Twenty-one-year-old narcoleptic Angel Duet knows her father harbors secrets. He loves and protects her, but his suspicious refusal to discuss her mother's death drives Angel to worship an image created from the little history she does have: her father's sketchy stories and her mother's treasured photography, studies of clouds that have hung in their foyer for over twenty years. When her father's g
For as long as she can remember, 17-year-old Peyton Bound has struggled to remain strong despite being lost in the whirlwind of her emotionally disturbed mother’s life … then she finds Matthew Adler at a frat party. He’s the first boy who kisses her with open eyes; Peyton finally sees herself in their sparkling reflection. She’s confident that her fairytale moment has finally arrived, the day when
Six Sigma for Business Excellence (McGraw-Hill), teaches managers how they can apply foundational quality management concepts and practices using practical, fit-for-purpose approaches. The book is based on my work at Johnson & Johnson, which was a pivitol influence on my ability to apply the science to other non-manufacturing industry areas, and eventually develop more personal applications for t
The life of an artist is hard, but being a vampire is even harder. Ellis and Tom Spencer oversee the drug safety organization in one of the world's largest and most respected companies, Pratt Pharmaceuticals. Tom's deviant plan for their future begins to splinter when Ellis meets Holly Carter, a lonely Southern woman who has come to New York to pursue art while furthering her pharmaceutical caree
Building a Novel in Four Phases is a quick-read mini e-book about writing that does NOT cover grammar, style, or detailed information on the elements of fiction. (There are a million other books to help with that.) Instead, it provides a simple four-phase process that can help you not only start, but also finish, writing a book.
The week after his death, Jim Howard watches his adult stepchildren, Honey and Dust, reunite at his funeral after living on opposite ends of the country for ten years. The family converges at the Howard Big House, the last pre-Civil War plantation home in Ellis County, Texas. When Jim's daughter, Nora, finds a secret room filled with books, runaway slaves come out of the historical woodwork, and
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