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When her boyfriend is naively sucked into the Mob, young Rita Napapolus spends years trying to reconcile her days as a school teacher against her nights as a mob mistress. Eventually, the distraught young woman flees the familiarity of the east coast with her daughter to begin a new life in Seattle. Though tortured by leaving her lover behind, she is now free of the Mafioso’s hold. After peaceful years in the Pacific Northwest, Rita’s life takes another dangerous turn....

The Holman Christian Standard Bible is one of the most accurate and readable translations of the Scriptures, and the Gospel of Mark is one of the most fundamental books in the New Testament scriptures. Let professional voice artist Dale McConachie, author of over 100 audiobooks, take you on a narrated journey through Mark, where you will discover the straight forward story of the humanity of Jesus.

Understanding your life’s purpose and pursuing it is more valuable than wealth, fame, power, and social status. Our core meaning and purpose serve to clarify our most important goals and priorities. They amplify our motivations and support us in all times, both good and bad. As a result, we become more confident, effective, independent, tolerant, inquisitive, and most of all content. We also make better decisions. When we do the things we were born to do, we automatically become forces of our nature.

Do you have too many priorities competing for your time and attention both at work and at home? When did life get so complicated? Increasingly, each of us finds ourselves juggling too many tasks with too little time or resources to get it all done. In this insightful program, veteran professional speaker and author Jeff Davidson offers new perspectives and techniques for you to manage all that's on your plate and still have a life for the rest of your day.

Knowing how to lead difficult people in crucial conversations to improved relationships is an essential skill. In this audio program, you will learn proven strategies to assist you in anticipating problem people, stopping tensions from boiling over, retaining the upper hand in a conflict, stopping power plays, and avoiding communication breakdowns.

As the founder of National Motivation & Inspiration Day and president of Motivate America, Kevin McCrudden asks us to “become the very best U that U can be” by “taking action to make things happen.” The Commencement is Kevin’s gift to graduates. It is his hope that through this short discussion graduates will obtain a different view of themselves and the world they live in - and that they will take away critical points that can change their lives, through their own choice.

Would you like to be respected and admired without saying a word? Would you like to discover and use nonverbal techniques for negotiating a pay raise at work? Would you like to overcome the fear of public speaking? Then this is the program for you! Internationally acclaimed speaker and author Dawn Jones presents “The Power of Focus, What are You NOT Saying?”

Balance is baloney! The image is all wrong. Life is NOT equal. In this fourpart series, learn how to sail through the demands of an unequal life and build a “ship” based on your work and not your job. Warning: this is not time management... this is life management.

The phrase “getting things done” is almost a rallying cry for a generation of career professionals striving to make their mark on the world. In this program, Jeff Davidson, author of 56 mainstream books, 260 e-books, and 24 iPhone apps, discusses the nuances of what he does to maintain high personal productivity hour after hour, day after day. It's the little things that count, and Jeff shares oodles of tips, tactics, and strategies to help you become more efficient, more effective, and more accomplished starting right now.

As your family grows into another spring, another summer, and another year, Kevin McCrudden asks you, “What is your legacy to the world?” This program guides you through the journey of becoming your greater self by asking you some difficult questions and pointing you toward the answers. The author of Who Are You?, Kevin asks you to define yourself as a man through your roles as husband, father, lover, friend, brother, and son.

Many people have goals focused on career achievements or net worth. Far fewer have goals related to the quality of life. In this innovative program, author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson discusses the importance of establishing work-life balance goals such as identifying the number of relaxing weekends you want to experience within a month, determining how much sleep you want to have each night, and targeting your resting pulse per minute.

This program is for anyone who wants to experience less clutter, be more productive, and go through each day with greater clarity and focus. Author and prolific speaker Jeff Davidson discusses why every gainfully employed adult in America faces unrelenting information and communication overload--and how to regain control. Jeff explains that while no one is coming to help you, you already have all the tools and smarts you need to manage information and not be abused by it.

Do you find finance and accounting concepts intimidating or confusing? Have you tried learning these concepts, but the ideas just won’t stick? Do you have a need to understand basic finance and accounting concepts for your job but can’t find an easy way to learn them? If this is you, then learn the language of accounting with this easy-to-follow audio program! It is designed to communicate the necessary information in practical terms, making it perfect for business owners and nonfinancial professionals. Armed with this new information, there is a 40 percent better chance your business will thrive.

Develop the skills of command in this fast-paced, step-by-step program by Dr. Larry Iverson. This program will teach you the skills needed to achieve compliance—skills that are used by incident commanders, firefighters, and other professionals who require instant respect. Using the verbal and nonverbal tactics taught here, you can get people to immediately believe you have the credibility you deserve.

When it comes to the evolution of your teenagers, where exactly do you fit into their big picture? From the dawn of time, parents have been coping with the yoyo effect of their teenagers needing them one moment and pushing them away the next. As each generation has been inspired with new ideas, new insights, and new technologies, the gap keeps getting a little wider.

What is confidence? How can you help your teenager get more self-confidence? As a parent, one of the greatest gifts you can bestow on your teenager is the gift of confidence. When a teen is confident, there's seemingly no limit to what they can achieve. A teen with self-confidence has the gift of both perspective and perseverance. But sometimes parents want to protect their young adults so much that they actually weaken their teens’ ability to cope.

Imagine building your business vocabulary and having fun at the same time. Now you can! Verbalicious takes a fun, entertaining approach to language. With Liv Montgomery as your verbal tour guide, you'll expand your word base and develop verbal prowess for business situations almost effortlessly. Other vocabulary programs are boring, and often they just don't work. But Verbalicious is fun and engaging.

Join a bestselling author and an internationally published psychologist in an entertaining look at successfully dealing with intimidating personality types. Get prepared for crucial conversations with the top seven personality types and learn how successful leaders deal with their challenges. Mastery in dealing with difficult people and tense situations is a learned skill, and through this program you will learn techniques that will allow you to easily and rapidly handle interpersonal communications issues.

There's a book inside you, just begging to be written. But if you're like most people, the task of writing it gets pushed aside day by day until the weeks become years. Speaker and author Liv Montgomery has published more than 80 book and audio titles in less than two years. Learn from a high-output author with dozens of published works the techniques for writing at super speed, and you too can draft your book in a single day!

What is the difference between leadership skills and integrity? Drawn from research performed with thousands of leaders, this audio program will teach you their characteristics. You can add these leadership traits to your arsenal to create passionate believers in your vision rather than compliant followers of your instructions. This program will make the difference as you try to create high-performing teams. Propel your company or group to the next level of performance with a clear understanding of what makes a passionate follower.