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A team of veteran communication and speaking coaches delivers a groundbreaking new framework to becoming a great communicator. Thanks to the authors' decades of experience, listeners will discover the six essential threshold concepts needed to give talks like the best TED speakers and Fortune 500 leaders. Their practical and accessible approach will help you establish powerful habits in your speaking practice. You'll understand what's preventing you from being influential and persuasive, and build a new foundation toward being a highly effective communicator.

When Augusta Lockwood and her friends form a society to investigate crime, they don't have long to wait before a murder falls into their laps. A disappearing gardener and the discovery of a gruesome crime scene launch a series of mysterious events that soon engulf even the bravest of the amateur detectives in danger.

When Sylvia's sister disappears unexpectedly, Sylvia doubts the official story. Joan wouldn't run off to California to become a film star without first saying goodbye to her family. Clearly, she's in some sort of danger and it's up to Sylvia to find out what.

A sudden death at the local hardware store plunges Barbara into another murder investigation. While examining her list of suspects, she makes the acquaintance of a handsome handyman and also realizes she is being spied on by a mysterious woman.

When her cozy hometown is visited by death, Emma's investigative skills are enlisted by a secretive ghost. But with the uncooperative spirit holding so much back, and with the handsome local doctor pressing Emma for answers, will she ever get to the bottom of the case? Or will the Hollow be forever haunted by the secrets of the past? 

Sun Aranya just wants a stable job so she can care for her ailing grandfather. After years of relentless magic training, she has finally earned a city wardenship—only to discover on her first day that annoyingly handsome Shi Kai is laying claim to her position. There’s only one option: they’ll just have to compete for it. But while Aranya and Kai are forced to work together until one of them wins their competition, trouble brews in the empire. Whispered threats of enemy invasion abound, and magic-wielders are disappearing across the empire without a trace.

A ghostly visit from her former landlady draws Emma away from sleepy little Hillbilly Hollow to investigate a murder in the big city. But what seems like a straightforward case soon becomes entangled with an event from Emma's past and a personal quest for justice. With the attractive but bungling Sheriff Tucker at her side, will Emma be tempted by the chance to avenge an old wrong? 

When Rowan Hale notices a library book that doesn’t belong anywhere, she discovers something most people never see: a place where unfinished decisions are quietly stored. Hidden behind a shelf in the town library is a room of forgotten books—titles no one threw away, but no one quite chose to keep. As adults debate space, efficiency, and “underperforming” materials, Rowan and her friend Leo begin to understand that some stories aren’t loud enough to survive hurried decisions.

An unresolved murder case drove Jessica away from her remote and heavily wooded small town. When her mother suddenly passes away Jessica is forced to return to the confusing place where one of her best friends went missing when they were both only teens. Between a complicated old flame and an attractive female sheriff, Jessica finds herself drowning in both the memories and the danger of her past, unable to leave or move on. Can a new romance save her life? Will her old tendencies cause her to slip back into a hot yet abusive relationship? How can she leave when she has nothing left to lose...

Adulthood is complicated for anyone, though it can be especially overwhelming for someone living with Asperger's. Thankfully, Asperger's and Adulthood presents targeted strategies from learning specialist Blythe Grossberg to help young adults with Asperger's kick-start careers, cultivate healthy relationships, and create independent paths as maturing adults. Grossberg lends her expertise by providing an Asperger's road map - pointing out potential obstacles and offering valuable how-tos for thriving in the world.

When an innocent man goes on the run from police, Sylvia finds herself harboring an accused murderer. Drawn into investigating the violent crime, her search for the truth leads her into the unfamiliar world of betting and horseracing.

Rosamund prides herself on her matchmaking skills. After meeting Marcus Worthing, Earl of Somerville and her older sister's childhood best friend, she knows she's found the perfect fiancé...for her reclusive sister. Unfortunately, she's spending far too much time thinking about the man.

Augusta Lockwood is still wrestling with the dilemma of an anonymous corpse buried beneath her floorboards, when a new mystery arrives on her doorstep. A governess friend from the secret ladies society presses Augusta into helping to identify the culprit behind a series of deadly goings on in a great house under shadow.

Save Your Life with Creative Caster Oil – Becoming pH Balanced in an Unbalanced World Did you know that the castor plant has been in use by the human family to support health for at least 24,000 years? If you’ve never particularly thought about castor oil, you may be surprised by some of what you’ll read in Save Your Life with Creative Caster Oil. When you put the easy-to-accomplish, easy-to-understand suggestions into practice, you and your loved ones will experience a strengthened immune system, heightened emotional well-being, and healthy longevity. Castor oil has anti-allergenic, ...

Nonetheless, Augusta cannot refuse a plea for help when one of her society friends believes her life is in peril. To investigate a murder attempt, Augusta must set aside thoughts of her increasingly sinister tenant, Mr. Hawksworth, and the arrival of the troublingly handsome anatomist, Adam Seagrave. She must forget about the mysterious intruder who keeps trying to break into her house, and above all, she must banish thoughts of the dead body in her late father's locked study.

As ecologists Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe show, rewilding is a new and progressive approach to conservation, blending radical scientific insights with practical innovations to revive ecological processes, benefiting people as well as nature. With its sense of hope and purpose, rewilding is breathing new life into the conservation movement and enabling a growing number of people to enjoy thrilling wildlife experiences previously accessible only in remote wilderness reserves.

Princess Meiling harbors a deadly secret. Her people believe her lack of magic to be a curse, so she has spent her life in the background, all but shunned from court. But she does have magic—and it’s the magic of legends. When the secret of her magic is threatened, she is forced to flee her home into the dangerous wilderness with nothing but a begrudging warrior as protection. Handsome and taciturn Tan Shangdi isn’t happy to have his career waylaid, but he will do whatever it takes to fulfill his duty and protect Meiling with his life.

Finally back home, Meiling finds that returning to her old life as the cursed princess is harder than she imagined. She’s told to rest and recover from her harrowing time in the enemy’s fortress and enjoy the week-long festival.

Barbara expects her life to settle down, now that she has returned to Cobbsville with all her old secrets laid to rest. But instead, she comes home to find an unexpected new member has joined the Hollis household—and brought along a deadly new mystery. Barbara's investigation of a murder uncovers lies and motives that have been buried for years. But can she get to the bottom of it all before finding herself at the bottom of a grave?

Barbara Hollis has barely settled into the sleepy little town where her brother is sheriff, when a shocking crime rocks the community. Thanks to a peculiar new friend she has made and an unexpected prize she has won at a plasticware party, Barbara finds herself dragged into a dangerous mystery.