Ever have problems brainstorming a book with just yourself?Can't break out of those old, familiar tropes and stereotypes? The Writer's Brainstorming Toolkit: Thinking in New Directions is your solution to rejuvenate your writing and kick those old, worn-out ideas to the curb.No idea how to start putting together a story? No problem—the book can help you create one.Stuck in the middle of a story and don't know what motivates your ch...

Safety Culture, Second Edition, provides safety professionals, corporate safety leaders, members of leadership, and college students an updated book on safety leadership and techniques for the development of a safety culture. The book offers guidance on the development, implementation, and communication of a Safety Management System.The Second Edition includes a discussion on the perception of safety, analyzing the safety culture, developing a communications network, emplo...

An American woman inherits a Cornish coastal mansion shrouded in mystery in this suspenseful gothic romance classic by a New York Times bestseller.The last of an ancient Cornish clan, Carla Tregellas has inherited her historic ancestral home: a massive mansion looming high up on the jagged cliffs of Cornwall. From the moment Carla takes possession of the grand manor she feels right at home, warmly welcomed by everyone— except the strange and secret...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A woman grieving broken dreams. A man struggling to regain memories. A secret entrenched in folklore dating back two centuries.Antiquarian Felicity French has no clue the trouble she’s inviting in when she rescues a man outside her house during a treacherous snowstorm. All she wants is to nurse her battered heart and wounded ego, as well as come to terms with her past. Now she’s stuck inside with a stra...

Fasten your seatbelts, darlings, it's been one helluva ride. 'If there's a more enthralling celebrity memoir out this year, I'll eat my bowler hat.' The Times '[A] high-kicking hoofer of a book.' Telegraph 'A heady brew of gossip, glamour and defiance.' Guardian 'Brilliant and bonkers' The MirrorLiza Minnelli is one of the m...

Life is a Cabaret – Liza Minnelli ungeschminkt, mitreißend und ganz persönlichIn ihrer mit Spannung erwarteten Autobiografie gewährt die legendäre Schauspielerin und Sängerin einen einzigartigen Einblick in ihr aufregendes Leben, das von Glamour und unvergesslichen Erfolgen aber auch von großen Herausforderungen geprägt ist. Als Tochter der legendären Hollywood-Schauspielerin Judy Garland und des nicht weniger berühmten Regisseurs Vincente Minnelli war ihr ein Lebe...

Classic Tales Of Horror offers up fifteen slices of powerful story-telling from the world’s great authors. From Henry James and Ambrose Bierce to Bram Stoker and Charles Dickens. Read by John Waite (BBC Radio 4), Sarah Douglas (Superman I & II), Michael Fenton-Stevens (Spitting Image, KYTV, Hitch-hiker’s Guide) and Ben Onwukwe (London’s Burning, Othello).The Man & The Snake by Ambrose Bierce – Read by Sarah DouglasMan-Size In Marble by E Nesbitt – Read by John Waite...

Investigator Kendra Michaels—formerly blind and now with uniquely insightful observational skills in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes—returns in this action-packed novel from the #1 New York Times and Edgar Award-winning writing duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen.When Kendra Michaels receives a cryptic message from her sometimes-paramour Adam Lynch, she concludes that he must be in extreme danger—the kind where he can’t trust his FBI and Justice department...

Mediated Images of the South: The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture, edited by Alison F. Slade, Dedria Givens-Carroll and Amber J. Narro, is an anthology that explores the impact of the image of the Southerner within mass communication and popular culture. The contributors offer a contemporary analysis of the Southerner in the media. In most cases, previous literature situates these media images in the past, most notably through historic analyses of the Southerner during the Civil Righ...

In this instant New York Times bestseller, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must...

In the middle of the night, a hooded stranger arrives on Jason's doorstep begging for help, with a terrifying assassin close on their heels. The stranger is a witch named Leslie Toussaint, and they need Jason's detective skills to find out who sent the assassin.Leslie is a historian, and they may have stumbled upon a great secret of the past. A secret that someone wants to keep hidden at all costs.Silvana sees this as an opportunity. A historian could help her fina...

What if you learned that to lead well, you’d need to live like a drug addict?During treatment for drug addiction, Michael Brody-Waite learned three principles that became the difference between life and death:Practice rigorous authenticitySurrender the outcomeDo uncomfortable workLeaving rehab, Michael entered the workplace where he was shocked to see most business leaders doing what he had been taught would kill him...