Ann Osmond has narrated 8 audiobooks on Listento.it by 8 authors. The most-rated is Our Lady of Infidelity.
How to Buy a Home That Makes You Happy
Summary
Stop wasting time and money when buying a home! What if you reverse the process and instead of doing what a realtor or loan officer tells you to, you tell them how to work for you? What if you could eliminate all the running around and proceed with confidence? What if there is a secret in finding a home specifically for you, to support your lifestyle, health, money, and harmony? You’d probably feel empowered, organized, and save hundreds of hours of wasted time and thousands of dollars, too. There are no sales gimmicks here! Just good advice from a pro, and some insider secrets. This book is a guide with step-by-step instructions in the right order for you to follow, plus an added bonus. Did you know that your date of birth + your new house number = your wealth, health, and happiness? It's true! You don’t need to believe in this; it's just how it works. This book will explain, as an added bonus, how to calculate and find the right house number to match your wealth health and happiness! You wouldn’t want to buy a new home and feel depressed as soon as you move in and lose money, do you? Did you know you can ask a realtor to pay some of your closing cost? You’ll learn what to do and how to ask and never receive a no for an answer. Did you know you can determine what loan you will get as opposed to the loan officer telling you “That’s what you’re getting?" You’ll learn how to do that, too. You will be in control of your most precious asset after listening to this book. I guarantee it!
©2020 Jeni Temen (P)2020 Jeni Temen
The Caregiver's Guide to Dementia
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Care for yourself, while caring for a loved one with dementia When caring for someone with dementia, your own mental stability can be the single most critical factor in your loved one’s quality of life. The Caregiver's Guide to Dementia brings practical and comprehensive guidance to understanding the illness, caring for someone, and caring for yourself. From understanding common behavioral and mood changes to making financial decisions, this book contains bulleted lists of actions you can take to improve your health and your caregiving. Inspirational and compassionate, it focuses on the caregiver’s underlying love and humanity that cannot be taken away by any disease. In The Caregiver's Guide to Dementia you’ll find: Dementia defined - Understand dementia and its many forms, with an explanation of the illness and its variations. Caregiver wellness - At the end of each chapter, a small section provides relaxation and mindfulness exercises and reflection for dementia caregivers. Practical approach - Resources, from financial planning to tips on safety, along with questions for health care professionals, lawyers, accountants, therapists, and friends. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 Rockridge Press (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Requiem for a Female Serial Killer
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This psychological crime thriller is a true account and takes us inside the mind of a unique female serial killer, a prostitute who murdered seven adult men - a case in which the author was intimately involved. The issues raised by this high-profile criminal case remain unresolved to this day. Women, even prostitutes, have the right to self-defense in theory, but, in practice, the story is more complicated. This book will challenge everything you ever thought about prostitutes, serial killers, and justice in America. Aileen Wuornos is a damaged soul, a genuine American outlaw, a symbol of women's rage, a symbol of what can happen to severely abused children, and of how our justice system fails women. Chesler's involvement with a serial killer has haunted her ever since. She speaks in Aileen Wuornos' voice, as well as in her own, and delivers an incisive, original, and dramatic portrait of a cognitively impaired, traumatized, and alcoholic woman, who had endured so much pain in her short life. When she'd had enough, the results were deadly. This is a poignant, sometimes humorous, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes tale. Wuornos' story is handled with great sensitivity, but also with realistic detachment by Chesler, as she probes the telling moment. Was Wuornos suffering from post-traumatic stress after a life lived on a "killing field"? Was she also "born evil"? So many prostitutes have been tortured and murdered by serial killers. How did Wuornos, once prey, become a predator? Requiem for a Female Serial Killer will also haunt you. It won’t let you put it down. Take a walk on the wild side. The ghost of Aileen Wuornos beckons.
©2020 Phyllis Chesler (P)2020 New English Review Press
Anxious
Summary
Our culture is frantic with worry. We stress over circumstances we can't control, we talk about what's keeping us up at night, and we wring our hands over the fate of disadvantaged people all over the world, almost as if to show we care and that we have big things to care about. Worry is part of our culture, an expectation of responsible people. And sadly, Christians are no different. But we are called to live and think differently from the worried world around us. The fact is, worry is sin, but we don't seem to take it seriously. It is a spiritual problem, which ultimately cannot be overcome with sheer willpower - its solution is rooted entirely in who God is. How can we live life abundantly, with joy, as God has called us to do, when were consumed by anxiety? We are commanded not to worry, not only in the well-known words of Jesus recorded in Matthew 6, but also throughout the Old Testament and the epistles to the church. The Bible makes it clear that the future belongs only to God, who rules and is not subject to the limitations of time. To live with joy and contentment, trusting God with the present and the future, is a countercultural feat that can be accomplished only through him. Challenging the idolatrous underpinnings of worry, former Christianity Today executive Amy Simpson encourages us to root our faith in who God is, not in our own will power. We don't often give much thought to why worry offends God, but indulging anxiety binds us to mere possibilities and blinds us to the truth. Correctly understanding the theology of worry is critical to true transformation. This is an audiobook not just for people who worry; this is a call to the church to turn its eyes from the things of earth and fix its eyes on the author and completer of our faith.
©2014 Amy Simpson (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Decoding the New Consumer Mind
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A decade of swift and stunning change has profoundly affected the psychology of how, when, and why we shop and buy. In Decoding the New Consumer Mind, award-winning consumer psychologist Kit Yarrow shares surprising insights about the new motivations and behaviors of shoppers, taking marketers where they need to be today: into the deeply psychological and often unconscious relationships that people have with products, retailers, marketing communications, and brands. Drawing on hundreds of consumer interviews and shop-alongs, Yarrow reveals the trends that define our transformed behavior. For example, when we shop we show greater emotionality, hunting for more intense experiences and seeking relief and distraction online. A profound sense of isolation and individualism shapes the way we express ourselves and connect with brands and retailers. Neurological research even suggests that our brains are rewired, altering what we crave, how we think, and where our attention goes. Decoding the New Consumer Mind provides marketers with practical ways to tap into this new consumer psychology, and Yarrow shows how to combine technology and innovation to enhance brand image; win love and loyalty through authenticity and integrity; put the consumer’s needs and preferences front and center; and deliver the most emotionally intense, yet uncomplicated, experience possible. Armed with Yarrow’s strategies, marketers will be able to connect more effectively with consumers - driving profit and success across the organization.
©2014 Kit Yarrow (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Adolescence
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Survive adolescence - with the guide no parent should be without Getting through adolescence is tough, but you can help your child make it through - and maintain a strong relationship! Covering everything from late childhood to puberty to emerging adulthood, Adolescence: A Parent’s Guide offers you and your child the kind of sound and thoughtful advice you’ll wish you’d gotten in your adolescence. Divided into five chapters - each covering a specific age range - this guide digs deep into the most common aspects of adolescence. Whether it’s dealing with dishonesty, managing changing relationships, or handling the age-old question of sex, this simple and straightforward guide has your back. You get a toolbox full of effective approaches that are easy to implement and can be tailored to your specific needs. Adolescence: A Parent’s Guide includes: Understanding today’s adolescents - Refresh your knowledge with the most modern and up-to-date information available. Actionable advice - Discover strategies for overcoming common adolescent hurdles - like when kids start testing limits or stressing out over social media. Talking it out - Sample scripts and scenarios provide helpful guidelines for navigating challenging conversations and situations with your growing child. Make sure the two of you get through adolescence in one piece with this comprehensive book.
©2020 Rockridge Press (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Floyd Harbor
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“Floyd Harbor brings to mind Denis Johnson and Irvine Welsh, though it’s also as moving and ecstatic as the early songs of Bruce Springsteen.” (Zachary Lazar, author of Vengeance) "Mowdy’s gritty debut collection of linked stories is set in a rundown community on eastern Long Island, with characters struggling to overcome poverty and trauma." (New York Times Book Review, New & Noteworthy) Set largely in the 1990s, the 12 linked stories in Joel Mowdy’s first book take place in and around Mastic Beach, a community on New York’s Long Island that’s close to the wealthy Hamptons but afflicted by widespread poverty. Mostly in their teens and early 20s, the characters struggle to become independent in various ways, ranging from taking typical low-paying jobs - hotel laundry, janitorial, restaurant, and landscaping work - to highly ingenious schemes, to exchanging sexual favors for a place to stay. A few make it to local community colleges; others end up in rehab or juvenile detention centers. However loving, their parents can offer little help. Those who are Vietnam veterans may suffer from PTSD; others may bear the addictions that often come with stressful lives. Neighborhoods of small bungalows - formerly vacation homes - with dilapidated boats in the driveways hint at the waterways that open up close by. The beauty of the ocean beach offer further consolation, as does the often high-spirited temperament of youth. Joel Mowdy brings to his affecting collection both personal experience and a gift for discerning and lingering on the essential moments in his characters’ stories. He intimately and vividly illuminates American lives that too seldom see the light.
©2019 Joel Mowdy (P)2020 Audible, Inc.
Our Lady of Infidelity
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It begins when a vision appears in a carwash window in the tiny, dusty desert town of Infidelity, a blip on the map just outside of Joshua Tree, California. Seven-year-old Luz Reyes, whose family was killed by death squads in her native land and whose mother is gravely ill, is the first to see it. Then Walt Adair, the divorced owner of the carwash. Then Zoe Luedke, the golden-haired stranger in search of her runaway husband. And even the child's skeptic mother, Josephina Reyes, sees it. A crowd gathers, and others in the town see something as well, but no two people see the same thing. Though the priest, Father Bill, tries to prevent the vision from taking hold, even he seems to fall under its power. At first, it brings wonderful things: healings, peace, a kind of happiness that the people of Infidelity have never known. Then Luz's extraordinary powers begin to reveal themselves. There is an unexplained death, and the town begins to turn against her and those who have gathered around the miracle child. In the chaos that follows, people struggle to hold onto the beauty that came into their lives through Luz and the window even as they ask, Were they deluded or duped - or were they given a great gift?
©2014 Jackie Parker (P)2014 Audible Inc.