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The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 51 mins)
• By Daniel Coyle
• Narrated By Grover Gardner
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Daniel Coyle spent the last few years traveling around the world and meeting with top coaches, teachers, and neurologists in order to unlock the secret of how greatness happens. Now he has taken his groundbreaking research and boiled it down to the essentials: 52 simple, proven rules for developing and growing talent in sports, art, music, business, or just about anything.

Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Rory Vaden
• Narrated By Rory Vaden
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Do you ride the escalator or do you take the stairs? No matter how you define success, it always requires one thing: self-discipline. But as popular speaker and strategist Rory Vaden explains, we live in an "escalator world", one that's filled with shortcuts, quick fixes, and distractions that make it all too easy to slide into procrastination, compromise, and mediocrity. What seems like an easier path is really much harder in the end - and, most important, it won't take you where you want to go.

Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons From a Small-Town Obituary Writer

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Heather Lende
• Narrated By Heather Lende
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As she was digging deep into the lives of community members, Heather Lende, the obituary writer for her tiny hometown newspaper in Haines, Alaska, began to notice something. Even the crustiest old Alaskan sourpuss who died in a one-room cabin always had Halloween candy for the neighborhood kids, and the eccentric owner of the seafood store who regularly warned her about government conspiracies knew how to be a true friend - his memorial service was packed.

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Thich Nhat Hanh
• Narrated By Edoardo Ballerini

Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries, meditations, personal anecdotes, and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the listener already is - in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking - and shows how deep meditative presence is available now.

The Five Keys to Mindful Communication: Using Deep Listening and Mindful Speech to Strengthen Relationships, Heal Conflicts, and Accomplish Your Goals

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Susan Gillis Chapman
• Narrated By Gabra Zackman
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Good communiation is essential to any healthy relationship, whether it's between spouses, family members, friends, or co-workers. In this book Susan Chapman, a marriage and family therapist and a longtime meditation teacher, explains how mindfulness can be brought to bear in the way we speak and listen to each other so that we can strengthen our connections and better accomplish our goals.

Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Jia Jiang
• Narrated By Mike Chamberlain
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Jia Jiang came to the United States with the dream of being the next Bill Gates. Despite early success in the corporate world, his first attempt to pursue his entrepreneurial dream ended in rejection. Jia was crushed and spiraled into a period of deep self-doubt. But he realized that his fear of rejection was a bigger obstacle than any single rejection would ever be, and he needed to find a way to cope with being told no without letting it destroy him.

George Carlin Reads to You: An Audio Collection Including Grammy Winners 'Braindroppings' and 'Napalm & Silly Putty'

• ORIGINAL (7 hrs and 5 mins)
• By George Carlin
• Narrated By George Carlin

If one George Carlin audio is funny, then two are funnier and three must be funniest, right? That's our thinking behind this new collection. t's a HighBridge library of laugh-out-loud, award-winning recordings featuring George himself performing many of his best bits.

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Scott Adams
• Narrated By Patrick Lawlor
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Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you’ve ever met or anyone you’ve even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world’s most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years? In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams shares the strategy he has used since he was a teen to invite failure in, to embrace it, then pick its pocket.

Bull's-Eye: The Power of Focus

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 29 mins)
• By Brian Tracy
• Narrated By Brian Tracy
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Clarity, Focus, and Concentration: Three strong attributes needed to hit the bull's eye! And just as you can develop your physical muscles through hard work and concentration, you can develop your mental muscles through continuous repetition. Bull's Eye will teach you how to unleash your powers for success and accomplish more in the next few months than many people do in a lifetime.

The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Mark Forsyth
• Narrated By Don Hagen
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In his inimitably entertaining and wonderfully witty style, he takes apart famous phrases and shows how you too can write like Shakespeare or quip like Oscar Wilde. Whether you’re aiming to achieve literary immortality or just hoping to deliver the perfect one-liner, The Elements of Eloquence proves that you don’t need to have anything important to say - you simply need to say it well.

Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide to Strategies for Change

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Timothy A. Pychyl
• Narrated By Timothy A. Pychyl
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The new audio edition of the self-published hit, offering powerful strategies to end procrastination!

Why do we sabotage our own best intentions? How can we eliminate procrastination from our lives for good? Based on current psychological research and supplemented with clear strategies for change, this concise guide will help listeners finally break free from self-destructive ideas and habits, and move into freedom and accomplishment.

Off Balance: Getting Beyond the Work-Life Balance Myth to Personal and Professional Satisfaction

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Matthew Kelly
• Narrated By Mike Chamberlain
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One of the major issues in our lives today is work-life balance. Everyone wants it; no one has it. But Matthew Kelly believes that work-life balance was a mistake from the start—because we don’t really want balance; we want satisfaction. Kelly lays out the system he uses with his clients, his team, and himself to find deep, long-term satisfaction both personally and professionally. He introduces us to the three philosophies of our age that are dragging us down.

Food: A Cultural Culinary History

• ORIGINAL (18 hrs and 22 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Ken Albala

Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to obtain food has been a major catalyst across all of history, from prehistoric times to the present. Epicure Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said it best: "Gastronomy governs the whole life of man."

The Now Habit

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Neil Fiore
• Narrated By Neil Fiore
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If you are a professional, manager, student, entrepreneur, writer, or homemaker, this audiobook will help you achieve your goals more rapidly, whether they are large, complex challenges or the small, essential tasks of everyday life and work. If you now work effectively, even though you have too much to do and too little time, The Now Habit will show you how to prioritize your goals to allow more time for guilt-free play.

The Five Elements of Effective Thinking

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
• Narrated By Brian Troxell
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The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking presents practical, lively, and inspiring ways for you to become more successful through better thinking. The idea is simple: You can learn how to think far better by adopting specific strategies. Brilliant people aren't a special breed--they just use their minds differently.

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Barbara Oakley
• Narrated By Grover Gardner

Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a higher level of math competency, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating but inescapable field. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses, before enlisting in the army immediately after graduation.

The Search for Exoplanets: What Astronomers Know

• ORIGINAL (12 hrs and 17 mins)
• By The Great Courses
• Narrated By Professor Joshua N. Winn

As recently as 1990, it seemed plausible that the solar system was a unique phenomenon in our galaxy. Thanks to advances in technology and clever new uses of existing data, now we know that planetary systems and possibly even a new Earth can be found throughout galaxies near and far.

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Mark Miodownik
• Narrated By Michael Page
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Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik is constantly asking himself. A globally renowned materials scientist, Miodownik has spent his life exploring objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world.

The Buddha Walks into a Bar...: A Guide to Life for a New Generation

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Lodro Rinzler
• Narrated By Lodro Rinzler
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This isn’t your grandmother’s book on meditation. It’s about integrating that “spiritual practice” thing into a life that includes beer, sex, and a boss who doesn’t understand you. It’s about making a difference in yourself and making a difference in your world - whether you’ve got everything figured out yet or not.

A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Sebastien Falletti, Eunsun Kim
• Narrated By Emily Woo Zeller
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Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child, Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the countrywide famine escalated. By the time she was 11 years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun too was in danger of starving. Finally her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister.

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Leil Lowndes
• Narrated By Joyce Bean, Leil Lowndes
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What is that magic quality that makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their "Midas touch?"

John Quincy Adams

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Harlow Giles Unger
• Narrated By Johnny Heller
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He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of La Amistad. He served his nation as minister to six countries, secretary of state, senator, congressman, and president. John Quincy Adams was all of these things and more. In this masterful biography, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger reveals Adams as a towering figure in the nation’s formative years.

A Little History of Philosophy

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Nigel Warburton
• Narrated By Kris Dyer
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Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy and explores their most compelling ideas about the world and how best to live in it.

Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Richard O'Connor
• Narrated By Fred Stella

We humans tend to get in our own way time and time again - whether it comes to not speaking up for ourselves, going back to bad romantic partners, our umpteenth diet, or engaging in any of a range of bad habits we just can’t seem to shake. In Rewire, renowned psychotherapist Richard O’Connor, PhD, reveals why our bad habits die so hard. We have two brains - one a thoughtful, conscious, deliberative self, and the other an automatic self that does most of the work without our attention.