Being a great manager is not easy for most people. They struggle with all the different responsibilities and having to manage many people all with different personalities and skill levels."26 Ways to Become a Better Manager" shows you 26 ways (over 26 actually!) to become a better manager and how to make you job easier, more efficient and more productive."26 Ways to Become a Better Manager" will also show you easy ways to get your team behind you and WANT to work harder for...

A devious tale of psychological suspense so irresistible that it prompts Entertainment Weekly to ask, “Is The Kind Worth Killing the next Gone Girl?” From one of the hottest new thriller writers, Peter Swanson, a name you may not know yet (but soon will), this is his breakout novel in the bestselling tradition of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train—and is soon to be a major movie directed by Agnieszka Holland.In a tantalizing set-up with a twist...

What if the key to transforming your life wasn't about making drastic changes overnight but taking small, intentional steps every day? "Small Steps, Big Changes" unlocks the power of habits, showing you how even the tiniest actions can create extraordinary results.This book is a practical guide to understanding the science of habit formation, breaking bad habits, and building a life of lasting change. By focusing on the compounding power of small actions, it provides readers with a...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert“One of the most important books you’ll ever read.”—Steven D. Levitt, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomi...

Lily is an ordinary young girl living in London, but one Christmas Eve, her life takes an extraordinary turn. After a surprise visit from her grandfather, who has a secret connection to Santa Claus, Lily embarks on a magical adventure across London. Alongside Santa’s sleigh and Dasher, the reindeer, Lily helps deliver presents to people in need and learns that the true magic of Christmas isn’t just in the gifts or decorations, but in the love, kindness, and joy we share with others.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next."A rare book that makes you question your assumptions about the world.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the...

ly is an ordinary young girl living in London, but one Christmas Eve, her life takes an extraordinary turn. After a surprise visit from her grandfather, who has a secret connection to Santa Claus, Lily embarks on a magical adventure across London. Alongside Santa’s sleigh and Dasher, the reindeer, Lily helps deliver presents to people in need and learns that the true magic of Christmas isn’t just in the gifts or decorations, but in the love, kindness, and joy we share with others.A...

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Peter Behrens's bestselling novel is gorgeously written, Homeric in scope, and haunting in its depiction of a young man's perilous journey from innocence to experience. The Law of Dreams follows Fergus O'Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond -- to a harrowing Atlantic crossing to Montreal. On the way, Fergus loses his family, discovers a teeming world beyond the hill farm where h...

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, BlindsightTwo months since the stars fell...Two months of silence, while a world held its breath.Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's...

New York Times bestseller“Swanson rips us from one startling plot twist to the next… A true tour de force.” —Lisa Gardner“[A] multilayered mystery that brims with duplicity, betrayal and revenge.” —USA TodayFrom the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes a chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of ...

The "irresistible" and "compelling" first novel in the historical mystery series featuring a Welsh Benedictine monk in the twelfth century ( The Washington Post ).Edgar Award and CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorA Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey in western England, Brother Cadfael spends much of his time tending the herbs and vegetables in the garden—but now there's a more p...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, starring George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Charlie Hunnam, and Russell Crowe.The international bestseller, Booker Prize winner, and winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book.Out of 19th century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations: Ned Kelly, the son of poor Irish immigrants, viewed by the authorities as a thief (especially of horses) and, as a cold-blooded killer...