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Brewster Gilligan, an underachieving genius, believes that his loss on a television quiz show is the worst thing to ever happen to him. Little does he know that the phrase he answered with, a bit of trivia he remembered from his dead grandfather, was a scrap of forbidden knowledge that would trigger a cabal of dangerous immortals to hunt him down.

Objectives and key results (OKRs) are the secret sauce that has been driving the largest migration of financial assets and technological innovation ever recorded in human history to Silicon Valley, California, since the 1970s. OKR leadership - the process for managers and leaders to practice what matters - is the secret sauce that drives transformational leadership, employee engagement, and the next generation of management consulting.

Operation Melchior-Sanctum was a failure and a potential embarrassment. It went wrong, terribly wrong. So wrong the entire team of DevGru Operators had been quietly retired to head off any bad publicity. But now, those men were being killed one by one, and faster than the law could react. Jon Crane is asked to do the impossible: find out who this killer is and stop him...fast.

This novel collects the five novellas in the Succubus Schemes series into an episodic novel. Helen and Amy, the heroines from The Succubus Apprentice, have now graduated from apprentices and are pursuing their new careers of mage and succubus respectively. They start off trying to steal an egg from a pterodactyl's nest, and from there go on to serve as bodyguards for a dark elf, try to fix a couple of other supernatural relationships for their friends, and then run a scam on the most powerful corporation in the world with the help of some very unreliable allies.

A deadly hit-and-run targeting a loved one sends LA cop Lucky Dey on a five-day rush for justice. Hell-bent for answers to a mystery he struggles to solve, Lucky uncovers a multimillion-dollar kidnapping and extortion plot as old as Chinatown that reaches all the way to the most hallowed office in city hall. With the powers that be angling to take away his badge - this time for good - Lucky damns the rules and plunges headlong into an underground world where the innocent are exploited and the guilty will stop at nothing to protect their darkest secrets.

Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was a talented and lovely lady by all accounts. She grew up in England and France and lived much of her life abroad with her diplomatic husband, in the major capital cities of London, Berlin, and St. Petersburg. She was a gifted writer of prose and poetry, a translator of classic literature, and a discerning critic of the society and the political realm.

Becoming a dog owner is a tough challenge but if you train your dog properly, the challenge becomes fun. Training you dog through our step-by-step guide will help you understand your dogs psychology so you can train it to be the most confident dog possible. Everything from giving it instructions to having the confidence of keeping it off the leash. Check out our book today!

In this installment Helen the succubus and Amy the witch put their plan into gear as they attempt to put one over on the most powerful international corporation in the world with help of a group of supervillains and other unreliable allies. This series is full of humor, supernatural creatures, supervillains, evil corporations, and adventure. There may also be hints of consensual sex, paranormal romance, LGBTQ romance, polyamory, and if that's against your religion and value systems you should probably avoid this book.

During his senior years, John, a retired high school English teacher, decided to finally write his memoirs. His story begins at a young age, with his first visit from a spirit playmate his own age. To John, Jason is just an ordinary child like him, and John never gave much thought to where Jason came from or where he disappeared. As years passed by, more playmates followed, and as John got older, his playmates shared more and more information about the spirit world with him.

This is a short audiobook of poems about love and other mental illnesses. Humorous, occasionally thoughtful, hopefully insightful, and evocative.

Fourteen outstanding authors. Fourteen worlds that never were. Throughout the human experience, historians have wondered, “What if?” What if Japan had been on the side of the U.S. in World War II? What if things had been just a little different in the Falklands? What if Russia had started World War Three?

He gathers his wits and calls emergency services. Despite a thunderstorm, Sheriff's deputies, the fire department, and an ambulance all respond quickly. But there's little they can do. The victims are long dead. The snoop invites the emergency workers inside, out of the rain, to await the arrival of the coroner and the funeral home staff. The lightning flashes. The thunder rolls. And the setting inspires the police, firefighters, and paramedics to pass the time by telling stories, both thrilling and chilling. And you are invited to join them.

The Hades Galaxy is so far from Earth, its light hasn’t even reached our most powerful telescopes. It’s a strange place - familiar, yet different. It’s also inhabited. Or it used to be. So how did Paul Johnson get from his grandpa’s ranch in Montana to the shores of alien waters in a distant galaxy? How did he and millions of colonists become trapped there, with no hope of ever returning home? He did what men throughout history have done: he chased after a beautiful woman. And he got her. Sort of.

Silas is dead. Or at least the world believes he is. Jon attempts to get back to his Basics, with only a small handful of his most loyal aware. A simple case becomes complicated and then needs to be set aside. As the inner circle grows, the son unwittingly adds valuable new allies to his group. Drug cartels and politicians must be dealt with. Jonathan Crane can't escape them. The Basics have come back to him.

This is the third novella in the series Succubus Schemes. These novellas will form one serial novel titled appropriately enough Succubus Schemes. In this novella the succubus Helen attempts to make good on her promise to obtain a unicorn as a present to her girlfriend the part elven mage Amy, to make up for a slight relationship mistake. This involves a visit to Helen's frenemy Magnus and a good amount of hijinks and chaos ensues.

In our world today, there aren't many voices encouraging us to refrain from sexual relations outside of marriage. Even fewer voices are calling us to also refrain from pornography and masturbation. In Called Higher, you will listen to the uncommon testimony of how God gave a regular college student named Doug freedom from both pornography and masturbation. He still has this gift of freedom after nearly 10 years now, all without getting married. Being forever changed by the Lord's mercy, today Doug strives to point men and women everywhere to follow Jesus with everything.

At the age of 31, Doug Wilson underwent a 14-hour operation to remove a life-threatening brain tumor. Just over a year later, he set a Guinness World Record by becoming the first person to run seven competitive marathons on seven continents in under seven days. In this gripping and fast-paced memoir, he shares the story of his struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, mental illness and physical disability - and the extraordinary journey of healing that helped him to turn his life around.

A secluded Mississippi River island is the perfect vacation getaway - until the space rocks land. A family is killed by searing radiation. The same cosmic force returns Dad, sister, and the two boys from the grave. But they're deteriorating quickly and melting away. And they want your flesh. Oh, look. Here come the tourists.

Amy the part elf mage and her girlfriend Helen the succubus, put the next part of their plan in action, but before they can even start to put their scheme in place, they have to negotiate the terms of a duel between two supernatural rulers of rival cities so they can recruit the son of a Titan into their scheme. This novella is for you if you like action, romance, banter, and humor in your urban fantasy and paranormal romance.

This novella is the next installment in the episodic Succubus Schemes series featuring a succubus named Helen and her girlfriend Amy, a mage. They navigate, figuring out what they want to do next, while helping a dark elf survive attacks from her political rivals back in New York.