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ID: 507737

Title: Shifting the Balance: How Top Organizations Beat the Competition by Combining Intuition with Data

Author: Mark Schrutt

Narrator: Garrett Goodison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:36:10

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Business & Economics, Science & Technology, Business Development, Computers

Summary:

Digital transformation expert Mark Schrutt reveals how the world's top companies are using vast amounts of data to inform their decisions, disrupt industries, and get closer to their customers. Businesses that continue to rely only on intuition do so at their peril.

What if you had the data you always wanted and could tell what was truly an emerging trend that would forever change your industry? Shifting the Balance analyzes the turn towards data-driven decision-making and describes how best-in-class organizations use data to shift their field of vision so it is forward-looking instead of reactive. Case studies with practical examples of how leading businesses address key challenges on the path to becoming data-driven include:

- How companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Land O'Lakes, whose industries are defined by resellers, are connecting directly with their customers to improve satisfaction and relevancy

- How data-driven decision-making shaped the largest one-sided deal in sports, paying the owners of a team that did not play a game for 40 years over $800 million

- How companies such as Peloton and UberEats are using data-driven decision-making to disrupt and reimagine the fitness and restaurant industries

- What professional sports franchises such as the Oakland A's, Philadelphia Eagles, and Toronto Maple Leafs can teach us about using data in game-changing business decisions

Shifting the Balance offers a roadmap that will enable organizations to make better business decisions that drive even better results, and provides a fascinating read along the way.

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ID: 610228

Title: Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace

Author: Katie Langston

Narrator: Katie Langston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:59:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Christianity, Religious & Inspirational

Summary:

Katie Langston is an unlikely convert to Christianity.

She grew up in a devout, conservative Mormon family in Utah, served a proselytizing mission to Bulgaria when she was 21, married for time and all eternity in the Mormon temple when she was 23. From the outside, she had a typical Mormon life. Inside, she was coming apart at the seams.

From childhood, she battled The Questionsobsessive-compulsive disorder, though she didnt have a diagnosis for it until much laterand lived inside a complex maze of anxiety and fear. This was compounded by Mormonisms emphasis on worthiness, a designation of acceptability in Mormon practice, that brought her to the edge of despair as a young mother.

Then, almost by accident, she had an encounter with the grace of Jesus Christand her world changed.

In candid but not sensationalized ways, Langston explores little-understood Mormon practices and teachings while grappling with universal human questions such as the nature of faith, the complexity of family, the process of healing, and what it means to truly belong.

This book is intended to be a bridge-builder, a way to help non-Mormons understand Mormonism and Mormons orthodox Christianity through the power of personal narrative. Most of all, it is a testimony of Jesus Christ, in the hopes that those who read itMormon, Christian, or neitherwill catch a glimpse of the spectacular, life-changing grace of God.

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ID: 515930

Title: On Air: My Fifty -Year Love Affair with Radio

Author: Jordan Rich

Narrator: Jordan Rich, Ken Carberry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:38:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-05-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

A candid, personalstory of one radio broadcasters life, both on and off the air.Its a look behind-the-scenes of the radio business and how it is has evolved for the author over many decades.

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ID: 507729

Title: Baudelaire Fractal

Author: Lisa Robertson

Narrator: Allegra Fulton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:46:33

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

The debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she's written the works of Baudelaire.

One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she's written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris. This is the legend of a she-dandy's life.

Part magical realism, part feminist ars poetica, part history of tailoring, part bibliophilic anthem, part love affair with nineteenth-century painting, The Baudelaire Fractal is poet and art writer Lisa Robertson's first novel.

"Robertson, with feminist wit, a dash of kink, and a generous brain, has written an urtext that tenders there can be, in fact, or in fiction, no such thing. Hers is a boon for readers and writers, now and in the future." - Jennifer Krasinski, Bookforum

"It's brilliant, strange, and unlike anything I've read before." - Rebecca Hussey, BOOKRIOT

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ID: 619764

Title: People of Ostrich Mountain

Author: Ndirangu Githaiga

Narrator: Lee Goettl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:13:34

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

As the 1950s Mau Mau war breaks out in the foothills of Mt. Kenya, Wambi, a fourteen-year-old girl leaves her besieged village to join a prestigious boarding school a half days journey away by train. There, she becomes aware of her extraordinary mathematical abilities discovered by her teacher, Eileen Atwood. Initially, Wambi views Eileens attentions with suspicion and hostility, but over time, the two grow close and form a lifelong friendship. Unfortunately for Wambi, the mid-twentieth century isnt ready for a female math prodigy, particularly in Kenya. But she quietly and defiantly takes on the obstacles seeking to define her, applying her unusual gifts in new directions, which ultimately benefits her impoverished family and inspires her siblings and their children to pursue their own dreams. After forty years in Kenya, Eileen unexpectedly loses her employment authorization and is forced to return to England, where she struggles to adjust to living in a country she barely recognizes. Meanwhile, Wambis son, Ray, a doctor, navigates a fraught visa application process and travels to America to begin residency training; however, his hospital becomes insolvent and shuts down a year later. He and his colleagues are assimilated into other programs where, as foreign-born physicians, they endure relentless prejudice. As a black man, he also discovers that the streets of Chicago are sometimes quick to judge, with serious consequences. A saga of family and friendship spanning five decades and three continents, 'The People of Ostrich Mountain' chronicles the interconnected lives of three outsiders as they navigate the vagaries of race, gender and immigration.

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ID: 466825

Title: Sunflower Sisters

Author: Martha Hall Kelly

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Jenna Lamia, Martha Hall Kelly, Saskia Maarleveld, Shayna Small

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-21

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

From the author of the million-copy global bestseller Lilac Girls, comes a captivating new historical novel, set during the American Civil War. It's a sweeping story of women caught in a country on the brink of collapse, in a society grappling with nationalism and unthinkable racial cruelty.

Georgeanne 'Georgey' Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when the war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women a bother on the battlefront. In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C. to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the war effort.

In the South, Jemma is enslaved on the Peeler Plantation in Maryland, where she lives with her mother and father. Her sister, Patience, is enslaved on the plantation next door and both live in fear of LeBaron, an abusive overseer who tracks their every move. When Jemma is sold by the cruel plantation mistress Anne-May at the same time the Union army comes through, she sees a chance to finally escape-but only by abandoning the family she loves.

Anne-May is left behind to run Peeler Planation when her husband joins the Union Army and her cherished brother enlists with the Confederates. In charge of the household, she uses the opportunity to follow her own ambitions and is drawn into a secret Southern network of spies, finally exposing herself to the fate she deserves.

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ID: 466816

Title: House of Hollow

Author: Krystal Sutherland

Narrator: Eleanor Bennett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:18:32

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-21

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Fiction, Teen

Summary:

Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing. First, their dark hair turned white. Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful and inexplicably dangerous.

But now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school on time - something her two famously glamorous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do. But when Grey goes missing without a trace, leaving behind bizarre clues as to what might have happened, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days.They aren't the only ones looking for her though. As they brush against the supernatural they realise that the story they've been told about their past is unravelling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago, might just be calling them home.

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ID: 505696

Title: Stung: An Arthur Beauchamp Novel

Author: William Deverell

Narrator: Chris Humphreys, Rebecca Auerbach, Steve Cumyn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21:28:31

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, General

Summary:

Award-winning novelist William Deverell is back with a new Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller.

Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario plant that pumps out a pesticide that has led to the mass death of honeybees. The story zigzags between Toronto, where the trial takes place, and Arthur's West Coast island home, where he finds himself arrested for fighting his own environmental cause: the threatened destruction of a popular park. The Toronto trial concludes with a tense, hang-by-the-fingernails jury verdict. Realistic and riveting, Stung is a propulsive legal thriller by a beloved author at the height of his powers.

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ID: 525076

Title: Growing Up Hockey: The Life and Times of Everyone Who Ever Loved the Game

Author: Brian Kennedy

Narrator: Dan Condie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:58:05

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Other

Summary:

"If only an honest book can live, as Emerson said, then Growing Up Hockey is immortal. It's the story of everyone who plays or cares about the game. It's warm reading for a cold night. Or any night." - Jack Falla, author of Home Ice

Many of us grew up scoring a thousand glorious NHL goals in our minds, and on our streets and corner rinks. We won the Stanley Cup over and over in our imaginations. What happened to those childhood heroics? We packed them in a box with our hockey cards and forgot them. Growing Up Hockey uses the heartwarming and comical exploits of a house-league third-liner to prompt us to re-live our memories of hockey glory. It shows that for those who love it, the game is never far away. Bobby Hull, Frank Mahovlich, Wayne Gretzky they're all here. But equally large are the neighbourhood rink bullies, the Pee Wee league super-starts and the obsessed NHL aficionados. Together, they create a hockey myth as grand as ever existed and as unique as each of us.

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ID: 505691

Title: Rage Room

Author: Lisa de Nikolits

Narrator: Scott Pietrangelo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:13:27

Language: English

Release date: 03-30-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Black Literature, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

What if you made the worst mistake of your life and got the chance to fix it? Only you made it so much worse? From the incomparable crafter of nine cross-genre works of fiction, Lisa de Nikolits expands her horizons to pen a grab-you-by-the-throat, feminist speculative-fiction thriller in the style of Groundhog Day meets The Matrix. The perfect father kills his family on Christmas Eve, and tries to undo his actions by jumping back in time. The result is murder and mayhem in dystopia.

Set in 2055, the world is run by robots and virtual data, while the weather is controlled by satellite dishes. Arts and culture are no more than distant memories. People are angry, placated by prescribed visits to rage rooms to vent their boredom, fury, and discontent. Beneath the sunny skies and behind the garbage-free suburban McMansions live deeply disturbed, materialistic families.

During his time travels and increasingly desperate attempts to reserve his colossal mistake, Sharps Barkley meets the leader of the Eden Collective, a feminist army determined to save the Earth by removing all artificial intelligence and letting the Earth restore itself-if necessary, at the expense of mankind. The Eden Collective uses data gathered from the rage rooms to analyze and predict the potential and actions needed for the Earth to reset and they need to prove that time travel is an effective tool. If Sharps can go back and save his children, then there is hope for the future. Sharps is the 49th experiment and his success is pivotal. Can love prevail over anger?

The Rage Room has a multi-layered plot that is fueled by a feminist-driven courage to take charge and save the world as it exposes the effects of an increasingly digital age on our lives and, ultimately, our humanity.

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