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Interview conducted by Ann Hughes February 2009.

Annie's aunt is the last person to get caught in scandal. She's the fashionable and integrity-conscious rock in Annie's life. When Aunt Bridge calls to say her lover has gone over the side of his yacht, Annie must run to the rescue. He left a suicide note, and Aunt Bridge claims to have been asleep the entire time, but something isn't right. Her aunt is nervous as much as she's grieving. News of the death hits Amberlon, South Carolina faster than Annie anticipated. Aunt Bridge's lover was being investigated for embezzlement. Police suspect Aunt Bridge was involved, and worse that she's hiding stolen money. With Aunt Bridge's reputation in tatters, Annie can't worry about who has been leaving gifts of chocolate on her doorstep. Are the chocolates poison or is this about something else? Then there's Stacy, who's fallen for another older guy. Annie thought she had Stacy distracted with her romance book club, but vindictive ladies with connections are out to destroy it.

How to Use Mentoring to Drive Maximum Competitive Advantage Techniques and lessons from IBM’s world-class mentoring programs—for every business and HR leader, strategist, Chief Learning Officer, consultant, trainer, and scholar For today’s enterprises, few challenges are as daunting as preparing tomorrow’s leaders. Mentoring is one of the most powerful tools at their disposal. But not all mentoring programs are equally effective, and not all companies have learned how to sustain mentoring. One company has: IBM. Intelligent Mentoring reveals how IBM has done it–and offers specific guidance and best practices you can use to achieve equally powerful results. Intelligent Mentoring shows how IBM has fully integrated a diverse portfolio of formal mentoring initiatives into both talent development and innovation promotion. Whether you’re a business leader, strategist, Chief Learning Officer, training specialist, coach, or consultant, this book presents a state-of-the-art framework for making mentoring work. Drawing on IBM’s experience, the authors demonstrate how to build a diverse portfolio of effective mentoring programs...use mentoring to strengthen organizational intelligence...build sustainable communities of mentors and mentees...promote collaboration across differences... and above all, link mentoring to strategy and use it to sustain competitive advantage. • Use mentoring to develop tomorrow’s world-class business leaders Actionable solutions and best practices from IBM’s breakthrough mentoring program • Embrace mentoring as a high-performance work practice Maximizing, capturing, and communicating the value-added impact of mentoring • Set the right goals for mentoring: then achieve them Utilize mentoring to strengthen organizational learning, improve retention, promote innovation, and more • Use mentoring to solve your organization’s most “wicked” problems How mentoring can help you respond to complex, tangled challenges you’ve never faced before

ForeWord Reviews’ IndieFab Book of the Year “Editor’s Choice Award” Independent Publisher Awards Bronze “Best Regional Fiction South” Winner of International Book Awards in “Religious Fiction” Category Set in 1940s Germantown, Tennessee, South of Everything is a magical coming of age story about the daughter of a plantation-owning family, who, despite her privileged background, finds more in common with “the help” than her own family. She develops a special kinship with her parents’ servant Old Thomas, who introduces her to the mysterious Lolololo Tree––a magical, mystical tree with healing powers that she discovers is wiser than any teacher or parent or priest. Her connection with the Lolololo Tree opens her eyes to the religious and racial prejudice of her surroundings and readers will root for her to fight against injustice and follow her heart to meet her fate.

As apartheid's crisis has deepened, so interest in South Africa's past, present and future has increased. With this, scholarly and popular writing on the country has proliferated. This 1100-entry bibliography guides the scholar or interested layman through the relevant literature on South Africa and the policy of apartheid. Its cumulative impact is how racial domination pereates all aspects of modern South African society. Brief informative annotations facilitate choice, and the extensive subject and author indexes provide quick access. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Foods and Nutrition Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition is the updated, expanded version of what has been described as a "monumental, classic work." This new edition contains more than 2,400 pages; 1,692 illustrations, 96 of which are full-color photographs; 2,800 entries (topics); and 462 tables, including a table of 2,500 food compositions. A comprehensive index enables you to find information quickly and easily.

Drawing on extensive archival research and in-depth study of both statute law and local administrative records, this book examines the complexities of vagrancy law and the realities of its practice during the long eighteenth century. As the first full-length study of vagrancy law and practice in the eighteenth century, this book will constitute an essential item in any collection of books on the old poor law.

A widow who may be ready to love again. A rakish duke who may not be reformed. Can they ever hope for a happy ending? Edward Beaufort, the Duke of Wessex, has traveled across an ocean in the midst of a war to find his little brother and heir. Having lost his own wife and son, Edward knows he must mend the breach between David and their family—especially if David is to one day assume the dukedom. Instead of welcoming him joyously, however, his brother wants nothing to do with Edward. Widowed by the redcoats four years before, Helen Carter’s primary concern is providing for her children. Fortunately, her brother-in-law David has taken her family into his home and sees to their every material need. When David’s brother appears and his pitiable attempts to reconcile with David fall short, Helen agrees to help the poor duke in his lost cause. A notorious rake ill at ease around children, Edward is nothing Helen would want, were she ever to remarry. But their platonic camaraderie grows into something deeper. If he ever hopes to win back his brother and to earn Helen’s love, Edward must prove he’s no longer a man who could only break hearts.