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Goldplay : Roger Scouton
Goldplay
Ex-FBI agent Jack Fields and his stunning femme ex-Special Ops partner Amber Reyes, hired to do a security review of a firm that stores gold for the wealthy, fight to thwart an elaborate theft/fraud plan.
Following her tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, as an unofficial Ranger, Amber Reyes is discharged and moves to California. Amber maintains her need for excitement by racing her Ducati motorcycle between cars along the freeways of Southern California. She meets Jack Fields, a seemingly pleasant but older, ex-FBI agent, and together they form 3-D Security.
After four years of intermittent small security jobs, Jack and Amber get their big chance. A London insurance representative contacts them to perform a complete security review at the Isili Corporation gold depository, known by some as the Ft. Knox of the west. The simple job will provide needed cash flow and could just be the opportunity they need to take 3-D Security to the next level.
The simple job soon becomes anything but, as Jack and Amber race to put the clues together to thwart a huge theft and at the same time escape from a relentless criminal mob.
I Wish I’d Known That Earlier in My Career : Jane Horan
Wish I’d Known That Earlier in My Career: The Power of Positive Workplace Politics
Reframing thinking on workplace politics providing the reader with an understanding of corporate politics from a positive perspective, using case studies to teach the essentials of organizational dynamics, power networks, and the decision-making processes and dilemmas involved in business. Examining corporate politics and the barriers many managers face in their efforts to reach the top, the book works to build awareness and strategies for business and career success.
Taking a refreshing new approach to workplace politics, the book presents new ways to think about embracing opportunities in order to achieve personal and organization-wide career satisfaction. Rather than encouraging employees to move on and start their own businesses, it instead details how to move up within their current companies by learning to understand power bases and conversation more thoroughly.
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Ruby Silver : Randall Reneau
Ruby Silver: A Trace Brandon Novel
Geologist Trace Brandon and his partner Will Coffee are just back from Liberia, West Africa. Cashed-up and looking for a new venture, they once again team up with Cyrus “The Virus” McSweeny.
This time the quarry is the silver-rich ore of the old Ruby Mining District. And this time they’ll not only have the Pantelli crime family to deal with, but also lumberman Autry Ollinger—three hundred pounds of obnoxiousness whose preferred method of negotiation is a right hook.
When the Pantellis unleash a bizarre extortion plot to seize control of Ruby Mining Company, Cyrus is forced to bring former clandestine operative Marion Thistlewaite out of retirement. Marion’s unique expertise may give them the edge they need to hold on to their company . . . and their lives.
A mining, murder, short-selling, offshore-trading, mobbed-up, suspense/thriller.
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Assume The Physician : John F. Hunt, MD
Assume The Physician
ASSUME THE PHYSICIAN is a spicy, eye-opening, tear-jerking, belly-laughing romp, and is chicken-soup for anyone who struggles in the medical system of America.
A novel written in the humorous and radical style of Catch-22, M*A*S*H, and House of God, ASSUME THE PHYSICIAN lays bare the core problems with our current health care systems and the causes of medical hyperinflation, all from the perspective of a thoughtful young physician, Dr. Eddie Marcus, who is fighting to stay kind and caring while engaging in battle against the many agencies and authorities who like to make oh-so-many rules.
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Amman – A Tribute To My Mother : JK Sachin
Amman – A Tribute To My Mother
A refreshingly simple story from an Indian author about a mother who goes through vicissitudes of life with the ammunition of faith, self-belief and positive thoughts and action. An inspiring story about how the much-vaunted middle class goes about living its life.
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Hidden Truths : Mary D. Brooks
Hidden Truths (Intertwined Souls Series: Eva and Zoe Book 3)
In the third book of the Intertwined Souls Series, Hidden Truths continues the journey of two extraordinary women, Eva Muller and Zoe Lambros, from war-torn Europe to Post-War Australia.
It’s 1950 and Eva and Zoe have settled in Australia, but events from their homelands beckon them back to Greece and Germany. Along the way, they are reunited with family and friends and are forced to contend with their own haunted memories and unexpected revelations that tests their courage, strength, and faith.
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The Perfect Pro Football Coach : Robert DeLuca
The Perfect Pro Football Coach
Who is the best National Football League head coach ever? Most football fans have an opinion, but we settle the matter once and for all. We have come up with the profile of the “perfect” coach by ranking and analyzing every one of the 275 NFL head coaches over the past 50 years. Setting personalities aside, we use our “CASHtm” evaluation system to break down on-the-field performance of every coach and measure him against his peers to reveal the good, the bad, and the ugly. You can find your favorite guy on our list, which just might surprise you.
There is no person in an NFL franchise that is more important than the head coach and yet, mostly because head strong owners fail to do their homework on new hires, the failure rate is very high. Quick, shoot-from-the hip decisions to fire are made without much forethought about just who or what may be available as a replacement.
By identifying both what the best of the best-and also the worst of the worst brought to the table, owners, general managers, and fans can use history as a guide when it is time for a new man to prowl the sidelines for their favorite teams. Who are you going to get as your next head coach?
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Francette and the Mystery of the Deaf Soldier : Karine Bregeon
Francette and the Mystery of the Deaf Soldier
Francette is the story of a young Parisian girl who travels to Normandy to spend the summer break at her grandparents’ farmhouse.
She is impatient to reunite with Anatole, her childhood friend, with whom she always has tons of fun. But when she arrives in the peaceful provincial town of Sainte-Mere, she discovers that the church bells are keeping the villagers awake at night. People even start to spread rumors about the ghost of a World War II American paratrooper. Francette and Anatole decide to investigate…could it be true? And what would his motive be?
It will be up to Francette and Anatole to solve the mystery!
Francette and the Mystery of the Deaf Soldier is an excellent book for parents or teachers wanting to introduce the D-Day landings and American intervention in WWII to a younger audience. The Overlord operation is presented in a non-scary and educational way so children can discover a major event in US History.
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Whispering Quail and the Lost Ankh Ring : C. M. Olney
Whispering Quail and the Lost Ankh Ring
“Whispering Quail and the Lost Ankh Ring” is C.M. Olney’s first novel about the mystical and magical world of Whispering Quail.
Peter Faris, a very bitter and lonely man is taught the act of kindness and humility with the help of a few odd and unusual creatures. One day, Peter’s dilapidated home is robbed and a special ring that once belonged to his deceased wife, Isabelle, had been taken. He sets out to find the perpetrator and along the way makes new discoveries that will dramatically change his life.
A young boy by the name of Alfie Alcott hears a strange voice in his head that compels him. His friends help him to follow the voice’s clues to a magical adventure. Through a little mysticism and mayhem, they travel back in time through spinning vortex’s and land in another realm where time stands still.
Their journey is thwarted by an evil gypsy witch named Wisteria Whortleberry, and a conniving thief by the name of Cornelius Banning that both have the same goal in mind, to find the Ankh ring and control the world.
All these mysterious stories intertwine into one, leaving you curious about the ending. This book is full of fun and mystical magic you’re sure to enjoy.
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One On One : Philip Spires
One On One
In her trademark series, One-On-One, Christine Gardner, freelance journalist and television presenter, puts powerful people into the limelight. Her latest subject is Salleh Abdullah, once known as Trevor Cartwright, a British expatriate mathematician and convert to Islam.
He has amassed a fortune and now international notoriety via his deft trading on financial markets using methods that thus far have defied all analysis. In just two years his fortune in equities has grown so great that his holdings in multinational companies are causing concern. He is now acknowledged as the richest man in the world, but remains, in some eyes, a loose canon, an unguided missile.
To date, he has resisted all contact with the media, but Christine and he share a past, a past that both of them keenly recall. Their shared past was both physical and continuing, but they have not met for four decades. Will sparks fly when they meet? Cartwright finds her request to record episodes of One-On-One impossible to refuse. This will be Salleh Abdullah’s first media exposure.
But who is Christine working for? Is she freelance? Or does she appear in someone else’s script? Perhaps her husband, Anthony Green, who watches his wife’s encounter with Salleh Abdullah from his office desk, can answer. Set on a private island in the South China Sea where Cartwright regularly retires to work, One-On-One follows the progress of Christine Gardiner’s project as allegiances begin to shift.
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