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"A game-changing model for giving great feedback that employees hear and take to heart. Recent studies have revealed 44% of managers dread giving feedback, and 65% of employees wish their managers gave more feedback. But fear of hurt feelings leads managers to bite back valuable insights. Or they rehearse feedback conversations obsessively in advance--only to find the interchange still doesn't go as planned. However, critical feedback, delivered skillfully...
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"An invaluable resource for veterans seeking clear, actionable guidance to navigate the often complex landscape of Department of Veterans Affairs benefits and assistance programs. When you hang up that uniform and step into civilian life, no matter how long you served, the transition is overwhelming, and getting to grips with your VA benefits is the first order of business. As a veteran, you might be facing challenges related to healthcare, education,...
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"In a Chicago suburb, conflict flares: a reading by an LBGTQ+ author is canceled when the library hosting the event receives violent threats on social media and a single bullet is dropped in the outside book return. The police cannot guarantee safety at the event and the library regrettably cancels the reading. Christine Bernard, a retired nurse, rallies her friends to protest the book banning group in her village, and one morning while filling the...
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Ginny Masters manages a boutique hotel in Seattle, but daily challenges and a demanding boss are getting to her. Jacqueline Potter manages her grandfather's fishing lodge in Idaho because it was the only job she could find after getting her hospitality degree. She longs for a more sophisticated and cosmopolitan life. Just for the summer, they'll swap jobs and lifestyles, and even love interests, but they'll learn there's more to finding happiness...
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Mayfair 100 volume 3
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"London August 1915. The body of an unknown woman is discovered, stabbed, in a Mayfair square. She is expensively dressed and yet the autopsy reveals that she has been working in the munitions industry. The women of the Mayfair 100 team begin to try and uncover the woman's identity through her clothing, whilst their police colleagues investigate the harsh world of manufacturing munitions. What they become involved with is top level industrial espionage,...
6) Matterhorn
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"Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn't dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind-back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But when he learns his son Will died following in his footsteps, he needs answers. What mission took Will up into the alpine heights, and why is Ilya Ivashka on the same trail? Ilya-his close friend, his rival in love....
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"Malcolm Evans, the Beatles' long-time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend, was an invaluable member of the band's inner circle. A towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Evans loomed large in the Beatles' story, contributing at times as a performer and sometime lyricist, while struggling mightily to protect his beloved "boys." He was there for the whole of the group's remarkable, unparalleled story: from the Shea Stadium triumph through...
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Talia Inger volume 1
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Talia Inger is a rookie CIA case officer assigned not to the Moscow desk as she had hoped but to the forgotten backwaters of Eastern Europe - a department only known as 'Other.' When she is tasked with helping a young, charming Moldovan executive secure his designs for a revolutionary defence technology, she figures she'll be back in DC within a few days. But that's before she knows where the designs are stored - and who's after them. With her shady...
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"FBI cryptographer Eloise Marshall is grieving the death of her brother, who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor, when she is assigned to investigate a seemingly innocent letter about dolls. Agent Phillip Clayton is ready to enlist and head overseas when asked to work one more FBI job. A case of coded defense coordinates related to dolls should be easy, but not so when the Japanese Consulate gets involved, hearts get entangled, and Phillip goes...
10) Fair game
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Based on the autobiography of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose covert identity was exposed when her husband, retired Ambassador Joe Wilson, wrote a newspaper article challenging the basis for the claim that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Mayfair 100 volume 4
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"LONDON, SEPTEMBER 1915 When Constable Billy Rigsby, along with his mother and aunt, goes to the London Necropolis Railway Station at Waterloo to attend the military funeral of a neighbour's son, proceedings are interrupted by the unexpected and brutal murder of a young woman. In a panic, Billy telephones Mayfair 100, to assemble the team, and they descend upon the station to find not only a murder to investigate, but also two empty coffins, plus...
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"A crucial misunderstanding causes Hari to doubt Taemu's intentions, but before she can mope about where it all went wrong, disaster strikes-her parents are hospitalized following an accident at the restaurant. Hari is in a state of panic, but thankfully, Taemu is an expert at dealing with crisis! The incident also brings Yeongsuh and Sunghoon together for the first time since their falling out. Can the two couples clear up the fog of misunderstanding?"--...