Take a trip back to 1968 and fall in love with the Hawaiian Islands, a heroic surfer, and the tourist he can’t resist. When love is on the line, there’s no easy way out. Keoni Makai is famous in Hawaii for his big-wave surfing and his risky ocean rescues. He has been raised with the Hawaiian tradition of aloha, but after a tragedy strikes, his heart is no longer full to overflowing. Keoni clings to the disappearing threads of his culture, fiercely guarding his homeland and his heart to the invasion of tourists. Lou Hunter is a good girl. She's lived a sheltered life in Seattle and has always done what's expected of her. She has a decent job, a boyfriend who is marriage material, and a photography hobby that ignites her soul. She thought passion was only something she felt while looking through her camera lens until she took a trip to Hawaii and fell in love with the magic of the land and a man who embodied its rugged spirit. Lou has always strived to be perfect, but Keoni makes her want to quit trying so hard and try easy instead.

It's been known for years that usability testing can dramatically improve products. But with a typical price tag of $5,000 to $10,000 for a usability consultant to conduct each round of tests, it rarely happens. In this how-to companion to Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug spells out a streamlined approach to usability testing that anyone can easily apply to their own Web site, application, or other product. (As he said in Don't Make Me Think, "It's not rocket surgery".) Using practical advice, plenty of illustrations, and his trademark humor, Steve explains how to: Test any design, from a sketch on a napkin to a fully-functioning Web site or application Keep your focus on finding the most important problems (because no one has the time or resources to fix them all) Fix the problems that you find, using his "The least you can do" approach By paring the process of testing and fixing products down to its essentials ("A morning a month, that's all we ask"), Rocket Surgery makes it realistic for teams to test early and often, catching problems while it's still easy to fix them. Rocket Surgery Made Easy adds demonstration videos to the proven mix of clear writing, before-and-after examples, witty illustrations, and practical advice that made Don't Make Me Think so popular.

A step-by-step program that shows parents, simply and clearly, how to teach their child to read in just 20 minutes a day.

The author offers a step-by-step approach to stop smoking without the use of nicotine substitutes.

Join Bartholomew Cubbins in Dr. Seuss’s Caldecott Honor–winning picture book about a king’s magical mishap! Bored with rain, sunshine, fog, and snow, King Derwin of Didd summons his royal magicians to create something new and exciting to fall from the sky. What he gets is a storm of sticky green goo called Oobleck—which soon wreaks havock all over his kingdom! But with the assistance of the wise page boy Bartholomew, the king (along with young readers) learns that the simplest words can sometimes solve the stickiest problems.

She’s on a mission to reunite with her soul mate. He’s the fool who agreed to help her. A year ago Claudia was Hollywood’s most sought-after actress, now the only role she can get is a bit part in a tv series filmed in Hawaii. She can’t afford to say no, and Hawaii offers something more than CPR for her career—its the home of her first love, a Hawaiian hero she’s been dreaming of for six years. Henry is the best in the business. A fearless stuntman, he's used to standing in for the leading man. He’s never wanted to be the star until Claudia saunters onto set wearing the shortest shorts he’s ever seen. When an unorthodox bet throws them together, Henry finds himself agreeing to help Claudia track down her long-lost love. Now he just has to keep himself from doing something stupid, like falling in love with her. This Retro Hawaiian Romance set in 1968 contains piggy-back rides up Diamond Head Crater, skinny dipping in paradise, and a pair of friends who can’t keep their hands off each other. Fans of Try Easy will love this next installment of the Aloha Series, a stand-alone friends-to-lovers romance.

When it comes to creating ideas, we hold ourselves back. That's because inside each of us is an internal editor whose job is to forever polish our thoughts, so we sound smart and in control, and so that we fit into society. But what happens when we encounter problems where such conventional thinking fails us? How to get unstuck? For Mark Levy, t...