Audiobooks narrated by Deanna Hurst

Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses Into Re

Recent polls show that 71% of workers think about quitting their jobs every day. That number would be shocking-if people actually were quitting. Worse, they go to work, punching time clocks and collecting paychecks, while completely checked out emotionally. In Reality-Based Leadership, expert Fast Company blogger Cy Wakeman reveals how to be the kind of leader who changes the way people think about and perceive their circumstances-one who deals with the facts, clarifies roles, gives clear and direct feedback, and insists that everyone do the same-without drama or defensiveness. Filled with dynamic examples, innovative tools, and diagnostic tests, this book shows you how to become a Reality-Based Leader, revealing how to: Uncover destructive thought patterns with yourself and others Diffuse drama and lead the person in front of you Stop managing and start leading, empowering others to focus on facts and think for themselves Equipped with a facts-based, confident approach, you will free yourself from the frustrations you face at work and transform yourself into a Reality-Based Leader, with the ability to liberate and inspire others.

Cy Wakeman (Author), Deanna Hurst (Narrator)

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The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing

Beverly Engel (Author), Deanna Hurst (Narrator)

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Highly Sensitive: Calvary of a hsperson

Preface The true reason why most of us keep their heads down throughout their life and why all our gazes hardly ever meet anymore is that our souls are suffering. Influencing people means spoiling the actual sensuality of their souls for them. Whereupon they will unlearn to think in their own naturalness and stop unfolding their inborn talents. Their ancestral knowledge thus remains hidden from them. Longings are a conse- quence of this presumptuous exertion of influence. The correspond- ingly subjectivized truths suddenly turn into reveries of a failed real- ity. The person thus resounds as the echo of another's music, as part of a crazy, alien drama away from his or her own calling. Whereas the meaning of all life resides in the free unfolding of the self. We are all here toperfect ourselves and develop our creative naturalness. Imposed truths can only desertify and dilute us. Fear-filled, we people distract ourselves from mortal dread with the appearances of life. The liability to exist has thus grown into a sinful guilt for us. Our souls quietly thirst for the exact opposite, but we have forfeited humility – because weknew nothing about gentleness and courageousness as divine genes. So love turned to terror, which is the basis of society's morals, and our own divinity into an awe of God, which is the secret of religion. These arethetwothings that causeus todegenerate, whilesensory processing sensitivity is the perception to regenerate us. Because sensory pro- cessing sensitivity is certain to have been a fundamental, primordial human talent once. We have robbed ourselves of this wonderful sense and become deaf and blind for our unique delicacy. Let us start with ourselves before we set out together. As it goes through our sensual perception and consciousness, everything we hap- pen upon is also part of ourselves. Which is exactly why deliberate awareness is so important. It is this awareness that overcomes the dis- tortions of the mind and calms the storms of the emotions, because in the recognition of the primordial reflections, anger and the poisoning of the soul, all the dread, yes even the power of terror can lose their force and lead into self-acceptance, peace and love – at the beginning of our future.

Chris Novi (Author), Bill A. Jones, Deanna Hurst (Narrator)

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Blues in the Night

An unidentified woman in a nightgown is the victim of a hit-and-run accident on Mulholland Drive that leaves her unconscious and seriously injured. The image of the young woman stumbling along a dark, winding road is one true-crime writer Molly Blume cannot shake. It draws her to a bedside in intensive care, where, before dying, the victim whispers three names: Robbie, Max, and Nina. It''s not a smoking gun, but it is sufficient enough to reinforce Molly''s gut instinct that there are sinister circumstances behind the assault on Lenore Saunders. With fearless conviction, Molly asks questions that nobody - including Lenore''s mom, her ex-husband, her shrink, or even Molly''s LAPD buddy, Detective Connors - wants to answer. Nevertheless, the astute Molly discovers Lenore lived a fractured life, so different from Molly''s own secure and loving Orthodox Jewish background. And as a chilling picture of the unfortunate woman begins to take shape, the menace of murders past and present stirs and quickens.

Rochelle Krich (Author), Deanna Hurst (Narrator)

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Dream House

Friday, October 31. 9:37 p.m., 100 block of South Martel. A vandal threw a pumpkin through the front window of a house and several eggs at the front door. The police report read like just another Halloween prank - a nasty, petty act. But the attack is one in a recent spate of increasingly violent vandalisms targeting residents who have paid millions of dollars for their dream homes in the ritziest enclaves of Los Angeles. Residents are already seething, hotly divided about the growing number of Historical Architectural Restoration and Preservation (HARP) boards that prevent homeowners from remodeling their expensive real estate, forcing them to preserve the traditional integrity of neighborhoods where Hollywood legends once lived. So impassioned are pro- and anti-HARP forces that Crime Sheet columnist Molly Blume suspects that members from both sides of the debate may be perpetrating the vandalism that claims new victims almost daily. But the arson that destroys a house on Fuller Street doesn't fit the pattern. This beautiful property belongs to Margaret Reston and her husband, Hank; and the sick old man who dies when it burns is Margaret's father. Margaret herself has disappeared. She was last seen working in her garden five months ago - and although traces of her blood were found in her car, the police have no idea what has happened to the missing woman. This intrigue all makes good copy for hard-hitting newshound Molly. Almost in love again with the high-school sweetheart who dumped her and is now a rabbi, Molly can't stop thinking about Margaret and Hank Reston and the old man whose life was tragically, though accidentally, cut short. But was it an accident? What has happened to Margaret Reston? Where does malice end and evil begin?

Rochelle Krich (Author), Deanna Hurst (Narrator)

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What Was the Underground Railroad?

No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only 'conductors' who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about 'passengers' on the 'Railroad,' this audiobook chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. In this thrillingly narrated history, the Underground Railroad comes alive!

, Yona Z. McDonough, Yona Zeldis Mcdonough (Author), Deanna Hurst (Narrator)

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Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration: 4 Keys That Change Everything

Organizations are only as productive as the interactions that take place between individuals, teams, and divisions. This audiobook is a short, engaging guide for dramatically improving the quality of these interactions. The four "keys" that Judith Katz and Frederick Miller provide offer a framework and a common language for creating an open, honest, and supportive workplace, one where people aren't afraid to speak up and where everyone feels respected. The four keys are: Lean into Discomfort-Be willing to move beyond your comfort zone and help create an environment in which others feel the same way. Listen as an Ally-Try to find ways you can support fellow employees' ideas. Share Your Intent and Intensity-Make it crystal clear how committed you feel to any idea you raise. Share Street Corners-Your perspective (your corner) is only one point of view. Actively encourage people from other "corners" to offer their perspectives. "A laser beam on what makes work and all other relationships work-practical, useable, very specific and still profound."-Peter Block, author of Community, Flawless Consulting, Stewardship, and The Answer to How Is Yes

Frederick A. Miller, Judith H. Katz (Author), Deanna Hurst (Narrator)

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Courage: Overcoming Fear and Igniting Self-Confidence

New York Times bestselling author Debbie Ford offers her most personal, powerful, and practical work to date-a proven process for overcoming insecurity and fear and unlocking the courage that resides within. Every day we are confronted with hundreds of choices that either make us feel confident and strong or rob us of the things we desire the most. When we lack confidence, we feel unworthy of having what we want, of speaking the truth, of making decisions that improve our lives. When we feel weak, helpless, or powerless, we lack the strength to ward off the thoughts of defeat, negativity, and fear that fill our minds and prevent us from moving forward and living in harmony with our deepest desires. For decades, Debbie Ford has been helping people break free from the emotional baggage that has held them hostage. In Courage, Debbie Ford provides a life-altering path to discovering confidence and authentic self-expression. By learning to accept all of who we are, including our histories, our flaws, our misgivings, our weaknesses, and our fears, we discover that what keeps us stuck and feeling weak is nothing more than an illusion of the past. By showing us how to be confident, stand in our strength, and feel great about ourselves, a new self emerges with the power to accomplish anything. Introducing seven guiding principles, Ford expertly leads readers out of the common pitfalls of fear and insecurity and into the strength, power, and freedom of a courage that has been present all along.

Debbie Ford, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Wayne W. Dyer (Author), Deanna Hurst (Narrator)

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The Fun Parts

A writer Time magazine has said "everybody should read," Sam Lipsyte, author of the New York Times bestselling The Ask, offers up The Fun Parts, a book of bold, hilarious, and deeply felt fiction. A boy eats his way to self-discovery, while another must battle the reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. In another story, an aerobics instructor, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, makes the most shocking leap imaginable to save her soul. These are just a few of the tales, some first published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Playboy, that unfold in Lipsyte's richly imagined world. Other stories feature a grizzled and possibly deranged male doula, a dooms-day hustler about to face the multi-universal truth of "the real-ass jumbo," and a tawdry glimpse of the northern New Jersey high school shot-putting circuit, circa 1986. Combining both the tragicomic dazzle of his beloved novels and the compressed vitality of his classic debut collection, Venus Drive, The Fun Parts is Lipsyte at his best - an exploration of new voices and vistas in the form with which he began.

Sam Lipsyte (Author), Deanna Hurst, Michael Page, Peter Berkrot, Sam Lipsyte (Narrator)

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Backfire

San Francisco judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, begins the murder trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill only to have federal prosecutor Mickey O'Rourke, known for his relentless, aggressive style, suddenly turn tentative and distracted. Hunt suspects that something is very wrong - and then O'Rourke goes missing and Judge Hunt gets shot in the back. Savich and Sherlock receive news of the attack as a mysterious note is delivered to Savich at the Hoover Building: FOR WHAT YOU DID YOU DESERVE THIS. Who sent the note? What does it mean? As Ramsey Hunt's life hangs in the balance, Savich and Sherlock race to San Francisco to answer the question: Why would anyone shoot the judge? When they discover one answer, more questions arise until Savich and Sherlock face the final shock.

Catherine Coulter (Author), Deanna Hurst, Jim Meskimen (Narrator)

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Backfire

Catherine Coulter (Author), Deanna Hurst, Jim Meskimen (Narrator)

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The Undead Next Door

Three signs that something is very different with your mew man: 1. He sleeps all day . . . which would be annoying except he's so attentive at night. 2. He's attacked by sword-wielding assailants, yet insists he can handle it on his own. 3. He never seems to age. Heather Westfield has always lived a quiet life, but that all changes when she helps a very handsome, very mysterious stranger. There's something not quite right about Jean-Luc, but still, she's never been with a man so charming, so attractive . . . so wonderful. Now if only a murderous villain wasn't after them, they might get their happily-ever-after.

Kerrelyn Sparks (Author), Deanna Hurst (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Deanna Hurst