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ID: 256958

Title: Online Marketing for Busy Authors: A Step-by-Step Guide

Author: Fauzia Burke

Narrator: Natalie Hoyt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 02:53:05

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-16

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising, Language Instruction, Language Arts

Summary:

If You Want People to Read Your Book,

Writing It Is Only the Beginning

There has truly never been a better time to be an author. For the first time, authors have direct access to the public via the Internet—and can create a community eagerly awaiting their book. But where do new authors start? How do they sort through the dizzying range of online options? Where should they spend their time online and what should they be doing?

Enter Fauzia Burke, a digital book marketing pioneer and friend of overwhelmed writers everywhere. She takes authors step-by-step through the process of identifying their unique personal brand, defining their audience, clarifying their aspirations and goals, and setting priorities. She offers advice on designing a successful website, building a mailing list of superfans, blogging, creating an engagement strategy for social media, and more. By following Burke's expert advice, authors can conquer the Internet and still get their next manuscript in on time.

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ID: 262590

Title: Finding God in the Hard Times: Choosing to Trust and Hope When You Can't See the Way

Author: Beth Redman, Matt Redman

Narrator: Reed Walker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:49:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-16

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

Summary:

On the Road Marked With Suffering... How Will You Respond?

Come rain or shine, hardship or ease, confusion or clarity, worship is always a choice. But what does it look like when worship meets suffering? How can God be good when it seems the world is collapsing around you? In this inspiring audio book, Matt and Beth Redman draw on their experiences to explore how to offer praise even in the face of hardship and pain. Focusing on the psalms, they reveal how difficult or tragic circumstances, and the choices you make, can propel you toward God or away from him. Learn how to weather the storms of life with a cry of “blessed be your name” on your lips.

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ID: 317864

Title: Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the 21st Century

Author: Katherine S. Newman

Narrator: Callie Beaulieu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:58:22

Language: English

Release date: 04-19-16

Publisher: HighBridge Company

Genres: Business & Economics, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

After decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete, the United States is now on the verge of an industrial renaissance. We don't have a skilled labor pool to fill the positions that will be created, which are technically demanding and require specialized skills. A decades-long series of idealistic educational policies with the expressed goal of getting every student to go to college has left a generation of potential workers out of the system. Touted as a progressive, egalitarian institution providing opportunity even to those with the greatest need, the American secondary school system has deepened existing inequalities.Acclaimed sociologists Katherine Newman and Hella Winston argue we can do better. Taking a page from the successful experience of countries like Germany and Austria, they call for a radical reevaluation of the idea of vocational training. The United States can prepare a high performance labor force if we revamp our school system to value industry apprenticeship and technical education. By doing so, we will not only be able to meet the growing demand for skilled employees in dozens of sectors-we will make the American Dream accessible to all.

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ID: 259366

Title: Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

Author: Amy Edmondson, Susan Salter Reynolds

Narrator: Anna Crowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:42:30

Language: English

Release date: 04-18-16

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Genres: Business & Economics, History, Politics, Negotiation & Communication, North America, Public Policy

Summary:

Building the Future

Machiavelli famously wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds explore large-scale systemic innovation that calls for “big teaming”: intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. This demands leadership combining an expansive vision with deliberative incremental action—not an easy balance.

To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future we need, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of Living PlanIT. This award-winning “smart city” start-up was launched with a breathtakingly ambitious goal: creating a showcase high-tech city from scratch to pilot its software—quite literally setting out to build the future. This meant a joint effort spanning a truly disparate group of software entrepreneurs, real estate developers, city government officials, architects, construction companies, and technology corporations. By taking a close look at the work, norms, and values in each of these professional domains, we gain new insight into why teaming across fields is so challenging. And we get to know Living PlanIT's leaders, following them and their partners through cycles of hope, exhaustion, disillusionment, pragmatism, and renewal. There are powerful lessons here for anyone, in any industry, seeking to drive audacious innovation.

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ID: 262972

Title: When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over

Author: Addie Zierman

Narrator: Jaimee Draper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:01:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-16

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Religious & Inspirational

Summary:

In the strange us-versus-them world of the '90s Christian subculture, your faith was measured by how many WWJD bracelets you wore and whether or not you’d “kissed dating goodbye.”

 Evangelical poster-child Addie Zierman wore three WWJD bracelets, led two Bible studies, and listened exclusively to Christian rock. She was “on fire for God,” unaware that the flame of her faith was dwindling until it burned entirely out.

 With candor and transparency, Addie chronicles her journey through church culture, first love, and her entrance — unprepared and angry — into marriage. When she washes out of church and nearly her marriage on a sea of tequila and depression, she isn’t sure if she’ll ever go back.

 When We Were on Fire is a funny, heartbreaking story of untangling oneself from cliché in search of a faith worth embracing. It’s a story for anyone who has ever felt alone in a crowded church. For the cynic. The doubter. The former Jesus freak struggling with the complexity of life. It’s a story about the slow work of returning to love, Jesus, and (perhaps toughest of all) His imperfect followers. And in the end, it’s about what lasts when nothing else seems worth keeping.

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ID: 263792

Title: Legends Can Be Murder

Author: Connie Shelton

Narrator: Rebecca Cook

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:22:38

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-16

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Charlie Parker and her husband Drake Langston accept a job with Gold Trail Adventures in Skagway, Alaska, flying visitors by helicopter to remote cabin sites to experience the outdoor lifestyle and seek their fortunes. It isn't long before one of the guests finds a set of bones in an old mine, remains that date back decades. His hands full with present-day cases, police chief Sam Branson tells Charlie and her new reporter friend, Mina Gengler, that they are free to investigate. A second body is found, bringing up a lot of questions. Charlie gets a peek into the lives and times of Gold Rush-era Alaskans when she discovers a box of old letters written by one of the stampeders and begins to wonder if it's possible that the two bodies are connected? And why does it seem that someone in Skagway today doesn't want the women to dig for the truth?

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ID: 263794

Title: Angels' Share

Author: Brooks Carver

Narrator: Henry McNulty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:12:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-07-16

Publisher: Books in Motion

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Out of the nineteenth century period of reconstruction comes former Sergeant Jack Grady of the Stonewall Brigade, his family, and a diverse cast of southern characters trying to rebuild their ravaged land. Join them in an epic 1865 journey across the war torn South. Meet this beleaguered farm family from the mountains and you will get a perspective of our nation that transcends and enhances textbook history.

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ID: 259312

Title: Leadership Lessons from a UPS Driver: Delivering a Culture of We, Not Me

Author: Ron Wallace

Narrator: Wayne Shepherd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:30:28

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-16

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Management & Leadership, HR & Office Administration

Summary:

United Parcel Service (UPS) is a household name that customers and investors alike hold in high regard. Who hasn't been delighted by a right-on-time delivery, one of the 18 million UPS makes every day? Founded over a hundred years ago, UPS has moved steadily up the Fortune 500 while so many other corporations have disappeared. What's the company's secret?

Just ask a driver!

Ron Wallace was a UPS delivery driver for six years before he began rising through the ranks, ultimately becoming president of UPS International. In other companies, that might be extraordinary, but at UPS it's par for the course. UPS has a unique corporate culture. It's like a family. Package loaders call executives by their first names and vice versa. The company almost always promotes from within. Lifetime employment is common. Most employees own UPS stock. Wallace credits the company's success—and his own—to its culture of “we, not me.” As he puts it, working at UPS gave him a PhD in teamwork.

Instead of writing a typical business memoir that celebrates the leader as celebrity, Wallace shares vivid stories that focus on the people he worked with, the challenges they overcame, and the simple principles and practices that make up the UPS way. He exhorts his readers to grow their people, not just their business plans. The leadership style described in this book is simple and direct—and it works. The straightforward and easy-to-understand lessons provide a blueprint for an individual or company to build on past successes and adapt to future challenges. This is a must-read for anyone aspiring to become a great leader.

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ID: 259311

Title: Humble Consulting: How to Provide Real Help Faster

Author: Edgar H. Schein

Narrator: Joe Bronzi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:50:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-16

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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

Summary:

Consulting in Complex and Changing Times

Organizations face challenges today that are too messy and complicated for consultants to simply play doctor: run a few tests, offer a neat diagnosis of the “problem,” and recommend a solution. Edgar Schein argues that consultants have to jettison the old idea of professional distance and work with their clients in a more personal way, emphasizing authentic openness, curiosity, and humility. Schein draws deeply on his own decades of experience, offering over two dozen case studies that illuminate each stage of this humble consulting process. Just as he did with Process Consultation nearly fifty years ago, Schein has once again revolutionized the field, enabling consultants to be more genuinely helpful and vastly more effective.

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ID: 259313

Title: Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (without Money or Muscle)

Author: Deepak Malhotra

Narrator: Wes Bleed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:00:23

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-16

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development, Negotiation & Communication

Summary:

Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem completely hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. And to top it off, you have little power or other resources to work with. Harvard professor and negotiation adviser Deepak Malhotra shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and to find success when things seem impossible.

Malhotra identifies three broad approaches for breaking deadlocks and resolving conflicts, and draws out scores of actionable lessons using behind-the-scenes stories of fascinating real-life negotiations, including drafting of the US Constitution, resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis, ending bitter disputes in the NFL and NHL, and beating the odds in complex business situations. But he also shows how these same principles and tactics can be applied in everyday life, whether you are making corporate deals, negotiating job offers, resolving business disputes, tackling obstacles in personal relationships, or even negotiating with children.

As Malhotra reminds us, regardless of the context or which issues are on the table, negotiation is always, fundamentally, about human interaction. No matter how high the stakes or how protracted the dispute, the object of negotiation is to engage with other human beings in a way that leads to better understandings and agreements. The principles and strategies in this book will help you do this more effectively in every situation.

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