Bipartisanship has been essential to America's success throughout its history. Today, however, there seems waning interest by politicians in both parties to work together to address pressing issues and find solutions.In Across the Aisle, highly respected Republicans and Democrats argue persuasively that, time and again, bipartisanship on the local, state, and national levels has proven integral to moving America forward. Citing numerous examples, the contributors convincin...

This is the final report of the bipartisan CSIS Task Force on Reforming and Reorganizing U.S. Foreign Assistance. As the Trump administration attempts to curb government spending, particularly in foreign assistance, this study reviews past attempts at reorganizing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Department of State, and it provides recommendations for the new administration. The task force consisted of former civil and foreign service officers and is co-c...

Brad is short of cash. He's lost his job, and if he can't find the rent money by Friday, he's going to be evicted. He answers a job to work as a strip-o-gram, but ends up getting more than he bargained for.

Their assignment is to catch a serial killer. Unfortunately, that also means they have to work together.Determined to save his career after an involuntary relocation to the Boston field office, FBI profiler Luis Gomes can't afford any distractions. His newest task is to develop an analysis of a serial killer with connections to previous murders in the area, but Luis knows little of the city's criminal history. When the local detective assigned as his liaison turns out to be Donovan...

A collection of best-selling m/m romance novels.If you love sweet and sexy stories about young men in love, whether they are discovering their true sexuality in college or actively seeking out the loves of their lives, these books will make you laugh, cry and tingle in all the right places.Included in this collection are:When It's Right, Winter Chill, Escaping in Oz (newly released), His Undoing and More Than Friends with a bonus book of Drunk in Love

FROM DARKNESSAND LIGHTSomeone is leaving a trail of bodies throughout London, and Detective Anthony Parglietto is determined to end the violence. Then he'll return to the man he loves.Tough, street-savvy, and used to dealing with lowlifes, Flynn Parker is the last person Anthony thinks he has to protect. Then the Bow-Tie Killer strikes close to home and the world turns upside down. Right is wrong, black is white, and a policeman might become a monster. But in the nam...

BLOOD BROTHERSFletcher Daniels has family. The family he chose. His Navy SEAL family.Those who share his DNA are dead to him, except his brother Kyle.When Kyle disappears, Fletcher is forced to confront his "blood" family, whose mere presence makes going through Hell Week at BUD/S feel like a walk in the park.Saving Kyle is fraught with intrigue and betrayal. With his real "brothers" at his back, and the addition of a tough sheriff who's decided Fletcher is ...

"Hi! I'm Dr. Dream, and I'm probably the hottest guy you'll ever meet. I have silver hair, but I'm young at heart. I have lots of fans, but I'm looking for my Number One. Is it you, younger guy? Hit me up!"ER Deputy Chief Stone Dooley got the surprise of his life when he learned his twin daughters had signed him up for a gay dating site, without his knowledge, three years after he became a widower.What was supposed to be a quick drink and an apology for his daughters' prank...

Can they make their relationship work when all the odds are stacked against them?The would-be highwayman killer's case is closed, and Luis has been cleared to return to work. He and Donovan are starting their new life together. When people start dying at Assonet Ledge, it seems like a typical case for Donovan until one of the victims turns out to be a missing person from out of state, bringing the FBI into one of Donovan's cases yet again.The park ranger at the site is ever...

There's nothing scarier than the truth...Noel's got issues. Like, he doesn't know what to call his lover. Are they boyfriends? A fling that got out of control? Something more? Even worse, he may sometimes get waylaid by a random ghost or two.Or else he's losing his mind.Now Adam? He's stable and solid and warm; the kind of guy Noel never knew he wanted. He's also the historian on Haunts and Hoaxes, which gives him a professional interest in...

Search and Rescue: Book FourSearch-and-rescue worker Spencer Helmsley has everything he needs: a job he loves, a flight partner he'd die for, and an amazing dog.Then he flings himself out of a helicopter to rescue Theo Wainscott.Stuck on a raft in the middle of a flood with the most stubborn, argumentative man in the world, Spencer soon finds himself asking not how they'll survive but what'll kill them first—the water, each other… or the se...

Tragedy brought them together. Love will forge them like steel.The last thing Benny expected was to find himself in the middle of an active shooter event on campus. Canyondale University isn't the type of place he imagined becoming the center of such brutality. After getting shot in the thigh, he would've been dead if not for the SWAT member who rushed to his aid at the moment one of the gunmen was bent on finishing the job.An explosion of violence...