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Nicole Parsons had the perfect life, made complete with the suburban home and the proverbial white picket fence. When tragedy struck and she lost the most important people in her life, she turned away from everything she loved before; shutting out every reminder of the perfect life she lost.

It has been one year, three months, one week and six days since the accident, and Nicole is ready to stop counting the days she’s survived, and begin living again.

On a dare from her best friend, Nicole encounters Zack Walters – the popular alternative rock star and man who signifies so much of her past – and suddenly everything in Nicole’s safe and quiet life changes.

When she’s forced to face the pain she’s carried for so long, will she truly be able to heal from her past and begin to live again?

Or will her new adventure ruin her completely?

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From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, the Academy Award–winning studio behind Inside Out and Toy Story, comes an incisive book about creativity in business—sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. Fast Company raves that Creativity, Inc. “just might be the most thoughtful management book ever.”

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Huffington Post • Financial Times • Success • Inc. • Library Journal

Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation—into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about how to build a creative culture—but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.”
 
For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable.
 
As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the thirteen movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as:
 
• Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better.
• If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
• It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them.
• The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them.
• A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody.
 
Praise for Creativity, Inc.
 
“Over more than thirty years, Ed Catmull has developed methods to root out and destroy the barriers to creativity, to marry creativity to the pursuit of excellence, and, most impressive, to sustain a culture of disciplined creativity during setbacks and success.”—Jim Collins, co-author of Built to Last and author of Good to Great
 
“Too often, we seek to keep the status quo working. This is a book about breaking it.”—Seth Godin

From the Hardcover edition.

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STAND ALONE CONTEMPORARY BILLIONAIRE ROMANCE

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Sam Hunt is hellbent on making it on his own and stepping out of the shadows of his controlling and tyrannical family.  But when Sam realizes that his father hired his former secretary, April Morgan, who quit on the spot after a slight run-in with his “fling of the week,” Sam knows that something’s not right. April is just another one of his father’s pawns in one of his sick and twisted games.  

However, April is on the fast track to success and has no interest in heeding Sam’s warnings even though he’s been the leading man in many of her nightly fantasies; she’s got a job to do and she’s going to do it.  But when April realizes that Sam was right all along, she and Sam team up to take down their number one enemy:  Sam’s father.  

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The biggest asset, and biggest liability we have are inextricably linked – like light and darkness. The one thing the can lead us to success or push us into failure is our mind. The only tool we have to navigate it is our mindset. Author, Mitch A. Nelson takes us through the 7 keys of the truly wealthy. He helps us understand the difference in mentality of the poor and the wealthy and lays out practices that will set you up for success for years to come.

Mindset to Millionaire: 7 Keys to Becoming a Real Estate Millionaire lays out the foundation needed to not only become rich, but to build true wealth and to keep it. It will help you understand why the wealthy invest and what vehicles they invest their money in. It will explore the basics of real estate investing, why it’s one of the best investment vehicles and how the wealthy use it to hold their money and make more money with their money. You will even explore how to get started in Real Estate investing even if you have little or no money or credit of your own. These and other keys will help you change your mindset and set you on the path to becoming a Real Estate Millionaire!

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