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ID: 430027

Title: Poisoned

Author: Jennifer Donnelly

Narrator: Helen Duff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:40:09

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-20

Publisher: Bonnier Publishing Audio

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

Summary:

Beautiful Sophie, with lips as red as blood, skin as pale as snow, and hair as dark as night, is about to come of age and inherit her father's throne. But Sophie's stepmother wants rid of her - beautiful she may be, but too weak and foolish to reign. And Sophie believes her, as she believes all the things that have been said about her - all the poisonous words people use to keep girls like her from becoming too powerful, too strong.

When the huntsman carries out his orders of killing Sophie, she finds a fire burning inside her that will not be extinguished, and sets off to reclaim what was taken from her.

Jennifer Donnelly turns her feminist eye to this most delicious of fairy tales and shows Snow White as she's never been seen before.

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ID: 445395

Title: Napoleon Hill's First Editions: On Mastering Personal and Professional Success

Author: Napoleon Hill

Narrator: Chris Abernathy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:59:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Business Development

Summary:

The Best of Napoleon Hill's Early Works with Commentary from Entrepreneur Media for Today's Modern World

Entrepreneur Media presents the best of Napoleon's early works enhanced by the voices and hard-earned insights of today's modern entrepreneurs, small business owners, and thought leaders. These two well-known and sought-out brands have decades of how-to, self-help knowledge to bridge the gap between generations of entrepreneurs to teach them how to master their personal and professional success as they run, start, and grow their enterprises.

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ID: 449774

Title: Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, 2nd edition

Author: Brad Feld

Narrator: Mike Lenz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:37:06

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Politics, Public Policy, Business Development

Summary:

First published in 2012, Startup Communities became a blueprint for what it takes to build a supportive entrepreneurial community. Now regarded as a classic, the 'Boulder Thesis' created and popularized by Feld within the book generated enormous media attention nearly a decade ago.

At that time, Boulder was an emerging startup laboratory—a hub of innovation building new tech businesses. It quickly accelerated into a world-class ecosystem for entrepreneurs. Boulder's entrepreneurial density, combined with the geographic concentration of entrepreneurial activity around the Boulder downtown core, made it a hotbed of startup activity. Thanks in part to the book, what happens in Boulder now leaves Boulder. Rapidly growing startup communities in Atlanta, Detroit, Denver, Kansas City, Nashville, and Indianapolis are just a few examples.

Startup communities continue to pop up across the US and around the world, prompting fresh new revelations and stories from Feld about what's happened over the last decade. Startup Communities 2nd Edition describes what makes a startup community ecosystem first click, then hum, and in time, excel. The book also discusses the necessary dynamics and pre-conditions of building communities of entrepreneurs who can feed off each other's talent, creativity, and support.

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ID: 443933

Title: Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Our Brain to Get the Best Out of Ourselves and Others

Author: Dr. Helena Boschi

Narrator: Esther Wane

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:19:24

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Science & Technology, General

Summary:

The brain is the basis of everything we do: how we behave, communicate, feel, remember, pay attention, create, influence, and decide.

Why We Do What We Do combines scientific research with concrete examples and illustrative stories to clarify the complex mechanisms of the human brain. It offers valuable insights into how our brain works every day, at home and at work, and provides practical ideas and tips to help us lead happy, healthy, and productive lives.

● Learn about how your brain functions

● Find out how emotions can be overcome or last a lifetime

● Access your brain's natural ability to focus and concentrate

● Think creatively

The thoughts you have and the words that you speak all have an effect on your neural architecture—and this book explains what that means in a way you can understand.

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ID: 444183

Title: How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals: Simple, Effective, Done Right

Author: Dick Grote

Narrator: Mike Lenz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:08:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

One of a manager's toughest—and most important—responsibilities is to evaluate an employee's performance, providing honest feedback and clarifying what they've done well and where they need to improve.

In How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals, Dick Grote provides a hands-on guide to succeeding at every step of the performance appraisal process—no matter what performance management system your organization uses. Through step-by-step instructions, examples, do-and-don't lists, sample dialogues, and suggested scripts, he shows you how to handle every appraisal activity, from setting goals and defining job responsibilities to evaluating performance quality and discussing the performance evaluation face-to-face.

Based on decades of experience guiding managers through their biggest challenges, Grote helps answer the questions he hears most often: How do I set goals effectively? How many goals should someone set? How do I evaluate a person's behaviors? Which counts more, behaviors or results? How do I determine the right performance appraisal rating? How do I explain my rating to a skeptical employee? How do I tell someone she's not meeting my expectations? and How do I deliver bad news? Grote also explains how to tackle other thorny performance management tasks, including determining compensation and terminating poor performers.

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ID: 393981

Title: Life Under Fire: How to Build Inner Strength and Thrive Under Pressure

Author: Jason Fox

Narrator: Jason Fox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:03:24

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Military

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

The ground-breaking new book from former Special Boat Services Sergeant Jason Fox, star of Channel 4s SAS Who Dares Wins and bestselling author of Battle Scars.

Whether serving in the Special Forces, rowing oceans or investigating some of the worlds most notorious drug cartels, Jason Fox has overcome more than his fair share of emotional and mental conflicts. Now, he shares the tools hes developed at the cutting edge of an elite military career and shows how you, too, can build the resilience and inner strength to overcome whatever challenges life puts in front of you.

During my military career, I dealt regularly with fear, emotional breakdown, pain in hostile environments and the horrors of war. I summoned bravery during intense gun battles and, perhaps more courageously, raised my hand for help during my darkest moment though it took a while. The psychological techniques I developed during my time as an elite operator still serve me today, in and out of danger.

We all face internal conflict, both at home and at work. Some pressures threaten to crush us mentally, causing stress, anxiety and emotional turbulence. As Jason Fox recounts stories of the military operations and adventures that have tested his own resolve, Life Under Fire provides the tools required to overcome the toughest of internal battles and delivers the techniques we all need to become more resilient in life.

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ID: 424267

Title: Good Bear

Author: Sarah Lean

Narrator: Tuppence Middleton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:38:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Holidays

Summary:

A story of friendship to treasure this Christmas . . . 

From the bestselling author of A DOG CALLED HOMELESS, this is the perfect Christmas gift for fans of Michael Morpurgo, Lauren St John and Sara Pennypacker's PAX.

 

It’s the Christmas holidays and Thea is looking forward to spending them with her father. She can tell him all about her plans to become a writer, and maybe he’ll buy her the typewriter she’s been dreaming of.

But when Thea arrives in snowy Norway, everything feels . . . wrong. Her father is as distant as ever and now she has to share him with his new family: his girlfriend Inge and her children. Then Thea makes a surprising discovery. Deep in the snowy woods by the house, is a bear. He’s scared and hungry and he desperately needs Thea’s help.

When the town hears about a bear living in the woods, Bear’s life is in even greater danger. Thea needs to show everyone that he’s not dangerous – he’s a good bear – if she’s to save him.

A gorgeous Christmas story for readers aged 9+ that will warm your heart and take you on an adventure you will never forget. 

'A big, beautiful hug of a book and the perfect winter companion' Phil Earle, author of When the Sky Falls

'A heart-warming story' Abi Elphinstone, author of The Unmapped Chronicles series 

'Beautiful, wise and tender' Zillah Bethell, author of The Shark Caller

'When she meets a bear in the woods, it leads to a transformative friendship that will help to mend the family’s divisions' The Telegraph's best new children’s books to buy for Christmas 2021

'Author Sarah Lean and illustrator Fiona Woodcock build a beautiful, wintery world for this story about family and friendship' The Scotsman

'Sarah Lean’s beautifully written story about a lonely girl and a brown bear is a modern fairytale' Booktrust 

'Beautifully written with lovely illustrations, this heart-warming animal story is a real delight – perfect for cosy winter reading' The Week Junior

Readers love The Good Bear:

'A story which reminds us that Christmas is about family and togetherness'  Amazon reviewer 

'This was a heart warming and adventurous story that kept me turning the pages to see what happened next' Amazon reviewer 

'A lovely book to cuddle up and share' Amazon reviewer

'Such a beautiful and heartwarming story. I didn't want it to end' Amazon reviewer

 

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ID: 396236

Title: Love

Author: Roddy Doyle

Narrator: Roddy Doyle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:32:15

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality John Boyne

One summers evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant.

Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy, a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be.

Neither Davy nor Joe know what the night has in store, but as two pints turns to three, then five, and the men set out to revisit the haunts of their youth, the ghosts of Dublin entwine around them. Their first buoyant forays into adulthood, the pubs, the parties, broken hearts and bungled affairs, as well as the memories of what eventually drove them apart.

As the two friends try to reconcile their versions of the past over the course of one night, Love offers up a delightfully comic, yet moving portrait of the many forms love can take throughout our lives.

©Roddy Doyle 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 417001

Title: Pulpit Rock: The Isles of Scilly Mysteries: 4

Author: Kate Rhodes

Narrator: Stephen Perring

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:48:28

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Thriller & Horror, Classics, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

THE ISLES OF SCILLY MYSTERIES #4

The fourth instalment in a gripping and atmospheric crime series set on a small island where there is no escape . . .

‘Gripping, clever and impossible to put down' ERIN KELLY

AN ISLAND ON LOCKDOWN. A KILLER ON THE LOOSE . . .

 

As the scorching summer sun covers the small Scilly island of St Mary’s, DI Ben Kitto and his team are training for the annual Swimathon. But their morning session comes to a climactic end when they discover a body hanging from Pulpit Rock. The victim has been dressed up in a bridal gown, and Ben quickly realises that a dark and sinister killer is at large on the island.

To prevent the killer from escaping, Ben has no choice but to lock down St Mary’s, yet in doing so he is unwillingly trapping the killer’s next victim. When another woman is attacked, Ben gathers the island’s at-risk residents inside the local hotel for safety, but the killer is already watching and remains one step ahead . . .

Everyone is a suspect. No one is safe.

 

PRAISE FOR KATE RHODES:

‘Gripping, clever and impossible to put down. I’ve been a Kate Rhodes fan for years and in Ben Kitto she has created a detective who is just as complex and compelling as Kate’s elegant plotting and stunning prose. The claustrophobia and paranoia of the island are so brilliant evoked, I could almost feel the tide encroaching as time ran out to find the killer' ERIN KELLY

‘Absorbing and complex, Hell Bay kept me guessing until the final pages’ RACHEL ABBOTT

'A vividly realised protagonist whose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storyline' SOPHIE HANNAH

'Beautifully written and expertly plotted; this is a masterclass' GUARDIAN

'Expertly weaves a sense of place and character into a tense and intriguing story' METRO

'Rhodes does a superb job of balancing a portrayal of a tiny community oppressed by secrets with an uplifting evocation of setting' Jake Kerridge, SUNDAY EXPRESS

‘The whole book tingles with tension. I hope it does for the Scilly Isles what Ann Cleeves did for Shetland' MEL MCGRATH

'I love reading Kate's books in the way I love reading Sophie Hannah – a poet writing crime fiction is a great thing . . . It is at once a locked-room mystery, a story of the returning hero, and an examination of fear and abuse. It has the air of a twenty-first century Agatha Christie' JULIA CROUCH

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ID: 453404

Title: Virtual Selling: A Quick-Start Guide to Leveraging Video Based Technology to Engage Remote Buyers and Close Deals Fast

Author: Jeb Blount

Narrator: Jeb Blount

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:04:18

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising

Summary:

And just like that, everything changed . . . A global pandemic. Panic. Social distancing. Working from home.

In a heartbeat, we went from happy hours to virtual happy hours. From conferences to virtual conferences. From selling to virtual selling.

To remain competitive, sales and business professionals were required to shift the way they engaged prospects and customers.

Overnight, virtual selling became the new normal. Now, it is here to stay.

Virtual selling can be challenging. It's more difficult to make human to human connections. It's natural to feel intimidated by technology and digital tools. Few of us haven't felt the wave of insecurity the instant a video camera is pointed in our direction. Yet, virtual selling is powerful because it allows you to engage more prospects and customers, in less time, at a lower cost.

Virtual Selling is the definitive guide to leveraging video-based technology and virtual communication channels to engage prospects, advance pipeline opportunities, and seal the deal. You'll learn a complete system for blending video, phone, text, live chat, social media, and direct messaging into your sales process to increase productivity and reduce sales cycles.

Virtual Selling features a foreword by Jeffrey Gitomer.

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