The Care And Management Of Lies

Author : Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062220527
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Care and Management of Lies written by Jacqueline Winspear and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world. By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained—by Thea’s passionate embrace of women’s suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea’s brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea’s gift to Kezia is a book on household management—a veiled criticism of the bride’s prosaic life to come. Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia’s responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing cataclysm and turmoil. As Tom marches to the front lines, and Kezia battles to keep her ordered life from unraveling, they hide their despair in letters and cards filled with stories woven to bring comfort. Even Tom’s fellow soldiers in the trenches enter and find solace in the dream world of Kezia’s mouth-watering, albeit imaginary meals. But will well-intended lies and self-deception be of use when they come face to face with the enemy? Published to coincide with the centennial of the Great War, The Care and Management of Lies paints a poignant picture of love and friendship strained by the pain of separation and the brutal chaos of battle. Ultimately, it raises profound questions about conflict, belief, and love that echo in our own time.

Author : Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429900997
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pardonable Lies written by Jacqueline Winspear and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pardonable Lies, the third novel of this bestselling series from Jacqueline Winspear, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death. A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. In accepting the assignment, Maisie finds her spiritual strength tested, as well as her regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche. The mission also brings her together once again with her college friend Priscilla Evernden, who served in France and who lost three brothers to the war—one of whom, it turns out, had an intriguing connection to the missing Ralph Lawton. Following on the heels of Winspear's triumphant Birds of a Feather, Pardonable Lies is another compelling installment in the chronicles of Maisie Dobbs, "a heroine to cherish" (Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review).

Author : Marcus Buckingham
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1633696316
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine Lies About Work written by Marcus Buckingham and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget what you know about the world of work You crave feedback. Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. Your competencies should be measured and your weaknesses shored up. Leadership is a thing. These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco Leadership and Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies--distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking--that we encounter every time we show up for work. Nine lies, to be exact. They cause dysfunction and frustration, ultimately resulting in workplaces that are a pale shadow of what they could be. But there are those who can get past the lies and discover what's real. These freethinking leaders recognize the power and beauty of our individual uniqueness. They know that emergent patterns are more valuable than received wisdom and that evidence is more powerful than dogma. With engaging stories and incisive analysis, the authors reveal the essential truths that such freethinking leaders will recognize immediately: that it is the strength and cohesiveness of your team, not your company's culture, that matter most; that we should focus less on top-down planning and more on giving our people reliable, real-time intelligence; that rather than trying to align people's goals we should strive to align people's sense of purpose and meaning; that people don't want constant feedback, they want helpful attention. This is the real world of work, as it is and as it should be. Nine Lies About Work reveals the few core truths that will help you show just how good you are to those who truly rely on you.

Author : Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062220578
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dangerous Place written by Jacqueline Winspear and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . . In Jacqueline Winspear‘s powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril. Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability—and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger. But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn’t ready to return. Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, “You will be alone in a most dangerous place,” she disembarks in Gibraltar. Though she is on her own, Maisie is far from alone: the British garrison town is teeming with refugees fleeing a brutal civil war across the border in Spain. Yet the danger is very real. Days after Maisie’s arrival, a photographer and member of Gibraltar’s Sephardic Jewish community, Sebastian Babayoff, is murdered, and Maisie becomes entangled in the case, drawing the attention of the British Secret Service. Under the suspicious eye of a British agent, Maisie is pulled deeper into political intrigue on “the Rock”—arguably Britain’s most important strategic territory—and renews an uneasy acquaintance in the process. At a crossroads between her past and her future, Maisie must choose a direction, knowing that England is, for her, an equally dangerous place, but in quite a different way.

Author : Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher : Harper
ISBN 13 : 9781471266607
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Care and Management of Lies written by Jacqueline Winspear and published by Harper. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained, by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management, a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come. Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia's responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing cataclysm and turmoil. As Tom marches to the front lines, and Kezia battles to keep her ordered life from unraveling, they hide their despair in letters and cards filled with stories woven to bring comfort. Even Tom's fellow soldiers in the trenches enter and find solace in the dream world of Kezia's mouth-watering, albeit imaginary meals. But will well-intended lies and self-deception be of use when they come face to face with the enemy?

Author : Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641296062
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comfort of Ghosts written by Jacqueline Winspear and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! The Comfort of Ghosts completes Jacqueline Winspear’s ground-breaking and internationally bestselling series. “An outstanding historical series.”—The New York Times “Winspear is a brilliant writer, mixing the history and the mystery with the psychology of criminals and victims.”—The Historical Novel Society Psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs unravels a profound mystery from her past in a war-torn nation grappling with its future. London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion—the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, gravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter with the group. Maisie’s quest to bring comfort to the youngsters and the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie’s first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental fighter aircraft. As Maisie unravels the threads of her dead husband’s life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true. The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers, readers drawn to a woman who is of her time, yet familiar in ours—and who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance. This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens a new future for Maisie and her family, but serves as a fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War.

Author : Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0749024844
Total Pages : 1053 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maisie Dobbs series - Books 3, 4, 5 written by Jacqueline Winspear and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maisie Dobbs, the renowned psychologist and investigator, has taken on some diverse cases in her time. In Pardonable Lies, she receives an unusual request. She must prove that Sir Cecil Lawton's son Ralph really is dead. In Messenger of Truth when the death of a controversial artist is labelled an open and shut accidental death, Maisie accepts his sister's appeal to discover the truth. In An Incomplete Revenge an apparently straightforward of assignment to investigate a potential land purchase becomes fraught with theft and arson, Maisie must draw upon all her skills of detection to solve an intriguing case.'A new Maisie Dobbs mystery is always a cause for celebration . . .fiendishly entertaining' Time Out

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Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Author : Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0749026634
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Consequences of Fear written by Jacqueline Winspear and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, October 1941. Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Dismissed by the police when reporting the crime, Freddie turns to private investigator Maisie Dobbs for help. While Maisie believes the boy and wants to help, she must exercise caution given her work with a secret government department spearheading covert operations against the Nazis. When she stumbles upon the killer in a place she least expects, Maisie soon realises she's been pulled into the orbit of a man who has his own reasons to kill - reasons that go back to another war.

Author : James B. Couch
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780834211667
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Health Care Professional's Guide to Disease Management written by James B. Couch and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disease Management