I've made a lot of bad decisions, but moving into Leo Warner's apartment and working for him? Questionable. Not only is he my brother's best friend, but he's out of control.My daughter and I have spent years just getting by while my ex-husband tries his best to sabotage anything good, and the last thing I need is an athlete who's constantly getting in trouble.But when things heat up and my pride refuses to confide in my brother, Leo is the one who sees me a...

The whole team knows that Leo only has one rule: do not even think about his sister. The same sister I find in a towel outside her door one night, locked out of her apartment next door to his.It's a rule that I've found fairly simple to follow, if only because I don't see her around much. She's an artist, and other than seeing her out and about with friends a few times at LuLu's, I can manage ignoring her existence.That is, until Leo secretly adds ...

Cooper Henry chased me almost my entire life . . . until he didn't.As kids we would have fake weddings, our parents absolutely certain it would be the real thing one day. But when I moved away I never heard a word from him again . . . until he was drafted by the Baltimore Cobras. But my excitement was short lived as the man pretends to never have known me, which is only made worse by our friend group growing closer and closer.My heart hurts every time I see...

Emmett: There's something about this girl I just can't shake.I've caged myself off since the day my wife passed years ago, only trusting a small handful of people. Letting someone into my house and around my daughter is a huge step—especially when that person happens to be the sunshine girl I ghosted in the middle of the summer.She represents everything I don't want to acknowledge and brings out a side of me I don't recognize, but I need the help and she's ...

After the attacks on September 11th, 2001, the United States government discovered the terrorists committing the attacks possessed a mutated gene, later called the Regenerate gene, which would mutate the DNA of the host. By the year 2233, the Republic of Bellona requires that each regenerate discovered by modern scientific testing was to be executed. After her file is stolen from the government archives, Katherine Morey is forced to submit her test early. After learning she is regenerate, ...

If you were a little dump truck, what would be your finest load to haul? In this catchy rhyming picture book, you can sing, stomp, and wobble your way through the text, finding what in this dump truck will be loaded up next.

A single choice sets everything in motion. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy follows two lives moving in parallel—one driven by passion, the other by a quiet search for meaning. Anna, trapped in a rigid marriage, enters a powerful and dangerous affair with Count Vronsky, a decision that begins to unravel her place in society and, gradually, her sense of stability.At the same time, Konstantin Levin moves through a very different path—questioning purpose, work, faith, and love, especially...

Ukraine's economic progress since its independence in the early 1990s has been uneven, in part due to the slow pace of reforms, unfavorable demographic factors, and low productivity. One of the key factors limiting success is the inadequacy of the skills of Ukraine's workforce with the needs of a modern economy. While the country demonstrates a strong record of educational attainment and acquisition of foundational skills, the post-secondary education and training system fails to equip wor...

An effective state is essential to achieving socio-economic and sustainable development. With the advent of globalization, there are growing pressures on governments and organizations around the world to be more responsive to the demands of internal and external stakeholders for good governance, accountability and transparency, greater development effectiveness, and delivery of tangible results. Governments, parliaments, citizens, the private sector, NGOs, civil society, international organiz...

Jayne Erixour believes she knows everything about the universe. As a bounty hunter and assassin, she's seen the worst dregs of humanity and every sentient species ever spat out of a hell realm. To her, there is no truth outside of her blaster's recoil and her resolve to let no one get too close.Hadrian Scalera is on the run from the same brutal assassins who slaughtered every member of his family, both birth and foster. He has no refuge and no one he dares to call friend, as it wil...

Eve Erixour is a mercenary with a past no one would envy and more enemies than anyone should have. Death stalks her relentlessly. So when she gains the attention of a League assassin, she considers it par for the course.But Jinx Shadowbourne isn’t after Eve. Someone has it in for him and his brethren. High-ranking assassins are falling, and Jinx is convinced one of their own is selling them out. He’s on the trail of his key suspect when fate throws him headfirst into Eve’s life.

Conducting Market Research for International Business is designed to help managers and scholars understand the fundamentals of international market research. It offers a comprehensive treatment of the research issues that international business managers face when contemplating market entry, engaging buyers in foreign markets, maintaining and growing market share, and expanding to newer opportunities abroad. The book describes how to initiate an international resea...