Audiobooks Narrated by Melissa Reizian Frank

Reyna's Vampyr

Reyna Leoine has good reason to hate the Vampyr after what one did to her mother. Her goal in life is to stay as far away from them as possible. When she compulsively accepts a dare to enter their domain - the Gladiator - Reyna questions her sanity. When the leader of the local Vampyr clutch claims her as his, Reyna does the sensible thing. She runs. Tariq recognizes his Heart’s Blood the minute he sees her sitting at the bar. After centuries of being alone, he has no intention of allowing her to escape him. When she manages to do just that, Tariq goes a little crazy. Tariq Bastien does what Vampyrs do best - he hunts. The more he discovers about her, the less it makes sense. No human should be able to escape him, and he’d recognize one of his kind. When he finally finds her, will the mystery of her past draw them together or drive them apart?

Zena Wynn (Author), Melissa Reizian Frank (Narrator)

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Who's in the Room?: How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them

The inability to make decisions. Competition for resources. Friction among team members. These problems are endemic in organizations of all sizes, in all industries, across all continents. Leaders usually assume that if their teams can just communicate better, or trust each other more, or overcome some other set of individual or collective dysfunctions, these problems can be resolved.  And so they call in the psychologists, the coaches, and organization development consultants.  But the problems dont go away.  In fact, the problems often arent psychological or behavioral at all.  Rather, theyre caused by a failure to understand how managerial team building and decision-making actually work.  Through research and interviews with CEOs and top executives at major companies like MasterCard, DuPont and Morgan Stanley, the authors found that many leaders see themselves as leading not from the top of an organizational pyramid but from the center of several concentric rings of teams, both formal and informal, that surround them. This book shows how executives in organizations of any size can better configure, manage, and maximize their leverage of the formal and informal teams around them. Leaders will learn:  The best executives surround themselves with a portfolio of teams, not a single team consisting of their direct reports. These portfolios consist of a mix of formal teams and ad-hoc kitchen cabinets of close advisors. Ad-hoc teams often provide more value to leaders than their formal teams.  The Senior Management Team, often viewed as the top executive body of an organization, is often the most dysfunctional team of all - and how it can be fixed. The most effective CEOs surround themselves with four types of teams, each with specific functions that they are uniquely suited to fill. Providing clarity around roles and decision-making can be a more effective key to team success than putting more effort into team building. This book enables leaders and members of their teams to clarify roles and maximize strategic capability, generating faster, better decisions and a higher level of organizational alignment for improved results.

Bob Frisch (Author), Melissa Reizian Frank (Narrator)

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Reyna's Vampry

Reyna Leoine has good reason to hate the Vampyr after what one did to her mother. Her goal in life is to stay as far away from them as possible. When she compulsively accepts a dare to enter their domain - the Gladiator - Reyna questions her sanity. When the leader of the local Vampyr clutch claims her as his, Reyna does the sensible thing. She runs. Tariq recognizes his Heart’s Blood the minute he sees her sitting at the bar. After centuries of being alone, he has no intention of allowing her to escape him. When she manages to do just that, Tariq goes a little crazy. Tariq Bastien does what Vampyrs do best - he hunts. The more he discovers about her, the less it makes sense. No human should be able to escape him, and he’d recognize one of his kind. When he finally finds her, will the mystery of her past draw them together or drive them apart?

Zena Wynn (Author), Melissa Reizian Frank (Narrator)

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Bly vs Bisland: Beating Phileas Fogg in a Race Around The World

Following the publication of Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days in 1873, Americans had an increasing interest in travel. World travel was becoming even easier with the faster steamships of the day. In 1888, Nellie Bly, a feisty, investigative reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World newspaper, pitched a story idea of traveling around the world in 75 days to beat the record achieved by Phileas Fogg, the character in Verne's book. While the editor thought it a great idea, he naturally thought the trip should be made by a man. The idea was shelved for over a year. One day in November 1889, Bly's editor told her the trip against Fogg's time would occur, and she would be the reporter to go - in just two days! She sailed east toward England on 14 November, 1889. The Cosmopolitan was a rival magazine in New York. Not to be outdone by Pulitizer, the Cosmopolitan editors suddenly decided - seemingly within minutes of Bly's departure - to send their own female reporter, Elizabeth Bisland, on a world trip with the intent to return to New York before Bly. Bisland left that evening on a train going west to San Francisco. Both reporters wrote detailed accounts of their journeys. For the first time, their writings have been combined in this book so that a consistent timeline is maintained between both women. The listener can feel the urgency and uniqueness of their travels while fully enjoying the similarities and differences in the authors' styles and their experiences. Who will win the race? Elizabeth Cochrane adopted the name of the Stephen Foster song Nelly Bly as her pen name. This famous song is performed in the credits by noted musicians Vivian and Phil Williams and is used with their gracious permission. You can hear more of their music at VoyagerRecords.com.

Elizabeth Bisland, Nellie Bly (Author), Karen Commins, Melissa Reizian Frank (Narrator)

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