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Women’s Voices of Duty and Destiny
Religious Speeches Transcending Gender
- Book 1 -
- Speaking of Religion
2019
EN
This book collection is a celebration of women who speak truth to power in the public square. A perfect fit for undergraduate students of rhetoric, gender, religion and history, Women’s Voices of Duty and Destiny showcases the speech texts of 14 women addressing societal issues from the values of their religious beliefs and discourse communities. Between the tensions of the duty of gender roles and human destiny, these global voices representing different time periods and religion...
Becoming Heroines
Unleashing Our Power for Revolution and Rebirth
Unabridged
7 hours 27 min
2021
EN
"A profound roadmap for how whole systems of oppression can die if we choose to do the work."—LaTosha Brown, cofounder of Black Voters Matter“An inspiring, empowering clarion call and guide to become the heroines we were meant to be.”—Debra Messing, actor and activistA soul-shaking wake-up call to the oppressive structures that keep women in their place—and a radical approach to fighting backYou were born with massi...
Be Kind
It Can Change Everything
- Book 2 -
- Feel Good, Do Good
2026
EN
★ “Kindness is needed in the world today more than ever. Share this book with everyone and see how it can change things in all the best possible ways.”—School Library Journal (SLJ), starred reviewThere are lots of ways to be kind, like helping your family when they need a hand or splitting your last cookie with a friend. But why does kindness feel so good? And what exactly is it?Be Kind: It Can Change Everything looks at how kindness can i...
Choose Happy
Give a Smile a Try
- Book 1 -
- Feel Good, Do Good
2026
EN
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This illustrated nonfiction book for middle-grade readers dives into the history and science of happiness and provides proven ways to help yourself and others lead happier lives.Lots of things can make someone happy, like spending time with friends, re-reading a favorite book or taking a walk in nature. But why do those things create happiness? And what exactly is happiness?Choose Happy: Give a Smile a Try looks at the facts behind happiness, smili...
The Death of Cancer
After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable--and How We Can Get There
Unabridged
12 hours 18 min
2015
EN
Cancer touches everybody’s life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players: he has held just about every major position in the field, and he developed the first successful chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a breakthrough the American Society of Clinical Oncologists ...
Becoming Heroines
Unleashing Our Power for Revolution and Rebirth
2021
EN
"A profound roadmap for how whole systems of oppression can die if we choose to do the work."—LaTosha Brown, cofounder of Black Voters Matter“An inspiring, empowering clarion call and guide to become the heroines we were meant to be.”—Debra Messing, actor and activistA soul-shaking wake-up call to the oppressive structures that keep women in their place—and a radical approach to fighting backYou were born with massi...
A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue
Living Within the Abrahamic Traditions
2013
EN
Communication theory provides a compelling way to understand how people of faith can and should work together in today’s tumultuous world. In A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue, fifteen authors present their experiences and analyses of interfaith dialogue, and contextualize interfaith work within the frame of rhetorical and communication studies. While the focus is on the Abrahamic faiths, these essays also include discussion of Hinduism and interracial faith efforts. Each ...
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Black-Eyed Susans
A Novel of Suspense
Unabridged
10 hours 9 min
2015
EN
TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • For fans of Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn comes an electrifying novel of stunning psychological suspense.I am the star of screaming headlines and campfire ghost stories. I am one of the four Black-Eyed Susans. The lucky one.As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she ...
Wave
A Memoir
- Narrated by
- Hannah Curtis
Unabridged
5 hours 24 min
2013
EN
One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearOn the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she s...
Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the End
- Narrated by
- Robert Petkoff
Unabridged
9 hours 3 min
2014
EN
**#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending**Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit....
- Narrated by
- Robert Glenister
- Audiobook 1 -
- A Cormoran Strike Novel
Unabridged
15 hours 54 min
2013
EN
Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in "one of the best books of the year" (USA Today), the first novel in the brilliant series that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike.After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors...
All the Light We Cannot See
A Novel
- Narrated by
- Zach Appelman
Unabridged
16 hours 2 min
2014
EN
Winner of the Audie Award for Fiction*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in oc...











