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Xavier Blackthorne: As a bodyguard, I've protected all kinds of people, but I never expected my next client to be the Vice President's son. Blake King is all awkward smiles and high walls, but from the moment I meet him, I'm hooked. I've always kept emotions out of the job, but Blake makes that...

When turmoil hits, executives and investors face notoriously unreliable macroeconomic forecasts, whipsawing data, and contradictory opinions. Are disruptions transient and ephemeral-or permanent and structural? False alarms are costly traps, but so are true structural changes that go undetected. Leaders must also assess the doom-laden public macroeconomic discourse, which habitually presents worst-case scenarios as foregone conclusions.

Bluesky has been taking the social media world by storm. The platform offers users a high degree of control over what information they view and share, abilities they've lost on other platforms. Bluesky for Dummies serves as your guidebook to navigating the new platform.

What To Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When systems running on Artificial Intelligence can drive our cars, diagnose medical patients, and manage our finances more effectively than humans it raises profound questions on the future of work and how companies compete. Drawing upon real-world cases, data, and insight, the authors provide clear strategic guidance and actionable steps to help you and your organization move ahead in a world where exponentially developing new technologies are changing how value is created.

After the devastating events of the Titan Games finale, Karalevine Ruzz and her Starseed family find themselves desperate to get their fellow Starseed back from the clutches of the vicious Arianyte Empire. Meanwhile, the prince, Malakyte Ardeen, hasn't stopped his relentless pursuit, determined to make Kara his no matter the cost. Haunted by the certain doom of her fellow Starseed, Kara makes a fateful decision to enter the lethal Titan Gamesa merciless competition where the stakes are life and death.

Thrust from her home out in The Elements, having escaped from the labs of The Tyson Estates and now free from the horrors of Sub Terra, Annie with Hutch and their infant daughter, Eden, now find themselves in a world they never knew existed, Atlantica. An underwater civilization, Atlantica was built by seven friends who believed Calvin Tyson’s theory of extreme climate changes due to a drastic shift of the Earth’s axis. It was to be a temporary base of operations until scientists could find a way for their people to survive out in the harsh ruins of the Earth after The Shift.

Custom demanded that Prince Urban get a love mark tattooed to the side of his left eye as an infant, just like the rest of his people, but to him, the stupid things have only brought on the scorn of his father, the misery of his siblings, and caused his entire kingdom to go broke from fighting so many wars over the irritating ink stains.

Two broken hearts. One reunion. A love story without an end. Every storm comes to an end someday. That's what I always wanted to believe. But for almost five years, I've been unsuccessfully trying to leave my past behind. I want to erase every kiss, every touch, and every one of my terrible...

One story. Two secrets. And too many broken hearts. I promised my father that I would never return to Sweden. Not to tell a soul who I am. And above all, that my shadows of yesterday would remain a secret. Forever. For six years, I kept my word. But now, I'm back. Because there is my father...

Challenging the conventional wisdom of data-driven decision-making, marketing professors and behavioral scientists Bart De Langhe and Stefano Puntoni argue that many analytics efforts flounder because data analyses are disconnected from the decisions to be made. In their important book, they offer a new approach they call decision-driven analytics. Counterintuitively, they argue that the key to making good decisions with data is to start by putting data in the background.

The Great "What Ifs" of the American Civil War: Historians Tackle the Conflict's Most Intriguing Possibilities is a collection of fourteen essays by the historians at Emerging Civil War, and includes a Foreword by acclaimed alternate history writer Peter G. Tsouras.

Never have so many undertaken such a widespread, hurried attempt to remake the world. Predictably, our hubris has led to unintended—and sometimes disastrous—consequences. Over the Seawall tells us the stories behind these unintended consequences and the fixes that can do more harm than good. From seawalls in coastal Japan, to the reengineered waters in the Ganges River Delta, to the artificial ribbon of water supporting both farms and urban centers in parched Arizona, Stephen Robert Miller traces the histories of engineering marvels that were once deemed too smart and too big to fail.

Strangers to lovers. Grumpy sunshine. A clean slow burn romance set in Italy, where love blooms slow, but hits hard. I came to Tuscany to close a deal—not fall in love with the one man who refuses to let me. This estate was meant to be business. A quick inspection. A step toward the life of...

Grumpy sunshine. Doctor and patient. A clean, small-town slow burn about broken people, hard choices, and the risk of letting someone in. I came to the mountains to forget my mistake. I never expected to find him. I should be saving lives in a top Vienna hospital, not stuck in a remote village...

Grace Walsh has a plan for sophomore year: excel at artistic swimming, ignore the frat boys, and stay under her overbearing mother's radar. She doesn't do drama. She definitely doesn't do "bets." But when hockey star Wyatt Jacobs pulls her aside to reveal his fraternity's latest degrading...

A clean slow-burn musician romance about a guarded single father, unexpected love, and the family they never meant to build. He's a single dad and world-famous musician. I'm the nanny who was never supposed to fall for him. I didn't expect my life would lead me here: nannying for a celebrity...

Otherworldly yet grounded, ominous yet tender, The Asterist is a captivating first contact story that will appeal to fans of Andy Weir and John Scalzi. Dull days drift by at the dead end of the galaxy for misanthrope Bill Jeffries fulfilling his mundane duties as an Asteroid Station Commander...

The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.

This book is the story of a remarkable bird, the golden-collared manakin (Manacus vitellinus) of Panama. Males of this species perform one of the most elaborate, physically complex, and noisy courtship displays of any animal on the planet. Barney A. Schlinger delves into the specialized neurons, muscles, bones, and hormonal systems underlying the manakin's unique courtship behavior, creating a rich life-history account that integrates field observations and evolutionary biology with behavioral ecology, anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, and general ornithology.

She didn't break my heart and I didn't break hers. Our hearts shattered at the exact same moment in time. I've loved Ella for as long as I've loved baseball. As much as I was born to play ball, I was born to love her. Our small town fairytale was written and sealed with our happily ever after. It only took one night to erase our meant to be status. A mutual decision was made. Our families agreed, two separate paths was the best decision for us to heal. Stupidly, I agreed and I left her behind. Now, two years later, I'm back for her, but I came unprepared.