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Three professional narrators, Mike Vendetti, Kathy Verduin, and Stephen Jay Cohen, lend their voices to what is considered by many to be one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest novels, The Great Gatsby. Travel back with them to the Jazz Age, where the wealthy and entitled collide with pretenders and common citizens.

Katy's Bow is a whimsical story about how one thing can lead to something big, when Katy puts a bow on a neighbor’s cat, Queenie. Queenie is soon chased by a dog and climbs a tree, which leads to the neighbors, firefighters, police, and news reporters coming out in force to try to rescue poor Queenie. And all this chaos started with a simple little bow.

A summer of boredom was what she had expected. A summer of adventure was what she received. Katie never thought she would like camp. The idea of spending three months at this worn-down, no-nothing place in the middle of nowhere was about as appealing to her as sitting through her mother's lectures on the importance of eating vegetables. She never imagined that coming to Camp Carmel would be the best thing that ever happened to her.

Seventeen-year-old Tobi Mathews is frightened by her ex-Marine father's ominous predictions about the end-of-the-world. Are they true or caused by post traumatic stress disorder as her mother says? Tobi's father moves the family to an isolated farm to escape the coming calamity. When her mother leaves to get a job in town, his anxiety intensifies. Afraid her mother might not return, Tobi can no longer deal with her father's endless rants about Armageddon.

You want to study perfectly and not sit at the same time constantly at textbooks, forgetting all the rest? Currently, the concept of learning strategies includes thoughts, actions, beliefs, and emotions that facilitate the acquisition, understanding, and then - the application and transfer of new knowledge and skills in various contexts of activity. Training strategies help create a framework for further information that allows to store it in memory in a form that facilitates integration with the knowledge that is meaningfully associated with it.

Women receive 2 percent of venture funding and make up 9 percent of VC partners, yet research shows that companies with female leaders and board members outperform all-male companies. Changing Tides brings together experienced female venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders who share their expertise and tactical guidance through a collection of essays. This audiobook is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to win - or support a woman to win - at the heavily stacked entrepreneur and funding game.

Have you experienced teasing or bullying that caused you social and emotional pain? Have you felt depressed or anxious as a result of your experience? Do you find yourself desperately wanting to feel better? This is an uplifting and true story about a little girl who was born looking different from everyone around her. As a result of some unhealthy coping skills and some very skewed views of herself and God, she became overwhelmed with depression and anxiety. She looked in all the wrong places for many years until she finally realized that her only hope is to look up.

On the outside, you have it all together, masterfully juggling everything that comes your way. You're an accomplished professional, devoted to your family and active in the community. But on the inside, things feel different. You're overwhelmed by how busy you are, you're tired of saying yes when you mean no, and you're starting to feel drained by the monotony of a routine that rarely brings you joy. In fact, sometimes you wonder if you even know what brings you joy.

Danielle Edwards, heir to the impassioned family business Edwards Auto in Manheim, Pennsylvania - a comprehensive auto facility that does it all and one of the largest auto wholesalers in the US - moves away to South Texas to sort out her life after the deaths of her father, mother, and grandmother in a mysterious plane wreck. Grandpa Edwards has no clue that Edwards Auto has become entangled in money laundering and smuggling schemes with Mexican cartels.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Yoga Dictionary for Soul and learn about some simple rules to live your life in harmony to yourself and each other.

It's 1867 and sparks are flying in the small frontier town of Firestone, Montana. "Frontier Love" follows the struggles of Mail Order Bride, Ginny Douglas, and pioneer cowboy, Manly Forsythe, as they overcome every challenge the wild West throws at them to finally find a love that will last forever.

In a tiny almost-ghost town at the edge of civilization, a colorful assortment of characters find ingenious and artful ways to adjust to the harsh desert climate and the absence of amenities. The narrator, a transplant from the big city, observes and adapts to the local customs, while trying to contribute innovations of her own. The improbable happenings in this community of misfits range from celebration to black humor to authentic tragedy, all narrated in an invented dialect that immerses the listener in the alternative reality of Darwoon.

Amateur detectives, Covey Jencks and JayJay Qualls, set out to solve a triple murder and encounter a White Nationalist conspiracy. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Covey and JayJay Get Educated and experience the compelling world of this murder and terrorism thriller.

Ok, ok, ok. Pink gets it. She’s the elected, whether she likes it or not. Heaven and Hell are closing in, and their envoys are closer home than ever. So close she can’t ignore them. And she’ll do everything but. However long she has, she’s determined to make it count. She’ll sort her friends out, she’ll help her family and, she’ll live a bit. And then, she’ll take charge. Because no one will say that Pink went down without a fight. However big and bad the enemy.

You are not alone! Over 15.7 million people today are caring for a loved one with dementia. As caregivers, it’s easy for us to feel isolated. If you’re weary of the heartache and losses you both suffer, of the restless nights and chaotic days, then you know that our frustrations, helplessness, and fear can drive us to our knees. Dementia is cruel. But the caregiving journey that we are on also offers unexpected, uplifting gifts: profound personal insight; explosive spiritual growth; and discovery of our deepest self....

Intrigue, crime, and murder create suspense in this edge-of-your-seat collection of cat mystery stories whose plots are all centered on a beloved feline, written by some of the finest, best-selling mystery writers of all time.

In Unity in Everything That Is, spiritual teacher, Reiki master, and shaman Frank Coppieters shares his experiences with the wondrous dimensions of light and love. He tells the story of his own searching, which led him to 13 masters, and what he was granted to learn from each of them. This fascinating audiobook reveals the possibility for everyone to find deep satisfaction in an enlightened warriorship that contributes to the quality of life on earth.

Washed in the Blood is a pause-resisting listen about the time - early 1960s - and place - Odessa, Texas - during its rowdy oil boom days when violence often rode the range. It is at once an examination of local mores and foibles, piety and hypocrisy, and an inside look at the famed "kiss and kill" murder of a 17-year-old would-be actress Betty Jean Williams, whose ghost is said to haunt the Odessa High School campus to this very day.

Kathy Thorson Gruhn grew up in the small town of Blooming Prairie in southern Minnesota. She moved to the South with her husband in the late '70s and currently lives on a horse farm in Tryon, North Carolina. She has two grown daughters and two grandchildren. Before becoming a writer, she was a speech pathologist for 35 years, working primarily with children ages birth to seven, which prompted her to create the My Baby Compass program.

Dennis and Kathy Lang were corporate climbers reaching for the top of the ladder. They had it all - steady jobs, well compensated, a boatload of frequent flyer points, 401(k)s, and respect from their peers - the perfect ingredients to be labeled successful. However, they felt unfulfilled and completely out of balance. It was as though they were caught in the vortex of a tornado, unable to gain control and get out. You might be surprised at what turns their lives around and teaches them that everything matters - as well as led them to lives filled with joy, meaning, and health.