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Comment influencer positivement les autres ? Comment renforcer son impact et son aisance relationnelle ? Comment donner envie à ses collaborateurs ou à ses pairs et les mobiliser ? Comment devenir un manager-leader ? Articulé autour de ces questions majeures, cet ouvrage est destiné à tous ceux qui se posent la question du leadership et du charisme. Au-delà des recettes et des techniques, l'auteure donne des clés d'entrée concrètes et utilisables immédiatement pour renforcer son impact auprès de ses interlocuteurs.

Katy Walton spent her life trying to be a good girl, or at least giving the appearance of one. When she marries into a long family line of Southern Baptist preachers, it becomes her job to maintain the image of the perfect family in the perfect church with a perfect future ahead. When the facade starts to crumble and even her best intentions fail to fool anyone, she finds herself alone and abandoned. It's not until she realizes how much living in the shadows of secrets and shame has damaged her daughter, Ivy Rose, that she learns to let go of all she once held.

Jonathan is a mystic who specializes in killing poltergeists. He is a haunted spirit himself, having lost both parents, as he travels around the country, entering haunted houses and killing the evil spirits inside. He is then hired to enter a haunted building, one that has killed many a mystic before him...but inside he finds a ghost that he has never encountered before...a woman covered in blood who was killed over 30 years earlier...

Helen is a normal college student yawning away the minutes in her philosophy class. Sirens sound outside the school. They grow in number, getting closer and closer. When she steps outside the building, she is greeted by screams and blood. The zombie apocalypse has begun and there is no longer time to think.

The Crows of Ticklewick is an upbeat prelude to the Amelia Hart series. Told from a crow's prospective, it introduces a magical new world called Ticklewick.

Two estranged sisters who show up at their missing mother's estate to settle her estate and collect the proceeds. But as they sift through her belongings, they find a board game that holds a connection to their mother's disappearance...and deadly consequences for anyone who plays it.

1348. La peste fait rage dans Paris et l'épidémie a changé la face du royaume. Aurait-elle aussi changé Gabrielle ? Déterminée à être maîtresse de son propre destin, plus rien n'arrête cette femme bafouée par son mari, joueur acharné qui dépensait leurs quelques sous dans les pires tripots et les plus sombres bordels. Elle quitte la capitale avec sa fidèle Adeline, emportant avec elle une peinture mystérieuse que les puissants veulent posséder coûte que coûte. Dans une France en panique, tout est possible.

Marcus Holconius Crassus ist der wohl einflussreichste Politiker in Herculaneum. Und so ist es für Sextus Dentatius eine große Ehre, das politische Schwergewicht zu einem feierlichen Abendessen im eigenen Haus begrüßen zu dürfen. Doch als Holconius plötzlich beim Essen tot zusammenbricht, ist nicht nur die Aufregung groß. Sofort kommt auch ein gefährlicher Verdacht auf.

"De mère africaine - arrachée à son village par des trafiquants d'esclaves - et de père inconnu - quelque marin du bateau négrier voguant vers la Guadeloupe - elle n'est ni noire ni blanche, et même ses deux yeux sont de nuance différente. Enfant, on la surnommera 'Deux-âmes'. Et finalement c'est sous le nom de 'Solitude' qu'elle vivra à la Guadeloupe dans les familles de Blancs qui l'ont achetée, puis parmi les troupes de Noirs révoltés qu'elle rejoindra à grand-peine dans leurs refuges des forêts de la Soufrière."

La peste ! Le fléau de Dieu qui tue tous les hommes, les purs comme les âmes noires, les doux comme les fourbes, les saints comme les traîtres. Sans distinction de richesse ou de classe. La peste ! Quand elle s'abat sur le royaume de France, en 1347, personne ne veut y croire. Mais lorsqu'elle gagne Paris, elle bouleverse les âmes et les consciences, révèle le véritable tempérament de ceux qu'elle effraie ou... qui en jouent. Les pires instincts se réveillent. Et les ordres établis vacillent.

Drôle, accessible, rassurant, un petit traité pour se libérer d'un mal insidieux : le perfectionnisme. Après le succès de "L'apprentissage du bonheur", un livre audio de travail indispensable pour apprendre à s'accepter, même imparfait, et être enfin soi-même. Se dépasser. Faire toujours mieux. Être plus efficace. Tous les jours, nous nous imposons des objectifs impossibles à atteindre.

Welcome to Cedar Mill, a late-19th century industrial town in the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Rachel Morris - young, outspoken, and impulsive - becomes involved in a consuming relationship with David Cranmer, her long-time friend and partner-in-crime. Set against the backdrop of a vividly-imagined historical town that is itself in the throes of major change, this relationship comes to affect Rachel and David in ways that are simultaneously deeply-felt, heartbreaking and revealing.

An exhilarating two-story bundle of wolf shifters and lion shifters. This steamy collection of five books will keep you on the edge of your seat and craving to hear more.

Pinkalicious decides that she and her friends should play dress up using her mother's clothes. But when Mommy asks them to find something else to do, Pinkalicious comes up with a pinkerrific idea! She and her friends create pinkatastic outfits from household items, like coffee filters and macaroni.

Après quelques années d'absence, le jeune Scott revient au domaine familial de Gillespie. Stupéfait, il découvre que son père, Angus, patriarche autoritaire et vieillissant, s'est remarié avec une Française, Amélie. Installée à demeure en compagnie de ses quatre enfants, trois garçons turbulents et une jeune fille, Kate, cette nouvelle belle-mère a bien l'intention de marquer son territoire, ce qui n'est guère du goût de Scott.

After spending more than one night with the enigmatic Dimitri, Kara knows her feelings are moving beyond what is appropriate with a client. She needs to rein them in, or decide to cut him loose, but the way she is going can only lead to disaster. Then Dimitri contacts her, asking her to meet him on a day off. She knows, professionally, she can only do this if it is not as a client. But what will happen if she meets Dimitri like any other man? She knows that things will never be the same if she does it, but she can't say no.

Months ago, billionaire Nate Porter lost his home and the love of his life in a fire. Certain that it had been no accident, he finds himself making a deal with an unlikely ally; a demon who demands one thing out of him. She wants to know what love is, and she will help him find out who ruined his life. Hanna Townsend opts to come along on the Porter family vacation to Puerto Rico. It's her first time leaving the home ever since she made the contract with Nate Porter. Things start out fine, until the two get into the bedroom.

It's business as usual for Kara, but there's one thing she can't stop thinking about, and that's Dimitri. What started out as a slightly unusual client booking is turning into far more, and even though she knows that she's treading dangerous ground, she can't help but want to see him again. After his confession, it would make perfect sense for her to never let him contact her again. But she wants to see him, and not just for the money.

Despite Dimitri's sudden departure, Kara's determined to get through the rest of the night. She's a professional, after all, and leaving early is bad for business. What she doesn't realize is that the night has another twist still in store, and it's nothing she's expecting....Afterward, she's not sure that she wants to see Dimitri again. But lust is a powerful thing, and she's going to find it hard to stay away for long.

As a high-class call girl in New York, Kara's had her share of generous, and sometimes odd, clients. But she's never had one like this before. From buying out an entire night to showering her with gifts, he's set up a night far beyond anything she's experienced before. But who is this mysterious man, whose name she doesn't even know? And what does he want from her?