Author: Kate Patrick
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1622420640
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 181

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[BookStrand Rubenesque Romance, HEA] Charlotte Hamilton has just moved to Memphis to begin a new job at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. She is attracted to her gorgeous landlord, Reed Jackson, but thinks her plus-size body puts her out of the running as anything more than a friend. Her bubbly personality and fun-loving spirit appeal to Reed, who is used to high-maintenance women. The two quickly become good friends, and Charlotte is happy being "one of the guys." When Reed is injured on the job, Charlotte stays by his side during the initial days of recovery. As the two spend hours together during his convalescence, a spark ignites an underlying passion they are helpless to ignore. Reed wants to pursue a relationship with the vivacious beauty, but she shies away because of past hurts related to her less-than-perfect figure. Can Reed find a way to convince her that he sees Love Beyond the Curve? Note: This book contains adult language used as profanity. ** A BookStrand Mainstream Romance

Author: Jenny Rushmore
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 1787138720
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Ahead of the Curve is the first sewing book to empower curvy and plus size women to feel body confident by sewing a wardrobe that fits. Don’t change your body to fit your clothes – change your clothes to fit your body! Ahead of the Curve includes 5 basic garment patterns (UK sizes 16–36/US size 12–32/EUR sizes 44–64), which includes a pair of trousers, a t-shirt, a sleeveless top and two dress designs. Jenny takes you through a series of “Fit Clinics” – tutorials and case studies demystifying the fitting process – showing you how to adjust these patterns to master the perfect fit for your body shape. Once you have got to grips with this, you can go on to customize your closet and create an unlimited array of fantastic clothes that celebrate your body. If you’re curvy or plus size, trying to find clothes that fit and reflect your personal style can be incredibly difficult and frustrating. Plus size women feel constantly excluded and like they can’t express their personality through clothes. This book finally changes that.

Author: Kōbō Abe
Publisher: Kodansha Amer Incorporated
ISBN: 9784770016904
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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A collection of works including such stories as "An Irrelevant Death," "The Dream Soldier," "Dendrocalia," "The Special Envoy," and "The Crime of S. Karma"

Author: Brian Kenny
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501106368
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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“A delight for baseball lovers” (Kirkus Reviews) and “one of the most significant baseball books of the year” (Bob Costas) Ahead of the Curve uses stories from baseball’s present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information, and how tradition can trump logic. Forget batting average. Kill the “Win.” Say goodbye to starting pitchers. And please, please stop bunting. MLB Network anchor and commentator Brian Kenny provides “an excellent, entertaining read for the all-around baseball fan” (Library Journal) and shows how baseball has been revolutionized—not destroyed—by analytical thinking. Most people who resist logical thought in baseball preach “tradition” and “respecting the game.” But many of baseball’s traditions go back to the nineteenth century, when the pitcher’s job was to provide the batter with a ball he could hit and fielders played without gloves. Instead of fearing change, Brian Kenny wants fans to think critically, reject outmoded groupthink, and embrace the changes that have come with the sabermetric era. In his entertaining and enlightening book, Kenny discusses why the pitching win-loss record, the Triple Crown, fielding errors, and so-called battling titles should be ignored. He also points out how fossilized sportswriters have been electing the wrong MVP’s and ignoring legitimate candidates for the Hall of Fame; why managers are hired based on their looks; and how the most important position in baseball may just be “Director of Decision Sciences.” “Prepare to have your brain and your assumptions challenged. Guided by data and a deep love of the game, Brian Kenny takes a cutting-edge look at where baseball is and where it is going” (Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated). Illustrated with unique anecdotes from those who have reshaped the game, Ahead of the Curve is “a great story about the game in the age of information and technology” (Billy Beane).

Author: Nicholas Lovell
Publisher: Portfolio Trade
ISBN: 9781591846635
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"For most of the last century, companies strived to control costs and shift as many units as possible. But now the price of many digital products has dropped to zero, requiring a new kind of business model. [This book encourages] accepting that millions of people now expect your product for free--because a small number of high spenders are enough to build a profitable business"--

Author: Philip Delves Broughton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440629625
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Two years in the cauldron of capitalism-"horrifying and very funny" (The Wall Street Journal) In this candid and entertaining insider's look at the most influential school in global business, Philip Delves Broughton draws on his crack reporting skills to describe his madcap years at Harvard Business School. Ahead of the Curve recounts the most edifying and surprising lessons learned in the quest for an MBA, from the ingenious chicanery of leveraging and the unlikely pleasures of accounting, to the antics of the "booze luge" and other, less savory trappings of student culture. Published during the one hundredth anniversary of Harvard Business School, this is the unflinching truth about life in the trenches of an iconic American institution.

Author: Boyd Craven, III
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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People Started Getting SickWhen the pandemic hit, nobody was expecting it to be as bad as it was. The economy barely survived the lockdowns, but it staggered along until civil unrest shattered people's hope of better times to come. With it being an election year, more and more Americans were waking up to the idea that they truly were behind the curve. The hope was; if they did not get sick, run out of money, or they could avoid violent mobs, they would be fine. The collapse happened so gradually; nobody saw it coming but the very few.Life-long friends. Three doctors, a realtor, a contractor, and a pro shooter/model, make up the couples who had been lifelong friends and pooled their money to prepare for hard times. They soon find out money cannot buy you everything, even safety and security.A jealous rancher wants to buy their land and does not want to take "no" for an answer. More than once, Lyle and his family are found on the wrong side of the fence. With human remains found on the new property, the mystery deepens, as the world around them slowly descends into chaos.

Author: Ria Candro
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1622421051
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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[Menage and More: Erotic Menage Romance, M/F/M/M/M/M/M, HEA for M/F] Serena Filinger thinks she’s found the perfect man in James Pullman. He’s sexy, rich, and open-minded. But, fearful that her base urges will drive James away, she’s reluctant to repeat their initial menage encounter. During a trip to Miami, James arranges a dinner with Derek Wasserman—one of the men from their first steamy encounter—and Derek’s friend Manny Garcia. Dinner concludes with the most sinful of desserts, a night of erotic pleasure. Once Serena and James arrive back home, he sets up another evening of fun with Derek, Alex Donovan, Tom Keller, and Charlie Meyers. And he’s invited Manny along for good measure. Serena succumbs to the undeniable temptation to please these six stunning men...but she’s stricken with confusion. Does James really love her, or is she a mere sex toy for a rich playboy and his friends? She confronts James, and to her surprise, he thinks their relationship is perfect...and he wants it to last forever. ** A Siren Erotic Romance

Author: Jeremy Blachman
Publisher: Ankerwycke
ISBN: 9781634253260
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The students at Manhattan Law School, a decrepit institution on the edge of the toxic Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, are geographically-challenged and mad as hell - in debt up to their eyeballs and fighting over the few legal jobs left for those who are far outside the Ivy League. Our hero, Adam Wright, is a newly minted professor with high hopes and low expectations. But nothing has prepared him for a classroom of digitally distracted students, a rebellion of grade grubbers, a Law Journal staff at the helm of a school-wide scam, and a corrupt administration that runs the school as if it were a personal ATM. Adam regrets leaving his lucrative corporate law firm for the wilds of academia, until he finds an ally in the brilliant and fetching Laura Stapleton, a colleague with her own troubling secrets. Now the two professors may just have to save legal education... or join their students in the unemployment line...or worse. With its colorful cast of eccentrics and law school misfits, a satirical plot that - without too much of a stretch - could be ripped from the headlines, and a proven author duo who know this world and have six previous books between them, The Curve continues Ankerwycke's trend of publishing high quality/highly readable legal fiction with an edge. The Curve is a hugely entertaining and deeply felt novel that satirizes the current state of higher education and reads like a cross between Dangerous Minds and The Paper Chase.

Author: Nicholas Lovell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780670923212
Category : Business planning
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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'The curve' means accepting that millions of people now expect your product for free - because a small number of high spenders are enough to build a profitable business. In games, free is the norm, but some fans now spend thousands of dollars while playing a single title. That means the focus is no longer how many units you can sell. It is how you can satisfy those users who are happy to pay for things they value. 'The curve' shows you how to forge relationships with your biggest fans and sustain long-term success.