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LEAD YOUR WAY UP is a practical guide to outstanding leadership, whether you are a newbie in the corporate world, stuck in your career, or want to shake things up. Full of invaluable life and career lessons, Iris Irumva unveils the untold secrets of leadership that you need to become a person of influence: from adopting a leader’s mindset and leading yourself first to leading others.

I have loved her from afar for so long. I didn’t expect to stumble upon the runaway billionaire princess when I agreed to meet an Ex-Navy SEAL buddy at a shitty bar. Five years later, she’s still all I can’t have. Beautiful. Pure. My chamomile. I’m damaged. Tortured. Damned. I don’t deserve her… …but I can’t let her go. It soon becomes clear that no matter how far she runs, she can’t outrun her ruthless father or my nemesis. But for them to reach her, they must first go through me. I let her go once. This time, it’s strictly finders keepers.

For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The flames of that long-ago night still burn in her nightmares: the heat, the choking smoke, the helplessness. Now Kerry works as an arson investigator with her evidence-sniffing dog, Sam. Together they're a great team, but only Kerry knows the real reason why they're so good at what they do; only Kerry and someone from a past she thought she'd put far behind her.

The picture was a warning: they'd found her. For eight years Grace Archer hoped this day wouldn't come, and knew in her heart that it would. She'd taken her daughter, Frankie, to a rural Alabama horse farm that might just as well have been at the end of the earth. But the man out to kill them would gladly follow them that far. And now, it seems, he had.

Everyone is thinking about Julius King. For comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda’s tormented sister, he is an obsession. For Morgan’s abandoned husband, Tallis, he is the source of ruin. For Simon and Axel, deeply in love, he stirs up jealousy and unease. What is Julius thinking about? He’s thinking about Hilda, Rupert, Morgan, Tallis, Simon and Axel, and they will not all survive his malevolent attention.

I owed Mariana so much. I’d betrayed not only her, but The Clans - my country, my people; my own flesh and blood. With so much lost because of me, when Mariana gave me a chance at redemption I was quick to take it. I was needed in the Ukraine, and so I went. But now a vicious woman named Vera is throwing me off my game, and, despite all my preparations and all of my research, I knew nothing of this woman. I owed Mariana so much, and, though I knew nothing of her, she knew enough about me to make that impossible. She knew that I would sooner die than go back on my word.

At this moment, Catherine Des Lauriers wants only two things in life: to forget all about the cheating ex she left behind in Paris, and for Maple Springs Country Music Fest to end while she's still somewhat sane. When an attractive stranger waltzes into her grandfather's pottery shop, Catherine can't stop herself from unloading her profound contempt for the festival frenzy and in particular for Jesse Morgan, the main attraction of the event. Much to her dismay, Catherine is gob smacked to discover that the stranger is none other than the boot-scooting singer herself.

After taking a break from pop stardom to turn his musical hand to composing — earning both a Tony and an Oscar for his efforts — Rex Brody is making a triumphant return to performing with a sold-out, coast-to-coast tour. But he has one crucial stop to make first: his aunt’s home in New Hampshire.

It’s Christmas time, and the entire Thornton clan is spending the holidays in a cabin deep in the Washington woods. What could go wrong with twelve adults, four kids, and a dog all staying together in one big cabin? Only the most chaotic - and memorable - Christmas ever!

Off-limits and my best friend's little sister—now all grown up. Meet Olivia Harper, a smart and sassy attorney whose gaze makes me forget my vow never to touch her. As a CEO, I'm used to getting what I want, but this time? I'm in over my head. Our undeniable attraction ignites when a high-stakes antique deal forces us to collaborate. Olivia is the key to my $50 million deal, but she's also threatening to unravel everything—my friendship, my business, and the control I've always maintained. I need her legal expertise to secure a priceless art collection. What I don't need? The ...

Probleme bestimmen unser Leben – in Beziehungen, im Job, in der Familie. Was wäre, wenn wir an unseren kleinen und großen Streitigkeiten nicht immer nur leiden müssten, sondern daran wachsen könnten? Und das auch noch mit Spaß! In ihrem Bestseller Shitmoves haben Iris Gavric und Matthias Renger rhetorische Tricks entlarvt und passende Reaktionen angeboten. Immer unter dem Leitsatz, das Gegenüber für sich zu gewinnen, statt nur den Konflikt.

Rookie lawyer Grace Zulu does not give up easily. She escaped an arranged marriage to put herself through university. Now she's got her first case. Her client is young Willbess 'Bessy' Mulenga, who has been arrested for offences 'against nature'. Bessy works in a men-only bar, loves to dance, to wear dresses and live freely. But in 1990s Zambia, following your own identity can get you beaten, jailed or even worse. Grace is determined to get Bessy out of custody. Then her terrified, bruised client goes missing without a trace.

Executives and professionals speak different languages, as disparate as Swahili and Greek. Agendas, vocabularies, and cultural conditioning destroy meaningful communication between them. This book exposes selling myths and profit-killing gaps between illusion and reality.

Diggory the Hungry Cat story: Diggory wakes up hungry to find his food bowl empty. Eventually he gets hold of food by stealing it from the angry farmer’s dog, and it causes quite a bit of turmoil.

Fresh out of the Israeli Army, 20-year-old Iris Bahr decides to follow in the footsteps of many before her and backpack through Asia. Only unlike the average traveler, she has more in mind than just seeing the sights: She is on a desperate mission to lose her virginity. Dork Whore is a fresh and funny memoir about a young woman whose quirky personality and embarrassing neuroses always seem to get in the way of her getting what she wants.

Jack, my best friend’s dad, the biggest playboy I’ve ever known, changed my life in just one night. I’m a doctor and I don’t have time to focus on anything else. That is until an obsessive stalker comes into my life. My best friend agrees - I need her dad. He was a Navy SEAL, and he knew how to protect me. A quick, fake engagement was the fastest way to get rid of the stalker. So, I said yes. But soon I find that nothing is sexier than Jack's protection. My dreams started to include his rough hands and gentle touch and the more time we spent together, the more I want my dreams to ...

In a world of mass consumption and busy schedules, taking the time to understand our own trash habits can be daunting. In Trash Talk, the ever-curious and talented Iris Gottlieb pulls back the curtain on the intricacies of the global trash production system and its contribution to climate change. From the history of the mafia’s rule of the New York sanitation system to orbital debris (space trash) to the myth of recycling, Gottlieb will help listeners see trash in a whole new way.

Sheltered her entire life, Jubilee Thornton yearns to spread her wings and fly after a childhood marked by illness. Her first goal? To attract the attention of the handsome schoolteacher she’s had a crush on for years - Heath DiMarco. One fateful night, Jubilee throws caution to the wind and kisses Heath - until he pushes her away and tells her they can never be together.

"Baudelaire on Air" è un podcast registrato in salotto, su una scrivania improvvisata in mezzo a lustrini, perline, strass e piume di struzzo. In un crogiuolo di pensieri, riflessioni e chiacchiere, Iris affronta argomenti vari di vita, tutti legati da un unico filo rosso: il Burlesque. Ogni Mercoledì un nuovo episodio.

What happened to Franny Blackman? Franny is now Liza Kasner, and is hiding in Chatham on Cape Cod. This newly minted blonde escaped from suburban New Jersey with her cat in the middle of the night. As she settles into the off-season beach resort, people from her hometown keep appearing. Can she lie well enough to keep her abusive husband, Barry, off her trail?