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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Couldn’t put it down – Amazon reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Outstanding – Amazon reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ HOT!! – Amazon reviewer One night is never enough One Winter’s Night by Brenda Jackson Riley Westmoreland never mixes business with pleasure—until he meets his company's gorgeous new party planner. But when he gets Alpha Blake into bed, he realises one night will never be enough…and he vows to win her heart—for good. Caught in His Gilded World by Lucy Ellis For burlesque dancer Gigi Valente, L'oiseau Bleu is the only home she's ever known. She won't let new owner Khaled Kitaev destroy it, even if her body trembles in his magnificent presence… With Gigi at his side, Khaled's womanising reputation is down and his stock is up! But how long can he keep this free-spirited bird in his gilded cage? Billionaire's Baby Bind by Katherine Garbera Amberley Holbrook will not fall for billionaire city slicker Will Brady. He’s only in Texas temporarily and he’s a single father to a baby girl… If only the widower wasn’t so irresistible! A fling might be the perfect distraction but is Will ready for more?

The Billionaire Bosses Collection from Mills & Boon Including the titles:Billionaire Boss: The Billion Dollar DealBillionaire Boss: Her Unforgettable BillionaireBillionaire Boss: Hot. Single. BillionaireBillionaire Boss: Falling for the BillionaireBillionaire Bosses: Her Bachelor BillionaireBillionaire Boss: Her Brooding Billionaire

The Surprise Families and Billionaire Bosses Collection by Mills & Boon Including the titles:A Surprise Family: Against the OddsA Surprise Family: Proving their LoveA Surprise Family: Their Perfect SurpriseA Surprise Family: Written in the StarsA Surprise Family: The Perfect FamilyA Surprise Family: Baby Makes ThreeBillionaire Boss: The Billion Dollar DealBillionaire Boss: Her Unforgettable BillionaireBillionaire Boss: Hot. Single. BillionaireBillionaire Boss: Falling for the BillionaireBillionaire Bosses: Her Bachelor BillionaireBillionaire Boss: Her Brooding Billionaire

Risking it all! The only desire billionaire Stefano Moretti has for his estranged wife Anna is for revenge. Humiliatingly, she left him weeks ago—so when Anna returns to his life, with no memory of their tempestuous marriage, he’s certain fate has dealt him a winning hand. Until Stefano realises there’s something he wants even more than vengeance—Anna, back in his bed for good!•Italy’s most desirable playboy, Gianluca Benedetti, might not initially recognise Ava Lord as the beautiful bridesmaid who stole his breath and shared his bed all those years ago, but one glimpse of the curves beneath her buttoned-up clothes and it all comes rushing back!•Vitale Roccanti’s plan was simple – sleep with the daughter to get to the father. What could go wrong? But staring at the black and white headline that announces the success of his plan doesn’t feel half as satisfying as Zara did beneath his touch. But that’s nothing compared to the headline that will come in nine months’ time!

Is love a price worth paying? Nik’s not a Voronov by blood, but he’s ferociously protective of his adoptive family. So when he believes single mother Sybella is taking advantage of his grandfather, he ruthlessly strips her of her job! But as unexpected desire threatens to consume them both, sweet Sybella might just be the redemption this brooding billionaire needs…•If black sheep billionaire Deacon marries Callie, his father has promised him legitimacy and acceptance. But Callie isn’t the gold-digger Deacon was promised, and now his heart’s on the line…•Alessandra has been groomed since birth to assume the joint reins of her father’s empire. Now that day has arrived, forcing her to not only abandon her own career goals, but work closely with co-CEO and childhood nemesis Alek. As they battle for control of the company, Alessandra fights her attraction to the international playboy that could sabotage her professional future.

A Bellisimo Collection Set in the Italian Sun Including the titles:Italian Summers: Scandalous DemandsItalian Summers: The Ultimate RevengeItalian Summers: Secrets and LiesItalian Summers: For Business or PleasureItalian Summers:The Billionaire's BargainItalian Summers: Seduced by the Sea

Escape with the Passion in Paradise and Italian Summers Collections Including the titles:Stolen MomentsSecond ChancesStranded and SeducedSunset ProposalsHoliday FlingCaribbean EscapesScandalous DemandsThe Ultimate RevengeSecrets and LiesFor Business or PleasureThe Billionaire's BargainSeduced by the Sea

Is he everything she never thought she needed? Lazaro will stop at nothing to reach the top. He’s climbed his way out of poverty, but one thing is missing: entry into the highest echelons of society. And blue-blooded heiress Vanessa is the key. With her business in crisis, Vanessa is desperate. A marriage proposal of convenience will give them both everything they need. But, for Vanessa, this deal with the devil comes with a startling price…•Lulu’s secret agoraphobia won’t stop her from attending her best friend’s big day. And then she becomes stranded with cynical best man, Argentinian polo god Alejandro du Crozier! Alejandro is determined to keep Lulu under his command, so whisks her away to Buenos Ares until he knows their passion hasn’t left lasting consequences…•To secure his revenge against his cruel father, billionaire Antonio Arcuri needs a fake fiancée—fast! He demands his shy PA Emma Guilham wear his diamond. In return, he’ll help fulfil her own dreams—starting with a trip to Buenos Aires! It’s a simple charade, until the burning tension between them erupts into irresistible desire. Now Antonio must decide – vengeance or Emma…

Secrets and Scandals are Revealed in the Confessions Collection Including the titles:Confessions of the NannyConfessions of the BossConfessions of the BillionaireConfessions of the PlayboyConfessions of the MaidConfessions of the Mistress

Travel the globe with The Foreign Affairs Collection Including the titles:New York SecretsItalian NightsA Parisian Love StoryArgentinean AwakeningsLondon CallingSpanish Seduction

A triple bundle filled with every story your heart could desire Including the titles:New York SecretsItalian NightsParisian Love StoryArgentinian AwakeningsLondon CallingSpanish SeductionDare Me To Crave YouDare Me To Want YouDare Me To Need YouI Put A Spell On YouA Hex Gone WrongSeduced By The Enemy

The last decade has seen significant global changes that have impacted the library, information, and learning services and sciences. There is now a mood to find pragmatic information solutions to pressing global challenges. Future Directions in Digital Information presents the latest ideas and approaches to digital information from across the globe, portraying a sense of transition from old to new. This title is a comprehensive, international take on key themes, advances, and trends in digital information, including the impact of developing technologies. The latest volume in the 'Chandos Digital Information Review Series', this book will help practitioners and thinkers looking to keep pace with, and excel among, the digital choices and pathways on offer, to develop new systems and models, and gain information on trends in the educational and industry contexts that make up the information sphere. A group of international contributors has been assembled to give their view on how information professionals and scientists are creating the future along five distinct themes: Strategy and Design; Who are the Users?; Where Formal meets Informal; Applications and Delivery; and finally, New Paradigms. The multinational perspectives contained in this volume acquaint readers with problems, approaches, and achievements in digital information from around the world, with equity of information access emerging as a key challenge.

Presents a global perspective on how information science and services are changing and how they can best adapt Gives insight into how managers can make the best decisions about the future provision of their information services Engages key practical issues faced by information professionals such as how best to collect and deploy user data in libraries Presents digital literacy as a global theme, stressing the need to foster literacy in a broad range of contexts Interrogates how ready information professionals are for emergent technological and social change across the globe

The last decade has seen significant global changes that have impacted the library, information, and learning services and sciences. There is now a mood to find pragmatic information solutions to pressing global challenges. Future Directions in Digital Information presents the latest ideas and approaches to digital information from across the globe, portraying a sense of transition from old to new. This title is a comprehensive, international take on key themes, advances, and trends in digital information, including the impact of developing technologies. The latest volume in the ''Chandos Digital Information Review Series'', this book will help practitioners and thinkers looking to keep pace with, and excel among, the digital choices and pathways on offer, to develop new systems and models, and gain information on trends in the educational and industry contexts that make up the information sphere. A group of international contributors has been assembled to give their view on how information professionals and scientists are creating the future along five distinct themes: Strategy and Design; Who are the Users?; Where Formal meets Informal; Applications and Delivery; and finally, New Paradigms. The multinational perspectives contained in this volume acquaint readers with problems, approaches, and achievements in digital information from around the world, with equity of information access emerging as a key challenge.- Presents a global perspective on how information science and services are changing and how they can best adapt- Gives insight into how managers can make the best decisions about the future provision of their information services- Engages key practical issues faced by information professionals such as how best to collect and deploy user data in libraries- Presents digital literacy as a global theme, stressing the need to foster literacy in a broad range of contexts- Interrogates how ready information professionals are for emergent technological and social change across the globe

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by Amberley, a British-accented digital voice based on a human narrator.Nanny Maisy Edmonds is furious when a stranger tries to take her orphaned little charge-stealing a shockingly explicit kiss from her in the process! Can infamous tycoon Alexei Ranaevsky really be the child's godfather? Installed in Alexei's remote Italian villa, Maisy is intent on protecting little Kostya and doing nothing else .Alexei's childhood-turned-nightmare means he allows himself no emotional attachments. But Maisy's beguiling sweetness has the uncompromising Russian determined to seduce her down from her inexperienced pedestal .

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by Amberley, a British-accented digital voice based on a human narrator.Passion flares on and off the ice in this sizzling hockey romance!When dating-agency owner Rose Harkness approaches a world-renowned ice hockey team with a daring PR proposal, it puts her manhandling skills to the ultimate test…especially when she realizes that the best of the bunch, enigmatic owner Plato Kuragin, isn''t a man she can handle. At all.Wealth and sinful good looks have given Plato rock-star privileges when it comes to women, but Rose refuses to become another groupie–no matter how her body burns for his expert touch. But after an outrageously sexy taste of the forbidden, Rose is hooked–and her heart is in serious trouble.…

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by Amberley, a British-accented digital voice based on a human narrator.Bankrupt, homeless and alone, Lorelei St. James is an heiress on the edge. Yet she hides her desperation behind her glossy blond hair and even brighter smile. Getting lectured on her driving by a hot-tempered–and ridiculously attractive–stranger will not be what shatters her carefully crafted facade!Legendary Australian racing driver Nash Blue knows a thing or two about pride and sees straight through Lorelei’s polished front. Her vulnerabilities play havoc with his concentration. Never shy of a challenge, he begins his biggest yet: unwrapping the real Lorelei St. James….

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by Amberley, a British-accented digital voice based on a human narrator.Stripped of her defenses…Italy''s most desirable playboy, Gianluca Benedetti, might not initially recognize Ava Lord as the beautiful bridesmaid who stole his breath and shared his bed all those years ago, but one glimpse of the curves beneath her buttoned-up clothes and it all comes rushing back!When a steamy kiss between them ignites a media firestorm, Gianluca whisks Ava off to the Amalfi Coast to minimize the PR scandal. Exploring the reignited passion between them, Ava realizes the danger of opening her heart. Because the closer Gianluca gets…the more cracks in her carefully constructed armor appear.

COVID-19 is profoundly affecting the ways in which we live, learn, plan, and develop. What does COVID-19 mean for the future of digital information use and delivery, and for more traditional forms of library provision? Libraries, Digital Information, and COVID gives immediate and long-term solutions for librarians responding to the challenge of COVID-19. The book helps library leaders prepare for a post-COVID-19 world, giving guidance on developing sustainable solutions. The need for sustainable digital access has now become acute, and while offering a physical space will remain important, current events are likely to trigger a shift toward off-site working and study, making online access to information more crucial. Libraries have already been providing access to digital information as a premium service. New forms and use of materials all serve to eliminate the need for direct contact in a physical space. Such spaces will come to be predicated on evolving systems of digital information, as critical needs are met by remote delivery of goods and services. Intensified financial pressure will also shape the future, with a reassessment of information and its commercial value. In response, there will be a massification of provision through increased cooperation and collaboration. These significant transitions are driving professionals to rethink and question their identities, values, and purpose. This book responds to these issues by examining the practicalities of running a library during and after the pandemic, answering questions such as: What do we know so far? How are institutions coping? Where are providers placing themselves on the digital/print and the remote/face-to-face continuums? This edited volume gives analysis and examples from around the globe on how libraries are managing to deliver access and services during COVID-19. This practical and thoughtful book provides a framework within which library directors and their staff can plan sustainable services and collections for an uncertain future.

Focuses on the immediate practicalities of service provision under COVID-19 Considers longer-term strategic responses to emerging challenges Identifies key concerns and problems for librarians and library leaders Analyzes approaches to COVID-19 planning Presents and examines exemplars of best practice from around the world Offers practical models and a useful framework for the future

COVID-19 is profoundly affecting the ways in which we live, learn, plan, and develop. What does COVID-19 mean for the future of digital information use and delivery, and for more traditional forms of library provision? Libraries, Digital Information, and COVID gives immediate and long-term solutions for librarians responding to the challenge of COVID-19. The book helps library leaders prepare for a post-COVID-19 world, giving guidance on developing sustainable solutions. The need for sustainable digital access has now become acute, and while offering a physical space will remain important, current events are likely to trigger a shift toward off-site working and study, making online access to information more crucial. Libraries have already been providing access to digital information as a premium service. New forms and use of materials all serve to eliminate the need for direct contact in a physical space. Such spaces will come to be predicated on evolving systems of digital information, as critical needs are met by remote delivery of goods and services. Intensified financial pressure will also shape the future, with a reassessment of information and its commercial value. In response, there will be a massification of provision through increased cooperation and collaboration. These significant transitions are driving professionals to rethink and question their identities, values, and purpose. This book responds to these issues by examining the practicalities of running a library during and after the pandemic, answering questions such as: What do we know so far? How are institutions coping? Where are providers placing themselves on the digital/print and the remote/face-to-face continuums? This edited volume gives analysis and examples from around the globe on how libraries are managing to deliver access and services during COVID-19. This practical and thoughtful book provides a framework within which library directors and their staff can plan sustainable services and collections for an uncertain future.- Focuses on the immediate practicalities of service provision under COVID-19- Considers longer-term strategic responses to emerging challenges- Identifies key concerns and problems for librarians and library leaders- Analyzes approaches to COVID-19 planning- Presents and examines exemplars of best practice from around the world- Offers practical models and a useful framework for the future

Benchmarking Library, Information and Education Services: New Strategic Choices in Challenging Times provides the foundations of ongoing research in the development of collections and services. The book contributes to practical outputs of general benefit to the sector, including customers, clients or stakeholders, offering ideas for how to identify comparative strengths and weaknesses and improve or enhance present practices regardless of how well institutions currently perform. The centerpiece of the book is a description, report and analysis of a major international QB exercise that culminates in a set of good practice statements.

The benefits of the QB methodology are applicable to individual institutions. Because of the current global turbulence, individuals, leaders and whole institutions are keen to learn more about what is happening and how they can develop sustainable solutions to both immediate challenges and longer-term scenarios.� These include an analysis of third sector organizations, e-libraries, marketing information services, vocational training in higher education, the creative arts, and the role of partnerships in organizational openness.

Discusses qualitative benchmarking and it's core tenets? Helps readers understand the experiences of others and compare their own experiences to learn and adapt practices Presents tactics readers can use to identify their organization's professional identity, value and purpose Provides an idea of what the future state of library, education and public services will look like

Benchmarking Library, Information and Education Services: New Strategic Choices in Challenging Times provides the foundations of ongoing research in the development of collections and services. The book contributes to practical outputs of general benefit to the sector, including customers, clients or stakeholders, offering ideas for how to identify comparative strengths and weaknesses and improve or enhance present practices regardless of how well institutions currently perform. The centerpiece of the book is a description, report and analysis of a major international QB exercise that culminates in a set of good practice statements.The benefits of the QB methodology are applicable to individual institutions. Because of the current global turbulence, individuals, leaders and whole institutions are keen to learn more about what is happening and how they can develop sustainable solutions to both immediate challenges and longer-term scenarios.  These include an analysis of third sector organizations, e-libraries, marketing information services, vocational training in higher education, the creative arts, and the role of partnerships in organizational openness.- Discusses qualitative benchmarking and it''s core tenets　- Helps readers understand the experiences of others and compare their own experiences to learn and adapt practices- Presents tactics readers can use to identify their organization''s professional identity, value and purpose- Provides an idea of what the future state of library, education and public services will look like

Tom Jones: Close Up surpasses all other attempts to chronicle the life of a unique star who has been notoriously unforthcoming about himself. It also offers a fascinating insight into half a century of pop, spanning the Fifties pub scene of South Wales, the glitzy resort hotels of Eighties Vegas and a triumphant period of personal reinvention for a whole new generation of Jones fans at the start of the 21st century.This highly readable biography finally separates truth from myth to reveal the flesh-and-blood man behind the legend. With over 70 interviews including friends, family and colleagues, Tom Jones: Close Up offers a minutely-researched chronology of Jones'' 40-year career as well as details of his odd life of deep family ties and unbridled sexual promiscuity. From Las Vegas and L.A. to London and South Wales, the authors the pieces together the roller-coaster life of Tom Jones spanning his carer childhood and the days of legendary stardom, through the career slump in the eighties to the spectacular comeback of the Reload album. Includes 24 pages of photographs from every era of Jones'' life.

The definitive biography of one of pop music''s most private stars. Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics has always been an enigma, ill at ease with the trappings of fame, and giving away little about herself, but now the writers have given her the biography she deserves: compelling, sympathetic, unflinching and fair.

Based on current data, descriptive case studies and theoretical perspectives, Exploring Widening Access for Mature Age Students considers international techniques and approaches to non-traditional and mature students in Further and Higher Education.The book provides quantitative and qualitative information regarding contemporary ways of thinking about, and institutional responses to, widening access for mature students (WAMS). It gives an up-to-date assessment of the current climate, bringing together international voices to meet the growing and urgent requirement for working age adults to remain employable as occupational competencies evolve, and describes and enumerates approaches which are in operation to attract, educate and retain students with non-traditional entry requirements. Focused on the results of an international survey and a qualitative benchmarking exercise undertaken by ten institutions from the Global North and South, this volume offers advice and examples for best practice to those working to support wider access to Further and Higher Education for WAMS. This book provides current information and support to any education professionals who wish to understand what can be done to meet the challenge of what the future of work will look like.

Based on current data, descriptive case studies and theoretical perspectives, Exploring Widening Access for Mature Age Students considers international techniques and approaches to non-traditional and mature students in Further and Higher Education.The book provides quantitative and qualitative information regarding contemporary ways of thinking about, and institutional responses to, widening access for mature students (WAMS). It gives an up-to-date assessment of the current climate, bringing together international voices to meet the growing and urgent requirement for working age adults to remain employable as occupational competencies evolve, and describes and enumerates approaches which are in operation to attract, educate and retain students with non-traditional entry requirements. Focused on the results of an international survey and a qualitative benchmarking exercise undertaken by ten institutions from the Global North and South, this volume offers advice and examples for best practice to those working to support wider access to Further and Higher Education for WAMS. This book provides current information and support to any education professionals who wish to understand what can be done to meet the challenge of what the future of work will look like.

When purity and passion collide… Nanny Maisy Edmonds is furious when a stranger tries to take her orphaned little charge – stealing a shockingly explicit kiss from her into the bargain! Can infamous tycoon Alexei Ranaevsky really be the child’s godfather? Installed in Alexei’s remote Italian villa, Maisy is intent on protecting little Kostya – and nothing else…Alexei’s childhood-turned-nightmare means he allows himself no emotional attachments. But Maisy’s beguiling sweetness has the uncompromising Russian determined to seduce her down from her inexperienced pedestal…

The only thing this Russian’s money can’t buy… To merciless Russian Serge Marinov, Clementine Chevalier’s Mona Lisa smile and siren’s body could incite a male riot! She’s so bewitching that ground rules are required: he’ll give her nights of endless pleasure – but in the stark light of St Petersburg’s dawn he’ll be gone!Serge is Clementine’s secret fantasy come to life, but she has no interest in money – his diamonds leave her skin cold! So she sets some terms of her own: she won’t be warming his bed until he shows her she’s more than just this magnate’s plaything!

Not that kind of girl… When dating agency owner Rose Harkness approaches a world renowned ice hockey team with a daring PR proposal, it puts her man-handling skills to the ultimate test…especially when she realises that the best of the bunch, enigmatic owner Plato Kuragin, isn’t a man she can handle. At all.Wealth and sinful good-looks have given Plato rock-star privileges when it comes to women, but Rose refuses to become another groupie – no matter how her body burns for his expert touch. But after an outrageously sexy taste of the forbidden Rose is hooked – and her heart is in serious trouble…

From her BAFTA-winning television work, such as My Beautiful Son, to her big screen debut alongside Michael Caine in Educating Rita, her starring in Billy Elliot (both of which earned her Oscar nominations) and her portrayal of Mrs Weasley in the Harry Potter films, Julie Walters has worked with some of the greatest and most diverse actors and directors in the world today. In December 2005, at the British Comedy Awards, Walters - alongside longtime friend and television comedy partner Victoria Wood - picked up the Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award.Raised in a strict Catholic family in working class Birmingham, Julie Walters abandoned a nursing course to study drama at Manchester Polytechnic and went on to join the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where she cut her teeth as an actress. Over the next decade, she experienced three marriage proposals, two long-term romances and a period of heavy drinking. At the end of 1984 she met sociology student Grant Roffey and had a daughter Maisie, who was traically diagnosed with luekaemia and had to undergo years of painful chemotherapy.the authors have interviewed friends, teachers and colleagues to skilfully compile the first-ever biography of one of Britain's finest and best-loved actresses.