In Portland, a city celebrated for its progressive ideals, Ethan and Olivia Hayes appear to have it all. Their minimalist home, filled with carefully curated art, reflects their outward success. But beneath the surface, a subtle tension simmers. When Ethan unexpectedly loses his job and becomes the primary caregiver for their daughter, Maya, the fault lines in their marriage begin to crack. He navigates the unfamiliar terrain of toddler tantrums and the subtle emasculation of Portland’s hy...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: A, University of Bradford, course: MBA, language: English, abstract: Terms of Reference This marketing plan for the BMW 1-series aims to outline and analyse the market environment in Germany. Also, an evaluation of the strategic and operational orientation as well as the strength and weaknesses of the product should be given. Based on this, recommendations for the future dire...

In cryptography, ciphers is the technical term for encryption and decryption algorithms. They are an important sub-family that features high speed and easy implementation and are an essential part of wireless internet and mobile phones.Unlike block ciphers, stream ciphers work on single bits or single words and need to maintain an internal state to change the cipher at each step. Typically stream ciphers can reach higher speeds than block ciphers but they can be more vulnerable to ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Slow Horses comes a riveting novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary.Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge city of London, with no family but an estranged sister, no partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the kind of person who could vanish from the...

**A LOCUS AWARD FINALISTONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF 2017A surreal debut novel set in a world shaped by language in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin.**Vanja, an information assistant, is sent from her home city of Essre to the austere, wintry colony of Amatka with an assignment to collect intelligence for the government. Immediately she feels that something strange is going on: people act oddly in Amatka, and ...

While working together in paradise, can he tempt her into breaking her rules? Find out in this forced-proximity romance by Lucy King.No rules. No limits.No escape from their passion!Billionaire Max Kentala plays by his own rules. He lets nobody get in his way. Now there’s one person standing between him and confronting the truth of his birth: tantalizingly tenacious private investigator Alex Osborne. And she’s demanding they do things he...

Reunited with his pastRunning the Hunter Clinic's charity operation has given surgeon and ex-soldier Ethan Hunter a new lease on life. His reconstructive work with wounded soldiers and civilians helps block out his army traumas. But when Ethan learns that he'll be working alongside beautiful surgeon Olivia Fairchild-the woman whose heart he regretfully broke-he can't help but remember the passion they once shared…and he's surprised by the sinfully delicious sparks ...

'Immensely, cheerily silly' Guardian'A thunderously good read, so funny and action packed. Children are going to love it!' Serena Patel, author of ANISHA, ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVEGrown an extra head and don't know why? You need the Space Detectives!Connor and Ethan are bamboozled when Starville, the space station where they live, is overrun with cosmic chaos! Boys have two heads, dogs have three tails and even ...

Justine’s fantasies are shattered when she learns the truth about the wealthy businessman.Former model Justine Phillips agrees to be auctioned off at a charity event. Alex Melrose, the CEO of a pharmaceutical company wins the bidding to take her to dinner.It isn’t until after Justine loses her heart to the handsome businessman that she learns that Alex’s company manufactured the drug that killed her mother.Author Caution

Full of heart and humour, Molly Flatt's The Charmed Life of Alex Moore is one woman's adventure – with a most unexpected twistHow would you feel if everything in your life suddenly started to go . . . right?Six months ago, Alex Moore was stuck in a dead-end job, failing to unleash one grand plan after another. Then, seemingly overnight, she launched her dream start-up and became one of London's fastest rising tech stars. At thirty, ...

An Award-Winning Novel • Optioned for FilmShe rescues broken souls. But the one she never expected to save may be her own.Haylee Hansen has devoted her life to Sanctuary Ranch, where abandoned animals and people with nowhere else to turn are given one last chance. Once the ranch's first success story, she’s built a life helping others heal—while keeping the painful secrets of her own past safely buried.After thirteen years ...

When an enigmatic serial killer marks his victims with only a cryptic drawing of an eye, FBI Agent Nina Veil must overcome her own demons if she hopes to outsmart him and save the next victim before it's too late.“This is an excellent book… When you start reading, be sure you don’t have to wake up early!”—Reader review for The Killing Game⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐AWAY FROM HUMANITY is BOOK #5 in a new series by #1 bestselling mystery and suspense author Kate Bold, whose bestsel...