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ID: 437321

Title: We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

Author: Becky Cooper

Narrator: Becky Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:29:36

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

You have to remember, he reminded me, that Harvard is older than the U.S. government. You have to remember because Harvard doesn't let you forget.

1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment.

Forty years later, Becky Cooper, a curious undergrad, will hear the first whispers of the story. In the first telling the body was nameless. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor, and the professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd threatened to talk about the affair. Though the rumour proves false, the story that unfolds, one that Cooper will follow for ten years, is even more complex: a tale of gender inequality in academia, a 'cowboy culture' among empowered male elites, the silencing effect of institutions, and our compulsion to rewrite the stories of female victims.

WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE is a memoir of mirrors, misogyny and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that rules our revered institutions, a ghost story reflecting one young woman's past onto another's present, and a love story for a girl who was lost to history.

© Becky Cooper 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 461685

Title: Average Joe: Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius

Author: Shawn Livermore

Narrator: Mike Lenz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:09:48

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Science & Technology, Computers

Summary:

The book covers numerous tech entrepreneurial founders and software developers, and the exciting brands or products that they created. It goes deep on a handful of them, narrowly divulging exactly how a few software developers and startup founders created breakthrough tech products like Gmail, Dropbox, Ring, Snapchat, Bitcoin, Groupon, and more. It highlights and unpacks the general hero-worship that the media and our own minds practice about tech founders and tech entrepreneurs. This idealization of tech success can create a paradox, preventing average tech professionals from their own successful journeys. This book provides hard evidence that anyone in tech can create, and anyone on the peripheral of tech can break through to the center where innovation, creativity, and opportunity meet.

The anecdotes, stories, evidence, facts, arguments, logic, principles, and techniques provided in this book have helped individuals and businesses engage in slow creation cycles, improve the morale of their development teams, and increased their delivery potential of their technology solutions overall.

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ID: 461667

Title: Investing in Cannabis: The Next Great Investment Opportunity

Author: Dan Ahrens

Narrator: Brian Holden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:39:52

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Personal Finance

Summary:

Learn how to get in on the ground floor of the booming cannabis industry with this comprehensive guide

Investing in Cannabis: The Next Great Investment Opportunity examines the rapidly expanding world of cannabis investment. Written by a renowned expert in 'vice investing,' Investing in Cannabis takes an in-depth look at all aspects of publicly traded stocks in the cannabis industry for medical or recreational use, including: CBD/hemp companies; cannabis oil extraction; cannabis cultivation/agriculture companies; and biotech/pharmaceutical companies.

This book focuses on the status and history of cannabis legalization plus concrete examples that every day investors can use to make intelligent and informed investments in any sector of the modern, legal cannabis industry. With an emphasis on good lists and data, the author guides listeners through the ins and outs of the booming cannabis industry and attempts to distinguish between future breakout success stories and future busts.

Investing in Cannabis is perfect for any person or institutional investor seeking to diversify their portfolio to include investments in this up-and-coming industry.

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ID: 711829

Title: Unbroken Promises of the Heart

Author: Valerie Loveless

Narrator: Dallin Bradford, Valerie Loveless

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:02:22

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-20

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Historical Romance, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Dramatized audiobook! Book 2 of the Promises of the Heart series.

Liz and Mary scheme to make Mary's dream of owning a hat shop come true. They are unaware that their husbands, Michael and Peter are scheming behind their backs to try to realize a dream of theirs that the girls do not discover until late in the story. Harriet, Liz's sister, has come home and has eyes for the mysterious Isaac all the while being pursued by the quirky revered Lyons.

Harriet, with the help of her famous sister, gets a job editing at the Gazette but the pudgy, foolish son of the owner, continually makes her job awkward and difficult. He is determined to undermine her position and make her his wife. Liz struggles with being a newlywed, being 'with child' and keeping up on her writing, Mary and her sister Harriet attempt to help her navigate this difficult time as her Peter seems to be preoccupied. In the meantime, the gazette featurette progresses with the botched wedding of Lavender and John by the miraculously undead pirate, Morose.

Morose claims to have been rescued by a mermaid. Morose bestows a precious gift to Lavender and then she uncharacteristically runs off with him. John has to travel the world to discover the reason his true love has left him for Morose with the help of Paully and his reformed daughter Nan Fey.

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ID: 423211

Title: Deadly Cross: (Alex Cross 28)

Author: James Patterson

Narrator: Brad Sanders

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:40:36

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

The twenty-eighth novel in the bestselling Alex Cross series

A scandalous double homicide opens the psychological case files on Alex Cross...

When a glamorous socialite and a high school principal are found murdered, the shocking double homicide dominates tabloid headlines.

Detective Alex Cross knew both victims well, especially Kay who had been his patient once. And maybe more.

Alex's former Metro Homicide Partner tracks the slain principal's final movements to Alabama where Alex investigates Kay's past. They discover that although she had many enemies, all of them needed her alive.

The more the investigators push, the more resistance they find, and Alex is left facing a desperate choice between breaking trust and losing his way.

'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD, international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

© James Patterson 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 455835

Title: Innovation Capital: How to Compete - and Win - Like the World's Most Innovative Leaders

Author: Curtis Lefrandt, Jeff Dyer, Nathan Furr

Narrator: Charles Constant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:37:27

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, Business Development

Summary:

Great leaders of innovation know that creativity is not enough. They succeed not only on the basis of their ideas, but because they have the vision, reputation, and networks to win the backing needed to commercialize them. It turns out that this quality—called 'innovation capital'—is measurably more important for innovation than just being creative.

The authors have spent decades studying how people get great ideas (the subject of The Innovator's DNA) and how people test and develop those ideas (explored in The Innovator's Method). Now they share what they've learned from a multipronged research program designed to determine how people compete for, and obtain, resources to launch new ideas: how you can build a personal reputation for innovation; what techniques you can use to amplify your innovation capital; how you can garner attention for your ideas and projects and persuade audiences to support them; and what it means to provide visionary leadership and how you can achieve it.

Featuring interviews with the superstars of innovation—individuals like Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Elon Musk (Tesla), Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo), and Shantanu Narayen (Adobe)—this book will help you position yourself and your ideas to compete for attention and resources so that you can launch innovations with impact.

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ID: 444994

Title: Ready Player Two: The highly anticipated sequel to READY PLAYER ONE

Author: Ernest Cline

Narrator: Wil Wheaton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:46:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY?

Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.

Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find it, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous - and addictive - than even Wade dreamed possible.

With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest: a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize.

And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who'll kill millions to get what he wants.

Wade's life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.

Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.

'Delving back into the universe of OASIS is a nostalgic delight... fans will love returning to Cline's virtual world.'

Press Association

'Living up to the smash hit Ready Player One - turned into a film by Steven Spielberg - was never going to be easy, but Ernest Cline's wry and savage sequel shows how it should be done... A wild ride. Make this into a movie now.' The Times

'Ernest Cline takes Ready Player One, gives it a software update, adds some more nostalgia and delivers sheer joy in Ready Player Two.' Phil Williams, Times Radio

'A stunning, futuristic thrill-ride, full of nostalgia and wonderful set-pieces. Ready Player Two improves on everything from its predecessor.' Daily Express

Praise for Ready Player One:

'Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.' USA Today

'An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.' CNN

'Delightful . . . the grown-up's Harry Potter.' HuffPost

'As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.' Entertainment Weekly

'Gorgeously geeky, superbly entertaining, [and] spectacularly successful.' Daily Mail

'A smart, funny thriller that both celebrates and critiques online culture.' San Francisco Chronicle

'A geek fantasia, '80s culture memoir and commentary on the future of online behavior all at once.' Austin American-Statesman

© Ernest Cline 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 461666

Title: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It)

Author: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Narrator: Gary Tiedemann

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:55:08

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there's no denying that most of these leaders are men.

In this timely and provocative book, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic asks two powerful questions: Why is it so easy for incompetent men to become leaders? And why is it so hard for competent people—especially competent women—to advance? Marshaling decades of rigorous research, Chamorro-Premuzic points out that although men make up a majority of leaders, they underperform when compared with female leaders. In fact, most organizations equate leadership potential with a handful of destructive personality traits, like overconfidence and narcissism. In other words, these traits may help someone get selected for a leadership role, but they backfire once the person has the job.

When competent women—and men who don't fit the stereotype—are unfairly overlooked, we all suffer the consequences. The result is a deeply flawed system that rewards arrogance rather than humility, and loudness rather than wisdom. There is a better way. With clarity and verve, Chamorro-Premuzic shows us what it really takes to lead and how new systems and processes can help us put the right people in charge.

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ID: 447193

Title: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Platforms and Ecosystems

Author: Harvard Business Review

Narrator: Graham Rowat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:34:08

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, Business Development

Summary:

Competition is moving beyond industry to ecosystem. Are you ready?

In the shift from pipeline to platform, value is no longer created by your company's product or process alone—it's created through interactions. And the strategy you used to become an industry leader won't help you compete in an evolving and complex ecosystem.

If you listen to nothing else on platforms and ecosystems, listen to these ten articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you address classic challenges such as navigating the shift from controlling resources to orchestrating them, redefining value, thwarting competitive threats, and adapting your strategy.

This book will inspire you to: manage network effects and inspire users to attract more users; understand the myriad dynamics at play in a platform business; decide whether to be a chief architect or a complementor in your ecosystem; consider which of your company's existing products and services can be turned into platforms; shift from managing products to managing interactions; collaborate with other firms in an ecosystem that spans sectors; and learn to allocate—and reallocate—resources as conditions change.

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ID: 454275

Title: Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes

Author: David P. Norton, Robert S. Kaplan

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:48:55

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, Business Development

Summary:

More than twenty years ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization, Kaplan and Norton showed how organizations achieved breakthrough performance with a management system that put the Balanced Scorecard into action.

Now, using their ongoing research with hundreds of Balanced Scorecard adopters across the globe, the authors have created a powerful new tool—the 'strategy map'—that enables companies to describe the links between intangible assets and value creation with a clarity and precision never before possible. Kaplan and Norton argue that the most critical aspect of strategy—implementing it in a way that ensures sustained value creation—depends on managing four key internal processes: operations, customer relationships, innovation, and regulatory and social processes. The authors show how companies can use strategy maps to link those processes to desired outcomes; evaluate, measure, and improve the processes most critical to success; and target investments in human, informational, and organizational capital.

Contact: [email protected]