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A Cutthroat Business

Author : Jenna Bennett

Publisher : Magpie Ink

Page : 284 pages

File Size : 22,55 MB

Release : 2011-05-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Savannah Martin has always been a good girl, doing what was expected and fully expecting life to fall into place in its turn. But when her perfect husband turns out to be a lying, cheating slimeball—and bad in bed to boot—Savannah kicks the jerk to the curb and embarks on life on her own terms. With a new apartment, a new career, and a brand new outlook on life, she’s all set to take the world by storm. If only the world would stop throwing her curveballs... Everyone has warned new-minted realtor Savannah Martin that real estate is a cutthroat business. But Savannah doesn’t think she’s supposed to take the warning literally ... until an early morning phone call sends her to an empty house on the ‘bad’ side of town, where she finds herself standing over the butchered body of a competitor, face to face with the boy her mother always warned her about. Rafe Collier is six feet three inches of testosterone and trouble; tall, dark, and dangerous, with a murky past and no future—not the kind of guy a perfect Southern Belle should want to tangle with. In any way. But wherever Savannah turns, there he is, and making no bones about what he wants from her. Now Savannah must figure out who killed real estate queen Brenda Puckett, make a success of her new career, and avoid getting killed—or kissed—by Rafe, all before the money in her savings account runs out and she has to go back to selling make-up at the mall. Praise for the USA Today bestselling Savannah Martin mystery series: “Move over Stephanie Plum, there is a sassy, sexy sleuth in town! If you enjoy your cozy mysteries with a good shot of romance, and a love triangle with a sexy bad boy and a Southern gentleman in the mix, then you will love this. Very reminiscent of the Stephanie Plum books, but the laughs are louder, the romance is sexier and there is a great murder mystery to top it off.” —Bella McGuire, Cozy Mystery Book Reviews “A frothy girl drink of houses, hunks and whodunit narrated in a breezy first person. ... If you love an umbrella in your drink, grab A Cutthroat Business for a quick beach read” —Lyda Phillips, The Nashville Scene “The hilarious dialog and the tension between Savannah and Rafe will delight fans of chick-lit mysteries and romantic suspense.” —Jo Ann Vicarel, Library Journal “Equal parts charming and sexy, with a side of suspense. Hero and heroine, Savannah Martin and Rafe Collier, are a pairing of perfection.” —Paige Crutcher, examiner.com “Hooks you in the first page and doesn’t let go until the last!” —Lynda Coker, Between the Pages Praise from readers: “With a dose of Southern charm and a bad boy you won’t want to forget, A Cutthroat Business has enough wit and sexual chemistry to rival Janet Evanovich!” New York Times bestselling author Tasha Alexander “A delicious and dazzling romantic thriller…equal parts wit and suspense, distilled with a Southern flavor as authentic as a mint julep.” Award-winning crime fiction author Kelli Stanley “I have loved this series since book one and have enjoyed being along for the ride as Savannah has grown from the princess on the hill who tried to live up to her mother’s outdated expectations into a strong woman who stands up for her own beliefs and the man she loves. Jenna Bennett has tackled a sensitive subject with honesty, Southern charm, and laugh out loud humor. And the series keeps getting better. I can’t wait for the next one.” —Reader Karli Books in the Savannah Martin mystery series: A Cutthroat Business Hot Property Contract Pending Close to Home A Done Deal Contingent on Approval (novella) Change of Heart Kickout Clause Past Due Dirty Deeds Unfinished Business Busman’s Honeymoon (novella) Adverse Possession Uncertain Terms Scared Money Bad Debt Home Stretch Home Run (novella) Wrongful Termination Conflict of Interest Right of Redemption Collateral Damage (coming 2020) Survival Clause (coming 2020) Keywords related to this romantic mystery series: free mystery books, FISF, first in series free, romance mystery, romantic mystery, romantic suspense, single women books free, popular series, free cozy mystery, free top rated books, free series starters, free books to read and download, free books, romance books free, romance free books, romantic comedy books free, romantic comedy free books, romantic books free, mystery books free, mystery and thriller free books, suspense books free, suspense free, suspense romance free, cozy mysteries, cozy mysteries free, cozy mystery books free, real estate books free, women’s fiction books free, single women fiction free, Rafe Collier, southern humor, mysteries set in the south, mysteries set in Nashville, mysteries set in Tennessee, real estate mysteries, murder mysteries, free murder mystery, books for free, books to read for free, books to download, books to download for free, long series, long mystery series, funny mystery series, funny cozy series, long cozy series, bestselling author, bestselling series, USA Today series, multicultural romance, interracial romance, Fans of the following have been known to enjoy this romantic mystery series: Jennie Bentley Janet Evanovich Jana DeLeon J.D. 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Nice Companies Finish First

Author : Peter Shankman

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 37,7 MB

Release : 2013-04-02

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0230341896

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The era of authoritarian cowboy CEOs like Jack Welch and Lee Iacocca is over. Shankman, a pioneer in modern PR, marketing, and advertising, profiles the famously nice executives, entrepreneurs, and companies that are setting the standard for success in this new collaborative world.



Top of the Morning

Author : Brian Stelter

Publisher : Grand Central Publishing

Page : 299 pages

File Size : 19,34 MB

Release : 2013-04-23

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1455512893

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CNN correspondent Brian Stelter reveals the dark side of morning television with exclusive material about current and past morning stars, from Matt Lauer to Katie Couric. When America wakes up with personable and charming hosts like Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos, it's hard to imagine their show bookers having to guard a guest's hotel room all night to prevent rival shows from poaching. But that is just a glimpse of the intense reality revealed in this gripping look into the most competitive time slot in television. Featuring exclusive content about all the major players of the 2000s, Top of the Morning illuminates what it takes to win the AM -- when every single viewer counts, tons of jobs are on the line, and hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. Stelter is behind the scenes as Ann Curry replaces Meredith Vieira on the Today show, only to be fired a year later in a fiasco that made national headlines. He's backstage as Good Morning America launches an attack to dethrone Today and end the longest consecutive winning streak in morning television history. And he's there as Roberts is diagnosed with a crippling disease -- on what should be the happiest day of her career. So grab a cup of coffee, sit back, and discover the dark side of the sun. Praise for Top of the Morning "Mr. Stelter pulls back the curtains and exposes a savage corporate world that might have been inhabited by the Sopranos." -- Washington Times "A troubling look inside an enterprise as vicious and internecine as a soap opera." -- Kirkus Reviews



Cutthroat

Author : Stephen Keating

Publisher : Big Earth Publishing

Page : 348 pages

File Size : 37,70 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781555662486

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Cutthroat is the name of the game on the electronic frontier. It requires an amoral flexibility with no allies, just alliances; no team loyalties, just self-interest. Strategy forms and dissolves with every play; a smile on the face may mean a knife in the back. In the next round, the players switch sides and do it again. Billions of dollars are at stake.Featuring a bitter struggle between Rupert Murdoch and John Malone, and a supporting cast that includes AJ Gore, Ted Turner, and Bill Gates, author Stephen Keating uses one particular mega-deal that went terribly wrong to reveal how these corporate titans flex market power, crush competition and reap the profits.In 1997, Murdoch's News Corp. joined forces with EchoStar, Charlie Ergen's upstart company, to create a satellite-TV powerhouse -- nicknamed Deathstar. They planned to bunch a cosmic armada of seven satellites that would deliver several hundred TV channels, internet, and retail services to millions of subscribers. How this deal challenged the entrenched cable-TV monopoly before it came crashing down to earth exposes the influence exerted by and through money, power, and political dynamics among the corporate players fighting to rule the communications world. The roots of this dramatic business conflict are revealed through the separate evolution -- and eventual collision -- of cable and satellite TV technologies. Cutthroat is the perfect book for anyone who enjoyed Barbarians at the Gate and Den of Thieves.



Hemingway Cutthroat

Author : Michael Atkinson

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 44,73 MB

Release : 2010-07-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1429907142

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There were no bullfights in 1937 Madrid, just bombs, freedom fighters, journalists, and plenty of corpses. Ernest Hemingway, covering the Spanish Civil War for the American press, came looking for stories and danger, and found something else: a friend murdered amid the ruins. With a new novel stirring in his head and his veins pumping with booze, Hemingway sets out to find who killed José Robles Pazos, a bureaucrat in the Popular Front, and who's covering it up. There is, after all, nothing like risking death in a war zone if it means living fast, nailing the bastards, and avoiding a deadline. With the writer John Dos Passos at his side, Hemingway wades into the darkness, discovering that his old WWI buddy is no mere casualty of war---but victim of something far more terrible. Boisterous, bare knuckled, and stewed to the gills, Hemingway Cutthroat captures the writer at the height of his career and in a Europe teetering on untold cataclysm, struggling to find out not just for whom, but why the bell tolled.



The Company I Keep

Author : Leonard A. Lauder

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 432 pages

File Size : 39,86 MB

Release : 2020-11-17

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0062990950

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In his much-anticipated memoir, The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Estée Lauder Companies Leonard A. Lauder shares the business and life lessons he learned as well as the adventures he had while helping transform the mom-and-pop business his mother founded in 1946 in the family kitchen into the beloved brand and ultimately into the iconic global prestige beauty company it is today. In its infancy in the 1940s and 50s, the company comprised a handful of products, sold under a single brand in just a few prestigious department stores across the United States. Today, The Estée Lauder Companies constitutes one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of prestige skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. It comprises more than 25 brands, whose products are sold in over 150 countries and territories. This growth and success was led by Leonard A. Lauder, Estée Lauder’s oldest son, who envisioned and effected this expansion during a remarkable 60-year tenure, including leading the company as CEO and Chairman. In this captivating personal account complete with great stories as only he can tell them, Mr. Lauder, now known as The Estée Lauder Companies’ “Chief Teaching Officer,” reflects on his childhood, growing up during the Great Depression, the vibrant decades of the post-World War II boom, and his work growing the company into the beauty powerhouse it is today. Mr. Lauder pays loving tribute to his mother Estée Lauder, its eponymous founder, and to the employees of the company, both past and present, while sharing inside stories about the company, including tales of cutthroat rivalry with Charles Revson of Revlon and others. The book offers keen insights on honing ambition, leveraging success, learning from mistakes, and growing an international company in an age of economic turbulence, uncertainty, and fierce competition.



Cutthroat Island

Author : John Gregory Betancourt

Publisher : Forge

Page : 245 pages

File Size : 19,32 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780812543049

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Inheriting her father's pirate ship and a treasure map, the fiery Morgan Adams begins a merry hunt with the help of con artist William Shaw, until her uncle and the British Navy get in the way



Cutthroat Mafia

Author : Ghost

Publisher :

Page : 182 pages

File Size : 14,16 MB

Release : 2020-04-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781951081843

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MACHO JAMES heads a crew of angry, cold blooded savages that are hell-bent on crushing kingpins and other dopeboys in order to establish themselves at the top of the drug game in B-More. As the crew rises in the hierarchy of a vicious and unscrupulous underworld of killers, Macho gets caught up in the glitz and glamour of the profession. When the money and the irresistible women become an addiction, Macho's loyalty to his fam is tested. At the height of his power, Macho James shares control of the city with PRESTON, his Day One comrade. Together, they conquer all competition. Until Macho James violates their pact by falling for Preston's sister, LASHAWN, who was supposed to have been off limits. Will this forbidden love lead to deathly consequences? Meanwhile, Preston has bedded a woman who is connected to a mortal enemy. Will the entire CUTTHROAT MAFIA get dismantled by the lustful desires of the two men that are the shot callers of the crew? Will Macho James and Preston turn against each other when the pressure mounts? Or will killers remain killers, and partners remain tight, in the face of the most serious threat they've ever faced?



Digital Darwinism

Author : Evan I. Schwartz

Publisher : Broadway

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 14,89 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Electronic commerce

ISBN : 9780767903349

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Don't let the rapid evolution of the Internet economy leave your business extinct before its time! Here are the key strategies you need to keep your company alive, growing, and profitable in today's volatile Web climate. The dramatic boom that took place in the Web economy is over. The glory days when companies with strong ideas and weak business plans could easily get millions to launch their businesses are long gone, and in today's tougher, more cutthroat economic arena, natural selection is rampant. Companies need to be smarter, faster, more innovative, and more adaptable than ever before just to survive, let alone succeed. In Digital Darwinism, Evan Schwartz provides seven business strategies that can make or break any Web business. In a new preface and updated case studies, Schwartz discusses the dramatic rise and fall of the Web and analyzes the companies that have made it and those that haven't, from Priceline to Pets.com, and spells out step-by-step techniques such as building your brand, remaining flexible as supply and demand fluctuate, and integrating the Web into every part of your business. The perfect source for everyone from novice entrepreneurs to corporate CEOs," Digital Darwinism" provides a comprehensive and unflinching look inside the highly competitive world of e-commerce and distills the critical strategies that Web-based businesses need to follow in order to survive in what has become the world's fastest, and most dangerous, marketplace.



Food Investigation: Methods of the five packers in controlling the meat industry

Author : United States. Federal Trade Commission

Publisher :

Page : 1044 pages

File Size : 38,83 MB

Release : 1919

Category : Meat industry and trade

ISBN :

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Summary and part I (June 24, 1919) -- pt. II. Evidence of combination among packers (1918) -- pt. III. Methods of the five packers in controlling the meat-packing industry (June 28, 1919) -- pt. IV. The five larger packers in produce and grocery foods (June 30, 1919) -- pt. V. Profits of the packers (1920) -- pt. VI. Cost of growing beef animals ; cost of fattening cattle ; cost of marketing live stock (December 1919-1920).