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Captain Jack Hardy of the Royal Navy was focused on fighting the French. The bastard son of the Duke of Oxford, he never expected to be accepted into his father’s world. Let alone be recognized and raised to the peerage. Forced to give up the sea, and accept the responsibilities of a British Lord, he must now navigate a new maelstrom of political intrigue and unknown enemies determined to see him dead. To make it even worse, he has agreed to his dying father’s wish that he marry. A fate worse than facing a French brig’s broadside.

Als die Grenzen zwischen Gut und Böse immer mehr verschwimmen, wird es unmöglich, Helden von Schurken zu unterscheiden. Ophelia Hart muss alte und neue Kräfte beschwören, um ihre Seelengefährten zu retten und zu verhindern, dass die Dunkelheit die Welt verschlingt. Versprechen werden gemacht, Eide geschworen und Geheimnisse gelüftet. Und jene, die im Blut verbunden sind, haben keine Wahl – sie müssen bis zum bitteren Ende kämpfen. Ein Krieg steht bevor. Und jeder muss sich entscheiden, auf welcher Seite er steht.

Like pilots navigating turbulence, CEOs must handle the invisible forces that want to drag their companies down and learn to take advantage of the ones that keep them soaring. Drawing from three decades as a growth advisor to CEOs around the world, Kevin Lawrence explains how even exceptional leaders can become victims of their own success and reveals what it takes to keep a company on course. Filled with examples from real CEOs, The 4 Forces of Growth offers a clear path to achieving real, consistent, and scalable growth by harnessing a few simple tools and avoiding common pitfalls.

Enrich your life and bank account — from a struggling entrepreneur to a happy millionaire in less than a year. Where would you like to be five years from now? On a beach, were you sipping exotic cocktails or your favorite beer? Or are you enjoying retirement and reaping the profit of your multi-million dollar businesses? For now, this seems like a mere dream because you are deep in debt, living hand to mouth, and about to give up on becoming successful.

This book is the map for how to live with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety, but it is not written by a professional. It is written by someone who deals with it everyday, with insight, struggles, and stories from fighting with most of it everyday. I open up and tell you what it's like for me and what helps.

Nina Harrow hat einen Traum: Sie will nach Belavere, der Hauptstadt des Reiches, und dort an der Alchemistenschule die Geheimnisse der Magie erlernen. Nur so kann sie der Armut ihres Dorfes entkommen, dem alkoholkranken Vater, der harten Arbeit in den Iridiumminen. Als sie zusammen mit Tausenden anderen Kindern aus allen Teilen der Welt darauf wartet, auf ihr magisches Talent geprüft zu werden, lernt sie Patrick kennen. Der vorlaute Junge hinter ihr in der Schlange überredet sie dazu, sich heimlich umzusehen.

Die gehypte Dark-Mafia-Romance von US-Shooting Star L.J. Shen endlich auf Deutsch! Willkommen in der Society of Villains! Band 2 der viralen Dark-Mafia-Romance-Reihe von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin L.J. Shen endlich auf Deutsch!

Gabriel Colinard, Vorzeige-Sohn der Parfümdynastie, hat strenge Prinzipien. Bis die neue Praktikantin auftaucht: Violette Petit, die er vor Jahren fast geküsst hätte. Nun muss er mit ihr zusammenarbeiten, und es fällt ihm immer schwerer, Beruf und Gefühle zu trennen. Violette Petit hasst Lügen. Doch Gabriel muss sie die Unschuldige vorspielen, denn sie sucht ein Beweisstück, das seine Welt erschüttern könnte.

What is this world? What kind of place is it? The round kind. The spinning kind. The moist kind. The inhabited kind. The kind with flamingos (real and artificial). The kind where water in the sky turns into beautifully symmetrical crystal flakes sculpted by artists unable to stop themselves (in both design and quantity). The kind of place with tiny, powerfully jawed mites assigned to the carpets to eat my dead skin as it flakes off....

Goal! covers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in English public schools in the early 19th century to its current role as a crucial element of a globalized entertainment industry.

Nach dem Tod ihrer Gran muss die 18-jährige Ryan Shipley zu ihrer Tante in das kleine Städtchen Starling tief in den Wäldern von Tennessee ziehen und dort die Highschool beenden. Ihr wahrer Name ist Gabrielle Thorn und sie ist die Tochter des »Starling Slayer«. Ein Serienmörder, der vor zehn Jahren sieben Frauen tötete, darunter Ryans Mutter. Zurück im beschaulichen Ort ihrer Kindheit kann Ryan ihren schlimmsten Erinnerungen nicht entkommen. Nur beim allseits umschwärmten Quarterback Everett fühlt sie sich sicher und vergisst beinah all ihre Vorsicht.

We’ve got an inkling of what the scumbag we’re up against is after. Enough to know what his next target is. Enough to know it’s probably his last one. Enough to know it’s everything he needs to complete his nefarious plans. If we don’t get there first, he wins. Simple. And I’m not sure...but my gut says if that happens, every living thing in the universe loses.

Every summer, revelers sneak into the abandoned town of Eden, Colorado, to celebrate an infamous crime: the Devil's Night Massacre, committed over a century ago by an outlaw nicknamed Bloody Marian. Penny Wright knows the gruesome legends better than most. She’s seen the ghosts that haunt the ruins firsthand, and she shares a history with Eden that she hoped to escape. Now it’s Penny's job, funded by a corporate sponsor, to make this Devil’s Night the biggest ever.

I’ve spent my whole life trying not to get bullied. For my frizzy hair. My freckles. The white patches on my Black skin or the gap in my teeth. Not to mention the extra hundred pounds I have on most of my classmates. So when my soldier pen pal wants to see a picture of me, I freak. I send him a picture of one of the it girls at school and move on. The odds of us meeting in person are less than zero, and for once in my life, I want to know what it feels like to be one of the beautiful girls. Someone a guy like him would be into.

Desiree Le Mire ran into the cave, anxious to explore, tempted by the legends of Inca gold. Harry Lamar and his brother Paul had no choice but to follow. After all, they could not let the beautiful dancer enter the black depths alone. Others lived there, however, protecting the gold of their ancestors, others now misshapen after generations of living underground. That was why no one who entered the cave ever emerged into daylight. But no one who had entered was as beautiful as Desiree - or as determined as the Lamars.

This book will open your eyes to the pitfalls of perception, and help you build a foundation for trust that elevates organizational performance... so you can make your data and AI initiatives succeed where others fail. Data, Strategy, Culture & Power is a must-listen for anyone who works with (or uses) data, analytics, and AI in today's complex organizations.

An insightful 12-lecture course that explores the principles that guided the founding of the United States, the conditions that led to the break with Great Britain, and the creation of such founding documents as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.You'll deepen your understanding of fundamental ideas that inspired American independence and that continue to have a profound influence on American thought. You'll also receive insight into what historians call "the long conversation" in American society.

This bundle offers a clear roadmap to avoid probate, protect your heirs, and minimize legal hassles. Covering both estate planning and living trusts, it provides key insights for these essential life paths, whether you're just starting out or looking to refine your strategy. Don’t leave the future of your estate to chance. Equip yourself with the tools and knowledge to manage your assets and protect your loved ones.

One moment I'm a heretical priest in the twelfth century, hunted, hated...The next, I'm waking up in the nearest corpse. Stuck in a cycle of instant reincarnation, popping back up like a tarnished penny. Fast forward eight hundred years, and you might think I've learned a thing or two. Nope. All I've learned is how to die far too easily, far too often. Now my territory in the South of France is under threat and I find myself trapped by impossible angel-made runes. If the angels have gone full red lightsaber evil, it might not only be my territory in danger, but the whole of reality itself...

"I see Gondwane as it shall be in the untold ages of dim futurity, near the time when the Earth shall be man's habitation no more, and the great night shall enfold all, and naught but the cold stars shall reign. The first sign of the end ye shall see in the heavens, for Lo! the moon is falling, falling. And there shall come a man into the lands, a man not like other men, but sent from Galendil."