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Audiobooks Narrated by Chris Mayers
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Featuring a most unusual protagonist, Cyclops of Central Park dares readers to be brave and explore the world because, really, you never know what you might find...
Late at night, just before he closed his eye and went to sleep in his Central Park cave, Cyclops counted his sheep.
When the sun rose, he counted them again, and that's when he noticed--'. . . sixteen, seventeen . . .'--one of them was missing.
He knew who it was, of course. 'Eugene?' It was always Eugene.
Cyclops knows the world is a scary place: the grass is too sharp, the carousels are too twirly, and not all restaurants serve spaghetti. If the world isn't safe for a cyclops, it certainly isn't a safe place for a missing sheep! And so he sets off to face the many 'dangers' lurking in New York City to bring Eugene home. To do so, he will have to face his fears and call for some reinforcements--his other fluffy sheep friends back at the cave. Together, they just might find Eugene and have a fun time in the city. Which goes to show, there is no place like home, but sometimes new experiences make our world a bigger and brighter place.
Perfect for fans of Barbarian Days, this memoir in essays follows one man's decade-long quest to uncover the hidden meaning of skateboarding, and explores how this search led unexpectedly to insights on marriage, love, loss, American invention, and growing old.
In January 2012, creative writing professor and novelist Kyle Beachy published one of his first essays on skate culture, an exploration of how Nike's corporate strategy successfully gutted the once-mighty independent skate shoe market. Beachy has since established himself as skate culture's freshest, most illuminating, at times most controversial voice, writing candidly about the increasingly popular and fast-changing pastime he first picked up as a young boy and has continued to practice well into adulthood.
What is skateboarding? What does it mean to continue skateboarding after the age of forty, four decades after the kickflip was invented? How does one live authentically as an adult while staying true to a passion cemented in childhood? How does skateboarding shape one's understanding of contemporary American life? Of growing old and getting married?
Contemplating these questions and more, Beachy offers a deep exploration of a pastime-often overlooked, regularly maligned-whose seeming simplicity conceals universal truths. THE MOST FUN THING is both a rich account of a hobby and a collection of the lessons skateboarding has taught Beachy-and what it continues to teach him as he strugglesto find space for it as an adult, a professor, and a husband.
Nous vivons le plus grand moment de toute l'histoire humaine. Plus de gens deviennent riches aujourd'hui, à partir de rien que ce qui n'a jamais été imaginé. Le nombre de millionnaires et de milliardaires est en croissance chaque année. Nous n'avons jamais vu ce type de création de richesse rapide dans toute l'histoire humaine. Voici les bonnes nouvelles. Pratiquement la majorité des hommes et femmes d'affaires prospères ont commencé à partir de rien. Probablement 99% des gens qui ont réussi financièrement aujourd'hui ont commencé hors faillite ou presque brisé par des tentatives infructueuses, mais ils ont persévéré. Le self-made millionnaire moyen a été en faillite ou proche de la faillite à plusieurs reprises. La plupart d'entre eux ont échoué à plusieurs reprises avant de finalement trouver la bonne formule qu'ils ont pu appliquer pour atteindre la réussite financière. Et ce que des centaines de milliers et de millions d'autres personnes l'ont fait, vous pouvez aussi le faire et bien. Dans ce livre audio transformateur et inédit, Bill Gates nous plonge au cur des principes clés de création de la richesse. Chacun d'eux est indispensable à votre objectif de devenir financièrement indépendant. L'absence de l'un de ces principes peut, par lui-même, saper, voire détruire vos chances pour la santé, le bonheur et une grande prospérité. Les bonnes nouvelles sont que vous pouvez apprendre chacun de ces principes par la pratique et la répétition, encore et encore, jusqu'à ce qu'ils deviennent aussi naturels comme respirer. Tout comme vous avez appris à faire du vélo ou conduire une voiture, vous pouvez apprendre les secrets de la réussite de milliardaires et les appliquer dans votre vie. Et il n'y a pas de limites à l'exception des limites que vous placez sur vous-même.
Lady Susanah Poole is everything a gentleman should want in a bride. She's pretty enough, the heir to her father's considerable estate, and she's perfectly behaved. Except she keeps losing her suitors, one right after another to the Belles of Beak Street. When a completely unacceptable rake catches her in a rare fit of pique and suggests he could teach her what the belles have, she is determined to do whatever it takes to land a lord before her exasperated father forces her to marry an old man, even if it means accepting the guidance of a notorious womanizer. The last thing Evan Cooper expects is for the rigidly proper Lady Susanah to accept his off-the-cuff offer to teach her about passion. While she is not in his usual vein of bored widows or neglected wives, he is intrigued by her. But she makes it perfectly clear, while she may welcome his kisses, she'll never accept his proposal, not that he has any plan to marry or fall in love for that matter.
