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<b>* Celebrity Status:</b> Acker is a well-known TV personality starring on <i>Hot Bench</i>, a twice-Emmy-nominated CBS nationally syndicated show that averages 3.2 million viewers daily and is now in its sixth season.<br><br> <b>* Huge Media Platform:</b> In addition to her regular CBS television appearances, Acker has her own podcast¿<i>The Tanya Acker Show</i>¿and has done interviews for other popular news channels, shows, podcasts, and radio stations, including <i>Good Morning America</i>, <i>Entertainment Tonight</i>, <i>Wendy Williams</i>, CNN, <i>Anderson Cooper 360</i>, and countless others.<br><br><b>* First Celebrity Judge Book On This Topic:</b> From Judge Wapner to Judge Judy, there has never been a book on navigating civil court by a celebrity judge. Yet, a non-celebrity book like <i>Represent Yourself in Court</i> by Paul Bergman (published by NOLO) has sold nearly 30,000 BookScan copies in six editions since 2003.<br><br><b>* Covers Likely Legal Disputes from COVID-19 and Looting from Unruly Fringes of Protests:</b> The first everyman's legal guide to demystify and provide guidance for some of the most likely civil lawsuits to be brought and defended against in our new era of multiple national traumas.<br><br><b>* Visible High-Profile Events:</b> Acker regularly emcees high-profile public and philanthropic events, including the 2017 and 2018 Vera Institute Galas (in 2017 she moderated a conversation with Eric Holder), the 2017 and 2018 Western Justice Center Galas, and the 2016-2018 Public Counsel Galas, (in 2017, Public Counsel honored Bryan Stevenson and featured John Legend; in 2018 it honored Mike Farrell and featured Aloe Blacc).<br><br><b>* Availability for Media:</b> Acker is a frequent guest on TV and radio and also has been featured in various print and digital media. She¿s in production on <i>Hot Bench</i> generally only five days a month, so she¿ll have substantial opportunities to promote the book. <br><br><b>* Increased Need for This Book:</b> As Judge Tanya Acker explains, with today¿s increased interactions¿in person, online, in business and personal relationships¿there have never been more opportunities to offend and to take offense . . . and to sue or be sued!<br><br><b>* Judge Judy:</b> Likely foreword or blurb and support from Judge Judy.<br><br><b>* Navigation and Strategy:</b> Includes advice on understanding the bewildering processes of civil litigations, as well as strategies to win.

Helio Fred Garcia argues and warns us that consequences of incendiary rhetoric are predictable. He focuses on how Donald Trump¿s use of dehumanizing language can provoke ¿lone wolves¿ to commit acts of violence, a type of violent extremism known as stochastic terrorism. Garciäs goal is to sound the alarm about this insidious spur to violence by spelling out the mechanisms by which it works so that leaders, citizens, journalists, and others can recognize it when it occurs and hold leaders accountable.

The renowned actress behind the character Nikki Newman of The Young and the Restless tells all in this scintillating memoir, divulging the insider details of her dramatic life and sixty-year career.

The Conflict Resolution Grail explains what causes conflicts and offers the world an alternative solution. It goes beyond theory, techniques, policies, and interpersonal skills. This book helps you resolve your conflicts through awareness, compassion and a negotiator's toolbox.

From a 14-year Fox News contributor, guest anchor, and two-time New York Times bestselling author comes an unprecedented insider's account of the Fox News playbook-the production secrets and manipulation strategies Fox uses to manipulate viewers, divide families, weaponize the daily discourse of news and public opinion, and addict a core audience on right-wing rage and fear.

From the author of the celebrated classic LOUDER THAN HELL comes an oral history of the badass Heavy Metal lifestyle-the debauchery, demolition, and headbanging dedication-featuring metalhead musicians from Black Sabbath and Judas Priest to Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot to Disturbed, Megadeth, Throwdown and more.

Paul is a top business executive, neglecting everything in his race to the top. His life is interrupted when he travels to Glastonbury, England, and meets a beautiful soul reader, Christine, who reads his soul and plants the seeds that turn his life upside down. When he returns to his wife, Mary, she is skeptical. His journey both scares and intrigues her as she watches him struggle to navigate between his business and spiritual worlds. A series of synchronistic events draws Paul closer to Glastonbury and Christine, compelling him and a reluctant Mary to return, unaware that their lives will never be the same.

A stunning work of narrative history revealing how and why Adolf Hitler targeted the children of the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, making the Archduke's sons the first two Austrians deported to the Dachau concentration camp, and how the family fought back

The Full Transcript of the Most Shocking Testimony of the Trump Era

Who needs a SWAT team to escape from their own wedding? Me.My Momzilla turned us into hostages at our own ceremony, so Declan and I are getting married the good old-fashioned way, just like everybody else.By calling in his private security team, stealing away before the ceremony by helicopter, connecting to his corporate jet and heading for Las Vegas.The Boston wedding of the year is about to become a trashy Elvis drive-thru ceremony.Until the best man spills the beans and Mom, Dad, my sisters, his brothers, my maid of honor, my friend Josh, and even my cat, Chuckles, all come along for the ride.I can''t win, can I?Oh. Yeah. I already did.Love conquers all.Even my crazy family.Shopping for a Billionaire''s Wife is the 8th book in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shopping for a Billionaire series. After Declan convinces Shannon to escape from their own wedding minutes before the ceremony begins, the madcap adventures are just getting started. When the mother of the bride pries their location out of the tortured best man, the whole crazy crew follows the bride and groom to Las Vegas in this romantic comedy from Julia Kent.

Handcuffs aren't just part of their job in this sizzling new standalone romance by USA Today bestselling author, Stacey Kennedy.

The adventures of Laura, Mike, Dylan, Josie and Alex from the Her Billionaires series continue as Laura, Mike and Dylan adjust to new life with a baby. Meanwhile, Josie and Alex learn that love may not really mean never having to say yoüre sorry, but it sure does involve a great deal of commitment and honesty.With strong cameos from Darla, Trevor and Joe from the Random series, and plenty of scenes at the enighborhood diner, Jeddy¿s, The Complete Series Boxed Set is 500+ pages that takes the gang further than they ever expected on their journey to love.**This set was originally published as ¿The Complete Series Boxed Set¿ and has been renamed to ¿Completely Complicated¿.**

Hot make-out session? Check. With the dreamy obstetrician? Check. While her best friend is in labor? Um¿It¿s Complicated.Josie Mendham never meant to have her own (radically different) set of gasps and moans a few doors down from where her best friend, Laura, was giving birth. And stealing away with the obstetrician who was consulting on Lauräs case certainly wasn¿t part of any birth plan.When Dr. Alex Derjian watched the foursome enter the labor ward he did a doubletake: two dads? That defied biology as he knew it. Even more intriguing was the woman with the birthing mother and the fathers: Josie, the nurse he¿d been watching from afar for months. One elevator kiss led to an on-call room soiree and soon he was breaking every romantic rule in his playbook.Finding his way into her pants wouldn¿t be hard.But into her heart? That would be a challenge.It¿s Complicated is the much-awaited novel that combines the stories of Laura, Mike, Dylan, Josie, and Madge from the Her Two Billionaires series with Darla, Trevor and Joe from the USA Today Bestseller Random Acts of Crazy, with Alex and Josie at the center of it all.

Thought-provoking, wonderfully inventive, and filled with treachery and mystery, the soaring second book in the Split Worlds Series pulls Cathy, Will, Max, and Sam deeper into the twisted world of Fae-touched society. Cathy has been reluctantly married into the Iris family and moves to Londinium, the magical Nether reflection of London, setting her on a collision course with the restrictive, high-pressure social circles that demand propriety and obedience, things the vocal and free-spirited Cathy cannot abide. Will, meanwhile, is trying to find a compromise for his new bride, but whispers in his ear are urging him towards dark deedsSam, determined to dive back into the world of Exilium to rescue innocents, crosses paths with Cathy and Max once again as Max and the gargoyle uncover more information about the mysterious Agency and the chain of events that wiped out the Bath Chapter. Sacrifices, terrible deals, and dreadful revelations mark this second installment of Emma Newman's wondrous Split Worlds series. "e;Emma Newman has built a modern fantasy world with such lan and authority her ideas of why and how the seemingly irrational world of Fairy works should be stolen by every other writer in the field."e;-Bill Willingham, Eisner Award-winning creator of FABLES "e;With a feather-light touch, Emma Newman has crafted a very English fantasy, one brilliantly realised and quite delightful, weaving magic, mystery and parallel worlds together with ease."e;-Adam Christopher, author of MADE TO KILL

In Burton, happily-ever-afters are a specialty of the house.

What happens when you combine a hot, former SEAL and a schoolteacher who was once the love of his life before she disappeared without a trace?

The next novel from author Bryce Zabel, whose debut,Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas? won the coveted Sidewise Award for Alternate History."e;We know The Beatles let it be, but what if they worked it out instead? This book gives life to every fan's fantasy. It's a great new adventure full of twists and turns that never were, but might have been."e; -Chris Carter, host, Breakfast with the Beatles & Chris Carter's British Invasion (Sirius/XM Radio)We all know the tragic story by now. After seven years as the most popular rock-and-roll group the world has ever seen, The Beatles-torn apart by personal and creative differences-called it quits in 1970, never to play together again. The fact that their contemporaries like the Rolling Stones are still playing today makes their ending even more painful. Once There Was a Way: What if The Beatles Stayed Together? is a story of another reality, the one we wished had happened, where the Fab Four chose to work it out rather than let it be. This book is no mere fairy tale, but a chronicle crafted from the people and events of our own history, shaped to create a brand new narrative in which John, Paul, George, and Ringo find a way to stay friends and keep the band together. Imagine there was more. Lots more. It's easy if you try. "e;Hold on to your hats, folks. You're in for quite a ride."e; -Harry Turtledove, alternative history author, How Few Remain, on Surrounded by Enemies

Featuring an amazing cast of characters from the worlds of politics, athletics, entertainment and more, this is the story of how President Theodore Roosevelt helped shepherd in a sports and fitness revolution that forever changed the complexion of the United States.

A fascinating look at narcissism and the mind of the fragile bully, using the Trump presidency and other contemporary examples to underscore how this narcissism is fed by both supporters and detractors.