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Discover the impact this one action word has to make a positive impact in your personal life and workplace. This one word is the heart of every difference maker. This one word is your greatest influence to making your life better and better for others. This book reveals the significance of this seven letter word through incredible stories and timeless lessons that you can use and implement today.

Relationships. We know that we need them, but busy schedules, financial pursuits, and self-serving agendas often distract us from the people God has placed in our lives. Overcoming a childhood that lacked true relationships, CEO David Hoffman successfully broke the rules of a transaction-based world by founding a real estate company focused on meeting people where they are.

In today’s age of Zoom calls and hybrid workplaces, how can leaders foster relationships that allow everyone to succeed? A trio of best friends and leadership consultants at SkyeTeam have the surprising answer: workplace success starts by being a friend. Meet the Ally Mindset, a model for proactive, thoughtful work relationships. As you heal adversarial relationships and strengthen weaker ties, you’ll find that when you have best friends at work—colleagues who have your back—you thrive.

Gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal, voor de lezers van Haar naam was Sarah en De tatoeëerder van Auschwitz. Ooit was Alma Rosé een van de meest gerespecteerde violistes van Europa. Haar optredens lieten geen publiek onberoerd. Maar toen de nazi's Europa overnamen, kon niets haar redden. In Auschwitz is elke dag een gevecht om te overleven. Alma is niet langer Alma, maar gevangene 50381; het nummer op haar huid getatoeëerd in bleke inkt. Samen met duizenden anderen zit ze opgesloten, gescheiden van haar geliefden, wachtend op een ongewisse toekomst.

De familie Bigelow lijkt het ideale leven te leiden in het idyllische stadje Lakeview. Vader Graham is een succesvolle chirurg, de moeder van het gezin is een mooie vrouw, een graag geziene verschijning binnen de hechte gemeenschap van het stadje. Maar achter de gesloten deuren leven de kinderen Zane en Britt Bigelow in angst. Hun vader houdt de familie in een ijzeren greep, en zij hebben geleerd om daar zo goed mogelijk mee om te gaan en het voor de rest van de wereld verborgen te houden. Tot de dag dat Zane vier minuten te laat is en de fout maakt met zijn vader in discussie te gaan.

De megabestseller: ruim 900.000 exemplaren verkocht! Het is twaalf jaar geleden dat een automobilist Maggie Cooper de weg vroeg. Twaalf jaar geleden dat hij haar aan haar pols door het open autoraam trok en een naald in haar arm stak. Twaalf jaar geleden dat ze wakker werd in een doodstille, aardedonkere kelder. Een kelder die haar thuis zou worden. Inmiddels is Maggie alle hoop verloren dat ze ooit nog wordt gevonden. Ook aan ontsnappen denkt ze allang niet meer. Ze heeft nog maar één wens: het leven van haar zoon Max redden.

Abandoned by their beloved King and left in the hands of a brutal tyrant—lies, fear, and starvation cause the people of Welexia to splinter and turn on each other. It is every person for themselves. Thirteen is too young to shoulder heavy responsibilities, but this is Princess Alaria of Welexia's fate. Brave decisions must be made or her family members will continue to die slow, agonizing deaths.

Prof. Dr. Charles Laremy Laynewood hat Chloé Archard das Leben gerettet, doch das hindert ihn nicht daran das Phantom samt seinem alten Studenten Dr. Zephyre sowie Nina und Dave zu entführen und sie dazu zu zwingen, ihre ganz speziellen Fähigkeiten für seine Zwecke einzusetzen. Als Entschädigung bietet er Insider-Wissen über das Treiben der Baphometsekte und etwas, wonach Dr. Zephyre schon seit über einem Jahr auf der Jagd ist: den Aufenthaltsort seiner Tochter Emily.

Endlich Urlaub! Christoph Schwarz und Carmen Aiello nehmen während ihrer Reise durch Großbritannien an einer Exkursion teil, die sie zum vermutlich gruseligsten Ort der Insel führt - die Mary King`s Close in Edinburgh in Schottland. Was wie eine fröhliche Geistersuche beginnt, entwickelt sich rasch zum Albtraum, der das Leben aller Expeditionsteilnehmer gefährdet. Christoph Schwarz und Carmen Aiello stemmen sich gegen das Böse, ohne dessen genaues Wesen zu kennen. Lug, Trug, Sinnestäuschungen und geschundene Seelen begegnen ihnen bei diesem Abenteuer.

Address anger, anxiety, and violence in the classroom with strategies and best practices that work in classrooms. Under-resourced students, wealthy students, and students in all demographics can benefit from calming and healing techniques Ruby Payne, author of A Framework for Understanding Poverty, shares in this book.

Has teaching ever felt more stressful? External pressures, environmental factors, previous experiences, fear, anger—all these and more create stress and tension in the classroom. Emotional distress interrupts and can harm—even destroy—effective teaching, learning, and emotional wellness in teachers and students.

It's August 1930 and storm clouds are brewing across Europe, heralding the rise of fascism and the upheavals of the Great Depression. Even so, these frightening realities can't stop 24-year-old Betty Harbert from making the most of her tour of the continent. Sailing from Montreal with her wealthy Aunt Barbie and cousin Win, Betty attends a Parisian finishing school, tours Europe twice, and spreads joie de vivre wherever she goes.

Are you ready to become a leader at the top of your game? Start by unlocking the secrets which will bring you unyielding success! Women Who Lead is an easy-to-digest guide offering tips to achieve your dreams. Learn from successful female mentors who will show you the process step by step! These women are influential leaders in their niches, earning the respect and income they deserve. Some of them have been featured on Forbes, TED, international speaking engagements, and high-profile publications.

Essential oils have been part of alternative methods for healing and treating various ailments for thousands of years. Nonetheless, some of the health benefits that are related to these essential oils are part of controversies. This audiobook will be sharing with you the essential oils and their uses for treating different ailments so you can decide better in regards to essential oils and their health effects. Essential oils are most of the time part of aromatherapy, working with the aid of extracts via different categories of plants to deliver us health and well-being.

Dakota: Everyone wants me to change. Be a better employee, work harder in my college classes, give my parents the respect they deserve. They think I can’t hear them, but I do. That’s how I wind up in the Black Pine Woods facing down tall, muscular, tattooed Gunnar Issacs. Gunnar: She might only be 20, but Dakota is the woman of my dreams. I know she came here for a specific purpose, but it’s going to be hard to give her what she wants without giving her what I want. Dakota needs someone to teach her right from wrong—it’s my turn to take a crack at her behind.

An ad on the web leads parents of errant daughters, as well as grown women seeking discipline, to the farm of Mark and Lorraine Lanning. "Uncle Mark" and "Aunt Lorraine" provide disciplinary correction to the young women in the form of old-fashioned, country- and family-style punishments. Spankings, strappings, and old-fashioned "switchin's" address and correct the women's misbehavior, leaving them with very sore behinds but clean slates, the pain and fire on their behinds signaling forgiveness of their transgressions.

Becca was about to graduate college. As an only child, she had always been the object of her mother's overbearing and critical remarks regarding her weight. She'd even sent her to fat farms as a child. Becca had finally had her fill of it. When Becca's mother called her at school to announce she was getting remarried to a very wealthy old man, she was totally caught off guard. Her mom wanted her to meet her new stepdaddy, Buck, and mend fences. How could Becca refuse the olive branch her mother extended? But little did she know what awaited her at the other end of that olive branch.

Kelley Vanders-Froggett’s life is finally in order again: She’s on break from a great job, she has a supportive family, and she has Anthony Salamandras, her hot alien fiancé who’s making it all too hard to wait for the altar. Then Anthony’s brother shows up declaring Kelley unworthy to marry into his family—unless she passes ancient trials. Never mind that these trials haven’t been used in generations. Either Kelley proves herself worthy, or she’ll be separated from Anthony forever.

Born in 1370 BC, Queen Nefertiti, great royal wife of King Akhenaten, held many titles - Lady of Grace, Great King's Wife, His Beloved. And yet, he took other wives. Still, she was first. But, there was no love between husband and wife. Marriage was about power. Marriage was about alliances - there was no time for love.

When I get a letter from one of my employees saying that she's in love with me and explaining in detail all the explicit, naughty things she wants to do me, well, it's about damn time. She is the curvy woman of my dreams, and if she thinks I'm the love of her life, then I'm going to prove to her that she's the love of mine, too.