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ID: 397145

Title: Career Rehab: Rebuild Your Personal Brand and Rethink the Way You Work

Author: Kanika Tolver

Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:34:25

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development

Summary:

Your career has good 'bones,' but it's looking a little rough around the edges. It's time to take stock and renovate your life by making strategic professional changes that help you achieve not only the job—but also the life—you want.

In Career Rehab, professional career and life coach Kanika Tolver helps listeners strip away what's holding them back to create the career of their dreams. Listeners will learn how to: overcome fear to pursue their dreams and change careers as part of a strategic plan; develop a unique career brand; apply to companies and organization where they can develop a career brand; create an online brand presence on social media that grows a deep professional ethos and network; market an authentic career brand; harness the power of non-traditional jobs as a springboard to entrepreneurship; sell their brand-offering expertise and skills; define and execute a career trajectory for the long run; and create an expertise-based business plan to open the door to personal and financial freedom.

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ID: 407045

Title: Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design

Author: Kat Holmes

Narrator: Kat Holmes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:47:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Science & Technology, Computers, Technology & Engineering, Architecture & Design

Summary:

Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion.

Holmes tells stories of pioneers of inclusive design, many of whom were drawn to work on inclusion because of their own experiences of exclusion. A gamer and designer who depends on voice recognition shows Holmes his 'Wall of Exclusion,' which displays dozens of game controllers that require two hands to operate; an architect shares her firsthand knowledge of how design can fail communities; an astronomer who began to lose her eyesight adapts a technique called 'sonification' so she can 'listen' to the stars.

Designing for inclusion is not a feel-good sideline. Holmes shows how inclusion can be a source of innovation and growth, especially for digital technologies. It can be a catalyst for creativity and a boost for the bottom line as a customer base expands. And each time we remedy a mismatched interaction, we create an opportunity for more people to contribute to society in meaningful ways.

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ID: 408700

Title: See Sooner, Act Faster: How Vigilant Leaders Thrive in an Era of Digital Turbulence

Author: George S. Day, Paul J.H. Schoemaker

Narrator: Mike Lenz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:15:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Summary:

When turbulence is the new normal, an organization's survival depends on vigilant leadership that can anticipate threats, spot opportunities, and act quickly when the time is right. In See Sooner, Act Faster, strategy experts George Day and Paul Schoemaker offer tools for thriving when digital advances intensify turbulence.

Vigilant firms have greater foresight than their rivals, while vulnerable firms often miss early signals of external threats and organizational challenges. Charles Schwab, for example, was early to see and act on the promise of 'robo-advisors'; Honeywell, on the other hand, stumbled when Nest Labs came out first with a 'smart' thermostat. Day and Schoemaker show leaders how to assess their vigilance capabilities and cultivate insight and foresight throughout their organizations. They draw on a range of cases, including Adobe and Intuit's move to the cloud, Shell's investment in clean energy, and MasterCard's early recognition of digital challenges.

Day and Schoemaker describe how to allocate the scarce resource of attention, how to detect weak signals and separate them from background noise, and how to respond strategically before competitors do. The challenge is not just to act faster but to act wisely, and the authors suggest ways to create dynamic portfolios of options.

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ID: 409875

Title: Supertrends: 50 Things You Need to Know About the Future

Author: Lars Tvede

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:22:17

Language: English

Release date: 01-28-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Business Development

Summary:

Supertrends: 50 Things You Need to Know About the Future is about how efficient futurists work, and how we can expect the world to evolve in terms of demographics, general economics, technologies, business models, resources, environment, and lifestyles.

This book addresses how to predict the future, what we can expect from it, and how companies and government should adapt to the accelerating change, and will also:

● Explain the core principles of efficient forecasting

● List a number of underlying drivers and recurring social patterns which help explain and predict events

● Show how companies and governments can become more future-proof by adopting new and innovative management principles

● Introduce new technologies and how they will be applied.

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ID: 386374

Title: Miss Austen: the #1 bestseller and one of the best novels of the year according to the Times and Observer

Author: Gill Hornby

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:57:24

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women

Summary:

The Sunday Times bestselling novel, set to be a major TV drama

'You can't help feeling that Jane would have approved.' OBSERVER

'So good, so intelligent, so clever, so entertaining - I adored it.' CLAIRE TOMALIN

Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all?

1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles.

She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed.

As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane's history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane's reputation, or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity?

Based on a literary mystery that has long puzzled biographers and academics, Miss Austen is a wonderfully original and emotionally complex novel about the loves and lives of Cassandra and Jane Austen.

'The perfect book to wrap yourself around on a dark night' STYLIST

'Without romanticising its period setting or underplaying the precariousness of any woman's position in this society, it celebrates unexamined lives, sisterhood and virtues such as kindness and loyalty' SUNDAY TIMES

'This is a deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts.' KAREN JOY FOWLER, author of The Jane Austen Bookclub

'It won't surprise me if this is one of the books of the year. It's a delight, one of those that you don't want to end.' RTE

'A charming novel... capturing the spirit of the brilliant sardonic Jane, and reminding the reader of how brutal life was for women in Austen's era, it's an ingenious and affecting embroidery on the fact of the author's life.' SUNDAY MIRROR

'Miss Austen is ingenious ... With flashbacks and wonderful domestic detail, Hornby brings to life the Austen family, using the known to speculate on what might have been.' THE TIMES Audio Book of the Week

'Extraordinary and heart-wrenching, Miss Austen transported me from page one. A gift to all Austen lovers.' LARA PRESCOTT, author of The Secrets We Kept

'Gill Hornby ingeniously imagines what Cassandra Austen's own life might have been like, both before and after Jane's untimely death, casting a different light on the familiar biographical picture without in any way distorting it.' DEIRDRE LE FAYE, editor of Jane Austen's Letters

'Tender and touching ... Hornby deftly describes the psychological toll that such uncertainly took on Jane, and movingly celebrates the fortitude of Cassandra whose greatest love was her sister' DAILY MAIL

'Utterly absorbing. The lives of the Austen sisters are recreated with a brilliant sureness of touch that can only be achieved by deep study of the period.' ARTEMIS COOPER

'Delightful... It reads just like an Austen novel so you get the double whammy of being a new book with an old feel' SUE RYAN, founder of Henley Lit Fest

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ID: 391203

Title: Daughter's Tale

Author: Armando Lucas Correa

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:09:43

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

For readers whose hearts were broken by The Tattooist of Auschwitz

'Correa’s prose is atmospheric, but what’s most fascinating about this novel is his portrayal of terrified yet strong female characters' New York Times

New York City, 2015: Eighty-year-old Elise Duval is a French Catholic who arrived in New York after the Second World War. When a woman from Cuba visits with letters written in German to Elise from her mother during the war, her world is forever changed as she remembers a time and country she'd long since forgotten and seven decades of secret unravel.

Berlin, 1939: Bookstore owner and recent widow Amanda Sternberg is fleeing Nazi Germany with her two young daughters. She heads towards unoccupied France, but with such a hard fight for freedom, a peaceful life of safety is hard to find.

Based on true events, The Daughter’s Tale chronicles one of the most harrowing atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis during the Second World War: the 1944 massacre of all the inhabitants of a small, idyllic village in the south of France. Heartbreaking and immersive, The Daughter's Tale is a beautifully crafted family saga of love, survival, and hope against all odds.

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ID: 391206

Title: Deep State: The most addictive thriller of the decade

Author: Chris Hauty

Narrator: Marin Ireland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:52:49

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

***Don't miss THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, the next edge-of-your-seat Hayley Chill thriller – available to pre-order now.***

A CONSPIRACY TO KILL THE PRESIDENT

AND ONE WOMAN’S FIGHT TO STOP IT

 

'Full of twists, this one will keep you hooked to the very end' JAMES SWALLOW 

 

'One of the most surprising double-reverse plot twists I have seen in some time' NEW YORK TIMES

 

‘Trust no one’

 

The warning is loud and clear. Shortly after uttering it, the White House Chief of Staff is found dead in his home. It’s ruled as a heart attack. Only his intern, former soldier Hayley Chill, knows something is not right.

 

Starting her own investigation, Hayley uncovers a secret organisation buried in the furthest reaches of government.

 

THE DEEP STATE – noun

A covert state hidden within a government;

a secret organisation of high-level operatives;  

exerts control through manipulation and a culture of pain and fear.

 

When she discovers the plot to assassinate the president, they realise someone is on to them. How long will it be until they know that it’s her?

 

So Hayley must work like the Deep State:

Infiltrate.

Trust no one.

Kill – or be killed.

Fans of series like The Bodyguard and Designated Survivor, or books by of James Swallow, Terry Hayes, Gregg Hurwitz and Rob Sinclair will love this stunning debut. With twists you won’t see coming, this thriller is a true page-turner.

 

PRAISE FOR DEEP STATE

'The ending is a jaw-dropper'

'This is going to be THE book for 2020'

'The definition of a great political thriller’

‘A gripping tale of political skulduggery that is deeper than it initially appears’ THE TIMES

‘Brilliantly fast-moving and absorbing… the twists just keep coming’ SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB

'It’s unique, fresh and the word ‘twist’ is just not acceptable to cover what happens… SUPERB! 10/10'

'This one had great twists and turns. When I thought we were headed in one direction, it would veer off into another and I loved it' 

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ID: 391202

Title: 999 - My Life on the Frontline of the Ambulance Service

Author: Dan Farnworth

Narrator: Mark Hadfield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:09:14

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Science & Technology, Medicine

Summary:

Dan Farnworth brings vividly to life his astonishing experiences as a medic working on the frontline of the UK Ambulance Service. When the 999 call goes out, he has little idea what he will find when he gets there. 

Having worked in the emergency services for more than fifteen years, Dan has seen it all. In 999, he shares stories that are sometimes sad, occasionally hilarious, often moving, but always inspirational. However, the work also takes its emotional toll. Which was why he set up a mental health campaign that helps those in his profession suffering from PTSD – something that struck him after a truly shocking event. His story will make you see our ambulance service in a completely new way.

 

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ID: 406379

Title: Fewer, Richer, Greener: Prospects for Humanity in an Age of Abundance

Author: Laurence B. Siegel

Narrator: Steve Menasche

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:58:27

Language: English

Release date: 01-21-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Why do so many people fear the future? Is their concern justified, or can we look forward to greater wealth and continued improvement in the way we live?

Our world seems to be experiencing stagnant economic growth, climatic deterioration, dwindling natural resources, and an unsustainable level of population growth. The world is doomed, they argue, and there are just too many problems to overcome. But is this really the case? In Fewer, Richer, Greener, author Laurence B. Siegel reveals that the world has improved—and will continue to improve—in almost every dimension imaginable.

This practical yet lighthearted book makes a convincing case for having gratitude for today's world and optimism about the bountiful world of tomorrow. Life has actually improved tremendously. We live in the safest, most prosperous time in all human history. Whatever the metric—food, health, longevity, education, conflict—it is demonstrably true that right now is the best time to be alive. The recent, dramatic slowing in global population growth continues to spread prosperity from the developed to the developing world. Technology is helping billions of people rise above levels of mere subsistence. This technology of prosperity is cumulative and rapidly improving: we use it to solve problems in ways that would have be unimaginable only a few decades ago.

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ID: 409877

Title: HBR's 10 Must Reads on Sales

Author: Andris Zoltners, Harvard Business Review , James C. Anderson, Manish Goyal, Philip Kotler

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:49:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-21-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Sales & Retail

Summary:

Sales isn't about pushing products or being efficient; it's about building the right systems to manage and empower your salespeople.

We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand how to create the conditions for sales success.

This book will inspire you to: understand your customer's buying center, integrate your sales and marketing operations, assess your business cycle and its impact on your sales force, transition away from solution sales, leverage the power of micromarkets, introduce tiebreaker selling and consensus selling, and motivate your sales force properly.

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