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BILLIONAIRE FOR SALE is a darkly comic romantic thriller about being held to ransom. By your family. By your marriage. By mysterious kidnappers who burst into your best friend’s villa and seize you at gunpoint. Tess realizes she’s made a mistake marrying billionaire Jeremy McCarthy, and questions her unfulfilling life with him. Just as she’s ready to leave her lavish life behind, masked gunmen crash into her world and kidnap her husband and three friends. Now, instead of walking away, Tess is pulled into a dangerous world of high-stakes negotiations and even higher personal stakes.

Vor einigen Jahren schien es, als wäre es nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis die Musikindustrie durch Online-Piraterie ihren endgültigen Niedergang erleben würde. Doch dann kam Spotify, mischte die Karten neu und schuf rentable digitale Erlösmodelle für die totgesagte Branche. Als Chefökonom von Spotify hat Will Page die Entwicklung maßgeblich mitgeprägt und zeigt nun, dass nahezu alle Branchen von Spotifys Ansatz profitieren können. Er identifiziert acht Strategien, um Unternehmungen neuen Schwung zu geben.

Die Kraft der Versöhnung. Lorna hat ihre Familie im Streit verlassen. Als junge Frau ist sie von der winzigen schottischen Insel Kip nach London gezogen, doch ihre Träume haben sich in Luft aufgelöst. Umso wichtiger ist es ihr, alles für ihre Tochter Ella zu tun. Und die hat eine große Bitte: Sie will wissen, wo ihre Mutter herkommt. Auf Kip wartet Lornas Schwägerin Alice auf die beiden. Sie hofft, dass Lornas Heimkehr zu einem Neuanfang für ihre Familie und die kleine Insel-Gemeinschaft wird. Lorna fürchtet die Begegnungen, bis sie ihrer alten Lehrerin begegnet.

In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that the Objectives and Key Results system has spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic.

One year on from the death of her husband, Emma feels no closer to moving forward with her life. Seeking distraction, she quits her job and begins working at the local garden centre. Here, Emma begins to open up and finds herself attending boss Les’ talk on the Titanic. Intrigued, Emma sets out to research who would have arranged the flowers on-board.

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now be known as an uncommon literary talent, as he shares never-before-heard details and intimate interrogations on gender, love, mental health, relationships, and Hollywood.

Ergreifend und ungeschönt erzählt Elliot Page in seinem Memoir von seinem langen Weg zu sich selbst. Elliot Page wurde mit Hauptrollen in Juno oder Inception weltberühmt. Mit 33, im Dezember 2020, outete er sich über Instagram als trans. In seinem ersten Buch erzählt Elliot Page die Geschichte seines einzigartigen Lebens, das ihm seine Transition gerettet hat. Vom Aufwachsen in der kanadischen Hafenstadt Halifax, vom Erwachsenwerden im von traditionellen Geschlechterrollen besessenen Hollywood. Vom Entdecken der eigenen, tabuisierten Sexualität und der tiefgreifenden Scham vor dem eigenen Körper.

Jo Sorsby knows she is hiding from her past when she agrees to look after her uncle’s stationery shop. Spending her days glimpsing the lives of her customers as they experiment with what’s on offer is a welcome distraction from the life she has left behind. Yet far from home, Jo feels adrift... But when she meets Ruth, a vicar running from a secret, and Malcolm, a septuagenarian struggling to write his first book, she realises that she isn’t alone.

The Psychology of Leadership offers a revelatory fresh take on business leadership through the lens of groundbreaking research in positive, sports, and personality psychology. Witty, conversational, and personal, The Psychology of Leadership blends research, fascinating true stories, humor, and self-improvement advice to deliver simple yet powerful principles to master the mental game of leadership.

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.

Sie sammelt die Geschichten anderer... ... doch hat sie den Mut, sich ihrer eigenen Geschichte zu stellen? Janice ist Putzfrau, und sie ist stolz darauf, eine gute Putzfrau zu sein. Doch was sie wirklich besonders macht: Sie sammelt Geschichten. Zum Beispiel die Geschichten der Menschen, für die sie putzt - denn während sie Bücherregale abstaubt oder den Kühlschrank abtaut, fangen die Menschen an zu erzählen. Als Janice beginnt, für die 92-jährige Mrs B zu putzen, trifft sie endlich eine Person, die Janice' Geschichte hören will.

DreamLust: 12 erotische Kurzgeschichten, die Ihnen unter die Haut gehen. Garantiert! Im Motel mit dem fremden Anhalter, Mit dem geheimnisvollen Nachbarn, Ein Vierer mit den geilen Mexikanern, Mit dem Nerd am Arbeitsplatz.

Every SaaS company on earth is careening towards its next revenue plateau. It’s called a Growth Ceiling—a moment in time where growth stops, and you’re losing just as many customers as you’re bringing in. It’s not an opinion—it’s just how recurring revenue businesses work.

When Charlie joins Valentine Academy for Boys, love is the last thing on his mind. His only plan is to survive the school year with perfect grades and no one discovering that he's trans. Especially his roommate, Jasper; a famous poet and Charlie's ex-camp romance who doesn't seem to recognise him. Yet. The boys make a deal; Jasper will request a new room if Charlie helps him deliver secret love letters between the boys at Valentine and the girls at its sister academy. But as Jasper tutors him in the art of romance, will Charlie be able to keep from falling in love himself?

Each week we read from some of the top Harry Potter fan fiction stories. We also write and narrate our own original stories.

Wer sein Leben ändern will, muss auch mal außerhalb der Bahnen schwimmen Rosemary hat ihr ganzes Leben in Brixton verbracht. Jetzt ändert sich alles, was ihr vertraut ist. Die Bücherei, in der sie gearbeitet hat, schließt. Aus dem Gemüseladen ist eine hippe Bar geworden. Ihr geliebter Mann George ist gestorben. Und das Freibad, in dem sie seit über 60 Jahren jeden Morgen schwimmt, soll Eigentumswohnungen weichen. Kate fühlt sich einsam in London. Als sie über Rosemarys Freibad für die Zeitung schreiben soll, öffnet sich ihr eine neue Welt.

Recent years have seen the introduction of concepts from the new and exciting field of complexity science that have captivated the attention of economists, sociologists, engineers, businesspeople, and many others. These include tipping points, the wisdom of crowds, six degrees of separation (or Kevin Bacon), and emergence. Complexity science can shed light on why businesses or economies succeed and fail, how epidemics spread and can be stopped, and what causes ecological systems to rebalance themselves after a disaster.

She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard as she cleaned a sink? Before long (as she dusted a sitting room or defrosted a fridge), she noticed people were telling her their stories. Perhaps they always had done, but now it is different, now the stories are reaching out to her and she gathers them to her. When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs B—a shrewd and tricksy woman in her 90s—she meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the keeper of stories, she doesn’t have a story to tell.

Rick's recent appearance on Ben Fogle's New Lives in the Wild chronicled his budget lifestyle and adventures aboard Calypso, and introduced the idea of budget sailing to a whole new audience - an audience who may have never considered the possibility that such a dream could be made a reality, on such a small amount of money. This book is for them and for any experienced sailors who want to cast off the yoke of consumerist yachting and get back to what really matters at sea.

After decades of helping others make radical transformations in health and fitness, fitness guru Diamond Dallas Page knows what is really holding you back from profound life change. He has watched countless people take ownership of their lives, physically, mentally, and emotionally - and he has witnessed, time and again, the precise instant when a real and massive shift occurs in a person’s attitude. In Positively Unstoppable, he brings his understanding of what really moves people to change and own their lives.