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    Boy Dreamer: An Artist's Memoir of Identity, Awakening, and Beating the Odds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
    The year is 1957. Four-year-old Paul Ecke sits timidly at a foreign kitchen table, eating the first inferior meal of many in a foster home. Longing for his beloved mother, he sees her only on short weekend visits that grow more infrequent over time, as she tries unsuccessfully to hide a nervous breakdown along with yet another growing pregnancy. Struggling to endure the strict rules of the house and the coldness of his foster parents, Paul begins to live in his creative mind where everything is possible and the grandest of dreams take flight. But after his family reunites, the adults he relies on both crumble and damage, as improprieties occur and secrets are slowly revealed that add more layers to the complexity of a visibly sensitive boy's view of the world.Despite - or perhaps because of - the emotional angst, complicated sexual identity issues, and deep loss he experiences, Paul cultivates a profound gift of creative genius. Vibrant with candor and resonant with details of coming of age in '60s and '70s California, as well as of bravely thriving for a decade with cancer, Boy Dreamer is a moving and ultimately triumphant story of a man who discovers his truth and courageously lives it, in a life brimming with love, art, gratitude, and beauty. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Keith Leo O'Brien. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/169596/bk_acx0_169596_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Orchardist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 868min
    At the turn of the 20th century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the quiet, beating heart of the land he cultivates. One day, two teenage girls appear and steal his fruit from the market; they later return to the outskirts of his orchard to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and very pregnant, the girls take up on Talmadge's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion. Just as the girls begin to trust him, men arrive in the orchard with guns, and the shattering tragedy that follows will set Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect but also to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past. Transcribing America as it once was before railways and roads connected its corners, Amanda Coplin weaves a tapestry of solitary souls who come together in the wake of unspeakable cruelty and misfortune. She writes with breathtaking precision and empathy, and in The Orchardist she crafts an astonishing debut novel about a man who disrupts the lonely harmony of an ordered life when he opens his heart and lets the world in. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/003065/bk_harp_003065_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Audiobook Multiplication Tables 0-12: Home Learning Audio Prompts to Help You Memorize Your Times Tables, Factors 0-12 for Products 0-144 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 59min
    Learning multiplication tables is oftentimes a disorganized, time-consuming task that is never fully accomplished. Thousands of adults acknowledge that they never learned their multiplication tables to a satisfactory degree, mostly due to a lack of consistent access to resources, time, and people. With technology today, children and students shouldn’t have to face these same challenges, and with Audiobook Multiplication Tables 0-12, this skill-set can be developed from home in a single streamlined audiobook.Suited for students in elementary school, middle school, and up, Audiobook Multiplication Tables presents multiplication fact families zero to 12, products zero to 144, across five sessions in progressively random order, similar to flashcards, with factor combinations of increasing difficulty introduced each session. The top five primary benefits of audiobook multiplication tables:Session difficulty variety allows for targeting of comprehension deficiencies demanding more tailored approaches.Audiobook Multiplication Tables' format eliminates the need to worry about losing or damaging physical flashcards. Audiobook Multiplication Tables engagingly cultivates comprehension of an integral, lifelong skill in an accessible format.Multiplication tables can be learned anytime and anywhere smart devices and headphones are permitted.Audiobook Multiplication Tables provides external prompting for improved memorization and recall development. With this audiobook, it is our sole objective for you, your child, or student to learn their multiplication tables from zero to 12 and have comprehension of this mathematical system for life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Doug Haynie. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221971/bk_acx0_221971_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 526min
    Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires one to practice numerous virtues, such as patience, diligence, and prudence. And learning to judge wisely a character in a book, in turn, forms the reader's own character.  Acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior takes fans on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring 12 virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. In reintroducing ancient virtues that are as relevant and essential today as ever, Prior draws on the best classical and Christian thinkers, including Aristotle, Aquinas, and Augustine. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing. In examining works by these authors and more, Prior shows why virtues such as prudence, temperance, humility, and patience are still necessary for human flourishing and civil society. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Larsen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/014048/bk_tant_014048_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Damaged , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 374min
    Adjusting to a new town was hard for Tara Edwards. Luckily, she was able to find a friend in Darren Jones, the boy whose family owns half the city. He offered her protection and friendship, but what he wanted in return was more than Tara was willing to give. Eventually, Tara leaves the city she grew up in, looking to start a new life. What she cultivates is far from the traditional progression of things, and Tara soon finds that sometimes what you don't want is exactly what you need. When tragic circumstances cause her to return to the city that she hates, it feels like everyone she has ever damaged is there to haunt her. Just when it seems like the ghosts of her past are going to drag her down into the pit of despair, there's a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of an old friend. But when things turn a bit more than friendly, Tara finds herself caught between two men, trapped between her past and her future. Damaged is loosely based off of Behind Her Green Eyes, a novel referenced in the Wrong or Write series. Warning: This story contains adult content. Listener discretion is advised. Themes include college/new adult, coming of age, love triangles, and romance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aundrea Mitchell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/050642/bk_acx0_050642_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Green Mister Rogers (eBook, ePUB)
    Fred Rogers was an international celebrity. He was a pioneer in children's television, an advocate for families, and a multimedia artist and performer. He wrote the television scripts and music, performed puppetry, sang, hosted, and directed Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for more than thirty years. In his almost nine hundred episodes, Rogers pursued dramatic topics: divorce, death, war, sibling rivalry, disabilities, racism. Rogers' direct, slow, gentle, and empathic approach is supported by his superior emotional strength, his intellectual and creative courage, and his joyful spiritual confidence. The Green Mister Rogers: Environmentalism in "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" centers on the show's environmentalism, primarily expressed through his themed week "Caring for the Environment," produced in 1990 in coordination with the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day. Unfolding against a trash catastrophe in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, Rogers advances an environmentalism for children that secures children in their family homes while extending their perspective to faraway places, from the local recycling center to Florida's coral reef. Rogers depicts animal wisdom and uses puppets to voice anxiety and hope and shows an interconnected world where each part of creation is valued, and love is circulated in networks of care. Ultimately, Rogers cultivates a practical wisdom that provides a way for children to confront the environmental crisis through action and hope and, in doing so, develop into adults who possess greater care for the environment and a capacious imagination for solving the ecological problems we face.
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    Climate: A New Story
    Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our "fight" mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change denier's point of view, he advocates for expanding our exclusive focus on carbon emissions to see the broader picture beyond our short-sighted and incomplete approach. The rivers, forests, and creatures of the natural and material world are sacred and valuable in their own right, not simply for carbon credits or preventing the extinction of one species versus another. After all, when you ask someone why they first became an environmentalist, they're likely to point to the river they played in, the ocean they visited, the wild animals they observed, or the trees they climbed when they were a kid. This refocusing away from impending catastrophe and our inevitable doom cultivates meaningful emotional and psychological connections and provides real, actionable steps to caring for the earth. Freeing ourselves from a war mentality and seeing the bigger picture of how everything from prison reform to saving the whales can contribute to our planetary ecological health, we resist reflexive postures of solution and blame and reach toward the deep place where commitment lives.
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    Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation, Hörbuch, Digital, 749min
    Meditation - the technique of mental focusing for enhanced awareness and self-mastery - offers deep and lasting benefits for mental functioning and emotional health, as well as for physical health and well-being. This practice is closely related to "mindfulness," which Professor Muesse defines as "a deliberate way of paying attention to what is occurring within oneself as it is happening. It is the process of attentively observing your experience as it unfolds, without judgment or evaluation." "Meditation," he adds, "refers to certain exercises that can be used to enlarge and refine mindfulness." Meditation cultivates mindfulness by training you to develop deep attention to the present moment, allowing the mind to become settled and centered. These 24 detailed lectures teach you the principles and techniques of sitting meditation, the related practice of walking meditation, and the highly beneficial use of meditative awareness in many important activities, including eating and driving. You will also learn how to use the skills of meditation in working with thoughts and emotional states, in deepening sensory awareness of the body, and in becoming deeply attentive to the operation of your mind. You'll come away with a solid basis for your own meditation practice and for bringing meditation's remarkable and empowering benefits to every aspect of your life. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Mark W. Muesse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000245/bk_tcco_000245_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Yoga Nidra Meditation for Sleep: 2 in 1 Book Bundle: Guided Bedtime Meditations for Kids and Parents , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 394min
    Do you want to access the deepest states of relaxation?Are you looking for a resource that will enable you and your child to sleep better at night?Yoga nidra, or the “sleep of the yogis” is an accessible meditation practice that cultivates well-being on multiple levels. This simple practice of guided, deep relaxation promotes authentic rest.The technique incorporates a detailed body scan with awareness placed on the breath and sensation of relaxation. Yoga nidra helps to calm the nervous system, reduce your stress level, and enhance general health. This is a practice that both adults and children can benefit from. Yoga nidra is done while lying down in a comfortable position and guided using the voice of the teacher. Relaxation of the body and mind is induced by the awareness of stillness, comfort, position, and breath.This bundle contains two audiobooks:Yoga Nidra for SleepBedtime Yoga Nidra for KidsEach guided yoga nidra meditation features three different calming background music options, allowing you to personalize the meditation.By listening to this bundle, you and your child will:Learn to meditate in a practical wayFall asleep more easily and sleep more deeply through the nightLower your stress and anxiety levelsImprove your overall health and well-beingCultivate awareness, gratitude, and compassionDiscover inner peace, balance, and happinessExperience profound relaxation of body and mindLearn to process your emotions in a safe and healthy wayGet the audiobook today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Loula Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/211736/bk_acx0_211736_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Climate: A New Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 618min
    Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destructionWith research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our “fight” mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change denier’s point of view, he advocates for expanding our exclusive focus on carbon emissions to see the broader picture beyond our short-sighted and incomplete approach. The rivers, forests, and creatures of the natural and material world are sacred and valuable in their own right, not simply for carbon credits or preventing the extinction of one species versus another. After all, when you ask someone why they first became an environmentalist, they’re likely to point to the river they played in, the ocean they visited, the wild animals they observed, or the trees they climbed when they were a kid. This refocusing away from impending catastrophe and our inevitable doom cultivates meaningful emotional and psychological connections and provides real, actionable steps to caring for the Earth. Freeing ourselves from a war mentality and seeing the bigger picture of how everything from prison reform to saving the whales can contribute to our planetary ecological health, we resist reflexive postures of solution and blame and reach toward the deep place where commitment lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Wojtas. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/006412/bk_rand_006412_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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