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From the bestselling author of Red River Road and The Safe Place. A Penguin Audio Exclusive, narrated by a full cast: Yael Stone, Elisa Colla, Anna Downes, Remy Hii, Aimee Horne, Lyanna Kea, Airlie Dodds, Taylor Owynns, Jeremy Waters, Alan Zhu and Angela Tran. 'A master storyteller' - HAYLEY...

An engaging exploration of how people have taught, practiced, and thought about rhetoric—from the Iron Age to today “An entertaining history of great oratory.” —New Yorker Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire. But it’s not just for politicians: it’s all around us, whether...

What Socrates’s greatest failure reveals about an ancient question: Can we teach our leaders to be better people? Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to teach the vain, power-seeking Athenian statesman Alcibiades how to be a good person—and failed...

It begins with an interrupted story. Then, a mysterious box that speaks and sings. Add unusually unusual teachers, incredible lurking from the Lurker, an insect orchestra and a bungling burglar and it's up to Charlie and Hils to save three innocent bugs from the forces of evil. Another hilarious...

Astrophysicist and novelist Alan Lightman explains how the unknown fuels human creativity in "The Power of Mysteries," his contribution to NPR's This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown, completing the...

In his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient – winner of the Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Award – Michael Ondaatje gives us Anil’s Ghost, a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth we have come to...

Joe Reacher follows the money. Wire fraud, counterfeiting, money laundering, all part of the job. Then a letter arrives from an old friend. A key. And a note that says Just in case. By the time Joe reads it, his friend is dead.

The pressure on people at work is ever-increasing. Longer hours with an inability to switch off in this ‘never off’ culture drives chronic stress. In burnout, common symptoms include exhaustion, cynicism, lack of effectiveness and reduced vitality. Its effects are devastating on individuals. Do you think this might be happening to you? The Burnout Ladder provides a simple framework to determine your work/life wellbeing status.

HE ISN'T LOOKING FOR A FIGHT. HE'S LOOKING FOR THE TRUTH. Buffalo Crossing was once a peaceful cattle town. Now gunmen fill its streets. A cattle war is coming, and honest families are trapped in a deadly fight for land, water, and control. Then the Regulator rides in. The Regulator has seen places like this before. He knows the lies. He knows the greed. He knows the cost of war. What he doesn't expect is Sarah Davis.

How did American Freestyle Karate evolve from church gyms and civic arenas to world-class championships? Kaizen: The Way of the Warrior traces the rise of American Freestyle Karate through the people, bouts, and ideas that shaped it. With ringside detail and archival notes, James Cooper spotlights the promoters, fighters, and teachers who turned kickboxing and KO Karate from local spectacles into a movement. Across crisp chapters and rare photo captions, you’ll see the sport’s milestones unfold, Warhawks vs.

Reid Scott is a brilliant computer-software developer. His devotion to the companies he has established ensures that they will become highly prosperous. However, in choosing to spend long hours at work, he has become increasingly estranged from his family. When his seventeen-year-old son is brutally murdered, Reid is forced to face the fact that he has been a lousy dad. Consumed by rage fueled by guilt, he vows to reap vengeance on his son's killer. But then, as a new Christian, he learns that he must forgive to be forgiven, a requirement that seems absolutely impossible.

Zwischen dem ersten Atemzug bei der Geburt und dem letzten am Ende unseres Lebens ist der Atem nicht nur eine biologische Funktion, sondern unser innerster Begleiter. Er trägt unsere Emotionen, formt unser Erleben, spiegelt unseren Zustand – und kann, wenn wir ihn bewusst nutzen, ein tief wirksames Mittel zur Bewältigung von Trauma werden.

Congratulations. You've officially lost your mind. You replay conversations in the shower. You check your phone every six minutes. You've become a part-time FBI agent, relationship historian, and psychic, all while trying to convince everyone you're "doing great."

FBI Agent Daniela Rojas arrives with a secret mission of her own. To uncover the truth behind Project Greenfall, a classified experiment buried by the Canopy Collective. RCMP Corporal Cade Mercer is there for a different reason. Two years ago, his wife vanished inside these woods. No body. No answers. Only the quiet certainty that something took her. Now they stand watch at the edge of a quarantined wilderness that shouldn’t exist. The forest is changing. Spreading. Breathing. Time slips. Reality bends.

Set in a dangerous, tumultuous time, 1970s Beirut, The Foreign Aide is a dialogue-driven literary thriller full of colourful characters. Just perfect for an audiobook — either as a standalone, or alongside the ebook or print version for the full immersive experience. Enjoy author Alan Miles and daughter Annelie as they lift the words from the page and turn them into a vibrant real-life drama.

Based on the author's previous guides to grief therapy, this audiobook takes an inspirational approach to the material, presenting the idea of wilderness as a sustained metaphor for grief—where the death of a loved one is likened to the experience of being wrenched from normal life and dropped down in the middle of nowhere.

“I couldn't stop reading! Absolutely a triumph!” —Freida McFadden, New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid “Enthralling...it’s a testament to Nugent’s storytelling prowess and gift for well-timed plot twists that, even knowing there’s a train wreck looming, readers...

Every investor wants a dependable advantage that enables them to beat the market. Every investor wants an edge. One such edge, long thought to be accessible only to institutional investors, can be found in event-driven investing strategies. These strategies allow you to recognize and take...

Charlie Colenutt’s intense and revealing interviews capture the raw voices of people talking honestly about work . . . Read this, as each one opens a hidden window on the way we live now.' - Polly Toynbee For the best part of two years Charlie Colenutt travelled the country to talk to a...

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce “Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page…Captures the majesty and...