Audiobooks narrated by Leanne Woodward

Meet me in the meadow. Hannah Hannah thought she had the answer to her problems and how she and Ford could be happy. But when they faced Ford's parents ultimatum, she knew she'd been wrong. Now her and Ford's relationship is broken, and she's not sure it can be fixed. She can only hope that Ford will keep his promise to her and meet her in the meadow after graduation. Ford One second Ford was the happiest he'd ever been, and the next it had been ripped out of his hands. Ford doesn't know what to do to mend his relationship with Hannah. All he knows is he loves her and doesn't want to be without her. But Ford can't even get Hannah to look at him. All she says it to keep his promise. He will. Ford will wait if that's what Hannah wants. He'll be in that meadow waiting for her. Hannah and Ford have been through so much as a couple. All they want is to be normal teenagers in a normal relationship, but no matter how they've tried, it's been impossible. Follow them as they finish their senior year of high school and make plans for the future and find their happily forever after.

Jenny Cole (Author), Leanne Woodward, Simon Dornet (Narrator)

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The Forever Bet

Hannah: Can your first love be your one great love? Can your high school sweetheart be your soulmate? Is it possible to find the person you're meant to spend the rest of your life with so early in life? Ford and I were destined for a great romance until our parents forced us apart. We'll do as they ask and try to stay away, but being apart only makes our love stronger. Trying to live my best life is impossible without him beside me, but I'm trying to live in the moment. Even if I must wait until June to be with the guy I love. Ford: Is it possible to love a person so much that you can hardly breathe without them? If you truly love a person, is it better for my heart to break, and let them be free instead of holding too tight? Is she better off without me? I finally signed with a college to play football. Only it's bittersweet since I can't share it with the girl I love. Being apart from her is more complicated than I imagined until Hannah proposes a solution to our problems. It's not a good idea, but it's getting harder and harder for us to stay away from each other. This may be our chance to do things the way we want. Follow Hannah and Ford as they navigate their senior year.

Jenny Cole (Author), Leanne Woodward, Simon Dornet (Narrator)

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The Coaching Shift: How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You, Your Interactions, and the Wor

The Coaching Shift offers practical guidance on how to adopt a coaching mindset and how to build a coaching skill set to unlock better communication, stronger relationships, and high performance in others. Accessible and practical, the book draws on research from coaching, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology to provide the best science-based practices that can be applied in work and life. It presents core coaching skills that anyone can develop and use to improve their own emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and interactions with others. It uses levels of analysis to help listeners think about key concepts first in relation to themselves, and then in 1:1 interactions, group and team dynamics, organizational-level impact, and beyond. The book offers specific and tangible advice for listeners to develop their coaching and communication skills, while also developing a deeper understanding of themselves. The Coaching Shift, with its clear tone, anecdotal references, and practical application, will be essential for coaches in practice and in training, and for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology. These concepts and practices are also relevant for anyone who wants to have more effective interactions with others.

Brodie Gregory Riordan, Shonna D. Waters (Author), Leanne Woodward (Narrator)

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Bet on Me

Hannah Clark: I used to loathe Crawford Cross. He was the most infuriating, cocky guy at Lake City high. And now? Now he's the guy I'm hopelessly in love with. Even after he broke my heart. He's still cocky, but he's also sweet, funny, and loving. My mom says time will heal my wound. I'll move on. But there's no getting over Ford. This year is unlike any other. It's my senior year, and I'm going to make every moment matter, and that includes being with Ford. Ford Cross: There are two things I love more than anything, football and Hannah Clark. I'm a five-star rated high school quarterback with my pick to play at almost any college in the country. I just need to pick one. But if I had to choose between football and Hannah, I'd pick Hannah without a second thought. Hannah is the most sarcastic person I've ever met. She's also the kindest, sweetest, and most determined person I know. And I'm madly in love with her. Senior year is going to be a roller coaster ride, and I want Hannah next to me the entire way. Buckle up and get ready as Hannah and Ford get excited about their senior year, football, dance, and being a couple. But they need to watch out, a fan website dedicated to Ford is about to cause all sorts of problems for Lake City High's most popular lovebirds.

Jenny Cole (Author), Leanne Woodward, Simon Dornet (Narrator)

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The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy

The Guarantee asks us to imagine an America where housing, health care, a college education, dignified work, family care, an inheritance, and an income floor are not only attainable by all but guaranteed, by our government, for everyone. But isn't this pie-in-the-sky thinking? Not by a long shot, as this provocative new book reveals. As it stands, our current economic system is chock full of government-backed guarantees, from bailouts to bankruptcy protection, to keep the private sector in business. So why can't the same be true for the rest of us? Author Natalie Foster, cofounder of the Economic Security Project, has had a front-row seat to the dramatic leaps forward in government guarantees over the past decade, from student debt relief to the child tax credit expansion. Her brilliantly sketched vision for a new Guarantee Framework is rooted in real life experiences, collaborations with some of today's most important activists and visionaries, and a concrete sense of the policies that are possible—and ready to implement—in twenty-first-century America. The Guarantee is the rare book that will shift the terms of debate, moving us from the expired and defunct assumptions of no-guardrails capitalism to a nation that works for all of its people.

Natalie Foster (Author), Leanne Woodward (Narrator)

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Beautiful Writers: A Journey of Big Dreams and Messy Manuscripts–with Tricks of the Trade from Bests

2023 International Book Awards Winner & 2023 Firebird Book Awards 'Speak Up Talk Radio' Winner Imagine you're at a dinner party with some of the most successful authors of our time. 'Book Mama' and Beautiful Writers Podcast cocreator Linda Sivertsen is the host. As she shares her story of the many hilarious, outrageous, and practical things she did to launch her bestselling writing career, your favorite writers chime in with their own anecdotes, leaving you enlightened and newly inspired. The wisdom in this book will nourish anyone who appreciates the art of storytelling and dreams of living a creative life. Beautiful Writers is a love letter to reading, writing, and everyone who reads and writes. It's the book Linda wished she had when she was starting out. In it, she shares-and expands on-the best of advice and storytelling from her podcast and follow-up interviews with literary greats, including Terry McMillan, Cheryl Strayed, Tom Hanks, Van Jones, Jenny Lawson, Steven Pressfield, Elizabeth Gilbert, Anne Lamott, Mary Karr, Seth Godin, Abby Wambach, Martha Beck, Marie Forleo, Lee Child, Patricia Cornwell, Dean Koontz, Maria Shriver, Dr. Jane Goodall, Sabaa Tahir, Tomi Adeyemi, Ann Patchett, Dani Shapiro, Danielle LaPorte, Tosca Lee, Joy Harjo, and Deepak Chopra.

Linda Sivertsen (Author), Leanne Woodward, Linda Sivertsen, Tom Perkins (Narrator)

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Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy, 3rd Edition: Evidence-Based Insight and Real-Life Tips for

An inclusive, fresh update to Mayo Clinic's comprehensive pregnancy guide, pairing world-class medical expertise and real-world guidance for every step of the journey from bump to baby. Pregnancy can be an adventure—full of thrilling moments, unknowns, decisions and joy. Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy is the ultimate guidebook for navigating the road to parenthood, with everything you need to know along the way to help you have a healthy pregnancy and baby. This inclusive, updated manual is packed with research-backed advice for every part of the journey, from conception to postpartum and the newborn weeks. Inside you'll find the latest expertise from Myra Wick, M.D., Ph.D., a mom of four—along with contributions from many other pregnancy specialists at Mayo Clinic. Month-by-month chapters walk you through the physical changes you can expect as your baby grows and develops, milestones to watch for (feel those kicks!), and key steps in prenatal care. You'll also learn about diet and lifestyle choices to give you and your baby a healthy start, exercises to stay active and strong, and treatments that can actually help with morning sickness. Other key guidance includes: - Health issues that may arise, including depression and anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum, with tips for managing stress and recognizing when to reach out for help - A symptoms guide offering explanations and suggestions for many of the most common changes in pregnancy - What to know about current genetic screening and prenatal testing options - Detailed breakdown of the process of labor and childbirth, so you know what to expect and what's possible - Practical information on the transition to parenthood, feeding your newborn and getting through those first few weeks with your baby Every pregnancy, and every parent, is unique. That's why this guide is designed to be accessible to all, with information and advice for parents and families of all backgrounds and identities. Easy-to-understand language and colorful medical illustrations help bring Mayo Clinic expertise to every reader. For anyone beginning (or continuing!) the great adventure of parenting, this book is an essential companion.

Myra J. Wick (Author), Leanne Woodward (Narrator)

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A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World

Hope for the future lies with a new generation of regenerative farmers. Within a decade, nearly half of all American farmland will change hands as an older generation of farmers steps aside. In their place, a groundswell of new growers will face numerous challenges, including soil degradation, insufficient income, and investors devouring farmland at a staggering pace. These new farmers are embracing regenerative agriculture—the holistic approach to growing food that restores the soil and biodiversity—in the movement to reclaim our health and the planet's. But can their efforts help reverse an epidemic of diet-related disease, food inequality, and even climate change? To answer that question and more, award-winning journalist Jennifer Grayson embedded herself in a groundbreaking farmer training program, then embarked on this investigative journey. The diverse array of farmers, graziers, and food activists whom she profiles here are working toward better, more sustainable foodways for all. From a one-acre market garden in Oregon to activists reviving food sovereignty in South Carolina, A Call to Farms tells the captivating story of these new agrarians finding hope and purpose in reconnecting to the land and striving to improve the future of American food.

Jennifer Grayson (Author), Leanne Woodward (Narrator)

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The Brave In-Between: Notes from the Last Room

Lessons and advice for navigating uncertainty in the worst of times. Amy Low resides in a room that is her last-her medical team is clear-eyed with her: there is no cure for Stage IV metastatic colon cancer, and the odds of long-term survival are scant. Miraculously, she's lived four years with her diagnosis, and that life between life has changed her. Through the swirl of prolonged trauma and unbearable grief, a vantage point emerged-a window that showed her the way to relish life and be kinder to herself and others while living through the inevitable loss and heartbreak that crosses everyone's paths. Instead of viewing joy and sorrow as opposites, she saw how both exist in harmony, full of mystery and surprise. Instead of seeing days as succeeding or failing, and physical selves as healthy or unwell, she's learned to carry both achievements and afflictions in stride. And instead of bitterness and betrayal, forgiveness-toward her body, toward others, toward herself-became her wisest light. Mapping her experiences to the words that St. Paul wrote in his own last room, The Brave In-Between is a sacred invitation to explore that space between triumph and tragedy. We all have a heart to marvel at miracles, a lightness to spot the absurdity, and an imagination to pause and extend empathy for others-even when tragedy strikes. Sometimes we just need a guide.

Amy Low (Author), Amy Low, Leanne Woodward, TBD (Narrator)

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The Parents' Guide to Psychological First Aid

Just as parents can expect their children to encounter physical bumps, bruises, and injuries along the road to adulthood, emotional distress is also an unavoidable part of growing up. The sources of this distress range from toddlerhood to young adulthood, from the frustration of toilet training to the uncertainty of leaving home for the first time. Compiled by four renowned clinical psychologists, the second edition of The Parents' Guide to Psychological First Aid brings together an array of experts to offer parental guidance in helping your child navigate and recover from the everyday stresses they will encounter growing up. Clear, practical, and to-the-point, this is a go-to reference that parents will find themselves returning to again and again as their children grow. Chapters cover topics like healthy eating, sibling relationships, separation and divorce, social media and screen time, hate crimes and violence, learning differences, alcohol and drug use, sadness and depression, and much more. With practical tips, nonjudgmental advice, and suggestions for additional resources at the end of each chapter, this useful and thought-provoking book will be of immense value to new and seasoned parents alike.

Annette M. La Greca, Gerald P. Koocher, Nadja N. Lopez, Olivia Moorehead-Slaughter (Author), Caroline Hewitt, Christine Kiphart, Leanne Woodward, Stacy Gonzalez, TBD (Narrator)

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The Summer Bet

Wanna make a bet? That's Ford Cross' go to line whenever he sees me. He's Mr. Popular, Mr. high school quarterback, and Mr. all the girls want me. And me, Hannah Clark? I'm just a quiet brainiac who wants high school to be over. Ask me if I've ever made a bet with Ford? Not a chance. At least not until he has the ultimate wager. I'd be stupid not to take this bet; but if I lose, my life will never be the same.

Jenny Cole (Author), Leanne Woodward (Narrator)

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Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone

The average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma of solitude and find strength in going it alone? Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make better use of that time. The science of solitude shows that alone time can be a powerful space used to tap into countless benefits. Translating key research findings into actionable facts and advice, this book shows that alone time can boost well-being. From relaxation and recharging to problem solving and emotional regulation, solitude can benefit personal growth, contentment, creativity, and our relationships with ourselves and others. By learning what makes us better at spending time alone, you can use these principles to move toward your best possible self.

Heather Hansen, Netta Weinstein, Thuy-Vy T. Nguyen (Author), Leanne Woodward (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Leanne Woodward