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"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "Alice Crowley is one of our best living authors!" ~ G. Taylor This 8,500-word short salacious tail is about a woman on the edge of discovering what it is like to be the one in charge. Debbie is working to pay off her student loans in a coffee shop on the bottom level of the tall tower HQ of one of the world's largest, thickest, most engorged multinational corporate conglomerates. One day she meets a mystic palm reader, who tells Debbie she is on the precipice of a major breakthrough in her ...

Liz has spent years working a gazillion hours a week picking up the slack for coworkers with kids, and she's tired of it. So one day when her stress-related nausea is mistaken for morning sickness by her bosses - boom! Liz is promoted to the mommy track. She decides to run with it and plans to use her paid time off to figure out her life: work, love, and otherwise. It'll be her "meternity" leave.

Are you ready to take back control? Would you like to learn how to communicate without feeling your heart pounding a million miles a minute in your chest? Even if you struggle now, you do not have to live that way forever. You are not doomed to a life of communication failure. The vast amount of information included will be worth it.

Close to one billion women will enter the global workforce by 2020, but these women are likely to drop out or get stuck in dead-end jobs. Gender equality is a human rights issue, but engaging women in the workforce is primarily an economic issue - diverse leaders drive bottom-line growth and high-level innovation for global corporations. This book isn’t only for women, chief inclusion officers, or HR practitioners. It offers insight and case studies from global leaders on why it’s a priority for everyone in an organization.

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and a pandemic of racial injustice that, together, revealed deep fault lines in our culture, Gloria Feldt shows how we can seize the opportunity created by massive disruption to build back stronger with diverse women at the center of the recovery. A New York Times best-selling author, speaker, commentator, international leadership expert, successful CEO, and feminist icon, Feldt unveils vital next steps in advancing gender parity in all spheres of business and life, and in the overall advancement of our economy and civilization.

You know startups are hard, but what is it like to fail, or have a falling out with your co-founder, or to go through hundreds of pitches in an effort get funded? In Tech Boss Lady, Adriana Gascoigne dives into the gritty, raw side of startups. She shares her own story - of defying Silicon Valley's boy's club and founding the largest organization for female entrepreneurs in the world - as well as candid true tales from more than 20 leading women in tech. The result: a no-nonsense guide for the entrepreneur, intrapreneur, and Tech Boss Lady within each of us.

He's a single dad in desperate need of a nanny for the summer. She can provide the help he needs so he can manage the family orchards on the edge of the lake. But can she hold onto her heart, or will she lose it to the man set to take over the Addler empire? Liam Addler lost his wife to breast cancer three years ago. Left with a seven-year-old daughter and a nanny who quit unexpectedly, he hires a new service to help him find someone to balance his work life with his home life. He's never felt anything for anyone but his late wife...until Serenity Silvers walks in. She's his new au pair. ...

Overcoming Ageism offers stories, research, and advice about navigating gendered age discrimination and bias at work. From advocating for yourself to ensuring continual learning and curiosity, you'll learn how to show others the unique expertise you bring to the organization and take back control of your career growth.

Este libro es una guía práctica para lograr empresas más diversas y desarrollar un liderazgo incluyente. Basado en conversaciones con personas de distintos países, Alfas y omegas explica cómo el equilibrio entre lo femenino y lo masculino genera bienestar a los empleados y rentabilidad a las organizaciones.

Stolen Goods is mystery, comedy, and romance, and spotlights more of the signature geek characters at which Clarence Budington Kelland so thoroughly excelled - because it takes one to know one. “Shenanigans!” - the word often chosen by loquacious Sherry Madigan, this time to describe what was going on in the Linen Department at Prothero’s, the colossal metropolitan department store where she worked.

(Book 1 of 4) High Stakes. Huge Money. No Prisoners. A start-up technology company is headed for a gigantic payday in the form of a white-hot initial public offering. The firm's super-charged stock is being fueled by a break-through project developed by fast-rising executive Amanda Creed and her dedicated team. But to cross the finish line, the divorced mother of two has been forced to sacrifice her family -- and her social life. By the time her project hits the big time, Amanda is ready to celebrate with abandon. But her wild, one-night tryst turns to corporate treason, as a spy uses her ...

Enjoy this sweet cowboy novel by small-town romance author Erin K. Wright… The love he needs might be the last thing he expects… Adam Whitaker has loved and lost more times than he can count. But as the town’s vet and the director of an equine therapy camp, life is finally going great – if somewhat lonesome. And then, in strolls Kylie VanLueven, his new receptionist. The last time he saw Kylie, she was just a kid. Now, she’s beautiful and all grown up, but he knows keeping things professional is the right thing to do – no matter what his heart is telling him. Especially because ...

The whirlwind of job applications, interviews, follow-up, resume building, and networking is just the beginning. What happens after you've landed the job, settled in, and begun to make a difference - where do you go from here? What if you feel stuck in what you thought would be your dream profession? New York Times best-selling author Mika Brzezinski and producer Daniela Pierre-Bravo provide an essential manual for those crucial next steps.

Charlotte: You’d think being Charlotte Libido: Condom Queen would lead to a life of sin and indulgent Hollywood excess. All it really means is that I get to spend half of my day in board meetings, and the other half either avoiding paparazzi or stuck in traffic. That’s ok, I’m used to being underestimated. I can handle the boys just fine. At least I thought I could. Until Xander McMannis appeared and broke all my rules about getting closer. Xander: I’m a closer. It’s what I do. My boss brings me in to make the ladies swoon and get them to sign on the dotted line. Olivier ...

Enjoy this sweet cowboy novel by small-town romance author Erin K. Wright… Forbidden love is never easy… There’s nothing more important to Elijah Morland than spending time with his daughter, no matter how hard his ex-wife is fighting to keep them apart. Taking a job at Brooklyn’s elementary school to be closer to her seems like the perfect plan. Right up until he met her teacher, Miss Hannah Lambert. Despite his best efforts, he starts falling for her, but he can’t date his daughter’s teacher – it’s against the rules. Not to mention his ex-wife would have a field day in ...

She’s his inadequate assistant. He’s her arrogant boss. When God intercedes, can they find acceptance that will lead to love? Widow Keedryn Reynolds fears losing her job. After three months subjected to an inconsiderate boss, the experienced assistant considers quitting first. But when she senses the Lord’s tug upon her heart to help her boss find peace in Him, she commits to stay and share God’s love. Blake Conner struggles with guilt over his wife’s death. Since Keedryn’s promotion to his assistant, he fights the attraction he feels for her with grumpiness to keep her away. ...

Now is the time for women of color to step into their distinct power and be the transformative force for good at work. With the emergence of the #MeToo, #TimesUp, and #BlackLivesMatter movements, as well as the election of the most diverse and female Congress in history, America is experiencing a referendum on what power and leadership looks like. Women of color are the answer to that referendum and uniquely positioned to assume powerful roles in the country. But first, we have to be honest about the misogyny and racism that women of color experience at work and in their lives.

Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. Within a year she had moved to San Francisco to take up a job at a data analytics start-up in Silicon Valley. She had a healthy income for the first time in her life. She felt like part of the future. But a tide was beginning to turn. People were speaking of tech start-ups as surveillance companies. Out of 60 employees, only 8 of her colleagues were women. Casual sexism was rife. Sexual harassment cases were proliferating.

How to become a stronger leader and a better teammate. Whatever your role or job, you need to find the sweet spot where you can fit in with your team, yet still have the ability to express your true opinions in a way that will be heard and accepted. This book is about finding that sweet spot.

If home is where the heart is, where do you go if your heart is torn in two, between Amish and English loves? When Charity Bright intercepts a Christmas card, she is astonished to discover a long-hidden secret: she is not the sole surviving woman in her Old Order Amish family. Once, her father had a sister--a shunned aunt Charity never knew she had. Bright Christmas: an Amish love story follows Charity and her friend, Daniel Yoder, as they venture to New York City on a purposed Rumspringa, determined to bring Charity's Aunt Hope back to the family fold by Christmas Eve. Charity and Daniel ...