Arthur Morey

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Joseph Campbell
• Narrated By Arthur Morey, John Lee, Susan Denaker

Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In this book, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.

The Book of Swords

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Gardner Dozois - editor, George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb, and others
• Narrated By Arthur Morey, Julia Whelan, Mark Deakins, and others
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In The Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and best-selling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters - many of them set in their authors' best-loved worlds. Join today's finest tellers of fantastic tales, including George R. R. Martin, K. J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Ken Liu, C. J. Cherryh, Daniel Abraham, Lavie Tidhar, Ellen Kushner, and more on action-packed journeys into the outer realms of dark enchantment and intrepid derring-do.

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
• Narrated By Arthur Morey
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We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of billions of people. This book is an antidote to pessimism by tech-entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

• UNABRIDGED (36 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Steven Pinker
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

We’ve all had the experience of reading about a bloody war or shocking crime and asking, “What is the world coming to?” But we seldom ask, “How bad was the world in the past?” In this startling new book, the best-selling cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the world of the past was much worse. In fact, we may be living in the most peaceable era in our species’ existence.

American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

• UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Ronald C. White
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a major new interpretation of Ulysses S. Grant. Based on seven years of research with primary documents, some of them never tapped before, this is destined to become the Grant biography of our times.

DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Rick Strassman
• Narrated By Arthur Morey
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From 1990 to 1995, Dr. Rick Strassman conducted U.S. government–approved and funded clinical research at the University of New Mexico in which he injected 60 volunteers with DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known. His detailed account of those sessions is an extraordinarily riveting inquiry into the nature of the human mind and the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. DMT, a plant-derived chemical found in the psychedelic Amazon brew ayahuasca, is also manufactured by the human brain.

How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Frank Bettger
• Narrated By Arthur Morey
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When Frank Bettger was 29, he was a failed insurance salesman. By the time he was 40, he owned a country estate and could have retired. What are the selling secrets that turned Bettger's life around from defeat to unparalleled success and fame as one of the highest-paid salesmen in America? The answer is inside How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling. Bettger reveals his personal experiences and explains the foolproof principles that he developed and perfected.

The Road to Character

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 17 mins)
• By David Brooks
• Narrated By Arthur Morey, David Brooks
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With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous best sellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives.

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

• UNABRIDGED (33 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Neal Gabler
• Narrated By Arthur Morey
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Seven years in the making and meticulously researched - Gabler is the first writer to be given complete access to the Disney archives - this is the full story of a man whose work left an ineradicable brand on our culture but whose life has largely been enshrouded in myth.

Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

Daniel Goleman's international best seller Emotional Intelligence forever changed our concept of "being smart," showing how emotional intelligence (EI) - how we handle ourselves and our relationships - can determine life success more than IQ. Now Goleman and company apply that knowledge to leadership in a must-hear presentation.

Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 8 mins)
• By David Bayles, Ted Orland
• Narrated By Arthur Morey
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Art & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. This is a book about what it feels like to sit in your studio or classroom, at your wheel or keyboard, easel or camera, trying to do the work you need to do. It is about committing your future to your own hands, placing free will above predestination, choice above chance. It is about finding your own work.

The Swarm

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 1 min)
• By Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adam, Stephen Hoye, and others
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The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship. There is a mothership out beyond the solar system's Kuiper Belt, and it's heading into the system.

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Kim John Payne, Lisa M. Ross
• Narrated By Arthur Morey
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From internationally renowned family consultant Kim John Payne comes an eloquent guide that seeks to help parents reclaim for their children the space and freedom that all kids need for their individuality to flourish.

The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Richard Rohr
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

The Trinity is supposed to be the central doctrine grounding Christianity, yet we're often told that we shouldn't attempt to understand it because it's a mystery. But what if we breached that mystery? How might it transform our relationship with God?

Earth Awakens: The First Formic War, Book 3

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, and others
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Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card’s best-selling novel Ender’s Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would happen in the future, in the empty reaches between the stars. Then a young navigator on a distant mining ship saw something moving too fast, heading directly for our sun.

Earth Unaware

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, and others
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The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador’s telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it’s hard to know what to make of it. It’s massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light.

El Cavador has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The family is getting too big for the ship. There are claim-jumping corporate ships bringing Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt.

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo

• UNABRIDGED (33 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Irving Stone
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

This is Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the all-powerful Medici family, the fanatic monk Savonarola. His loves: the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de Medici; the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi; and his last love - his greatest love - the beautiful, unhappy Vittoria Colonna.

A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Paul Miller
• Narrated By Arthur Morey

A Praying Life is an honest look at the difficulties of prayer, unanswered prayers, and successes in prayer. Readers will appreciate Paul Miller's down-to-earth approach and practical nature. Parents will find his family-life experiences especially helpful.

The Five Levels of Attachment: Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 22 mins)
• By don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
• Narrated By Arthur Morey
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Building on the principles found in his father’s best-selling book The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz, Jr., invites us to gauge how attached we are to our own point of view. In The Five Levels of Attachment, he will help you gain awareness of the agreements you have been implicitly making all these years that shape your reality and affect your future and show you how to release the attachments which no longer reflect who you really are.