Bait

Bait
Author: Nick Brownlee
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312550219

A gripping mystery that strips away Kenya's tourist glitz, exposing the country's dark and treacherous side, "Bait" introduces a new and unique crime-busting double act--ex-Scotland Yard cop Jake Moore and Mombasa detective Daniel Jouma.

How to Work for an Idiot, Revised and Expanded with More Idiots, More Insanity, and More Incompetency

How to Work for an Idiot, Revised and Expanded with More Idiots, More Insanity, and More Incompetency
Author: John Hoover
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2011-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1601636350

Was it a typo when the CEO mandated that the organization “institutionalize incompetents”? If not, how did the company wind up institutionalizing incompetence instead? How to Work for an Idiot is still the confessions of a recovering Idiot Boss. After decades of writing and consulting, Dr. Hoover finally realized that many of the people he kept trying to “energize” and “enlighten” were, well, idiots. More importantly, he was an idiot for thinking he could change them. This new edition of How to Work for an Idiot is bigger and better—and filled with even more idiots—than before. The same technology that has enabled cluelessness from the corner office to go viral can help you protect yourself and keep your inner idiot in check. Yes, the book goes that deep. Not every boss is an idiot, and not every idiot is a boss. Let Dr. Hoover help you find the wisdom to know the difference.

What's Holding You Back?

What's Holding You Back?
Author: Linda Gong Austin
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-04-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0786731427

After thirty years of feminism, women continue to underachieve, occupying only 10 percent of top-level managerial or professional positions. And significant achievement-influential woman leaders and visionaries-is rarer still. The reason, argues this bold and inspiring book, lies in the self-imposed psychological glass ceiling, which influences every decision women make in their lives. What's Holding You Back? charts women's unique pathways to achievement and examines eight life-defining choices that determine their ultimate level of accomplishment.

Live Bait

Live Bait
Author: Ted Wood
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480495115

“A series character worth watching for,” small-town Canadian police chief Reid Bennett and his dog tackle big city crime (Los Angeles Times). Reid Bennett hits the mean streets of Toronto again. Because of his expertise, he (and his German shepherd, Sam, of course) is asked to bring in the vermin that has been bludgeoning nighttime security guards. And he makes the collar as advertised. So the police department asks him to stay on the case and find out who has been ordering these beatings. Reid has got to get down to business and sift through the long list of suspects. But he gets a little too involved . . . the culprits start looking for him, or at least he thinks they are. Reid must get to the bottom of this case quickly, before he becomes the next victim.

Bait Me

Bait Me
Author: Jolie Damman
Publisher: Jolie Damman
Total Pages: 830
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

She was afraid of him. The first moment they met, he showed her all she needed to know about him. Ruthless, thick-skinned, assertive – she could come up with all the adjectives to describe him, but they never seemed enough. Thinking that was it for them, she was astonished when circumstances forced her to live with him. In the beginning, it was more like forced coexistence, but as time passed, she began to see there was a human behind the emotionless machine that he was. Question was – could she ever warm his cold heart? He didn’t think much of her. All he thought was that she was an angelic, sweet girl who was biting more than she could chew. He knew she was brave. She had a fire within her he could never put down. Being forced to live together, they learned the best and the worst about themselves. He presumed she would eventually learn her place, but things didn’t progress the way he was hoping they were going to. She’d made a promise, after all, and she was dead-willing to keep her word. This is a dark mafia romance bundle. It includes the following titles: Hell is Crying, Beyond Forgiving, Subduing my Queen, Chosen to be Mine, Don't Cry, Beg Me, Chaining my Queen, Challenging Destiny, and Determined to Hate. Characters are 18+.

Crowe’S Bait

Crowe’S Bait
Author: Ed W. Nickerson
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-03-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1490781676

The circumstances of the April 26, 1986, explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in Ukraine raises questions about its classification as accidental. This is quickly clarified when one of the plants lead operators leaves the country with a More to come message. Ed Crowe, part-time travel agent and part-time consultant with Britains secret intelligence service (MI6), is on his way from Oakville, Canada, to England. His plans to serve as best man for his friends wedding are interrupted by a call from Lord Stonebridge, head of MI6. Ed and his fellow operatives must find the man responsible for the explosion; the man who knows when the next nuclear disaster will occur. He is from Chechnya, a Soviet republic that has been historically repressed by Russia. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev has asked MI6 to find the man before rogue members of the KGB find him in order to destabilize Gorbachev and his reforms. The search leads to Istanbul, Turkey; a brief Mediterranean cruise; and KGB agents in Canada. Personal relationships are complicated when Eds ex-girlfriend is asked to work with him along with Carolyn Andrews, daughter of the head of MI6, who Ed is planning to ask for her hand in marriage following their friends wedding.

Crow Bait

Crow Bait
Author: Douglas Skelton
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1910324310

They'll all be crow bait by the time I'm finished...Jail was hell for Davie McCall. Ten years down the line, freedom's no picnic either. It's 1990, there are new kings in the West of Scotland underworld, and Glasgow is awash with drugs. Davie can handle himself. What he can't handle is the memory of his mother's death at the hand of his sadistic father. Or the darkness his father implanted deep in his own psyche. Or the nightmares...Now his father is back in town and after blood, ready to waste anyone who stops him hacking out a piece of the action. There are people in his way. And Davie is one of them. Tense, dark and nerve-wracking... a highly effective thriller. THE HERALD This is crime fiction of the strongest quality. CRIMESQUAD.COM A gory and razor-sharp crime novel from the start, Douglas Skelton's Crow Bait moves at breakneck speed like a getaway car on the dark streets of Glasgow. THE SKINNY Skelton has been hiding from his talent for long enough. High time he shared it with the rest of us. QUINTIN JARDINE PRAISE for Blood City The city's dark underbelly complete with knives, razors, guns and gangs... DAILY MAIL You follow the plot like an eager dog, nose turning this way and that, not catching every single clue but quivering as you lunge towards a blood-splattered denouement. DAILY EXPRESS The Glasgow of this period is a great, gritty setting for a crime story, and Skelton's non-fiction work stands him in good stead... he's taken well to fiction... the unexpected twists keep coming. THE HERALD

The Bait

The Bait
Author: Dorothy Uhnak
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453283528

In this Edgar Award–winning debut novel, a dedicated cop becomes the ultimate prey when a serial killer gets out on bail It begins when New York Police Department Detective Second-Grade Christie Opara arrests a man on the subway for indecent exposure. Within hours, Murray Rogoff, a burly giant, his crazed stare concealed behind thick glasses, is out on bail. Soon after, the body of a young dancer is found stashed behind the stairway of a Bronx apartment building. The girl was brutally raped and strangled, and a clue links her with two previous murders. The killer takes a signature trophy: a hacked-off lock of the victim’s hair. A few days later, Christie starts to get strange, late-night phone calls. Although Rogoff never spoke when he was in lock-up, the detective’s instincts tell her that Rogoff’s the serial killer they’re hunting. With the reluctant approval of her boss, Assistant District Attorney Casey Reardon, Christie prepares to become the bait of a deadly psychopath. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy Uhnak including rare images from the author’s estate.

Live Bait

Live Bait
Author: Fabio Genovesi
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590516826

The story of a small Italian town where fishing, biking, and rock 'n' roll make the news, until tragedy turns everything upside down. Muglione. Nothing grows in this Tuscan backwater except the wild imagination of Fiorenzo, a nineteen-year-old metalhead. He lives for his garage band, horror movies, and fishing in the murky irrigation ditches outside of town. But when his path crosses with Mirko, the teenage cycling phenomenon, and Tiziana, the smart but frustrated head of the local youth center turned refuge for the town's hard-drinking seniors, his world will never be the same. From the brink of despair they fight their way back through honesty, resilience, and laughter, their fates interweaving in a story that is at once achingly funny, bitter, and full of poetic fervor. Told with the tenderness of a Fellini film, this contemporary novel continues the great tradition of Italian literature and cinema.

MARRIAGE BAIT

MARRIAGE BAIT
Author: Eva Rutland
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 145926956X

SIMPLY THE BEST The perfect career move—marriage! Scot Harding was stunned when Lisa turned down a dream promotion—to get married! He was amazed not only because Lisa was a talented career woman—but also because she didn't even have a particular husband in mind! Lisa wanted a home and family, and a husband was part of the deal. Preferably a rich, gorgeous husband! All she had to do was catch one. Lisa was determined to turn herself into perfect marriage bait—a beauty make-over, sophisticated new image. Scot could only admire her dedication. He was impressed, intrigued—tempted! In fact, he was in real danger of falling into Lisa's carefully laid wedding trap…. SIMPLY THE BEST. Authors you'll treasure, books you'll want to keep!