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Leonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest - until her capture in a bloody government raid, and a sham trial that sends her to prison for life.

The first collection of short fiction from Lambda Award-winning novelist Dale Peck spans 25 years of writing, including two O. Henry Award winners and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. The stories in What Burns examine the extremes of desire against a backdrop of family, class, and mortality.

Recognizing and Engaging Employees for Dummies gives you the tools and information you need to improve morale, productivity, and personal achievement with a successful employee recognition program. Written by a world-leading authority in employee recognition, this book walks you step-by-step through the design and implementation process and describes the incentives that work, the behaviors to reward, and the mechanisms that must be in place for the program to be effective in the long term.

Dick Raynes feared this day would come. Otis Parsons, a violent felon, has been released from prison, and Dick’s sister, Dee, is the one who helped put him there. Dick’s marriage is over, and his career is in shambles, so with nothing to lose, he sets out to do whatever it takes to keep Dee and her son safe. But Otis is just the beginning. Using his knowledge as a scientist to develop a formula able to predict those offenders most likely to strike again, he sets out to protect future victims the law is powerless to defend.

Hunter Cade is my brother’s best friend. He’s also the most sinfully sexy guy in high school. Lean, muscular, and with a tussle of chocolate-brown hair. And for the rest of my senior year, he’s living in my house. But Hunter is totally off-limits. My brother insists I stay away from him. Yet that doesn’t stop Hunter from flirting with me every chance he gets. Sending private little smiles my way when nobody’s looking. But after our flirting finally results in the best kiss of my life? Hunter abruptly leaves town without a word.

Don't swim in my waters... I've got a bad reputation, and all because of my jackass brother. Yes, I'm known as the mother of all sea monsters. And yes, I can control powerful creatures who kill and destroy on my command. But no, I'm not actually in charge, I'm my brother's slave. So, life sucks just about as much as it possibly can. At least that's what I thought until my brother decides I'm more useful sacrificed to angry sea dragons who despise mermaids.

When my best friend died of cancer just before her eighteenth birthday, she left her coveted bucket list to me. So, it falls on me to finish it for her, to honor her memory. In the next year, it's my mission to: dye my hair, have sex, camp out in a tent, go bungee jumping, and get revenge on Lincoln Kolb. Most are doable, some terrify me, and then there is the last item on the list. 

Based on a true story, a gripping historical novel about a German immigrant who becomes embroiled in a Nazi spy ring operating in New York City in the early days of World War II. At the end of the 1930s, Europe is engulfed in war. Though America is far from the fighting, the streets of New York...

Persephone is a lovely little raven-haired art forger. Model-good looks. Innocent hazel eyes. Curves that would tempt the devil himself. She’s going to make a deal with me... even if that deal is made after I kidnap her and threaten her life. My manner with Penny is brusque, brutal, and demanding. But her body beckons me like a siren’s call. She’s shell shocked and afraid of what I might do to her. My only fear is that once I touch her, I may not be able to stop.

Burke Arbor just got discharged from the military after being wounded in battle. He’s been trying to heal and come to terms with the fact that he may never be able to shift again. He’s also been hiding from the world, and even from his three best friends, in his cabin in the woods. There’s just one problem. He’s tired of only having his wolf in his head for company.

The more, the merrier! If you're looking to turn up the heat, then you will love Between My Mates. This is a MFM paranormal romance collection filled with fated mates, growly alpha shifters, and super hot scenes! If you love safe romance books with more than one partner, then one click today!

I've been alone for a long time, and as an enforcer for the East Coast Irish, I'm okay with that—right up until the day I meet Emery "Cotton" Bishop. Emery is a girl with secrets in her eyes, and attraction sparks between us from the start. It's nothing I anticipated. It's nothing I wanted. And it's complicated by an unexpected new kill order from my boss—for Emery herself.

Do you have a soft spot for the loners or wounded heroes? Then you will love My Lone Mate! It's filled with wounded and loner shifters who all find their fated mates! Each book ends in a happily ever after and includes sweet and steamy scenes, fated mates, and heroes that will tug at your heart strings!

Delaney Irvine only stopped in Ash Mountain to grab something to eat and fill up her gas tank. She just spent the last ten hours photographing a wedding nearby and she's drained and anxious to get home to her best friend, Clementine. When she stops to take some nature shots, she's not prepared for how it will change her life.

I was backpacking my way through Europe with my friend. It was supposed to be an adventure, one last carefree trip before we started our grown-up lives. Then I meet King Romer, and things start to get serious really fast. Now I’m a captive of the King, and he’s determined to make me his Queen.

It was supposed to be a vacation. I’ve always wanted to go to Scotland, and when I win my dream vacation, I have nothing but high hopes for the trip. Then I get turned around, and when I stop to ask for directions, I’m led to this castle and entered into some kind of Queen ceremony. I’m trying to stay positive. I’ll just explain that I would make a terrible Queen and get back to my vacation. Then I meet King Ryker.

I’m not supposed to be here. That’s what I keep telling everyone but no one will listen. I just wanted to see the castle nestled deep in the woods. Instead, I end up getting kidnapped. The problem is that I have a plane to catch. I can’t be stuck in some weird castle for who knows how long. So, I try to appeal to King Koda’s compassionate side. Too bad for me, he doesn’t seem to have one.

I knew they were real. When I was fifteen, I saw something that no one could explain. I saw a man change into a wolf. Everyone thought I was drunk or looking for attention but I knew what I saw. Now I'm going to prove it to the world.

Since my return to sleepy Lucy Falls, circumstances have been hurtling me toward a conclusion I'm afraid to reach. When I misstep and let my brother's best friend get too close, a stalker leaves my reputation in shreds, my future in shambles, and the man I'm falling for in a crush of metal at the bottom of a cliff. And he's nowhere near finished. Now with every chilling message I receive, and more women gone missing, I can't help but wonder whether the only way to save them . . . the only way to win this twisted game of obsession . . . is to lose and become his next victim myself.

Wells Fernet just got out of the military after serving for over a decade. He’s been enjoying learning how to live a normal life out in the woods with his three best friends, but something about seeing two of his friends settled down has him feeling like he’s missing out on something. They suggest that he use the Love Bites Dating Agency to find his fated mate too, and it has him intrigued. There’s just one problem. He’s old school and doesn’t believe in dating agencies, even if his friends have both had success.