Catherine McCarthy

When Elinor's daughter, Rowena, is found poisoned and dead in an animal trough, Elinor is sure the local parish priest is to blame. A ceramic artist by trade and influenced by her late grandmother's interest in supernatural magic, Elinor crafts an immortelle for Rowena's grave and attempts to capture the girl's spirit in the clay model of a starling. Soon she is inundated with requests for immortelles and the more immersed in the craft she becomes, the greater her powers grow. As the dead share their secrets with grieving Elinor, she learns the sordid truth of what happened to her beloved daughter and plots a revenge so hideous, it must be kept a secret forever.

Immortelle

Tony Schwartz

Jean Gomes

This book was previously titled, Be Excellent at Anything. The Way We're Working Isn't Working is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live. Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity, and passion. Nearly 75 percent of employees around the world feel disengaged at work every day. The Way We're Working Isn't Working offers a groundbreaking approach to reenergizing our lives so we’re both more satisfied and more productive—on the job and off. By integrating multidisciplinary findings from the science of high performance, Tony Schwartz, coauthor of the #1 bestselling The Power of Full Engagement, makes a persuasive case that we’re neglecting the four core needs that energize great performance: sustainability (physical); security (emotional); self-expression (mental); and significance (spiritual). Rather than running like computers at high speeds for long periods, we’re at our best when we pulse rhythmically between expending and regularly renewing energy across each of our four needs. Organizations undermine sustainable high performance by forever seeking to get more out of their people. Instead they should seek systematically to meet their four core needs so they’re freed, fueled, and inspired to bring the best of themselves to work every day. Drawing on extensive work with an extra-ordinary range of organizations, among them Google, Ford, Sony, Ernst & Young, Shell, IBM, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Cleveland Clinic, Schwartz creates a road map for a new way of working. At the individual level, he explains how we can build specific rituals into our daily schedules to balance intense effort with regular renewal; offset emotionally draining experiences with practices that fuel resilience; move between a narrow focus on urgent demands and more strategic, creative thinking; and balance a short-term focus on immediate results with a values-driven commitment to serving the greater good. At the organizational level, he outlines new policies, practices, and cultural messages that Schwartz’s client companies have adopted. The Way We're Working Isn't Working offers individuals, leaders, and organizations a highly practical, proven set of strategies to better manage the relentlessly rising demands we all face in an increasingly complex world.

The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance

The Way We're Working Isn't Working

Sonora Taylor

What doesn't kill me, might make me kill you! 30 women authors from around the world were challenged to write about The One That Got Away. Here you'll find tales of unrequited love, blind dates gone wrong, stalkers and their prey, cursed guitars, alien symbiotes, sinister letters, and bitter acts of revenge. Dive into murky depths and discover what hides inside the minds of women scorned.. Book 3 in the Kandisha Press Women of Horror Anthology Series #frightgirlwinter recommended reading! With Foreword by Gwendolyn Kiste (Bram Stoker Award Winning Author of The Rust Maidens) Edited by Jill Girardi Featuring stories from: Carmen Baca, Ushasi Sen Basu, Demi-Louise Blackburn, Ashley Burns, R.A. Busby, Amira Krista Calvo, Dawn DeBraal, Shawnna Deresch, Ellie Douglas, Amy Grech, KC Grifant, Meg Hafdahl, Rowan Hill, Stevie Kopas, Michelle Renee Lane, Catherine McCarthy, Villimey Mist, Mocha Pennington, Faith Pierce, Janine Pipe, Lydia Prime, Paula RC Readman, Marsheila Rockwell, Lucy Rose, Rebecca Rowland, Hadassah Shiradski, Yolanda Sfetsos, Barrington Smith-Seetachitt, J Snow and Sonora Taylor.

Women of Horror Anthology Volume 3

The One That Got Away

Dennis N. T. Perkins

Margaret P. Holtman

Paul R. Kessler

Leadership expert Dennis N.T. Perkins reveals how Shackleton's vision, actions, and philosophy of leadership provide a compass to executives and managers in today's climate of fierce competition, economic uncertainty, and constant change.

Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition

Leading at the Edge

Offers strategies for enabling sustainable high performance by systematically investing in employee health and happiness, citing the vulnerabilities of common business practices while offering examples of effective leadership.

The Four Keys To Transforming the Way We Work and Live

Be Excellent at Anything

Mosaic

Michelle Renee Lane

Yolanda Sfetsos

Step through the prettiest cemetery gates you've ever seen and experience tombstone raves and widow's dances, Japanese snow-spirits, Aztec bruja and temple goddesses, vengeful ghosts, djinn and cannibals, vampire hunters, plague bearers, graverobbers, and terrors beyond reason. Read through the night as the dead rise from boneyards all around the world! #FRIGHTGIRLSUMMER recommended reading! Featuring chilling tales from: Christy Aldridge Carmen BacaDemi-Louise Blackburn R.A. Busby V. Castro Dawn DeBraal Ellie Douglas Tracy Fahey Dona Fox Cassidy Frost Michelle Renee Lane Beverley Lee J.A.W. McCarthy Catherine McCarthy Susan McCauley Ksenia Murray Ally Peirse Janine Pipe Lydia Prime Paula R.C. Readman Yolanda Sfetsos Sonora Taylor Edited by Jill Girardi With foreword by Doc Holocausto (Evilspeak Magazine, Harvest Ritual, Creepy Crawls)

Women of Horror Anthology Volume 2

Graveyard Smash

Chris Lauer

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ENERGI er en af de sjældne bøger, som grundlæggende kan ændre den måde, hvorpå vi lever og arbejder. Mantraet om ’mere, større, hurtigere’ har store omkostninger for vores arbejdsliv og underminerer vores fokus, kreativitet og passion. Resultatet er, at næsten 75 procent af alle ansatte verden over føler sig uengagerede på deres arbejde. Denne bog præsenterer en banebrydende løsning, som vil skabe nye vaner, ny energi og gøre os mere tilfredse og mere produktive – på og uden for jobbet. Løsningen findes i opfyldelsen af de fire grundlæggende behov: det fysiske, det emotionelle, det mentale og det spirituelle. ENERGI tilbyder ledere, medarbejdere og organisationer en praktisk, efterprøvet tilgang til en strategi, som kan imødegå de stadigt stigende krav, som vi alle udsættes for i en mere og mere kompleks verden. Forfatterne trækker i bogen på omfattende forskning i emnet og på deres eget arbejde med store virksomheder som Google, Ford, Ernst & Young, Shell og IBM. "Vi har brug for at finde en rytme, hvor vi bruger flere sider af vores krop i løbet af en dag. Vi har brug for mere afveksling. Vi har brug for en bedre forbindelse mellem det, vi selv laver, og den større sammenhæng, det indgår i." Lars Kolind, bestyrelsesformand, fra bogens forord

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