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Being brutal isn’t easy if you’re a pacifist. On Brutalia violence is a way of life. Ravenous ravens circle overhead, monstrous grot bears cause chaos and the streets are bulging with brawls. But Mort isn’t like the other islanders - he’s determined to live peacefully. Then the cruel queen appoints Mort as royal executioner. No one has ever challenged her and lived to tell the tale. Can Mort keep his head and outwit the queen?

Above the Line: How to Create a Company Culture That Engages Employees, Delights Customers, and Delivers Results offers all leaders a handbook for leveraging an organization's culture to engage staff, increase customer satisfaction, and streamline business performance. A groundbreaking work, this book reveals what it takes to achieve optimum results from your organizational culture without employing the use of external consultants. This organic, in-house approach to company culture transformation saves both time and money.

Could I Do That? challenges listeners to think big and take steps to achieving their goals by putting power in the hands of people who don't yet realize that they can do extraordinary things, too.

Don't just live for the weekends - enjoy what you do, feel enthusiastic about your job and really show up. Let Tim Robson inspire you to bring it every day - to really contribute at work, make a difference and feel good about yourself as a result. He will also show you how to instil that enthusiasm in others so you can be surrounded by a team who gives a damn and really makes things happen. Who wouldn't want to work in a place like that!?

There are hundreds of books on management. This is not just another book about what makes an effective manager. Becoming a Better Boss highlights why well-known advice on good management is so rarely heeded. By focusing on management through the eyes of an employee, Julian Birkinshaw gives us insightful and helpful advice on what we might do differently - both as individual managers of others, and as architects of the organizations in which we work. To achieve this, Birkinshaw has spent time working "in the trenches" to remind himself what life as an employee feels like.

You tick all the right boxes; school, university, corporate career. You have a sensible profession, a fancy job title, proud parents, decent salary, pricey holidays - but there's a nagging feeling that something isn't quite right. You want a different life - no spreadsheets, no commute, no late nights at the office. But if not that - then what? That is exactly what Escape the City is here to do: show you what other options are open to you.

From the creator of BBC drama Silent Witness comes a gripping and sinister thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. During the murder investigation of a teenage boy, DCI Mark Lapslie's methods come under fire and, as a result, his prime suspect walks free. Meanwhile another body is discovered, and Lapslie and his team quickly find themselves on the trail of a voracious serial killer. One year earlier, dedicated young Journalist Josie Dallyn stumbles over a chain of very similar cases.

Mark Slouka’s novel begins with the child of Czech immigrants to the US, now living in New York, who has been brought up on the folklore of his parents’ homeland. As an adult he becomes aware that he has no knowledge of his parents during the Nazi occupation of Prague. He makes a journey back to Czechoslovakia and it is only then that he discovers their part in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious ‘butcher of Prague’ and begins to understand his mother Ivana’s unhappiness.

Jack Slater is an official Monster Investigator - licensed to hunt out monsters who turn up under beds and terrorize small children. Brave Jack has never met a monster that could scare him... until now. The Dark Depths - home to the most terrifying of all monsters - have been opened, and Jack and his feisty friend Cherry must enter them and face the danger within. Armed only with their wits, a torch and a teddy bear...

The rich life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is featured here: His work as a doctor, his novels and journalistic writings, his support of Spiritualism and his defense of fairies. This is a unique set for the 150th anniversary of his birth. After his early years in medicine, the writing talents of Arthur Conan Doyle took over. Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger were among his successes.

Twins Sam and Ella have discovered they are extraordinary. They can send thought messages to each other. And when they're doing it, they have super powers. So when pet dogs start to disappear, the twins decide to use their special powers to investigate.

During the six long years of the Second World War the British psyche was changed irrevocably. British men and women on both the war front and at home were forced to take life-altering decisions, independently. What no-one could predict were the consequences on the family and on society of these independent journeys by husbands, wives, children, mothers, fathers, siblings. Nobody would ever be the same.

Tobey is determined to be famous. So one day Tobey and his friend Georgia audition for a role in the local play. To Tobey's huge disappointment, Georgia gets a part, but he doesn't. Can he turn this tragedy around?

Thirteen-year-old Bosworth Hartie didn't think his parents could inflict much more mental torture on him. However, they get it into their heads to find him a wife, to keep him on the straight and narrow! And they match him up with the spiteful Veronica Melling.

The future is not what it used to be. In this volatile era, with the world changing rapidly, people are more curious than ever to know what lies ahead. Will relentless consumerism end up destroying our planet? Or can science and technology allow us to innovate our way out of trouble? Perhaps a greater social consciousness and community-based living will take over or, conversely, the competition for limited resources may result in everyone fighting for themselves.

He has nowhere to go. So he goes there. The narrator of The Society of Others is an alienated young man who sees no meaning in life. He doesn't even see the point of getting out of bed in the morning. To get his family off his back, he embarks on an aimless hitchhiking adventure around Europe. But his journey soon turns into an orgy of violence...

Cornish farmer Joseph Moyle's loyalty to the crown goes well rewarded - his stepson Ralf is appointed page to the future Charles II. And when Ralf takes up his post, Britain is in the midst of its most tumultuous period ever - the war between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians and the dawning of an entirely new era...Ralf's duties oblige him to follow the heir to the throne through the western counties, where he experiences not only court intrigue and the constant threat of Cromwell's armies, but also romance.

Watch out for Sniff - the world’s funniest dog! Mad mongrel Sniff brings chaos and catastrophe into everyone’s lives! Sniff knows how to get a laugh out of a bin-bag... and how to turn a boring school play into a hilarious triumph, just by doing what comes naturally! More hilarious stories about Sniff the chaotic canine, from best-selling author Ian Whybrow.

Josh is soccer-mad and can't wait to show off his ball skills to his new classmates. After all, he is the nephew of Ossie Williams - the best footballer in the country. Josh's arrival gives shy Matthew more confidence, but it is not welcomed by Rajesh, the school goalkeeper and captain. With important seven-a-side tournaments coming up, will the players be able to settle their differences and work together as a team?

Jack Slater is an official Monster Investigator - licensed to hunt out monsters who turn up under beds and terrorize small children (and his parents!). Armed with a high-power torch (monsters hate the light), a pocketful of spare batteries and a much-loved teddy (there is nothing monsters hate more than a favourite childhood toy), he sets off down to Monster Underworld when news reaches his ears that the monsters are on the march.