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The 36-Hour Day

A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss

by Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins ...

Narrated by John Chancer, Anu Anand ...

Unabridged

17 hours 12 min

For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work on the care of people with dementia and their family members. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer disease, and other dementias, the book's authoritative and compassionate approach to care features discussions of the causes of dementia and the management of its symptoms from the ... Read more

$25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work on the care of people with dementia and their family members. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer disease, and other dementias, the book's authoritative and compassionate approach to care features discussions of the causes of dementia and the management of its symptoms from the
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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking Without Willpower

The best-selling quit smoking method updated for the 21st century

by Allen Carr ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Series series
Unabridged

8 hours 8 min

Listen to this book now and become a happy nonsmoker for the rest of your life.This book is the most up-to-date, cutting-edge, best-practice version of Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking method that will not only set you free from smoking but will also ensure that you find it easy and even enjoyable to quit.• Without using willpower, aids, substitutes, or gimmicks• Without gaining weight• ... Read more

$22.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Listen to this book now and become a happy nonsmoker for the rest of your life.This book is the most up-to-date, cutting-edge, best-practice version of Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking method that will not only set you free from smoking but will also ensure that you find it easy and even enjoyable to quit.• Without using willpower, aids, substitutes, or gimmicks• Without gaining weight•
... Read more
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After 1177 B.C.

The Survival of Civilizations

by Eric H. Cline ...

Narrated by Eric H. Cline, John Chancer ...

Series series Turning Points in Ancient History
Unabridged

9 hours 18 min

This audiobook narrated by John Chancer tells the gripping story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared foreverFeatures Eric Cline's FAQs as bonus contentAt the end of Eric Cline's bestselling history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in ... Read more

$30.60 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook narrated by John Chancer tells the gripping story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed—why some civilizations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared foreverFeatures Eric Cline's FAQs as bonus contentAt the end of Eric Cline's bestselling history 1177 B.C., many of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean lay in
... Read more
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Every Man for Himself

by Beryl Bainbridge ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

6 hours 34 min

For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers are played out, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to ... Read more

$35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers are played out, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to
... Read more
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Norwegian Wood

by Haruki Murakami ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

13 hours 21 min

**From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love.Now with a new introduction by the author.**Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a ... Read more

$20.25 USD

Also available as: eBook

**From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love.Now with a new introduction by the author.**Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a
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A Family Christmas

A Child’s Christmas in Wales The Nutcracker The Little Match Girl The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ’Twas The Night Before Christmas The Three Kings King Frost A Kidnapped Santa Claus The Thieves Who Couldn’t Stop Sneezing Talking Turkeys

by John Chancer ...

Narrated by John Chancer, Philip Madoc, Jenny Agutter, Benjamin Zephaniah, Teresa Gallagher, David Timson, Benjamin Soames ...

Unabridged

2 hours 34 min

The tree, the fireside, the candles, the presents and the festive food may be the main features of the traditional Christmas, but so were the stories, the poems, and the traditional tales. Here, is a delightful confection of Christmas texts: the story of The Nutcracker told with Tchaikovsky’s immortal music, Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, as well as nineteenth and twentieth century ... Read more

$10.80 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The tree, the fireside, the candles, the presents and the festive food may be the main features of the traditional Christmas, but so were the stories, the poems, and the traditional tales. Here, is a delightful confection of Christmas texts: the story of The Nutcracker told with Tchaikovsky’s immortal music, Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, as well as nineteenth and twentieth century
... Read more
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Racism

A Short History

by George M. Fredrickson ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Series series Princeton Classics
Unabridged

6 hours 5 min

A classic book now available on audioW ith narration by John Chancer, who traces the history of racism from its emergence in the Middle Ages to todayAre antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth ... Read more

$20.66 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A classic book now available on audioW ith narration by John Chancer, who traces the history of racism from its emergence in the Middle Ages to todayAre antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth
... Read more
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Collaborative Crisis Management

Prepare, Execute, Recover, Repeat

by Thomas A. Cole, Paul Verbinnen ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 26 min

Two experienced corporate crisis advisors offer a thorough and approachable guide to successful crisis management from anticipation to resolution.All organizations face crises from time to time, and at a time when news, information (or misinformation), and rumors can spread quickly, a timely and thoughtful response to a crisis, is critical. In this book, two industry insiders offer a primer on how ... Read more

$15.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Two experienced corporate crisis advisors offer a thorough and approachable guide to successful crisis management from anticipation to resolution.All organizations face crises from time to time, and at a time when news, information (or misinformation), and rumors can spread quickly, a timely and thoughtful response to a crisis, is critical. In this book, two industry insiders offer a primer on how
... Read more
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The Counterfeit Candidate

by Brian Klein ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

10 hours 28 min

Berlin, 30th April, 1945As the Russian Army closes in on the war-torn city, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun take their own lives. Their bodies are burned and buried in the Reich Chancellery garden, above the Fuhrer’s bunker.Buenos Aires, 8th January, 2012Three audacious thieves carry out the biggest safe depository heist in Argentine history, escaping with more than one hundred million dollars’ worth ... Read more

$17.96 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Berlin, 30th April, 1945As the Russian Army closes in on the war-torn city, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun take their own lives. Their bodies are burned and buried in the Reich Chancellery garden, above the Fuhrer’s bunker.Buenos Aires, 8th January, 2012Three audacious thieves carry out the biggest safe depository heist in Argentine history, escaping with more than one hundred million dollars’ worth
... Read more
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Alexander Hamilton, America's Founding Father of Finance

"His Original Reports on Public Credit, a National Bank, Manufactures "

by Alexander Hamilton, Mark Spencer ...

Narrated by Adam Sims, John Chancer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

Though best known for his primary authorship of the Federalist Papers, his death in a duel at the hands of Vice President Aaron Burr on the banks of the Hudson River and his star role in a 21st-century musical, it is often overlooked that Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in creating the key financial building blocks of the young United States of America.The first incumbent of the office of ... Read more

$15.08 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Though best known for his primary authorship of the Federalist Papers, his death in a duel at the hands of Vice President Aaron Burr on the banks of the Hudson River and his star role in a 21st-century musical, it is often overlooked that Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in creating the key financial building blocks of the young United States of America.The first incumbent of the office of
... Read more
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Red Meat Republic

A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America

by Joshua Specht ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Series series Histories of Economic Life
Unabridged

9 hours 28 min

In this audiobook, John Chancer narrates the story of how beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with ... Read more

$17.06 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this audiobook, John Chancer narrates the story of how beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with
... Read more
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The Camp Robber, and Other Stories

by Zane Grey ...

Narrated by John Chancer ...

Unabridged

7 hours 4 min

Here are four short stories from Zane Grey, the acclaimed author of Western adventures and frontier characters.Living in the ruthless solitude of the desert, range, or mountains, the men in these four stories are all on personal journeys.In The Camp Robber, a man has driven his wife away and yearns for reconciliation. Amber’s Mirage reveals an old man’s realization of the corrupting power of gold ... Read more

$17.96 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Here are four short stories from Zane Grey, the acclaimed author of Western adventures and frontier characters.Living in the ruthless solitude of the desert, range, or mountains, the men in these four stories are all on personal journeys.In The Camp Robber, a man has driven his wife away and yearns for reconciliation. Amber’s Mirage reveals an old man’s realization of the corrupting power of gold
... Read more