Larissa Gallagher
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delightfully fresh. Stefanie London delivers all the feels. -- LAUREN LAYNE , New York Times bestselling author for Bad Bachelor It's true, Wes is well-endowed. But everything else is a huge misunderstanding ... Wes Evans, son of Broadway royalty, just wants to achieve something without riding his family's coattails. Too bad the whole world is talking about his sex life after the notorious Bad Bachelors app dubs him "The Anaconda". But when he sees...
Author
Series
Bad bachelors volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
He's the bad bachelor who inspired it all ... Annie Maxwell had her whole life figured out ... until her fiancé left her when his career took off. If that wasn't bad enough, every society blog posted pictures of him escorting a woman wearing her engagement ring. To help the women of New York avoid guys like her ex, Annie created the Bad Bachelors app. But try as she might, Annie just can't forget him ... For bank executive Joe Preston, his greatest...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Free Yourself from a Frantic Life and Embrace the Joy of Slow Living What is slow living? It's a way to find happiness by stepping away from the never-ending demands to constantly succeed and acquire more and more. It's easy to get stuck in the carousel of frantically wanting, buying, and upgrading the things in your life. The philosophy of simple living is about finding the freedom to be less perfect and taking time to enjoy the pure joys of life:...
Author
Language
English
Description
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique-often by naming and calling attention to problems-and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform...
Author
Language
English
Description
At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable: she now weighs less than her neighbor's retriever. As her body weakens, she describes the experience-the vulnerability and strength, the courage and humility, the anger and acceptance-of knowing she will soon die. Written in the space of a few weeks, in a tremendous creative surge, this powerful and beautiful memoir is a clear-eyed account...
Author
Language
English
Description
As organizations around the world are putting more focus on the mindset and wellbeing of staff, the need to develop Emotional Intelligence (EI) has never been greater.
Cutting through the hype and dispelling the myths about EI, this practical, easy-to-use resource provides clear guidance, powerful tools, and actionable steps for developing and implementing EI in the workplace for immediate results. Amy Jacobson, an experienced EI specialist, leadership...
7) That Guy
Author
Language
English
Description
A modern way of finding love. One deserted island of luxury. Two people. Three get out of jail free cards. And a whole lot of possibilities. Melinda takes the advice of her best friend, Chris. She signs up for a new dating service that pairs you statistically with the one you're supposed to love. Finding it-love, that is-using the more conventional methods, has not been a successful venture for Mindy, and with her biological clock ticking, she uses...
Author
Language
English
Description
A lesbian romance about breaking all the rules.
Viva Jones was great once. A top ten tennis player with a grand slam trophy to her name, she had the world at her feet. Then an overzealous lineswoman's bad call knocked her out of the U.S. Open, and a persistent injury crushed her career. While battling to return to the game she loves, a chance meeting with the lineswoman, Gabriela, forces Viva to rethink the past . . . and the present.
Away from...
Author
Language
English
Description
This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum, meaning an abomination... grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible...
I was born as part of a monstrous structure-the grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power that constituted colonial Britain. A structure that shaped me, that shapes the very language that I speak and use and love....
Author
Language
English
Description
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence-from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from the earth, to the labor pulled...
Author
Language
English
Description
Author Pamela Hackett has advised, led, and supported people through major change for some of the world's most prominent companies and brands throughout her thirty-five years in management consulting. In this must-listen book, Pamela shares with you the one factor that underpins all performance improvement and transformation goals-be they operational, financial, cultural, or ultimately driven by your customer. It is to have a fully engaged workforce....
12) Hear Me Out
Author
Language
English
Description
Fear keeps the truth away from his brothers. Fear and pain keeps him away from the man he loves.
Hawks MC member Maddox "Beast" Lawson had a difficult time growing up. Tired of being ridiculed because of his effed-up brain-to-mouth connection, it was easier to say nothing at all. Living in silence worked out just fine until that b*tch called Fate took his hearing, not only that, but she also threw him into the arms of the man who refuses to acknowledge...
Author
Language
English
Description
Take a practical approach to the communication challenges in your workplace. Through eleven strategies, twenty-three tactics, and fifteen stories this handy how-to will help curious humans:
- use the science of connection to create compelling communication
- translate mind-numbing complexity into captivating simplicity
- hijack the attention of, engage, and influence others
Whether you're a leader looking to connect with your workforce; a member...
14) Fallout
Author
Language
English
Description
Poppy Torian has been in love with Jerimiah since she moved to Caroline Springs. Only he didn't know she existed until her dad joined his father's MC club, the Venoms.
Friends. It's what she's been resigned to, but Poppy wants more. Biding her time, a few years to be exact, she goes to make her move. But when she overhears Jerimiah saying things that crack her heart, she runs.
In an emotional state, she makes a grave mistake and heads directly into...