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Professional Troublemaker

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the New York Times bestselling author of I'm Judging You, a hilarious and transformational book about how to tackle fear--that everlasting hater--and audaciously step into lives, careers, and legacies that go beyond even our wildest dreamsLuvvie Ajayi Jones is known for her trademark wit, warmth, and perpetual truth-telling. But even she's been challenged by the enemy of progress known as fear. She was once afraid to call herself a writer, and nearly skipped out on doing a TED talk that changed her life because of imposter syndrome. As she shares in Professional Troublemaker, she's not alone.We're all afraid. We're afraid of asking for what we want because we're afraid of hearing "no." We're afraid of being different, of being too much or not enough. We're afraid of leaving behind the known for the unknown. But in order to do the things that will truly, meaningfully change our lives, we have to become professional troublemakers: people who are committed to not letting fear talk them out of the things they need to do or say to live free.With humor and honesty, and guided by the influence of her professional troublemaking Nigerian grandmother, Funmilayo Faloyin, Luvvie walks us through what we must get right within ourselves before we can do the things that scare us; how to use our voice for a greater good; and how to put movement to the voice we've been silencing--because truth-telling is a muscle.The point is not to be fearless, but to know we are afraid and charge forward regardless. It is to recognize that the things we must do are more significant than our fears. This book is about how to live boldly in spite of all the reasons we have to cower. Let's go!

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The Erotic Fire of the Unattainable: Aphorisms on Love, Art, and the Vicissitudes of Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 226min, (USK 18)

Aphorisms are far from harmless. They are troublemakers and iconoclasts, dogmatists whose majestic authority commands consent. They are, by definition, revolutionaries who hold their truths to be self-evident, writes James Geary in A Brief History of Aphorisms. The Erotic Fire of the Unattainable has a subtle narrative where-in an avant garde artist weaves love with life, art with making a living, and inspiration with the banal realities of daily life. Beginning with "Why Women Fight Pirates," Walley writes, "A real woman will not be content with one man. With one man, she will rage, eat into herself and him. She will jump off the pirate ship onto a ship that is gracefully billowing with sails of humanity and the caring of, a ship full of love, of fools. She will not stay isolated in one man's private war with his maleness." Walley covers such disparate topics as "The Disappointments of Infidelity", "Talk in Love", "Writers", "Work and its Punishments", "The Importance of the Argument", "The Ocean", "New York", and ends on "Deathbed". This unflinching narrative is a journey through an artist's mind, taking us outside the usual confines, to lovers and ex-husbands, traveling, solitude, money and the importance of rebellion. Walley writes, "My friend asks me to describe the best sex I ever had. I have that rare occasion when I can compare myself to another woman. I learn that I am passionate, responsive, available but shy, lacking in self-confidence. What strikes me is that this is how I am out of bed." Gay Walley has published short stories and a novel, Strings Attached, which was a finalist for Pirate's Alley/Faulkner and Capricorn Awards. She lives and works in New York City. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Judith West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020114/bk_adbl_020114_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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A Cowboy's Salvation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 198min

A new and exciting sweet and inspirational tale of a western cowboy romance for young adults! Book one of the series. Sheriff Tex Wilson has been protecting the town of Brimstone for quite some time now. He's been the town's sheriff even during its formative years, and he's developed quite a reputation as its tough law-enforcing sheriff. Because of his long tenure and dedication to his job, he's also developed a very unflattering nickname, at least for him. It's a nickname that's best not said to Sheriff Tex's face. They call him "Lonesome" Tex Wilson. During one night, in particular, one of Brimstone's residents makes the mistake of doing just that. He gets a fist in his face for his trouble, from Tex himself. But the incident makes Tex start to think about his life. He's presided over Brimstone for so long. With the advent of the railroad and Brimstone being a booming mining town, his job will only become even more hectic and dangerous. There's bound to be more outlaws and troublemakers who will try to make a quick buck through a bank robbery, or anything of the sort. Tex realizes that he can't keep doing this forever, and he's not getting any younger. He needs to have something for himself. He hesitantly fills out an application for a mail order bride service. He doesn't put much faith in it but does it anyway. After all, he's got to try something. It's kind of like Tex's message in a bottle, for his heart. Fortunately or Unfortunately for Tex, his application works better than he ever expected. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Hoverson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/085427/bk_acx0_085427_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Ace in the Hole: City Meets Country, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 199min

Will saving her bar cost him his heart...and his life?After being run over, shot, and stabbed one too many times, Ace Montgomery left law enforcement for private security. When he’s hired as a bouncer in NYC, he’s ready to kiss Kentucky goodbye and leave his painful past behind. How rough can a bar called The Hole in a yuppie Brooklyn neighborhood be anyway?Sailor Kingston, the bar’s rich, gorgeous owner, is an exhausted wreck when he arrives. All Ace has to do is train her useless bouncers, drive out the troublemakers, and make the place safe for high-class patrons. But it isn’t that simple. Something darker is at work that could cost both of them their lives. Ace is drawn to Sailor, but she's his boss - will his heart be the first casualty?Sailor thought owning and managing her own business would free her from her late parents’ shadow. She thought wrong. The Hole will become her grave if she can’t survive the bitter legacy they have left her. The former cop from Kentucky is the last hope of her business - but the hunk with the scary past soon means more to her than that.Sailor has never trusted anyone but herself before. Can she put her trust in Ace?If you loved Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse, then you'll love Ace as the kick-ass, battle-scarred lead bouncer who's just what Sailor's bar (and Sailor) needs. Listen to this fourth and final book of this hot new series from award-winning author Mysti Parker and co-author MJ Post! Each book is a stand-alone read with no cliffhangers. HEA guaranteed! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Audra Cook. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/125875/bk_acx0_125875_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Western Double , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 435min

When Samuel Cross was growing up, he was rarely found without a book in his hands and that was the way his mother, a widow, wanted him raised. His uncle, Stephen Larkin, a frontiersman like Sam's father, wanted him to be strong and able to fend for himself, so he would take him into the mountains every summer to teach him how to fight and use a weapon. He proved to be as adept at these subjects as he had been at book learning, but when he was 18 and his mother died, he took a job working for Chandler, the trader at Fort Bostwick, for whom he was a well-paid clerk and, eventually, watchdog of the business. What he didn't understand was that he looked forward to troublemakers coming into the shop so that he could confront and deal with them. It was during a visit from the district marshal that he learned of Chandler's crooked ways and of his own notoriety and reputation as a safety killer, one who never fights unless he knows that the law is sure to protect him. When the marshal tells him to leave the fort and learn how to live right, Cross decides to head east. His strength and skill with a gun make Cross both friends and enemies on the boat he is taking down the Mississippi. He is saved one night from a fatal stabbing by Charles Granville, a well-to-do southerner, who recognizes a startling resemblance between himself and Cross. He proposes that Cross repay him by taking part in a daring deceit. Feeling indebted to Granville, Cross agrees and heads to New Orleans. But can Cross actually pull off the masquerade and fool Granville's parents, friends, and especially his beautiful sister, Nancy. And what is behind Granville's desire to have Cross take on the role of himself? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eric G. Dove. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009722/bk_blak_009722_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead: My Life Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 599min

Instant New York Times best seller. “Richards offers practical advice and inspiration for aspiring leaders everywhere.” (Hillary Rodham Clinton) “An enthralling memoir.” (Booklist, starred review)Includes a brand new afterword, read by the author! To make change, you have to make trouble.From Cecile Richards - the president of Planned Parenthood, daughter of the late Governor Ann Richards, featured speaker at the Women's March on Washington, and "the heroine of the resistance" (Vogue) - comes a story about learning to lead and make change, based on a lifetime of fighting for women's rights and social justice. Cecile Richards has been an activist since she was taken to the principal's office in seventh grade for wearing an armband in protest of the Vietnam War. Richards had an extraordinary girlhood in ultra-conservative Texas, where her hell-raising parents - her civil rights attorney father and political activist mother - taught their kids to be troublemakers. In the Richards household, the "dinner table was never for eating - it was for sorting precinct lists". She watched her mother, Ann, transform herself from a housewife to a force in American politics who made a name for herself as the straight-talking, truth-telling governor of Texas. But Richards also witnessed the pitfalls of public life that are unique to women and the constant struggle to protect and expand equal rights - both exemplified by her marathon congressional testimony, where she held her own against hostile questions for five hours.As a young woman, Richards worked as a labor organizer alongside women earning a minimum wage and learned that those in power don't give it up without a fight. Now, after years of advocacy, resistance, and progressive leadership, she shares her story for the first time - from the joy and heartbreak of activism to the challenges of raising kids, having a li ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cecile Richards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/008252/bk_sans_008252_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Magnificent Heel: The Life and Films of Ricardo Cortez , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 519min

With his dark good looks, muscular physique, heavy-lidded bedroom eyes, and easy smile, amateur boxer and Wall Street business man Jacob Krantz left Wall Street to cut a dashing figure on the silver screen for over five decades. Few knew that he was a Jewish man, when Paramount Pictures signed him in 1922, changed his name from Jacob Krantz to Ricardo Cortez, and widely publicized him as a “Latin lover” in the style of Rudolph Valentino, Antonio Moreno, and Ramon Navarro.He worked in silent movies with top directors and stars, including The Next Corner (1924) with Lon Chaney, Cecil B. DeMille’s Feet of Clay (1924), The Pony Express (1925), Torrent (1926) with Greta Garbo, D. W. Griffith’s, The Sorrows of Satan (1926), Mockery (1927) with Lon Chaney, and Excess Baggage (1928) with William Hanes.Within six years, chaos took hold of topsy turvy Hollywood as the industry converted from silent movies to talking pictures, yet Cortez successfully transitioned through Frank Capra’s The Younger Generation (1929), Montana Moon (1930) with Joan Crawford, as Sam Spade in the first film adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s, The Maltese Falcon (1931), Wonder Bar (1934) with Al Jolson, The Big Shakedown (1934) with Bette Davis, Walking Dead (1936) with Boris Karloff, Charlie Chan in Reno (1939), and John Ford’s The Last Hurrah (1958).Renowned for his professionalism, and for his ability to play a wide range of characters in all genres, Cortez appeared in more than a hundred films and was recognized as one of the movies’ premier heavies in a rogue’s gallery of sexy wastrels and troublemakers, to more nefarious gangsters and maniacal murderers. In 1934, one astute critic proclaimed him “the magnificent heel”.Relive his dramatic story, from his poverty-stricken childhood to Wall Street and on through Hollywood triumphs, tragedies, and scandals. The autho ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: William L Hensel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/219831/bk_acx0_219831_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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How to Deal with Difficult People , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 74min

Difficult people can seriously throw off your vibe. They make your life more challenging and they cause you needless stress and pain. Unfortunately, difficult people are also inevitable. You are bound to come into contact with a rude, manipulative, pessimistic, indecisive, or excessively needy people several times throughout your life. If you work in certain fields such as sales, management, or customer service, you will encounter difficult people even more than most. You may also struggle with your family or co-workers being difficult and making your life harder. What can you do about the inevitability of difficult people in your life? Well, this book is here to help. The enclosed audiobook is stuffed with excellent tips on how to deal with all sorts of difficult people. You will learn how to stop taking difficult people so personally, how to distance yourself from troublemakers, how to improve your communication, and how to persuade stubborn people to see or do things your way. There are tips for every possible kind of difficult person that you may run into during your lifetime. You will make your life much easier and you will eventually learn to prevent conflict before it even starts with the help of this handy guide. What else do you need to know about dealing with difficult people? Difficult people are people, just like you. Learning how to deal with difficult people calls for finesse and delicacy. Once you master this, your life will become so much easier. You will no longer cower in the break room to avoid an obnoxious co-worker or get into shouting matches with your aunt at holiday get-togethers. So start listening now to improve your interactions with difficult people and to increase your quality of life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D. Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/075822/bk_acx0_075822_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Young Radicals: In the War for American Ideals , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 671min

From the coauthor of the New York Times best seller Hamilton: The Revolution, the stunning story of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them. Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them - and to risk dying for them? For Americans during World War I, these weren't abstract questions. Young Radicals tells the story of five activists, intellectuals, and troublemakers who agitated for freedom and equality in the hopeful years before the war, then fought to defend those values in a country pitching into violence and chaos. Based on six years of extensive archival research, Jeremy McCarter's dramatic narrative brings to life the exploits of Randolph Bourne, the bold social critic who strove for a dream of America that was decades ahead of its time; Max Eastman, the charismatic poet-propagandist of Greenwich Village, whose magazine The Masses fought the government for the right to oppose the war; Walter Lippmann, a boy wonder of socialism who forged a new path to seize new opportunities; Alice Paul, a suffragist leader who risked everything to win women the right to vote; and John Reed, the swashbuckling journalist and impresario who was an eyewitness to - and a key player in - the Russian Revolution. Each of these figures sensed a moment of unprecedented promise for American life - politically, socially, culturally - and struggled to bring it about, only to see a cataclysmic war and reactionary fervor sweep it away. A century later, we are still fighting for the ideals these five championed: peace, women's rights, economic equality, freedom of speech - all aspects of a vibrant American democracy. The story of their struggles brings new light and fresh inspiration to our own. Cover design and illustration by Edel Rodriguez ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy McCarter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/030943/bk_adbl_030943_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Wild Western Collection , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 507min

Saddle up and enjoy this L. Ron Hubbard western audio collection. Included are: Devil's Manhunt, Under the Diehard Brand, Branded Outlaw, Six-Gun Caballero and Cattle King for a Day. Devil's ManhuntStriking gold, Tim Beckdolt is a man on the brink of a new life - until a killer forces him at gunpoint to mine it - jumping his claim. Tim manages to escape, but soon finds himself being pursued like an animal in a bloodthirsty manhunt through vicious terrain. Under the Diehard Brand When Lee Thompson is making the long journey from Texas to Montana to see his aging father, he gets wind of the fact that the old man, one Sheriff Diehard Thompson, is losing control over Wolf River's town troublemakers. So, Lee decides to step in. Branded Outlaw When Lee Weston's father writes him that an old enemy, Harvey Dodge, is back in town, Lee rides out in a hurry from Wyoming to Pecos, New Mexico, only to find his father murdered and the family ranch burned to the ground. Certain that Dodge is to blame, Lee sets off to settle the score but gets into a fiery Colt showdown in the town of Pecos. Six-Gun CaballeroMichael Patrick Obanon, proud owner of a 100,000-acre spread willed to him by his father, suddenly loses his entire inheritance when a band of criminals makes false claims on the ranch. Faced with having to save his property and his people, Obanon takes a courageous stand against the renegades. Cattle King for a DayChinook Shannon seeks the real identity of the man who killed his grandfather and is now after his ranch - with forgery, sabotage and murder riding by his side. The complete list of narrators includes Jim Meskimen and Josh R. Thompson. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R. F. Daley, David O' Donnell, Luke Baybak, Corey Burton, Bob Caso, Edoardo Ballerini, Phil Proctor, Rob Paulsen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gala/000064/bk_gala_000064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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