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Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women
"A LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN THAT ALL WOMEN WHO LOVE RUNNING AND SPORT SHOULD READ." -KARA GOUCHER For women runners, the race has only just begun...In this groundbreaking work, award-winning journalist Maggie Mertens uncovers the little-known story of how women broke into competitive running and how they are getting faster and fiercer every day¾and changing our understanding of what is possible as they go. More than a century ago, a woman ran in the very first modern Olympic marathon. She just did it without permission. Despite women proving their abilities on the track time and again, men in the medical establishment, media, and athletic associations have fought to keep women (or at least white women) fragile-and sometimes literally tried to push them out of the race (see Kathrine Switzer, Boston Marathon, 1967). Before there were running shoes for women, they ran barefoot or in nursing shoes. They ran without sports bras, which weren't invented until 1977, or competed disguised as men. They faced down quack science, doctors who put them on bedrest, and newspaper reports that said women simply collapsed if they ran a mere 800 meters, just half a lap around the track. Still today, women face relentless attention to their physical bodies: Is she too strong, too masculine; is she even a woman? Mertens transports us from that first boundary-breaking marathon in Greece, 1896, which Stamata Revithi successfully finished, to the earliest "officially" sanctioned women's races of the 20th century, to the most intense running a person can participate in today, the ultra-marathons¾like the infamous Spine Race, whose current record holder is a woman. By a lot. For readers of Good and Mad, Born to Run, and Fly Girls, Better Faster Farther takes us inside the lives, the races, and the victories of the women who redefined society's image of strength and power.
Maggie Mertens (Author), TBD (Narrator)
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Break, Blow, Burn, and Make: A Writer's Thoughts on Creation
When a writer and the Creator work together, the universe is set in order. Centuries ago, sound theology and good fiction were friends and not strangers. Decades ago, authors strove not for self-expression and self-disclosure but for a mastery of craft and language and books that transformed the reader with wisdom and love. In more recent years, the old ideals have been exchanged for lesser ones. Few guides to writing, which tend to focus on mechanics, point of view, and plot, address the more important matters of meaning, depth, and heart. But it is the latter qualities that make a book a blessing and gift to both writer and reader. Like Christ's invitation to follow, they demand a risk and sacrifice of the self and all it holds dear. Writers from George MacDonald to James Baldwin understood this, but in recent years this understanding has been lost. Making old things new, this book proposes an ethics of reading, writing, and living based on truth and love. Break, Blow, Burn, & Make returns the literary conversation to the practices of co-creation with God. Part bugle call, part compass for writing and for life, and part love song to the books that set us on fire, it offers those who are willing to receive it the courage to live, read, and write more deeply and honestly.
E. Lily Yu (Author), TBD (Narrator)
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Reversing Alzheimer's: The New Tool Kit to Improve Cognition and Protect Brain Health
A revolutionary and much-needed exploration of Alzheimer’s, how it is a complex disease that requires a complex approach, how the vast majority of dementia research overlooks this fundamental truth, and how patients and their caregivers can simplify this complexity and take back control from this insidious disease. An estimated 6.7 million Americans aged 65 and older are living with Alzheimer's dementia today. The toll is stunning: it is the fifth-leading cause of death among older Americans, and in 2023 alone, the cost of health care, long-term care, and hospice services for people with dementia has been estimated at $345 billion. But that doesn’t mean most of us are doomed to develop Alzheimer’s. Research in neuroplasticity has proven that our brains have the capacity to keep changing, learning, and growing even into our later years. Few know better about what Alzheimer’s does to people—to their brains, their bodies, their families, their lives—than Dr. Heather Sandison, one of the foremost Alzheimer’s dementia-care clinicians. In Reversing Alzheimer’s, she shows how we can alleviate the factors that nudge the brain into decline, add more of the things that contribute to brain regeneration, and either make significant improvements in cognitive function or prevent cognitive decline from happening in the first place. Hers is an individualized, step-by-step, whole-body approach: Dr. Sandison systematically guides the reader through addressing the factors that contribute both positively and negatively to our cognitive health—from the biological and the physical (toxins, nutrition, hormones, infections, exercise) to the psychological (negative self-talk, trauma); from the social (personal engagement with our community, loneliness and relationships); to the cultural (ageism, stress). She provides patients and caregivers with an evidence-based approach to reversing and preventing cognitive decline—and distills a multi-factorial approach to treating this complex disease into a doable, step-by-step, customizable program. Reversing Alzheimer’s aims to help people suffering from dementia return to themselves, to give families their loved ones back, and to help those who are living in fear of developing dementia the confidence of knowing they are taking good care of their current and future brain health.
Dr. Heather Sandison (Author), TBD, Teri Clark Linden (Narrator)
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Your Postpartum Body: The Complete Guide to Healing After Pregnancy
A comprehensive, one-of-a-kind, evidence-based handbook to support postpartum healing and recovery What should you expect when you're done expecting? Too many of us think that there's no way to fix everyday concerns after a pregnancy, such as pelvic floor issues, exhaustion and burnout, and getting back into a fitness routine. But it's simply not true. With this revolutionary resource in hand, you'll learn what happens to the body during pregnancy and childbirth, common changes in function and feeling, and solutions for healing. Your Postpartum Body was written with expertise by a pelvic floor physical therapist who wants you to know that you can feel like yourself again-physically and mentally. You've probably heard plenty of anecdotes about what might help or hurt (to Kegel or not to Kegel?), but they're not necessarily backed up with medical expertise and practical advice. Your Postpartum Body fills that gap as a complete reference guide for every eventuality, from making sure you're getting enough fluids to troubleshooting breastfeeding to pelvic floor recovery, with helpful illustrations and photos throughout. While your body is undoubtedly different (after all, you just grew a human!), you do not have to live with pain, incontinence, weakness, or nursing/feeding stress. You now hold the tools and techniques you need to heal and nourish your body and mind.
Courtney Naliboff, Ruth E. Macy (Author), TBD (Narrator)
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Modern Tantric Buddhism: Embodiment and Authenticity in Dharma Practice
This essential guide to socially engaged Tantric Buddhism reveals how modern practitioners can use the wisdom of the Vajrayana to confront systems of power and abuse. Today, a new generation of Buddhists searches for ways to adopt Vajrayana while staying true to its historical legacy. Modern Tantric Buddhism unpacks the principles and applications of this esoteric practice in an accessible and meaningful manner, connecting its roots to a socially engaged, modern-day dharma. Taking a traditional Tibetan pedagogical approach, Lama Justin von Bujdoss divides the book into 3 thematic sections: • Body, as it applies to physicality and embodiment • Speech, or ethical action • Mind, the context of awakening Von Bujdoss challenges assumptions about what it means to be a socially engaged Buddhist, and presents Tantra as an ideal vehicle for critically examining today's most pressing social issues while confronting the structural inequities of patriarchy, sexism, colonialism, and racism within Buddhist institutions.
Justin Von Bujdoss (Author), A'rese Emokpae (Narrator)
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Neighbor, Love Yourself: Discover Your Value, Live Your Worth
God loves us, but do we love ourselves? Having listened to hundreds of life stories, Bryan realized too many people carry regret. With a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Bob Goff, Neighbor, Love Yourself reminds us all that we are worthy. God created us with divinely sophisticated tools and features, but most of us aren't using them. The result is an inner worth we aren't aware of, and a life unknowingly lived at half capacity. By examining powerful life stories, Neighbor, Love Yourself launches an internal expedition to uncover hidden features installed long ago. Our inner worth isn't rusty, just dusty. As we locate and reconnect vital principles and truths, we will unearth a value inside ourselves that most of us have never come anywhere close to experiencing. Through his work as a hospice chaplain, Bryan Crum learned too many people feel like they've never reached their full potential. Understanding how valuable we are on the inside will change how we live on the outside. Discovering our inner worth will unlock confidence and self-esteem most of us haven't accessed yet. Neighbor, Love Yourself is packed with nineteen entertaining and enriching chapters filled with wisdom, humor, and moving moments of self-discovery. Pairing memorable stories and timeless takeaways, Neighbor, Love Yourself will inspire the reader to new levels of empowered living.
Bryan Crum (Author), Bryan Crum, TBD (Narrator)
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Why I Believe: A Psychologist's Thoughts on Suffering, Miracles, and Faith
What gives our lives meaning and allows us to rise above pain and disappointment to live with compassion, kindness, and love? World-renowned psychologist and leadership expert Henry Cloud has changed millions of lives through his groundbreaking books and through his work coaching leaders of the most influential organizations in the world. But few people know the details of his own story and how he became one of the most beloved and respected psychologists and faith influencers in America. In this indelibly personal and vulnerable book, Dr. Cloud leads us through his early struggles with illness and depression and the miracles that healed him and led him to his calling as a healer of others. Through masterful storytelling combined with a deeply nuanced understanding of the human mind, Dr. Cloud invites readers to inhabit the spaces of suffering and elation that make us most human and to walk alongside of him as he ponders the great questions we are so often afraid to ask but which also give life meaning. Written in the vein of such groundbreaking books as An Unquiet Mind, When Breath Becomes Air, and On Being Mortal, Why I Believe is a masterwork in spiritual exploration from one of the great scientific minds and faith voices of our time.
Henry Cloud (Author), TBD (Narrator)
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You Can Be Free: Overcoming Temptation and Habitual Sin by the Power and Promises of the Gospel
Beat the cycle of habitual sin as Kirby Kelly guides you through how God's strength can win back your freedom and bring you everyday peace. Find rescue and relief through a practical battle plan to defeat that sin that feels stuck on repeat and win back your life. Tired of the same cycle over and over again? Of the endless spirals of self-destructive sin? In You Can Be Free, discover a real-life battle plan to break the spiritual bondage of habitual sin. You're not alone. So many Christians are desperate to find a way to overcome recurring sin in their lives, a dominating factor when it comes to coping mechanisms in today's society. Kirby Kelly has been there, and she's created a battle plan to help others break free from unhealthy thoughts, behaviors, and cycles to find God's actual peace in their lives. Leading from the front, Kelly offers her own story first and shares biblical strategies to: - Connect and confess - Stay in bounds - Know your enemy - Know your God - Know yourself - Set your green and red light zones - Turn around and come home - Makeover your mind Kirby Kelly offers practical, tactical advice to the questions: How does one break, and stay, free? And how does one truly overcome what they thought they broke free from, only to see its disappointing return in their life? Through theology, hope, and God's guidance, there is a way to become vulnerable with your community, grow spiritually and personally, and welcome God's promise of freedom.
Kirby Kelly (Author), Hosanna Wong, Kirby Kelly (Narrator)
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The Price She Pays: Confronting the Hidden Mental Health Crisis in Women's Sports—from the Schoolyar
Two experts in mental health and sport lift the veil on the crisis in women's athletics, offering parents and coaches urgently needed advice and support and showing how female athletes can find joy in whatever sport they choose, at whatever level they compete. No matter the sport, the message to girls and women on the court or the field is the same: Be aggressive, but not too aggressive. Win at all costs, but be polite while you're doing it. Get strong, but not too big. Female athletes have long been conditioned to perform under these standards, gracefully and without complaints. Yet, behind the scenes, female athletes are suffering from disordered eating, depression and anxiety, emotional and sexual abuse, self-harm, and even suicide ideation. Athletes like tennis star Naomi Osaka and gymnastics world champion Simone Biles recently took breaks from competition on the world stage to tend to their mental health. Their decisions have compelled many of us to ask: What is causing this mental health crisis among female athletes? Through research and stories of female athletes of all ages and ability levels, The Price She Pays illuminates where we are going wrong-and how we can correct course. Informed by their experiences both on and off the field, authors Katie Steele and Dr. Tiffany Brown help athletes and parents identify the signs and symptoms of mental health conditions, recognize mistreatment and abuse, understand body image and eating disorders, trauma, and more. By tackling these issues, The Price She Pays encourages readers to understand how the wellbeing of the whole person-not just the athlete-will lead to performance gains from the youth leagues to the elite levels, and everything in between.
Katie Steele, Tiffany Brown (Author), Charlotte Moore-Lambert, TBD (Narrator)
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Invisible Power: The Physical, Spiritual, and Mental Art of Combat
A masterwork from the world’s greatest Jiu Jitsu fighter and New York Times bestselling author of Breathe Rickson Gracie—an inspiring and practical book about the art of combat. A mythic figure in fighting and a legendary member of the “first family of martial arts,” Rickson Gracie is considered the godfather of what we recognize today as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Although Rickson’s three decades of total dominance in Jiu Jitsu is astounding, even more astounding is the serenity and spiritual depth of his approach to combat. Some consider Jiu Jitsu a martial art, others consider it a sport, but to Gracie, it is a philosophical system he uses to face and evaluate life’s challenges and maintain happiness and peace of mind. Gracie wrote Invisible Power after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, a terminal sentence which he views as the greatest fight of his life, one he knows he will eventually lose. This is Gracie’s defining life statement about his spiritual and technical practice. For the first time, he reveals his time-tested theories and techniques of invisible Jiu Jitsu, a combat system anyone can use to awaken their power and apply it to their everyday lives. An indispensable tool for any fighter or seeker, Invisible Power teaches how to balance and align the mind, body, and spirit.
Peter Maguire, Rickson Gracie (Author), TBD (Narrator)
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I Fight, You Fight: The noble way to growth and happiness
The inspiring story of a young man whose wisdom and strength can teach us that life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how you choose to play it. Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of him when an on-field injury left him fighting for his life in the ICU. Following a four-day coma and a diagnosis of C4 quadriplegia, Alex's first words to his brother Zac were, 'If I fight, you fight.' These words became a war cry as Alex's friends, family and community rallied around him, watching in awe as he fought to regain control over his body and defy his diagnosis. From learning to breathe and move again to travelling the world, starting his own business, and even going skydiving, Alex's story is about the power of mastering your own mind, finding happiness and taking risks to achieve your goals - no matter how out of reach they may seem. Full of warmth, humour and insight, this is a book that will teach you principles to live your life by, written by a young man who has put them into practice. I Fight, You Fight is so much more than an inspiring memoir - it's a philosophy for living life to the fullest.
Alex Noble (Author), TBD (Narrator)
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Which Way Is Up?: Finding Heart in the Hardest of Times
A heartfelt guide for meeting difficult times with mindfulness, compassion, and courage-from a psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner who learned from her own crisis. Using personal examples from her own recent bardo crisis-undergoing cancer treatment during the pandemic-and offering contemplative prompts for inner-reflection and a meditation practice in each chapter, psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner Susan Chapman demystifies the three main types of fear people experience (frozen, awake, and core), and how to meet each with love. This heartfelt guide from someone who's been there and done the work will help us get through life's challenges and restore our equilibrium, while also inviting a valuable opportunity for personal growth. Which Way Is Up? draws from traditional Buddhist teachings on the bardo, a Tibetan word most often associated with the period between death and rebirth. Chapman likens the bardo to abrupt episodes in our lives when things seem to turn upside down and we can't find our footing. In such times of not-knowing, our fearful mind tends to panic trying to make sense out of our experience. Instead, Chapman meets the listener in their groundlessness to show how these turning points can force us to let go of our assumptions about the future and allow something new to be reborn.
Susan Gillis Chapman (Author), Dina Pearlman (Narrator)
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