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As a senior leader, are you constantly dealing with competing demands and escalations that prevent you from focusing on your top priorities? Are you putting out fires more often than making a lasting impact? Do most days seem like you barely have time to think? If this sounds familiar, a Chief of Staff should be your next hire. But do you know how to find the perfect match? In this audiobook, author and leadership coach Laurie Arron shares her insider expertise to help you design a game plan to acquire and cultivate an effective Chief of Staff.

In this spiritual masterpiece, Dr. Alexander Harb offers penetrating meditations on nine themes of the spiritual life, drawing from Eastern Christian sources and his own real-life examples. Each chapter includes a power-packed meditation, a related Scripture passage, engaging reflection questions, and challenges that are perfectly accessible for individual or group study.

Justin Howley never knew there were others like him—others who could do magic. When a traveling magic show comes to town, their tricks are simply too amazing to be illusions. Justin is swept up in the excitement of the show, and in particular the teleporting girl. Despite being the type to never leave his house, he wants to join this traveling group of mages.

All humans have an innate drive to make great things. In The Innovation Mindset, Jennifer Kenny shows you exactly how to implement practices that will drive greater innovation, differentiate your products and solutions through better innovation, and maximize the innovation capacity of your team.

Many motivational books will tell you that in order to better the world, you must first better yourself. But you really only need to change the way you see yourself and the world around you will change. What you do every day matters and inspires others. By sharing your story, you can motivate and encourage those around you—and in doing so, change the world.

Julian is used to drama: seeing ghosts tends to do that to a person’s life. But when he falls for a man known as the neighborhood murderer–the dead help him uncover secrets no housewife could predict.

In this intriguing, techno-spy thriller, it is March 1999 and a NATO air armada is ready to strike strategic targets in Belgrade. But the end of the Cold War has taken its toll on human intelligence in the Balkans. The CIA is unable to come up with the assets to support a war effort, so it seeks assistance from the Defense Intelligence Agency.

In this World War II thriller and prequel to The Balkan Network, it is April 1941. Four Belgrade University students are enjoying the time of their lives. Fresh with a wad of foreign currency and few worries, their innocence is suddenly shaken as Nazi dive-bombers strike the city at daybreak.

Picking up where her national bestseller, Dial Down the Drama, left off, Colleen O’Grady’s Dial Up the Dream supports you in navigating your daughter’s last days at home and her transition to adulthood. This emerging-adult stage can be even more stressful on both mother and daughter than the teen years, because the stakes are higher and the changes to the relationship more profound.

Despite being more connected than ever before, many are also more isolated. The tools and technology available today have pushed business owners, entrepreneurs, and motivated professionals toward shallow, surface-level engagement, robbing them of connections, opportunities, profits, and fulfillment. In Save Your Asks, best-selling author Chris Tuff shares his transformative approach to building genuine, productive business relationships.

Roger struggled, like most private investigators, to make a living. Then, Cathy walked into his office. She was rich, beautiful, and needed him desperately. A dream come true, he thought. But deception and lies dominate this story - to the point where Roger found himself, headed at gravity-speed for the sidewalk, 32 floors below his office.

Overwhelmed by guilt and burdened with more power than he ever wanted, Samuel Branch is slowly crumbling. The pressure mounts with the arrival of the Green Man, who has risen from the very heart of the world with a single purpose: Kill Samuel Branch. Sam is hampered at every turn by an ambitious reporter looking for a story, a newcomer with an ambiguous agenda, and a coven of black magic sorcerers. As he struggles with his own fragile state of mind, Sam must find a way to accept the costs of power or face certain death at the hands of the Green Man.

East Prussia, now Poland, is where I was born. In 1945, my family fled to the west of Germany. I went to school there and became a kindergarten teacher. In 1964, I immigrated to the United States, eventually becoming a Montessori teacher in Wisconsin, where I worked for many years. Reading to children, I learned that one of their favorite subjects was animals.

Have you ever wondered why children and their pet dogs always seem to have a special bond that almost seems magical? Dogs might be man’s best friend, but for children, these furry friends are more than that! Here is a story about a young boy, his dog, and a special secret they soon discover. What secret? You have to listen to find out!

When Olli meets Dorado, he finds out that not everyone speaks the same language. One of their teacher's great concerns is the trash humans leave behind at the beach, and they all want to do something about it. Find out their plan to solve that problem and how you can help to keep the oceans clean.

Losing Control is a vivid history of the past half century of immigration politics and policy. It is also a dramatic ground-level account of how the story took shape. Kammer describes the economic and cultural forces that both pushed millions of migrants from home communities in Latin America and pulled them northward to the US. He shows how the backlash gradually emerged from the frustrations of American workers and communities who felt overwhelmed by the influx and betrayed by their government.

You’re a high-performing leader. It’s time to shed the doubt. In The Surprising Gift of Doubt, sought-after leadership executive coach Marc A. Pitman not only shows you how to conquer your imposter syndrome, but actually harness these uncomfortable feelings to develop a rare level of leadership mastery. In fact, that inner doubt you’re wrestling with is a signal that you are on the verge of greatness.

This book, more or less, demonstrates that time is most likely an illusion, its speed depends on age, and from a physical point of view, time, as such, may not make sense. Why should all this matter to us? Just as people suffered and died, they will continue to suffer and die. I have nothing to say to that. It’s true. And nothing can be done about it.

Replacing the psychologist with a computer, however strange it may be, can have a therapeutic effect because we invariably see in the psychologist a person who can judge us and experience disdainful feelings about our weaknesses. In many cases, the patient will not tell a real psychologist that which he reveals to a machine. Urges the patient feels are indecent and aggressive will be hidden from the psychologist until a trusting relationship is built.

What is the connection between the expansion of the universe and sadomasochism? Why is everything in the world striving for decay? How can one realize this and effectively resist self-destruction, at least on an individual level? The peculiarity of this audiobook is that the author tries to make broad generalizations, referring to various scientific disciplines. This audiobook discusses self-destruction at all levels, from cosmology to the human psyche, in which self-destruction is considered a deviation from the norm.