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For all professionals, knowledge of the key elements of high-quality leadership is vital, whether they are existing managers, taking on additional managerial responsibilities, or looking ahead to their career goals. This base of knowledge stretches from the individual - leading yourself - to the group, leading teams and even entire organizations. In tackling all these key aspects, the audiobook equips individuals to progress in any area of leadership and management, from team-building to strategic planning.

To most, 1865 was an eye-opening year. The American Civil War was officially over and the soldiers fortunate enough to survive the bloody conflict returned home to collect the pieces of their former lives. To young Arizonan, Robert Jack, the fateful desert homecoming marked the end to all he once knew.

She wants to go places. He's got the car. If only things were that simple. Widowed father Adrian Adams isn’t looking to change his life. He just wants to keep his seven-year-old daughter Charlie safe and happy. The last thing he expects is to suddenly lose his job as a driver for the Washington DC diplomatic community. Luckily, he’s offered a new embassy driving assignment, one that starts with a tea cup-and-tie collision with a clumsy, cute, and oddly charming Irish woman with a penchant for talking to squirrels.

Owen Gleiberman has spent his life watching movies-first at the drive-in, where his parents took him to see wildly inappropriate adult fare like Rosemary's Baby when he was a wide-eyed 9 year old, then as a possessed cinemaniac who became a film critic right out of college. In Movie Freak, his enthrallingly candid, funny, and eye-opening memoir, Gleiberman captures what it's like to live life through the movies, existing in thrall to a virtual reality that becomes, over time, more real than reality itself.

Four acclaimed erotic authors re-imagine the past.... Welcome to the hidden queer history of men loving men not so very long - and centuries - ago. In "Heaven on Earth", Lambda Literary Award winner, editor, and author Simon Sheppard evokes a noirish Depression-era setting for Wichita rich kid Eli who, with an innocent young gas station attendant as his sidekick, embarks on a bloody, lust-fueled crime spree: Bonnie and Clyde meet Leopold and Loeb.

Gayle is a teacher and each year she brings her class to the island to see the local flora and fauna, from sea birds to playful seals. Martin, the island's caretaker and only human resident, lives in and maintains the lighthouse, which opens to the public for just this one day a year. Gayle is effervescent but feels trapped, while Martin is lonely and isolated. As their love slowly builds over time, they both yearn for the annual field trip where they can finally see each other. Until one year Gayle doesn't come back, and Martin has to leave his island hideaway to find her.

I’m now living my own fairytale, but just as I think I’m coming to grips with my life in the land of Faerie, a huge plot twist comes along. There’s a new dragonet and her missing egg to deal with! It’s not all bad news though. Next, a fair rolls into town! But who knew the biggest ride of all wasn’t one they brought from the human realm? Not Daddy, and definitely not me. When the ride stops, the world as we know it is gonna be very, very different. I just know it.

Ashton Lambert, Wingman der Seattle Ice Foxes, wird vom gegnerischen Verteidiger so hart gegen die Bande geschleudert, dass er das Bewusstsein verliert. Diese dritte Gehirnerschütterung seiner Karriere in der NHL ist eine zu viel. Er ist raus – und hat nicht die geringste Idee, was er mit dem Rest seines Lebens anfangen soll. Nach vierzehn Jahren kehrt er in die kleine Stadt in New Hampshire zurück, die er mit achtzehn verlassen hat. Doch nicht nur sein Freund Coop lebt in Hazelwood, sondern auch Vivienne. Ash hat sie damals aus seinem Kopf gestrichen. Es war besser so.

A charming tale of the peddler whose stolen caps mean all kinds of monkey business.

In memory of their young daughters - Sophie, Beth and Emily - who took their own lives, three dads set out on a 300-mile journey across the country, from the windswept Lakeland fells and Peak District dales to the open plains of the Eastern fens. Putting one foot in front of the other in spite of their pain, they capture the hearts of the nation; laughing together, crying together, fighting to be heard. This book, built around personal diary entries, grew from a place of great grief and loss, but is also about the power of speaking out, of friendship and hope (and blisters).

In dieser Ausgabe 12/2024 von Spotlight Audio: Englisch wird von über zwei Milliarden Menschen auf der ganzen Welt gesprochen und ist damit eine der am weitesten verbreiteten Sprachen. Ganz gleich, wo Sie sich aufhalten, selbst geringe Englischkenntnisse können unglaublich hilfreich sein. In dieser Sonderausgabe erfahren Sie mehr über die Vielfalt des Englischen auf den Britischen Inseln, finden heraus, warum Briten und Amerikaner unterschiedliche Wörter und Ausdrücke für dieselben Dinge haben, und tauchen in die faszinierende Welt des indischen Englisch ein.

I wrote “’Twas Halloween Night” with a mind towards how Dickens, in his great holiday story, makes sure both to comment on society and to suggest ways in which we, as its members, might make it better. Thus, Jorlyn’s experience, like Scrooge’s, leads her to a greater understanding of her human family and her responsibility to it. Years ago, when I first began working on the poem, I had in mind the need for my own little boy to be aware of, and sensitive to, the world around him.

College graduate Valentina never expected to fall for the hot as hell and intimidating Derek Cole when she accepted his offer to rent his property. From cottage to mansion, Valentina is certain she doesn't deserve the fairytale unfolding. But Derek gets what he wants...and he wants her. He’s “the one” for her, but before she says I do, she has to survive a month long trip to his family’s estate in Atlanta. Gaining approval from four brothers and an over-protective mother might just be her hardest test yet.

When brilliant scientist Alex Turner and his dedicated team discover a mysterious portal network leading to parallel worlds, they are thrust into a perilous journey. Alongside his partner, the resourceful and tenacious Evelyn, Alex uncovers the remnants of advanced alien civilizations, each having faced the same enigmatic enemy: the External Force. As they navigate through treacherous landscapes, ancient ruins, and cosmic anomalies, the team pieces together the history of the External Force and its devastating impact.

Robbie had been devastated when his old Daddy dom left him, but he knew he’d been right. He wasn’t quite the right sort of Daddy that Robbie needed. Robbie needed one who let Robbie make his Little side front and center. Too bad all of those seemed taken. At least, that’s what he thought until one fateful day, Mama Lorraine reached out and took him to the Agency.

Billions of dollars change hands in the name of Christ, but is the gospel at stake?Many rightly condemn the wealth amassed by false teachers, but at a fundamental level, little differentiates their practices from those of legitimate ministries. Seminaries, Christian publishers, and other church and parachurch organizations all engage in the commerce of exchanging religious instruction for money. Now, more than ever, the church must turn to the word of God to find wisdom on these matters.

In 1994, Amy was working as a genealogist, researching a family's history. While paging through volumes of Amish, Mennonite & Apostolic Christian relatives, she came to the story of a mother and her three young children who had all died on the same day, March 13, 1900. Was it an accident? An illness of some kind? Amy soon learned that the husband and father of this young family had murdered them after being excommunicated from the Amish church.

It has been said that the greatest of saints are the greatest of receivers. The greatest at receiving what? Receiving all that Jesus has already accomplished and so freely made available. The gospel is all about Jesus. Grace is the part of the believer to receive all of Jesus. Grace is receiving the fullness of life in Jesus and the abundance of every good gift from a heavenly Father. An understanding of grace is an understanding of God. It’s God at the beginning, God in the middle, and God at the end. The gift of grace is learning to live a God-dependent and God-connected life.

An Australian soldier and survivor of the Bataan Death March seeks his missing wife. He finds tragedy, hope, and new beginnings in the gold fields of Southwestern Australia.

Maud Gonne, the legendary woman known as the Irish Joan of Arc, left her mark on everyone she met. What motivated this extraordinary person? Kim Bendheim has long been fascinated by Maud Gonne’s perplexing character, and here gives us an intensely personal assessment of her thrilling life. The product of much original research, including interviews with Gonne’s equally vivid, unconventional descendants, The Fascination of What’s Difficult is a portrait of a powerful woman who, despite her considerable flaws, continues to inspire.