Her previous marriage left Claudia MacAllister afraid of deep water and romantic commitment, so when Ted, her on-again/off-again friend-with-benefits, begins pursuing her with an engagement ring, she's not amused. In an attempt to discourage him, she recruits ex-Navy SEAL, Joe Sweeney, to act as her beau.Joe's not opposed to getting involved with the luscious Claudia MacAllister but his first love is the ocean. Before all is said and done, he's going to challenge Claudia to get ove...

Period positivity starts with asking questions.This informative, irreverent, and absorbing book covers all your period-related questions - why they're taboo (and needn't be) and how to navigate the whole bleeding thing, from first periods to fertility, euphemisms to uteruses, menstrual products to menopause.Let's get period positive. It's about bloody time.Feel your best at any time of the month! This science-backed menstruation boo...

An absorbing, breakneck debut YA novel set on the high seas.On a field trip to see famed privateer Francisco Ventana's once-sunken ship, the Defiant, six kids from San Francisco's Greenly School?a last-chance refuge for orphans, troublemakers, and misfits?find themselves stranded at the center of a storm unlike any other. By the time the clouds have cleared, and the strange pink flashes have faded from the sky, the Defiant is out on the open sea, S...

"Building Agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio: Low-Code Copilots for Microsoft 365"Microsoft Copilot Studio has opened a new path for building enterprise-grade AI agents without requiring a full custom engineering stack—but building agents that are actually useful, safe, and governable is far more demanding than assembling a chatbot. This book is written for experienced Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and solution delivery professionals who want to design serious low-code copilots ...

When you trade, you're not just trading companies that deliver goods or services. You're trading against other traders who care about only one thing: taking your money. That's the #1 hard reality of trading - and most traders either don't know it, or don't act as if they do. In this book, top trader and hedge fund manager Quint Tatro shows how to win consistently in the "zero sum" game of trading, where there's a loser for every winner. You'll learn how to reflect your trading competition ...

Young and stupid go together like peanut butter and jelly.Sol McKnight, rancher and rodeo bull rider, married Georgia Carston, the love of his life, at eighteen. So maybe they were too young and maybe he was stupid to believe it would last forever because six weeks later, she left him. Now she’s back in Hero Creek for the summer. This is his chance to win her back. Little does he know, this may be his last chance because Georgia has her eye on the divorced father o...

Some wounds don't come from the world. They come from the church. From the people who prayed beside you, the leaders you trusted, the circles you poured your life into. And sometimes they come quietly - in the form of a door closed, a title taken, a voice that says God is not in you.Pastor Quintes Jackson knows that wound well.Enough is the raw, unfiltered testimony of a woman who held onto faith when faith was the only thing left to hold. Written not from...

"Building Conversational AI with Voiceflow: Design Chat and Voice Agents Without Code"Conversational AI has moved far beyond simple bots, and teams now need systems that can answer accurately, take action safely, and improve continuously in production. This book is written for experienced builders, product leaders, automation specialists, and advanced no-code practitioners who want to use Voiceflow as a serious platform for designing and operating chat and voice agents without trad...

Offering a balanced approach to problem-solving issues in a complex and changing world, this book focuses specifically on the subject of problem solving in policing. Featured selections include chapters on domestic security, disorderly youth, auto theft, prostitution, gang delinquency and crime in public housing. Other notable selections discuss the role of supervising police personnel engaged in problem solving, advances in using this approach in criminal investigations, solving serial cr...

To purchase a hardcopy of the book, visit www.thegratitudegroup.com/the-callingIf there’s one thing all healthcare people have in common, it’s a great desire to be useful and helpful. This is our “calling,” and we are born with it inside us. We enter the profession with a full emotional bank account. The challenge is to keep our sense of passion and purpose high so we can fully engage in the work we feel called to do.In his new book, The Calling: Why He...

In Village Dreams, Jay Quint merges his own existential crisis and writer's block into a chronicle of the evolution of counterculture and the emergence of the world's famous Gay Villages. These special enclaves, at once havens and ghettos, were at the heart of the willfully overlooked transition period between the collapse of the '60s youth movements, and the rise of the "new urbanism" in the early '70s. In reconjuring the zeitgeists of these mythic decades, the insights of the m...

Laurel Bassett came home for her mother, a paycheck, and a break from men who lie. She did not come home for the coroner.Hollis Merritt has been the county coroner since 1974. He has antlers. He has a Mississippi accent and a filing system that would make the state archivist cry. He also has a problem: bodies keep telling him things the toxicology screens don't.When Laurel notices the same discrepancy and starts matching his old handwritten files to the new cases, she becom...