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Are you looking to build your resilience to the challenges you face? Do you like short, powerful stories? Stories can inspire us, they convey hope and help us find meaning in the things that challenge us. Stories are a great way to connect with others and teach us about ourselves. They can also help us tap into reserves of resilience and mental toughness we didn't know we possess. This collection of 20 stories will help you do just that.

Novelist and poet George Meredith is widely regarded as the last great Victorian author. He influenced writers including Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times. This BBC collection features dramatisations of his most famous novel, The Egoist, and his witty bildungsroman The Adventures of Harry Richmond.

From David Levithan’s story about a non-binary kid collecting pieces of other people’s collections to Jenny Torres Sanchez's tale of a girl gathering types of fire while trying not to get burned to G. Neri's piece about 1970's skaters seeking opportunities to go vertical—anything can be collected and in the hands of these award-winning and bestselling authors, any collection can tell a story. Nine of the best YA novelists working today have written fiction based on a prompt from Printz-winner A.S. King (who also contributes a story) and the result is itself an extraordinary collection.

Are you one of the 2.5 million managers who have received no or little formal training and how to manage? In 1994, I was that person. It wasn't until almost 12 years later that anyone invested in me and put me into a formal management development program. In those 12 years, I had some highs and deep lows as a manager. I wanted to do my best for my team, and sometimes I would. Sometimes I'd get it very wrong. I learned by trial and error in a haphazard way. Now, almost 30 years later, I've codified the four behaviors of the best managers into what I call the CODE.