From Stephen R. Covey's eldest son comes a revolutionary new path towards productivity and satisfaction. Trust, says Stephen M.R. Covey, is the very basis of the new global economy, and he shows how trust and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees and constituents is the essential ingredient for any high–performance, successful organization.

For business leaders and public figures in any arena, The Speed of Trust offers an unprecedented and eminently practical look at exactly how trust functions in our every transaction and relationship from the most personal to the broadest, most indirect interaction and how to establish trust immediately so that you and your organization can forego the time–killing, bureaucratic check–and–balance processes so often deployed in lieu of actual trust.

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In Say Yes to Life, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Dr Linda Finnegan and motivational speaker Christy Kenneally show you how you can release the power of your own potential to live a fuller and happier life

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"Susan Wiggs paints the details of human relationships with the finesse of a master."--Jodi Picoult 'Wiggs, a consummate storyteller, has few equals when it comes to evoking deep emotion in readers. Richly detailed and textured, the characters are superb. But it's her observations about our modern lives and times that really stand out.'--RT Book Reviews on Lakeside Cottage "Wiggs is one of our best observers of stories of the heart. She knows how to capture emotion on virtually every page of every book."-Salem Statesman-Journal 'Rich with life lessons, nod-along moments and characters with whom readers can easily relate. Delightful and wise, Wiggs's latest shines.- Publishers Weekly on Dockside "With the ease of a master, Wiggs introduces complicated, flesh-and-blood characters into her idyllic but identifiable small-town setting...." --Publishers Weekly starred review on The Winter Lodge "Wiggs explores many aspects of grief, from guilt to anger to regret, imbuing her book with the classic would've/could've/should've emotions...another excellent title to her already-outstanding body of work." --Booklist starred review, on Table for Five

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IN THE END WE ALL FADE TO BLACK.

Pink-haired Hilda and oddball loner Benji are not your typical teenagers. Instead of going to parties or hanging out at the mall, they comb the city streets and suburban culs-de-sac of Los Angeles for sites of celebrity murder and suicide. Bound by their interest in the macabre, Hilda and Benji neglect their schoolwork and their social lives in favor of prowling the most notorious crime scenes in Hollywood history and collecting odd mementos of celebrity death.

Hilda and Benji’s morbid pastime takes an unexpected turn when they meet Hank, the elderly, reclusive tenant of a dilapidated Echo Park apartment where a silent movie star once stabbed himself to death with a pair of scissors. Hilda feels a strange connection with Hank and comes to care deeply for her paranoid new friend as they watch old movies together and chat the sweltering afternoons away. But when Hank’s downstairs neighbor Jake, a handsome screenwriter, inserts himself into the equation and begins to hint at Hank’s terrible secrets, Hilda must decide what it is she’s come to Echo Park searching for . . . and whether her fascination with death is worth missing out on life.

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The last 50 years have proved a particularly lively period in the history of the short story form. This new collection gives a full picture of the richness and diversity of this most American of genres from its very beginnings to the present day. The collection offers a freshly stimulating combination of old favourites such as Mark Twain's 'Jim Smiley's Jumping Frog' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart', unfamiliar works by well-known authors, such as Ernest Hemingway's 'Out of Season', Stephen Crane's 'An Episode of War' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Lost Decade' , and some remarkable stories by wonderful but less well known writers such as Mary Wilkins Freeman and Charles W. Chestnutt who deserve a wider audience. It's a compact book but it covers a lot of ground. There are 31 stories, covering 199 years (that is, the first story was published in 1807; the last is from 2006). The final three authors are Lorrie Moore, Jhumpa Lahiri and Lydia Davis.

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Washington Irving - The Little Man in Black (1807)

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown (1835)

Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)

Fanny Fern - Aunt Hetty on Matrimony (1851)

Mark Twain - Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog (1865)

Joel Chandler Harris - The Tar Baby Story (1880)

Mary Wilkins Freeman - Two Friends (1887)

Charles W. Chesnutt - The Wife of his Youth (1898)

Henry James - The Real Right Thing (1899)

Stephen Crane - An Episode of War (1899)

O. Henry - Hearts and Hands (1903)

Sherwood Anderson - The Untold Lie (1917)

Ernest HemingwayOut of Season (1923)

Edith Wharton - Atrophy (1927)

Dorothy Parker - New York to Detroit (1928)

Eudora Welty - The Whistle (1938)

William Faulkner - Barn Burning (1939)

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Lost Decade (1939)

Zora Neale Hurston - Now You Cookin' with Gas (1942)

Bernard Malamud - The First Seven Years (1950)

Flannery O'Connor - A Late Encounter with the Enemy (1953)

John Updike - Sunday Teasing (1956)

John Cheever - Reunion (1962)

Grace Paley - Wants (1971)

Alice Walker - The Flowers (1973)

Donald Barthelme - I Bought a Little City (1974)

Raymond Carver - Collectors (1975)

Richard Ford - Communist (1985)

Lorrie Moore - Starving Again (1990)

Jhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent (1999)

Lydia Davis - The Caterpillar (2006)

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Dawn French, number one bestelling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous returns with Oh Dear Silvia.

Everyone knows the real Silvia, don't they?

Silvia Shute lies in hospital in a coma. Family and friends gather at her bedside, each thinking they know the real Silvia. But do they? For Silvia hides a secret. One she can never tell. And as her visitors congregate so the truth about Silvia is slowly revealed. Again, and again and again . . .

Oh Dear Silvia is the brand new novel from one of Britain's most loved comic writers and the number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous.

'Hilarious. My top book . . .' The Times

'Side-splitting, darkly humorous' Heat

'Written with serious intent, both literary and thematically: Dawn tackles the big ones - love, death, grief, childhood, motherhood, parenthood - head on' Guardian

Dawn French has been making people laugh for thirty years. On purpose. As a writer, comedian and actor, she has appeared in some of this country's most long running, cherished and celebrated shows, including French and Saunders, The Comic Strip Presents. . ., Murder Most Horrid, The Vicar of Dibley, Jam and Jerusalem, Lark Rise to Candleford, and more recently, Roger and Val Have Just Got In.

Her bestselling memoir, Dear Fatty, was published to critical acclaim in 2008. Her first novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, was also a great success, going straight to No.1.

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Kirsty Mitchell is ready to come home. After a tragic accident that left her scarred, she fled overseas, desperate to forget. Now, three years later, she returns to Flame Tree Hill, her beloved family farm, to confront her demons. But she isn't prepared for a new and terrifying challenge: being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of twenty-five. Kirsty has never been a quitter, and she isn't about to start. But can her budding romance with gorgeous local vet Aden take the strain? The more he tries to help, the more she pushes him away, and the past threatens to overwhelm her. As she battles through chemotherapy and her own tangled emotions, Kirsty realises you can never take anything &- or anyone &- for granted. With the support of her family and friends, and the strength she draws from the beautiful landscape of Far North Queensland, Kirsty finally understands what she must do &- if she's lucky enough to survive. A lyrical and heartwarming testament to the power of love, Flame Tree Hill is also about overcoming the odds and, most importantly, learning to forgive yourself. PRAISE FOR MANDY MAGRO'S BOOKS 'Paints a realistic picture of work and play... Real rural romance.' Courier-Mail 'Heartwarming and humorous, this epic Australian tale will have you hooked from page one.' Weekly Times

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February 1942. The Japanese invasion of Timor has begun and attempts to evacuate a group of 29 Australian airmen, charged with keeping an airfield operational until the last moment, are thwarted. Under the leadership of Bryan Rofe, a 24-year-old meteorological officer, the airmen make for remote jungle along the northwest coast. All attempts to rescue the group fail. Malaria-ravaged and starving, these men are taken to the limits of their endurance for 58 days. When a 300-strong Japanese patrol is sent to hunt them down all hope seems lost, until they receive a strange signal from sea - an American submarine has been dispatched to their position. With the Japanese closing in, only courage will keep them alive. Using diaries of the airmen and wartime records, Rofe's grandson Tom Trumble brings to life one of the greatest stories of survival and escape of the Second World War. From the young man who stepped up to bring his men home and the Japanese soldier sent to hunt down the Australians, to the American submarine captain and the Timorese fisherman who saved them, this is an insight into the extraordinary things that happen to ordinary men in war.

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Treachery becomes a habit. London is in the grip of a stifling heatwave. The city has slowed to a claustrophobic shuffle. Heroin-addicted investigator Catherine Berlin suffers while working the lowest of investigations: matrimonial. The city's junkies are in the grip of a drought of a different kind. Sonja Kvist a strung-out ghost from Berlin's past, turns up on her doorstep. Sonja daughter is missing. An unpaid debt leaves Berlin no choice but to take the case of the missing ten-year-old. Berlin is back. And soon the hunter becomes the hunted: corrupt detectives are on Berlin's tail chasing drugs she doesn't have, a young girl is murdered and the matrimonial case unravels. And the temperature keeps rising. A Bitter Taste is addictive, fast-paced crime fiction spiked with grit and grunge. Praise for In Her Blood 'A promising new series.' Financial Times (UK) 'A full-throttle page-turner.' West Australian

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