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ID: 440983

Title: Love: The Psychology of Attraction: A Practical Guide to Successful Dating and a Happy Relationship

Author: Leslie Becker Phelps, Megan Kaye

Narrator: Iona Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:20:18

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-20

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Psychology

Summary:

Crack the code of compatibility.

Sick of a flat love life? Crack the code of compatibility with Love: The Psychology of Attraction a practical guide to successful dating and a happy relationship.

Which ingredients promise the happiest romantic chemistry? How can understanding your own psyche help you succeed in love? This book answers all your love-related questions and gives you concrete dating tips. Finally understand what makes people tick and use scientific findings from social and behavioural psychologists to get your love life on track. Plus questionnaires and self-analysis exercises ensure the insights gained are appropriate to your own situation.

If you're looking for passion, excitement, security or to fall in love, this relationship road map will put you on the right track, and keep you there.

Dr Leslie Becker-Phelps PhD is a clinical psychologist, author and speaker. She writes the Art of Relationships blog for WebMD, as well as the blog Making Changes for Psychology Today, and is the author of Insecure in Love. She lives in New Jersey, USA, where she runs a private practice dedicated to helping individuals and couples feel better about themselves in all aspects of their lives.

© 2016 Giles Sparrow © 2020 DK Audio

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ID: 439474

Title: Falling Backwards: A Memoir

Author: Jann Arden

Narrator: Jann Arden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:28:49

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-20

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment, Women

Summary:

Jann Arden is funny. And sincere. She has legions of devoted fans. And a radio show. She is a darling of the music scene - always candid, always unplugged. You thought you knew Jann Arden, but there is more - to her readers' delight, in Falling Backwards Jann reveals her childhood, her bond with family, her struggle in the formative years and what keeps her so grounded in the whirlwind entertainment industry. Jann has always been true to herself, except for a minor lapse when she was young. Oh wait, wasn't that all of us?

From the tender and honest to the laugh-out-loud funny, Jann's stories from home and from the road during her pre-celebrity years will take you to unexpected places, including high school parties in farmer's fields, sleepovers under the stars, hard-to-believe summer jobs and the time she was stuck upside down in a brick barbecue. She reminds us of the inestimable value to a child of having teachers who believe in you and wide open spaces to play. But with the good times come the bad (and not just the bad perm). Jann opens up about the darker side of her so-called prairie perfect nuclear family and the first signs that her eldest brother was a uniquely troubled young man. In the days when Jann was experiencing a lot of firsts - first school play, first home perm, first kiss - how lucky for all of us that she stole away to her basement and taught herself her first song on her mother's guitar.

In addition to being an incredible musician and multi-award-winning lyricist, Jann is a natural writer and simply an inspiration. Jann will capture your heart - and keep you in stitches - with her powerful stories about coming of age as an artist and as a human being. Jann brings her wit and that infectious sparkle to everything she does. This book is no exception.

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ID: 428986

Title: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

Author: Judith Herrin

Narrator: Phyllida Nash

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:04:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-20

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: History, Europe, Ancient Civilizations

Summary:

This riveting audiobook narrated by Phyllida Nash traces the history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire

At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics. For three centuries, the city attracted scholars, lawyers, craftsmen, and religious luminaries, becoming a true cultural and political capital. Bringing this extraordinary history marvelously to life, Judith Herrin rewrites the history of East and West in the Mediterranean world before the rise of Islam and shows how, thanks to Byzantine influence, Ravenna played a crucial role in the development of medieval Christendom.

Drawing on deep, original research, Herrin tells the personal stories of Ravenna while setting them in a sweeping synthesis of Mediterranean and Christian history. She narrates the lives of the Empress Galla Placidia and the Gothic king Theoderic and describes the achievements of an amazing cosmographer and a doctor who revived Greek medical knowledge in Italy, demolishing the idea that the West just descended into the medieval 'Dark Ages.'

Based on the latest archaeological findings, this monumental book provides a bold new interpretation of Ravenna's lasting influence on the culture of Europe and the West.

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ID: 433516

Title: If I Knew Then: Finding wisdom in failure and power in aging

Author: Jann Arden

Narrator: Jann Arden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:14:09

Language: English

Release date: 10-27-20

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Self Development, Comedy, Essays & Memoirs, Health & Wellness, Women

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Jann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash.

Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming completely her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying to be pleasing and likeable and beautiful in the eyes of others was a loser's game. Letting it rip, and damning the consequences, is not only liberating, it's a hell of a lot of fun: 'Being the age I am—that so many women are—is just the best time of my life.'

Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hating, to show her younger self—and all of us—that fear and avoidance is no way to live. 'What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death,' she writes, 'but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose—not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures.'

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ID: 481997

Title: Power of a Praying Husband

Author: Stormie Omartian

Narrator: Stormie Omartian

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:59:03

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-20

Publisher: ONE Audiobooks

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Prayer, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying® series (more than 28 million copies sold) is rereleased with fresh new covers and new material to reach a still-growing market of readers eager to discover the power of prayer for their lives.

In The Power of a Praying® Husband, you'll find the excitement and hope that come from inviting the God who hears and answers prayer into your marriage. Packed with real-life examples and refreshing honesty regarding her own marriage, Stormie encourages you to lovingly intercede for your wife in every area of her life, including her

- priorities

- emotions

- motherhood

- fears

- sexuality

Each chapter features comments from well-known Christian men, biblical wisdom, and prayer ideas. The warm and easy-to-read book includes a foreword by Stormie's husband, multi-Grammy winning music producer Michael Omartian. It's a resource that makes a great gift to husbands from wives and is also an excellent study for men's groups wanting to develop the discipline of prayer.

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ID: 444210

Title: Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition

Author: Edmund Fawcett

Narrator: Jim Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:35:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-20

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, History, Philosophy, Political Ideologies

Summary:

This engaging audiobook narrated by Jim Lee traces the history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to todays hard Right

For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long periods of power and effectively become the dominant tradition in politics. Yet, despite their success, conservatives have continued to fight with each other about how far to compromise with liberalism and democracyor which values to defend and how. In Conservatism, Edmund Fawcett provides a gripping account of this conflicted history, clarifies key ideas, and illuminates quarrels within the Right today.

Focusing on the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, Fawcetts vivid narrative covers thinkers and politicians. They include the forerunners James Madison, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre; early friends and foes of capitalism; defenders of religion; and builders of modern parties, such as William McKinley and Lord Salisbury. The book chronicles the cultural critics and radical disruptors of the 1920s and 1930s, recounts how advocates of laissez-faire economics broke the post 1945 consensus, and describes how Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and their European counterparts are pushing conservatism toward a nation-first, hard Right.

An absorbing, original history of the Right, Conservatism portrays a tradition as much at war with itself as with its opponents.

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ID: 440997

Title: Willie: The Game-Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player

Author: Michael McKinley, Willie O'ree

Narrator: Everett Fitzhugh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-20

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Other

Summary:

An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to fight for them.

In 1958, Willie O'Ree was a lot like any other player toiling in the minors. He was good. Good enough to have been signed by the Boston Bruins. Just not quite good enough to play in the NHL.

Until January 18 of that year. O'Ree was finally called up, and when he stepped out onto the ice against the Montreal Canadiens, not only did he fulfil the childhood dream he shared with so many other Canadian kids, he did something that had never been done before.

He broke hockey's colour barrier. Just as his hero, Jackie Robinson, had done for baseball.

In that pioneering first NHL game, O'Ree proved that no one could stop him from being a hockey player. But he soon learned that he could never be just a hockey player. He would always be a black player, with all that entails. There were ugly name-calling and stick-swinging incidents, and nights when the Bruins had to be escorted to their bus by the police.

But O'Ree never backed down. When he retired in 1979, he had played hundreds of games as a pro, and scored hundreds of goals, his boyhood dreams more than accomplished.

In 2018, O'Ree was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in recognition not only of that legacy, but of the way he has built on it in the decades since. He has been, for twenty years now, an NHL Executive and has helped the NHL Diversity program expose more than 40,000 boys and girls of diverse backgrounds to unique hockey experiences.

Inspiring, frank, and shot through with the kind of understated courage and decency required to change the world, Willie is a story for anyone willing to persevere for a dream.

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ID: 423729

Title: Boris Johnson: The Gambler

Author: Tom Bower

Narrator: Harry Lloyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:15:50

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Guardian 'literary highlights of 2020'

Sunday Times 'books to watch out for in 2020'

New Statesman 'books to read in 2020'

Evening Standard 'thirteen titles to look for in 2020'

As divisive as he is beguiling, as misunderstood as he is scrutinised, Boris Johnson is a singular figure.

Many of us think we know his story well. His ruthless ambition was evident from his insistence, as a three-year-old, that he would one day be 'world king'. Eton and Oxford prepared him well for a frantic career straddling the dog-eat-dog worlds of journalism and politics. His transformation from bumbling stooge on Have I Got New for You to a triumphant Mayor of London was overshadowed only by his colourful personal life, brimming with affairs, scandals and transgressions. His ascent to Number 10 in the wake of the acrimonious, era-defining Brexit referendum would prove to be only the first act in an epic drama that saw him play both hero and villain - from proroguing parliament to his controversial leadership of the Covid-19 Crisis, all against the backdrop of divorce, marriage, the birth of his sixth child, revolts among Tory MPs and the countdown to Brexit.

Yet despite his celebrity, decades of media scrutiny, the endless vitriol of his critics and the enduring adoration of his supporters, there is so much we've never understood about Boris - until now. Previous biographies have either dismissed him as a lazy, deceitful opportunist or been transfixed by his charm, wit and drive. Both approaches fall short, and so many questions about Boris remain unanswered.

What seismic events of his childhood have evaded scrutiny? How has he so consistently defied the odds, proved his critics wrong, and got away with increasingly reckless gambles? What were his real achievements and failures as Mayor of London, what was really going on during his time as Foreign Secretary, and why did he write two articles for the Telegraph, one in favour of Leave and the other for Remain? How have the women in his life exerted more influence than any of us realise, and why is his story ultimately one overshadowed by family secrets?

Based on a wealth of new interviews and research, this is the deepest, most rounded and most comprehensive portrait to date of the man, the mind, the politics, the affairs, the family - of a loner, a lover, a leader.

Revelatory, unsettling and compulsively readable, it is the most timely and indispensable book yet from Britain's leading investigative biographer.

© Tom Bower 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 431054

Title: Burke's Law: A Life in Hockey

Author: Brian Burke, Stephen Brunt

Narrator: Brian Burke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:30:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-20

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Other, General

Summary:

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The gruffest man in hockey opens up about the challenges, the feuds, and the tragedies he's fought through.

Brian Burke is one of the biggest hockey personalities--no, personalities full-stop--in the media landscape. His brashness makes him a magnet for attention, and he does nothing to shy away from it. Most famous for advocating 'pugnacity, truculence, testosterone, and belligerence' during his tenure at the helm of the Maple Leafs, Burke has lived and breathed hockey his whole life. He has been a player, an agent, a league executive, a scout, a Stanley Cup-winning GM, an Olympic GM, and a media analyst. He has worked with Pat Quinn, Gary Bettman, and an array of future Hall of Fame players. No one knows the game better, and no one commands more attention when they open up about it.

But there is more to Brian Burke than hockey. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and an accomplished businessman with hard-earned lessons that comefrom highly scrutinized decisions made at the helm of multi-million-dollar companies.

And despite his brusque persona on camera and in the boardroom, he is nevertheless a father with a story to tell. He lost his youngest son in a car accident, and has had to grapple with that grief, even in the glare of the spotlight. Many Canadians and hockey fans knew Brendan Burke's name already, because his father had become one of the country's most outspoken gay-rights advocates when Brendan came out in 2009.

From someone whose grandmother told him never to start a fight, but never to run from one either, Burke's Law is an unforgettable account of old beefs and old friendships, scores settled and differences forgiven, and many lessons learned the hard way.

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ID: 514744

Title: My Best Poems, Complete Collection

Author: Pia Horan-Gross

Narrator: Sallybeth

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:17:14

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-20

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

My Best Poems, Complete Collection contains prose poetry and covers a lifetime of poetry writing, sorted in alphabetical order of titles, with dates of creation of original poems featured, though reviewed and professionally edited at a later date.

It comprises experienced reflections on the beauty of nature, the painful, at times fleeting joy of relationships and their deeply spiritual significance, and the wonder and discovery of the spiritual realm.

The book contains 136 poems, divided into three parts;

Part 1, Celebrating Nature, describes mainly Australian scenes and how they reflect what is going on in the author's inner world.

Part 2, The Challenge of Relationships, covers a multitude of relational challenges, both experienced and observed, and the various life-stages and author's struggle to come to grips with those.

Part 3, Spirituality. Finding the way out of the maze describes the author's search for meaning, relevance and truth. She describes her attempt in various life situations, philosophical and religious teachings and trying to make sense in the midst of it all.

The audiobook is meant for reflection and meditation and the soothing voice of Sallybeth beautifully enhances the author's intention for her listeners.

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