Billy has had enough of his classmates treating him differently. But then Mia arrives and announces a school visit from her uncle: a famous footballer. Maybe being a star footballer in front of his classmates will help Billy prove to his class that he can be just like them. But when even the famous footballer turns out to be just as bad as the school bullies, Billy begins to realise that perhaps he doesn't need to prove anything to anyone but himself.

How engaged are your employees, really? Companies talk about ‘employee engagement’ and they accept its importance, yet strangely, they adopt out-dated methods when analysing and measuring this engagement.A leading engagement expert offers a new framework for taking the genuine pulse of a company – so that leaders and management can truly understand how their people are feeling and know what actions to take that result in better performance. Based on making results instantly and tra...

From the beginning of software time, people have wondered why it isn’t possible to accelerate software projects by simply adding staff. This is sometimes known as the “nine women can’t make a baby in one month” problem. The most famous treatise declaring this to be impossible is Fred Brooks’ 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month, in which he declares that “adding more programmers to a late software project makes it later,” and indeed this has proven largely true over the decades.

Fated mates paranormal gay romance seriesOne kiss can change the life of a witch and shifter forever, binding their lives and magic. For some it is a wanted bond, for others it is something to be avoided. When it happens there are always consequences...Includes:The Witch's FamiliarThe Vampire's FamiliarThe Rock Star's Familiar

The last thing they wanted was love. Too bad fate had another plan…Jude Sullivan was not interested in traveling to the middle of nowhere to save some cows from whatever monster was killing them. But if that proved to the Coven that he wasn’t a threat to the paranormal community, he’d do it. He would not, however, take on a familiar or fall for the hot shifter in town. Or so he kept telling himself…No one in his small town knew that Rob Mackenzie was a bear...

When biologist Beau Evans goes on holiday to enjoy a week of snorkeling and diving, he isn’t planning to have a holiday fling…or for that fling to turn out to be his mate.As first-born twin seahorse shifter Kai was raised to rule, not just beneath the sea but also run the seahorse land-based businesses that employs many seahorse shifters and enriches them all. Falling into bed with the hot guy who looks like he needs some fun was not supposed to end up with him being consumed by th...

Wounded and left for dead, shifter Kit Linfield is stuck in his eagle form.A Christmas Eve flight with his family turned to slaughter when some hunters took aim. Kit played dead, but he needs help, or he’ll die. He wants to live to have vengeance.Errol Hart is spending Christmas alone for the first time since his divorce. When a badly wounded eagle is delivered to his care, it’s the first animal that Errol can’t communicate with. The eagle is so badly injur...

He came looking for revenge; will he walk away from love?Twenty years after fleeing Madison Gully as a scared 16-year-old who witnessed the murder of his sister, Kirk Gracewell returns as a powerful energy vampire. He wants to find the cougar shifter who killed her and make them pay.Every 10 years, the Madison cougars get together. It’s a time of celebration and meeting new partners, but also listening to the seer announce who’ll get the greatest honor - be...

All he wants is to be loved, but no one trusts a snake...Ten years ago, Dylan Lynch left home to pursue a music career against his mother’s wishes. Now he’s riding the waves of being rock star with number one albums and more money than he ever imagined, and he did it without using his deadly magic. But with his brother’s death, he knows it’s only a matter of time until he is summoned home to take his place as heir to a business he doesn’t want.Eamon Cutler ...

What's the secret of a great comeback? And how do we boost our mental fitness to succeed in sport and life?The Comeback Quotient provides inspiration and practical advice on building mental endurance and physical stamina. When bestselling sportswriter Matt Fitzgerald went through a coronavirus-George Floyd double whammy, he realized that nobody can escape setbacks in life so we all need to...

**The New York Times Bestseller“An odyssey of action and awe.” —The New York Times“A wry and tender love-letter to the best of being human.” —Benedict CumberbatchThe remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide“What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet…”**When retired math teacher...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Michael O'Leary by Matt Cooper, read by Stephen Hogan.September 2017. Ryanair cancels over 700,000 bookings and its powerful PR juggernaut comes shuddering to a halt. For once, the airline's aggressive and flamboyant CEO, Michael O'Leary, is contrite and apologetic.A month later Ryanair announces increased passenger traffic for October, year-on-year growth and increased profits. Its share price soars. For t...