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A caravan flying the flag of the Nation of Darkness has been attacked by a noble who hails from the Re-Estize Kingdom. Coincidence...or conspiracy? Either way, Nazarick interprets this as an act of brazen hostility and readies for war! The people of the kingdom, still reeling from the disastrous battle at Katze Plain, reluctantly prepare themselves for another bloody day.

In the modern workplace, employees collaborate. Managers are expected to be effective team leaders and employees are expected to be valued teammates. But many teams struggle. Being part of a struggling team can be unpleasant, but it can also hurt your career and waste company resources.

The Mantras in this book are mega-abbreviated, super-condensed versions of some of the most vital lessons you can embody as you go through life. Each Mantra is short, packed with wisdom, and aimed at enhancing your Mental Toughness. Each Mantra will serve as a touchstone throughout your day, week and life, connecting you to the powerhouse within you—the powerhouse that IS you.

Let’s face it: Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the ills of social media. Is there a way back? As head of TED, Chris Anderson has had a ringside view of the world’s boldest thinkers sharing their most uplifting ideas. Inspired by them, he believes that it’s within our grasp to turn outrage back into optimism. It all comes down to reimagining one of the most fundamental human virtues: generosity. What if generosity could become infectious generosity?

Elliot, Her Majesty's Warlord, has been riding high. The coup against Queen Helen has been foiled, the New Model Army is readying itself for the coming war, and his lover is pregnant. But the warlords have been preparing too and now, they're on the march, ready to crush the kingdom and put the uppity commoners to the sword. Facing a war on three fronts, Elliot embarks on a desperate gamble to win the war in a single campaign… unaware the warlords have plans of their own.

Most women would be grateful to have a smoking hot country boy rescue them from a raging inferno. But not Andi. Dylan broke her heart five years ago and the last thing she wants is to owe a debt to the shredded 6'7" firefighter who threw her over her shoulder like she was weightless. He has a past. A child. A baby mama on the loose. More drama than she can handle. And...he broke her heart.

Isaac has never been what he seems. Rumor has it that gruff, brooding, and solitary man-of-mystery Isaac Sylvester is back in town, and the only thing folks in Green Valley know for certain is that this prodigal son’s motives are as elusive as he is. He’s been spotted loitering near the old Townsen farm, hanging around the Hill's homestead, and glaring menacingly from the edges of The Donner Lodge’s parking lot. What this hometown-hero-turned-criminal wants, no one knows. Nor can they stop talking about it. Hannah's last night as an exotic dancer might just be her most memorable.

There are endless books out there about businesses that had their core principles for success baked right into their corporate DNA from the beginning. This is NOT that book. Believe in Better: The Evolution of Core Principles That Pioneered an Industry is the business book for the rest of us. For those who figure things out as we go along, always working to make tomorrow better than yesterday.

Anthology of Christmas Stories is a unique collection of Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for the reader in your life. This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and warm family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season.

In the heart of the Adirondack wilderness, two old friends are forced to confront their pasts and face an ancient, supernatural force that haunts the forest. As the line between reality and nightmare blurs, John and Frank must survive not only the wilderness but the dark, terrifying entities lurking within.

Richard Schweid examines home health care in detail, focusing on the women who tend to our elderly and disabled loved ones and how we fail to value their work. They are paid minimum wage so that we might be absent, getting on with our own lives. The book calls for a rethinking of home health care and explains why changes are urgent: the current system offers neither a good way to live nor a good way to die.

A hero in the tradition of Jack Reacher, the Gray Man, and Mitch Rapp, Ty Stone isn't afraid to cross the line when the stakes are high enough and they're never higher than when a child is in danger. When a child goes missing from a busy interstate gas station, all leads point in the wrong direction. Ty Stone is afraid he's too damaged to help but his gut--and his conscience--won't let him sit this one out. Even as he's searching for the missing child, law enforcement is searching for him.

1890. American heiress, Cora Beaumont is celebrating her engagement to Terrance Tristan, the second son of a duke. Their union will solidify Cora's place in British society and put her in a rare position of power, but as they embark on the Lady Air’s maiden voyage to England, Cora soon finds that not everyone in society is accepting of her recent engagement, and tensions fly as high as the airship. When a body is discovered the first night on the ship, with a calling card for Cora on the victim, she’s determined to find the killer hidden among the passengers before they come for her next.

In this tenth installment of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, the Blacklin County Texas law enforcer is back to solve even more mysteries. Some of the most amusing sequences in Crider's Blacklin county mysteries are set in the jailhouse, and star the ongoing word battles between its two septuagenarian denizens, Hack the dispatcher and Lawton, the jailer. This time no one at the jailhouse is laughing and Rhodes has a new problem. Not only is the jailhouse itself rumored to be haunted, but a mysterious corpse is found in an open grave in the neighboring town.

Four former classmates gather in the charming small town of Paradise Cove to plan their 40 year reunion. When one of them dies on the beach, old grudges and deceptions are brought to light. Can Detective Whiskers catch the killer before more than the reunion gets cancelled? Sunset Cottage has a new resident as Sheila's grandson decides to stay for the summer so he can take a job as a bartender at the Parrot Eyes Inn and spend time with Sheila's housecleaner, Susi. His Summer of Love is in danger, though, when he is suspected of murder.

In a Yorkshire Dales village in the 1970s, best mates Michael, a boy with a strong sense of tradition and family loyalty, and Jack, a boy drawn to new horizons, are there for each other through traumatic childhoods.

After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. But his attempts to start again are wrecked when a brutal homicide claims the life of an old friend and he is forced to face the true reason for his return—to pay an old debt.

Manipulation, Kontrolle, Ausbruch – das sind die Themen, die dieses fesselnde Buch in den Fokus rückt. Es nimmt dich mit auf eine spannende Reise in die vielschichtige und oft erschreckende Welt der Sekten. Wie können Menschen in den Bann solcher Gruppen geraten? Welche Mechanismen stecken dahinter, und warum fällt es so schwer, sich wieder zu lösen? Dieses Buch beleuchtet nicht nur die dunklen Seiten der Sekten, sondern zeigt auch, wie es möglich ist, sich aus deren Fängen zu befreien.

Bayerische Kapelle ist nicht nur die Geschichte eines Lebens, sondern ein universelles Bild des Kampfes, der Anpassung und der Verbindung verschiedener Kulturen. Mit ihrem stilistisch einfachen, aber emotional reichen Schreibstil öffnet die Autorin die Türen zur Welt der bosnisch-herzegowinischen Diaspora und verleiht den Stimmen Gehör, die oft am Rande des literarischen Ausdrucks bleiben. Dieses Buch, durchdrungen von Wärme, Wehmut und Stärke, lädt uns ein, die Schönheit kultureller Begegnungen und den Reichtum zu erkennen, den das Reisen – sei es physisch oder spirituell – mit sich bringt.

Es ist Sommer am Comer See, und die Hitze lässt die Luft auf den Straßen flirren, als Commissaria Giovanna Ruggieri von der Polizei in Como Nachricht über einen Mordfall erhält: Auf Comacina, der einzigen Insel des Sees, wurde der angesehene und beliebte Arzt Simone Fabrizio aus Menaggio erschossen aufgefunden. Beinahe zeitgleich bekommt es Ispettrice Maria di Bartolomeo im am Seeufer gelegenen Städtchen Bellano mit einem Verkehrstoten zu tun, der anscheinend nachts die Kontrolle über sein Fahrzeug verloren hatte.