Effective leadership isn't what you think.You've read the management books, attended the workshops, and sat through the seminars on effective leadership. Still, your people are disengaged. It's not your fault-you've been misled by an industry that offers the same old clichés in new, shinier packages . . . and the results suck. Until now.Misled isn't a book of borrowed psychology from so-called armchair experts. Based on Lawrence Coval's fo...

In an adjacent timeline, citizenship has become a subscription service.The air carries synthesized aroma enhancers. Debt is a criminal condition. Beyond the Safe Zones, entire cities decay beneath heat, violence, and engineered neglect while the compliant drift through curated illusions of normal life.Dr. Edwin Frank has spent years surviving comfortably inside the system, as a plastic surgeon protected by wealth, routine, and denial.Then enemy of the state, Aubrey D...

Two strangers find themselves connected by a vast and mysterious library containing many wonders and still more secrets, in this powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns.The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a book-choked chamber older than empires and larger than cities.The girl has been plucked from the outskirts of civilization to be trained as a ...

**BOOK ONE IN THE BROKEN EMPIRE TRILOGY“Prince of Thorns deserves attention as the work of an iconoclast who seems determined to turn that familiar thing, Medievalesque Fantasy Trilogy, entirely on its head.”—Locus**When he was nine, he watched as his mother and brother were killed before him. By the time he was thirteen, he was the leader of a band of bloodthirsty thugs. By fifteen, he intends to be king...It’s time for Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrat...

When a strange, crinkly bag drifts into her favorite reef, curious young Luna has no idea it's the first sign of a much bigger problem. As more and more plastic finds its way into her ocean — tangling her flippers, choking the seagrass, and fooling her friends into thinking it's food — Luna discovers that her beautiful world is in danger.With help from her best friend Finn the clownfish, a wise old octopus, a grumpy but kind-hearted crab, and a whole reef full of new friends, Luna ...

One tree. A thousand hidden neighbors. Are you ready to find them?Tree House Detective: Animal Homes, Above and Below invites children and grown-ups to become nature detectives together — no forest required.Using nothing more than a backyard tree, a park on the way to school, or the one you pass every day without noticing, this book turns an ordinary walk into a hands-on investigation.Each chapter uncovers a different resident of the tree's...

The survivor of a brutal academy must exhume her own past in the first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of the Library Trilogy and the Broken Empire series.Set a thief to catch a thief. Set a monster to punish monsters.The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies—known as the kindly ones—against whom even the gods hesitate to stand. Each year a hundred girls are sold t...

On the eve of her 44th birthday, Nat's "menopause" unleashes more than just a hot flash.Blinding neon magic surges in her veins, awakening a power she never knew existed.She may have even burnt a house down…Fortunately it was her ex-husband's — and he kind of deserved it.So it turns out she's a … neon warrior witch. WTF? That was never on her bingo card.And then things get even weirder.It turns out that no-one in her life is who they are pret...

International bestselling author Mark Lawrence continues the bold new world of dark fantasy he created in the Broken Empire trilogy with the first book of the Red Queen's War...For all her reign the Red Queen has fought the long war, contested in secret, against the powers that stand behind nations, for higher stakes than land or gold. Her greatest weapon is The Silent Sister—unseen by most and unspoken of by all.The Red Queen’s grandson, Prince Jalan Kende...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] - Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] - Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] - Don Quixote [Miguel de Cervantes] - Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad] - Nostromo [Joseph Conrad] - Mo...

Frost Zone Stories book 4 offers eleven all new tales of quiet horror, supernatural, strange, haunting, dark stories.Authors:Kristal StittleIan InglisH.V. PattersonPete WardJames HobbsChristian MacklamElizabeth GuiltMark KeaneNissa HarlowKimberly Y. ChoiLawrence DagstineEdited and designed by M.M. MacLeod

Lawrence Edwards has been hailed as one of the great mystic poets of our time. The flow of grace continues to move through him to us via this fourth collection of gifts from the Beloved, Invite them in, She said - Conveyed by Kalidas. "Invite them in" is the Divine's response to all the suffering in the world. You're invited into the Divine's wise, loving, healing embrace. Yoga International described Lawrence/Kalidas as being in the tradition of Hafiz, R...