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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...

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.

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.

Bloodthirsty hired guns are out to ruin a lawman’s plans for progress in this action-packed Western from the award–winning author of Sharpshooter. Born out of the grit, sweat, and drive of a cattle ranching empire, U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes is turning the savage and lawless Arizona desert...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

The truth is out: Linda and Alec now know who Impostor Alec is. They just didn't expect him to be so...close. Close enough, Alec fears, to win back Linda's heart. How do you move on from the love of your life? Not only is Impostor Alec struggling to pretend he doesn't have feelings for Linda anymore, he's lost without the trust of one of the most important people in his life: Alec.

Written by an expert on the new age of Internet networking and a practicing dentist who owns a multi-million-dollar Texas practice, Industry Influencer helps listeners unlock “Triangle of Genius” to turn side hustles into lucrative and meaningful online engagements.

He calls himself The King. Once a respected professor, he was ruined by scandal. Now, he rules his own “country”—an area of western territory where an army of outlaws enforce his laws. Any town he claims as his own must pay “taxes,” collected from bank, stagecoach, and train robberies. When he learns that President Rutherford B. Hayes and General William Tecumseh Sherman are venturing into the far west on a tour of the nation, The King devises a plan to kidnap America’s leaders and expand his empire.

When life supplies 11-year-old Tommy Grant with some unfavorable circumstances intruding on his otherwise tranquil life in 1980s Ohio, he retreats into the spell-binding Order of Cosmic Champions. When he discovers that the largely successful animated program and toy line is holding a nationwide "Create-A-Character" contest where applicants submit their action figure designs, Tommy knows he has to enter as surely as he knows his own name. But when Tommy's character design fails to win the contest, he finds his world crumbling from all sides.

Marketing leaders are suffocating under the weight of more data, more choices, and more to-dos. And there’s no technology or tool that will save us. The good news? We can save ourselves. The Monster That Ate Marketing details the principles, practices, and mindset that marketing leaders can use to bring focus and fun back to their work. Based on lessons learned over decades as a start-up founder and marketing consultant, Jeff Reynolds provides practical ways of thinking about—and designing—a high-impact, modern marketing department.