He's always protected me since I was eight years old, the neglected girl he took off the street and raised as his own. Laszlo can feel what music needs instinctively. He can tell what I need.My world shattered the night of my eighteenth birthday and he still hasn't forgiven me for what I did. I'm not asking him to love me, touch me, take me to bed. What I want goes deeper than that and I have to say this out loud because it's one thing that music won't be able to tell him.I want what only Laszlo can give me. I want to be his protégé again. And this time, I'm going to be so good for him.Yes, maestro.Yes, sir.Yes, daddy.

Having survived his rise to Chairman of Everest Capital, the world's largest private equity firm, and the ferocious attempts on his life that ensued, Christian Gillette finally seems safely perched atop the financial industry. He's just accepted Everest's largest private investment, he's poised to takeover his ex-rival's sinking firm, and he's just embarked on his firm's most exciting venture to date, buying the NFL's newest team -- the Las Vegas Twenty-Ones. Plus, one of his young employees -- an ambitious deal maker named David Wright -- has caught his eye. Wright reminds Gillette of himself just a few years back, and he's drawn to the thought of teaching the wunderkind everything the ups and downs of the industry. But everything comes to a screeching halt when a shadowy man calls him to a meeting, requesting a favor and offering in return new information about Gillette's father and his still mysterious death. Christian Gillette can't stand to be controlled, but he also can't afford to lose a chance at finally learning something substantive about his father's death. And as he becames more entangled with the strange deal, and the frantic pace of business continues without his full attention, he feels his grip on Everest weakening -- and soon realizes his life is once more in desperate jeopardy. When all signs begin to point to David Wright, Gillette realizes that his toughest decision as Chairman lies directly ahead...

Steve Saccone shows how you can raise up leaders from within your own community and develop them into passionate, faithful servants of God. You will be personally challenged to grow as you discover how to cultivate a culture of leadership development in your ministry.

A mentor-protege program is an arrangement in which mentors businesses, typically experienced prime contractors provide technical, managerial, and other business development assistance to eligible small businesses, or proteges. In return, the programs provide incentives for mentor participation, such as credit towardsubcontracting goals, additional evaluation points toward the awarding of contracts, an annual award to the mentor providing the most effective developmental support to a protege, and in some cases, cost reimbursement. Overall, mentor-protege programs seek to enhance the ability of small businesses to compete more successfully for federal government contracts by furnishing them with assistance to improve their performance. This report identifies 13 federal agencies that currently have mentor-protege programs and examines whether they are effectively supporting the goal of increasing small business participation in federal government contracting. Includes recommendations. Figures. This is a print on demand report.

Unconsciously, she tried to pass her damp tongue over her dry upper lip-her tongue was cut short by thick tape. Terry Mitchel was confused. The sound of tinkering caught her ear. It reminded her of her father in the garage on a Saturday afternoon when she was a young girl in Ohio. The comforting memory gave her great pain. Her reflex effort to wipe her mouth was stopped by a chain and dog collar shackling her hand. She knew her father wasn't around. Consciousness set in, revealing her desperate situation. The taste and smell of stale beer and chloroform quickly became insignificant when she viewed her naked body stretched out beneath her. "Good evening, my dear." The cold and deliberate voice of the madman introduced a terror-filled shock through her body. "Welcome to the show." In this spine-tingling murder mystery, professor Tim Wernick must become the unwilling protégé of a ruthless murderer if he hopes to conceal his own previous criminal activity. Author Christopher Scott presents a fascinating mix of clues as he poses the challenging question: Do we all have the capacity to kill?