A playbook for decoding unspoken rules of work culture and accelerating up the corporate ladderEvery workplace operates on a set of unwritten norms that shape its internal culture. While business schools and management programs can provide excellent training in finance, marketing, strategy, and research methods, they rarely prepare students for how to discern these unspoken rules that are crucial for career mobility.Mastering the Corporate Chess Game

Nineteen-year-old transwoman Rose Bennett aches for a purpose in life. Coasting through college with few friends and fewer job prospects, she dreads the challenges that she faces each day. Then she meets Armand Fletcher – an eccentric, brilliant, and kind-hearted artist – and her anguish-filled life is turned on its head.Forming an odd friendship, the two collaborate to finish Armand's first art exhibition before its deadline hits. As their work helps them find common ground, they ...

This book is about a young childs distate for greenbeans. At home and everywhere he went has always had greenbeans. Like most people you can have too much of something and it gets saturated. So two young kids in school have a conversation about one kids lack of interest in the vegetable greenbeans. There is a humorous exchange between the two young men on their way to lunch. And to Justin their child that was burned out on greenbeans when he gets to the cafeteria, guess what being served n...

“Dark, disturbing, and filled with moments of real charm and magic, The Music of Razors is the best first novel I’ve seen this year.”—LocusIn nineteenth-century Boston, a young doctor on the run from the law falls in with a British confidence artist. Together—and with dire consequences—they bring back to the light something meant to be forgotten.A world away in London, an absent father, haunted by the voice of a banished angel, presents hi...

Don’t miss AJ Finn’s eagerly anticipated new thriller, END OF STORY!“As the plot seizes us, the prose caresses us. . . [Finn] has not only captured, sympathetically, the interior life of a depressed person, but also written a riveting thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last sentence.” — Washington PostThe #1 bestseller that gripped the world, selling millions of copies around the globe – a tour-de-for...

Sylvia, a young Amish woman, knows about hard work on a farm. After an unfortunate incident on the farm, she finds herself alone and expecting her first child after the death of her husband. She works the farm alone and finds that she cannot handle the workload on her own. Will she be able to endure the hardship?

Short story Companions to the Moon first appeared in Realms Of Fantasy, June 2007.Set in Newford in 2007, record shop owner Mary begins to suspect her common-law partner is cheating on her. Edric is a musician whose out-of-town concerts happen to coincide with every full moon. Mary decides to secretly follow Edric to his next full moon gig, and makes an unexpected discovery. De Lint's love of combining real life with myth shines in this story.

B has spent the last few months bunking with the Angels, a group of teens dedicated to eradicating the evil dead from the face of the earth, beginning with the undead roaming the abandoned wreckage that was once London. But the Angels' mission is a bit more complicated than that, and B takes to the streets of a very changed London to decide: is it a mission really to be believed? But instead of answers, B finds a horror beyond imagining.

In a dark, dark wood, the past is waiting…Travel writer Tim North agrees to a weekend camping trip with NYPD detective Luke O’Brien — a first date that quickly turns into something far more dangerous.Deep in the Jersey Pine Barrens, Tim is forced to confront a memory he’s spent twelve years trying to forget: a ruined house, scattered bones, and the shadow of a nightmare that may never have truly ended.As attraction flares and tension rises, Tim and ...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes this "fascinating . . . intense portrayal of the collapse of a marriage . . . [that] delivers a surprising charge" (Jane Smiley, The Washington Post).An O, The Oprah Magazine "Summer Reading List" pickSet in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, A Small Hotel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hays, who have decided to separate af...

Tempestuous StormMcFarlane had declared open war on her rival, Luke Branagan, her father's adopted son. Luke was the one being groomed to handle the vast family cattle empire and this had ultimately driven Storm away from Winding River. She would find recognition and a new life in the city.Still, she longed for her life in the Outback. So when Luke insisted she visit her ailing father, she agreed to go – only to discover that her powerful feelings for this ...

In the tradition of Divergent comes a novel about a world where negative emotions are stolen ... and only those with fury can stand up and fight.Eighteen-year-old Josephine Luquet wakes up naked and covered in blood on the same day every year—when the blood moon is full. Josi has not responded to the "Cure"—an immunization against anger mandated by the government—and believes herself to be a threat to others.Then s...