Family Engagement

In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams. Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group.

Join Dr. Steve Constantino as he outlines a pathway and process to engage every family on the journey toward improved student learning, including the traditionally disengaged. Revisions and additions include updated research to ensure a firmer foundation for each of its five simple principles.

Get ready to be swept away on a journey of forbidden love and intense passion as three sizzling couples fight for their happily ever afters.❣️ Lose yourself in the world of irresistible billionaires, intense second chances, and forbidden love affairs in this collection of steamy contemporary romance novels that will set your heart racing and leave you craving for more❣️ This three book series brings you: Book One: "Forbidden Billionaire Playboy Boss" Sparks fly in this scorching world of power, seduction, and desire as Noah and Nina set the boardroom ablaze in "Forbidden Billionaire...

A billionaire and a single mom have the perfect deal—until love breaches the contract. Paul needs a fiancée to inherit the family business. When his motorbike fails on way to an all-important meeting, he's stranded late at night in a large, wintry forest. After trusting the wrong guy, Nina is left desperate for a job to keep a roof over her little girl's head. When Nina saves Paul from the snowstorm, he's quick to offer her the perfect deal: a few days pretending to be his fiancée to keep her daughter's home. They shake-- and soon find that fooling others is easy. But can they fool ...

Can a fake engagement lead to real love? After so many years of looking up to her big sister, Ashlyn snaps when Grace says she’s getting married. Claiming she’s getting married too, Ashlyn scrambles to find a stand in for Mr. Right because she’s not so much as seeing someone, let alone engaged. The question is, who would be willing to pretend they’re going to marry her? Cole wants to get noticed by his boss, so when the boss’ daughter asks him a favor, he hesitates. When Cole decided he wanted more responsibility on the ranch, getting engaged to his boss’ daughter wasn’t part ...

Aleksandr Berinksi is a Russian biochemist in the United States on a visa that is about to expire. Marriage will allow him to stay - marriage to Julia Conrad. If Julia's going to save her Seattle-based company, she needs him as much as he needs her. There's a Groom Wanted in Julia's life. And not just any groom!

Elizabeth's matchmaking for Anne de Bourgh backfires when she falls for Anne's secret fiancé, Mr. Darcy. When Elizabeth Bennet arrives in London for the social season, she never expects to befriend the pale, sheltered Anne de Bourgh. Beneath Anne’s quiet exterior burns a brilliant mind yearning for freedom, and Elizabeth cannot resist drawing her into London’s glittering literary scene. Determined to find Anne true love, Elizabeth introduces her to charming playwright Julian Gardiner. She doesn’t expect to keep running into the insufferably proud Mr. Darcy—Anne’s stern guardian, ...

I’ve discovered the recipe for the perfect fake boyfriend. This one is five stars. Highly rated. But I can't keep him. It was a total accident. I went to Thanksgiving dinner with the boss's son and came home fake engaged. Jonah’s got all the ingredients to make a perfect boyfriend, even though he's clueless. I can work with that. Literally. I’m spending the month of December with a swoony fake fiancé and his gorgeous twin in Vermont while they prep for a cooking competition. Too bad this engagement has a built-in expiration date. Jonah's not the kind of guy who gives up easily, and ...

The Emmy award-winning news anchor of Outnumbered Overtime with Harris Faulkner and co-host of the talk show Outnumbered shares the lessons she learned growing up in a military family paying homage to the military ideals that shaped her and showing how everyone can benefit from bringing the wisdom of military service into their lives. Born into a military family, Harris Faulkner revered her father, a decorated career officer who served three tours of duty in Vietnam and raised his children with the values and ideals of the US military.

Mary Rose had been born and raised in Canada, but when love called her to her fiancé’s Far East, she packed up her bags, flew to Singapore three days early — and walked in on him with another woman. Unwilling to turn around and go back home, she stayed on and proved her value as a nurse at a big Singapore hospital, but after three months of being the target of well-meaning pity, she was ready to look for some other place in which to make her way in life. And to her surprise, she got one — when one of her patients, a handsome Kiwi war hero, who through an unfortunate series of ...

Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiancé who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as "killed in the line of duty." Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.

He assumed she was his fake date. She’s just the kind of woman to go with the flow. And then his whole plan blows up in his face. Nora is spontaneous with a bubbly personality. When she’s approached by a straight-laced guy who thinks she’s his arranged date, she goes along without a question. He’s easy to look at and this could be a fun way to spend a weekend. Grayson wants his family to get off his back. A quiet and compliant date to his cousin’s wedding will buy him some time. He expected her to have at least read the background document he’d provided and it was disappointing ...

Reality looks different through the eye of a camera. As the youngest daughter of a wealthy rancher, Azalea has it all—good looks, a steady boyfriend, and a scholarship to a prestigious university. It's the perfect gilded cage. Azalea longs to break free and stand on her own, to find the passion that's missing from her life. But nothing in reality resembles her dreams... until she meets Leo. Leonardo Walton is a self-made billionaire, a genius investor with an unfortunate knack for upsetting people. Determined to boost Leo's public image, his PR manager signs him up for the reality show ...

In this moving story about losing and finding love again, a woman sets out to find the perfect matches for those closest to her. Forty-eight-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others, her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man, call it meddlesome. But there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance.

The Runaway Ring When well-to-do parishioner, Signora Albi, asks Father Roberto to recommend a trustworthy housekeeper, he puts forward Tano. The teenage boy knows how to keep house and he badly needs a job to keep himself out of trouble. But when Signora Albi’s precious engagement ring goes missing, she has no doubt that Tano is the culprit and that the young priest is his unwitting accomplice. Now Roberto must find the missing ring before Signora Albi’s deadline if he is to get himself and his young friend off the hook. The Elopers’ Escapade There’s nothing Father Roberto likes ...

Levi is a wanderer at heart and he’s got his sights on getting out of Mistletoe, Montana. Now. When he gets in a horrible accident and is rescued by a beautiful stranger, Levi starts to question if what he thinks he wants is really what he wants. The only things holding him in place at the woman’s house are some bruises and a winter storm that, like all good things, must eventually come to an end. He learns her name is Tarryn and she’s more interesting than anyone he’s met in a long time. But the storm ends and he has to leave. He wants to stay, and there are a thousand reasons why ...

Fairytale romances can’t happen in real life. Or can they? It’s love at first sight when reclusive inventor Jesse Buckley meets unemployed music teacher Bronte, moonlighting as a take-out delivery driver. Okay, so splattering guacamole and sour cream over them both wasn’t the best way to impress the woman he hopes to make his wife, but from here on the only way is up, right? Still, maybe offering her a job as his chauffeur and personal assistant wasn’t one of his best ideas. It means he’ll see her almost every day, sure. It also means, as one of his employees, she’s out-of-...

To quell his grandfather’s fears of a 300 year old curse coming to fruition, the del Castillo brothers have agreed to marry or become engaged to appease the old man. All Reynard de Castillo had been looking for with Sara Woodville was an open-ended engagement with no prospect of seeing it into marriage. Stinging from the fresh wounds of a broken engagement, Sarina Woodville accepts her identical twin sister’s invitation to join her on Isla Sagrado, but on her arrival she finds herself involuntarily masquerading as her twin. Unwilling to take part in the charade, Rina is determined to ...

What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And most importantly, is there a scientific formula for love? Drs. John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman are the world’s leading relationship scientists. For the past forty years, they have been studying love. They’ve gathered data on over three thousand couples, looking at everything from their body language to the way they converse to their stress hormone levels. Their goal: to identify the building blocks of love.

How could I forget Will Myers? Wrinkled shirts, ripped jeans, and a devil may care attitude. He was my teenage bad boy. My first real love. Until the day I left town and broke both of our hearts. Four years later, I've come home, prepared to start my life all over again. But my heart never strayed too far away from Will Myers. My bad boy is a man now. The local mechanic with a perfect smile and strong, trained hands. He took one look at me and made up his mind. He still loves me and he'll do whatever it takes to have me in his bed again. We've been down this road before. It left both of us ...