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It’s two months before Amelia’s big audition for the Mystwick School of Musicraft. If she gets in, she will learn to spin music into powerful magic - but her Gran has one last-ditch plan to persuade her out of it: sports camp. A week of softball, sprinting, and sweaty socks isn't exactly Amelia’s idea of a good time - in fact, she's deeply, appallingly unathletic. By the end of day one, she’s puked her guts out in track, gotten a black eye in no-contact flag football, and firmly established herself as the Least Valuable Player at camp.

Husband and wife team Victoria and Greg run The Charming Moose Diner in Jasper Fork, North Carolina, along with the rest of her extended family. Greg's in the kitchen at the grill while Victoria runs the register and takes care of any trouble that comes their way, something that happens all too often. When a stranger shows up one day and tells Victoria that he owns the land the diner was built on, there's a scramble to dig up secrets from the past that lead into the present when the stranger is found murdered in The Charming Moose's freezer!

Negotiation has always been at the heart of solving problems at work. Yet today, when people in organizations are asked to do more with less, be responsive 24/7, and manage in rapidly changing environments, negotiation is more essential than ever. What has been missed in much of the literature of the past 30 years is that negotiations in organizations always take place within a context - of organizational culture, of prior negotiations, of power relationships - that dictates which issues are negotiable and by whom.

Bonnie and her husband Steffan are hiking in the beautiful Swiss Alps when they are caught in a freak snowstorm. Fearing they may not survive, the couple are overjoyed when they stumble across an isolated cabin occupied by a lone woman, Annalise. But their joy soon turns to unease as they realize that Annalise may have a sinister agenda

Elle, desperate to escape her abusive home, runs away to a seemingly cute small town where she gets a job as a waitress. And meets Vera, who offers her an attic room in her large house. For the first time in years, Elle feels something like contentment as she bonds with Vera who becomes almost like a mother to her. Blossoming, Elle slowly begins to piece her life back together, make new friends and stand on her own two feet. But all is not as it seems.

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company.

Part-time student Chloe Carter is planning her best friend’s wedding, working for her parents - and glued to her chef boyfriend, Josh, as he competes to star in a new TV series. The premise: Josh hijacks unsuspecting grocery shoppers and prepares them gourmet dinners. Everything’s going great - until one shopper drops dead. Was it one of Josh’s competitors? Or the deceased’s husband? Or someone on the crew? Sifting through suspects, Chloe deals with wedding chaos and Josh’s erratic behavior.

Jake is the boy that I can't quite break free from. And when he shows up with a proposition that paints me as a whore for hire, I say yes to protect his sorry ass. I think I know everything about the Panthers; they come around the diner too much for my liking. But the pair I meet in the shadows are different. Michael is smooth and warn. Benny makes me a little nervous. But soon I'm ready to writhe between them and see where the night will lead.

Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines, reconstructing the crucial breakthroughs, explaining the science behind them, and giving due to the dozens of researchers, doctors, and patients whose curiosity and determination restored the promise of a future to the more than 50,000 people diagnosed each year with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).

""The best book of the summer."" -- InStyle ""I LOVED this novel....If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm."" —Nick Hornby Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this ""delightful"" (New York Times Book Review) novel...

Playboy, milionário, herdeiro de um império e irmão do presidente dos Estados Unidos, sempre fui um solteiro inveterado e tinha o mundo aos meus pés. Isso incluía todas as mulheres que eu quisesse. Nunca prometi a qualquer uma delas mais do que uma noite de sexo. Não tinha compromisso e não me apegava a ninguém. Me casar e constituir uma família não estava nos meus planos. Desfrutava da minha vida viajando de um lado para o outro do mundo, como piloto da companhia aérea da minha família, conhecendo uma mulher diferente a cada parada.

Narcisista com complexo de Deus, alguns me chamam assim, mas a verdade é que eu sou excepcional no que faço. Ter nascido um Vaughn me deu oportunidades, mas ser médico sempre foi a minha vocação, o meu destino. Salvo inúmeras vidas como neurocirurgião. A medicina sempre foi o meu propósito. Ganhando prêmios e me tornando notável, achava que não precisava de mais nada para me sentir completo, até que o meu irmão mais velho retornou. Ver o John com seus filhos despertou em mim uma vontade de me tornar pai.

Abandonei tudo após uma grande decepção, larguei a minha vida e todas as mordomias que vinham com a fortuna da família para salvar soldados no campo de guerra. Afastei-me, me isolei e me tornei um homem ainda mais frio do que já era. Anos se passaram até que o meu pai me chamou de volta. Ele estava velho, precisava se aposentar e queria que eu assumisse os negócios da família. Iria me tornar o CEO do hospital e voltar a exercer minha função como cirurgião cardiotorácico. Porém, o passado que me fez partir era o mesmo que voltaria a me assombrar.

A ideia de tê-la era tão dolorida quanto a de afastá-la de mim. Fiz mal a pessoa que amava em segredo. A única que eu deveria proteger acabou sendo vítima dos meus desejos. Izabel Mazzi estava comemorando seus vinte e um anos quando me pediu um beijo e eu lhe dei meu coração. Eu não a merecia.

Sempre deixei muito claro para a minha esposa que ter um filho não estava nos meus planos. Todo o meu foco era gerir a empresa familiar e não havia tempo ou espaço para me dedicar a uma criança. Entretanto, ela passou por cima do que eu havia repetido diversas vezes e ficou grávida. Só que eu não poderia prever que Grace fosse morrer em um trágico acidente e me deixar com um recém-nascido prematuro.

Thanks to a small but growing number of dedicated farmers, importers, roasters, and baristas, coffee quality is at an all-time high. But for nonprofessionals, achieving cafe quality at home can seem out of reach. With dozens of equipment options, conflicting information on how to use that equipment, and an industry language that, at times, doesn't seem made for the rest of us, it can be difficult to know where to begin. Craft Coffee: A Manual, written by a coffee enthusiast for coffee enthusiasts, is a comprehensive guide to improving your brew at home.

I know Tuck Monroe is trouble the second I walk in to interview for the nanny position. Six-four and covered in tattoos, he's distractingly hot. He's also grumpy as hell. But I need to pay for school, so I take a job as his daughter's live-in caretaker and move into the apartment above his garage. I fall hard for Katie, his adorable four-year-old. But I never expected to fall for my new boss, who's a decade older than I am. Turns out there's a heart of gold beneath Tuck's broody exterior, one I work to reveal bit by bit.

Juliette has always longed for everything she experiences in her beloved books—grand adventures, heroic deeds, passionate love, and making a meaningful difference. She wants it all. Yet, despite her found family, her dream bookshop, and a burgeoning connection with a sweet man, chronic anxiety keeps her tethered to a safe and predictable routine. Until her life is upended when an unexpected magical ability surfaces. Now gifted with the power to locate lost things, Juliette's world becomes a blend of wonder and anxiety.

Mocinho? Não... eu fazia o tipo vilão, me divertia com o caos. A minha família pensava que poderíamos viver o sonho americano, que todos os Vaughn tinham o destino nobre de serem médicos, mas nunca me encaixei nessa palhaçada. Deslocado da família, ganhava a vida cuidando dos meus próprios negócios e principalmente uma boate agitada no centro de Chicago, por onde transitavam pessoas não tão corretas assim, talvez como eu mesmo. Numa noite, acabei me envolvendo em jogo com um velho conhecido.

Excêntrico, insensível, grosseiro, mal-educado. Esses eram uns dos muitos adjetivos que usavam para me descrever, contudo poucos me conheciam de verdade. Nascido em uma família abastada, dona de uma enorme companhia aérea, sempre estive à sombra do meu irmão mais velho, porém eu não me importava, pois, ao contrário do Maxwell, que gostava dos holofotes, eu preferia me manter afastado do restante do mundo.