A one-night stand spirals into a web of dark secrets in James Patterson's steamy thriller of love, lust, and murder. Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But her revenge goes dangerously awry, and she finds her world spiraling into a hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour. In a further twist of fate, Lauren must take on a job that threatens everything she stands for. Now, she's paralyzed by a deadly secret that could tear her life apart. With her job and marriage on the line, Lauren's desire for retribution becomes a lethal inferno as she fights to save her livelihood-and her life. Patterson takes us on a twisting roller-coaster ride of thrills in his most gripping novel yet. This story of love, lust and dangerous secrets will have readers' hearts pounding to the very last page.
Transform your body--5 minutes at a time! In Fit Quickies: 5 Minute Targeted Body Shaping Workouts, health and fitness expert Lani Muelrath gives you a complete collection of quick, easy-to-follow body-shaping exercises that zero in on your problem areas and gives them a solid challenge for change. These effective, research-driven collection of exercises for functional fitness cut through the confusion of trends and complicated weight loss routines. Fit Quickies minimizes the time investment needed to see results, yet is honest about what is needed to achieve fitness and body-shaping goals. Clear, step-by-step instructions and photographs eliminate all the guesswork! With these exercises, you'll lift and shape your body and soon see a flatter belly, shapelier thighs, firmer arms, a tighter tush, a whittled waist, a strong core, and so much more. Each illustrated step-by-step exercise helps you get motivated, stay focused, and avoid common errors. Lani has helped thousands of people transform their bodies--and their lives--with her 3 pillars of healthy weight and fitness: a simple exercise plan, a whole-food plant-based diet, and mindset mastery. In this book, she gives you specific strategies on exactly what to do for success in each area. The body you've always dreamed of can be yours. Fit Quickies gives you the tools to make it happen.
Quickie learns the values of honesty and hard work in another classic children's tale by Packers all-time leading receiver and father of three, Donald Driver. --Publisher.
Following up her previous popular titles, Kathy Brown presents an irresistible collection of quick and easy quilts. Learn to efficiently cut fat quarters into smaller units--with or without Kathy's clever Fat Quarter Cutter ruler--for any quilt pattern that features precut strips and squares. Select from 11 all-new projects for fat quarters or common precuts: 21⁄2" strips, 5" strips, 5" squares, and more Discover appealing patchwork patterns that demonstrate the versatility of fat quarters Get a terrific value on simple yet striking projects ranging from table runners to a few bed-sized quilts
Four noted wrestling writers discuss the life and death of Chris Benoit, a Canadian professional wrestler who became one of the most popular athletes in professional wrestling before committing a double-murder suicide in 2007.
1. Come Again? From Possibility Therapy to Sex Therapy; 2. Multicontextual Sex Therapy with Lesbian Couples; 3. Getting "In the Mood" (For a Change): Stage-Appropriate Clinical Work for Sexual Problems; 4. Shining Light on Intimacy and Sexual Pleasure; 5. Premature Ejaculation of "Sexual Addiction" Diagnoses; 6. Out of My Office and Into the Bedroom; 7. Unique Problems, Unique Resolutions: Brief Treatment of Sexual Complaints; 8. Just Between Us: A Relational Approach to Sex Therapy; 9. Who Really Wants to Sleep With the Medical Model? An Eclectic / Narrative Approach to Sex Therapy; 10. How Do Therapists of Same-Sex Couples "Do It"?; 11. A Catalytic Approach to Brief Sex Therapy; 12. Don't Get Too Bloody Optimistic - John Weakland at Work; 13. Transforming Stories: A Contextual Approach to Treating Sexual Offenders; 14. Re-Membering the Self: A Relational Approach to Sexual Abuse Treatment.
Perfect for anyone looking for fun-to-make, quick-to-stitch Christmas projects, The Big Book of Christmas Quickies In Cross Stitch is packed with the best little holiday designs collected from over 15 years of Leisure Arts publications. This book was created with stitchers of all skill levels in mind.Ranging from whimsical Santas to nostalgic Yuletide greetings, the compact, charming designs add homemade holiday warmth to Christmas tree ornaments, festive clothing, home decorating accents, and other holiday treasures.
The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?
