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Business partnerships are wonderfully complex entities. As with all relationships, they are vulnerable and subject to fallibility. If you think the fact that one in every two marriages in the United States ends in divorce (that's one every 36 seconds!) is unbelievable, then consider this: The number is significantly higher for business partnerships; about 70 percent of them fail. As a business partnership relationship coach, my mission is to help flip this fail/succeed ratio.

In this unique book, author and editor Jean Marie Stine shows writers how to avoid the errors that keep most self-help books from finding publishers and off the best-seller lists if they are published.

Kyrie McCauley, author of the William C. Morris YA Debut Award winner If These Wings Could Fly, delivers a powerful contemporary YA novel about the lasting bonds of friendship and three girls fighting for each other in the aftermath of a school shooting. Perfect for fans of Laura Ruby and Mindy...

Become the parent that your child loves and want to be around, learn how to deal with problems or prevent them before it even arises. Think about your child's future.... How would you guide and help your child if they made poor life choices that led to negative relationships and disloyalty in friendships?

Archeologists were thrilled when the Badger Patrol stumbles across a previously undiscovered Indian Mound near Caruthers Corners. Just one problem: The dead body of the local sheriff was sprawled atop it. Leave it to the Quilters Club - Maddy, Lizzie, Bootsie, and Cookie, along with Maddy’s precocious granddaughter Aggie - to solve the murder mystery. At the same time trying to figure out who kidnapped Maddy’s adopted grandson N’yen. And the key to the puzzle is a Charm quilt with no two pieces alike…or aren’t there?

Maddy Madison and her Quilters Club pals solve a murder and locate a buried treasure with the help of her precious granddaughter Aggie and brainiac grandson N’yen - and an antique map quilt that people are willing to kill to get.

What does a meteorite, a murderer, and a wagonload of gold have in common? That was the puzzle Maddy Madison and her Quilters Club pals were trying to figure out. Caruthers Corners, pop. 3,212, wasn't the kind of place where psychopaths ran loose, except maybe in that outlying community that locals called Cuckoo Crossing. Maddy had lived in Indiana all her life. And she couldn't name one person hereabout that she thought capable of murder. But someone was trying to kill Maddy's husband.

How could it be? Young Aggie discovers a brontosaurus bone at Gruesome Gorge...but no dinosaur fossil has ever been discovered in Indiana before. This mystery leads the Quilters Club - those lovable amateur sleuths Maddy, Bootsie, Cookie, and Lizzie - to uncover a massive theft of museum-quality fossils, a missing octogenarian known as Commander McBragg, and a TV evangelist involved in illegal adoptions and child abuse.

Maddy Madison and her Quilters Club pals - Bootsie, the police chief's wife; Cookie, the town historian, married to a local farmer; and Lizzie, the ostentatious wife of a retired banker - along with Maddy's precocious granddaughter Aggie and brainiac grandson N'yen - are back again. But who would expect them to tangle with Russian spies and long-dead Amish murderers in this new adventure?

Amateur sleuth Maddy Madison and her Quilters Club cronies return with another cozy mystery set in Caruthers Corners, Indiana - this time the murder of a Straw Hatter in the middle of the town's annual Christmas Parade. Maybe "return" is not the right word, in that this book is a prequel, taking place before the others in this best-selling series.

Those feisty ladies of Caruthers Corners are back again. This one about the Hoople Quadruplets, a madman who wants to poison the town, and a previously unknown mate to the Reconciliation Quilt, the most valuable quilt in the world. And there's a dead body or two. Can the Quilters Club, with the help of Maddy's grandchildren Aggie and N'yen, solve the mystery? You bet, with a number of surprising twists and turns. The little Indiana town's founding fathers would likely be rolling over in their graves!

Those Quilters Club ladies - Maddy, Cookie, Bootsie, and Lizzie - don't believe in ghosts, but they have a case to solve when the ghost of Beasley Mansion scares the high school principal to death, a mysterious Phantom plants a firebomb at the Halloween Festival, and a historic pictorial quilt depicting the founding of Caruthers Corners gives an alternative history that threatens to Maddy's relationship with her husband. But can count on her granddaughter Aggie to set things right.

Those intrepid gals of the Caruthers Corners Quilters Club - Maddy, Cookie, Bootsie, and Lizzie - are back again, solving a century-old mystery with a little help from junior detectives Aggie and N'yen. This time around there's a missing patchwork quilt, said to have been stitched by a real-life witch. And it contains a mysterious message that just might lead to a Viking treasure hidden right there in the watermelon capital of the Midwest!

Lost Boys, a hidden treasure, and a traveling circus provide another puzzler for the Quilters Club - Maddy, Liz, Cookie, and Bootsie - to solve in this third outing. And it all centers around a patchwork quilt. You'll be guessing who's who till the very last word.

A rare Amish patchwork quilt is stolen. Can the Quilter's Club retrieve this missing heirloom? Maddy, Cookie, and Bootsie are on the case - which takes them along the Underground Railroad and down the Wabash in search of clues.

Members of a small-town needlecrafts society solve a centuries-old mystery in this first book in the new Quilters Club Mystery Series. You'll come to love the small Midwestern town of Caruthers Corners with its famous Watermelon Festival, placid town square, friendly folks, and sneaky politicians.

Have you ever started a business and did not sell or earn as much money as you wanted? Or are you having a tough time getting someone to buy from you? Are you lost when it comes to figuring out what people want? Don't worry! I put together this quick, easy-to-understand guide about the Art of Marketing to Customers.

Here's a collection of belly-tickling funny jokes to give your children hours of pure happiness and pleasure. Get ready to laugh!

Many people enjoy collecting things. But what happens when their "collections" grow out of control? People who have a psychological disorder called hoarding may let their teddy bear collections or garbage collections take over their entire homes! Their obsessive and compulsive acquiring of junk, collectibles, and everyday items may result in their homes becoming uninhabitable. Many hoarders' homes are even condemned!

In the newly revised Gifts of the Heart, award-winning author Bettie B. Youngs gives us 18 beautiful, poignant short stories showing us that it is our honor, as much as it is our responsibility, to use the events of daily life to help others see their lives in the most positive way possible, so as to improve the world we live in and the lives of those with whom we share it.