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Traditional leadership frameworks emphasize control over making connections, but that underestimates the value of collaboration. By sharing the lessons of facilitative leadership, Invisible Leader gives you a new framework for tapping into your team’s potential. This book will show you how to approach, prepare, and guide team meetings to their best outcomes as well as how to use reflection to improve every stage of your work.

In 1884 London, 12-year-old Albert Gladwyck must decide whether to follow his generous heart or learn to harden it in the harsh world in which he lives. As a River Thames scavenger, he has made the find of a lifetime, a wrecked boat full of goods, washed up on the Isle of Dogs and hidden from view. To save himself and his mum from severe poverty, he must try to make salvage from the wreck before the other mudlarks find it, before the bully, George Hardly, catches up to him, before illness and death from the poisonous river have a say in the matter.

In Victorian London, the greatest city of the richest country in the world, the industrial revolution has created a world of decadence and prosperity, but also one of unimaginable suffering. Ever-present in its streets are rats, parasites, filth, death, decay, danger and sorrow. Catherine Eddowes is found murdered gruesomely in the street. When the police make their report, the only indicators of her life are the possessions carried on her person, likely everything she owned in the world.

In many of my books, we discuss the different tools that are in use by a narcissist who is being a nuisance to those around him. He uses threats, coercion, gas-lighting, manipulation, lying, cheating, triangulation and cognitive dissonance to prey on his victims.

Across the nation, Americans are undergoing an intense period of self-examination. How are our identities and behaviors shaped by the groups to which we belong? How can we reach past our own biases to better understand others? The study of sociology can help us answer these questions, making us better citizens in the process. 

Liebe ist schön, aber kompliziert. Sprottes Mama z. B. kann sich nicht entscheiden, ob sie wieder heiraten soll oder nicht. Trude entdeckt ihre Vorliebe für schwarze Locken. Frieda muss sich mit einer Wochenendfreundschaft herumärgern. Und Wilmas erste Liebe ist ein Mädchen. Das fünfte Hühner-Abenteuer von Cornelia Funke erstmalig als Hörspiel. Aufwendig produziert, mit tollen Songs und fantastischen Stimmen.

Control Your Clutter! is a book that is going to show you how to gain control of the clutter in your house so you can reclaim a calm, stress-free life. The method in this book works even if you are a hoarder! For the person with just a little clutter to an all-out pack rat who hasn't thrown anything away for 30 years, this book has the solution to your problem. Do you have to clear away a place to sit when your family comes to visit? Even if the last time you saw your floor was 10 years ago, this book will work for you!

Winter break in England is not turning out as relaxing as I’d hoped. I’m a 17-year-old kid, walking down a deserted road in the middle of the night in a foreign country. All alone, except for a friend who is haunted, possessed, and prone to panic attacks. I really ought to have kept up better with my magical training.

Finally, a fast and natural approach to lose weight, detox your body and flush out toxins, boost metabolism and melt fat! In this audiobook, you will discover an easy way to lose weight and flush out the toxins. You will also learn the incredible power of tea and how it flushes out these toxins and help you lose weight. This audio guide will take you step by step, and enlighten you about this amazing way to lose weight.

Zoe Adams wakes up in a hospital and is stunned to learn that she has been cryogenically frozen for almost two decades. To her surprise, her husband, Michael, is America's number one hero. Not only did he fund the cure for the deadly Pod Virus, which she had contracted, he also succeeded in saving her life. She is 137-ZOE, the 137th human to survive such a harrowing ordeal. Although this earns her instant celebrity status, something doesn't feel right.

The essential guide to local government leadership.

Did you know that you have a superpower? Kitty didn't, until she was bullied at school - then she discovered the superpower that made her POWERFUL!

“Working Mothers Inspiring Others” is a collective shoutout to all the fierce, unstoppable women who are rewriting the rules of what it means to be a working mother.

A strange symbol. Supernatural events. Portals to parallel worlds. Strange things are afoot in coastal New England. A group of extraordinary writers gathered in Salem, Massachusetts, at the legendary Hawthorne Hotel to collaborate on an eerie anthology for the Witches of Salem writers’ retreat hosted by J. Thorn and Zach Bohannon. These talented writers wrote a collection of short stories in a cocreated world that will satisfy even the most hardcore dark fantasy and speculative fiction listeners. Curse of the Spiral is a new paranormal dark fantasy anthology.

Brooke Kingston is smart, capable and strong-willed, and runs her family's property with dedication and skill. More at home on horseback than in heels, her life revolves around her beloved 'boys' – showjumpers Poddy, Oddy and Sod. Then a tragic accident leaves Brooke a mess. Newcomer Lachie Cambridge is hired to manage the farm, and Brooke finds herself out of a job and out of luck. But she won't go without a fight. What she doesn't expect is Lachie himself – a handsome, gentle giant with a will to match her own.

En Malasia, en los albores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, tras un matrimonio concertado, Parvathi vive sin grandes alicientes en la opulenta mansión de su marido, un hombre mucho mayor que ella que prácticamente la desprecia. Solo gracias a la ayuda de una cocinera llena de sabiduría y a un criado quien la ama en secreto, Parvathi logra seguir adelante. Pero la invasión japonesa del país cambia su vida ya que, tras el saqueo y la ocupación de su propio hogar, Parvathi se ve obligada a convertirse en la geisha y amante del oficial japonés al mando.

Michelle Brown is a struggling small business owner from a small town in northwest Georgia. Just as it seems as though her entire world is crumbling beneath her, Michelle learns she is the heiress to a multi-million dollar fortune. However, she soon realizes that her blessing may indeed be her worst nightmare as she faces a trial full of conspiracy, romance, and even the paranormal.

Nachdem ich herausgefunden hatte, dass mein Verlobter mich betrügt, ertränkte ich meine Sorgen in Wein und Eiscreme. Sechs Monate später überredeten mich meine Freundinnen dazu, mich wieder unter die Leute zu wagen. Sie schenkten mir einen Gutschein fürs Abenteuer-Dating. Ich war wenig begeistert, aber ich bin keine Frau, die einer Herausforderung aus dem Weg geht. Das war der Moment, in dem ich IHN traf. Lucas Cummings. Er war nicht der klassische reiche Junge, mit dem ich sonst immer ausging. Nein, er war der Typ tougher Bad Boy, vor dem jeder Vater seine Tochter warnen würde.

Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails.

Who said marriage had to be convenient? LA party planner Poppy Collins has kept her side business - planning divorce parties as the Divorce Diva - under wraps, but keeping her sister's company afloat is proving tougher by the day. When a new divorce party prospect gives Poppy the opportunity to save the day and boost her bottom line, she can't pass it up. But this time, she's about to get way more than she bargained for...