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Make continuous learning part of your company's DNA - and growth, profits, and sustainability will follow. Keeping up with the pace of change may seem impossible, but it's not. The secret is to make continuous learning a top value for every person on the team so when change happens, everyone is prepared.

Mike, the face of Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners (PEEPs) has led with his Hollywood jaw, projecting his good looks, while hiding a very important secret from his colleagues. He's been haunted since he was a child. This may have been the impetus behind him co-founding PEEPs, but it has also kept him from enjoying a good night's sleep.

October thirtieth is a beautiful day. Partly cloudy skies top the Carver County Corn Maze where Ted Martin is testing his new micro-com technology on the determined puzzle solvers. It's a beautiful view from the spotter's tower with all the colorful flags dancing above the cornstalks, marking the progress of the individual groups. But one flag hasn't moved in a while. It was issued to two teenage couples and their two young charges.

It isn't the chair rocking by itself that sends the young family fleeing in the middle of the night. It's when it stops rocking and all hell breaks loose. This family needs help. Enter PEEPs (Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners), armed with the latest hi-tech gear and the ghost communication abilities of Mia Cooper. But this isn't a normal case. Some of the ghosts aren't playing fair. Some of them are armed.

Kaylin—mage and mercenary, thief, and friend. Her policy is to avoid getting caught up in complications, but what happens when they find her? She'd better hope that she has some stout mates to help pick up the slack, that's what. Kaylin does have a good crew, but they are going to be put to the test when it is time to go back into the Mountain. Yes, the Mountain that has loomed so large in her mind, yet has remained out of reach. Now, complications or not, she is going back in to seek something even more precious than gold.

Lizzie Hampton is literally a shadow of her former self. Having lost half her body weight, she's headed to her small hometown to test out her new body on an old flame. Just a harmless fling to get her self confidence back before she returns to the city and the new man in her life. But Lizzie's plan has a few bumps in the road. Finn Robbins can't believe Liz is back in town. Desperate to be the holder of her innocence eighteen years ago, he never got the chance.

What boundaries would you cross for true love? That's the question a grieving mother must answer when she takes in a young street musician to learn about her daughter's death and finds herself falling for him. A sexy but touching love story that will have you equally tantalized and in tears. Jane's Melody follows a forty-year-old woman on a romantic journey of rediscovery after years of struggling alone. Sometimes our greatest gifts come from our greatest pain. And now Jane must decide if it's too late for her to start over, or if true love really knows no age.

Tomi Reyes is a documentary filmmaker who moonlights as a receptionist to pay the bills. It’s an easy gig - until she gets promoted, and her somewhat interesting life goes totally insane. For starters, her new boss, Scott Martin, morphs from nice guy to creepy dictator in the space of five seconds. Then, the bodies of her friends start turning up in their refrigerators. Tomi may suspect Scott, but all of the evidence is pointing to her! She’s wondering what to pack for prison, when a childhood pal Nicholas “Nickels” Turino is the (very hot) FBI agent assigned to the case.

Alison Jukuri is the smart one. But it hasn't seemed to help her much in her relationships with men. And now she's on the verge of making one, big stupid move. Petey Ryan has spent his life hitting and being hit as a defenseman in the NHL. But now he's about to go up against his biggest foe of all...tiny Alison Jukuri.

Katie makes an executive decision, and the mere idea is driving Korbin to drink. Pandora wants Katie to learn to fight without her extra “oomph”. For now. The military need support, but few on the merc teams trust them. Is Pandora is finally getting somewhere with Katie's love life? There is something long and hard in Katie's hand, and Pandora is annoyed that it's only the stick shift of Katie’s new vehicle. (Oops, poor choice of words.) The war with the enemy is heating up, and there’s a new player who might ruin everyone’s lives.

Angelica Morgan has already climbed higher than she would have dreamed. But there is no time to appreciate the view. Because one crown isn't enough if you're The Morrigan, and if she's going to keep this green and blue ball from spinning apart, she needed that mantle yesterday. Good thing she's not alone now.

Kaylin has been stuck in Waypoint for too long. She's been busy fighting and leading the resistance, and she's set to run her own crew, but that's not much good if she's still stuck in this city. She was made for more than this. Every day, Kaylin feels the urge growing, like an itch in the back of her mind. And the Mountain . . .The Mountain is calling to her. So what's a girl to do but carve her way out of this bloody mess?

For someone whose greatest culinary skill is ordering takeout, Sarah never expected to be co-owner of a restaurant. But while Sarah and her twin sister, Chef Emily, are tangled up in red tape, an attention-stealing new establishment - run by none other than Sarah's late ex-husband's mistress, Jane - is having its grand opening across the street. Jane's new sous chef, Riley Miller, is the talk of Wheaton with her delicious vegan specialties. Then Riley is found dead outside the restaurant with Sarah's friend, Jacob, kneeling over her.

Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman analyzes life history interviews with a diverse set of millennials to probe how they understand gender and how they might change it. Some are true believers that men and women are different and should be so. Others are innovators, defying stereotypes, and rejecting sexist ideologies and organizational practices.

It's time to ask the right team for the solution. The Demons have turned the tables on the Damned, and it takes a little while to catch up. It's quiet - too quiet. Pandora reveals a little bit more about herself, who she is, and what she can do. And Damian has to make some hard choices. There is someone new coming to the team, and he is just this side of...different. The war with the enemy is burning - and it's time the General calls for special backup. Because now even he spells backup K.A.T.I.E.

When Anna Williams lands a spot on the Vacation Bride reality show, she's hoping to give her sick father a break from the Milwaukee winter, not win a rich husband. Which is good, because the hunky maintenance man whose broad shoulders and clear blue eyes have caught her attention is neither rich nor part of the contest, is he?

The Preacher's Daughter is a story of love, loss, and second chances. Hunter Morgan, a former Black Hawk pilot and firefighter, is haunted by her past and has been avoiding love and relationships. Dr. Lauren Briscoll, a hardworking physician, has been living a fast-paced life, putting her job before everything else.

Her landlord planned to demolish her house. The vampires figured, why not demolish her inside of it? At least Callie doesn’t have to worry about getting her security deposit back. Why has Vaughn been in such a rush to kill her? Is he afraid she can persuade the Winter and Summer courts to work together? After all, if the courts don’t unite, the vamps will destroy them all. Shouldn’t that be motivation enough? Apparently not. Callie will just have to persuade them to cooperate anyway.

A meeting at the Houndsinn Trust building is cut short by a firebombing that turns out to have a magical connection. Was Angelica Morgan's mercy misplaced? Oerla is back, and she's not working alone. The Blinded Eye promise to wreak havoc until the trust—and Angelica—are brought down. Ang learned her lesson about backdealing banshees the hard way. The phouka are just as unwilling to enlighten her as to the whereabouts of the Ice Woman.

Death is coming for everyone Angelica Morgan loves. Cernunnos's plans are coming to a head and the final battle looms large over both worlds. The Tuatha have chosen their sides and allegiances become clear when a mad god throws a spanner in the works of Dagda's plan to overcome the god of death. Ang calls in her allies from the supernatural and mortal world and prepares to face the Wild Hunt. When betrayal comes, it is not from the place the Morrigan expected.