Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. Nevertheless, it’s frequently back-burne
Groundbreaking for the time in which they were written, the vampire stories of the 1800s have inspired many modern writers. Enjoy these thrilling classics of the genre, which are to this day read and
These five classic mysteries offer chilling darkness, drama, and intrigue. Includes: Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe; Silver Blaze by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Secret of the Growing Gol
1796: When traveling weaver and former soldier Will Rees learns that his son David has run away he immediately sets out after him. After tracking him down at a Shaker settlement near Durham, Maine, Wi
This is the second, much–updated edition of this funny and useful book. There are many grammar and usage books that give advice on correct English. This isn't one of them. The Elements of Expression t
Since both girls were small, Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and right-hand lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that
Recently returned from the experience of a lifetime in fin de siecle Vienna, where she met and tragically lost the first great love of her life, Eleanor Burden has no choice but to settle into her exp
Tom Baker stars as the Fourth Doctor in the second of five thrilling brand new adventures, with Susan Jameson as Mrs. Wibbsey.The year is 1861, and the Doctor and Mrs. Wibbsey find themselves in the r
Tom Baker stars as the Fourth Doctor in the third of five thrilling brand new adventures, with Susan Jameson as Mrs. Wibbsey.Trapped underground, the Doctor and Mrs. Wibbsey encounter a small boy who
Caroline Evans is a single mom trying to raise her fifteen?year?old daughter, Issy, as best she can. Her ex?husband, James, was a philandering charmer, and a wealthy one at that. Their life had been l
Based on the true story of his grandfather and two granduncles, Matt Bondurant’s novel is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and
Julian and Claire move into a new house with their children James and Megan, and strange things are happening. Items move; music plays on its own. Megan is getting disturbing messages on her cell phon
When you open your eyes, things already seem to be happening without you. You don't know who you are and you don't remember where you've been. You know the world has changed, that a catastrophe has de
Chip Harrison has finally secured himself a job, acting as the man–about–town for the corpulent detective Leo Haig. And it's on the dangerous streets of New York that Chip brings home his first case,
Joe Spork spends his days fixing antique clocks. The son of infamous London criminal Mathew ?Tommy Gun” Spork, he has turned his back on his family’s mobster history and aims to live a quiet life. Tha
Today’s business climate demands breakthroughs, not incremental improvements. Innovators take steps forward, but leapfroggers reinvent their markets and organizations. Where do their game-changing ide
From Dave Barry to Tom Perrotta, from New York to Weekend Today, the word ubiquitously associated with Larry Doyle is ?hilarious.” Following the success of his popular novels Go, Mutants! and I Love Y
It's summer on Nantucket, and as the season begins, threewomen arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a localboy, home from college. Burdened with small children,unwieldy straw hats, and some
Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce, and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to find h
When young, broke, and single Chip Harrison finds a bus ticket to Bordentown, South Carolina, he knows it was sent by the hand of fate. It’s his way out of wintry New York City, and a way into the war
The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there’s a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but mi
While Blandings Castle sleeps in the summer sun, the Hon. Galahad Threepwood, brother of the Earl of Emsworth, is busily engaged in writing his Reminiscences, and they look set to be as warm as the we
The gripping and definitive chronicle of the iconic battle that inspired a nation?a sweeping saga of 200 brave Americans who stood tall against an overwhelmingly superior Mexican force.On February 23,
Drew Havens made a killing for the Rising Fund, which, thanks to his prognostications, was the only hedge operation to anticipate and capitalize on the mortgage crisis of 2008. For Havens, it’s always
Grace Winter, 22, is both a newlywed and a widow. She is also on trial for her life.In the summer of 1914, the elegant ocean liner carrying her and her husband Henry across the Atlantic suffers a myst
In Bad Faith, two gripping story lines that could have been torn out of today’s headlines meet at the intersection of religion and medical ethics. In the first, Butch battles to convict the parents of
Irene Huss is a former Ju–Jitsu champion, a mother of twin teenage girls, the wife of a successful chef, and a Detective Inspector with the Violent Crimes Unit in Goteborg, Sweden. And now she’s back
Ernst Vogler is twenty-six years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer, the Third Reich’s Sonderprojekte, which is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the F
When it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them: never bring a dame along?especially not one you like?and never, ever, work with amateurs. Neverthel
Fate has not been kind to Gemma Hardy. Orphaned by the age of ten, neglected by a bitter and cruel aunt, sent to a boarding school where she was both servant and student, young Gemma seemed destined f
At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it take
Master and God is on the one hand a love story between Gaius Vinius Clodianus, a valiant but reluctant member of the Praetorian Guard, whose military career is as successful as his marital history is
Seeking to convalesce from a serious illness and finish a literary project, New York book editor Claire Doheney house-sits an oceanfront mansion on Chappaquiddick Island, where she falls in love with
For George Finch, one of ?Nature’s white mice” and probably the worst artist ever to put brush to canvas, there are many obstacles to overcome. Undoubtedly the greatest is his beloved Molly’s fearsome
In the Angler’s Rest, drinking hot scotch and lemon, sits one of Wodehouse’s greatest raconteurs. Mr. Mulliner, his vivid imagination lubricated by Miss Postlethwaite the barmaid, has fabulous stories
In the isolated Cape Cod village of Prospect, the Gilly sisters are as different as can be. Jo, a fierce and quiet loner, is devoted to the mysteries of her family's salt farm, while Claire is popular
Long before Ken Carter became "Coach Carter" of Hollywood movie fame, he was a self-made successful local businessman and basketball coach at Richmond High School in Richmond, CA -- a high school that
During the four years of physician Margaret Overton’s acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and indiscriminately, determined to find her soul mate and live happily ever after. But then she discovered
