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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The CEO Next Door by Elena Botelho and Kim Powell with Tahl Raz, read by Bernadette Dunne. Everything you thought you knew about becoming a CEO is wrong. You must graduate from an elite college or business school. In fact, only 7 percent of the CEOs of today's companies went to top schools - and 8 percent didn't graduate from college at all. Never put a foot wrong. In fact, people who have become CEOs have on average had five to seven career setbacks on their way to the top.

Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a future together. But after the children leave home, they quietly drift apart. When Jack accepts a wonderful new job offer, Elizabeth puts her needs aside to follow him across the country. Until the sudden death of her father changes everything.

Known to millions mainly as the author of the "The Lottery", Shirley Jackson has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America more deeply than anyone. Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author of The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

In a world where malices, remnants of ancient magic, can erupt with life-destroying power, only the soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets - and themselves - from the farmers they protect. So when patroller Dag rescued farm girl Fawn, neither expected to fall in love, marry, and defy both their kin to seek new solutions to the split between their peoples.

Du kennst das: Eben war noch alles in Ordnung – und plötzlich fliegen die Tränen, die Tür knallt, und nichts, was du sagst, hilft. Du versuchst es mit Geduld, dann mit Bestimmtheit, am Ende verlierst auch du die Nerven. Am Abend liegt dein Kind weinend im Bett, und du fragst dich: Warum ist das so schwer?

Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) was a war correspondent for nearly 50 years. From the Spanish Civil War in 1937 through the wars in Central America in the mid-'80s, her candid reports reflected her feelings for people no matter what their political ideologies, and the openness and vulnerability of her conscience. "I wrote very fast, as I had to," she says, "afraid that I would forget the exact sound, smell, words, gestures, which were special to this moment and this place."

Make Your Idea Matter is a call to action for entrepreneurs, emerging brands and anyone with a great idea, who knows that to stand out in today's noisy world they need to tell a better story. It is full of bite-sized business and brand storytelling ideas originally sparked on Bernadette Jiwa's award-winning business blog TheStoryofTelling.com. Use this audiobook as both inspiration and guide to help you tell the best stories you can tell about your business, your ideas and the work that matters to you.

One of the biggest challenges we face as entrepreneurs and innovators is understanding how to make our ideas resonate. We tend to have no shortage of ideas, but we struggle to tell the story of how they are going to be useful in the world and why they will matter to people. Marketing is the way we communicate how our ideas translate to value for people in a marketplace.

In 1955, grande dame authoress Edna Ferber is visiting L.A. for the filming of her epic novel, Giant. Edna is looking forward to meeting Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor, and especially the film's gifted young breakout star, James Dean. A charismatic rebel, Dean attracts attention, devotion, and trouble wherever he goes. Now he is being blackmailed by a young extra from the movie who accuses him of getting her pregnant.

Filled with magic, heroism, and all-too-human characters, Bujold's Sharing Knife saga is both a gripping adventure and a poignant romance. In this second volume, Fawn Bluefield, the clever farm girl, and Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned Lakewalker soldier-sorcerer, are newly married. Their arrival at Dag's home on Hickory Lake Camp is met with prejudice and suspicion, as many in the camp deny the literal bond between Dag and Fawn, woven in blood in the Lakewalker magical way.

Young, pregnant Fawn Bluefield has just fled her family's farm to the city of Glassforge, where she encounters a patrol of the enigmatic soldier-sorcerers known as Lakewalkers. Fawn has heard stories about the Lakewalkers, who are wandering necromancers with no permanent homes and no possessions except the clothes they wear and the mysterious knives they carry. What she does not know is that the Lakewalkers are engaged in a perilous campaign against inhuman and immortal magical entities known as "malices".

Filled with magic, heroism, and all-too-human characters, Bujold's Sharing Knife saga is both a gripping adventure and a poignant romance. The farmers and riverfolk have long distrusted the power of the mysterious and aloof Lakewalkers. The proud Lakewalkers, meanwhile, have exiled Dag after learning of his marriage to Fawn, the first outsider to be bound to a Lakewalker in their magical way. But as Dag's natural Lakewalker ability to manipulate "ground energy" begins to develop in dangerous directions, he and Fawn realize that big changes are ahead.

Identical twin sisters Alex and Hannah are the owners of Murder and Mayhem, a mystery bookshop that sells their famous poison-themed Killer Chocolates. But now, there’s a real killer in their midst. Shortly before Christmas, their septuagenarian neighbor, Jane, confides to Alex that a murderer from a true-crime show has taken up residence in the village. Unfortunately, she’s also shared her suspicions with town gossip Netta. The next morning, Alex shows up at Jane’s house to watch the show, but instead she discovers Jane's body, with a box of Killer Chocolates nearby.

Just because you don’t have cash doesn’t mean you don’t want and need things. According to authors and business gurus Karen Hoffman and Shera Dalin, it’s time to get a little creative. Most people have a skill they can use—it’s just a matter of figuring out what that is and how to use it to get something else. From piano lessons in exchange for haircuts to an engine tune-up in exchange for house painting, The Art of Barter offers step-by-step instructions.

"Stark im Fokus & wach im Kopf"BAND 4 – KONZENTRATION & FOKUSDein Kind rutscht auf dem Stuhl hin und her, starrt aus dem Fenster, und die Hausaufgaben dauern jeden Tag länger als sie müssten? Du kennst das: Du sagst "Bitte konzentrier dich!" – aber es hilft nicht. Dein Kind meint es ernst, doch die Gedanken springen wie kleine Äffchen durch den Kopf. Bei jedem Geräusch ist die Aufmerksamkeit weg. Ein falsches Wort, und Tränen fließen. Am Abend seid ihr beide erschöpft, und du fragst dich: Warum ist das so schwer?

Is “the heart” still a relevant symbol of God’s love in today’s world? In this fourth encyclical of his pontificate, written during the 350th anniversary year of the first apparition of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Pope Francis affirms the centrality of the...

Eder hofft noch immer auf Pumuckls Rückkehr, denn ohne den Kobold ist die Werkstatt im Hinterhof kalt und leer. In seiner tiefen Trauer überlegt der Schreinermeister sogar, sie zu verkaufen! Pumuckl hat den Absturz aber überlebt – er ist „wollewatteweich" auf dem Rücken eines Schafes gelandet. Dann erreicht Eder plötzlich ein Anruf: Bei dem Schäfer passieren seltsame Dinge. Ob Eder sich das einmal ansehen könne? Aufgeregt schwingt sich Eder auf sein Fahrrad. Werden die beiden sich wiedersehen? Spieldauer ca.

Resilienz & WachstumsdenkenKinder fallen hin – beim Lernen, in Freundschaften, im Alltag. Entscheidend ist nicht, ob sie fallen, sondern ob sie wissen, wie sie wieder aufstehen. Resilienz ist genau diese Fähigkeit: schwierige Momente zu überstehen und gestärkt daraus hervorzugehen. Dieses Buch gibt Kindern die Werkzeuge dafür. Es besteht aus 8 Kapiteln, die jeweils einen zentralen Baustein der Resilienz behandeln – von Fehlern als Lernchancen über Durchhaltevermögen bis hin zu Zuversicht und innerer Stärke.

Dein Kind hat ein großes Herz–aber manchmal fehlen ihm die Worte, der Mut oder die Werkzeuge, um es zu zeigen? Es möchte dazugehören, aber traut sich nicht, den ersten Schritt zu machen. Es spürt, dass etwas nicht stimmt, aber weiß nicht, wie es darüber reden soll. Es will sich wehren, aber nicht verletzen. Es will helfen, aber weiß nicht wie. Dieses Buch gibt deinem Kind genau das, was es braucht: 80 liebevolle, sofort umsetzbare Übungen, die soziale Fähigkeiten nicht erklären–sondern erlebbar machen. Keine Theorie, kein erhobener Zeigefinger.

World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset. Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a...