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Goodbye Social Anxiety: The Only Book on Social Anxiety, Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence You'll Ever Need , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 272min

Take the guesswork out of ridding yourself of social anxiety and low self-esteem issues and skyrocket your confidence and charisma with this definitive guide!Do you often struggle to look people in the eye during small talk? Are you constantly hounded by irrational worry about how you appear to other people when in social situations? Are you sick of letting your lack of self-esteem and confidence rob of life-transforming opportunities?If you answered yes to any of the questions above, then this guide is for you.In this guide, David Hamilton and Angelina Williams skips all the fluff and hands you field-tested, science-backed techniques and strategies to help you overcome chronic shyness and become a more charismatic version of yourself.Here's what you're going to learn in Goodbye Social Anxiety:Reasons why you suffer from social anxiety and how to trace the source of your conditionMethods to let go of self-effacing behavior fast and live your best lifeSurefire short-term coping mechanisms that help you combat anxiety right nowSeven foolproof, long-lasting techniques that will help you get rid of social anxiety foreverSteps to deal with emotionally stressful and awkward situations without breaking a sweatSeven ways you can make yourself feel better, more confident and ready to take on the worldThe secret used by naturally charismatic people use to fall into deep conversation with complete strangersWays for mastering the 10 life-changing conversation skills that will get people to like and trust youThe ultimate guide to becoming a body language expertAnd tons more!Filled with profound insights and actionable advice, this guide is equipped with the tools you need to develop rock-solid self-esteem and confidence. You'll learn how to be more assertive and get what you want out of life.Scroll up and click t ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Haig. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/174114/bk_acx0_174114_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Fall from Grace , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 572min

Eli Baine has sinned. Spectacularly. When he's caught using a prostitution ring, the news blasts across print and broadcast media: the son of a reality TV evangelical clan, whose Christian lifestyle is showcased regularly in Baine Family Values television episodes, is exposed as a hypocrite. Carted off to rehab, Eli chafes at being lumped in with molesters and serial adulterers. But when he escapes to visit his wife, Ruth, he finds no solace there. She can hardly bear to look at him, let alone admit him back into her life with their infant child. This sets Eli off on a hard journey toward redemption, understanding and reconciliation. His first stop is at a mainline Protestant church that embraces him with tolerance and support, but where he must endure counseling from a “she-priest” and an ultimate betrayal by someone who'd offered a helping hand. Meanwhile, Ruth herself sets out on a healing path, being counseled by a new, young pastor at her parents' fundamentalist church who offers her more than just spiritual guidance. Both Eli and Ruth wander in the wilderness of heartbreak, distrust, and eventual tragedy until they finally transform into different individuals who can see the light of hope and love in their marriage and their lives. “Fall From Grace is an engrossing portrait of Christian life in America today, spanning social and religious worlds from the evangelical to the progressive. At the same time, Fall From Grace is a convincing character study that portrays the growth of a man beyond crippling, parochial entitlement to selfless love, and the parallel emergence of his wife from self-effacing submission and naiveté to self-realization. A deeply moving examination of the struggle between compulsion and conscience; of the power of faith; and of Christian approaches to sin, hypocrisy, responsibility, remorse, forgiveness, and the true meaning of love.” Mitchell James Kaplan, award-winning author of By ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Krumlauf. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/097347/bk_acx0_097347_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Gutbucket King , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 85min

In the 1950s, at the age of 14, Little Freddie King hopped a southbound freight train in McComb, Mississippi, fleeing the life of a sharecropper’s son in what was then the "worst part of the most intransigent state" in Jim Crow-era Dixie. Landing in New Orleans, he taught himself to play blues guitar, then found work performing at the city’s corner nightclubs, including one nicknamed the Bucket of Blood for its nightly eruptions of violence. Dodging bullets and drinking with abandon, he became a fixture in the subterranean blues scene. He played a time-breaking, low-down style of blues borne of a life of struggle, and followed a self-destructive course that ensured he never ran out of material. That is, until one drunken night, when his knife-wielding wife attacked him in a jealous rage, one of several brushes with tragedy that would change his life forever. Barry Yeoman, an award-winning journalist who began his career as a newspaper reporter in South Louisiana, first met King while making the 2009 radio documentary Still Singing the Blues. Since then, Yeoman has spent dozens of hours interviewing the bluesman, his friends and family. The result is an intimate and colorful portrait of one of New Orleans’ cultural treasures. Yeoman chronicles King’s journey from picking cotton in rural Mississippi to playing guitar on some of the world’s biggest stages, from spirit-seeing teenager who arrived in New Orleans with "not nary a copper cent" in his bib overalls to a self-effacing septuagenarian at the peak of his musical career - and one of the Crescent City’s last great country bluesmen. It’s a story about music, migration, race, faith, and resilience, and about the deepest of the Deep South during seven decades of profound upheaval. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Cleveland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018459/bk_adbl_018459_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Heroine of Charity: The Story of St. Louise de Marillac , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 180min

Saint Louise de Marillac was born in France, but lost her mother when she was still a child, and then her beloved father when she was 15. She desired to become a nun, but was discouraged by her confessor. So, she was married and had one son. However, Louise soon was nursing her beloved husband through a protracted illness in which he finally died.Louise was lucky to have a wise counselor Francis de Sales. However, there was to be an even more powerful figure in her life. This was the priest Monsieur Vincent, later known as Saint Vincent de Paul. Initially, he was reluctant to be her confessor, since he was busy with his Confraternities of Charity - a collection of aristocratic ladies of charity who helped him nurse the poor and look after neglected children, a real need of the day. But the ladies were busy with their own concerns. He needed help.After becoming acquainted with Louise, St. Vincent realized that she was the answer to his prayers. She was intelligent, self-effacing, and had endurance. The missions he sent her on led to four other simple young women joining her efforts. Her rented home in Paris became a training center for those willing to help the sick and poor.The community grew quickly, and soon, they needed a "rule of life", which, under the guidance of St. Vincent, was put together for the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. This was eventually approved by Rome. Many of the young women under her care were illiterate, but this did not stop the new community from undertaking the care of neglected children. Louise busied herself helping whoever had need, despite her poor health. She traveled all over France, establishing her community members in hospitals, orphanages, and elsewhere. At the time of her death - March 15, 1660 - the congregation had over 40 houses in France. Louise de Marillac was canonized in 1934. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela L. Claxton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/197968/bk_acx0_197968_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Jack: Straight from the Gut , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 837min

As CEO of General Electric for the past 20 years, Jack Welch has built its market cap by more than $450 billion and established himself as the most admired business leader in the world. His championing of initiatives like Six Sigma quality, globalization, and e-business have helped define the modern corporation. At the same time, he is a gutsy boss who has forged a unique philosophy and an operating system that relies on a "boundary-less" sharing of ideas, an intense focus on people, and an informal, give-and-take style that makes bureaucracy the enemy. In anecdotal detail and with self-effacing humor, Jack Welch gives us the people who shaped his life (most notably his Irish mother) and the big hits and the big misses that characterized his career. Starting at GE in 1960 as an engineer earning $10,500, Jack learned the need for "getting out of the pile" when his first raise was the same as everyone else's. He stayed out of the corporate bureaucracy while running a $2 billion collection of GE businesses - in a sweater and blue jeans - out of a Hilton in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. After avoiding GE's Fairfield, Connecticut headquarters for years, Jack was eventually summoned by then-Chairman Reg Jones, who was planning his succession. There ensued one of the most painful parts of his career - Jack's dark-horse struggle, filled with political tension, to make it to the CEO's chair. A hug from Reg confirmed Jack was the new boss - and started the GE transformation. The riveting story of his last year - the elaborate process of selecting a successor and the attempt to buy Honeywell - is also told in compelling detail. This is classic Jack Welch: down to earth, powerful, and filled with common sense. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Barnicle. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/time/000239/bk_time_000239_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Idiot , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 820min

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom, its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty - and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling that they entail. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elif Batuman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003052/bk_peng_003052_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Confessions of a Horseshoer (Western Life) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 440min

Confessions of a Horseshoer offers a close and personal look at the mind-set of a professional horseshoer (farrier) who also happens to be a college professor. The audiobook, an ironic and playful view of the many unusual animals (and people) Ron Tatum has encountered over thirty-seven years, is nicely balanced between straightforward presentation, self-effacing humor, and lightly seasoned wisdom. It captures the day-to-day life of a somewhat cantankerous old guy, who has attitude and strong opinions. Throughout the audiobook, Tatum ponders the causes that led him into the apparently opposing worlds of horseshoeing, with its mud, pain, and danger, and the bookish life of a college professor. He tells the listener that it is his hope that writing the audiobook will help him understand this apparent paradox between the physical and the mental. Tatum provides a detailed description of the horseshoeing process, its history, and why horses need shoes in the first place. The listener will learn about the dangers of shoeing horses in "Injuries I Have Known", in which Tatum describes one particular self-inflicted injury that he claims no other horseshoer has ever, or will ever, experience. "Eight Week Syndrome" demonstrates the close, often therapeutic, relationship between the horseshoer and his or her customers. Tatum relates the story of an old Wyoming cowboy who could talk with horses, and consistently cure their injuries, lameness, and other physical problems after the veterinarians had given up. The humor in the chapters on chickens and rabbits will entertain any listener, as well as the sections on various dogs, ducks, llamas, goats, flies, and a sexually disoriented pig. Listeners of western life and lovers of horses will find Confessions of a Horseshoer an informative, quirky, and delightful work full of humor, attitude, and off-beat insight. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul J. McSorley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/013065/bk_acx0_013065_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Three Women , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1032min

With its multiple first-person perspectives in the form of letters and journal entries, Three Women portrays the inner workings of a modern African family as they face common relationship, love, family, and life problems. A strong and reflective soul, Aduke is ostracized from her family when she is accused of witchcraft. Her daughter, Ibidun, confused and rebellious, is raised to distrust her, but after getting pregnant as a teenager, she is forced to seek out her mother for help. Compelled by circumstances, Ibidun is forced to leave her infant daughter in her mother’s care. The years pass as Aduke and her granddaughter, Oyinkan, two outcasts haunted by the fact they were born outside wedlock, become so close that it appears they merge into one being, governed by seemingly synchronic movements. However, as Oyinkan is on the threshold of adulthood at 12 years of age, her precarious world is shattered by the death of her beloved grandmother. Left bereft and alone in the world, Oyinkan must return to live with Ibidun, her mother, after more than a decade without her. Ibidun, now a self-effacing “new Nigerian woman” struggles to figure out how to introduce her illegitimate daughter into life with her new family. Her husband, Tonye, barely condones Oyinkan’s presence, and the young girl must learn how to live among half-siblings whom she’s never met and who do not even know she is their sister. Finally driven into the arms of the first man who finds her attractive, Kole, by constant neglect and abuse at her new family’s hands, Oyinkan elopes, but their lives are gradually dominated by Kole’s psychological baggage stemming from a childhood dominated by an abusive stepmother. Oyinkan’s hopes for a fresh start with her young son and husband does not materialize into the happiness for which she has always longed. Marriage only further compounds Oyinkan’s life. Exhausted and betrayed when her husband, Kole, like her grandfather and ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bunmi Oyinsan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131571/bk_acx0_131571_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sunny Days: Sunil Gavaskar's Own Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 582min

Sunny Days is the fascinating record of the growth of India's greatest batsman, one whose astonishing feats on the cricket field have had innumerable records rewritten and yet more difficult targets set. How did Sunil Manohar Gavaskar begin, and what were the early days like? It is not merely out of curiosity that one may ask the question; the knowledge of the shaping up of the process of greatness is essential for a true understanding of the greatness. Before we can ask the Little Master to tell us about the dizzying heights of his career, we need to know the beginning. And Sunny Days is all about it. The baby is switched after birth, luckily restored by an eagle-eyed uncle; he grows up and almost breaks his mother's nose with a mighty hit (a childhood habit persisting in later life); plays good cricket in school and college; graduates inevitably through university and Trophy cricket; is at times booed by the crowd as his uncle happens to be a Selector - in fact all that could happen does happen to make him reach the age of 21, when, at Port of Spain Gavaskar, he bursts upon the cricket scene with his Test debut. The year is 1971, Gavaskar's year, and sunny days have truly begun for Indian cricket. By the end of the 1975-76 season, Gavaskar has played 147 first class matches and amassed 11,574 runs and 38 hundreds. He has played in 24 matches in 8 Tests, with 2,123 runs and 8 hundreds. Still eight years to go for the great days of the Kotla and the Chidambaram Stadium; but as it is said, in the beginning is the end. Fluently written, with self-effacing modesty imparting a rare grace, Sunny Days is great to listen to. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Avinash Kumar Singh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/034036/bk_adbl_034036_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers Who Are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 279min

Warning: If modern church culture makes perfect sense to you, and you always fit in seamlessly, don't listen to this. As for the rest of us... While American church culture (and American culture at large) seems largely designed for the extroverted, it's estimated that half of the American population is introverted, and they're often left wondering how, even if, they fit in the kingdom of God. As one of them, popular radio host Brant Hansen brings news. It's wonderful, refreshing, and never-been-said-this-way-before good news. In his unique style, Hansen looks to answer questions that millions of people carry with them each day: If I don't relate to God as emotionally as others do, is something wrong with me? How does one approach God, and approach faith, when devoid of the "good feelings" that seem to drive so much of evangelical church culture? How does God interact with those who seem spiritually numb? Is the absence of faith-based emotion a sign that God has moved on or was never there? What if we aren't good at talking to people about our faith or good at talking to people at all? What if I'm told I'm too analytical, that I "think too much"? Where does a person who suffers from depression fit in the kingdom? Is depression a sure sign of a lack of faith? This book is good news for people who are desperately looking for it. (And for their loved ones!) It's also for those who want to believe in Jesus but inwardly fear that they don't belong, worry that don't have the requisite emotion-based relationship with God, and are starving for good news. Blessed Are the Misfits is going to generate discussion and lots of it. It's simultaneously highly provocative and humbly personal. It's also leavened with a distinct, dry, self-effacing humor that is a hallmark of Hansen's on-air, writing, and pub ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brant Hansen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tnwd/000783/bk_tnwd_000783_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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