No Take Backs


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She walked away after one night, but fate had other plans. Our time together scorched my nerve endings and made it impossible to forget him. One night is all we had… all we needed. I ran away, leaving nothing but a note. I should have known better than to think he was in my past. Josh wasn’t supposed to haunt my dreams. But now, our paths have crossed again, and the chemistry that's ignited is even more explosive. This time? He’s not letting me get away, and he’s not afraid to tie me to his bed to prove that point. What was supposed to be one night is turning into something much more dangerous—something neither of us can control. The inferno raging around us is going to tear us apart. There’s no doubt about it. And when the ashes are all that are left, when the world we know is torn to pieces, will one more night with him be worth the destruction? This is Josh and Nia’s story. No Take Backs is a one-night-stand, workplace romantic suspense with a happily ever after. Each book in the Birch Harbor: Coming Home series can be read as a stand-alone, but the stories and characters do interconnect.




No Takebacks


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HIS PAST MAY DESTROY THEIR FUTURE The man Rachael DeSalvo loves more than anything is suffering in silence. The grand opening of Turtle Tear Resort should be a time of celebration for Merrick Rocha. But he's suddenly intent on selling off the business he built from the ground up-and Rachael's hell-bent on finding out why. Only one man can give her the answers she seeks, but meeting with him would be the ultimate betrayal to Merrick. Merrick once asked Rachael to trust him against all odds . . . can he do the same?




No Takebacks


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An adopted thirteen-year-old with ADHD, Otto Fisher writes a vignette about a relative who was in the Holocaust, triggering a series of conflicts in his household, especially with his father, who's racist and anti-Semitic.




Take Back Your Power


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You can't make the world fair, but you can take back your power. As a woman in Silicon Valley who worked her way to the top of the corporate ladder--she's a former VP at Facebook and the current president and CEO of Ancestry--Deborah Liu knows firsthand the challenges and obstacles in the workplace that keep the deck stacked against women in the workplace . . . and the ways to overcome them. For every woman who grew up competing on the uneven playing field, who is told she is too aggressive, assertive, dramatic, or emotional, this book is the battle cry you need to learn to thrive within the system that exists today, even if it's not the one we wish it were. Take Back Your Power presents both hard data and Liu's personal experiences from twenty years as a woman leader in the male-dominated tech industry to help you: Find your voice, learn how to ask, and achieve what you want in a system that isn't fair and wasn't created for you Debunk the negative connotations of "power" and harness it for your own success Discover how to be heard, seen, and taken more seriously at work by getting out of your own way Overcome the lie that success is only achieved alone by finding the four types of allies you need to reach your goals Become a great leader without losing yourself in the process You have the power to change the future of work for yourself--and for women everywhere.




No Take Backs


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Some things you can't take back. Once those words, or being caught glancing at his bulge, or sharing a heated kiss are out there, It's game over. The "no take backs" rule strikes, and there's no way you can backtrack. That's the way It's always been with me and Nate Griffin, my old best friend, who thought he could change the rules. It doesn't matter that time and distance have pulled us apart. I've finally figured myself out and yanked my head out of my backside. Now if only I can drag myself out of the closet and be the man I want to be for Nate?But I'm a pro basketball player who has no desire to be a poster boy. Not only that, Nate and I don't even live in the same country. Nate, the big-hearted guy he is, takes it all in his stride, reminding me that just maybe he's too good for me. But hell if I can resist him.It all boils down to: Do I want to take anything back when it comes to Nate Griffin?




Sport: Sport and power relations


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A collection of texts providing a useful resource for students in the field of sports studies. Subject headings include approaches to the study of sport, the development and structure of modern sport, sport and power relations, and major issues in contemporary sport.




No Take Backs


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The grand opening of Turtle Tear Resort is a time for celebration, but the man Rachael loves more than anything is suffering in silence. Rocha Enterprises was Merrick's life. Now, he's been left with no choice but to sell off the business he built from the ground up, and Rachael's hell-bent on finding out why.




The Marilyns Books 1-3 Box Set


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This digital boxed set contains all three books in The Marilyns series. Place Your Betts: Monroe is a country music rags-to-riches story. As the daughter of the town slut, she clawed her way up from the bars of Bourbon Street to the Country Music Hall of Fame. She’s America’s sweetheart, darling of the media, and a multi-platinum star. But she has a secret. At the age of sixteen, she had a baby and gave him up for adoption because her boyfriend wasn't ready for fatherhood. Now she finds out that her precious baby boy has been living with his father from day one. Gabe Swanson is a Texas cattle baron riches-to-rags story. As the only son of the town's most prominent family, it was a huge blow when his father lost the family fortune in a ponzi scheme. Now, Gabe is land rich and cash poor. But he has his son and family is all that matters. When Betts moves back to the small town that shunned her, all hell breaks loose. She wants her son. Can Betts and Gabe leave their past in the rear view mirror so they can be a family? Getting Lucky: Lucky Strickland has lost everything. First it was her dignity and then it was her husband and now it’s her house. She’s penniless, stuck at the McDonalds in Bee Cave, Texas, and her only hope, her brother-in-law, just stole her car. Eighteen months ago, she was the wife of rock-and-roll legend, Ricky Strickland. Rock-My World, their reality TV show, was number one. Then, on the live season finale, Ricky introduced her to his mistress and their three daughters. Lucky stormed out. Ricky followed after her and wrapped his car around the nearest oak tree. Will Brodie, Lucky’s bother-in-law, will do anything to get her back home. Lucky needs to grieve for her husband and take care of the lawsuit the realty TV network filed. They want their money back OR for her to film a new realty TV show—with Ricky’s children. Two months ago, Ricky’s daughters lost their mother to cancer—now they only have Will. If Will can get Lucky to open her heart to the girls and to him, maybe he can finally give Lucky the family she’s always wanted. Sorry Charlie: International Bestselling Author Katie Graykowski comes a love story about friendship, laughter, and Louisiana politics. Charlotte Guidry, Charlie, is Louisiana royalty. Her ancestor, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne De Bienville, settled New Orleans and someone from her family has been running either the city or the state ever since. Her father, The Honorable Thaddeus Thibodaux governor of the great state of Louisiana, is up for reelection and Charlie is in charge of his campaign. Wagner Scott will do anything to help his candidate, Jerome Breaux, win the governorship including wining and dining the competition’s campaign manager. It certainly isn’t a hardship taking Charlie Guidry out on the town, in fact, he’s enjoying this assignment. He’s never met a woman quite like Charlie. She’s anything but dull. Soon, she comes to mean more to him than just a means to an end. He has feelings for her. Can he sacrifice everything he believes in for love? Can she forgive him?




An American Sickness


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A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.




To Get Back


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When Caitlyn's father's job causes her family to have to move to a vintage town,in her mind all her horrors have come true. She's willing to do ANYTHING to get back to the only place she'll ever consider home, insomuch that she shares her innermost desperate thoughts with a stranger--the first friendly person she meets. When friendly doesn't necessarily mean friends, her nightmare has only begun.