Audiobooks narrated by Dina Pearlman

"Educational practice does not, for the most part, rely on research findings. Instead, there’s a preference for relying on our intuitions about what’s best for learning. But relying on intuition may be a bad idea for teachers and learners alike. This accessible guide helps teachers integrate effective, research-backed strategies for learning into their classroom practice. The audiobook explores what constitutes good evidence for effective learning and teaching strategies, how to make evidence-based judgments instead of relying on intuition, and how to apply findings from cognitive psychology directly to the classroom. Written by 'The Learning Scientists', Understanding How We Learn is a rejuvenating and fresh examination of cognitive psychology's application to education. This is an essential listen for all teachers and educational practitioners, designed to convey the concepts of research to the reality of a teacher's classroom."

Megan Sumeracki, Yana Weinstein (Author), Dina Pearlman (Narrator)

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The Meaning of Fear

"Amid the turmoil of the 2008 recession that threatens her career, Lea Johnson, a behavioral researcher dedicated to curing post-traumatic stress disorder, is also struggling to save her marriage. When her husband, Jay, is brutally attacked during an attempted robbery, Lea is shaken to realize that being an expert in fear doesn't make her an expert in healing her own husband's trauma. Things take a dark turn when Jay confronts a young trespasser outside their home, only for the boy to be reported missing shortly after. Lea begins to suspect that Jay is hiding something, and as she feels a growing attraction to the sympathetic cop investigating the case, she's torn between her loyalty to her husband and the urge to uncover the truth. When an unexpected opportunity arises for Lea to confront her own childhood assailant, the lines between healing, revenge, and forgiveness blur. In a battle with her past and her husband's potential secrets, Lea must decide whether her affair will be the catalyst for healing or the final fracture in a marriage already on the brink."

Laura Thomas (Author), Dina Pearlman (Narrator)

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Shameful Silence: What You Don't Know About Domestic Violence

"Society has a blind spot―and one in three men are paying the price. Millions of men experience domestic abuse. Yet their suffering is routinely dismissed, minimized, or outright denied. Trapped by shame, stigma, and cultural myths about masculinity, they endure abuse in silence. Often, they lack the language to describe their experiences and face systems unwilling to protect them. In Shameful Silence, human rights attorney Alexandra Lozano exposes the hidden epidemic of male domestic abuse. With unflinching honesty, legal precision, and deep compassion, Lozano draws on seventeen years of frontline experience to advocate for vulnerable individuals in complex legal systems. She reveals a vital truth few confront: abuse can devastate without leaving bruises. Through survivor accounts and rigorous research, this book reveals sophisticated, often invisible tactics used against men, including gaslighting, financial control, parental alienation, false allegations, and using custody battles and immigration status as weapons. These abuses leave no visible scars yet dismantle identity, isolate victims, and destroy lives. Blending legal insight, psychological research, and deeply human storytelling, Shameful Silence challenges entrenched stereotypes about victimhood and masculinity. Lozano reframes strength not as silence but as truth. She offers listeners clarity and validation that so many male survivors have never received."

Alexandra Lozano (Author), Dina Pearlman (Narrator)

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The Secret to Getting Stuff Done: The Non-Negotiable Mindset

"People who always get things done have a secret: they treat action as non-negotiable. The Secret to Getting Stuff Done introduces a four-step identity-based system that transforms wishful thinking into consistent, meaningful action: • Identify what truly matters to your future self • Focus on the critical few actions that move the needle • Act consistently―regardless of how you feel or what's happening • Make it non-negotiable―no debates, no excuses This isn't another habits book. It's a blueprint for building automatic behaviors that serve your highest aspirations. Instead of relying on motivation, you'll learn to create deep internal commitments tied to who you are becoming―so the right actions happen without daily struggle. Whether you're pursuing professional goals, creative work, or personal growth, this approach makes progress feel natural instead of forced. Focusing on commitment as a binding contract with yourself and removing the option to waver or overthink, and packed with honest and straightforward guidance, this book will inspire professionals at all levels to move forward, no matter what."

Robin Landa (Author), Dina Pearlman (Narrator)

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Threads of Kindness

"Westbury's attics aren't the only places harboring secrets . . . Maggie Martin isn't hosting Rosemont's annual Christmas potluck. Her Christmas cheer has vanished until an exciting piece of news and a call for help propels her into action. Meanwhile, Anita Archer's sewing machine museum is rapidly becoming a reality. She's purchased an abandoned building on the town square, and renovations are ahead of schedule and under budget. Until they're not. The shocking discovery of an illicit enterprise would have been enough. When pipes freeze, the resulting flood exposes a discovery that puts Westbury on the map in a whole new way. Sunday Sloan and Josh Newlon are immersed in wedding preparations. The gown she bought online arrives, and it's not the one she ordered. Sunday knows she'll have to make do with the dress she received—there's not enough time before the ceremony for her to find the dress she's dreamed of since childhood. The women of Westbury will hear none of it. With the clock ticking toward the big day, a circle of determined women turns disaster into a shared triumph of friendship and skill. Welcome back to Rosemont, where every chapter feels like coming home."

Barbara Hinske (Author), Dina Pearlman (Narrator)

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Vitamins & Supplements For Dummies

"Vitamins & Supplements For Dummies will teach you how to choose the best vitamins, minerals, and supplements to provide nutrition for your mind and body. Inside, you'll find easy-to-follow explanations of what key vitamin and minerals do, so you can make the right choices for your needs. Factors like age, lifestyle, gender, ethnicity, diet, and habits all play a role in determining which vitamins and minerals you need more or less of in your diet. Learn how to get blood tests, keep a diet record, and other methods of finding out where you may benefit from changes to your regimen. With this book, you can follow healing programs that include vitamin, mineral, and herbal supplements and lifestyle tweaks. If you use supplements wisely, they can improve your health, wellness, and longevity. Vitamins & Supplements For Dummies shows you how. - Learn the basic facts about how vitamins and supplements affect you - Get answers to your questions about creating a wellness program, longevity, and beyond - Create a personalized wellness program to optimize your health - Enhance your memory, mood, and energy levels with supplements This Dummies guide is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn how to make the best vitamin and supplement choices to improve health, immunity, and appearance."

Shelley B. Weinstock (Author), Dina Pearlman (Narrator)

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The Descendant

"This based-on-real-events novel tells the story of the family that possibly inspired The Godfather—except this story doesn't begin with a small robbery in New York. Instead, The Descendant begins with a big, blooming love in the tiny town of Lucca Sicula, Sicily. Told through the lives of the strong Italian women who fought against impossible odds, this historically inspired narrative introduces a whole cast of fascinating characters. This sweeping family saga centers around the Barberas' ten children from their three cowboy gangster sons, Peter, Joe, and Austin to their seven wildly different cowgirl daughters. First there's little Flo—born on the night of the wolves and whose own alpha wolf never left her side—as she navigates life alongside her best pal and younger sister, Clara. Then there's Flo's many older sisters: Callie, who loved and lost; Angie, who loved and left; gorgeous Laura, who loved the wrong man; grouchy but brilliant Helen, who loved many times; and tough-as-nails wrangler Michelina, who loved a woman more than the husband she was forced to marry. The Descendant is not just the story of how the mountain Mafia began in the United States. This is the story of a family of scrappy, tough, smart folks who refused to let all the power in the world keep them down."

Linda Stasi (Author), Dina Pearlman (Narrator)

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David Lynch: Revised & Updated Edition

"Internationally renowned, David Lynch was America's premier purveyor of the surreal, an artist whose work in cinema, television, and the internet exposed the world to his highly personalized view of society. This book examines his oeuvre, from the cult surrealism of his debut feature Eraserhead to his last feature Inland Empire, considering the themes, motifs, and stories behind his incredible feature films, shorts, and internet projects. His series Twin Peaks revolutionized TV and expanded the possibilities of what the medium could offer. This updated edition includes Twin Peaks: The Return, his continuation of the series twenty-five years after the original had set the world alight. In Lynch's world the mundane and the fantastical collide, often with terrifying consequences. It is a place where the abnormal is normal, where the respectable becomes sinister, where innocence is lost and redemption gained at a terrible price. And there's always music in the air. From the deserts of a distant world to an ordinary backyard, at the breakneck speed of Lost Highway or the sedate determination of The Straight Story, listeners will experience amateur sleuths, messiahs, giants and dwarves, chanteuses, psychopaths, cherry pie, and damn fine coffee. David Lynch is your guide to this other world . . . and this is your guide to David Lynch."

Colin Odell, Michelle Le Blanc (Author), Dina Pearlman (Narrator)

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Rethinking the 1990s: Liberal World Order-Building in the Aftermath of the Cold War

"In the decade following the end of the Cold War, Western democracies stood victorious, brimming with optimism and grand designs. Today, the 1990s look less like a great triumph for liberal democracy and Western modernity than a decade in which post-Cold War excitement and anticipation obscured a slowly gathering global storm. At a time of intensifying geopolitical rivalry, economic nationalism, and ideological extremism, Rethinking the 1990s brings together a group of leading political scientists and historians who look back on that era of world-historical change to identify choices and pathways that have brought the world to this unsettled moment. Authors explore whether the United States and other countries could have made different choices in the 1990s to place the world order then envisioned by Western policymakers on a firmer foundation. Written in a highly engaging style, these wide-ranging essays offer new insight into the strategic choices, political trade-offs, and missed opportunities of that historic decade as well as much-needed perspective on the international pressures and domestic cross-pressures fracturing the liberal order today."

G. John Ikenberry (Author), Dina Pearlman, William Sarris (Narrator)

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Fatherland: A Novel

"A tale of the American dream on the rocks. A legacy of broken promises, deceit, and perseverance against the backdrop of family commitment. Martin and Lora Brier, with three young children, possess all the trappings of a perfect life . . . except Martin is having yet another affair. Without warning, he abandons the family for his mistress and a new house on the other side of town. Set in a prosperous midwestern town in the 1950s, Fatherland is a story about the effect of convenient lies and discovered truths. While Martin's abandonment throws up new difficulties for bewildered Lora, a housewife, who must now find a way to nurture and provide for herself and children, it unleashes a swirl of emotions in their daughter, Josie, who struggles to come to term with his absence. Fatherland follows Josie from this fateful event, across many decades and milestones and through the phases of her tenuous, emotionally fraught relationship with Martin―and the way she begins to move beyond their shared past. Written in Victoria Shorr's inimitable clean, spare prose, Fatherland is a powerful, layered novel of a family in the aftermath of deception."

Victoria Shorr (Author), Dina Pearlman (Narrator)

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation, Updated & Expanded (featuring 'What Is Disruptive Innovation?' by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald)

"Continuous change calls for continuous innovation. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on innovation, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you invest in your best innovation bets, learn from setbacks, and bring bold new offerings to market. This book will inspire you to know your customers' 'jobs to be done;' harness the benefits of design thinking; bring AI into the innovation process; keep bureaucracy and structure from stifling creativity; build a culture of experimentation; and become the disrupter in your industry. HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others. This updated and expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles and additional short-form pieces to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success."

Amy C. Edmondson, Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review, Linda A. Hill, Scott D. Anthony (Author), Dina Pearlman, William Sarris (Narrator)

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The Mental Compulsions Workbook for OCD: CBT and Mindfulness Skills to Navigate Intrusive Thoughts and Mental Traps

"It's time to break free from mental traps, and take back your life! If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you may struggle with mental compulsions—such as ritualistic counting or 'emotional checking.' You may even believe that these compulsions will reduce your anxiety or prevent something 'bad' from happening. But the truth is that mental compulsions can be debilitating, and greatly impact your life, your career, and your relationships. So, how can you break free from this vicious cycle of overthinking? This workbook offers evidenced-based skills drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness to help you reduce rumination, worry, and other mental traps, so you can live with more freedom and vitality. You'll gain a better understanding of what mental compulsions are, how they differ from obsessions, and how they interfere with your life. You'll also learn proven-effective skills and strategies to help you gain control of your mental compulsions, and guided journaling exercises to help you put these tools into practice. You don't have to let intrusive thoughts, overthinking, and worry hold you back. This step-by-step workbook will help you reduce the rumination and other mental compulsions that keep you trapped in your mind, so you can finally take charge of your life."

Lauren K. M. Rosen LMFT (Author), Dina Pearlman (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Dina Pearlman

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