widower and whale-watching excursion captain, Tack Garrity, on the dock, she’s entranced by his adorable five-year-old daughter. But will Tack, who has harbored a secret crush on Abigail for almost two decades, be able to capture her heart?

Reluctant psychic Katherine Crystal, dubbed "Crystal Ball Kate", is thrust into the national spotlight when she accurately predicts the death of a movie actor's young son in a private plane crash. Besieged by requests to use her powers to help others, she realizes why her parents had warned her never to let anyone know of her visions. Atlanta police detective Jack Hale harbors a deep-seated distrust of psychics and ignores Katherine's warnings. Jack is forced to partner with Kate, who uses her eerie sensitivity to evil to help him catch a serial killer in Sydney, Australia.

This audiobook will introduce you to day trading, starting with the important question, is it right for you? If it is, this book will tell you how to get started, how to make money, how to avoid losing money, and a lot of the technical information you'll need.

In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another - an adventuresome female astronomer - fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. And a young megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.

Matt, a gambler from South Africa meets Julia, a gap-year honor student from England, and makes more money in one spin at the roulette table than anyone in history. He attributes his win to her. They fall in love, but life gets in the way. Set over three continents and four decades, this story of will, luck, fate, and hope is destined to remain with you long after you finish.

This book is a comprehensive guide for new day traders. Day trading has been described as a way of life; implying that the day trader must be completely absorbed in the activity, to the exclusion of everything else in life. That is not true. Successful day traders can work only a few days a week or only a few hours a day. Day traders are interested in all forms of investment; stocks, foreign currency exchange, exchange-traded funds and more. Profits can be made by well-informed and savvy traders in every one of these areas.

"Je n'ai jamais imaginé que l'acte d'écrire pût s'accomplir à l'extérieur. Et ce fut le penchant que j'avais pour le repli qui me mit dans la voie de l'écriture. Sortir de soi, de chez soi, signifie se perdre. Écrire, à mes yeux, est un acte intime. Nul geste ne me rapproche davantage de moi-même. De ce à quoi je tiens le plus. Rien ne me fait me sentir moins seule, absente, écartée de tout : pas même l'acte d'aimer." (Silvia Baron Supervielle)

This collection of flash fiction is composed of selected, unrelated works created at writing workshops. Topics range from nudist neighbors to vampire encounters on the London subway. There's even a dash of sci-fi! I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I did writing them.

After the June Terror killed hundreds of thousands around the world, Jack Harding knew he had to disappear. Not wanting to risk flying from Europe, he takes the long trip across Russia by train, aiming to get back to the US by crossing the Bering Strait. Instead, he falls victim to a family of human traffickers, who submit him to months of unspeakable abuse.

In June of 2025, hundreds of planes simultaneously explode, killing hundreds of thousands in the largest coordinated attack in history. Security forces race to find the culprits as governments declare war on their unknown foe. The fourth book of the Man on the Run series is a gripping and fast-paced political thriller that questions both the structure of power in our society and the role of violence in creating a better world.