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In 1913, the Peace Palace was founded in the Netherlands with the hope of preventing future wars by providing peaceful resolutions to disputes between conflicting countries. In M.H. Sargent’s latest suspense thriller, the iconic building’s basement is used by FROG—an independent covert intelligence agency that no one knows exists. Their mission is simple—stop evil perpetrators before they can wreak havoc on the world. If assassination is the only viable option, use it.

Lose fat, boost energy, and reclaim your health—in just 30 minutes a day or less. In A Busy Professional’s Guide to Sustainable Fat Loss, fitness and nutrition expert Jim O’Connor shares a proven blueprint for busy men and women who want real, lasting weight loss without extreme diets, marathon workouts, or calorie counting.

Combining helpful exercises and step-by-step activities, Success Freak by French-American entrepreneur Bruno Gralpois will show you how to develop habits, pursue a life of passion, and unleash the limitless potential that, yes, already lies within you. This is your moment to rise, transform, and become the Success (Freak) you were meant to be. Are you ready to embrace success like never before? Your journey starts now!

Embark on a journey into the enchanting world of backyard chickens. Whether you’re a curious beginner, a hopeful homesteader, or someone seeking serenity and fresh eggs, this book provides all the answers you need.

While this book may not handle every single possible scenario you may run across, I do have my finger on the pulse of the legal industry and what lawyers are challenged by every day. Take what you can from what I’ve learned and perfected on legal business development, marketing and networking to make it your own. My greatest hope is to hear from you someday that you did take action and that this book made the difference for you in your legal career. So enjoy the book, take lots of notes and most importantly, be that lawyer!

Can we gain renewed insight from ancient systems and discover tools to lead a balanced life of joy and authenticity today? Can we become sovereigns of our own selves? Yes! And Reign: A Guide to Ruling Your Inner Kingdom of Self with Grace, Power, and Authenticity is your manual to do just that!

As a business leader, you need this answer to find your best-fit clients, engage employees, secure partners and win investors. In this trailblazing book, storyteller Paul Furiga reveals the importance of your Capital S Story to drive these results. Finding Your Capital S Story shows how our brains are hard-wired to remember stories and use them to eliminate 21st-century information overload and digital clutter. Even before we had written language, we shared stories and now, thanks to MRIs and other scientific tools, we can prove the power of storytelling.

Discover the golden pearls that help create a harmonious work-life balance, paving the path for both true happiness and prosperity. Your first step towards mastering life's challenges begins with investing in this book.

In Everyday PR: Harnessing Public Relations to Build Relationships, Brands & Businesses, Rubel draws upon her deep experience in all aspects of PR to help business owners, corporate executives, marketing professionals, and communications students of all types identify and capitalize on opportunities to grow their businesses.

This is a book about a journey that began with a parent and a child and the powerful natural connection between them, singular in its fierceness, instinctive protectiveness, and potentially one of the deepest forms of love. I hope to reveal to you how I found an innovative way to parent my child so he would experience an extraordinary life, and to show you how you can do the same.

If you lead, manage or influence a B2B sales organization of any kind, let this be a long overdue wake-up call: the time to grow and develop women and underrepresented sales professionals is now. The question is, will your organization be ahead of the curve or get left behind? For well over three decades, Lori Richardson has been selling, running a sales strategy firm, speaking, watching sales trends, and now helping to influence them.

If you hate the concept of self-help books but desperately crave the secrets to transform your life, look no further. SPLIT-SECOND COURAGE delves into the powerful stories and mindsets of real-life superheroes who choose to recognize misfortunes as gifts and charge headfirst into their fears.

The Asshole Whisperer book for managers contains true stories and tips to deal with crappy leaders and jerks at work. You will learn how to use corporate values to hold people at work accountable for their conduct, how to give feedback about attitudes or behavior, and how to quickly assess and utilize personality traits (extrovert, introvert, ambivert) to your mutual benefit. Why? So, you can meet your goals and deadlines and to put it simply, get shit done. Assholes are part of our lives.

In this compelling and moving book, Viktoriya shares the stories from her personal life and the lessons she’s learned being a scientist, a public speaker and a mother. This is more than just a book. It is the inspiration you need to be who you are. As a woman, as a mother, as an educator, as a professional, you are no less than the men around you, and you need to know that.

The continuing secret correspondence between Miss Lizzy Bennet, and Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, during the second quarantine lockdown of 1812. Amid public unrest, lockdown has been lifted for just two days, then re-imposed with greater restrictions than ever. Trapped once more within Hunsford Parsonage and Rosings Park respectively, our esteemed couple-to-be unleash themselves with greater familiarity as tensions rise, old antipathies come to a head and emotions can no longer be restrained.

What if you woke up at age 45 questioning if you've lived your life all wrong? Rendered unconscious from a motorcycle accident, Robin Stevens awakens to realize she's repressed her past and is living life recklessly and unhappily. Feeling lost and miserable she begins a profound search full of juicy twists and turns including a trip to the South of France with both psychic and spiritual revelations.

Windy Elstermeier's fittingly titled Move guides listeners through the mental roadblocks standing in the way of their personal and professional ambitions in this raw disclosure of her resilient path from poverty to the boardroom. Windy details the trials of her impoverished childhood and how she championed herself through crushing career setbacks to climb the corporate ladder at a Fortune 500 retail giant and into entrepreneurship.

TV WRITING TOOL KIT 2nd Edition—is an update of my latest story tools, breakdowns, and handouts. The book covers story structure for a TV pilot and spec script, logline formulas for Logline For Your Life and your story, and character. With character, the book goes into the wound and the flaw. I cover everything that I teach in Writers on the Verge at NBC. There are breakdowns for several shows, including—THE GOOD WIFE, MODERN FAMILY, THE NIGHT MANAGER, HOMELAND, FLEABAG, and DEAD TO ME. The book also explores staffing and development.

Unlock Your Potential: Thrive with Adult ADHD and Take Control of Your Life. Do you struggle with focus, procrastination, and unfinished tasks—constantly feeling overwhelmed? Have you ever felt like your mind is a web browser with too many tabs open, making it impossible to concentrate? Are you ready to turn your ADHD from a daily struggle into your greatest strength? If you’ve been battling distractions, impulsivity, and the frustration of not reaching your full potential, you’re not alone.

James Lovell desperately wants to help the American cause, but alone in a cold, dark cell in the Boston Stone Jail, his dreams seem a faint illusion. In icy March winds, pounded by the Americans’ cannon, General Howe evacuates British troops and Loyalists from Boston. James Lovell is forced into a ship bound for Halifax, while his father and family take passage for the British stronghold in the ship’s upper berth. In jail in Halifax, James can only write letters and pray for release, hoping General George Washington will hear his appeal.