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If you listen to nothing else on leadership, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you develop an authentic, adaptable style, bring out the best in your people, and springboard your organization into the future. This book will inspire you to navigate through uncertainty and change; lead with emotional intelligence; capitalize on AI and other new technologies; unleash collaboration and creativity across silos; cultivate the skills and mindset you need to succeed at the top.

In the Kingdom of Magus, Ophelia Dannan’s magic has reawakened, but at dire costs. Though she’s inherited the powers of a goddess, she’s haunted by the events in Wythe and the desperate choices she made to save the lives of her people. As war breaks out, she and Falcon lick their wounds in the Underbelly, waiting for word on Hart and Rune. There, Ophelia plots to end the centuries-old battle for the throne by unearthing and destroying three elusive primordial relics—but she isn’t the only one who seeks them.

Luring Nazi officers from smoky taverns to their deaths was not what Evi Strobel bargained for when she agreed to join the Dutch Resistance. But that is what she did until that fateful night she was saved from rape by a downed American Airman. Nor did Zoe Visser expect to be picking pockets for Dutch ID cards for use by escaping Jews, much less leading frightened enemies of the Reich toward uncertain treks to the Belgian border.

HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.

"Author Shannon Hale narrates as a full cast enacts the drama of her sixth-grade year in this adaptation of the middle volume of her graphic memoir trilogy. Portraying young Shannon, Mia Jenness evokes excitement, uncertainty, and hurt--painfully and exquisitely--as she picks her way through a...

Step into a dark, dangerous, intoxicating realm with cinematic world-building. Explore slow-burn romances, epic magic systems, fated bonds, hidden identities, stunning plot twists, and banter that will make you blush. In a kingdom on the brink of rebellion, a fugitive hunted for her bloodline faces twisted memories and rising darkness in pursuit of the truth about who she is and a way to bring down a sinister monarch.

In Experiencing Spirituality, Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham take listeners on a journey through storytelling as a means of self-discovery. Recounting and interpreting great wisdom stories from all ages and all cultures, as well as telling many of their own, the authors shed light on such experiences as awe, wonder, humor, confusion, and forgiveness. In story after story, seekers look to those whose lives reveal a special quality - sometimes called spirituality - and ask the masters what they must do to attain that same quality.

A mystical, time-bending journey into past lives, ancient wisdom, and the awakening of the soul. What if your dreams were memories—echoes of a life once lived, and a destiny not yet fulfilled? When a modern-day seeker begins to experience vivid visions and uncanny synchronicities, she’s drawn into a hidden world of forgotten truths. Guided by a wise old mentor and a radiant woman who embodies the Divine Feminine, she uncovers connections to Atlantis, Avalon, and the sacred mysteries of ancient Egypt.

Unloved and unwanted, Katsia is left by her abhorrent siblings. Now she is alone with her estranged father, who, while still living at House Luz, abandoned her long ago. All her life Katsia has suffered from what she believes to be a terrible illness. The Shadows have teeth, eyes, spindly fingers, and something to say. But is it insanity or something else that plagues her? She will soon discover exactly what it is as she is plunged into a new world filled with secret organizations, Gods and Goddesses, friends and foes. In the world of Stone, who can she trust?

Decades of research on achievement suggests people at the top of their game tend to reach their goals because of what they do - not because of who they are. In this short, provocative, and useful HBR Single, motivational psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson translates the psychological secrets of these winning human beings for your use.

This audiobook - entertaining for both adults and children - follows the fantastical adventures of a little girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a nonsensical world full of peculiar creatures.

Humans are making my life complicated. First, my booty call-boy falls in love with me, then a John Doe shows up, pinned to our office wall. Then a paranoid Doomsday Prepper starts stalking me. Ugh. As if being a vampire in the city isn’t complicated enough.

Since Adalina can remember, the men in her life have expected obedience and compliance from her. But how can she give that to them when her destiny is to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps and soar upon the dragon’s back? When the neighboring kingdom of Astarfall insists on an ancient marriage ceremony to wake the slumbering dragon, it seems Adalina’s dreams are at long last within reach. But marriage to an arrogant, smirking Prince—even one as breathtakingly sexy as this one—means placing power and authority in yet another man’s hands.

This is a love story bout Katrina and Cole two cafe workers who were friends and fell in love with each other there love taking them to placed they never thought possible. They vowed to love each other forever and that is exactly what they did no matter what life threw at them.

When a brokenhearted Aurora stumbles into the snowy woods, she comes across a mysterious being that calls itself the Weaver. Pitying the crying girl, the Weaver gives her a glass spinning wheel, promising to pay her riches in exchange for any thread spun on it at the end of a year and a day.

Amelia feels different and alone in the world except for her best friend, Greg. While camping with Greg and his Grandma K, a strange accident transports them to a world full of odd creatures and a lion-man named Winston. When Greg is captured by a nefarious wizard, it's up to Amelia to save him.

In the farthest reaches of space, where light barely touches and time warps into oblivion, an entire fleet vanished without a trace. Ten years later, a single, chilling transmission is received: “This is Commander Adrian Wolfe… Ghost Fleet… requesting assistance.” Captain Elena Vasquez thought she had buried the memory of Wolfe, the man she once loved, along with the fleet’s disappearance. But now, his desperate call for help pulls her into the dark unknown—a place where nightmares are real, and the dead do not rest.

Drawing on theories from the The Leadership Challenge, Robert Thompson effortlessly incorporates Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner’s time-tested concepts into a winning fable of leadership and growth. This dramatic tale of transition centers on a three-day meeting of two former rival pharmaceutical companies taking the first step towards creating a joint sales strategy. Told through the perspective of participants from both camps, they come to rely on The Five Practices that form the heart of The Leadership Challenge.