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In her breakout business book, corporate coach and business guru Jeanet Wade distills the essence of team and company success. The secret sauce to great teams, vibrant organizations, and happy people? Human nature. In a series of engaging and provocative chapters, she combines business research with anecdotes from her career and her executive client sessions, showing how we can attend to human needs by clarifying assignments, showing baseline consideration, and inspiring confidence.

To discover what is true about ourselves, we often have to take a quest and undergo initiations that test us to the core. In this Celtic Heroine’s journey, a young modern-day woman, through a series of mystical events, realizes that she was a Lady of the Lake in a previous life. Believing she is a normal person just like any other, Nina has no idea of the mysteries that await her in Britain. She was, as it turns out, fifth century Nimue, the one responsible for sealing Merlin up in a tree until the hour of his return.

At the heart of Oxford University life, the Bodleian Library is one of the oldest working libraries in Europe with some of its reading rooms - the medieval Duke Humfrey’s Library and the circular Radcliffe Camera - immortalised in films, including The Golden Compass the Harry Potter franchise. With access to priceless archives including Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons, this documentary reveals how the Elizabethan diplomat Sir Thomas Bodley created this extraordinary library and how it flourishes as a modern institution.

Struggling with long-buried family secrets and her own recent heartbreak, artist and pet portraitist Susie Mahl hopes her brief sojourn as an art tutor at a Scottish country house will prove a distraction. But Susie soon realises she has bigger problems than teaching her eclectic mix of students to draw a Highland cow. Beneath the beautiful landscapes of the Scottish Highlands and the grandeur of the Auchen Laggan Tosh estate lie hidden secrets. Can Susie work out what exactly is going on before it’s too late? And can anyone be trusted?

Rachel Brighton isn't your average civil servant. She's a sexual ambassador for the human race. It's not a bad job, if you don't mind prudes calling you a "star slut". The year is 2030 and the aliens have landed, but they don't want to rule the planet. They want to woo it. An insidious plague has rendered human women the last fertile females in the galaxy, and transformed Earth into its number one mating destination. After rounding up the male population, the aliens make a deal with the new female-led government: Teach us how to make love to human women and we'll return your men.

Let Joanna help you start feeling the Walkactive benefits as she takes you through the fundamentals of the Basic Walkactive Technique. Introducing you to the correct feet, hip, neck & shoulder and arm position as you walk. With simple drills and clear coaching tuition as you walk, this audio will help you get the fundamentals right, improving your technique so you feel better, look better and perform better.

The House of Mirth is centered on Lily Bart, a New York socialite who attempts to secure a husband and a place in affluent society. It was one of the first novels of manners to emerge in American literature.

W wypadku rozwoju osobistego, zmian i wszelkich zainspirowanych działań to właśnie serce i dusza mają decydujący głos. Niech te felietony działają tak, jak tego potrzebujesz: będą wskazówką, inspiracją do konkretnych działań albo niech po prostu wprowadzą Cię w lepszy nastrój. Wiem jedno, na pewno będzie Ci z tym wszystkim dobrze, bo w każdej z miniaturek jest cząstka mojej miłości do ludzi i wiary w to, że proponowane spojrzenie zwiększa szansę na odczuwanie szczęścia.

Change is the new norm in society, and it's having a devastating impact on organizations. The proof? Insecure, demoralized employees and the lowest levels ever of employee engagement. In Conscious Culture, Joanna Barclay shares 30 years of business transformation experience. Leaders learn how to awaken the life force energy within values, ethics, and leadership that ignites performance and employee engagement. With the ABCs of culture change, she provides a blueprint for leaders to consciously create a high-performing, values-driven organization.

Deputy Elliot James is a walking—and flying—contradiction. A loner crow. An outlaw cop. A shifter who shows up to events on time and dressed appropriately, more or less. Hazel’s struggling to come to terms with Elliot’s complex double life. She’s got trust issues and who could blame her, after a magical upbringing more screwed up than Cinderella’s? But now Granny Sage, Hazel’s beloved mentor, lies helpless in a magical coma.

Stealing objects for supernatural clients is my bread and butter. Murder? Not so much. As a phoenix, I’m used to burning hot and rising from the ashes. That’s why I chose to make my living as a world-class thief. Some say it’s dangerous. I call it fun. Or it is until someone beats me to my latest mark, stealing the prize and killing a fae duke in the process. To add insult to injury, I get blamed for the gruesome murder.

Iza, mloda absolwentka skandynawistyki, chociaz jest mloda osoba, to dzwiga juz duzy bagaz nieprzyjemnych doswiadczen zwiazanych z plcia przeciwna. Wielkim rozczarowaniem okazal sie byc dla niej nieszczesliwy zwiazek malzenski ze Szwedem, z którym mieszkala przez 4 lata w jego rodzinnym kraju.

Matylda prowadzi pensjonat w Pobierowie i nawet nie przypuszcza, co przyniesie nadchodzace lato. Przyjazd wyjatkowych gosci sprawi bowiem, ze te wakacje beda inne niz wszystkie do tej pory. Iwona, Zoja, Aldona zmagaja sie z problemami zyciowymi i niezrealizowanymi marzeniami. Ryszard zjawia sie w pensjonacie z wnuczkiem Antosiem, ale szybko wychodzi na jaw, ze wcale nie jest spokrewniony z chlopcem. Dorota i Piotr zas to mlode malzenstwo, które wskutek niedawnej tragedii przezywa powazny kryzys.

Joanna to czterdziestoletnia nauczycielka samotnie wychowujaca nastoletnia córke Lusie. Zmeczona praca zawodowa postanawia isc na urlop zdrowotny i zaczac realizowac swe marzenia. Zamiast odpoczywac, musi jednak wyjechac, by zaopiekowac sie chora ciocia. Pobyt w Starogardzie Gdanskim okazuje sie pelen niespodzianek. Joanna zaczyna pisac, prowadzi "sledztwo" dotyczace przystojnego sasiada i udziela sie w hospicjum, przede wszystkim jednak wskutek tych doswiadczen calkowicie odmienia swe zycie.

There is a village that sits at the edge of lush rainforest, its stilted huts face the ocean, its children plunge below the water's surface with spears to learn the ways of their elders. This is the Surin Islands, on Thailand's Andaman coast, and home to the Moken, the world's last sea nomads. For centuries, the Moken roamed Burma's Mergui archipelago, diving for shellfish to trade for rice, taking shelter on land only during the monsoon season.

Who knew that BDSM would become the biggest trend in book publishing? Rachel Kramer Bussel did and has emerged as one of the top writers, editors, and experts on the subject. Serving Him pays homage to those irresistible men who control their partners with a glance, a pair of handcuffs, or a firm smack on the bottom. As true tops, the bossy hunks in these stories understand that erotic BDSM is about exulting in power that is freely yielded. Rachel and her coterie of contributors cover the full range of the male-dom’s brand of sensual sadism, from spanking and bondage to public sex and power exchange.

Córki botanika. Bliźniaczki to dwutomowa powieść romantyczno-przygodowa rozgrywająca się nad polską Biebrzą i w dalekiej Kornwalii na początku XIX wieku. Jej bohaterkami są dwie ekscentryczne siostry, Hortensja i Hiacynta, które nie godzą się na role przypisane kobietom i nieustannie wpadają w tarapaty. Hiacynta Wigura, udając bliźniaczą siostrę Hortensję, przybywa z tajną misją do dworu hrabiostwa Modlińskich. Nieoczekiwanie w majątku pojawia się Connor MacKenzie, podający się za jej szwagra, hrabiego Harcourta. Okazuje się, że przystojny szelma również szuka druidzkiego artefaktu.

TA MIŁOŚĆ NIE MOGŁA SIĘ SPEŁNIĆ. ONA ANTYROJALISTKA. ON KRÓL. PRZEZNACZENIE MIAŁO JEDNAK SWÓJ PLAN. Zabawna opowieść o przebojowej Polce, doktor habilitowanej literaturoznawstwa Malwinie Krzysztopolskiej, która nieoczekiwanie na swojej drodze spotyka króla niewielkiego królestwa Warbenii – Oskara II. Ona – temperamentna naukowczyni z niezmąconą pewnością siebie, która nigdy nie marzyła, by zostać królową. On – nobliwy dżentelmen w koronie, podporządkowany etykiecie. O ich życiu zadecydował przypadek.

Lady Abigail is a spoilt and selfish noblewoman who thinks everyone should bow to her every whim and desire! In trouble and friendless, an unexpected meeting with shadows from her past shines a light on her selfishness. Will the lady turn or continue in her selfish trajectory?

Rin is an immortal kitsune, or at least she was until a witch’s curse turned her human. To regain her yokai powers and avoid being turned into a fox, she must make the lord’s son fall in love with her before the next full moon. Her kind has been seducing humans for centuries, and it should be easy, as long as he doesn’t find out she’s a kitsune…except the curse also took her voice.