“A breathless history of a miraculous treatment…Guthrie narrates her account like a novel, as her characters chat, think, brood, agonize, and ultimately triumph just as in a Hollywood movie.” —Kirkus Reviews
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- Good Blood
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 9/08/20
Formats: Digital Audy
A remarkable, uplifting story about one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 20th century.
In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later, and half a world away, a shy young doctor at Columbia University realized he was more comfortable in the lab than in the examination room. Neither could have imagined how their paths would cross, or how they would change the world.
In Good Blood, bestselling writer Julian Guthrie tells the gripping tale of the race to cure a horrible affliction known as Rh disease that stalked families and caused a mother’s immune system to attack her own unborn child. The story is anchored by two very different men on two continents: Dr. John Gorman in New York, who would land on a brilliant yet contrarian idea, and the unassuming Australian whose almost magical blood—and his unyielding devotion to donating it—would save millions of lives.
Good Blood takes us from Australia to America, from research laboratories to hospitals, and even into Sing Sing prison, where experimental blood trials were held. It is a tale of discovery and invention, the progress and pitfalls of medicine, and the everyday heroics that fundamentally changed the health of women and babies.
- Good Blood
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 9/08/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Read or Alive
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By Nora Page
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 5/12/20
Formats: Digital Audy
A match made in cozy heaven for fans of Jenn McKinlay, Kate Carlisle, and book lovers everywhere, Nora Page’s third Bookmobile mystery will (book)worm its way into your heart.
Two wrongful accusations has librarian Cleo Watkins and her loved ones booked for trouble.
It’s springtime, and septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins is celebrating new blooms and old books. To her delight, the Georgia Antiquarian Book Society has brought its annual fair to Catalpa Springs in honor of Cleo’s gentleman friend, respected antiquarian bookseller and restorer, Henry Lafayette. But trouble rolls in with the fair when a flirtatious book scout makes the rounds, charming ladies of a certain age out of prized books.
Among the conned is Cleo’s cousin, Dot, who relinquished a signed first edition of Gone With the Wind. With no proof the scout took it, Dot is at a loss. And when he’s found dead the very next morning, without Dot’s first edition and other valuable books reported missing in his belongings, Dot’s freedom is on the line. Cleo is flummoxed in discovering too that the scout’s body is found behind Henry’s shop, and the murder weapon identified to be Henry’s bookbinding hammer.
Although books are at the heart of the crimes, Cleo feels dizzyingly out of her depths. Someone is setting up the people she holds dearest, and with the authorities on the wrong trail, Cleo has no choice but to catalog the evidence herself. Along with the help of her trusty bookmobile cat Rhett Butler, it will be up to Cleo to book the real killer for good.
- Read or Alive
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By Nora Page
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 5/12/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Read on Arrival
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By Nora Page
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 4/14/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Death, deadly omens, and a decades-overdue book put senior librarian Cleo Watkins on a collision course with a killer in the second Bookmobile mystery.
Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins believes in gracious manners, sweet tea, and justice—library justice. For over forty years, Cleo has tried every trick in the book to get delinquent patron Dixie Huddleston to return the most overdue volume in Catalpa Springs, Georgia. When Dixie says she’ll finally relinquish the book, Cleo is shocked. She’s even more startled by the reason: superstitious Dixie says she’s seen the signs—she’s about to die and is setting her affairs in order.
Cleo dismisses Dixie’s ominous omens … until she and her gentleman friend, Henry Lafayette, arrive at Dixie’s home to find her dead. Cleo suspects murder. The police agree, but promptly list Cleo among the likely culprits. To clear her good name and deliver justice, Cleo uses her librarian skills to investigate, with Henry and her trusty bookmobile cat, Rhett Butler, at her side.
However, the killer has opened a new chapter of terror. Death threats appear around town, and residents start seeing bad luck everywhere, including in Cleo and her beloved bookmobile Words on Wheels. With her bookmobile and legacy on the line, Cleo accelerates her sleuthing. Suspects and clues stack up, but so does the danger. Another death is coming due, and Cleo fears the killer may be about to turn the final page on someone she loves most.
- Read on Arrival
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By Nora Page
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 4/14/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- EndoMEtriosis
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Foreword by Alaia Baldwin Aronow
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 3/17/20
Formats: Digital Audy
Endometriosis is a physically and mentally debilitating disease that has tortured women for centuries. It currently affects 176 million women of childbearing age worldwide, including one in ten in the US. Despite those startling statistics, this horrific and incurable ailment is still relatively unknown to the general population and medical professionals alike.
Symptoms of heavy periods and excruciating pain most often begin in middle school or high school, yet doctors take an average of twelve years to diagnose it in a patient. As a result, these undiagnosed and misdiagnosed women suffer into at least their mid-twenties or early thirties, repeatedly told that the pain is in their minds, that it’s simply part of becoming a woman, or that it’s caused by some other disease or condition. That nonsense must stop, and it must stop now!
This guide will explain what endo is in terms that adolescents can understand, along with potential remedies, treatments to avoid, and how to manage the psychological and social effects of the disease. It will also include riveting stories from women in their teens and mid-twenties, and from those closest to them such as mothers, fathers, teachers, and coaches.
One of the most terrifying aspects of having endo is feeling like nobody believes the pain is real or severe, which can cause a woman to feel scared, isolated, and depressed. This guide will fully arm her with the truth and knowledge about the disease so that she can overcome her fears and confidently advocate for herself. If her cry for help has been dismissed by anyone, she will be able to educate them so that they can empathize with her and fully support her in her quest for healing.
- EndoMEtriosis
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Foreword by Alaia Baldwin Aronow
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 3/17/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Better Off Read
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By Nora Page
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 3/17/20
Formats: Digital Audy
When her best hope of saving her storm-damaged library is found murdered, senior librarian Cleo Watkins hits the road in her bookmobile in search of justice.
Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins won’t be shushed when an upstart young mayor threatens to permanently shelve her tiny town’s storm-damaged library. She takes to her bookmobile, Words on Wheels, to collect allies and rally library support throughout Catalpa Springs, Georgia.
However, Cleo soon rolls into trouble. A major benefactor known for his eccentric DIY projects requests all available books on getting away with murder. He’s no Georgia peach, and Cleo wonders if she should worry about his plans. She knows she should when she discovers him bludgeoned—and evidence points to her best friend, Mary-Rose Garland.
Sure of Mary-Rose’s innocence, Cleo applies her librarian’s sleuthing skills to the case, assisted by friends, family, and the dapper antiquarian bookseller everyone keeps calling her boyfriend. Evidence stacks up, but a killer is overdue to strike again. With lives and her library on the line, Cleo must shift into high gear to close the book on murder.
- Better Off Read
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By Nora Page
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 3/17/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Us Against Alzheimer’s
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Edited by Marita Golden
Foreword by David Shenk
Introduction by George Vradenburg
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 3/17/20
Formats: Digital Audy
This groundbreaking multicultural anthology shares moving personal stories about the impacts of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
An estimated 5.7 million Americans are afflicted by Alzheimer’s disease, including ten percent of those over sixty-five, and it is the sixth leading cause of death. But its effects are more pervasive: For the nearly six million sufferers, there are more than sixteen million family caregivers and many more family members. Alzheimer’s wreaks havoc not only on brain cells—it is a disease of the spirit and heart for not only those who suffer from it, but also for their families.
This groundbreaking anthology presents forty narratives, both nonfiction and fiction, that together capture the impact and complexity of Alzheimer’s and other dementias on patients, as well as their caregivers and family. Deeply personal, recounting the wrenching course of a disease that kills a loved one twice—first they forget who they are, and then the body succumbs—these stories also show how witnessing the disease and caring for someone with it can be powerfully transformative, calling forth amazing strength and grace.
- Us Against Alzheimer’s
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Edited by Marita Golden
Foreword by David Shenk
Introduction by George Vradenburg
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 3/17/20
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Children’s Past Lives
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By Carol Bowman
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 9/24/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Has your child lived before?
In this fascinating, controversial, and groundbreaking book, Carol Bowman reveals overwhelming evidence of past life memories in children. Not only are such experiences real, they are far more common than most people realize.
Bowman’s extraordinary investigation was sparked when her young son, Chase, described his own past-life death on a Civil War battlefield—an account so accurate it was authenticated by an expert historian. Even more astonishing, Chase’s chronic eczema and phobia of loud noises completely disappeared after he had recalled the memory.
Inspired by Chase’s dramatic healing, Bowman compiled dozens of cases and wrote this comprehensive study to explain how very young children remember their past lives, spontaneously and naturally. In Children’s Past Lives, she tells how to distinguish between a true past-life memory and a fantasy, offers practical advice to parents on how to respond to a past life memory, and shows how to foster the spiritual and healing benefits of these experiences.
Perhaps the most moving, convincing, and best-documented evidence yet for life after death, Children’s Past Lives will stand alongside the classics of Betty J. Eadie, Raymond Moody, and Brian Weiss in its power to comfort, uplift, and transform our thinking about life after death.
- Children’s Past Lives
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By Carol Bowman
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 9/24/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Sharp End of Life
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 5/28/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Wife and mother. Teacher and musician. Marathoner and rock climber. At sixty-six, Dierdre Wolownick-Honnold became the oldest woman to climb El Capitan in Yosemite—and in The Sharp End of Life: A Mother’s Story, she shares her intimate journey, revealing how her climbing achievement reflects a broader story of courage and persistence.
Dierdre grew up under the watchful eyes of a domineering mother and realized early on that her parents’ plans for her future weren’t what she wanted for herself. Later, what seemed like a storybook romance brought escape, with new experiences and eye-opening travel, but she quickly discovered that her husband was not the happy-go-lucky man he had first appeared. Adapting as best she could, Dierdre juggled work and raising two young children, encouraging them to be fearlessly confident. She noted with delight how her “little lady” Stasia took it upon herself to look out for her baby brother, and watched in amazement as Alex started climbing practically before he could crawl.
After years of struggle in her marriage and her ultimate divorce, Dierdre found inspiration in her now-adult children’s passions, as well as new depths within herself. At Stasia’s urging, she took up running at age fifty-four and soon completed several marathons. Then at age fifty-eight, Alex led her on her first rock climbs. A world of friendship and support suddenly opened up to her within the climbing “tribe,” culminating in her record-setting ascent of El Cap with her son.
From confused young wife and busy but lonely mother to confident middle-aged athlete, Dierdre brings the listener along as she finds new strength, happiness, and community in the outdoors—and a life of learning, acceptance, and spirit.
- The Sharp End of Life
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 5/28/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Choosing to Be a Medium
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 3/08/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Experience the wonder of spirit communication firsthand―even if you don’t think you were born a medium. Sharon Farber shares her amazing story of becoming a medium through study, not birthright, and she reveals how you can become one, too.
This easy-to-use, empowering book provides everything needed to lay your foundation for connecting with loved ones in spirit. Build your skills through practical techniques and hands-on exercises. Explore the different types of mediumship, what it is and isn’t, and its roots in Spiritualism. Learn how to gather information from those you connect with in spirit and how to overcome common fears and challenges. Featuring insights from Q&A sessions with various mediums, along with many ways to enhance your abilities—including setting intention, raising your vibration, trance work, meditation, and grounding—Choosing to Be a Medium demonstrates that anyone can connect with loved ones on the other side
- Choosing to Be a Medium
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 3/08/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Clutter Connection
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 1/15/19
Formats: Digital Audy
Fans of The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo and The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin will love The Clutter Connection by organization expert Cassandra Aarssen.
An organization book for diverse habits
“You’re not messy, you just organize differently.” The Clutter Connection examines and explains the correlation between brain types and how they directly relate to organization and clutter. Cassandra Aarssen smashes the stereotype that some people are “naturally messy” and offers listeners insight and real-life solutions based on their unique personal organizing style. The Clutter Connection will help you get organized, be more productive, and finally understand the why behind your clutter.
Individualized real-life organizing
Organizing isn’t one size fits all. Let go of the preconceived and conventional notions of what organization looks like and finally discover what Clutterbug you are. With self-awareness comes happiness, personal growth, and lasting change.
The Clutter Connection examines
- the four different organizing styles and how they relate to each other;
- how motivation and happiness can be directly affected by our space;
- the “3P’s”—productivity, procrastination, and perfectionism—and how they are connected to your unique organizing style; and
- how you can finally become clutter-free simply by knowing yourself better.
- The Clutter Connection
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 1/15/19
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Progressing through Grief
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Foreword by Cécile Rêve, LMHC
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 12/18/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Grieving is a highly personal experience and reactions differ from person to person. Feelings of loss are arguably the most unique, confusing feelings with which to cope. Therapist and grief expert Stephanie Jose understands this. She wrote Progressing through Grief as an interactive resource to gently meet you wherever you are today, as you move through your grief and towards healing. Stephanie has spent countless hours working with grieving clients, and she saw the need for a resource that would address the various feelings of grief that occur at any stage of the process.
Twenty years ago, Stephanie Jose became well acquainted with grief when she suddenly lost her friend. She has experienced first-hand many of the same feelings as her patients. Progressing through Grief provides practical methods for coping with immediate feelings of loss, as well as the difficult emotions that can persist over time.
Progressing through Grief is divided into three sections, each focusing on key factors that create a powerful process for healing:
- Understanding why grieving is important, and how grief affects your body
- Identifying complicated feelings and learning skills for coping with them
- Journaling to move through overwhelming feelings and practicing self-care through relaxation techniques, nutrition tips, and meditation practices
Designed to be a companion as you courageously confront and process your feelings, Progressing through Grief is intended to help you progress through your grief and into healing.
- Progressing through Grief
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Foreword by Cécile Rêve, LMHC
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 12/18/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Coming Apart
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Foreword by Katherine Woodward Thomas
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 11/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Next to the death of a loved one, the ending of a relationship is the most painful experience most people will ever go through. Coming Apart is a first aid kit for getting through the ending. It is a tool that will enable you to live through the end of your relationship with your self-esteem intact.
Originally published in 1987, and continuously in print since then, Coming Apart has been an important resource for hundreds of thousands of readers experiencing the pain and stress of a breakup. This new edition features a foreword by Katherine Woodward Thomas, author of Conscious Uncoupling.
Daphne Rose Kingma, the undisputed expert on matters of the heart, explores the critical facets of relationship breakdowns:
- Love myths: why we are really in relationships
- The life-span of love
- How to get through the ending
- How to create a personal workbook for finding resolution
Time does a lot to heal our broken hearts, but really understanding what transpired in each of our relationships is what allows us to finally let go and move on.
- Coming Apart
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Foreword by Katherine Woodward Thomas
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 11/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Crystals for Healing
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 10/23/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Ready to create positive change in your life? Discover the power of crystals to heal mind, body, and spirit.
Whether you’re working through grief or holding on to grudges, seeking love or increasing gratitude, Crystals for Healing offers the basics for beginners to explore the deep connection between mind, body, and spirit.
Learn the fundamentals to clear emotional blockages, stimulate creativity, and elevate your mood through the vibrational power of healing crystals, with
- clear descriptions of crystals and their unique healing properties;
- over two hundred remedies, plus profiles of ninety-five crystals covering colors, primary uses, corresponding chakra, and placement recommendations;
- daily meditations and mantras for a truly holistic approach; and
- guidelines for creating grids to harness the positive power of crystals and healing stones.
Discover a more fulfilling life through the power of crystal healing as explained by ordained metaphysical minister, intuitive energy healer, and Usui Reiki practitioner Karen Frazier.
- Crystals for Healing
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 10/23/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Control the Conversation
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By James O. Pyle and Maryann Karinch
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 10/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Where were you tonight? How did that meeting go? Are you seeing someone else? What qualifies you for this job? These are just a few of the usual questions we might answer in a day. A typical answer to the last question would include a series of “whats”: what experience you have, what you studied in school, and what you do well. In Control the Conversation, the authors guide you in crafting a response to a question, not just an answer. A response should be multidimensional and include relevant and compelling information that goes beyond a mere answer.
The authors help you build and apply this skill set. You will learn how to manage the four areas of disclosure—people, places, things, and events in time. You will also develop competence in techniques that will help you take control and get your message across in any kind of interview. You will discover how to:
Master answer enhancers, such as keywords and body language;
Analyze a question and understand the motivation behind it; and
Use questions artfully as part of your response.
With these skills as part of your repertoire, you’ll also learn apply them in specific applications, such as:
Job interviews,
Sales,
Common exchanges,
Meetings and media, and
Dating and family situations.
No matter the question, Control the Conversation will show you how to steer every exchange in your favor.
- Control the Conversation
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By James O. Pyle and Maryann Karinch
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 10/01/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Crystals for Beginners
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 9/25/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Learn the holistic way to heal with Crystals for Beginners
Balancing mind, body, and soul often feels impossible, but it doesn’t have to be a struggle. Holistic healing methods with crystals can help harness energies and establish a positive and healthy lifestyle. In Crystals for Beginners, intuitive energy healer and author Karen Frazier walks readers through the basics of how to become our best selves using crystals. You’ll learn how to heal, find balance and everyday wellness with crystals. Crystals for Beginners is your go-to reference guide for healing your way to greater health and happiness.
Crystals for Beginners provides:
- Crystal Healing 101 covering everything from how to start your crystal collection to healing methods
- Crystal Profiles featuring in-depth information at how, where, and when to use ten essential crystals and forty others
- Crystal Remedies identifying the most effective crystals for a given issue and demonstrating the different ways to use them
Prescriptions for crystals include: Abuse, Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Balance, Boundaries, Compassion, Courage, Decisiveness, Envy, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Grief, Happiness, Inner Peace, Love, Motivation, Negativity, Patience, Prosperity, Regret, Rejection, Self-Confidence, Stress, Trust.
Discover natural cures for everyday ailments with this crystal-clear beginner’s guide.
- Crystals for Beginners
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 9/25/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Real Life Organizing
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Foreword by Peter Walsh
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 8/28/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Real Life Organizing offers clutter-free storage solutions and advice that can help you create a Pinterest worthy home on a small budget: Learn how to organize your home, simplify life, and have more time for the things you love. Organizational expert Cassandra ‘Cas’ Aarssen, the guru from YouTube’s ClutterBug channel, reveals her tips, tricks, and secrets to a clean and clutter-free home in just fifteen minutes a day. Aarssen spends her time organizing other people’s homes, teaching college workshops on organization, and creating weekly videos and blog posts. Cas offers DIY Pinterest-type tips to people like you who are interested in how to get rid of clutter and how to organize your home.
Organized person on the outside: The secret to her success? She’s a giant mess on the inside, but an organized person who can teach you how to get rid of clutter and organize your home once and for all.
Simplify your life: In her debut, Real Life Organizing, Cas walks you through the steps you can take to create a beautiful, organized, clutter-free, and almost self-cleaning home—a DIY Pinterest home. Simplify your life. You do not have to get rid of all of your things, you do not have to be a yoga loving minimalist, and you do not have to radically change your lifestyle or personality in order to simplify your life and have an organized home. The truth is that you do not need to actually be an organized person to live like an organized person.
Organize home: Through her years of experience as an industry expert, Cas has uncovered easy and inexpensive tips, tricks, and solutions that allow her to maintain a clean, organized, and functional home with minimal effort. After you’ve listened to Real Life Organizing, you too will be able to live a more organized life without having to give up your sanity.
In Real Life Organizing: Get a Clean and Clutter-Free Home in Just 15 Minutes, you will learn how to:
- Create a Household Management Binder
- Make a “Kids Cupboard” in your kitchen
- Create an IN/OUT system
- Organize paperwork based on your unique style
- Create a Kitchen Command Center
- Organize your holidays with a gift closet
- Build the best toy organizing system
- And enjoy a DIY Pinterest home
- Real Life Organizing
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Foreword by Peter Walsh
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 8/28/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Happy, Healthy You
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By KJ Landis, BS, Ed, CPT, CFT
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 6/05/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Health and wellness: Happy Healthy You is a multidisciplinary approach to reclaiming ultimate wellness. We are all so busy nowadays, and tackling all those to-do lists can leave us drained, worn down, and lacking energy. When you take a deeper look inside, you will also discover patterns, old habits, and past events blocking self-growth. Life coach extraordinaire KJ Landis helps identify how, why, and where we got stuck in the first place, and how we can utilize past trauma and drama as a springboard to becoming our most authentic, vibrant selves. As one of KJ’s students enthuses, “She has taught me several tangible strategies to cope with stress…I am using KJ’s simple techniques to achieve my lifelong health goals.”
Stress relievers: Learn to lose the baggage and blame once and for all and step into your better self. KJ Landis herself is an exemplar of the practices she espouses. In her early career as a model, she masked years of abuse behind her beauty. Her journey to health and happiness is remarkable and truly inspiring. So many of us bury pieces of ourselves, never daring to become whole. Landis’ work offers a path to wholeness for all. The variety of healing therapies and practices makes this book unique in its contribution to the self-help and wellness world.
Each day, we are faced with an immense amount of daily stress. Over time, those stressors may build up to a really big deal in our lives, causing us to go into survival mode. When you are only surviving, you are not thriving. In addition to the day-to-day sources of stress, many of us are exposed to major issues such as neglect, loneliness, abandonment issues, sexual abuse, grieving after loss, breakups, workplace challenges, environmental disasters, hormonal imbalances, and nutritional deficiencies. KJ Landis tackles all the blocks to wellness with excellent practical tools for overcoming and recovering.
Inside this book you will learn
- the origin of how we remain “stuck” in our lives,
- how to use the Negative Thought Pot to rid ourselves of self-deprecating beliefs,
- how hormones and epigenetics affect mental and physical wellness,
- the role of nutrition in every aspect of our health,
- therapeutic movement as a modality in healing,
- the power of self-care through restorative practices,
- and much, much more!
- Happy, Healthy You
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By KJ Landis, BS, Ed, CPT, CFT
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 6/05/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Lifegiving Parent
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By Clay Clarkson and Sally Clarkson
Read by James Anderson Foster and Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 5/15/18
Formats: Digital Audy
From the family that brought you The Lifegiving Home and The Lifegiving Table, discover how you can become a parent who gives your child a life worth living for Christ.
In today’s world, it’s easy to become overwhelmed and even paralyzed by the constant flow of parenting advice. We’re flooded with so much practical information that we wonder if we’re choosing the right way. And we may be missing the one thing God really wants us to give to our children: His life. God doesn’t include a divine methodology for parenting in the Bible, but He does provide principles that can enable any faithful parent to bring His life into the life of their home.
In The Lifegiving Parent, respected authors and parents Clay and Sally Clarkson explore eight key principles―heartbeats of lifegiving parenting―to shed light on what it means to create a home where your children will experience the living God in your family. Now parents of four grown children―each with their own unique personality and gifts―Sally and Clay have learned (sometimes the hard way!) that the key to shaping a heart begins at home as you foster a deep and thoughtful God-infused relationship with each child. Filled with biblical insight and classic Clarkson stories, The Lifegiving Parent will equip you with the tools and wisdom you need to give your children much more than just a good Christian life. You’ll give them the life of Christ.
- The Lifegiving Parent
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By Clay Clarkson and Sally Clarkson
Read by James Anderson Foster and Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 5/15/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Still I Rise
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Foreword by Laurel Corona
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 4/10/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Who are the great women leaders in history? Who are the women heroes who personify “girl power”?
Intrepid women heroes: When Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in South Africa’s brutal Robben Prison, he tirelessly turned to the poem Invictus. The inspirational verse by the Victorian William Ernest Henley, penned on the occasion of the amputation of his leg. Still I Rise takes its title from a work by Maya Angelou and it resonates with the same spirit of an unconquerable soul, a woman who is captain of her fate. Just as Invictus brought solace to generations so does the contemporary classic. Still I Rise embodies the strength of character of the inspiring women profiled. Each chapter will outline the fall and rise of great women heroes who smashed all obstacles, rather than let all obstacles smash them. The book offers hope to those undergoing their own Sisyphean struggles. Intrepid women heroes are the antithesis of the traditional damsels in distress; rather than waiting for the prince, they took salvation into their own hands.
Celebrate girl power!
Women leaders in history celebrated in this book include:
- Madame C. J. Walker - first female American millionaire
- Aung San Suu Kyi - Burma’s first lady of freedom
- Betty Shabazz - civil rights activist
- Nellie Sachs - Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize recipient
- Selma Lagerlof - first woman Nobel Laureate
- Fannie Lou Hamer - American voting rights activist
- Bessie Coleman - first African-American female pilot
- Wilma Rudolph - first woman to win three gold medals
- Sonia Sotomayor - first Hispanic Supreme Court justice
- Wangari Maathai - Nobel Prize winner
- Winnifred Mandela - freedom fighter
- Lois Wilson - founder of Al-Anon
- Roxanne Quimby - co-founder of Burt’s Bees
- Still I Rise
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Foreword by Laurel Corona
Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 4/10/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Silver Screen Kisses
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By Janette Rallison, Heather Tullis, Rachelle J. Christensen, Cami Checketts, and Lucy McConnell
Read by Ann Richardson, Tanya Eby, Christine Williams, Erica Sullivan, and Caroline Shaffer
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Release Date: 3/20/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Silver Screen Kisses is a collection of stories inspired by movies that are on every favorite-movie list. Written by award-winning and bestselling authors, these contemporary romances take the reader back to Echo Ridge in the spring, when the promise of new love is budding just like the tulips around the Emerald Inn Bed & Breakfast.
In “My Fair Lacey” by Janette Rallison, we hear the story of Lacey, who has dreamed of opening a restaurant for years—but first she needs a loan. When Garrett Halifax, her roommate’s Harvard-educated brother, offers to help her clean up her appearance and manner to impress the bank manager, she jumps at the chance—but will she be able to keep up appearances without falling for the sexy Garrett?
“The Princess Bride of Riodan” by Rachelle J. Christensen is the story of Elise, who accepts the help of a good-looking stranger in redecorating her old bed & breakfast. When she finds out who he is, she doesn’t know whether to curtsy or run and hide—but her heart is already tangled up with the handsome prince. Will she chase the fairy-tale ending or choose her high school sweetheart and stay grounded in reality?
The anthology also includes “You’ve Got Email” by Heather Tullis, a story of sexy mistaken identity and online romance; “My Best Man’s Wedding” by Cami Checketts, in which a fake fiancé becomes a real lover; and “While You Were Skiing” by Lucy McConnell, the tale of a handsome skier with a head injury who thinks the beautiful hostess of the ski lodge is his fiancée—so of course, she plays along.
- Silver Screen Kisses
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By Janette Rallison, Heather Tullis, Rachelle J. Christensen, Cami Checketts, and Lucy McConnell
Read by Ann Richardson, Tanya Eby, Christine Williams, Erica Sullivan, and Caroline Shaffer
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Release Date: 3/20/18
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Love Thy Body
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 1/02/18
Formats: Digital Audy
Are transgender people discovering their authentic self? Is the hookup culture really liberating? Does abortion lead to equality for women? Does homosexuality contradict our biological sex?
In Love Thy Body, bestselling and award-winning author Nancy Pearcey takes on the hard questions about life and sexuality. She offers a respectful but riveting exposé of the secular worldview that lies behind trendy slogans and political talking points. A former agnostic, Pearcey is a sensitive guide to the secular ideas that shape current debates. She empowers readers to intelligently and compassionately engage today’s most controversial moral and social challenges.
In a surprise shattering of stereotypes, Pearcey demonstrates that while secularism promises much, in reality it delivers little. She turns the tables on stereotypes that portray Christianity as harsh and bigoted, and invites a fresh look at its holistic, life-affirming principles: it is a worldview that matches the real world and fits with human experience.
All along, Pearcey keeps readers entranced with gripping stories of real people wrestling with hard questions in their own lives—sharing their pain, their struggles, and their triumphs.
- Love Thy Body
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Read by Ann Richardson
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Release Date: 1/02/18
Formats: Digital Audy