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Get the Summary of Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee's Primal Leadership in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Managers and professionals across the globe have embraced Primal Leadership, affirming the importance of emotionally intelligent leadership. Its influence has also reached well beyond the business world: the book and its ideas are now used routinely in universities,...
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Only two coins and a gold pendant heart separate widowed ANNIE MOSS from disaster. The fields need to be plowed, the barn repaired and food stored for the winter, but she is alone and afraid. Her dream of a home for her children hangs from the promise of a wandering man to keep moving on, a man she has no reason to trust.TRACE RANDOLPH has lost everything except his honor, so when a desperate ANNIE saves his life he knows he must pay his debt, even...
5) Annie's Pram
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Little Jane has a doll called Annie. She desperately wants a pram for Annie but cannot afford one. One day, while playing in the park Jane finds a man's wallet lying on the pathway. She takes it to her mother who takes her and the wallet to a policeman. How can finding the wallet help Jane get a pram for Annie? A fun read written in reverse chronology and with a simple message.
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Annie was scared when her family and friends were forced to leave their homes when she was fourteen.It was 1904 when her parents traveled across Europe and the Atlantic Ocean to New York City with her four siblings.This historical fiction reminisces the trials all immigrants made in the early 1900s.
7) Annie Hall
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Writer-director-actor Woody Allen is in prime form in this celebrated comedy and Best Picture Oscar®-winner in which he portrays a neurotic, highly insecure and indecisive comedy writer who falls head over heels in love with a naive small- town "girl" (Diane Keaton) who wants to be a singer.
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1941 sees Mollie McAllister, her friends, and America emerge from a simpler time to face a World War, that involved everyone in some way, nurses, and the military especially. Though many things are rationed, and everyone must conserve and work, these young women find ways to have fun and romance. Each day Mollie wonders if she will ever be reunited with her brother who is a prisoner of war, or her beloved fiancé, Ron, a Navy pilot on a carrier in...
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A elderly sharpshooter, Snowy Kringle, arrives in town for a show where he will demonstrate his shooting skills. The man who is charged with delivering the Army payroll warns the Deputy Sheriff that the old sharpshooter is really a crook and is probably after the payroll. When the express office is robbed, all the evidence points to the old man, but Annie suspects he's been framed for the crime.
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Annie Kate Hinkley has always dreamed of being a Pinkerton Agent. Only problem is, growing up with her grandma, she never learned to shoot, ride a horse, or fight. But she did learn to read. And she read everything she could get her hands on about Kate Warne, the first female Pinkerton Agent. Bruno Thomas has been a Pinkerton Agent for over a year. He's the youngest detective in the company, but the biggest, strongest man in the state of Colorado....
15) Annie on My Mind
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A landmark in LGBT fiction, this captivating story of two teenage girls who fall in love is a "classic of the genre" (Publishers Weekly). When Liza Winthrop first lays eyes on Annie Kenyon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she knows there's something special between them. Soon, their close friendship develops into a deep and intimate romance. Neither imagined that falling in love could be so wonderful, but as Liza and Annie's newfound sexuality sparks...
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Magic, Mystery, and Murder in Turtle Bay! In the picturesque town of Turtle Bay, life is anything but ordinary, especially for Annie Archer, a local witch whose talents extend far beyond brewing potions. When strange occurrences and unsolvable crimes start to disrupt the peace, Annie teams up with the pragmatic Sheriff Adam Parker, delving into a world where the paranormal meets the procedural. Each book in the Annie Archer Paranormal Mysteries series...
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Get the Summary of Annie Duke's Quit in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Quit" by Annie Duke explores the strategic value of quitting in decision-making. The book uses examples from various fields to illustrate the importance of knowing when to quit, a skill often overshadowed by perseverance narratives. Duke discusses the 1996 Everest expedition, where climbers' decisions to turn back likely saved their lives,...
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Looks at the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy and control.
"Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she's not the greatest at keeping Doug's place spotless,...
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Summary of Annie Proulx's Barkskins is a novel about settler colonialism in North America and the eradication of the boreal forest and its native inhabitants. The novel spans 300 years tracing the family lineages of two Frenchmen, Charles Duquet and René Sel.
In the late seventeenth century, Duquet and Sel, two poor indentured servants, arrive in the wild, seemingly infinite coniferous forest of New France. Their master, Claude Trépagny, tasks them...
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Annie is a single mother who adores her young son-;but as one of the notorious Balfour heiresses, she will have to work hard to give her baby a normal childhood. Then a chance meeting forces her back into the world of Luca de Salvatore, the gorgeous father of her child!
Luca doesn't know that he has a son. Annie has to tell him, but Luca can't see past her spoiled and scandalous Balfour reputation. Can Annie find a way to make Luca understand-;and...