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

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.

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.

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.

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 Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Brené Brown
• Narrated By Lauren Fortgang
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Each day we face a barrage of images and messages from society and the media telling us who, what, and how we should be. We are led to believe that if we could only look perfect and lead perfect lives, we'd no longer feel inadequate. So most of us perform, please, and perfect, all the while thinking, What if I can't keep all of these balls in the air? Why isn't everyone else working harder and living up to my expectations? What will people think if I fail or give up? When can I stop proving myself?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

Man's Search for Meaning

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Viktor E. Frankl
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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Internationally renowned psychiatrist, Viktor E. Frankl, endured years of unspeakable horror in Nazi death camps. During, and partly because of his suffering, Dr. Frankl developed a revolutionary approach to psychotherapy known as logotherapy. At the core of his theory is the belief that man's primary motivational force is his search for meaning.

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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.

Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Aging

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Dick Van Dyke
• Narrated By Dick Van Dyke

With a fun and folksy way of addressing its audience, Keep Moving serves as an instruction audiobook on how to embrace old age with a positive attitude. The chapters are filled with exclusive personal anecdotes that explore various themes on aging: how to adapt to the physical and social changes, deal with loss of friends and loved ones, stay current, fall in love again, and "keep moving" every day like there's no tomorrow.

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.

The Positive Dog: A Story About the Power of Positivity

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 29 mins)
• By Jon Gordon
• Narrated By Jon Gordon
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Discover the benefits of being positive. We all have two dogs inside of us. One dog is positive, happy, optimistic, and hopeful. The other dog is negative, mad, sad, pessimistic, and fearful. These two dogs often fight inside us, but guess who wins the fight? The one you feed the most. So begins the story about a negative mutt named Matt and a big dog named Bubba who teaches him how to feed himself with positivity each day and in the process Matt transforms his own life and the shelter they call home.

You are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Jen Sincero
• Narrated By Jen Sincero
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Bestselling author, speaker, and world-traveling success coach Jen Sincero cuts through the din of the self-help genre with her own verbal meat cleaver in You are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. In this refreshingly blunt how-to guide, Sincero serves up twenty-seven bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, life-changing insights, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word.