01.27.08
Me, Inc AudioBook
Me, Inc is a proactive, practical guide and unlike any self-help book you’ve ever listened to. It’s not about simple motivation or inspiration; that stuff only matters if you have a plan.
Me, Inc. is designed to help you develop that plan and then execute it to perfection. It’s not a generic, one-size-fits-all program, but a personalized system for improving your life and filling it with purpose, meaning, and contentment.
Business consultant and executive coach Scott Ventrella shows you how to achieve unlimited success by incorporating the basic principles of good business into everyday living. Sharing the ten time-tested principles that guide most successful and enduring companies, he shows you how to apply them to your life and design your own custom “exceptional living plan” – much like a business plan – that will guide you on the road to an exceptional life.
What if you were the CEO of a mediocre company? Would you just sit back and let the business plod along on a road to nowhere? Of course not. Any competent CEO would get proactive and start developing and implementing a plan for success.
Now think about your life. Isn’t it just as important as any business? Over the course of twelve “milestones” and accompanying exercises, you’ll learn what you want and why, create your custom exceptional living plan based on your ultimate goals, use that plan as an everyday guide to living, and learn how to maintain your momentum and stay on track. You’ll take stock of your most important “clients”, gather feedback on your actions, set goals and priorities, and implement plans for change and constant improvement. Rather than float through life, you’ll take control, be your own boss, and steer You, Inc. into the black.
You only lead one life, so why lead an average one? Stop living by accident and start living on purpose. Embrace your role as CEO of your own life and live with enthusiasm, determination, purpose, and confidence. If you want to achieve your goals and dreams, now is the time to take charge and be the boss.
Listen to a sample of Me, Inc
01.25.08
Gulliver’s Travels Audio Book
Gulliver’s Travels is the classic audiobook written by Jonathan Swift.
“A masterwork of irony that contains both a dark and bitter meaning and a joyous, extraordinary creativity of imagination. That’s why it has lived for so long.”
Malcom Bradbury
Gulliver’s Travels tells of the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an Englishman and ship’s surgeon, who travels to the “several remote nations of the world.” In the beginning, he becomes shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the distressed inhabitants are only six inches tall. His second voyage takes him to Brobdingnag, where lives a race of giants. At Glubdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers, he speaks with great men of the past and learns from them the lies of history. Further adventures find Gulliver in a land ruled by intelligent horses.
For children, it is an enchanting fantasy; for adults, it is a satirical masterpiece, a parody of political life in Swift’s time, and a scathing send-up of manners and morals in eighteenth-century England.
01.24.08
Wayne W. Dyer Audio Book
There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem is an audio book written by Wayne W. Dyer.
In this inspiring new audio, bestselling author Wayne W. Dyer shows us that there is an omnipresent spiritual force right at our fingertips that contains the solution to our problems — from ill health, to financial worries, to relationship difficulties. Drawing from various spiritual traditions, especially from the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, Dyer helps us unplug from the material world and awaken to the divine within.
There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem provides the essential foundations for spiritual problem solving, and explains the basic principles needed to understand and access the world of spirit. You’ll hear the words of Patanjali, a Yogi mystic whose teachings and practices deeply affected Dyer and informed his realization that the spiritual force is everywhere. Then Dr. Dyer gives specific suggestions to help listeners put spiritual problem solving into practice. St. Francis’s legacy is one of love, harmony, and service — putting our collective energies toward what we are for instead of what we are against.
As Dyer writes, “Thinking is the source of problems. Your heart holds the answer to solving them.”
01.22.08
Isaac Newton Audio Book Biography
James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science — how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic systems; in Genius, he portrayed the wondrous dimensions of Richard Feymnan’s mind.
Now, in Isaac Newton, he gives us the story of the scientist who, above all others, embodied humanity’s quest to unveil the hidden forces that constitute the physical world.
In this original, sweeping, and intimate biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton’s significant letters and unpublished notebooks to illuminate the real importance of his work in physics, in optics, and in calculus. He makes us see the old intuitive, alchemical universe out of which Newton’s mathematics first arose and shows us how Newton’s ideas have altered all forms of understanding from history to philosophy.
He gives us a moving account of the conflicting impulses that pulled at this man’s heart: his quiet longings, his rage, his secrecy, the extraordinary subtleties of a personality that were mirrored in the invisible forces he first identified as the building blocks of science. More than biography, more than history, more than science, Isaac Newton tells us how, through the mind of one man, we have come to know our place in the cosmos.
01.21.08
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Audio Book
The “Call to Conscience” series features Never-Before-Collected, Original Recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — Edited by Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard.
This selection from the collection is “The Birth of a New Nation”, which ignited the modern civil rights movement. Introduction written and read by Rev Leon H Sullivan.
Presented by the Grammy-winning Producers of The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Power is the strength required to bring about social, political, and economic change…. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality…. I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up…. I still believe that we shall overcome.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Call to Conscience is a milestone collection of Dr. King’s most influential and best-known speeches. Compiled by Stanford historian Dr. Clayborne Carson, director of the King Papers Project, and by contributing editor Kris Shepard, this volume takes you behind the scenes on an astonishing historical journey-from the small, crowded church in Montgomery, Alabama, where “The Birth of a New Nation” ignited the modern civil rights movement.
Expressing a deeply felt faith in democracy, the power of loving change, and a self-deprecating humor, A Call to Conscience is Dr. King speaking today.
It is a unique, unforgettable record of the words that rallied millions, forever changed the face of America, and even today shape our deepest personal hopes and dreams for the future.
01.19.08
Ballroom on Magnolia Street
Johnny “Hollywood” Hogan owns the ballroom on Magnolia Street, where sisters Kate and Shirley Winters, along with other regulars, go every Saturday night—to escape the realities of Belfast life, and to seek fun and romance.
Free-spirited Shirley has a mad crush on a boy named Declan Greenwood, while thoroughly modern Kate likes plenty of variety in her wardrobe (and her love life) and is determined to get married before her younger sister. She’ll take anyone who’ll have her, even if it has to be that greasy — though not entirely unattractive mechanic who has been hanging around lately. The crowd at Hogan’s is always lively, but that doesn’t mean all problems have been left at the door. Johnny’s grandparents are afraid that he’ll retire and shut the ballroom down. Johnny yearns for Marion, his old love, while Marion starts to worry that her long-held secret will finally be revealed.
But it doesn’t take long for all of the ballroom’s patrons to discover that, even without velvet-lined balconies and crystal chandeliers, the magic of the twinkling lights and soft music will help them find just what they’re looking for—whether it be family, friendship, or even true love.
01.13.08
White Fang Audio Book
White Fang and The Call of the Wild are two classic audio books in this Jack London Boxed Set by Blackstone Audio Inc. The narrator is John Lee.
“London’s…is a vision of exceptional and crucial vitality.”–James Dickey
This boxed set features Jack London’s thrilling classics, The Call of the Wild and White Fang.
London’s adventurous nature, intuitive feeling for animal life, and superb storytelling skills have given his tales
an enduring place in the annals of American literature.
White Fang
In the desolate, frozen wilds of northwest Canada, a lone wolf fights the heroic daily fight for life in the wild. But
after he is captured and cruelly abused by men, he becomes a force of pure rage. Only one man sees inside
the killer to his intelligence and nobility. But can his kindness touch White Fang?
The Call of the Wild
A bold-spirited dog named Buck is stripped from his comfortable life on a California estate and thrust into the
rugged terrain of the Klondike. There he is made a sled dog and battles to become his team’s leader and the
devoted servant of John Thornton, a man who shows him kindness amid the savage lawlessness of man and
beast.
Listen to a sample of the White Fang audiobook
01.08.08
Language of God Audio Biook
Language of God is an audiobook written by Francis S. Collins. Francis reads the book himself.
Dr. Francis Collins , head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world’s leading scientists—yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture. Dr. Collins has resolved the dilemma that haunts everyone who believes in God and respects science. Faith in God and faith in science can be harmonious—not separately but together, combined into one worldview. For Collins, science does not conflict with the Bible, science enhances it.
The Language of God makes the case for God and for science. Dr. Collins considers and dismisses several positions along the spectrum from atheism to young-earth creationism—including agnosticism and Intelligent Design. Instead, he proposes a new synthesis, a new way to think about an active, caring God who created human-kind through evolutionary processes.
He explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes listeners on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry, and biology can all fit together with belief in God and the Bible. The Language of God is essential for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: Why are we here? How did we get here; And what does life mean?
Francis S. Collins is one of the country is leading geneticists and the longtime head of the Human Genome Project. Prior to coming to Washington, he helped to discover the genetic misspellings that cause cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, and Huntington’s disease. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and in his spare time he enjoys riding a motorcycle and playing guitar.
