Compiled especially by editors to create an entertaining mix of contemporary, historical, and suspense stories, this Christmas Collection has something for every "Christmas Romance" reading enthusiast. Enjoy six individual novellas in this volume one extravaganza - Choosing Christmas by Carol James: When Angela is hired as an AP at the school where Adam's mother is the principal, Angela and Adam find they share a past, an unexpected connection. And they must choose whether to surrender to ...

From the world’s leading thinker on innovation and New York Times bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen, comes an unconventional book of inspiration and wisdom, offering a powerful business philosophy for life. Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, notably the only business book that Apple’s Steve Jobs said "deeply influenced" him, is widely recognized as one of the most significant business books ever published. Now, in the tradition of R...

Can a person actually disappear? Hide from someone and not be found? Laney is kidnapped and held by Taggart in an empty dirty apartment. Taggart is someone she had once considered a friend. One rainy night he grabs her out of the apartment, pushes her into his car to take her . . . who knows where. She narrowly escapes by taking his car, leaving him with a concussion, a broken leg, and a hospital stay. But later when she opens the trunk of his car, she discovered a bag full of money. Who i...

In this bestselling fish-out-of-water classic, a homeschooled kid must learn how to fit in at his new public school when he's elected to be class president as a prank.Capricorn Anderson (Cap for short) has never watched a television show. He’s never tasted pizza. He’s never heard of a wedgie. And he has never, even in his wildest dreams, thought he’d live anywhere but the Garland Farm commune with his hippie grandmother and homeschool instructor, Rain.But all this changes w...

In late 1700s Paris, a young but promising illusionist dabbles in the arcane art of phantasmagoria. But at his moment of greatest triumph -- unveiling a magical lantern said to open a door to the Chinese spirit world -- he is violently struck down by a vengeful phantom....On assignment in London, archaeologist Annja Creed is hunting down a man who claims to have discovered the Jekyll and Hyde potion. On the trail of one curiosity, Annja finds herself pulled toward another mystery.....

The Story of a Generation, a follow-up to Opportunity and Uncertainty: Life Course Experiences of the Class of ’73 (2000), continues where its predecessor left off. Through surveys and in-depth interviews with a high school class that graduated in 1973, the researchers uncover how these individuals – part of the late baby boomer generation – navigated a rapidly changing world.Through this process, some patterns emerged: parents’ education played a defining role in ...

I never thought I'd be singing happy birthday to myself in a dungeon. And yet when a sinfully sexy demon crashes happy hour, that's exactly what happens. He’s known as the Lord of Chaos, and he’s mistaken me for my succubus doppelgänger. Happy birthday to me. When he tastes my blood, he finally understands I’m mortal. And I realize we have something in common: we both crave revenge.So we make a deal: I can stay in the forbidden city to hunt for my mom's killer. In return, I’ll help...

A journey of adventure, tragedy, love, and loss on the summit of Mt. Hood.In December 2006, millions of people across the world prayed and waited in anguish to learn the fate of 3 climbers trapped on Mt. Hood. The worst storm in the last decade was pounding the mountain with hurricane-force winds that would not permit the army of rescue workers to do their work. No one below could forget the last phone call Kelly James placed to his wife, telling her that he was tr...

Fifty Shades of Grey meets Bridget Jones's Diary, with a healthy dose of twenty-first-century motherhood realness.Amy Bowles has a devoted husband, three kids, a busy real estate career, and a nagging feeling that this can't be all there is. Her days are a blur of school drama, client showings, and dishes that never end. Her nights end long before she's satisfied. She follows the rules. She does not, as a rule, do anything reckless.Until the night s...

Amira is a very curious four year old who loves to play and have fun. But she does not realize that there are germs everywhere! In You Must Wash Your Hands her mother tells her all about the importance of washing her hands to get rid of the germs and staying healthy. Follow Amira in her other adventures of the You Must series as she learns in You Must Brush Your Teeth, You Must Go To Bed and You Must Take a Bath All coming soon in 2013.

In this cutting-edge Handbook, leading authors provide a broad overview of what emotion regulation is, who uses it and where, and how it can be studied. Multidisciplinary in scope, chapters move beyond the traditional perspective of emotion regulation at work as ‘service with a smile’, to consider how it manifests in various professional settings.Including discussions of its application to leadership, teamwork, and a variety of specific occupations, the Handbook illustrates how emp...

Exploring Social Justice in Practice in Education focuses on the tensions and challenges to issues of fairness and social and cognitive justice in the sphere of education.The terms ‘fairness’ and ‘social and cognitive justice’ are often used to justify particular policies and practices in the sphere of education. In providing a clear definition of what they should mean in practice, this book includes a discussion of, and, in some cases, potential resolutions to, tensions a...