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In Changing Directions Without Losing Your Way, the authors who helped pioneer the "working from home" revolution identify the six stages of change in business and in life. In each of these six stages, Paul and Sarah demonstrate how to understand and assess change for what it is, and then recast your career or other vital aspects of life to adapt to new realities.

In an era of fake news and new fault lines in global politics, millions of listeners turn to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme each morning to help them make sense of the world around them. The first ever book from the iconic programme marks 60 years of programming with 60 world-changing stories. Covering everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Anti-Apartheid Movement to the emergence of Brit Art and space exploration, artificial intelligence and machine learning, Today explores events as they happened and reveals how they changed the world around us.

Still unemployed, Fi's moved back in with her overbearing mother and is stumbling through village life and forging a romantic relationship with a tall, dark doctor who happens to be linked to the god of death. When Fi's oldest friend and current employer is killed just after a long lost great-niece shows up, Fi doesn't think it's a coincidence. But no one else agrees and she's forced to investigate on her own, with a bit of help of her sarcastic dragon familiar. How can she prove her theory and catch a killer? Will she ever find a job?

Camis, run! Do not use mindspeak—just run! And he had, running blindly into the night and the rain. But as he sits and waits to be called back, he wonders, not for the first time, who he is running from. Serin is in shock, this is not the way she thought her life would turn out. Yes, it was a hard life but it was her own. She never thought he would find her after all this time. How will she keep Camis safe now?

"Ich kann sie sehen! Wirklich sehen! Geister, Dämonen, Gespenster. Sie lauern in dunklen Nischen und Ecken, treiben ihr Unwesen... überall. Doch ich stelle mich ihnen entgegen und mache dem Spuk ein Ende. Ich bin Johnny. Johnny Sinclair. Ich bin Geisterjäger." Einmal Urlaub machen von der Geisterjägerei! Aber da haben Johnny, Russell und Millie die Rechnung ohne den Geist der Gräfin Violante von Tattenberg gemacht. Sie hat die Bewohner von Schloss Tattenberg mit einem Kältefluch belegt.

All these short stories are about the vulnerable in society and unfortunately that means most of them are women. In some cases, society has created rules that make them weaker and consequently more at risk. In other cases something external happens to generate misfortune. In the case of the heroine of If…she is unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Yanda, abducted from her world, her life as a surgeon, returns home only to find nothing is as she expected. Forced into an underground movement to try to trace her daughter’s movements, Yanda will go to any length—even dropping into dark waters with nothing but her sight and her will to save her family—Yanda seeks the help of sea elves.

What happens when an abused choirboy grows into a violent playboy killer, is imprisoned, offered a release deal, joins a covert crime unit, and becomes a lead witness in closing a powerful international trafficking ring? Then what happens when the unit is unknowingly helped by invisible entities who walk among them?

Kay aims to stop Thorgisl from obtaining Esch. Meanwhile Galfride has discovered the twenty-first century and wants his boyhood friend Ian back. Kay's son and daughter seem to him a barrier which puts them in danger. Between keeping the power stone she saved from greedy mages of medieval Earth and protecting her kids, Kay is again pulled between times, but she has a new ally, a witch of ancient Cornwall who slipped through the portal into her neighborhood.

THE FALLEN SERIES - standalone - The Deal - Karma - The Calling - Already Dead - They Know - Conscious.

Kay has been drawn into a vortex of intrigue in the ancient world, of magic-wielding Wanderers, mesmerizing sylphs, powerful Nordic shamans, crafty mages. And now she cannot deny that her children are involved. Her son is channeling stories of abductions by threatening pirates. Her daughter’s mysterious lover sounds uncannily like a tenth-century Welsh musician. She tries to pull away from the medieval world but finds herself increasingly enamored with her spirit-travel.

A short story by L Nembhard: In the sunny tranquillity of her uncle's garden, eight-year-old Lilly uncovers an old, buried doll that whispers unexpected words. As the doll's presence disrupts their lives, Lilly's family is left questioning its origins. What secrets lie behind the doll's eerie whispers? Can they unravel the mystery before it consumes them? With each strange occurrence, they're forced to confront the chilling possibility: is the doll merely a toy, or something far more sinister?

In the ominous corridors of 1950, Eleanor Mayfield flees from her tormented past into the chilling embrace of an eerie mental institution. Each night, reality blurs as whispers and ghostly visions relentlessly stalk her. Accompanied only by a devoted security guard and a cryptic caretaker, Eleanor plunges into the institution's sinister depths, unveiling terrifying secrets that should have stayed hidden.

The magical series Braided Dimensions soars to new heights with Strange Alliances. At the start of the series, Kay, a Berkeley professor of ancient languages, falls under the spell of a charming bard who takes her to medieval time. Back home, she is determined to return to that ancient dimension where spirit-walking and mind-speak are practiced by healers and mages. With no knowledge of magic - only curiosity and a passion for old languages - Kay acquires talents only to become enmeshed in threatening plots as she crosses back and forth from present to past.