Business Fiction

Maggie Harris loves her predictable life in Meadow Creek. She flourishes on stability and consistency. Until Isaac comes to town. Now, her world is turned upside down with feelings she has never experienced before. Maggie isn’t so sure she wants to break out of the comfortable lifestyle she has been dependent on to take a chance on love.

While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.

Sam had closed his latest case, and now his biggest worry was his friend Harry, who had almost died. Doctors had actually pronounced him dead, in fact, but Sam was too stubborn to let them give up and the cantankerous old man came back. But was the case really closed? One of the perpetrators was being protected by the British government, and someone else had stepped up to replace the assassin who had been running the operation. When one of the clients from the case is kidnapped, Sam knows that it isn't really over yet.

When I bounced the idea of An Accidental Life off Jim Browne, my financial manager with a keen understanding of the human condition, he said that all of us benefit from serendipity, from the accidental life. (We in fact met by happy accident.) He added that my life was and is typical, or perhaps a tad off the norm. Surely he's correct in that we all benefit from fortuitous events, but I think he's incorrect in saying that such events in my life are typical or normal.

The Cost is a story of a cost engineering consultant named Doug Benson who does his best to help companies understand and improve cost. When Doug arrives at Electronica, the company is on a verge of bankruptcy and hardly even knows why. He must use all his cost engineering knowledge and leadership skills amidst some considerable corporate drama all the while fighting his own personal demons in order to give Electronica a chance.

An irresistible novel brimming with wit, warmth, and Irish humor, about the married owners of a friendly tavern in Belfast and the intimate lives of the customers and employees who band together to save it from demolition.

Someone is trying to sabotage Ashworths, the exclusive department store set up by Laura Beaumont. Is the company about to be taken over? The timing is bad for the Beaumont family because Laura's health is declining and they desperately need to find a successor to the business. Caroline, Laura's eldest daughter, is a concert pianist in search of a new career; perhaps at Ashworths. But her ambitious sister Michaela has her eye on the top job and is suspicious of Caroline's motives. Meanwhile, Joel, Laura's son, has to deal with his own problems before he can pursue his career as a doctor.

She’s lost everything: Her parents, her sister, her sight. Now, someone’s stalking her. She can feel him taunting her. He must be the one who killed the sheriff. She's scared, but who can she trust? She can trust Joey. He’s stable as a rock and too good looking to ignore. But she must guard her heart. Her first love is only here for his brother’s funeral. The mayor is saying the sheriff’s death was an accident. Thankfully, her old high school crush has returned from the big city back to her small town.

The powerful Derrick Mason finds himself in jail after being released from the hospital, leaving one of his sons to take over the family business in his absence. He is then forced to hear about all the drama and chaos that is unfolding while he sits in his cell. Will the Mason family be able to make it while their leader is behind bars or will one of his sons step up to the plate and take the business to the next level?

Hast du dich mal gefragt, warum die Verkäufer im Discounter immer so gereizt sind? Ganz einfach: Wegen dir! - Verkäufer müssen längst nicht mehr nur Regale auffüllen, Kunden abkassieren und dabei freundlich lächeln. Sind sie einmal nicht in der Lage, die innersten Gedanken der "kleinen Könige" zu lesen und ihnen jeden noch so absurden Wunsch zu erfüllen, werden sie prompt für die "Servicewüste Deutschland" verantwortlich gemacht.

The last time witchy car mechanic Victoria Fox did magic, she nearly blew up half a street. Oops. No more magic for her, but is a witch who doesn’t do magic still a witch? Well, she does have a kitty familiar named Professor Studmuffin Salvitore III. She also has a knack for inviting magical trouble to her shop’s doorstep.

Von den Besten lernen, heißt von Oma lernen! Nahezu täglich bekommen Führungskräfte gut gemeinte Tipps, wie sie ihre Mitarbeitenden motivieren und sie ans Unternehmen binden können. Tipps, die – wenn wir ehrlich sind – uns im Job keinen Schritt weiterbringen. Hören wir da doch lieber auf Menschen, die in turbulenten Zeiten immer Rat wussten: unsere Omas. Mit Lebensweisheiten wie "Was du nicht willst, das man dir tut, das füg auch keinem anderen zu" oder "Auf Regen folgt Sonnenschein", vermittelten sie uns beständig die zeitlose Bedeutsamkeit von Tugenden wie Wertschätzung und Optimismus.

A collection of short-short stories on creativity, public speaking, and social skills.

Upward: The Power of Looking Up offers inspiration, insight, and encouragement on how changing our perspective can transform our lives and the world around us. It is a story book full of ideas and practical advice, including interviews with incredible people who have chosen to think and live differently. Through the power of our body and mind, nature, creativity, and community, Upward provides a timely collection of thoughts, suggestions, and evidence on the power of looking up, for us now and in the future.

This book will awaken you to the experience of energy—your own, that of others and the world around you. A practical guide providing tools and understandings to transform your everyday life.

Tessa Harper, makeover queen of a self-care media empire, loves a challenge. But when she’s forced to satisfy her female readership’s growing interest in sports, Tessa reluctantly seeks out Ford Maddox. The popular sportscaster, annoying friend of her bestie, and long-time sparring partner agrees to strike a deal. He’ll give Tessa his expertise if she’ll give him hers. Namely a makeover to help him get past the friend zone with the woman of his dreams.

Write cleaner. Write better stories. Write compelling fiction. With over 150 books published, Larry Martin and Craig Martelle bring their fiction writing horsepower to you. From plot to characters to pace to description, strengthen your writing to engage your readers on a whole new level. Keep them turning the pages, and when they’ve finished, they’ll be asking you for the next book.

Hailey Higgins just got dumped at the altar-and she's nearly broke. Her only saving grace is a remote cabin a long-lost relative left her in the tiny mountain town of Starrycard Creek. It should be the perfect place to shut out the world and shun love. Under no circumstances should she want anything to do with the ruggedly handsome Finnegan Starrycard. Finn is a growly, self-proclaimed bachelor for life. He's the local handyman. And this handyman has deemed her cabin to be uninhabitable.

Whether you're a business leader, sales professional, consultant, coach, or anyone who advises others about life or work, Goeff Snavely invites you to join this community of disruptors - he refers to them as Facilitators of Betterment - motivated to make a meaningful impact. By exploring his experience-based Ten Questions That Matter and other concepts, he provides you with the tools needed for digging deeper, below Surface Discovery and into the process of Disruptive Discovery. Are you ready for some disruption?

It’s been two years since Chiara Kennedy lost her dearest friend, Rory. Chiara misses everything about her. Rory’s widowed husband is another story. Sebastian Ryder is a man Chiara had secretly wanted, let slip away, and hoped to never see again. Then fate throws them together for an unexpected one-night stand and a morning after of new challenges.