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Title: It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (revised)

Author: D. Michael Abrashoff

Narrator: D. Michael Abrashoff

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2006-01-04

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

The story of Captain D. Michael Abrashoff and his command of USS Benfold has become legendary inside and outside the Navy. Now Abrashoff offers this fascinating tale of top-down change for anyone trying to navigate today's uncertain business seas. When Captain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, a ship armed with every cutting-edge system available, it was like a business that had all the latest technology but only some of the productivity. Knowing that responsibility for improving performance rested with him, he realized he had to improve his own leadership skills before he could improve his ship. Within months he created a crew of confident and inspired problem-solvers eager to take the initiative and take responsibility for their actions. The slogan on board became It's your ship, and Benfold was soon recognized far and wide as a model of naval efficiency. How did Abrashoff do it? Against the backdrop of today's United States Navy-Benfold was a key player in our Persian Gulf fleet-Abrashoff shares his secrets of successful management including: See the ship through the eyes of the crew: By soliciting a sailor's suggestions, Abrashoff drastically reduced tedious chores that provided little additional value. Communicate, communicate, communicate: The more Abrashoff communicated the plan, the better the crew's performance. His crew would eventually call him Megaphone Mike, since they heard from him so often. Create discipline by focusing on purpose: Discipline skyrocketed when Abrashoff's crew believed that what they were doing was important. Listen aggressively: After learning that many sailors wanted to use the GI Bill, Abrashoff brought a test official aboard the ship-and held the SATs forty miles off the Iraqi coast. From achieving amazing cost savings to winning the highest gunnery score in the Pacific Fleet, Captain Abrashoff's extraordinary campaign sent shock waves through the U.S. Navy. It can help you change the course of your ship, no matter where your business battles are fought.

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Title: Smell of the Night

Author: Andrea Camilleri

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 2006-01-01

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Publisher's Summary:

The sixth mystery in the Inspector Montalbano series, THE SMELL OF THE NIGHT brings the shady shenanigans of late twentieth-century international finance to small-town Sicily. A financial wizard entrusted with the savings of nearly half the retirees of Vigata mysteriously disappears with the money and a young man who worked for him. In a rather atypical case for Montalbano, the inspector finds himself initially shut out of the investigation by the ever-hostile commissioner Bonetti-Alderighi and forced to work from the shadows.

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Title: Tied Up in Tinsel

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Nadia May

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 2006-01-01

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories

Publisher's Summary:

An English manor house on the moors is an ideal setting for a murder-and for one of Ngaio Marsh's classic murder mysteries.

The occasion is a Christmas party hosted by Mr. Hilary Bill-Tasman, landed proprietor of Halberds Manor and authority on antiques. Santa Claus is in attendance, played by a highly unpopular servant. When he goes missing after his performance, foul play is immediately suspected. There are a number of unusual characters attending the festivities, several of whom are perfectly logical candidates for murderer-and one of whom will elude the most prescient listener until tracked down by the indefatigable Inspector Roderick Alleyn, whose wife, Troy, innocently involved him in all these sinister goings-on in the first place.

Dame Ngaio has yet to write a mystery that is less than perfect.-Portland Oregonian

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Title: Geologist: Excerpts From Steep Trails

Author: John Muir

Narrator: Michael Scott

Format: Abridged

Length: 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2006-01-01

Publisher: Thought Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Lectures

Publisher's Summary:

These four excerpts, from the writings of John Muir, document his naturalist studies in a number of different settings. These highly descriptive stories detail his expeditions in the rugged outdoors. His documented studies led him to an awe of the natural splendors of the earth, and eventually to a position of preservation. His direct activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley and other wilderness areas.

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Title: Roses Are Red

Author: James Patterson

Narrator: Peter J. Fernandez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 2005-11-01

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

In this heart-pounding but touchingly romantic thriller, Detective Alex Cross pursues the most complex and brilliant killer he's ever confronted - mysterious criminal who calls himself the Mastermind.

In a series of crimes that has stunned Washington, D.C., bank robbers have been laying out precise demands when they enter the building - and then killing the bank employees and their families if those instructions are not followed to the letter.

Detective Alex Cross takes on the case, certain that this is no ordinary bank robber at work - the pathological need for control and perfection is too great. Cross is in the midst of a personal crisis at home, but the case becomes all-consuming as he learns that the Mastermind is plotting one huge, last, perfect crime.

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Title: Prince Caspian

Author: C. S. Lewis

Narrator: Lynn Redgrave

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2005-09-05

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Kids, Classics

Publisher's Summary:

The fourth in the series of the classic fantasy tales - The Chronicles of Narnia. A complete and unabridged edition of this enduringly popular children's books.

Look sharp! shouted Edmund. All catch hands and keep together. This is magic - I can tell by the feeling. Quick!

Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are sitting on a station platform when they sense the magic beginning again. Suddenly they are pulled back to the land of Narnia.

Evil King Miraz and his army can only mean trouble for Narnia, and Prince Caspian, his nephew and the rightful heir to the throne, fears for his safety and the future of his country. He blows the Great Horn in desperation, summoning Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy to help with his difficult task - that of saving Narnia before its freedom is lost forever.

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Title: Twentieth Maine

Author: John J. Pullen

Narrator: Barrett Whitener

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2005-06-25

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: History, North America

Publisher's Summary:

At Little Round Top, Joshua Chamberlain and the Twentieth Maine performed one of the miracles of the Civil War. Outnumbered, with ammunition gone, they charged the Confederate line and took four hundred prisoners.

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Title: An Unpardonable Crime

Author: Andrew Taylor

Narrator: Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 2005-06-25

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

This irresistible literary thriller set in early 1800s England involves a young Edgar Allan Poe and his schoolmaster, who must solve two murders, in settings ranging from the coal-cloaked urban jungle of London to the stark landscapes of rural Gloucestershire.

A sophisticated writer...with a high degree of literary expertise.-New York Times Book Review

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Title: Fortune of War

Author: Patrick O'Brian

Narrator: Robert Hardy

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 2005-06-15

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. This naval adventure finds Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin in the Dutch East Indies and there's trouble brewing.

Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a despatch vessel. But the war of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.

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Title: Fiona Range

Author: Mary McGarry Morris

Narrator: Susie Breck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 2005-02-25

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Modern, General

Publisher's Summary:

Fiona Range's thirty years have been the battleground between her good upbringing and the innate recklessness she defiantly attributes to the beautiful Natalie, the young unwed mother who abandoned her in infancy. Most of Fiona's troubles seem to be kindled by a mix of the wrong men and the excesses of her kind heart. Finally rejected by the embarrassed and highly regarded Hollis family who raised her, Fiona has spent the last weeks of summer trying to get her life in order. But it takes only a single careless night to further condemn her in the eyes of the community. Finding herself even further estranged from relatives and friends, Fiona is drawn to the one man who wants nothing to do with her. He is her rumored father, Patrick Grady, so cruel and unstable that her Aunt Arlene and Uncle Charles Hollis fear for her safety. But, as always, Fiona will listen to no one. Determined to make Grady acknowledge their relationship, she pursues him in spite of his threats and increasingly erratic behavior. This is a deeply moving and hauntingly tragic tale of goodness undermined by guilt, of obsession, and of the twisted bond of betrayal committed in the name of love.