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Learn why having self-confidence in your abilities is critical for you to be able to achieve your goals. In addition, learn about the importance of looking at your track record as a technique that you can use to further enhance your self-confidence. The book discusses how you will encounter challenges and obstacles in your way to success. Find out the difference between how the ultra-successful people and regular people handle pressure.

The Laird of Edinburgh is a fair man, in love and war, until he is crossed, as Montgomery finds out while trying to deceive the Laird out of his most prized jewels. But when punishment is brought down, a terrified Montgomery begs for his life as the Laird demands Montgomery's most prized possession, his daughter, Heather. As a terrified Heather is held captive, her days and nights are filled with sorrow and fear. As the Laird grows more fond of her, Heather's father begs that she be released. But the Laird refuses to give up a possession more desirous than jewels.

Max the Forger is an artist and gentleman whose colorful lifestyle has spanned over 70 years. He has lived under the strict regime of Barnardo’s children’s homes, been an elephant handler in the circus, lived rough, busked his way from Brighton to Bombay, sold his fakes up and down the country, dined with dukes, socialized with celebrities, associated with gangsters, served time in prison, and donated tens of thousands to charity. And through it all, he never stopped smiling, and loving life - and missing his mum.

In December 1864, five men stood on the desolate shore of a subantarctic island watching their ship break apart in the waves and sunken rocks as they contemplated an uncertain fate, In the constant presence or icy rain and howling wind, the crew of the Grafton spent the next twenty months both enduring and leveraging the unforgiving elements of Auckland Island as they awaited a rescue ship that never arrived.

Pirate mercenary Lochlan MacLean loves his life on the sea, yet yearns for lands of his own to call home. He chooses his missions wisely, taking care they don’t go against his strict moral code. But when a deceitful father hires him for a challenging task - kidnapping a woman - he questions himself and his ethics. The spoils in both land and coin will fulfill his dream, and he can’t resist the job or the beautiful lass.

Ashley was in Scotland for a friend's wedding. Without a partner, she felt out of place at the reception. An attempt to distract herself goes wrong, and she winds up traveling through time, hundreds of years in the past. Her first sight of a real Highlander leaves her breathless. Craig is laird of a powerful Highland's clan, but rebels constantly threaten his rule and the safety of his people.

Irish warrior Desmond O'Quinlan has never surrendered his heart to any woman. He has no wish to have his soul tortured by love. Yet the moment he locks gazes with Ailsa, his fate is destined for an adventure he never fathomed. He may have battled alongside a Dragon Knight, but his greatest challenge will come from within his own heart.

Do you want to be able to manage your emotions more effectively? Would you like to enjoy more rewarding and fulfilling life? Emotional Intelligence impacts the way we formulate decisions, the way we manage our behavior, emotions, and social skills; and it is something that everybody is able to develop with time.

When Isabel Hartmann hikes to the idyllic Sandaig beach on Scotland's west coast, the last thing she expects to discover is the dead body of a German tourist. Suddenly, the translator finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation. DI Robert Campbell faces a mystery: a tourist shot dead in a remote location and no motive for murder. The picturesque Highland village of Glenelg becomes the centre of the investigation, and Campbell soon discovers that everyone has a secret, and no one is who they claim to be.

Do you want to take control of your emotions? Do you want to stop feeling anxious? Don’t you want to live a happier and more satisfying life? Nobody wants to live in fear, anxiety, worry, and panic. Everybody wants to be stress-free and happy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: 21 Great Ways to Deal with Anxiety, Depression, Worry, and Panic is your key to dealing with issues such as anxiety, depression, worry, and panic. It gives you an insight on what they are and how they can affect the different areas of your life.

There was only one time in her life that Lady Claresta Copeland enjoyed the freedom of nobody knowing who she was—when she attended a masquerade ball disguised as Juliet. There, she met her Romeo. The romance lasted not above an hour before her maid yanked her away but Claresta cherished that night and thought never to see her Romeo again, until he appeared before her in London.

A love story set against the backdrop of the First World War, the events in Lethbridge unfold in disparate locales, from London to Boston, from Maine to Niagara Falls, from the trenches of wartime France to the military hospitals of England. Yet the lives of its three protagonists come together in one place: the frontier western Canadian city of Lethbridge, Alberta. Inspired by a true story, Lethbridge author Terry McConnell tells the tale of an English lad abandoned by his family, and a young American escaping the tyranny of his own father.

Following the success of Catching LIfe by the Throat, Josephine Hart compiles more poetry from the like of such poets as Milton, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Browning, Frost and Lowell.

Read by a dazzling cast of actors including Eileen Atkins, Nancy Carroll, Alan Cox, Charles Dance, Joanna David, Lindsay Duncan, Edward Fox, Emilia Fox, Robert Hardy, Tom Hollander, Jeremy Irons, Felicity Kendal, Elizabeth McGovern, Mark Strong, Dominic West, Greg Wise.

Today, orphanages are common in many parts of the world. But a look at young people who spent their childhoods in institutions in Romania reveals just how developmentally damaging such places can be.

Author Robert Parkes shares what he’s learned over the course of his career, and he reveals how to work faster and manage situations effectively. He'll teach you how to overcome your tendency to put off important activities and take action that increases your productivity at work and in life.

My wife and I have been married for 10 years, and I know everything there is to know about her. So when she gets an invite to a school reunion from an old school friend, I have no reason at all to stop her going. Do I? Imagine my surprise when I find out that she has a dark past that she's kept hidden from me all these years, and as it unfolds, this new knowledge takes me on a journey to places I never thought I'd go...

Mental toughness holds a top-five slot on the most sought-after job skills. Employers want to hire people who can handle pressure and think outside the box. And while adding mental discipline to your list of skills will indeed make you more marketable, that is not all it’s good for: it is also a skill that everyone needs in our daily lives.

'We looked like the perfect young family, something out of a magazine, in shades of marshmallow pink....' A photograph. The father smiling beside his new car, the mother pregnant and radiant, the little girl placing cuddly toys in the cot for her new baby brother. All we see is the happiness. 'We don't see my mother. We don't see the lies.' But behind every picture there is a story. And behind that story, there are others. Every family has its secrets.

Meet Trench, Old Tom and Sally-Anne in the 6 mysteries of the original fun, cosy mystery series. This exclusive Collector's Edition includes, for the first time, all 7 accompanying Sideways Glances.

Tatyana Grishin hates the Institute. The idea of women like her being stripped bare, spanked until they learn obedience, and then used for the enjoyment of powerful men isn't just wrong, it's disgusting. If only thoughts of being taken there against her will didn't leave her soaking wet. When a secretive organization gives her the chance to infiltrate and hopefully bring down the Institute, she jumps at the chance. After all, she'll just be pretending to blush, beg, and climax over and over as her stern, ridiculously handsome trainer ravages her virgin body in every way.