The Gift Of Something Grand

When those three little words aren't enough. Jamie Sutherland finds herself falling in love with her irresistible next-door neighbor, Joseph Scarbrough. No surprise there. But when she wakes up in his bed, she's stunned that even in her sleep, she can't resist him. As their relationship heats up, Joseph gives Jamie a key to his apartment and he finally gives Caroline, his relentless ex-girlfriend, the boot. Jamie's excited to think he just might be the one. But how do you tell the man of your dreams you love him when he insists that he can't fall in love?

Jamett Penelope Sutherland hates her name but loves her new loft apartment especially after she meets her handsome next-door neighbor in nothing but a towel one fateful morning. Joseph Scarbrough is proficient in fixing clogged sinks and leaky roofs, but he’s not all that great at falling in love. Convinced he’s incapable, he tries to move on from a humiliating breakup with his childhood sweetheart and finds consolation in the company of the brunette who just moved in next door. As Jamie and Joseph refuse to jump into another relationship doomed to fail, fate seems determined to make their worlds collide on a regular basis. Is destiny being clumsy or is something bound to happen between the two unlikely neighbors?

From simple beginnings at Gramps' Dailey's Farm Market and composing shampoo advertisements in the shower to full-time music and preaching ministry in a local church, Linda Lee's oft en humorous recollections of God's faithfulness and intervention in trying and triumphant times seeks to bring a smile to your face, joy to your heart and a leap in your spirit. See how God can work in a common life to bring about uncommon faith and testimony. Believe God for Something Big can inspire the reader to do just that.

At some point today you will have to influence or persuade someone - your boss, a co-worker, a customer, client, spouse, your kids, or even your friends. What is the smallest change you can make to your request, proposal or situation that will lead to the biggest difference in the outcome? In The small BIG, three heavyweights from the world of persuasion science and practice -- Steve Martin, Noah Goldstein and Robert Cialdini -- describe how, in today's information overloaded and stimulation saturated world, increasingly it is the small changes that you make that lead to the biggest differences. In the last few years more and more research - from fields such as neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and behavioral economics - has helped to uncover an even greater understanding of how influence, persuasion and behavior change happens. Increasingly we are learning that it is not information per se that leads people to make decisions, but the context in which that information is presented. Drawing from extensive research in the new science of persuasion, the authors present lots of small changes (over 50 in fact) that can bring about momentous shifts in results. It turns out that anyone can significantly increase his or her ability to influence and persuade others, not by informing or educating people into change but instead by simply making small shifts in approach that link to deeply felt human motivations.