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ID: 55081

Title: Promises I Made My Mother

Author: David Rensin, Sam Haskell

Narrator: Sam Haskell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:44:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-09

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Parenting

Summary:

What would my mother say? How would she want me to handle this situation? How can I make this tough decision and stay true to myself?

What would my mother say?

Sam Haskell still asks himself these questions every day.

When Haskell was young, his devoted mother, Mary, instilled in her son the values of character, faith, and honor by setting an example and asking him to promise to live his life according to her lessons. He did, and those promises have served Haskell consistently from his Mississippi boyhood to his long career at the venerable William Morris Agency in Beverly Hills.

In this inspiring memoir full of touching stories and amusing anecdotes, Haskell reveals how he kept his pledge to his mother to live a decent life–even in the shark-infested waters of Hollywood, where he handled the hottest stars and packaged the highest-rated shows–by refusing to become the cliché of an amoral agent. Here is Haskell as a child in Amory, Mississippi (pop. 7,000), discovering the power of hope as he waits for an unlikely visit from the “Cheer Man” (a representative of the detergent company who gave ten dollars to anyone using the brand), learning humility after pursuing an eighth-grade “Good Citizenship” award he cockily assumed he’d win, confronting the complications of human character when a near-fatal car crash exposed his judgmental father’s true nature.

Years later, in Hollywood, Haskell would rely on his mother’s teachings–honesty, self-reliance, and belief in God–as he swiftly rose from the William Morris mailroom to eventually become the company’s Worldwide Head of Television. His capacity for friendship and his insistence on living his version of the Golden Rule (being “thoughtfully political”) allowed him to handle various client crises and the tense negotiations that nearly scuttled the last years of Everybody Loves Raymond and the entire existence of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Haskell has achieved success through self-respect, and from his story we learn how we, too, can maintain our dignity when faced with life’s challenges. This stirring memoir is a testament to mothers everywhere who instill in their sons the lasting values they need to become good men and devoted fathers.

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ID: 204782

Title: Tropical Secrets

Author: Margarita Engle

Narrator: Matt Green, Ozzie Rodriguez, Roberto Santana, Vane Millon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:31:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-09

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Fiction, Teen, Historical

Summary:

Last year, in Berlin

on the Night of Crystal

my grandfather was killed

while I held his hand.

Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away the ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba.

As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee befriends a local girl with some painful secrets of her own. Yet even in Cuba, the Nazi darkness is never far away. . . .

At once deeply personal and utterly universal, Tropical Secrets is a stunning new history in verse from award-winning poet Margarita Engle.

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ID: 162364

Title: Midnight in Madrid

Author: Noel Hynd

Narrator: Dick Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:42:31

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-09

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Espionage

Summary:

When a mysterious relic is stolen from a Madrid museum, people are dying to discover its secrets. Literally.U.S. Treasury agent Alexandra LaDuca returns from Conspiracy in Kiev to track down the stolen artwork, a small carving called The Pietà of Malta. It seems to be a simple assignment, but nothing about this job is simple, as the mysteries and legends surrounding the relic become increasingly complex with claims of supernatural power.As aggressive, relentless, and stubborn as ever, Alex crisscrosses Europe through a web of intrigue, danger, and betrayal, joined by a polished, mysterious new partner. With echoes of classic detective and suspense fiction from The Maltese Falcon to The Da Vinci Code, Midnight in Madrid takes the reader on a nonstop spellbinding chase through a modern world of terrorists, art thieves, and cold-blooded killers.

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ID: 162361

Title: Sticks and Stones: Using Your Words as a Positive Force

Author: Ace Collins

Narrator: Max Bloomquist

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:51:20

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-09

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

In 1966, America was caught up with the television adventures of Batman. At a time when Vietnam and other pressing problems had created great doubts and divisions in the nation, Americans fell in love with this quirky TV show. Batman brought families together while it bridged the generation gap with its simple moral stories and camp humor. Tens of millions saw the Caped Crusader as a positive force for good in a world often overrun with evil and most viewers wished they had such a hero to lift them out of the depressing world they called home. Each episode concluded with a climatic fight scene where Batman and Robin took on the evil villains in an effort to once again save the good citizens of Gotham City. During these titanic battles, words like POW and BAM would fill the screen when the dynamic duo landed their blows, while the words that popped-up as the bad guys swung were most often WHISH and WHOOSH. The WHISH signaled that the villains blows had missed their marks, while the POW indicated the superheroes had landed punches that made a mighty impact.Though they have been very successful in their comic book, television, and movie campaigns, Batman and Robin might have even scored more POWS if they had taken to heart Edward Bulwer-Lyttons words. In his play Richelieu: or the Conspiracy, Bulwer-Lytton wrote the famous line, The pen is mightier than the sword. The fact is, when properly used, words can even make a greater and long lasting impact than the most powerful weapons ever constructed. Yet in a time when the average person employs 30,000 words daily through conversation and correspondence, most of those words miss a great deal more than they hit. Like the villains blows on the old Batman TV show, they just dont make any lasting impact. Properly used language can and should have that positive POW impact. Words should cause people to stop, think, and grow. They should bring comfort, cheer, and inspiration. They should literally change the world by influencing individuals in a positive manner. While what we say or write may never be quoted like Lincolns Gettysburg Address or Pauls love passage in Corinthians, even in the most elementary fashion, with just a little thought and effort, each of us can cause our family, friends, coworkers, or even complete strangers to try to meet their highest goals or reach down to lift another up.This book outlines simple ways in which everyone can put POW into their language. Through conversations, email, letters, phone calls, thank yous, and instruction, this book spells out methods and ways to employ words that will literally change the world in which each of us lives. There is nothing revolutionary in this book, just a simple formula for making words a positive force in what has become a very negative world. In these pages are the time-tested ways laid out in an easy-to-use blueprint that will put the POW into our language, thus expanding our ability to influence others in a positive way.

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ID: 162442

Title: Deadlock

Author: James Scott Bell

Narrator: Buck Schirner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:11:43

Language: English

Release date: 04-26-09

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction

Summary:

She is a Supreme Court Justice. She is an atheist. And she is about to encounter the God of the truth and justice she has sworn to uphold.For years, Millicent Hollander has been the consistent swing vote on abortion and other hot-button issues. Now shes poised to make history as the first female Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. But something is about to happen that no one has counted on, least of all Hollander: a near-death experience that will thrust her on a journey toward God.Skeptically, fighting every inch of the way, Hollander finds herself dragged toward belief in something she has never believed inwhile others in Washington are watching her every step. Too much is at stake to let a Christian occupy the countrys highest judicial office. Even as Hollander grapples with the interplay between faith and the demands of her position, and as she finds answers through her growing friendship with Pastor Jack Holden, a hidden web of lies, manipulation, and underworld connections is being woven around her. It could control her. It could destroy her reputation. Unless God intervenes, it could take her out of the picture permanently.

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ID: 289746

Title: Well and the Mine

Author: Gin Phillips

Narrator: Margaret Nichols, T.J. Kenneally

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-09

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Summary:

In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman shove the cover off the family well and toss in a baby without a word. For the Moore family, focused on helping anyone in need during the Great Depression, the apparent murder forces them to face the darker side of their community and question the motivations of family and friends. Backbreaking work keeps most of the townspeople busy from dawn to dusk, and racial tensions abound. For parents, it's a time when a better life for the children means sacrificing health, time, and every penny that can be saved. For a miner, returning home after work is a possibility, not a certainty. However, next to daily thoughts of death, exhausting work, and race are the lingering pleasures of sweet tea, feather beds, and lightning bugs yet to be caught.

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ID: 289743

Title: Endpoint and Other Poems: Unabridged Selections

Author: John Updike

Narrator: Charles McGrath

Format: Abridged

Length: 01:00:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-09

Publisher: Random House (Audio)

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book.

The opening sequence, “Endpoint,” is made up of a series of connected poems written on the occasions of his recent birthdays and culminates in his confrontation with his final illness. He looks back on the boy that he was, on the family, the small town, the people, and the circumstances that fed his love of writing, and he finds endless delight and solace in “turning the oddities of life into words.”

“Other Poems” range from the fanciful (what would it be like to be a stolen Rembrandt painting? he muses) to the celebratory, capturing the flux of life. A section of sonnets follows, some inspired by travels to distant lands, others celebrating the idiosyncrasies of nature in his own backyard.

For John Updike, the writing of poetry was always a special joy, and this final collection is an eloquent and moving testament to the life of this extraordinary writer.

Photograph of John Updike © Jill Krementz

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ID: 162417

Title: Crazy Good Sex: Putting to Bed the Myths Men Have about Sex

Author: Dr. Les Parrott

Narrator: Dr. Les Parrott, Les Parrott Iii

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:07:48

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-09

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

The combustive force of a man's sexual drive can incinerate his wedding vows and family commitments--or it can ignite a flame of passion within his marriage that brings mind-blowing pleasure to both partners. In this practical guidebook filled with straight talk about the issues that concern men, psychologist Dr. Les Parrott reveals the truth about six areas that can undermine a man's confidence, damage his marriage, and leave him struggling unnecessarily with temptation.

Parrott counters these false beliefs and uncovers the answers to:

- how much sex women want

- whether married sex can be truly satisfying and steamy

- the biological effects of pornography

- what it really takes to please a woman

- whether masturbation is harmful or helpful

- the controlling force behind a man's sexual drive

Readers will learn how to change both their beliefs and their behavior, paving the way for a whole new dimension of sexual pleasure.

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ID: 159485

Title: Membership Matters: Insights from Effective Churches on New Member Classes and Assimilation

Author: Chuck Lawless

Narrator: Don Reed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:45:27

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-09

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Insights from Effective Churches on New Member Classes and AssimilationFindings from a national study to improve membership classes and to motivate current members into active ministry.How do churches move membersboth old and newinto ministry? Many church staff and lay leaders know they need to start new member classes as a point of entry into their churches but dont know how. This book is based on a national study of effective churches and shows how growing churches implement new member classes and motivate their members into ministry.Membership Matters is designed to be a guide for church leaders wanting to start or improve a membership class. It includes models for classes and examples of resources such as church covenants, class schedules, and lesson outlines. It also gives direction on motivating uninvolved members to participate in ministry. One chapter chronicles an ongoing discussion among pastors of growing churches that are effectively motivating members to do ministry.

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ID: 159420

Title: Miracle

Author: Gilbert Morris

Narrator: Judith West

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:06:58

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-09

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Genres: Romance, Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Religious & Inspirational, Religious Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

Raising four strong-willed younger siblings after her mothers death and her fathers imprisonment, seventeen-year-old Lanie Freeman never knows what new adventure will roll into viewsuch as her brothers wild idea to turn the familys old truck into a traveling store.The Freeman Rolling Emporium could provide the financial security Lanie and her family so desperately need, or it could tear them apart. Yet its only a prelude to other changes. Author Brent Haydens arrival in Fairhope breathes fresh life into Lanies dream of becoming a writer. And then the hammer descends Lanies father is diagnosed with cancer, and the faith and unity of her family are stretched to the limit. And on top of this shattering news, a crisis is about to strike that will rock the whole town of Fairhopeand shatter Lanies dreams of love.The Miracle continues the story of a young womans valiant struggle to uphold her faith, her family, and her dreams during the height of the Great Depression.

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