Audiobooks narrated by Kevin Pierce

Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self

In Falling Upward (and in many of his other teachings), Richard Rohr talked at length about ego (or the False Self) and how it gets in the way of spiritual maturity, especially if its preoccupations continue into the second half of life. But if there's a False Self, is there also a True Self? What is it? How is it found? Why does it matter? And what does it have to do with the spiritual journey? In this new book, he likens True Self to a diamond, buried deep within us, formed under the intense pressure of our lives, that must be searched for, uncovered, separated from all the debris of ego that surrounds it. In a sense True Self must, like Jesus, be resurrected, and that process is not resuscitation but transformation. Immortal Diamond (whose title is taken from a line in a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem) explores the deepest questions of identity, spirituality, and meaning in Richard Rohr's inimitable style.

Richard Rohr (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business Success

The Social Media Bible unlocks the mysteries of the hottest new Internet wave, Social Media, such as Facebook, Linked In, Jott, Twitter, Myspace, Flickr, Podbean and YouTube. This book will transform corporate and non-profit marketing strategies and how they use these new media to reach their desired audiences with power messages and efficiency. The Social Media Bible is the first book in the industry to provide a comprehensive, all-in-one, resource which not only builds a functional knowledge foundation, but also provides strategies and tactics for assessing an organizations current social media potency and potential via a specially-designed SWOT analysis. The crux of the book will rely on the extensive contributions which will be made from a list of prominent people, including a Blue Chip Advisory Panel which will include: Amanda Vega President, Vega John Pollard President Marc Canter President Pat Sullivan President Chris Heuer President Robert Scoble President Michael Gerber President David Meerman Scott Author of The New Rules of Marketing Matt Mullenweg President Steve Zylestra President, Arizona Tech Council; Steve Gardner President, Five Star Speakers; Doug Bruhnke President, Growth Nation; Benj Arriola 2007, 2008 SEO World Champion; Dan Nienhauser P.R.I.D.E., Arizona State University; Kevin Donnellen Past Vice President, Cold Stone Creamery; Jody Gnant The Red Paper Clip, Artist; Kevin OBrien Vice President, Constant Contact; Lacey Green K/F Communications, Digg; Lucy Chung Outcast Communications, Flickr; and Paul Boisvert, Sr. Technical Content Producer, Yahoo! Through the collaborative wisdom of these contributors, who truly reflect this books audience demographics, every chapter of the book will benefit from invaluable feedback and perspective from highly recognizable people in the field.

David K. Brake, Lon Safko (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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Strengthen What Remains Stories: Combo Pac

This combination box set includes two stories from the Strengthen What Remains series, the novella, A Long Way Home, and the novelette, Nightmare in Slow Motion, over 32,000 words in total. In the three full-length novels of the series, we glimpse the life of Caden’s brother Peter. In the 13,000 word novelette, Nightmare in Slow Motion, we see Peter helping with the evacuation of Seattle when terrorists explode a nuclear bomb. This is the story of Peter’s final mission. In The Long Way Home, a 20,000-word novella, five cities have already been decimated by nuclear terrorism, and nearby Seattle is in danger when Trevor Westmore must set out on a mission to bring Sue, his pregnant daughter-in-law, back to the relative safety of the family farm. He also hopes to find his daughter Lisa and bring her home. But, almost immediately upon finding Sue, in the suburbs of Seattle, terrorists detonate another nuclear bomb and the two must flee amid the chaos and fallout.

Kyle Pratt (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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Through Many Fires

Terrorists smuggle a nuclear bomb into Washington D.C. and detonate it during the State of the Union Address. Army veteran and congressional staffer Caden Westmore is in nearby Bethesda and watches as a mushroom cloud grows over the capital. The next day, as he drives away from the still burning city, he learns that another city has been destroyed and then another. America is under siege. Panic ensues and society starts to unravel.

Kyle Pratt (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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Defiance: Judgment Day

Imprisoned by the Cartel, Dale Hardy must battle to escape his captors and find a way home before everything and everyone he holds dear is lost forever. For the Cartel, it turns out subduing the small town of Encendido was only the beginning. Ruthless crime boss Fernando Ortega has his sights set on reclaiming great swaths of the American South-West, an empire he intends to rule with an iron fist. But there's a secret hiding in the desert, a secret that could spell the difference between tyranny and freedom. As the country teeters on the brink, the stakes couldn't be higher.

William H. Weber (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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The Long Way Home

Five cities decimated by nuclear bombs Would there be more? As the country collapses into panic and chaos Trevor Westmore sets out on a mission to bring Sue, his pregnant daughter-in-law, back to the relative safety of the family farm. He also hopes to find his daughter Lisa and bring her home. But, almost immediately upon finding Sue, in the suburbs of Seattle, terrorists detonate another nuclear bomb and the two must flee amid the chaos and fallout. The Long Way Home is a 20,000-word novella set in the Strengthen What Remains series.

Kyle Pratt (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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Nightmare in Slow Motion

Police officer Peter Westmore is helping with the evacuation of Seattle when terrorists explode a nuclear bomb. Far enough from the explosion not to be killed, he is still forced to seek shelter with others in a cold-war era bomb shelter. There he faces hunger and thirst while longing to for news about his pregnant wife.

Kyle Pratt (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

Yahoo's lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports-the pitching arm-and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors. Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers-five times more than the salary of every NFL quarterback combined. Pitchers are the game's lifeblood. Their import is exceeded only by their fragility. One tiny band of tissue in the elbow, the ulnar collateral ligament, is snapping at unprecedented rates, leaving current big league players vulnerable and the coming generation of baseball-playing children dreading the three scariest words in the sport: Tommy John surgery. Jeff Passan traveled the world for three years to explore in-depth the past, present, and future of the arm, and how its evolution left baseball struggling to wrangle its Tommy John surgery epidemic. He examined what compelled the Chicago Cubs to spend $155 million on one arm. He snagged a rare interview with Sandy Koufax, whose career was cut short by injury at thirty, and visited Japan to understand how another baseball-mad country treats its prized arms. And he followed two major league pitchers, Daniel Hudson and Todd Coffey, throughout their returns from Tommy John surgery. He exposes how the baseball establishment long ignored the rise in arm injuries and reveals how misplaced incentives across the sport stifle potential changes. Injuries to the UCL start as early as Little League. Without a drastic cultural shift, baseball will continue to lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually to damaged pitchers, and another generation of children will suffer the same problems that vex current players. Informative and hard-hitting, The Arm is essential reading for everyone who loves the game, wants to keep their children healthy, or relishes a look into how a large, complex institution can fail so spectacularly.

Jeff Passan (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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Braving the Storms

A deadly flu epidemic sweeps across the stricken nation. Braving the Storms, is the third book of the Strengthen What Remains series. In the first book, Through Many Fires, nuclear terrorism strikes the nation’s capital and six other American cities. In the second book, A Time to Endure, society continues to unravel, and civil war threatens the divided and economically-crippled land. Now a new and even more lethal problem emerges. A swift and deadly flu epidemic sweeps out of overcrowded FEMA camps and strikes the nation with horrific results. Caden Westmore struggles to keep his family and community safe, while others use the plague to advance their own military and political agendas. Caden must succeed, but how can he, when both the epidemic and chaos attack his hometown and family?

Kyle Pratt (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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When Corporations Rule the World

Our Choice: Democracy or Corporate Rule A handful of corporations and financial institutions command an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in an assault against markets, democracy, and life. It's a "suicide economy," says David Korten, that destroys the very foundations of its own existence. The bestselling 1995 edition of When Corporations Rule the World helped launch a global resistance against corporate domination. In this twentieth-anniversary edition, Korten shares insights from his personal experience as a participant in the growing movement for a New Economy. A new introduction documents the further concentration of wealth and corporate power since 1995 and explores why our institutions resolutely resist even modest reform. A new conclusion chapter outlines high-leverage opportunities for breakthrough change.

David C. Korten (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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Leadership for a Fractured World: How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead Change

Leaders today-whether in corporations or associations, nonprofits or nations-face massive, messy, multidimensional problems. No one person or group can possibly solve them-they require the broadest possible cooperation. But, says Harvard scholar Dean Williams, our leadership models are still essentially tribal: individuals with formal authority leading in the interest of their own group. In this deeply needed new book, he outlines an approach that enables leaders to transcend internal and external boundaries and help people to collaborate, even people over whom they technically have no power. Drawing on what he's learned from years of working in countries and organizations around the world, Williams shows leaders how to approach the delicate and creative work of boundary spanning, whether those boundaries are cultural, organizational, political, geographic, religious, or structural. Sometimes leaders themselves have to be the ones who cross the boundaries between groups. Other times, a leader's job is to build relational bridges between divided groups or even to completely break down the boundaries that block collaborative problem solving. By thinking about power and authority in a different way, leaders will become genuine change agents, able to heal wounds, resolve conflicts, and bring a fractured world together.

Dean WIlliams (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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Leadership for a Fractured World: How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead Change

Harvard University faculty member Dean Williams draws on a decade of working with organizations around the world to show how leaders can cross the boundaries that divide us-vital in a world that it more interdependent than ever but still badly fractured by cultural, ideological, and political divisions.

Dean Williams (Author), Kevin Pierce (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Kevin Pierce