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ID: 495320

Title: Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact

Author: Jenn Lim

Narrator: Jenn Lim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:09:15

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

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

Summary:

The co-founder and CEO of Delivering Happiness updates the Delivering Happiness model for our new abnormal, showing organizations of every kind how to cultivate a culture that can adapt to change, be highly profitable, and support all its people...starting with yourself.

 

Jenn Lim has dedicated her career to helping organizations from name-brand industry leaders to innovative governments build workplace cultures that benefit both their employees and their bottom line, with less employee turnover, greater engagement, and higher profits. Her culture consultancy, Delivering Happiness, demonstrates the profound impact happiness can have on businesses' ability to thrive in our ever-changing times. In this book, she clearly and concretely shows the way the model works in a hyper-connected fast-paced world, beginning with each individual defining their sense of values and purpose (the ME), and rippling through the organization ecosystem (the WE and the COMMUNITY) in waves of impact. 

 

Drawing on a deep understanding of the science of happiness, Jenn shows how bringing your whole self to work allows you to do your best work every day -- no matter what role you play at your company or what crisis might come at you next. She explains how true happiness comes from living your true purpose, and offers case studies to show how companies can help individuals align their purpose with the company mission. This innovation in organizational design and company culture is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s the future of work, and it’s here now. In this life-changing guide, you'll be empowered to find greater purpose in your own life and career, and to spread that power to others in your business and beyond.

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ID: 502041

Title: Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home PlanetAnd Our Mission to Protect It

Author: Nicole Stott

Narrator: Nicole Stott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:12:54

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Science & Technology, Astronomy & Physics, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Inspired by insights gained in spaceflight, a NASA astronaut offers key lessons to empower Earthbound readers to fight climate change

When Nicole Stott first saw Earth from space, she realized how interconnected we are and knew she had to help protect our planetary home.

In Back to Earth, Stott imparts essential lessons in problem-solving, survival, and crisis response that each of us can practice to make change. She knows we can overcome differences to address global issues, because she saw this every day on the International Space Station. Stott shares stories from her spaceflight and insights from scientists, activists, and changemakers working to solve our greatest environmental challenges. She learns about the complexities of Earth’s biodiversity from NASA engineers working to enable life in space and from scientists protecting life on Earth for future generations. Ultimately, Stott reveals how we each have the power to respect our planetary home and one another by living our lives like crewmates, not passengers, on an inspiring shared mission

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ID: 500314

Title: Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It

Author: Jessie Daniels

Narrator: Jessie Daniels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:03:11

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

An acclaimed expert illuminates the distinctive role that white women play in perpetuating racism, and how they can work to fight it 

In a nation deeply divided by race, the “Karens” of the world are easy to villainize. But in Nice White Ladies, Jessie Daniels addresses the unintended complicity of even well-meaning white women. She reveals how their everyday choices harm communities of color. White mothers, still expected to be the primary parents, too often uncritically choose to send their kids to the “best” schools, collectively leading to a return to segregation. She addresses a feminism that pushes women of color aside, and a wellness industry that insulates white women in a bubble of their own privilege.

Daniels then charts a better path forward. She looks to the white women who fight neo-Nazis online and in the streets, and who challenge all-white spaces from workplaces to schools to neighborhoods. In the end, she shows how her fellow white women can work toward true equality for all.

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ID: 502042

Title: I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen

Author: Allison Moorer

Narrator: Allison Moorer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:16:36

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

From a Grammy-nominated musician comes a lyrical testament to love and resilience through the lens of parenting her young son, who has nonverbal autism.

When Allison’s son, John Henry, stopped using his growing vocabulary just before his second birthday, she knew in her bones that something was shifting. In the years since his autism diagnosis, Allison and John Henry have embarked on an intense journey filled with the adventure, joy, heartbreak, confusion, and powerful love lessons that are the hallmarks of a quest for understanding.

In I Dream He Talks to Me, Allison details the meltdowns and the moments of grace, and how the mundane expectations of a parent turn into extraordinary achievements. The saying goes, “If you know one person with autism, you know one person with autism”; no two stories are alike, and yet there are universal truths that apply to all parent-child relationships. With gorgeous prose, Allison shares her and John Henry’s experience while also creating a riveting narrative that will speak to anyone who parents—and who has questioned their own ability to do so. An exploration of resilience and compassion—both for ourselves and for others—I Dream He Talks to Me is also a moving meditation on our place in the world and how we get there; what words mean, what they don’t; and, ultimately, how we truly express ourselves and truly know those whom we love.

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ID: 506149

Title: Briarheart

Author: Mercedes Lackey

Narrator: Polly Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:09:41

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

From beloved fantasy author Mercedes Lackey comes a fresh and feminist reinterpretation of Sleeping Beauty. 

Miriam may be the daughter of Queen Alethia of Tirendell, but she's not a princess. She's the child of Alethia and her previous husband, the King's Champion, who died fighting for the king, and she has no ambitions to rule. When her new baby sister Aurora, heir to the throne, is born, she's ecstatic. She adores the baby, who seems perfect in every way. But on the day of Aurora's christening, an uninvited Dark Fae arrives, prepared to curse her, and Miriam discovers she possesses impossible power.

Soon, Miriam is charged with being trained in both magic and combat to act as chief protector to her sister. But shadowy threats are moving closer and closer to their kingdom, and Miriam's dark power may not be enough to save everyone she loves, let alone herself.

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ID: 495330

Title: Dabo's World: The Life and Career of Coach Swinney and the Rise of Clemson Football

Author: Lars Anderson

Narrator: Jamie Renell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:26:01

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Football

Summary:

How Dabo Swinney used his energy, faith, and determination to turn the Clemson Tigers into a football powerhouse.

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ID: 511894

Title: Blood of the Chosen

Author: Django Wexler

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:21:46

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Family Life, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

In the second book of Django Wexler's epic fantasy trilogy about two siblings divided by magic and revolution, Gyre must travel across the Splinter Kingdoms to rally the rebels to his side, while his sister Maya uncovers the secrets of a powerful artifact that could change everything.

Gyre finally sees a way to overthrow the all-powerful Twilight Order. But he'll have to gain the alliance of both the ghouls and the human rebels to the south in order to even stand have a chance. And uniting them won't be so simple.

His sister Maya is still a soldier of the Order. But after clashing with her brother, she isn't so certain where her loyalties lie. Chasing the origins of a mysterious artifact to a long-lost library, she just might find the answers she's looking for.

Burning Blade & Silver Eye

Ashes of the Sun

Blood of the Chosen

"Fantasy at its finest." —Nicholas Eames, on Ashes of the Sun

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ID: 522892

Title: Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism

Author: Aja Barber

Narrator: Aja Barber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:17:55

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Health & Wellness, Beauty & Fashion, Business Development

Summary:

A call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it's created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system. 

We live in a world of stuff. We dispose of most of it in as little as six months after we receive it. The byproducts of our quest to consume are creating an environmental crisis. Aja Barber wants to change this--and you can, too. 

 

In Consumed, Barber calls for change within an industry that regularly overreaches with abandon, creating real imbalances in the environment and the lives of those who do the work—often in unsafe conditions for very low pay—and the billionaires who receive the most profit. A story told in two parts, Barber exposes the endemic injustices in our consumer industries and the uncomfortable history of the textile industry, one which brokered slavery, racism, and today’s wealth inequality. Once the layers are peeled back, Barber invites you to participate in unlearning, to understand the truth behind why we consume in the way that we do, to confront the uncomfortable feeling that we are never quite enough and why we fill that void with consumption rather than compassion. Barber challenges us to challenge the system and our role in it. The less you buy into the consumer culture, the more power you have. Consumed will teach you how to be a citizen and not a consumer. 

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ID: 500318

Title: 2 Sisters Detective Agency

Author: Candice Fox, James Patterson

Narrator: Mela Lee, Peter Giles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:38:47

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Summary:

From the world's #1 bestselling author comes a thrilling novel where a detective duo of sisters finds themselves in the crosshairs of a dangerous and lawless group.

Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted. During the course of the investigation, Rhonda and Baby become entangled in a dangerous case involving a group of overprivileged young adults who break laws for fun, their psychopath ringleader, and an ex-assassin victim who decides to hunt them down for revenge.

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ID: 502034

Title: Only the Rich Can Play: How Washington Works in the New Gilded Age

Author: David Wessel

Narrator: Fred Berman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:52:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Politics, Public Policy, Accounting & Finance

Summary:

In a Winners Take All meets This Town narrative, a New York Times bestselling author tells the story of the creation of a massive tax break, in which political and economic elites attend to the care and feeding of the super-rich, and inequality compounds.

David Wessel's incredible tale of how Washington works-and why the rich keep getting richer-starts when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur develops an idea intended as a way to help poor people that will save rich people money on their taxes. He organizes and pays for an effective lobbying effort that pushes his idea into law with little scrutiny or fine-tuning by congressional or Treasury tax experts-and few safeguards against abuse. With an unbeatable pair of high-profile sponsors, bumper-sticker simplicity and deft political marketing, the Opportunity Zone became an unnoticed part of the 2017 Trump tax bill.

The gold rush followed immediately thereafter.

David Wessel follows the money to see who profited from this plan that was supposed to spur development of blighted areas and help people out of poverty: the Las Vegas strip, the Portland (Oregon) Ritz-Carlton, the Mall of America, and self-storage facilities-lucrative areas where the one percent can park money profitably and avoid capital gains taxes. And the best part: unlike other provisions for eliminating capital gains taxes (inheritance, for example) you don't have to die to take advantage of this one.

Wessel provides vivid portraits of the proselytizers, political influencers, motivational speakers, consultants, real estate dealmakers, and individual money-seekers looking to take advantage of this twenty-first century bonanza. He looks at places for which Opportunity Zones were supposedly designed (Baltimore, for example) and how little money they've drawn. And he finds a couple of places (Erie, PA) where zones are actually doing what they were supposed to, a lesson on how a better designed program might have helped more left-behind places. But what Wessel reveals is the gritty reality: The dark underbelly of a system tilted in favor of the few, with the many left out in the cold

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