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There's a big difference between continuously encouraging employees to do their jobs well (coaching), attempting to fix poor performance (counselling), and helping top performers excel (mentoring). Unfortunately, most managers don't truly understand how and when to do each. The updated and revised edition of Coaching, Counselling & Mentoring gives managers specific, practical techniques for using all three to improve the performance of all their people.

What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov's story of exile, emigration, and immigration and how native language can be a powerful touchstone for the sense of home. The unrelenting consequences of 100 years of Balkan wars force three generations of Croatian women to flee their homelands multiple times. Eventually, Tania, a successfully integrated American immigrant from Eastern Europe, journeys back to her fractured homeland with her mother to unravel the secrets of their shared past.

In the summer of 2012, Tracy O'Malley was going through the motions of her life as a hardworking single parent. To everyone who knew her, she was the pillar of strength. But underneath that mask was a hurting, broken woman, only hanging on by a thread. One Sunday afternoon, a life-changing phone call brought her life crumbling down like a house of cards. Grace, Grit, Guts is a stirring step-by-step account of self-discovery, healing, recovery, and transformation. Follow Tracy’s journey on her relentless quest to heal from her tumultuous life.

Alexandra Destephano, a registered nurse and legal counsel for CCMC is concerned about inadequate staff and safety issues in the Pavilion and enlists former husband, dashing surgeon Robert Bonnet to assist her to battle Lester Whitset, the odd and often bizarre Pavilion administrator. In the meantime, staff and patients are being brutally beaten and killed at Crescent City Medical Center and Alex must set aside her feelings about the chronic under staffing at the hospital and work with Jack, Robert, and others to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Playful, compelling, and deeply layered, What You Don’t See raises the stakes in friendship against the bittersweet backdrop of motherhood and the endlessly entertaining activities of well-heeled women’s groups. The story follows Livi, a spirited, outspoken PR executive, pivoting at 30 to full-time wife and mom. That goes better than imagined, until she gets entangled in a relationship with another mom.

Martial arts master Lin Su Yoshimura is a force to be reckoned with. Now in the US after being shunned as a mixed-race Chinese-Japanese girl, then kidnapped as a teen and sold into the sex-trafficking trade, Lin Su is rescued from an abusive New York pimp by one of the city’s top-level cocaine dealers. Navigating both back alleys and opulent venues with lethal grace, Lin Su finds her way forward through the underbelly of the city, as she wrestles with the horrors of her past.

The Power of Being Heard is about having a voice and how it can invigorate your life, build satisfying relationships, and change the world. Witnessing, as a psychotherapist for 40 years, the renewed vigor and intimacy possible from building better communication and understanding between couples and families formerly in anguish, she has seen transformations that were more widely possible.

Eugenia Fain presents a collection of poems. 

Coffee Time Tales and Poems is a collection of short stories and poems written for teens and adults alike. It has serious and humorous tones. 

Just when US WAVE Livvy Delacourt thinks she and her team of psychic Nazi hunters are ready for whatever the Reich can throw at them, Hitler adds to the mix a spy who also happens to be a wizard. Now dark magic is being used to attack US facilities. Livvy must match wits with the evil wizard whose objective is to destroy Operation Delphi and all her team. She must sharpen her skills quickly - or risk dying and taking the team down with her. 

Ever felt like a grump? In this delightful musical audiobook. The House That Jack Built, poor old Jack starts out grim and grumbly. But even Jack can't resist warming up with the help of his singing and dancing barnyard friends right out of your favorite nursery rhymes. A tale - or tail? - of love, life, and forgiveness promises fun-filled family entertainment with bluegrass music and memorable moments. 

Crystal ball reader Isadora wants to prove she's up to the leadership responsibility to keep Philadelphia staff safe from Hitler's occult attacks until their team leader can return from special assignment in D.C., but a Nazi spy murdered the temp secretary D.C. sent and assumed her identity. The spy's mission is to steal an ancient book of spells coveted by Hitler. After finding the book, the spy's obsession is to avenge her spy lover's disappearance by leaving this U.S. facility in paranormally induced flames.

Few institutions have been more ingeniously designed than the U.S. federal government via the Constitution in 1787. This auspicious beginning more than two centuries ago helps explain why the U.S. remains a magnet for opportunity seekers, students, entrepreneurs, dissidents, and persecuted believers. Yet for decades now, America’s federal government has been underperforming. In an era of substantial political fermentation and debate, rediscovering and re-applying American Republicanism represents the best path forward for the United States.

Hannah, a forty-six-year-old author plagued with anxiety, and her partner James, an HR recruiter caught in a headlock of grief over his brother’s death, are as desperate for inner peace as they are clueless about how to find it. But when they embark on a sunny bike ride shortly after moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, a split-second decision propels them into different versions of their lives—ones they don’t recognize as their own. With a mental fog obscuring their recent past and who they were, they are forced to dig inside themselves to figure out who they are now.

Grievers live on the other side of an invisible and seemingly uncrossable canyon, separated from where their previous life with us, their friends and family, has always been. If we’re to help a grieving friend, we must learn to be a bridge over to where they now reside. It's simple once we understand why most popular condolences are of the burn-the-bridge variety. So, why do we say them? And why do so many of our condolences hurt instead of help? Get answers to these and other questions in Condolences Pocket Guide—the definitive book on how to help a grieving friend.

Have you ever felt like you were missing something and didn't know what it was, or have a dream that was confusing? Perhaps you met someone for the first time and took an instant liking to them or felt that you had known them before but did not know when or where. Many of us have experienced situations like these or similar ones, and have no one close that we are able to share with.

Many people live lives riddled with outright anxiety and fear. Instead of happiness and ease being the normal state of existence, most experience happiness as only brief moments of joy, when some desire has been temporarily fulfilled. But it does not have to be this way; happiness can be recognized as our natural state of being. 

In TopKnotch, three Shih Tzu girls—Ginger, Hapi, and Missy—scheme to extricate their late 20-something owner, Robin, from a series of foibles. Robin is an engineer who works for her uber-successful, but domineering dad, Fritz. She’s engaged to marry Sean, who works as the intellectual properties attorney for their firm, Rosencratz & Dessein.

All families have traditions and celebrations. There are no rules about how your family should celebrate holidays or special events throughout the year. Families are for making memories and for sharing stories and history. Each family is different and yet so very special. Yours is different than mine.

In the afterglow, the grid vanished, and Ryan’s breath caught in her throat when she saw what remained. There was Jean, walking through her living room just as she had imagined her. Except, this woman was outlined in a halo of blue light—a hologram with every living detail that had been Jean—when she was alive.