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ID: 453054

Title: Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town

Author: Hannah Kirshner

Narrator: Hannah Kirshner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:51:31

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Cooking, Non-Fiction, Travel, Asia

Summary:

'With this book, you feel you can stop time and savor the rituals of life.' --Maira Kalman

An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed--where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns--by an American writer and food stylist who spent years working alongside artisans

One night, Brooklyn-based artist and food writer Hannah Kirshner received a life-changing invitation to apprentice with a 'saké evangelist' in a misty Japanese mountain village called Yamanaka. In a rapidly modernizing Japan, the region--a stronghold of the country's old-fashioned ways--was quickly becoming a destination for chefs and artisans looking to learn about the traditions that have long shaped Japanese culture. Kirshner put on a vest and tie and took her place behind the saké bar. Before long, she met a community of craftspeople, farmers, and foragers--master woodturners, hunters, a paper artist, and a man making charcoal in his nearly abandoned village on the outskirts of town. Kirshner found each craftsperson not only exhibited an extraordinary dedication to their work but their distinct expertise contributed to the fabric of the local culture. Inspired by these masters, she devoted herself to learning how they work and live.

Taking readers deep into evergreen forests, terraced rice fields, and smoke-filled workshops, Kirshner captures the centuries-old traditions still alive in Yamanaka. Water, Wood, and Wild Things invites readers to see what goes into making a fine bowl, a cup of tea, or a harvest of rice and introduces the masters who dedicate their lives to this work. Part travelogue, part meditation on the meaning of work, and full of her own beautiful drawings and recipes, Kirshner's refreshing book is an ode to a place and its people, as well as a profound examination of what it means to sustain traditions and find purpose in cultivation and craft.

* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of illustrations and recipes.

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ID: 463593

Title: Create Your Yes!: When You Keep Hearing NO: A 12-Step Strategy for Success

Author: Angela Marie Hutchinson

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:37:03

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, Self Development, Career Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

Are you tired of hearing 'No'? Then create your 'Yes!'

When you are faced with rejection, do you cringe or thrive? While it may seem that we are out of options when we try something and fail, there is almost a way to make your dreams a reality ― in the face of ANY adversary!

Angela Marie Hutchinson has a fairly simple motto: dreams don't happen, dreams are made. Rather than admit defeat, Angela herself made her dreams of making a movie a reality by pushing forward despite each 'no', 'pass', and negative thought that came her way! Using her 12―step approach, those dreams you keep hearing 'no' on ― those plans that never seem to come to fruition ― can finally be realized.

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ID: 463162

Title: Your Best Is Next: How to Live Your Fullest Life During Your 'Gun Lap'

Author: Ira Blumenthal

Narrator: Neil Shah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:24:46

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Aging & Longevity

Summary:

Seize every day like it's the your gun lap!

During the final lap in a race, a gun is fired to let racers know that this is their last chance to give the race their all, to pull out all the stops and WIN! Using 'The Gun Lap' as a signal to get our lives in gear, we are freed of all restrictions but especially those we put on ourselves due to age, lack of time, and perceived lack of talent. Your Best is Next encourages readers to adopt an 'it is never too late' strategy in order to learn new skills or follow a new passion ? giving real life examples and action strategies.

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ID: 457111

Title: Mister Toebones: Poems

Author: Brooks Haxton

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:28:42

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

In these marvelous pages, the award-winning poet turns a searching gaze toward the shared habitat and intertwined fates of man and animal. He looks back and forward in time, down at the soil, up at the stars, and deeply into his personal relationships.

Brooks Haxton has been writing for years about the connections between human beings and the creatures we find fascinating. Mister Toebones, his new collection, draws its title from a nickname Haxton gives to a daddy longlegs he sees at his father's grave. In another poem, the poet and his mother, in search of a swimming hole, find a copperhead rearing to strike, about to birth its live young. Elsewhere, waist-deep in the Mississippi River, under the Atlantic Ocean, on the cracked ice of a frozen pond, even in outer space, the poet explores regions and forces that seem past endurance. Taking stock of threats against human survival, our own recklessness chief among them, these poems seek among visionaries and despots, scientific prodigies, murderers, and lovers what vitality may come from an alertness to all living things.

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ID: 463592

Title: What Extraordinary People Know: How to Cut the Busy B.S. and Live Your Kick-Ass Life

Author: Anthony Moore

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

What's the secret to 'extraordinary?'

Being stuck in mediocrity sucks. It's easy to identify the symptoms of this disease in your life: are you chronically bored? Do you wake up knowing today is going to suck? Are you constantly fighting off feelings of emptiness, exhaustion, and knowing you're wasting your life?

Well, eff that! Every moment of every day, you can choose to be extraordinary. You can choose to become someone you're incredibly proud to be, who accomplishes amazing goals and achieves greatness. What Extraordinary People Know guides you through how to be free of the mediocrity trap: starting with the inspiration, tools, and kick in the ass you need to get your life going in high gear-from behavioral change and personal growth expert Anthony Moore. As someone who took his own life from ordinary to extraordinary, Moore has created a three-step path to breaking free of Mediocrity and becoming the hero of your own life.

Are you ready to win?

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ID: 453063

Title: Wingfeather Tales: Seven Thrilling Stories from the World of Aerwiar

Author: Andrew Peterson, Douglas Kaine Mckelvey, Jennifer Trafton, Jonathan Rogers, N. D. Wilson

Narrator: Andrew Peterson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:38:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-21

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Return to the world of the Wingfeather Saga with Andrew Peterson and his all-star author friends.

Immerse yourself in a land of bomnubbles and quarreling cousins, sea dragons and book publishers, thieves and Fangs and secret maps. Here within these pages lie seven stories of the distant past, lost adventures, forgotten songs, and heartbreaking histories. The Shining Isle is restored, but Aerwiar is vast—and these authors have tales yet to tell:

  •  Explore the inner walls of Yorsha Doon, just West of the Woes of Shreve, on the edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, from the eyes of young Safiki in “The Prince of Yorsha Doon” from the creator of Aewiar, Andrew Peterson.

  •  Jennifer Trafton's warm and whimsical writing brings to life a publishing nightmare populated by the many beasts of Skree in “The Wooing of Sophelia Stupe.”

  •  Learn the origins of Ollister Pebmrick's mysterious entry in the Creaturepedia about his encounter with a raggant in “Willow Worlds” by N. D. Wilson.

  •  Travel with young Podo Helmer on an epic hunt for sea dragons in “From the Deeps of the Dragon King” from A. S. Peterson.

  •  Jonathan Rogers presents “The Ballard of Lanric and Rube,” sung by Armulyn the Bard, tale-spinner of the imaginary Shining Isle of Anniera, in On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness.

  •  Discover what life was like for Maraly and Gammon in post-war Skree in “Shadowblade and the Florid Sword'—the first-ever Wingfeather comic—by Andrew Peterson. (Included in a dowanloadable PDF.)

  •  Douglas McKelvey's epic, heartbreakingly hopeful novella 'The Places Beyond the Maps” recounts a father's journey to redemption.

You'll also find delightful illustrations by Justin Gerard, Hein Zaayman, Cory Godbey, John Hendrix, Nicholas Kole, Aedan Peterson, Joe Sutphin, Jay Myers, and Doug TenNapel in the downloadable PDF.

Enter a rich, imaginative world that becomes more real, more mysterious, more dangerous, and more beautiful with each story's telling.

* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains illustrations and the first-ever Wingfeather Saga comic, one of the seven stories from the book.

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ID: 492750

Title: Let the Devil Sleep: A Novel

Author: John Verdon

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

In this novel from bestselling author John Verdon, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney puts under the magnifying glass a notorious serial murder case — one whose motives have been enshrined as law-enforcement dogma - and discovers that everyone has it wrong.

 

The most decorated homicide detective in NYPD history, Dave Gurney is still trying to adjust to his life of quasi-retirement in upstate New York when a young woman who is producing a documentary on a notorious murder spree seeks his counsel.  Soon after, Gurney begins feeling threatened: a razor-sharp hunting arrow lands in his yard, and he narrowly escapes serious injury in a booby-trapped basement.  As things grow more bizarre, he finds himself reexamining the case of The Good Shepherd, which ten years before involved a series of roadside shootings and a rage-against-the-rich manifesto.  The killings ceased, and a cult of analysis grew up around the case with a consensus opinion that no one would dream of challenging  — no one, that is, but Dave Gurney.  

 

Mocked even by some who’d been his supporters in previous investigations, Dave realizes that the killer is too clever to ever be found.  The only gambit that may make sense is also the most dangerous — to make himself a target and get the killer to come to him.

 

To survive, Gurney must rely on three allies: his beloved wife Madeleine, impressively intuitive and a beacon of light in the gathering darkness; his de-facto investigative “partner” Jack Hardwick, always ready to spit in authority’s face but wily when it counts; and his son Kyle, who has come back into Gurney’s life with surprising force, love and loyalty.

 

Displaying all the hallmarks for which the Dave Gurney series is lauded — well-etched characters, deft black humor, and ingenious deduction that ends in a climactic showdown — Let the Devil Sleep is something more: a reminder of the power of self-belief in a world that contains too little of it.

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ID: 445740

Title: Simple and Free: 7 Experiments Against Excess

Author: Jen Hatmaker

Narrator: Jen Hatmaker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:15:39

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Health & Wellness, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

Why do we pursue more when we’d be happier with less? In this updated edition of 7, New York Times bestselling author Jen Hatmaker tells the story of how she and her family tried to combat overindulgence—and what they learned along the way about living a truly meaningful life.

Simple and Free is the true story of how Jen Hatmaker (along with her family) identified seven areas of excess—food, clothes, spending, media, possessions, waste, and stress—and made seven simple choices to fight back against the modern-day diseases of greed, materialism, and overindulgence. So, what’s the payoff from living a deeply reduced life? It’s the discovery of a greatly increased connection with God—a call toward simplicity and generosity that transcends social experiment to become a radically better life.

In this new edition, written not just for readers of faith but for everyone who craves a gentler, simpler life, Hatmaker shares how sustainability and generosity still impact and challenge her today. Annotated throughout with new reflections from the author, this book offers thoughtful insights on the vastly different world of Simple and Free from back when it was first published as 7, and considers the dramatically different space Hatmaker occupies now. Simple and Free is funny, raw, and not a guilt trip in the making. Come along and discover what Jesus’ version of rich, blessed, and generous might look like in your life.

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ID: 501282

Title: Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

Author: Julia Cameron

Narrator: Eliza Foss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-21

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

'Without The Artist's Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love.” —Elizabeth Gilbert

The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. In a new introduction to the book, Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of The Artist’s Way and describes the work she has done during the last decade and the new insights into the creative process that she has gained. Updated and expanded, this anniversary edition reframes The Artist’s Way for a new century.

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ID: 463590

Title: 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell

Author: Paul Smith

Narrator: Paul Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:17:03

Language: English

Release date: 03-23-21

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

NOW AN OWL (Outstanding Work of Literature) Leadership Award Winner!

Every great leader is a great storyteller.

As a manager, CEO, or team leader, how can you innovatively engage your employees so that they understand where your organization came from, where it's going, and how you're going to get there? How can you connect with your customers in a way that makes them believe in your company as passionately as you do?

Paul Smith is one of the world's leading experts in business storytelling. He teaches people how to be more effective leaders by communicating their company's important mission, inspiring creativity, and earning the trust of valued stakeholders.

The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell explores the journey behind success, and breaks down not just the importance of your company's story but how to craft compelling ones of your own.

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