FIRST RULE OF JOHNSTONE COUNTRY: TRUST NO ONE No one knows the dangers of driving a stagecoach better than Red Ryan. Especially when the passenger’s a dead man, the payoff’s a gold mine, and the last stop is death . . . SECOND RULE: WATCH YOUR BACK Red Ryan should’ve known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town—in a thunder storm—and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot—and her gorgeous crew of former saloon girls. Luna asks the boys to help them find the Lucky Cuss Gold Mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man’s pocket. Buttons can’t refuse a pretty lady—or the lure of gold. But Red has a feeling they’re playing with fire. Especially when the map leads them straight into crossfire of a ferocious range war, a 400-pound load of pure evil known as Papa Mace Rathmore—and his backwoods clan of sadistic, kill-crazy hillbillies . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

How do you cope with impossible people? The author offers clear and direct answers for dealing with relationships that give so little but demand so much.

Illinois State Senator Rickey Hendon pulls no punches when he writes about how to organize and manage a successful political campaign. Hendon is a 17-year veteran of the Illinois Senate, and here he outlines in lively and accelerated prose the nuts and bolts of running a political campaign, and conveys insider strategies for winning every time.

Crap teaches which types of crap are useful (and which aren't), how to avoid crap when possible, deal with it when it can’t be avoided, and how you can flush it out of your life. You'll learn how to break the crap-cycle once and for all with quotes from noted crap-coping experts like Homer Simpson and Kurt Vonnegut, and even get a few little-known biological and scientific facts about--yeah, you guessed it--literal crap.

Queens of Mean is an immediate call to action—to stop the bullying and emotional cruelty of girls toward each other in our schools and communities. The book personifies each emotional strategy as a “queen of mean,” identifying the need to empower girls toward more productive uses of emotion. Through this book, readers will be reminded or become more aware of the difficulties growing up as a girl in today’s society. The chapters include ideas to empower girls, celebrate individuality, and end the decades of vicious cycles where girl bullies then grow up to be women bullying in the workplace. Dr. Dickinson knows that some grown-up girls continue to be very mean to each other, and she hopes to help girls grow up to be women who care about and support each other.

The idea of leadership failure and derailment has been brushed under the carpet for far too long and only now are statistics appearing on the sheer number of leaders who fail at their jobs. Backstabbers and Bullies provides the latest psychiatric and clinical perspectives on dark-side behaviour, including: - recognising and coping with over-confident, narcissistic and psychopathic leaders; - causes of leadership derailment and failure; - corrupt corporate cultures; and - the criminal personality. Fascinating reading for anyone who has worked alongside a corporate psychopath, business narcissist or histrionic show-off, Backstabbers and Bullies goes beyond the science to explain how to better understand, manage and prevent dark-side behaviour, as well as presenting advice for reducing derailment potential for yourself, your colleagues and your organisation.

One of the top reasons people change jobs is to escape the drama in the workplace-drama that is often precipitated by difficult bosses and difficult coworkers. But difficult people are found in every workplace, and running from them does not make them go away. In The Drama-Free Workweek, author Treivor Branch provides quick tips to manage workplace drama and the people who cause it. The Drama-Free Workweek identifies the most common types of troublesome people, including the backstabber, the gossiper, the micro-manager, the bully, the downer, the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the dumper, the swiper, and the know-it-all. Ms. Branch, a workplace issues consultant and executive career coach, specializes in maximizing workplace relationships by providing both managers and employees with solutions for handling these office detractors. A handy pocket guide, The Drama-Free Workweek helps you learn the secrets to quickly move from conflict to collaboration and make your working conditions virtually drama free.