Audiobooks narrated by Paige Mckinney

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber Prize finalist We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the power to keep us safe, to challenge us, and perhaps most importantly, to make us more fully human. Shannon Reed, a longtime teacher, lifelong reader, and New Yorker contributor, gets it. With one simple goal in mind, she makes the case that we should read for pleasure above all else. In this whip-smart, laugh-out-loud-funny collection, Reed shares surprising stories from her life as a reader and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students. From the varied novels she cherishes (Gone Girl, Their Eyes Were Watching God) to the ones she didn't (Tess of the d'Urbervilles), Reed takes us on a rollicking tour through the comforting world of literature, celebrating the books we love, the readers who love them, and the surprising ways in which literature can transform us for the better.

Shannon Reed (Author), Paige Mckinney (Narrator)

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Productize: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Professional Services into Scalable Products

Download More and more traditional professional services firms are turning to 'productization' as a strategy to grow, improve valuations, and to fend off new digital-first competitors. However, many of them will fail and waste a lot of money in the process. Productize first outlines the 'Seven Deadly Productization Mistakes' made when pursuing a product strategy, then provides the blueprint for overcoming each of these missteps. It is designed to be a practical playbook for any leader of a professional services business who wants to successfully accelerate growth. For companies that deliver highly customized services, new product development and commercialization are often outside of their core skills, processes, and mindsets. Productizing services typically requires organizations to think differently about how they work and how they create value for their customers. This change does not come easily. In this book, you'll learn: • How to shift your culture to embrace a product-mindset • The capabilities that you need to be successful and whether or not you should acquire them or grow them internally • How much money to invest in exploring and building more scalable solutions and products • How to ensure there is a viable market for your product idea • How to sequence investments in new product development • How to successfully source and work with developers and data scientists • How to inexpensively test your ideas before investing in development • How to win the hearts and minds of your sales team to ensure your new products are commercially successful • Bonus: Key point summaries at the end of each chapter to help you lock in what you learn

Eisha Armstrong (Author), Paige Mckinney (Narrator)

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Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder

Comprehensive and Effective Recovery Program for Women with Eating Disorders A resource to help you overcome the struggle of emotional eating, realize your self-worth, and live the life you deserve. One in five women suffer from eating disorders. While this issue is primarily associated with teenage girls, doctors report that a growing number of women are also developing these disorders later in life or have hidden these problems for years. For women in their thirties, forties, fifties, and beyond, issues of loss from divorce, death, empty nest syndrome, marriage, and career pressures can trigger an eating disorder. Eating disorder self-help. You might find yourself juggling careers, marriages, and families, all while struggling with eating disorders for years. Healing Your Hungry Heart is that friend you can lean on. Psychotherapist Joanna Poppink offers a comprehensive and effective recovery program for women with eating disorders, based on her thirty-year professional practice treating adults with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. She shares her personal struggles with you about bulimia, along with stories from a wide range of clients she has counseled and a step-by-step program that identifies: Early warning signs Challenges to early recovery Triggers to emotional eating Impact on sex life and family relationships Real solutions. This psychotherapist's program includes journaling, meditations, exercises, quizzes, and resources to support and speed the recovery process. For women struggling with emotional eating, this book offers hope, understanding, and real solutions.

Joanna Poppink (Author), Paige Mckinney (Narrator)

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Remarkably Great

In this hilarious sequel to Strangely, Incredibly Good, Cat Glamour struggles to help her sister, who's a bit of a texting addict, her twenty-year-old daughter, who has fallen in with the wrong crowd, and her ninety-four-year-old grandmother, who's a feisty ex-reality-television-star with the Twitter handle @BadAssGram. Will Cat be able to help her wacky family out without neglecting her own needs?

Heather Grace Stewart (Author), Paige Mckinney (Narrator)

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Strangely, Incredibly Good

Cat Glamour is going through a rough spot in her life. When she decides to take control again and try to lose weight, the last thing she expects is a genie to pop out of her Wii machine offering her three wishes! Unfortunately for Cat, her genie is somewhat unreliable in his wish-granting capabilities. In a series of hilarious misadventures, Cat and Gene travel to a castle in France and back in time twenty years in an attempt to realize Cat's wishes. But is it possible to get a second chance at real love and self-love?

Heather Grace Stewart (Author), Paige Mckinney (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Paige Mckinney