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Today’s directors face broader mandates than ever. Governance spans strategy, technology, culture, and stakeholder dynamics. Experience still matters — but directors today need fluency, range, and relevance. The Contemporary Board Member is a concise guide for this shift. Based on the skills model from The Contemporary Leader, it adapts key competencies for the boardroom — where influence replaces authority and decisions carry weight without control.

The executive seat is being redefined. Are you keeping up? Today’s executives sit at the intersection of strategy and execution, innovation and risk, vision and urgency. Experience still matters — but today’s leaders need speed, clarity, and range. The Contemporary Executive is a concise guide for this shift. Based on the skills model from The Contemporary Leader, it adapts essential competencies for modern executive leadership — where pressure is constant and decisions move fast. WHY THIS BOOK MATTERS Change isn’t the challenge — it’s the baseline.

The founder seat has changed. A great idea is no longer enough. Today’s entrepreneurs lead across product, people, capital, and culture—often before any of those systems are stable. In a world of speed and scrutiny, leadership must evolve in real time. The Contemporary Entrepreneur is a concise guide for that shift. Based on the model from The Contemporary Leader, it adapts essential leadership skills to the founder experience—where pressure is high, structure is minimal, and timelines move fast.

Eight hundred years from now, Earth is a paradise. Humanity has faced its greatest challenges...and won. Every wish is fulfilled. Every need is met. But is that enough? Jenorden wants more, wandering the galaxy with his friends as he seeks the answer. He knows his life is missing something. But what? And when aliens from another galaxy appear, offering to answer any question and reveal any secret, are their motives sinister...…or sincere?

Im Hungerwinter 1946/47 begegnet Hedi, hochschwanger und junge Flüchtlingsfrau aus Pommern, Alfons Müller-Wipperfürth, einer der schillerndsten Gestalten im Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit. Als alleinerziehende Mutter kämpft Hedi gegen Vorurteile und Misstrauen. Aber ihre beharrliche Suche nach Freundschaft und Liebe wird belohnt – bis vollkommen unerwartet der Vater ihres Kindes vor der Tür steht.

Grieving father Harry Manning is determined to expose the dark secrets behind the party that cost his son his life. The courts ruled it an accident, but Harry is certain that Nathan Webb is responsible for Freddie's death, and he will do anything to prove it. As Harry seeks revenge, he finds an unlikely ally in Nathan’s wife, Erin. Nobody knows better than Erin Webb just how violent Nathan can be, but her own private torment compels her to help Harry. Even when it means putting both their lives on the line. Together, can they uncover the truth behind that deadly game.

In this new collection of short stories, Dactyl Literary Award winner Tom Newton once again playfully transmutes base reality into startlingly novel shapes and forms, shifting paradigms from beneath the listener's feet by deftly metamorphosing quotidian banality with whimsical, illusory invention.

Sometimes you have to play the cards you’re dealt.

The Lucky Quark casino ship couldn’t have found a worse place to crash than Gressil Prime. If the planet’s vicious blizzards weren’t bad enough, deadly hurricane storms tear apart anything that enters the atmosphere. Nobody, not even the corporation behind the casino, has made it through to the crash site alive.

Yet.

Sheni and his spacer crew only steal from people who don’t deserve what they’ve got.

Finn et Clara habitent un village de pêcheurs, sur une île en mer d'Irlande. Leur père leur a fait une belle surprise : il a construit pour eux un curragh, une petite barque traditionnelle. Ils peuvent y naviguer, à condition de se tenir à distance de l'Île aux Brumes, un endroit maudit dont personne n'est jamais revenu… Ce n'est pas qu'ils veulent désobéir… mais, un jour d'épais brouillard, Finn et Clara sont entraînés à la dérive et échouent sur l'Île aux Brumes. Que faire ? L'explorer, bien sûr !

Guillaume était l'apprenti d'un puissant sorcier. Il travaillait au château en échange de leçons de magie. Autant il aimait les leçons, autant il détestait les corvées.

Rafi le bricoleur est nouveau dans le quartier. Il n'a pas encore d'amis. Mais avec son cadeau d'anniversaire, une boîte à outils de menuisier, il fabrique des jouets splendides, animaux, pantins…, qui attirent Ki Sing, sa voisine couturière !

Es gibt Tage, da steht man morgens auf, und nichts ist mehr so wie zuvor. Der 1. September 1939 war so ein Tag. Oder der 11. September 2001. Und auch der 2. September 2025 war so ein Tag. Zumindest für Matt Sanders. Eine Reihe von Zufällen sollte nicht nur sein Leben, sondern die Zukunft der ganzen Menschheit ändern. Zumindest der Menschen auf der Erde. Und doch bleiben viele Fragen offen: Was ist wirklich im Chicxulub-Krater abgestürzt? Wieso finden Archäologen einen Pad-Computer unter einem Dinosaurier? Warum wird ein krebskranker Mann unsterblich? Wer oder was ist Seku?

Que faire pour qu'un ogre cesse de dévorer les enfants ? Lui préparer des repas délicieux chaque jour, bien sûr ! C'est ce que fit la petite Zeralda du haut de ses six ans...

Haunted by the death of his son in infancy and the love of his life many years later, Jake Montgomery grudgingly agrees to a form of “journal therapy” that allows him to expose and confront the sharp, insistent pain that he regularly buries with rage and scotch and television. As he writes, secrets tightly bound within him gradually unwind—first in racially segregated Ocala, Florida, in the 1950s, where his best childhood friend was a Puerto Rican jockey, then in Ireland, when a summer as a stable apprentice ushers in a new and all-consuming passion.

Steve Rogers, known to the world as Captain America, continues his affiliation with S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury and the Avengers. But Steve struggles to fit in the modern world, and now his past will come back to haunt him....

When Max and his friends hear a strange noise one night, their imaginations go wild. Is it a monster? A lost animal? Something out of this world? Armed with magnifying glasses, snack supplies, and a whole lot of curiosity, the kids form The Secret Club of Backyard Explorers—ready to solve the mystery and uncover the secrets hidden in their very own neighborhood.

Devious bounty hunter the Shade is delivering the Graf children to Captain Korda when her ship is attacked by a mysterious species. Milo and Lina must trust their fate to their fellow prisoners. How will they escape THE DARKNESS?

Dunkle Geheimnisse auf Föhr! Der neue, spannende Küstenkrimi der Bestsellerautoren Ella & Tom Hansen: Das Verschwinden der ehemaligen Inselhebamme Estrid versetzt ganz Föhr in Aufruhr. Nachdem bei der großangelegten Suchaktion ihre Leiche in der Marsch gefunden wird, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse.

The Contemporary Leader offers a clear, skills-based framework for leading through change. Whether you're a board member, executive, entrepreneur, or emerging leader, this audiobook helps you sharpen your edge in a high-stakes environment.

Strange letters. Whispering trees. And squirrels that tell jokes? When Max, Lily, and Ben receive a mysterious invitation to explore the legendary Whispering Woods, they expect trees and trails—not talking animals, hidden clues, and giggling acorns. But as the trio ventures deeper into the forest, they discover that something magical (and very silly) is going on… and they might be the only ones who can uncover the truth.