Download or read book How to Make Sense of Any Mess written by Abby Covert and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything is getting more complex. It is easy to be overwhelmed by the amount of information we encounter each day. Whether at work, at school, or in our personal endeavors, there's a deepening (and inescapable) need for people to work with and understand information. Information architecture is the way that we arrange the parts of something to make it understandable as a whole. When we make things for others to use, the architecture of information that we choose greatly affects our ability to deliver our intended message to our users.We all face messes made of information and people. This book defines the word "mess" the same way that most dictionaries do: "A situation where the interactions between people and information are confusing or full of difficulties." - Who doesn't bump up against messes made of information and people every day? How to Make Sense of Any Mess provides a seven step process for making sense of any mess. Each chapter contains a set of lessons as well as workbook exercises architected to help you to work through your own mess.

Download or read book Things We Never Say written by Sheila O'Flanagan and published by Headline. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheila O'Flanagan's unputdownable bestseller THINGS WE NEVER SAY is a must-read for fans of Jamie Beck and Liane Moriarty. The things we never say: A daughter doesn't say how she feels about the past... A husband is afraid to say that selling the house his wife loves is the only option... A woman hasn't said that even though they live thousands of miles apart, this man is always on her mind... If those things were said, the results could be life-changing. As Abbey - and a whole family she knew nothing of - are about to find out in this warm-hearted, thought-provoking and touching novel.

Download or read book The Rancher s Bride A Historical Western with Suspense Romance and Humor written by Ruth Ann Nordin and published by Ruth Ann Nordin. This book was released on 2020-06-27 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the right person comes at the worst possible time… Having suffered through the horrors of the Civil War, ex-doctor Thayne Jackson believes he’s the worst possible candidate for marriage. He has chosen, instead, to live a quiet and peaceful life raising his orphaned niece. But when a beautiful young woman with a two-year-old boy shows up injured in his barn, everything changes. Abby Gray has one mission: to get Lloyd back to his father. She must not get distracted by the fact that Thayne is kind and honorable, and she must certainly not dwell on her growing attraction toward him. Once she’s healed, she has to leave. She can’t stay at this ranch and make a life with him and his niece. There’s no “ifs, ands, or buts” about it. Except there’s a ten-year-old matchmaker in their midst who is determined to get the two of them together. And she’ll come up with an assortment of creative ways to do it.

Download or read book Ridorkulous A Dorky Romantic Comedy written by Mary Frame and published by Mary Frame. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awkwardland. It's where I live. And I'm the president, mayor, and sole citizen. Reese Jackson is living her safest life. This polymath is tired of trying to fit in with a small town that never knows what to do with her. Her absentee family may have forced her into dorm life for her own good, but she goes from her classes to her room and back—no parties, no dates, and no drawing attention. Until one noisy night, when Reese gets kicked out of her dorm. Fitz Moreland is living his okayest life. He’s on his own to pay for college, but he’s scraping by with an athletic scholarship and free rent with a friend. If he can keep it together, he’s on track to graduate with a useful degree, especially now that he’s finally said goodbye to his drama-loving ex-girlfriend. Until one night, when she gets him kicked out of his house. What happens when there’s one single room left for rent in the entire town and two people who desperately need it? A merrymaking, money-seeking landlord arrives and throws them into a series of ridorkulous challenges to compete for it, of course. It’s the dorky duckling versus the BMOC. The winner will get a place to live—but the loser may just forfeit their heart. keywords: only one bed, enemies to lovers, small town romance, awkward heroine, genius heroine, women friendships, nerdy romance

Download or read book The Other Husband written by Kathryn Croft and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Abby and Sienna swap husbands for a night, it sets into motion a series of events that may destroy everything. It’s a perfect evening on the night that throws a wrecking ball into Abby’s life. Bored of her daily routine and loosened up by wine at a dinner party, Abby finds herself going along with best friend Sienna’s plan for their husbands to swap homes for the night. "How funny would it be—just for fun. Just to live a different life for a few hours. That’s all!" But when something happens that night with Sienna's husband, Greg—something that neither Abby nor Greg can take back—Abby is desperate to tell her husband and Sienna the truth. But with Greg holding a huge secret over her head, she finds herself silenced. Then the unthinkable happens...Greg suddenly disappears. Is he simply running from his secrets? Or has Abby done something terrible, in order to protect her own? The most gripping and twisty psychological thriller you’ll read this year from #1 bestseller Kathryn Croft. Perfect for readers who loved Gone Girl or The Girl on the Train. Praise for Kathryn Croft and The Other Husband! "Intelligently written." —Jane Cory, author of The Lies We Tell "A well-written, enjoyable thriller." —Lesley Sanderson, author of The Birthday Weekend

Download or read book Searching for Abby written by Barbara Taylor Blomquist and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for Abby is a tale of one woman's quest for self-knowledge, for an identity. In Abby Lang's case, this quest is complicated by the fact that she was adopted at four months of age and has no knowledge of her birth family. Abby leads a life that, by most accounts, would appear to be very fulfilling. She earns a college degree, marries her college sweetheart, and lives with Matt and their three children in the house of her dreams. Yet all along the way, uncertainties about her own identity and the nature of her birth family prevent her from feeling truly happy and satisfied. Abby's discovery that their new neighbor, Kathryn, had worked for the adoption agency that placed Abby propels Abby on a search for the truth about her birth family. This search carries her on a whirlwind of emotions and in due course, the discovery of her birth family's history. All, however, is not as it first appears. What new insights will be revealed? How will they change Abby? Will Searching for Abby finally lead to the peace and fulfillment that she seeks?

Download or read book Awakening written by J. L. Miller and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the world as you had known it wasnt as it appeared? For Abigail Watson, life had always been quiet and simple until now. Still reeling from the shock that her life as she knew it was now over, Abby has to adapt to the fact that Ben is her biological father and that she had been reincarnated after 500 years. To make matters worse, Abby is part of a family that has passed powers on from generation to generation. Powers that she has been gifted but are not under her control. Abbys parents then send for an old family friend that will be able to train her. As time goes on though, thoughts of Ethan, her one true love, emerge, and she wonders where her missing wolf has gone.

Download or read book The Broken Road written by Cora Lynn and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of Abby's 29th birthday, she breaks up with Eric for the fourth and final time, which wouldn't be so bad if she had a dime to her name, a job she didn't despise, or a place to live. After crashing at her best friend's place for a while, she relents and moves back into her parents' house. Frustrated and desperate, Abby starts looking for a change. What she finds appears to be the opportunity of a lifetime, but it's all the way across the country! Feeling a drastic move is necessary; Abby accepts the position and packs her bags. But building the new life she envisioned doesn't prove as easy as she had hoped...

Download or read book Neil LaBute Plays 1 written by Neil LaBute and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filthy Talk for Troubled Time is one of LaBute's earliest plays. A downbeat night at a topless bar exposes the gulf between the twitchy clientele and the waitresses who serve but despise them. The Mercy Seat examines a couple who, on the day after a world-changing atrocity, toy with exploiting it to start a new life. Some Girl(s) follows a young writer's panicked retreat from his imminent wedding as he seeks out old girlfriends and opens new wounds, while in This Is How It Goes the breakdown of a seemingly successful marriage is complicated by submerged bigotry. The collection also includes two short plays about relationships in crisis - A Second of Pleasure and Helter Skelter - which are in equal part tender and chilling. Together these plays form a complex and compelling portrait of the sexes - sometimes warring, sometimes loving, but never fully at peace.

Download or read book Christian Register and Boston Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Desert Cabal written by Amy Irvine and published by Torrey House Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amy Irvine implores us to trade in our solitude for solidarity, to recognize ourselves in each other and in the places we love, so that we might come together to save them." —PAM HOUSTON As Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty, its iconic author, who has inspired generations of rebel-rousing advocacy on behalf of the American West, is due for a tribute as well as a talking to. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Amy Irvine admires the man who influenced her life and work while challenging all that is dated—offensive, even—between the covers of Abbey’s environmental classic. From Abbey’s quiet notion of solitude to Irvine’s roaring cabal, the desert just got hotter, and its defenders more nuanced and numerous.

Download or read book Abby s Reign written by Tammy Barborek and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenny Crenshaw was an ordinary teenage girl in high school, hanging out with her best friend Kerri. When Jenny started having headaches every day, she thought it may be stress from school and her eighteenth birthday coming up. But what was happening to Jenny was far more than an ordinary headache. It waited for Jenny; watching her, taunting with vivid images of burning flesh and screams she could not fight off. It was a feeling that she was more than just a teenage girl. When Jenny was angry, horrible things seem to happen all around her, and the words of another kept filling her head. Who was this? What did they want with her? It had begun and nothing could stop the knowledge that something was coming for her. Would she survive a curse of hundreds of years old or would it take her to the depths of hell? A rage that burned inside her would soon unleash the truth behind a curse that haunted her dreams. Would she survive or would it consume her? Would an angel come to rescue her or could the curse destroy everything and everyone around her? The thoughts ran rampant inside her head. She kept hearing voices over and over; as if her head would explode. The small town of Newton, Massachusetts, would never be the same, as the hauntings become real. Would Sara Crenshaw, Jenny's mother, be able to save her daughter or will all be lost to the past? Could Jenny's best friend, Kerri, help her uncover the past and change its course? Maybe, but she is the chosen one. Could the town, her friends, and all that Jenny loved, be destroyed as they come to claim her? Or will the divine love of an angel save her? Maybe. But then again, maybe not!

Download or read book Summer on Honeysuckle Ridge written by Debbie Mason and published by Forever. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparks fly between an L.A. career woman and a former Army Ranger in this delightful enemies-to-lovers romance from the USA Today bestselling queen of small-town love stories. Welcome to Highland Falls, a small town where love is always in the air. In just a few months Abby Everhart has gone from being a top LA media influencer to an unemployed divorcée living out of her car. So inheriting her great-aunt's homestead comes at the perfect time. Abby heads to Highland Falls, North Carolina, to spruce up Honeysuckle Farm before putting it on the market for some much-needed cash. But instead of finding a charming getaway, she discovers a serious fixer-upper, complete with a leaky roof, overgrown yard, and a reclusive -- albeit sexy -- man living on the property. Ex-Delta Force soldier Hunter MacKenzie has faced war and loss, but nothing has quite prepared him for an outgoing redhead who's determined to turn his life upside down. Hunter doesn't want to get involved with anyone, especially a city girl who plans to sell the only place he's ever felt at home. But the sparks between them are undeniable. Spending time with Abby is easy. Convincing her to stay for good is another matter entirely.

Download or read book The Ladies Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Penmort Castle written by Kristen Ashley and published by Kristen Ashley. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cash Fraser is planning revenge and to get it he needs the perfect woman. So he hires her. Abigail Butler has lost nearly everything in her life and she’s about to lose the home she loves. Cash meets Abby, who is posing as a paid escort, and the minute he does he knows he’s willing to pay for more than Abby being his pretend girlfriend. A lot more. Abby needs the money or the last thing that links her to her dead family and husband will be gone. The deal is struck but both Cash and Abby get more than they bargained for. Cash realises very quickly that Abby isn’t what she seems and while he changes strategies, Abby discovers that Cash’s legacy, Penmort Castle, is like all the tales say – very, very haunted. Making matters worse, the ghost in residence wants her dead. Abby’s found herself in the battle of her life so she enlists Mrs. Truman, her nosy neighbour; Jenny, her no-nonsense friend; Cassandra McNabb, white witch and clairvoyant with a penchant for wearing scarves (and lots of them); and Angus McPherson, dyed-in-the-wool Scot (which means he hunts ghosts in a kilt) to fight the vicious ghost who has vowed that she will rest at nothing to kill the true, abiding love of the master of Penmort.

Download or read book HARPER S MONTHLY MAGAZINE written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abigail Cottage written by Margaret West and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After receiving an inheritance of a cottage in Ireland and discovering she is adopted, Abbey Newlands goes in search of her real family. But before she arrives at the cottage, a chain of events and a whirlwind romance leaves her deeply in love with Shaun O'Donnell. When Shaun's mother, Aveline, reveals a dark twist of fate that mean they can never be together, Abbey flees to the cottage alone, pregnant and unaware that it is cursed by two demons who reside there. One who will love her, and one who wants her dead. Only Shaun has the power to save them both and lock the demons away behind Hell's door.