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Leaders today want to stop feeling overwhelmed and alone. They want to build engaged, diverse, resilient, and joyful teams that achieve greater things together. They want a better way to lead. Lead Together is a fictional story, grounded in psychology and laden with practical tools, that offers leaders a power-with rather than power-over paradigm. It explores how leaders can develop power jointly rather than use it as a top-down means of control in the form of an engaging, squirrelly narrative.

When Isobel Petty is orphaned, she finds herself being taken away from her home in India and sent to live with a distant uncle in England. On board the SS Marianna, she witnesses a shocking act – somebody being thrown overboard in the middle in the night. But when the ship’s captain insists that nobody is missing, Isobel and her two new reluctant friends must solve two mysteries – the identities of both the murderer and the victim – before they reach England and the culprit has the chance to escape.

Ananna of the Tanarau abandons ship when her parents try to marry her off to an allying pirate clan. But that only prompts the scorned clan to send an assassin after her. And when Ananna faces him down one night, armed with magic she doesn't really know how to use, she accidentally activates a curse binding them together.

In a boxy apartment building in an Illinois university town, Romola Mitra, a newly arrived young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds that letter and thinks he has discovered his mother's secret. But secrets have their own secrets sometimes.

After a chance encounter with an Abolitionist, Rebekah is obsessed by a desire to end slavery. But as a young Amish Girl living on a farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, she feels hopeless to do anything about it. Although she feels loved by her Amish family, she believes she has a higher purpose. But her protective father commands that she not interact with the non-Amish world. In his view, what happens outside their tight-knit farming community is none of her concern. But her life, and the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg, changes when the Confederate Army suddenly descends on her farm.

After setting out to break the curse that binds them together, the pirate Ananna and the assassin Naji find themselves stranded on an enchanted island in the north with nothing but a sword, their wits, and the secret to breaking the curse: complete three impossible tasks. With the help of their friend Marjani and a rather unusual ally, Ananna and Naji make their way south again, seeking what seems to be beyond their reach.

* International Bestseller * A Book of the Month Club Pick* The Little Paris Bookshop meets Jojo Moyes in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have to break your heart to make it whole. From the simple melody of running her violin shop to the full-blown...

Prince Yudhishtir who gets his dead brothers back from an enchanted pool, King Trishanku who desired to go to heaven while he was still alive, and the Monkey God Hanuman who learns a lesson in humility. Curious, aren’t you? These stories and many more form the heart of the Puranas and Itihaas, among the oldest written Hindu texts. Daaji’s keen curatorial selection brings an array of ancient tales of adventure, quests and wisdom.

The '90s was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music interwoven into a blooming of national self-confidence. It was the decade of Lad Culture and Girl Power, of Blur vs Oasis. When fashion runways shone with British talent, Young British Artists became household names, football was 'coming home' and British film went worldwide.

After a shocking phone call from her mother, Reeva Mehta’s life starts to sound like the plot of a Bollywood drama. From the outlandishly funny author of 30 Things I Love About Myself comes a hilarious, heartwarming novel about love, family, and new beginnings. Thirty-four-year-old Reeva...

En Amar(se) es de valientes entenderás que el amor debe sumar, siempre. Si resta, no es amor. Con palabras que tienen el poder de llegar hasta el fondo de tus emociones, Alejandro Ordóñez de nueva cuenta nos regala sus más íntimas reflexiones al más puro estilo de su exitoso blog Por escribir.

A thrillingly original story of the adventures of a small band of feral cats in Delhi who communicate by whisker mind-link and face an unprecedented threat to their tribe's survival; for listeners of Life of Pi and Philip Pullman. In the labyrinthine alleys and ruins of Nizamuddin, an old neighbourhood in Delhi, India, lives a small band of cats.

In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events to explore the nature of...

"How do I know it's God?" is one of the most commonly asked questions of new and mature Christians alike, and the aim of God Conversations is to both equip and inspire the listener and show them that hearing the voice of the Spirit is accessible to everyone who chooses to follow Jesus.

Divorce is not just a legal process; it's a devastating emotional experience which all too often brings both parties to the ground. But it doesn't have to be so traumatic.... Author Charlotte Friedman is a former family law barrister who decided to move from the courtroom to the therapist's chair in order to transform the way we handle divorce. In her view, the system sets both parties up for a fight, forced as they are to face lawyers, forms and life-defining court negotiations when they are also brimming over with grief and anger.

From colonial outpost to cultural powerhouse, Baltimore’s story is one of resilience, reinvention, and raw humanity. In this vivid, cinematic narrative, author Derek Monaghan traces the city’s evolution across ten immersive chapters—exploring its Indigenous foundations, revolutionary fervor, industrial rise, and the fire that reshaped its skyline. Listeners journey through the jazz-soaked avenues of Black excellence, the postwar boom and urban decline, and the hard truths behind The Wire and the 2015 uprising.

Laura Hayes perdió a su padre hace tres años. Ahora se ha quedado a cargo de su hermano inválido y del negocio familiar de perfumes que no va precisamente viento en popa. Necesita un marido que los rescate de la pobreza, y lo necesita pronto. Quizá la solución esté en el extraño que ha llegado al pueblo hace poco… Alex Archer no es precisamente un héroe, sino más bien todo lo contrario. Ha vuelto a Inglaterra con un único objetivo: casarse con una rica heredera. Lo de los sentimientos es lo de menos, ni le importan ni le interesan.

Prowling, hunting and fighting amidst the crumbling ruins of one of Delhi's oldest neighbourhoods are the proud Wildings. These feral cats fear no one, go where they want and do as they please. Battle-scarred tomcats, fierce warrior queens, the Wildings have ruled over Nizamuddin for centuries. Now there is a new addition to the clan: a pampered house cat with strange powers that could turn their world on its head. And something is stirring in the old Shuttered House - something dark and cruel and dangerous.

La historia de Isabel, una joven romántica dispuesta a todo para reunir a su hermana Beatriz con el célebre escritor Mauricio de Viera, comienza como un plan inocente, pero rápidamente se convierte en una serie de eventos llenos de humor, pasión y sorpresas. En su intento por acercar a dos almas destinadas, Isabel termina secuestrando al escritor, desatando una espiral de situaciones imprevisibles. Mi enemigo y yo no solo es una comedia romántica; es una reflexión sobre la emancipación, el aprendizaje personal, las dificultades en tiempos de guerra y la búsqueda del amor verdadero.

Descubre el método para, de una vez por todas, alcanzar tus metas. "Grover y Rhodes plantean un argumento sólido: "las imágenes evocan emociones, y las emociones moldean el comportamiento". Este libro beneficiará a los lectores que deseen levantarse del sillón y cambiar su vida". Publishers Weekly. Es más fácil rendirse ante los pensamientos negativos y los viejos hábitos. que plantearse corregirlos mediante pequeñas acciones.