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A boundary-leaping debut tracing a gifted young map maker’s attempt to understand the ways of the world. When 12-year-old genius cartographer T. S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal - if you consider mapping dinner table conversations normal - is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T. S. from his family home just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum’s hallowed halls.

The second Plunge story ... all about the first time When Kathy took The Plunge! ... Hal was a minor figure in the tale Now it is his turn to be the centre of the action. The things we do for love!

Epic Exits II: The Accidental Sequel Welcome to the ultimate guide to leaving your job in a blaze of surreal, side-splitting, and slightly unhinged glory. Whether you’re suffering from "Can You Just" fatigue, a boss who schedules meetings over lunch, or an IT Steve who was clearly destined for jousting greatness, this book is your passport to escaping corporate madness with style, flair, and possibly a papier-mâché cow head. Inside these pages, you’ll find: Masterful exit strategies (including sumo-wedgie philosophy, doughnut crime scenes, and the unstoppable power of a well-timed ...

Join the gang from Ella Mentry School in this hilarious, hijinks-filled sports story as they show young readers and listeners why they attend the weirdest - and most fun! - school around. With help from Coach Deen, Ryan wants to form a sports team with A.J. and Andrea, but it's for one of the weirdest sports there is: curling! Will the sweepers be able to get the stones to the house, or will trouble among the teammates end in one weird mess?

30 Days to Overcome a Shitty Job is a mindfulness workbook designed to help you cultivate a more positive and fulfilling work experience. Through a 30-day program that combines mindfulness techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy, and self-reflection, you'll learn to identify and challenge negative thought patterns, improve communication with coworkers and bosses, and develop a greater sense of self-awareness and self-worth. This workbook is part of a series of mindfulness workbooks, each designed to help you cultivate different areas of your life. While each workbook focuses on a specific ...

What is Finnish culture? Have you ever wondered what life is like in Finland? Englishman John Swallow has lived in the land of saunas and sisu for fifteen years, enjoying the forests and lakes of the countryside and striving to achieve the famous Finnish work-life balance. A recent challenge led him to ponder the definition of Finnish culture and some of its key constituents. These thoughts kickstarted a journey of discovery that revealed everything from feelings of happiness and admiration to those of wonder and amusement. After much consideration, he finally identified some of those ...

Plans are meant to be trashed. I pride myself on being in command of my life. Maybe it’s become slightly control freak-level, but I prefer predictability. So, when an unfortunate photo surfaces of me with Tad Fisher, the music industry’s favorite bad boy, it screws up my carefully calculated plans. I am not Tad’s girlfriend and the only thing crazier would be pretending that I am. Sometimes, drastic measures have to be taken to restore order. What does Tad get out of all of it? I’m the key to repairing his image. Dating a good girl might help sales of his sappy love songs, but not ...

This book was previously published as "Menage a Geek" by Reba Bale Three best friends. One crazy weekend. The three-way to end all three-ways. When the CEO of Toys for Grown-Ups, the leading national retailer for adult activities, takes his entire staff to the mountains for a team-building retreat, things get a little crazy. Delilah, Wesley and Kent are the three-person I.T. team for the company. Best friends for years, they spend most of their time together, both at work and on their personal time. Delilah has been fighting her attraction to the two men for a long time, but she has no idea...

If you've ever wondered how to turn a high-performing team into a chaotic, disjointed mess—congratulations, you're in the right place. In this sharp, hilarious, and painfully relatable guide, FC Bohnke pulls back the curtain on the absurdities of bad leadership. How to Build a Dysfunctional Team in 10 Easy Steps is not your typical management book—it's a survival manual for the modern corporate jungle, exposing exactly how NOT to lead. Inside, you'll discover: The art of micromanaging every decision into oblivion Why rewarding the loudest voice kills real talent How to foster office ...

Want to impress your buddies at school? Need to think of something fun to do at Thanksgiving or Christmas? Want to learn a bunch of random facts about history, science, and the paranormal? If you answered yes to any or all of those questions, then pick up Interesting Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of the Most Interesting, Unbelievable, and Craziest Stories on Earth! This book is the coolest collection of interesting facts about a whole bunch of several different topics.

Peter Cunningham has been looking for inspiration for his novel - that is, when he isn’t teaching at the local women’s prison, walking his dog, getting high, and wondering whether it’s time to tie the knot with his college girlfriend. When Peter meets Leslie, a sexual adventurer taking a break from her fiancé, he gets a glimpse of what he wishes and imagines himself to be: a writer of talent and nerve. Over the course of a Virginia summer, their charged, increasingly intimate friendship opens the door to difficult questions about love and literary ambition.

This book was previously published as “Hotel Spanking” by Reba Bale. This business trip is more painful than she expected… Trapped in a hotel room with her annoying coworker while working on an impossible project for their boss, Debbie can’t help but feel a little petulant and bratty. John is smug. Hot. Super annoying. And a secret alpha? Debbie had no idea her coworker had such a bossy side until he calmly informs her that he knows the perfect way to release her tension – a good old-fashioned over-the-knee spanking. When the spanking is over, they can’t help but explore the ...

My name's Jane Butterworth. For me, the paranormal is just a day job. I work at the Blue Moon Investigation Agency, a firm that specialises in cases that no one else will take, cases that start at strange and unexplainable and tier rapidly south from there.

During an upturn in the economy, faced with a downturn in the soul buying business, The Devil resorts to telemarketing.

Amy loves craft time at school. But when her teacher asks everyone to make their own dragon, Amy feels stuck. Her first dragon has a long, wingless body, stag-like horns, and eagle claws, but her friends don’t think it’s a real dragon. Then she makes dragons like theirs, but none of them feels quite right.... None of them feels like hers.

The year is 1995, and Gina leaves a failed relationship for a California Dream, only to find she can’t afford rent in the promised land. That’s OK, she’s not alone; the nonprofit social service agency that hires her into an entry level mental health job is dominated by a gang of sophomoric slackers, who literally spend 24/7 on the job; since they don’t get paid enough to pay rent, they simply don’t. It’s a makeshift commune of sorts, evolved of necessity. This fictional biography is a darkly comic, social services satire; the action has moved off the grounds of the State ...

When your job is helping heartbroken people break back into their lives after nasty breakups, falling for the city's top security system designer definitely isn't in the business plan. Olivia Chen is the locksmith you call when love lets you down—part emotional therapist, part professional lock-picker. Marcus Rivera designs the security systems that keep people out, and he's the best in the business. When a high-profile divorce puts them on opposite sides of the same door, their professional rivalry ignites into something far more dangerous to their hearts. As they find themselves picking...

Sometimes, the hardest locks to pick are the ones we put on our own hearts. Celebrity divorce experts Olivia Chen and Marcus Rodriguez have turned relationship security into a science. But when America's favorite power couple hires them—just as Olivia's long-lost mother reappears with dangerous connections to their corporate rivals—their perfectly constructed walls begin to crumble. With their revolutionary system being stolen and their own relationship tested, Olivia and Marcus face an impossible choice: maintain the barriers that have kept them safe, or risk everything by letting love...

Five short stories and sketches in the thousand word neighborhood: The Real Shot: an unexpected awakening. Chuck and Di Go A'Hunting: an alternate history The Janus Telling: a tale told in tall fashions Checking Out: not the way to go Amazonia: preparation pays

Congratulations on reaching that point in life where you can sit back, put your feet up, and enjoy retirement! Just think of it, no more cares, no more hurry and...no more paychecks! Yikes! The first day of retirement is an exciting time. You get to sleep in until noon, then sit around in your pajamas all day. There are lots of soap operas to catch up on and then of course all those small jobs around the house you’ve been putting off for years. That was always the plan, right? But the reality is you’ll still get up at 7 a.m. every morning, looking in the mirror and wonder what to do with yourself.