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Is It Hot in Here: (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)?

To see the world through comedian, writer, and The New Yorker contributor Zach Zimmerman's eyes is to be reminded of the many ways in which love, religion, family, sex, money-or often lack thereof-lay bare our most elemental and embarrassing humanness. From meditations on heartbreak to not-so-helpful how-tos, this laugh-and-cry-out-loud essay collection documents one person's navigation through queerness, climbing the corporate ladder, dating cryptocurrency-obsessed mansplainers, mourning the loss of religiosity, and all the minute, beautiful discoveries in between. 'A charming, funny, resoundingly queer collection of bite-sized stories that go down smooth. It's a perfect summer read. You will fall in love with Zach.' -GUY BRANUM, author of My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un)Popular Culture 'Funny, provocative, touching, honest, and original. We're all already in Hell, but I'm so glad Zach is here with us. Zach writes as easily about the Olive Garden extended menu as about heartbreak and religion. I felt so seen and I laughed so hard.' -BLYTHE ROBERSON, author of How to Date Men When You Hate Men

Zach Zimmerman (Author), Zach Zimmerman (Narrator)

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Prisoner #1056: How I Survived War and Found Peace

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER An incredible immigrant story from a prominent Canadian Tamil who fled torture and imprisonment, arrived in Canada with $50 in his pocket, then rose from the mailroom to the executive suite of the country's largest independent asset management company. Roy Ratnavel's astonishing journey began at age seventeen, when he was seized by government soldiers and interned in a notorious prison camp for no reason other than being born a Tamil. He saw friends die, and was tortured for a few months-until an unlikely encounter allowed him to send a message beyond the prison walls, which led to his release. Seeing nothing but more danger in his son's future, Ratnavel's father sought refuge for his son in Canada, far from the ethnic violence that was consuming Sri Lanka. When the consular immigration officer asked for proof that the boy's life was at risk in his homeland, Ratnavel simply lifted his shirt to show the man his unhealed scars. It wasn't long before he was on a plane. His father was shot and killed three days later. To repay the debt he owed to his hero of a father, Ratnavel was determined to find the bright future that had been envisioned for him. He went to night school, worked three jobs at a time, and lived in a tiny space with seven housemates. Ratnavel persevered, and he hustled. He accepted no charity, even from relatives, but he made the most of the opportunities set in his path, the mentorship offered by those Canadians who recognized his potential, and by his new homeland, a country shaped by openness, tolerance, and a commitment to merit. Prisoner #1056 is not only a moving immigrant success story and a searing account of surviving unimaginable injustice and trauma-it is an urgent warning that the dark forces of populism that tore apart the once-prosperous island of Sri Lanka can do their ugly work in Western societies too. Passionate, raw, thoughtful, and far-seeing, Prisoner #1056 makes the case that our destiny is in our own hands.

Roy Ratnavel (Author), Roy Ratnavel (Narrator)

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Smarter Than Napoleon Hill's Method: Challenging the Success Ideas of the Book 'Smarter Than the Dev

If you are looking for a new approach to achieve success in your life, this e-book is for you. Counterpointing Napoleon Hill's method in his book 'Smarter Than the Devil', this guide presents reasoned 'critiques' and effective alternatives for achieving your goals. When you finish reading, you will have in your hands a clearer and deeper vision on how to achieve success in your life, in a more effective and lasting way. Don't miss the opportunity to acquire this work and start your journey to success in a more conscious way!

Max Editorial, Napoleon Hill (Author), Christopher, Zira (Narrator)

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Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom — and Back Again

An identity that spans the globe. In this astonishing memoir, Graci Harkema revisits her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She traces her path to claiming and living her own story, becoming a successful consultant on diversity, equity and inclusion, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and women in business. Born amid civil unrest in a mud hut in the Congo and weighing a mere three pounds, Harkema was left at an orphanage, where she was not expected to live another day. But that afternoon, a visiting American missionary saw her sleeping in a doll’s bed and heard a voice inside her say, “This is your daughter.” Her childhood was spent wishing to be lighter and blonder, like her siblings and classmates. Out of fear of standing out even more from her peers, Harkema kept her sexuality a secret, only coming out of the closet years later—during a job interview! Eventually, she learned to see her identity as her superpower, instead of her shame. Today, Harkema helps embrace diversity and drive inclusion to ensure open and safe work environments. She is committed to empowering employees to perform to their potential as their authentic selves—setting an example as she continues to live her own story, journeying to meet her birth mother, to discover one more piece of herself.

Graci Harkema (Author), Graci Harkema (Narrator)

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SHADOW SUMMIT: ONE MAN, HIS DIAGNOSIS, AND THE ROAD TO A VIBRANT LIFE

At thirty-three, Jon Chandonnet thought living a vibrant life meant setting goals and working long hours and hard days to make things happen. Living by that credo he accomplished a lot. He earned his master’s from MIT, led teams to develop software to launch startups, ran a couple marathons, and scaled several 14,000-foot California peaks. Jon was well on his way—or so he thought—but he was a ticking time bomb. He’d been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis six years earlier. He ignored it completely and instead pushed himself to extremes. He lived in denial - ignoring his diagnosis in hopes of outrunning the disease. The run ended and the disease caught up. Jon’s health declined and led him on an eight-year odyssey to understand life’s essential elements and find a way to minimize the impact of the disease. He wanted his health back to create a full life despite the MS. During the journey, Jon found seven essential elements allowing him to track daily actions and habits in pursuit of the healthiest, most fulfilled, and joyful life possible. He succeeded and realized others could benefit from the knowledge. Jon found a way to simplify life, strip away the chaos, and focus on what matters. The result was the 7 VIBRANTs ™ well-being system. A well-being system enabling anyone to create their best life with greater focus, persistence, fulfillment, joy, and ease. Jon combined his software experience with his newfound wisdom and realized humans, like computers, take in inputs all day long. As humans we take in food, process thoughts, emotions, and social interactions to make decisions and choices in reaction to these inputs. The 7 VIBRANTs ™ well-being system helps individuals become more mindful of their inputs to more naturally create the output (life experience) they want.

Jon Chandonnet (Author), Jon Chandonnet (Narrator)

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Grace Saved A Wretch Like Me

This is a story of HOPE. It is my personal experience of Childhood Sexual Abuse and its impact on me from childhood through to adulthood. It details how I used alcohol and drugs as a means of coping with the long-lasting harm of abuse and its impact on my life. It describes my journey down the destructive path of addiction until finally, with the loving support of my family, I was able to disentangle myself from the grip of alcohol and drugs and live free from the debilitating harm caused by childhood sexual abuse.

Arylene Murphy (Author), Arylene Murphy (Narrator)

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[Polish] - Churchill. Opowieść o przegranym zwycięzcy

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill urodził się w Imperium Brytyjskim, a zmarł w Wielkiej Brytanii, jednym z państw europejskich. Za życia został odznaczony 37. orderami i medalami brytyjskimi i licznych krajów, 11 doktoratami honoris causa, a także innymi tytułami. Niemal na całym świecie znaleźć można niezliczone mnóstwo jego pomników czy popiersi w urzędowych gmachach lub na ulicach. Churchill wygrywał w Wielkiej Brytanii wszystkie plebiscyty na człowieka naj… najlepszego brytyjskiego premiera w XX wieku, największego Brytyjczyka wszech czasów. W czasie dyskusji, sporów i awantur o brexit wystarczyło, by jeden z działaczy laburzystowskich powołał się na niego, by na dobre kilka dni zapomniano o Unii Europejskiej, a mówiono jedynie o tym, kim był Winston Churchill. Natomiast dla miłośników historii nazwisko Churchilla jest nieustannie nośne i wzbudza wielkie emocje. Książkę, którą oddajemy Czytelnikowi jest opowieścią o wielkim mężu stanu, wybitnym polityku, nobliście i człowieku, który żył w niezwykle ciekawych czasach. Winston Churchill słynął z błyskotliwego umysłu i nietuzinkowego poczucia humoru. Z tego powodu był często tematem anegdot. Pewnego razu lady Astor, której awersja do Winstona była powszechnie znana, przebywała z wizytą u stryjecznego brata Churchilla w Blenheim, gdzie niespodziewanie zjawił się Winston. Oczywiście doszło do awantury. Nancy w pewnym momencie wybuchła: 'Gdybym była twoją żoną, podałabym ci kawę z trucizną. – A gdybym ja był twoim mężem, natychmiast bym to wypił' – odparł spokojnie Churchill.

Nina Smolar (Author), Krzysztof Grzegorzewski (Narrator)

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Life on the X

Life is full of high-stakes and high-pressure moments and opportunities. Are you prepared to tackle them? Work, family, relationships—life is demanding. A high-stress situation, or being on the X where all the pressures converge, could be right around the corner. How will you confront it? Your ability to succeed in stressful and challenging situations and seize opportunities depends on how you show up to face these moments. When you’re up against obstacles, you may find yourself feeling overwhelmed and underprepared. But the battles you face are won when you prepare for life on the X. Life on the X shares strategies used by the world’s highest performers. In this guide, you will discover tactics that elite athletes, military special operators, and successful business leaders use to thrive under pressure and deliver world-class results. You can triumph when you are deliberate in how you prepare for, execute, and assess your actions in the most important moments in your life. By learning the skills and methods of top performers, you can meet the X with courage and confidence. Are you ready to bring your A game to life?

Stephen Drum (Author), Stephen Drum (Narrator)

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Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes

Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humor, these essays range from investigative—probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history of menstrual products, or the gender biases of patent law—to uncomfortably intimate. Informed by her own navigation of several autoimmune diagnoses, Moore examines what it takes to seek care and community in the increasingly complicated, problematic, and disinterested US healthcare system. A Lambda Literary Award finalist and a Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction Award shortlist title, Body Horror is “sharp, shocking, and darkly funny. . . . Brainy and historically informed, this collection is less a rallying cry or a bitter diatribe than a series of irreverent and ruthlessly accurate jabs at a culture that is slowly devouring us” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Featuring an updated introduction and new essays, as well as illustrations by Xander Marro, this new edition of Body Horror is a fascinating, insightful portrait of the gore that encapsulates contemporary American politics.

Anne Elizabeth Moore (Author), Anne Elizabeth Moore (Narrator)

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How to adopt the habits of successful people

'Discover the secret behind the success of the most successful people with our new ebook, 'How to Adopt the Habits of Successful People'. Learn how to incorporate winning behaviours into your daily routine and achieve your goals more efficiently. From effective time organisation to managing motivation, you'll find valuable, easy-to-follow tips to transform your life and achieve the success you've always dreamed of. Don't waste any more time, start adopting the winning habits right now!'

Max Editorial, Various (Author), Cristopher (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Cervantes y Compañía

Cervantes & Compañía recorre un contrapunto entre el autor nacido en Alcalá de Henares y Shakespeare, su contemporáneo ineludible. Se enfoca en sus vidas, en los géneros literarios que cultivaron y en la recepción de sus obras a lo largo de los siglos. Entre otras cosas, señala un desnivel en la calidad de lecturas: tantos han sido los daños de la interpretación idealista de las aventuras de Don Quijote y Sancho Panza que ellos todavía aguardan, ya no por fanáticos, sino por un público mucho más atento a sus complejidades, matices y metamorfosis. Este audiolibro está narrado en español latino - Ignacio Padilla (Ciudad de México 1968 - Querétaro, 2016) fue un escritor de novelas, crónicas, cuentos y ensayos. Incursionó también en la literatura infantil. Ocupó los cargos de Director de la Biblioteca Vasconcelos, miembro de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua y diplomático. Su obra, multipremiada, abarca títulos como Arte y olvido del terremoto, La catedral de los ahogados y La industria del fin del mundo, además de otros textos que giran alrededor de autores como Miguel de Cervantes y Paul Bowles.

Ignacio Padilla (Author), Alex Ortega (Narrator)

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[Russian] - Hitchhiking To A Million: The Story of a Ukraine Refugee

Have you ever heard of teleportation from one reality to another? Once I learned about it from books, and decided to test the theory in practice. Now I know for sure that it exists. Hello! My name is Svyatoslav Ryabov. According to my passport, and sometimes, in fact, until recently, I was homeless, by occupation I am an entrepreneur, by birthplace - from Lugansk. True, I live in USA, and I hitchhiked. How? This is what I wanted to talk about...

Steve Riabov (Author), Steve Riabov (Narrator)

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