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Managers want great teams, but most build them around decades-old ideas and practices made popular by companies that have lost their edge. Extreme Teams looks at the new generation of teams driving growth in today's most innovative firms. They do this by doing things differently: hiring the right person instead of the best person; focusing on one priority while leaving room to explore new ideas; creating an environment where people are comfortable dealing with the uncomfortable.

Warning: This is an extreme horror novel. There is gore. There is bad language. There are scenes of a sexual nature. But hidden underneath it all is also a chilling story. Please do not purchase this book if you are easily shocked, disgusted, or offended. This book is not for you. Would you give up your child if a stranger asked? No? What if they offered money? Still no? What if they threatened the rest of your family? Give your child up or lose your entire family in the most horrific way possible.

Richard Dudgeon, who has become an outcast from his puritanical family due to his religious apostasy, returns home on the death of his father. Much to everyone’s surprise, it is revealed that the father changed his will shortly before his death and has left the bulk of the estate to Richard. Now that he is lord of the manor, Richard asserts himself and declares his opposition to the colonial British authorities. Later, he is arrested by the British and sentenced to death but is rescued in the nick of time by a local militia commanded by Anthony Anderson, who, ironically, is a pastor.

It was supposed to be a pleasant evening out; a break from the stress of the hard-working week they had both endured. A bite to eat in one of their favorite restaurants and then, if there was time, a movie at the cinema opposite. It had been - her husband - Sam's choice; an impromptu date. Yet his day had been one cock-up after another. Meetings had gone on longer than they should have, his phone had run out of battery, and every single traffic light seemed to be working against him.

He understood why she did it. She had lost her own baby - one conceived by the unwanted advances of a sexual predator - and hated thinking of them out there in the cemetery, alone and cold. She had to bring them into the warmth. She had to give them the lives they'd otherwise never live. It was her mission. But with each new doll brought home, her yearning for a living child of her own continued to grow. Yes, he knew why she did it, but even so, he wasn't able to stand by her, and he knew she was going to get a lot worse before she got better.

Welcome to the Crescent Motel, a waypoint in a post-apocalyptic no man's land. At the helm are Darrell, the middle-aged mustachioed manager, and his danger-sniffing dog Bruno. When he and the motel's housekeeper, Nance, discover one of the guests dead, they decide to keep the body under wraps until they root out the killer. But before they have a chance, two mysterious men appear, looking for answers. When the first body disappears and is replaced by another, Darrell and Nance realize they're in over their heads.

He'll do anything to keep her. Sebastian Greco is the head of an underground gambling ring. He's known for being ruthless and that's the way he likes it. When one of his employees is caught stealing from him, he sends his men out to find him. Instead, they bring back his daughter. One look into Snow's green eyes and he knows one thing for sure. She's meant to be his. *Warning! This book alpha is over-the-top, head over heels in love with his girl. If you're looking for a steamy insta-love story then this book is for you!

Despite Germany’s stranglehold on the French, Benjamin Cohen, an introverted but musically talented adolescent, alters the course of his life when he defies his father to study the 55-bell carillon in the Catholic cathedral. Can Benjamin’s budding mastery of the carillon and his love affair with the troubled novitiate nun Marie-Noëlle give him le courage he needs to perform the one act that can save his people from Nazi arrest and earn back the respect from his father he craves? Or will it doom them all?

The Emporor of Rome and the Queen of the Nile as only Shaw could have imagined them! He is a self-doubting cynic who is experiencing a mid-life crisis and she is an imperious and impertinent child on the threshold of womanhood. This recording also includes Shaw's alternate Prologue and his post-text notes.

"Molodye L'vy" pervaya bol'shaya veshch' Irvina Shou. Ona srazu zhe prinesla emu mirovuyu slavu i byla postavlena v ryad samyh vydayushchihsya romanov, posvyashchennyh Vtoroy Mirovoy voyne. Realizm i tochnost' opisaniya kak atmosfery, tak i sobytiy, osnovany na sobstvennom opyte pisatelya. Sud'by trekh molodyh soldat - evreyskogo yunoshi iz Bruklina (Noya), ego sootechestvennika preuspevayushchego dramaturga (Maykla), i nemca iz Bavarii.

I blame the spiked eggnog. It’s the reason for my pounding headache this morning and the astronomically bad decision I made last night. See, I slept with my best friend, and sure, I’ve been in love with him for ages, but that doesn’t change the fact that I just had a drunken one-night stand with the most important person in my life. I know that we might have just messed up everything so when he wakes up, I suggest forgetting that this ever happened, but he surprises me. He doesn’t want to forget about it. Instead, he proposes that we do it again. Just once more, he says, and like an...

What will she choose? Most girls dream of their wedding day, but not Adley. She's been looking forward to college since she was a little girl. All she wants in life is freedom and to crawl out from under her father's tyrannical rule and college is her chance to do that. Her first day on campus, she runs into one of the Sanders brothers and she wonders if college is going to be more than just classes and homework like she had thought. Maybe she wants more than her freedom. Guys have never been on her radar so when all three Sanders brothers start to show interest in her, she’s not prepared...

Regan Day was just trying to earn enough money to pay for college and get out of working dead end jobs. She agrees to be a surrogate, but one mix up leaves her pregnant with the wrong baby. Haiden Luck is focused on his career and nothing else. He doesn’t have time for a family or dating but a mix up at a local fertility clinic leads him to Regan. One look at her and he realizes there’s more to life than work. Neither of them asked for it, but it looks like Haiden has himself a baby mama. *Warning! This book alpha is over-the-top, head over heels in love with his girl. If you're looking...

From the best-selling author of the Graham's Resolution series comes book two in the Surrender the Sun series. Conditions in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, are proving unsustainable in the year 2030. The mini ice age, caused by the Maunder Minimum effects, are brutal at best, and life systems are limited and failing fast. Bishop seeks a safe haven for his new family and the only answer leads him back to his nightmares. Leaving the comfort of their luxury hotel is their only answer, but the journey may prove more perilous than their current existence.

Given hope in the form of a purple-hued crocus, Ben Tildon emerges from the safe haven of the underground colony meant to preserve his life from the harsh effects of a mini-ice age after 11 years. But what he doesn't know about the surface might kill him anyway.

Tammy can't wait to get away from the city. Away from the boyfriend that betrayed her, and all the pain that comes with having her heart broken. Visiting her bestie, Allara in her small home town is just what the doctor ordered. But the townspeople are not what they seem. In fact, they’re not even human. And one of those smoking hot wolf shifter men sets her body alight with his smoldering glance.

It all started six months ago when I accidentally emailed the wrong person. From the first email, I was addicted. Over the last six months, we’ve formed a connection. We became friends, sharing everything. From there, we became best friends, but now I’m hoping that, maybe, we could be something more. Our emails have gone from nervous banter to fun to flirty, so it only made sense to me that we should take our relationship to the next level and finally meet each other in person.

Robert Nash is unlucky in love. He is so unlucky in love, in fact, that he has never been with another living person. And that's not about to change any time soon when his latest date is far from living.

Puede que esté un poco loco. Quiero decir, creo que saltar de aviones es divertido, así que debe haber algo raro en mí, pero no tengo nada contra Quinn Walder. Me golpea por detrás y luego me pide que sea su novio. Su falso novio. ¿Quién hace eso? Tiene que estar loca, pero si lo está, yo también, porque acabo de aceptar su loco plan. Ahora bien, ¿qué ocurre cuando esta relación falsa empieza a parecer real?

When Jonathan Kozol’s Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar’s first year of teaching in Boston’s Black community, the book described the abuse and neglect of children for no reason but the color of their skin. Since that National Book Award-winning volume, Kozol has spent more than fifty years visiting with children and working with their teachers in other deeply troubled and unequal public schools.