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ID: 602897

Title: Very Intentional Parenting: How to Raise Empowered Kids

Author: Destini Ann Davis

Narrator: Destini Ann Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:36:23

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Parenting

Summary:

A different kind of parenting book that helps parents improve themselves first, so they can then be better parents to their kids.

It's time for a fresh approach to parenting!

Too many parenting books are heavy on the clinical advice, but way too light on practical strategies and everyday inspiration. Isn't it time for a parenting book that is both practical and inspirational? Destini Ann Davis is a working mom who has read dozens of parenting books and made all the typical parenting mistakes before realizing that in order to have a peaceful, positive relationship with her kids, she first needed to have a peaceful, positive relationship with herself. Very Intentional Parenting features a fresh, down-to-earth approach from someone you can relate to. Destini Ann offers up real life strategies for tackling many of today's most challenging parenting scenarios using positive discipline techniques, with examples from her own experience with raising two girls. She'll encourage you; she'll coach you; and she'll help you become your best self and a better parent. If you're a parent looking for a different kind of parenting book, you've come to the right place.

Here's what you'll find inside:

- A fresh, energetic take on parenting in today's world.

- Practical tips for creating open and constructive dialogue with your kids.

- Refreshing insight on fixing yourself first and healing your own wounds, so you can then avoid bringing that baggage into your child's world.

- Relatable advice for dealing with negative influences, whether it be from family, friends, school, or community.

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ID: 564911

Title: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers: Medical Care and the Struggle for Survival in the Great War

Author: Tim Cook

Narrator: John Fleming

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:41:49

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-22

Publisher: Allen Lane Canada

Genres: History, Military, Science & Technology, Medicine

Summary:

*WINNER OF THE 2023 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD*

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 TEMPLER MEDAL FOR BEST BOOK*

From Canada’s top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations. It brings to light shocking revelations of the ways the brutality of combat and the necessity of agonizing battlefield decisions led to unimaginable strain for men and women of medicine who fought to save the lives of soldiers.

Medical care in almost all armies during the Great War, and especially in the Canadian medical services, was sophisticated and constantly evolving. Vastly more wounded soldiers were saved than lost. Doctors and surgeons prevented disease from decimating armies, confronted ghastly wounds from chemical weap-ons, remade shattered bodies, and struggled to ease soldiers’ battle-haunted minds. After the war, the hard lessons learned by doctors and nurses were brought back to Canada. A new Department of Health created guidelines in the aftermath of the 1918–1919 influ-enza pandemic, which had killed 55,000 Canadians and millions around the world. In a grim irony, the fight to improve civilian health was furthered by the most destructive war up to that point in human history.

But medical advances were not the only thing brought back from Europe: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers exposes the disturbing story of the harvesting of human body parts in medical units behind the lines. Tim Cook has spent over a decade investigating the history of Canadian medical doctors removing the body parts of slain soldiers and transporting their brains, lungs, bones, and other organs to the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) in London, England. Almost 800 individual body parts were removed from the dead and sent to London, where they were stored, treated, and presented in exhibition galleries. After being exhibited there, the body parts were displayed in Canada. This uncovered history has never been told before and is part of the hidden legacy of the medical war.

Based on deep archival research and unpublished letters of soldiers and medical personnel, Lifesavers and Body Snatchers is a powerful narrative, told in Cook’s literary style, which reveals how the medical services supported the soldiers at the front and forged a profound legacy in shaping Canadian public health in the decades that followed.

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ID: 592418

Title: DK Life Stories Marie Curie

Author: Nell Walker

Narrator: Penelope Rawlins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:27:52

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Kids, Biography & Memoir

Summary:

Discover the inspiring story of Marie Curie - the scientist who made more than one world-changing discovery, and the first woman to win a Nobel prize - in this fascinating kids' biography.

Born to poor schoolteachers at a time when women could not attend university in her home country of Poland, Marie Curie sought out an underground university and worked hard to save money for further study in Paris. She made it to France and continued to dedicate herself to science once she had graduated. In search of new radioactive elements, she undertook physically exhausting work with materials that were later found to be incredibly dangerous. Having finally discovered polonium and radium, the Nobel prize that should have been hers was first awarded to her husband - but Marie eventually won the fame she deserved.

This biography, ideal for kids aged 7-11, charts the major events of Marie's life, from her childhood in Poland, when she discovered her love of science using the lab kit her father brought home from his school, to coining the term 'radioactive' and developing mobile radiology units that helped treat countless injured soldiers in the First World War.

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ID: 597238

Title: Life Lessons from Hip-Hop: 50 Reflections on Creativity, Motivation and Wellbeing

Author: Grant Brydon

Narrator: Grant Brydon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:41:21

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Art & Music

Summary:

Adopt a hip-hop mindset to take control of your own narrative and become the best version of yourself with 50 must-read lessons on creativity and self-help that will inspire a new generation.

Grant Brydon has interviewed some of the biggest names in hip-hop. Here he shares the creative directions and tips derived from one-on-one conversations with Pharrell Williams, J Cole, Big Sean, Nipsey Hussle, and many more.

With chapters covering motivation, creativity, authenticity, reinventions, mental wellbeing, resilience, and more, the advice gleaned from these important artists' life experiences will help you to face up to your own challenges and inspire you to make simple changes that have major positive consequences. Lessons include:

-Award-winning rapper, singer, songwriter and producer J Cole on how to Define Success

-Grammy award-winning hip-hop- legend Nas on Maintaining Focus on What's Important

-A lesson in Committing to Inspiration from Flo Milli, viral TikTok sensation and Best New Artist nominee at the 2020 -BET Hip Hop Awards

-Big Sean on how to Take Time Off and Talk to Someone

-Multiple BET Hip Hop Awards nominee Action Bronson on how not to be discouraged

-Kenny Beats - producer of Vince Staples and Ed Sheeran - on the dangers of overthinking

-Grammy nominated Freddie Gibbs on Integrity

-Apple Radio show host Joe Kay on maintaining a healthy body and mind

-Mac Miller on reinvention

Grant Brydon is a London-based writer whose work explores the intersection of hip-hop and mental health. During his decade-long career as a journalist, he has interviewed some of the world's biggest hip-hop artists. He also hosts the podcast Making Conversation with Grant Brydon. His writing has been published by Highsnobiety, Clash, Esquire, Vice, and many more.

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ID: 592420

Title: DK Life Stories Barack Obama: Amazing People Who Have Shaped Our World

Author: Stephen Krensky

Narrator: Vaughn Johseph

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:22:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Kids, Biography & Memoir

Summary:

Discover the incredible life story of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the USA.

Barack Obama is famous for his meteoric rise to the presidency of the most powerful country in the world - the USA. This is the story of how he realized his dreams - a story of success, resilience, and perseverance that enabled him to become one of the most admired leaders the world has ever seen. In this children's biography, discover Barack's fight against racial and social injustices, hardships and setbacks in his early career, and his personal happiness when marrying Michelle. From his unsettled early childhood, where he witnessed his parents' divorce and crisscrossed the globe between Indonesia and Hawaii, through to his struggle to find a meaningful first job as a young man, Barack's journey is remarkable, unpredictable, and a gripping true story to inspire young readers.

This popular biography series from DK goes beyond the basic facts to tell the true life stories of history's most interesting and inspiring people.

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ID: 562618

Title: Firebrand: A Tobacco Lawyer's Journey

Author: Joshua Knelman

Narrator: Andrew Shaver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:14:36

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: Allen Lane Canada

Genres: Business & Economics, History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, World, Sales & Retail

Summary:

'You’ll inhale this tell-all book about the tobacco industry and never look at a No Smoking sign the same way again!'

—Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

Mad Men meets Bad Blood in this addictive, behind-the-scenes globe-trotting narrative of moral ambiguity, law, public policy, and big tobacco.

“Given everything the lawyer knew up to that point about smoking, as far as he could tell, cigarettes shouldn’t even have been available as a mass market product...”

It’s the start of the new millennium and a young lawyer is recruited to work for an unnamed multinational company. It isn’t until his second interview that the product the company produces is revealed to him: cigarettes. Possibly the most controversial consumer product in human history: seductive, addictive, and deadly—yet completely legal. Over the next decade, he travels the world as he works as legal counsel to help successfully market cigarettes in dozens of countries.

 

Firebrand ventures into the heart of the tobacco industry and the icy paradoxes of capitalism, each chapter a counterintuitive lesson on how cigarette companies—the target of increasingly intense anti-smoking campaigns and government regulations, including the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report and 200-billion-dollar debt of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement—continue to pivot and thrive in the 21st century, inhaling profits from their one billion smokers worldwide.

 

As Mad Men did for the alcohol-fueled, oversexed, corrupt world of New York advertising, Firebrand does for the even more despised world of big tobacco, in an addictive, behind-the-scenes piece of storytelling. The lawyer’s work takes him from manufacturing factories to hocking “sticks” at UK corner store counters; from tacky resorts in Spain and pirate city-states to luxury hotels and Grand Prix events across European and Asian cities. A contemporary tale of our ambiguous times, told with character-based drive and dry humour, Firebrand is a grand tour of the compelling paradoxes of globalization and corporate culture, shrink-wrapped in an engrossing narrative of a morally dubious yet completely legal enterprise.

“This is storytelling at its best. Wry observation, compelling narrative, fascinating characters, page-turning writing, and an age-old question driving it all...”

—Joel Bakan, author of The New Corporation: How ‘Good’ Corporations are Bad for Democracy

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ID: 754495

Title: On the Tip of My Tongue: The perfect word for every life moment

Author: Tom Read Wilson

Narrator: Tom Read Wilson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:58:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Language Instruction, Language Arts, General Comedy

Summary:

In On the Tip of My Tongue, logophile and television star Tom Read Wilson takes a delicious dive into the etymology and usage of words, euphemisms and bon mots.

Written with his trademark sparkling wit, the star of Celebs Go Dating and self-avowed word-lover presents a hilarious and fascinating guide which aims to leave you never lost for words again.

Divided into sections spanning dating, personal development, show business, compliments, curses, and how to dodge offence while speaking your mind, this book will equip you with the words needed to navigate all the situations of modern life with style and grace.

From treppenwitz (the German word for the feeling of a missed riposte in an argument) to Callipygian (a 17th Century word referring to someone with well shaped buttocks) to JOMO (the Joy of Missing Out), this guide covers a wide and varied range of words, from those with roots in antiquity to new ones being coined in the present day.

With Tom’s wit and lifelong love of words by your side, you'll always be able to pick the perfect word, phrase or quip, whether you are trying to understand the many metaphors for sex or trying to tell your mother you love her.

This is a delightful and hilarious etymological solution to the dilemmas and conundrums of modern life and a must-read for every budding vocabularian.

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ID: 597239

Title: We Go High: Inspirational Women of Color

Author: Nicole Ellis

Narrator: Nicole Ellis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:02:12

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Biography & Memoir, General

Summary:

Pour paint onto a canvas with Jackson Pollock, laugh along with the pranks of Hokusai, and find beauty in your self-portrait with Frida Kahlo, as you follow the stories of more than 50 fabulous artists and their groundbreaking work.

Through charming storytelling rich in detail, Artists covers celebrated figures as well as lesser-known trailblazers, each with a tale as intriguing as it is unique. From cat connoisseur Louis Wain and pattern fanatic Yayoi Kusama, to eye-obsessed Margaret Keane, who won a court paint-off to prove her husband had passed off her work as his own - the artists in this audiobook have all used their creativity and complexity to make powerful art that has enriched and inspired the lives of many. These groundbreaking pieces range from those whose beauty keeps you coming back for more, to some that might change your worldview. Beautiful descriptions of the artists' lives are brought to life.

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ID: 611171

Title: Absolute Radio: The Inspiring True Story of the First Private Radio in Ghanas Western Region

Author: Phillip Nyakpo

Narrator: Phillip Nyakpo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:46:14

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary, Business

Summary:

From the heart of Africa, a spellbinding true story of entrepreneurship, media, culture and tradition, all tastefully rolled into one! Absolute Radio is an authentic story of girls and boys who became women and men - and heroes - on the wings of a radio station. Running the course of 25 years, the story comes from the culturally stylish twin city of Sekondi-Takoradi in Ghana, with global footprints.

It is the most tantalising and ground-breaking body of work about Ghanas private broadcasting industry. The author, former journalist Phillip Nyakpo, is himself an eye-witness and a participant in these true events.

From his base in Perth, Australia, Phillip interviewed women and men across four continents who made it happen over a quarter of a century.

The result is that he opened up to the world, a character and spirit of Africa that is all too often missing.

In telling the story, he writes a compelling narrative that is delicate, witty, eye-opening and wonderfully inspiring.

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ID: 626951

Title: Classroom Surprise

Author: Carolyn Larsen, Vincent W. Goett

Narrator: Carolyn Larsen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:06:49

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-22

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Kids, General

Summary:

'The Brite Star Kids are a group of friendswho live in the town of Brite Star. Their name was invented by the teacher who gives her students an award for performing acts of kindness.

The Brite Star Kids stories are intended to teach and reinforce living skills that result in modeling positive behavior to young children.

A Classroom Surprise introduces the Brite Star Kids to three people who serve their community. The class gets a first-hand look at the jobs of fireman, policeman and nurse.

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