Rule Number Five

I had my whole life planned out... until I met a hockey player obsessed with breaking all of my rules. My 5 simple rules for hooking up keep me from being distracted. And now I’m so close to landing my dream internship. Nothing is going to make me break them. Even a protective hockey player with clear grey eyes, a sharp jaw, and a body that makes my breath catch. Until Jax wins a bet and one kiss has me breaking them all.

I had my whole life planned out... until I met a hockey player obsessed with breaking all of my rules. My 5 simple rules for hooking up keep me from being distracted. And now I'm so close to landing my dream internship. Nothing is going to make me break them. Even a protective hockey player with clear grey eyes, a sharp jaw, and a body that makes my breath catch. Until Jax wins a bet and one kiss has me breaking them all. TROPES: Slowburn He Falls First Friends with benefits Jealousy Mutual pining U.S.A Today Bestselling author J. Wilder writes fluffy contemporary romance steeped in delicious smut. If you want squishy, warm, happy feelings, and quality spice her books are for you.

A renowned Supreme Court advocate tells the inside story of Massachusetts v. EPA, the landmark case that made it possible for the EPA to regulate greenhouse gasses--from the Bush administration's fierce opposition, to the internecine conflicts among the petitioners, to the razor-thin 5-4 victory.

If you could fix anything about your world, if you could make it perfect?what would you do? Get a haircut? Lose those love handles? Squelch that vague feeling that you can't quite put into words until you glance around your house, your life, your universe and she isn't there any more and for some reason, you wish you were dead. But she is alive. You own a gun. You have Navy SEAL training. You know The Rules. And you know who to blame. That change you want?nothing's stopping you.

Leadership and the E5 Movement CRACK THE CODE OF GAME-CHANGING LEADERSHIP From a young backpacker sleeping on a park bench in Japan to becoming a senior leader of one of the biggest corporate giants in the world, Paul Dupuis has built a career through game-changing leadership—crafted through his own experiences as an athlete, volunteer and CEO. The E5 formula discussed in The Rule of 5 is both familiar and fresh. It’s a leadership model built in the spirit of ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’, learning from leaders like Konosuke Matsushita, the founder of Panasonic, who put ‘empathy’ and ‘enable’ at the core of his leadership approach; Jack Welch with his 3Es, who then inspired Bob McDonald at P&G to craft his own version of the 5Es; and Jim Collins, who shared his version of Level 5 Leadership in the book Good to Great with execution at the core. The E5 Movement is a call to action to all leaders worldwide to lead with impact. The five Es are: envision, express, excite, enable and execute. These five rules of leadership are both timeless and borderless. The real-life anecdotes, combined with the conversational tone of the book, make this an accessible and impactful read. Thought-provoking and practical, this book will inspire leaders to think about their own leadership, adopting the five Es on their mission to lead their teams to excellence—a true game changer. Pick your five and join the movement! PAUL DUPUIS is the CEO and chairman of Randstad Japan. Paul was formerly the CEO of Randstad India and chairman of HOPE International (JP). He is Canadian and bilingual; he speaks both English and Japanese, and has lived and worked across Asia for more than 25 years. He is an avid athlete, with a particular passion for ice hockey and volunteering. “A wonderful guide for leading in tomorrow’s rapidly changing world!” MARSHALL GOLDSMITH, #1 New York Times bestselling author “The Rule of 5 is about a compelling new mindset and a set of innovative practices game-changing leaders must quickly adopt.” DR. S. RAGHUNATH, Chairperson, Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB)

Coming August 2021 "I need her. Name your price." At twenty-three, you would think I could say no to being traded to the enemy, but that's not how life works when you grow up in an organized crime family. I consider myself lucky to have grown up at all. Ten years ago, my brother was murdered in the gang war that split the city of St. Adrian down the middle. My family took the South Side, and the North Side went to them. The Gentlemen. Now the leader of the Gentlemen is asking for my help and my father has been nice enough to agree to his terms. In exchange for my sister's protection, I need to cross the divide and live with the family that killed my brother. Too bad I've never been great at playing nice. Nico, Beck and Rush are the enemy. The leaders of the Gentlemen. They're conceited, lying, murderous assholes and they're the reason I've been trained all my life to cheat, steal, and shoot my way to the top. I'm ready to take them down from the inside. I just hope they don't get to me first. After all, a truce between two enemies is a promise waiting to be broken. Red Handed is an enemies to lovers contemporary mafia romance where the female main character will end up with multiple love interests by the end of the series. All the characters are in their mid-twenties. There are dark themes and graphic violence, but no bullying or violence toward the main character. This is book one of three.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Frontier Computing (FC 2016), Tokyo, Japan, July 13-15, 2016. This international meeting provided a forum for researchers to share current understanding of recent advances and emergence in information technology, science, and engineering, with themes in the scope of Communication Networks, Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management, Web Intelligence, and any related fields that further the development of information technology. The articles presented cover a wide spectrum of topics: database and data mining, networking and communications, web and internet of things, embedded system, soft computing, social network analysis, security and privacy, optics communication, and ubiquitous/pervasive computing. Many papers report results of great academic potential and value, and in addition, indicate promising directions of research in the focused realm of this conference series. Readers, including students, academic researchers, and professionals, will benefit from the results presented in this book. It also provides an overview of current research and can be used as a guidebook for those new to the field.