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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.

People have historically been creatures of habit and curiosity at the same time, two parts of the human condition that constantly conflict with each other. This has always been true, but at certain moments in history it has been abundantly true, especially during the mid-14th century, when a boon in exploration and travel came up against a fear of the unknown.

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.

If Dolley Madison was instrumental in molding the role of first lady in the 19th century, credit can be given to Eleanor Roosevelt for revolutionizing the political nature of the role in the 20th and 21st centuries and making it possible for presidents like Bill Clinton to enlist their wives to handle political duties.

Sometimes you do not have outdoor space for a garden, but desperately want one nonetheless. Or perhaps you already have a beautiful outdoor garden, and because you enjoy the ambiance so much, you want to be able to enjoy it year-round. Indoor gardening allows you much more flexibility than outdoor gardens when growing certain types of plants that require specific temperatures. In this guide, you'll learn essential information about indoor herb gardening, vegetable gardening, and more.

Beck and Vivian never could stand each other, but they always tried their best for their mutual friend, Cassie. After the town moves on from Cassie’s murder too fast, Beck and Vivian finally find common ground: vengeance. They memorialize Cassie by secretly painting murals of her around town, a message to the world that Cassie won’t be forgotten. But Beck and Vivian are keeping secrets, like the third passenger riding in Beck’s VW bus with them - Cassie’s ghost.

Discover how to effectively overcome anger. Are you tired of being angry all the time? Are you tired of not being able to control your emotions? Not being able to control your emotions can be toxic....

This book contains proven and effective strategies on how to improve your reading speed and overall comprehension. Revealed within are secrets that will supercharge your reading speed and make you a speed-reading demon.

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.