The Talent Management Handbook explains how organizations can identify and get the most out of “high-potential people” by developing and promoting them to key positions.The book explains:A system for integrating three human resources “building blocks”: organizational competencies, performance appraisal, and forecasting employee/manager potentialSix human resources conditions necessary for organization excellenceHow to...

Written by Nnedi Okorafor, Hugo and Nebula award- winning author and the writer of Marvel's Shuri, this volume collects issues #1-#4 of the mini-series and includes artist sketches and afterword from the author.In an alternate world where aliens have integrated with society, pregnant Nigerian- American doctor Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka has just smuggled an illegal alien plant named Letme Live through LaGuardia International and Interstellar Airport... and t...

The final book in Cynthia's War at Home series - Pack Up Your Troubles - is available to pre-order now.**'Always a stay-up-all-night read with Cynthia Harrod-Eagles! *****'Fabulous series of books, this author never disappoints' *****'I love Cynthia Harrold-Eagles' historical novels' *****In 1918 the Great War has taken so much from so many and it threatens to take even more stil...

In the proud tradition of drunken writers everywhere . . . comes the tale of Jonathan A., a boozed-up, coked-out, sexually confused, hopelessly romantic-and of course, entirely fictional-novelist who bears only a coincidental resemblance to real-life author Jonathan Ames, critically acclaimed author of Wake Up, Sir!, The Extra Man, and What's Not to Love as well as HBO's Bored to Death and Starz's Blunt TalkFeaturing gri...

Attention this is a nice gift for Mom and Dad or Grand-parents.The purpose of this audio poem is to count down the days until Christmas-eve.This is just one day out of the series Advent Calendar Day1- Day24 celebrates day1 in the Advent Calendar with a unique Christmas poem.You will get to listen to a Christmas poems each and every day with the complete series.So, enjoy, share, and use this calendar every December day and keep counting the days until Christm...

19,000 + words of HOT, steamy erotica Book one: Olivia is a new mom who has an insatiable sexual appetite that even her husband can’t satisfy. Not only is Olivia craving sex around the clock, but her breasts overflow with milk. When her husband can’t keep up with her needs, Olivia finds willing partners from her gynecologist to her husband’s business partner. Who knew motherhood could be so damn hot! Book two: Bree, a nursing mother, is spending a wild weeken...

Two seeds can't wait to be pears, but growing takes time and patience in this funny and informative picture book from Miranda Paul, the author of Water is Water."When will we be pears?"—"After we find soil.""Hooray! We are going to be pears! Are we pears yet?"—"No! Just be patient and wait."Written entirely in dialogue and staged as a play, Are We Pears Yet? is a clever and hilarious informational picture book that will make you look a...

“The Underdogs will have young readers HOWLING with laughter, SNIFFING for clues, and BARKING with delight.” —Andrew McDonald and Ben Wood, creators of the Real Pigeons seriesPerfect for fans of comical animal do-gooders like The Bad Guys, The InvestiGators, and The Chicken Squad, this hilarious chapter book series follows a group of bumbling dog detectives and their newest recruit—a cat! In this second case, the Underdogs must sniff out the identi...

Mysterious disappearances! Ghost appearances! From the supernatural to the downright scary, this ghost collection from award-winning author Mary Downing Hahn is sure to send shivers down readers’ spines. Mysterious photographs, ghostly old houses, family secrets, and all things supernatural await readers in these three frightful tales.Three chilling novels. Three unforgettable hauntings.Three Complete Novels: Get three of Mary Downing Hahn’s most popu...

This is the story of William Shatner's half-century career and private life. The audio will take readers from the streets of Montreal to regional theatre, where Shatner was once called upon to replace Christopher Plummer as Henry V— in a role he had never rehearsed, with actors he had never met. It will describe his early TV work and movies, among them Roger Corman's The Intruder, a movie about racism filmed in the south in 1961; Kingdom of the Spiders, in which he costarred with 30,000 ta...

No modern tragedy has had a greater impact on race relations in America than the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black boy from Chicago whose body was battered beyond recognition and dumped in the Tallahatchie River while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, in 1955. This grotesque crime became the catalyst for the civil rights movement.Simeon Wright saw and heard his cousin Emmett whistle at Caroline Bryant at a grocery store; he was sleeping in the same...

Mia and Jake have known each other their whole lives. They've endured summer vacations, Sunday brunches, even dentist visits together. Their mothers, who are best friends, are convinced that Mia and Jake would be the perfect couple, even though they can't stand to be in the same room together.After Mia's mom turns away yet another cute boy, Mia and Jake decide they've had enough. Together, they hatch a plan to get their moms off their backs. Permanently. All they have to do is prete...