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An agile organization is not created by completely optimizing elements isolated from one another — in most cases, this involves teams. Often, though, agile odysseys start with this local (sub-)optimization, where at the same time their chosen agile method becomes the golden calf. Then the only attempt is to do the method justice rather than asking what creates more value for the customer. Typically, collaboration between the development areas of an organization and the business decision makers isn't taken into consideration.

When bartender Bay Bridges saves a woman from being roofied, she accidentally kills the man responsible. When the dead man is reanimated, Bay gets pulled into a chilling adventure of mystery and murder, but if she digs too deep, she might risk revealing her most treasured secret: she’s a witch.

In a very uncharacteristic attempt at a little revenge, a little vindication, Lily splurges on a first-class plane ticket…using her soon-to-be-ex-husband’s credit card. If he insists that she travel to him, when he’s the one who filed, the one who cheated, then the least he can do is pay for her to fly in comfort.

Marketing executive and mother of two, Jade Kelly can now add cancer survivor to her list of successes. But while her life looks good on paper, four months out of treatment, Jade realizes she hardly knows her college-age children and that she and her husband, Nick, are little more than housemates. Determined to start over, Jade schedules a family vacation to a lakefront cabin.

After a few ghostly encounters, Hannah becomes obsessed with learning the truth about what happened in her recently purchased home. Thrust into the mystery, what Hannah finds in the house's crumbling halls, she'll never be able to unsee again. A paranormal phenomenon, a mysterious curse, and an unsolved murder forty years in the making. Can Sasha solve the mystery in time? Or will she face the same doomed fate as the tenants who came before them?

The thin thread holding the civilized world together has been severed. Millions of citizens have been thrust into the unknown, breeding fear into the minds and souls of those seeking to survive. Wren Burton, an architect from Chicago, has been engulfed by the chaotic aftermath of an EMP blast. Her family is injured. The enemy is unknown. And help is nowhere to be found.

When Ginger’s father died, his family secrets were buried with him. But when Ginger receives a mysterious envelope informing her that she is the sole heir of a vast fortune on her father’s side, she jumps at the opportunity to meet her long-lost family. As Ginger uncovers the truth of her father’s past, she’ll understand why he never spoke about his childhood and how some secrets should remain buried.

In Return to the Sky, Tina Morris, one of the first women to engage in a raptor reintroduction program, shares her remarkable story that is as much about the human spirit as it is about birds of prey.

Sarah Perrigo just wants to know what happened to her twin sister, Renee Alcott. The suspicious circumstances surrounding her suicide are only made more questionable when her husband, Michael, has her cremated before Sarah or her parents can pay their last respects. Sarah flies from her home state of California to Knoxville, Tennessee, to visit the old estate. After a few ghostly encounters, Sarah becomes obsessed with learning the truth about his family and what happened in Delany Falls.

Nicole Stewart moved to Twin Lakes, Minnesota, to give her seven-year-old daughter, Rachel, an idyllic childhood. Surrounded by a good community, friends, and family, it was the perfect place to raise her daughter. But when Rachel is abducted at a park, the veil on the ideal community is pulled back. As mysterious packages and cryptic messages arrive at Nicole’s doorstep, she is resolved to solve the kidnapper’s mystery. And in this neighborhood, everyone is a suspect.

Galactic Central, a collection of floating cities in a vast, manmade, planetless cloud. Scout Shannon longed to see it since she first heard of it. This place long represented her shining future. But in her less shiny present, she reaches it by smuggling herself aboard a cargo ship and hides in the lower sewer-like levels of the most opulent of the floating cities. Teams of girl assassins still hunt her. Worse, her friends are in danger and don’t even know.

Having escaped yet another closing trap, Scout Shannon finds herself on a snowbound mountaintop far from civilization. With assassins eager to kill her, laying low on an alien world is the smartest play. But wherever Scout goes, trouble follows. And a hamlet in the mountains gets far more remote when girl assassins destroy the only means back to civilization.

Francesca was the wife of his enemy. A woman on the run. And the only person with information on the man his team was hunting. She was also harboring a major secret. Blayd Caldwell was the team trouble maker. The one who rarely took things seriously. But when his team gets an unexpected visitor in the middle of the night, he suddenly wants to be a better person. To prove that he can be the man who takes care of Franni and the problem that brought her to their doorstep. Franni Accardo never had a say in her life. Not who she married or how she lived.

Ally is desperate for a change of scenery. So, hoping to rebuild her life, she heads to an isolated retreat outside of a small town. But things move on their own, screams echo from the basement, and Ally sees a shadowy figure out of the corner of her eye. Is the retreat haunted? And if it is, what does the ghost want with Ally?

When an adolescent boy is kidnapped from summer camp, the cops come up empty-handed—no leads, no suspects, and no motives. All Jacques Tillery wants is to peacefully retire from private investigation, but when the case piques his interest, Jacques discovers a string of similar unsolved kidnappings from decades past. As he digs deeper, Jacques realizes there may be a shocking link between the old kidnappings and the boy’s recent disappearance.

When Sam was forced to retire from a long storied career with the NYPD, he hoped for the best, but prepared for the worst. The worst came one dark day when an EMP decimated the nation's power grid, plunging the entire country into darkness and stranding his wife and teenage son in the middle of Manhattan.

Following the tremendous success of The Distance Learning Playbook, K-12, education authorities Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie have teamed up with New York Times bestselling author and parenting expert Rosalind Wiseman to bring you the consummate guide to support your child's academic, social, and emotional development in any learning environment—while not overwhelming you in the process.

We all have those days, weeks, months, and years when we need to hear or read simple but powerful words to help us through a challenging time. We could use special words or quotes to help us feel better, have more courage, and feel empowered. I created Random Feel Good Comments and Quotes when I was 21-years-old. It was the time in my life when I began to understand that people do not always have me at their best interest.

Renee Benning’s bond with her twin brother Chris had been unbreakable…until it wasn’t. Now, the pair must work past their differences if they are to inherit their late grandmother’s estate. But when they arrive at their estranged grandmother’s home, their troubled past will be the least of their worries.

As an energy worker, Genesis Chandler’s job is to protect the healing pools all over planet Glory. Yet, ever since her grandmother died and her sisters left their town of Little Glory, Genesis can’t seem to find a purpose in her life anymore. She goes through her days with blinders on, reeling from having lost everyone and everything she knows and loves. Never does a person like Genesis, who is by nature gentle and unassuming, expect someone to take advantage of her grief and her disorientation …