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Billion Dollar Beast

Author : Olivia Hayle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789198793727
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Billion Dollar Beast written by Olivia Hayle and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My brother's billionaire best friend is my new boss. The same man who's hated me for years, you ask? Yep, the very one. Nicholas Park has the worst reputation in the city. He isn't a man you befriend-trust me, I've tried. No, he's made it crystal clear what he thinks of me. Vain. Spoiled. Undeserving. I could probably continue, but then I'd have to ask Nick for his list, and he'd say no. Courtesy of my brother, Nick reluctantly offers me a consulting job at his firm. He expects me to turn it down, of course. I accept out of spite. Three months of arguments and dark stares. Of sudden, stolen kisses at company parties. The heat between us grows, bursting into a wildfire that threatens to consume me whole. Nick has pushed me away all these years for a reason. For your own good, as he says. I'm not the man for you. But I refuse to listen. We're done playing it safe.

Billion dollar beast. Seattle billionaires

Author : Olivia Hayle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788855316910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Billion dollar beast. Seattle billionaires written by Olivia Hayle and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Billion Dollar Enemy

Author : Olivia Hayle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789198793604
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Billion Dollar Enemy written by Olivia Hayle and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My one-night stand turns out to be my billion-dollar enemy. Yeah, I'm screwed-and unfortunately not that way. I meet a handsome man at the bar, the kind you only dream about. You know the one? He drinks his whiskey neat and power oozes from his suit-clad form. The night we spend together is perfect-I'll treasure the memory for as long as I live. Until I discover who he is. Who's the billionaire asshole trying to tear down my bookstore? My one-night stand. Correction: my rich, handsome, calculating one-night stand. I hate his determination and his ruthlessness. I hate the way he smirks and the thick fall of his hair. But most of all, I hate that I can't look at him without remembering our night together-a night he's keen to repeat. During the day, we're at war. At night, we're lovers. Sorry. I think they call it, ahem, fudge buddies. The two things are strictly separated. No funny business. No emotions. And definitely no falling for him.

Billion Dollar Beast

Author : Olivia Hayle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book Billion Dollar Beast written by Olivia Hayle and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My brother's billionaire best friend is my new boss. The same man who's hated me for years, you ask? Yep, the very one. Nicholas Park has the worst reputation in the city. He isn't a man you befriend-trust me, I've tried.No, he's made it crystal clear what he thinks of me. Vain. Spoiled. Underserving. I could probably continue, but then I'd have to ask Nick for his list, and he'd say no.Courtesy of my brother, Nick reluctantly offers me a consulting job at his firm. He expects me to turn it down, of course.I accept out of spite. Three months of arguments and dark stares. Of sudden, stolen kisses at company parties. The heat between us grows, bursting into a wildfire that threatens to consume me whole.Nick has pushed me away all these years for a reason. For your own good, as he says. I'm not the man for you.But I refuse to listen.We're done playing it safe.BILLION DOLLAR BEAST is book two of the series SEATTLE BILLIONAIRES but can be read as a complete standalone. Guaranteed to have you fanning yourself, it includes a fiery heroine and a brooding, dark hero.

Billion Dollar Catch

Author : Olivia Hayle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789198793734
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Billion Dollar Catch written by Olivia Hayle and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: House-sitting a mansion for the summer sounds easy, right? Until my rich, single dad neighbor catches me in a compromising position. Hint: I'd just taken off my bikini top. He's billionaire Ethan Carter, a living legend in the tech world and father to two adorable little girls. Oh, and he's the kind of ruggedly handsome that belongs in a calendar with firefighters and puppies. "Welcome to the neighborhood," he says, grinning. The catch? He can afford to live here-I can't. Differences in income and age make anything more unthinkable, not to mention he's coming off a terrible divorce and has no time to himself. We agree we can't be anything more, even as neighborly drinks turn into not-so-neighborly kisses, and kisses turn into... well. Let's just say he finds creative ways for us to use my kitchen counter. He doesn't know if he's ready to trust again. I don't know if I'm ready to give my heart. But as summer ends, we might not have choice in the matter.

Billion Dollar Fiancé

Author : Olivia Hayle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Billion Dollar Fiancé written by Olivia Hayle and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liam Carter was once my best friend and childhood crush. Now he's a playboy billionaire in need of a fake fiancée.The first time I meet Liam again after fifteen years, I ruin his suit with marinara sauce at a fancy party. I'm the caterer, he's the guest. It's only mildly humiliating. But the second time I see him? That's when he pops the question all girls long to hear. Will you be my fake fiancée?Apparently, he needs to shed his playboy image, and fast. Liam's nothing like the boy I remember. Tall, broad and poured into tailored suits, he now has more money than he can count. In exchange for my help, he vows to make my cheating ex jealous, showing up to my job with roses in hand and crooked smiles.It's a game, just like the ones we played as kids. Well, maybe not just like those-they never involved heated kisses.But as make-believe bleeds into reality, I can't stop wondering...are we too different now to make something last?

Billion-Dollar Fish

Author : Kevin M. Bailey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022602234X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Billion-Dollar Fish written by Kevin M. Bailey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you’re eating fish but you don’t know what kind it is, it’s almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in california rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches at McDonald’s. That ubiquity has made pollock the most lucrative fish harvest in America—the fishery in the United States alone has an annual value of over one billion dollars. But even as the money rolls in, pollock is in trouble: in the last few years, the pollock population has declined by more than half, and some scientists are predicting the fishery’s eventual collapse. In Billion-Dollar Fish, Kevin M. Bailey combines his years of firsthand pollock research with a remarkable talent for storytelling to offer the first natural history of Alaska pollock. Crucial to understanding the pollock fishery, he shows, is recognizing what aspects of its natural history make pollock so very desirable to fish, while at the same time making it resilient, yet highly vulnerable to overfishing. Bailey delves into the science, politics, and economics surrounding Alaska pollock in the Bering Sea, detailing the development of the fishery, the various political machinations that have led to its current management, and, perhaps most important, its impending demise. He approaches his subject from multiple angles, bringing in the perspectives of fishermen, politicians, environmentalists, and biologists, and drawing on revealing interviews with players who range from Greenpeace activists to fishing industry lawyers. Seamlessly weaving the biology and ecology of pollock with the history and politics of the fishery, as well as Bailey’s own often raucous tales about life at sea, Billion-Dollar Fish is a book for every person interested in the troubled relationship between fish and humans, from the depths of the sea to the dinner plate.

Feed the Startup Beast: A 7-Step Guide to Big, Hairy, Outrageous Sales Growth

Author : Drew Williams
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071809066
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book Feed the Startup Beast: A 7-Step Guide to Big, Hairy, Outrageous Sales Growth written by Drew Williams and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proven 7-step marketing system for fast and furious business growth Whether you're wondering how to get your startup off the ground or looking for answers to why your business has stalled, Feed the Startup Beast will show you how to feed--and unleash--the beast that is your business. "Williams and Verney have written the operating manual for driving market share and revenue in the twenty-first century." -- Christine Crandell, chief experience innovator, New Business Strategies; Forbes.com and Huffington Post blogger "Customer enthusiasm doesn't magically happen. In this important book, you'll learn how to create the fuel that flies your business like a rocket ship to success." -- David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR "There are a lot of great marketing ideas in this book. If you use just a few of them, you'll be way out ahead of your competitors. If you use all of them, your competitors had better dive for cover." -- Lois Geller, author of Customers for Keeps and Response! and contributor to Forbes.com "Beast is indispensable for the ambitious entrepreneur looking to successfully navigate the treacherous waters of growing a business while running it." -- Leslie Bennett, serial entrepreneur and contributor to Forbes.com

Sneakers

Author : Rodrigo Corral
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0448494353
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Sneakers written by Rodrigo Corral and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sneakers overdelivers."—GQ "One of this year's coolest books."—Men's Journal "The definitive story of the sneaker universe."—WSJ Magazine Featuring exclusive interviews with Virgil Abloh (Off-White), Daniel Bailey, Ronnie Fieg (Kith), DJ Clark Kent, Serena Williams, Alexander Wang, Kobe Bryant and many, many others. Through honesty, intimacy, intelligence, and swagger, Sneakers amounts to a singular rubber-soled taxonomy, a global group portrait of a culture that’s both personal and public, driven by commitment and curiosity, and sustained by our definitive cast of storytellers, historians, and artists. An absolute necessity for design devotees and sneakerheads of all ages! Sneakers is a definitive exploration of the cultural phenomenon of sneakers, now an 85-billion-dollar-a-year industry. This gift-worthy book features 320 pages of photos and interviews with industry gurus, sports legends, and celebrities in a stunning package created by celebrated designer Rodrigo Corral. The book’s carefully-curated list of participants takes readers to the center of the action. Edson Sabajo, owner of Amsterdam’s seminal sneaker boutique, Patta, leads a sneaker hunt that starts in the back-alleys of Philadelphia and ends in the Middle East. Jeff Staple, designer of a pair of sneakers that resells for $6000, recalls the sneaker riot his design kicked off on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2005. Jim Riswold dishes on making commercials with Michael Jordan. Ronnie Fieg explains the collaborative magic of KITH. Adidas’s Rachel Muscat and Jon Wexler get philosophical about their star collaborator, Kanye West. Nike’s legendary Tinker Hatfield takes a glimpse into the future. Professional tennis player Serena Williams shares an exclusive reveal. And much, much more. From its arresting cover design and thought-provoking interiors to the unprecedented depth of its first-person accounts, Sneakers is an absolute must-have for sneaker lovers and anyone who is interested in design, creative process, street culture, branding, entrepreneurship, art and fashion.

League of Denial

Author : Mark Fainaru-Wada
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0770437567
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book League of Denial written by Mark Fainaru-Wada and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The story of how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, denied and sought to cover up mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage “League of Denial may turn out to be the most influential sports-related book of our time.”—The Boston Globe “Professional football players do not sustain frequent repetitive blows to the brain on a regular basis.” So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America’s most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL that it was facing a deadly new scourge: a chronic brain disease that was driving an alarming number of players—including some of the all-time greats—to madness. In League of Denial, award-winning ESPN investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru tell the story of a public health crisis that emerged from the playing fields of our twenty-first-century pastime. Everyone knows that football is violent and dangerous. But what the players who built the NFL into a $10 billion industry didn’t know—and what the league sought to shield from them—is that no amount of padding could protect the human brain from the force generated by modern football, that the very essence of the game could be exposing these players to brain damage. In a fast-paced narrative that moves between the NFL trenches, America’s research labs, and the boardrooms where the NFL went to war against science, League of Denial examines how the league used its power and resources to attack independent scientists and elevate its own flawed research—a campaign with echoes of Big Tobacco’s fight to deny the connection between smoking and lung cancer. It chronicles the tragic fates of players like Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, who was so disturbed at the time of his death he fantasized about shooting NFL executives, and former San Diego Chargers great Junior Seau, whose diseased brain became the target of an unseemly scientific battle between researchers and the NFL. Based on exclusive interviews, previously undisclosed documents, and private emails, this is the story of what the NFL knew and when it knew it—questions at the heart of a crisis that threatens football, from the highest levels all the way down to Pop Warner.

The Beast on the East River

Author : Nathan Tabor
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1418551864
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book The Beast on the East River written by Nathan Tabor and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2006-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to arms for Americans to assert and preserve our national sovereignty by stopping the globalist agenda of the United Nations. Is the United Nations the benign force for good that so many proclaim? Or is there a darker agenda at work behind the scenes? Nathan Tabor reveals the sinister plan behind the glossy image of world cooperation painted by the UN and its defenders. The Beast on the East River includes original research into key policy areas, including population control, education, and the international criminal court. And it offers practical steps that concerned American citizens can take before it’s too late. In his debut book, rising conservative voice Nathan Tabor offers a frightening exposé of the United Nations’ global power grab and its ruthless attempt to control US education, law, gun ownership, taxation, and reproductive rights. “We are already very nearly at the point of no return,” says Tabor, “and most Americans aren’t even aware of the impending danger. This book is a call to immediate action—read its contents very carefully. What you will discover may surprise and anger you.” “His book provides a measured intellectual argument against allowing the corrupt collectivist internationalists of the UN, and its many metastasized affiliates, to undermine and eventually steal one of America’s most precious possessions: its sovereignty.” —Henry Mark Holzer, CBN (The Christian Broadcasting Network)

Duty and the Beast

Author : Trish Morey
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373130937
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Duty and the Beast written by Trish Morey and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rescued from the clutches of a lascivious prince, Princess Aisha Peshwah quickly realizes she's jumped out of the frying pan and headfirst into the fire. Her rescuer is Zoltan Al Farouk bin Shamal--an unashamed barbarian!--who must marry Aisha himself to ensure he is crowned king. Commanding, stern and brutally attractive, Zoltan is as untamed as the desert he will be master of. Aisha wants to resist, but is drawn to this enigmatic man, and soon her innocent body begins to unravel beneath his powerful possession"--Publisher.

Billionaire Boy

Author : David Walliams
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007446357
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Billionaire Boy written by David Walliams and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious, touching and extraordinary fable from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children’s author across the globey, with EXCLUSIVE audio and video from David Walliams

Binge Times

Author : Dade Hayes
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062980025
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Binge Times written by Dade Hayes and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a disparate group of media and tech companies -- Disney, Apple, AT&T/WarnerMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal and well-funded startup Quibi – as they scramble to mount multi-billion-dollar challenges to Netflix. After spotting Netflix and the deep-pocketed Amazon Prime Video a decade’s head start, rivals from the tech and start-up realm (Apple, Quibi) and traditional media (Disney, WarnerMedia, NBCUniversal) all decided to move mountains to enter the streaming game. At a cost of billions, each went after their own piece of the market, launching five new services in a seven-month span. And just as the derby was heating up, the coronavirus pandemic arrived, a black-swan event bringing short-term benefits but also stiff challenges. The battle for streaming supremacy may end up having more than one winner, but the cost and disruption to decades-old business models have also produced a lot of losers. Binge Times reveals the true costs of the vision quest as companies are turned inside-out and repeatedly redraw their org charts and strategic plans. Stretching from Silicon Valley to Hollywood to Wall Street, it is a mesmerizing, character-rich tale of hubris and ambition, as the fate of a century-old industry hangs in the balance.

Look But Don't Touch

Author : Olivia Hayle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789198793703
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Look But Don't Touch written by Olivia Hayle and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was one rule. Don't fall in love with Grant Wood. And I broke it. God knows I didn't mean to! I only meant to push his buttons-to drive him as crazy as he drove me. He was the stone-faced CEO of my father's company and I was the spoiled daughter of his mentor. Those had been our roles for years. So what if we couldn't stand each other? When my father gave me an ultimatum, I was forced to swallow my pride and report to Grant himself. Intern extraordinaire at your service, sir. He clearly expected me to fail. Dressed in a clean-cut suit, sitting behind his desk, he took one look at me and dismissed me out of hand. Me. Ada Hathaway, a graduate of Yale and valedictorian of her class. Sure, he might be a self-made millionaire, but so what?The only good part is that he always seemed just as unnerved by me, and I loved it when his cold facade faltered. Arguing with Grant quickly became the best part of my day. But it was never meant to become anything more. He was as off-limits to me as I was to him. But our game went too far. What do we do now?

Pandemic, Inc.

Author : J. David McSwane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982177756
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Pandemic, Inc. written by J. David McSwane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This startling, vital book deserves our attention.” —San Francisco Chronicle For fans of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, from the award-winning ProPublica reporter who saw it firsthand. The United States federal government spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and ventilators was nearly impossible to find. In this brilliant nonfiction thriller, called “revelatory” by The Washington Post, award-winning investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history to fill their pockets. Determined to uncover how this was possible, he spent over a year on private jets and in secret warehouses, traveling from California to Chicago to Washington, DC, to interview both the most treacherous of profiteers and the victims of their crimes. Pandemic, Inc. is the story of the fraudster who signed a multi-million-dollar contract with the government to provide lifesaving PPE, and yet never came up with a single mask. The Navy admiral at the helm of the national hunt for additional medical resources. The Department of Health whistleblower who championed masks early on and was silenced by the government and conservative media. And the politician who callously slashed federal emergency funding and gutted the federal PPE stockpile. Winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, McSwane connects the dots between backdoor deals and the spoils systems to provide the definitive account of how this pandemic was so catastrophically mishandled. Shocking and monumental, Pandemic, Inc. exposes a system that is both deeply rigged, and singularly American.

Red Hot Rebel

Author : JB Heller
Publisher : JB Heller
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Hot Rebel written by JB Heller and published by JB Heller. This book was released on 2023-05-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lethal glares and snarky banter abound when a badass bounty hunter agrees to work alongside a virtual stranger to deliver some vigilante justice… Relocating to be a part of his baby girl's life wasn’t a hard decision for Gryphon Jamieson. After all, his family means everything to him. Meeting a beautiful woman with a skillset similar to his own was not something he was expecting. But he’s not complaining about it, in fact, he has a proposition for her… Snow Hunter is sick of being on the right side of the law when she knows without a doubt someone is guilty of a crime. She’s secretly and very happily been delivering her own form of justice to those most deserving. Until her sisters find out and demand restrictions be enforced on her dangerous extracurricular activities. Enter Gryphon, the mysterious guy who took it upon himself to save her when she most definitely did not need saving. He makes her an offer she should probably accept. So she counters—if he can find her, he can help her. After months of working side by side the two have grown closer than Snow knows how to deal with. Gryphon on the other hand wants them to be even closer… but there’s something he hasn’t told her and it could destroy the fragile bond building between them.