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The Fifth of July

A Novel

by Kelly Simmons ...

Narrated by Jennifer O’Donnell, Kevin Pariseau, Tandy Cronyn, Pete Larkin, Jennifer Van Dyck, various narrators, L.J. Ganser ...

Unabridged

7 hours 17 min

Sometimes the people you know best are the ones you should fear the most.Any of the Warners could have been behind the accident. Every one of them had a problem that threatened to tarnish more than their old-money silver.Having spent the past three decades’ worth of summers on Nantucket, the Warners are as much a part of the island as the crust of salt on the ferry. But this year is different: ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Sometimes the people you know best are the ones you should fear the most.Any of the Warners could have been behind the accident. Every one of them had a problem that threatened to tarnish more than their old-money silver.Having spent the past three decades’ worth of summers on Nantucket, the Warners are as much a part of the island as the crust of salt on the ferry. But this year is different:
... Read more
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Power Base Selling

Secrets of an Ivy League Street Fighter

by Jim Holden ...

Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

Unabridged

5 hours 56 min

Focuses on competitive selling: the range of skills that sales professionals need to reach their full potential. It offers practical, step-by-step advice that salespeople can take to prevent the competition from selling their products or services, revealing the components involved in gaining full control of a sales situation. Discusses a key step in this process—the politics of selling—showing how ... Read more

$18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Focuses on competitive selling: the range of skills that sales professionals need to reach their full potential. It offers practical, step-by-step advice that salespeople can take to prevent the competition from selling their products or services, revealing the components involved in gaining full control of a sales situation. Discusses a key step in this process—the politics of selling—showing how
... Read more
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Amazon Unbound

Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

by Brad Stone ...

Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

Unabridged

16 hours 33 min

This New York Times bestseller is a “masterful” (The Washington Post), “juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bestselling author of The Everything Store.Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

This New York Times bestseller is a “masterful” (The Washington Post), “juicy tour of the company [Jeff] Bezos built” (The New York Times Book Review), revealing the most important business story of our time by the bestselling author of The Everything Store.Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon
... Read more

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Letters to a Young Athlete

by Chris Bosh ...

Narrated by Chris Bosh, Pete Larkin ...

Unabridged

6 hours 7 min

A legendary NBA player shares his remarkable story, infused with hard-earned wisdom about the journey to self-mastery from a life at the highest level of professional sportsChris Bosh, NBA Hall of Famer, eleven-time All-Star, two-time NBA champion, Olympic gold medalist, and the league’s Global Ambassador, had his playing days cut short at their prime by a freak medical condition. His ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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A legendary NBA player shares his remarkable story, infused with hard-earned wisdom about the journey to self-mastery from a life at the highest level of professional sportsChris Bosh, NBA Hall of Famer, eleven-time All-Star, two-time NBA champion, Olympic gold medalist, and the league’s Global Ambassador, had his playing days cut short at their prime by a freak medical condition. His
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Skunk Works

A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos ...

Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

Unabridged

12 hours 8 min

This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review).From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the ... Read more

$31.99 USD

This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review).From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the
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The Russian Revolution

A New History

by Sean McMeekin ...

Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

Unabridged

15 hours 3 min

From an award-winning scholar, this definitive history reveals the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution.“McMeekin writes muscular history. His Russian Revolution grips the reader.” —Niall FergusonIn The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolskeviks into power, and introduced communism to the world.... ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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From an award-winning scholar, this definitive history reveals the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution.“McMeekin writes muscular history. His Russian Revolution grips the reader.” —Niall FergusonIn The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolskeviks into power, and introduced communism to the world....
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The Fleet at Flood Tide

America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

by James D. Hornfischer ...

Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

Unabridged

23 hours 15 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower, from the acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors—with original maps and more than 120 dramatic photographs“A masterful, fresh account of the latter days of ... Read more

$30.99 USD

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower, from the acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors—with original maps and more than 120 dramatic photographs“A masterful, fresh account of the latter days of
... Read more

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Quiet Leadership

Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work

by David Rock ...

Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

Unabridged

6 hours 58 min

Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between their ears. ""If people are being paid to think,"" he ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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Improving the performance of your employees involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way they think. In constant demand as a coach, speaker, and consultant to companies around the world, David Rock has proven that the secret to leading people (and living and working with them) is found in the space between their ears. ""If people are being paid to think,"" he
... Read more

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The Everything Store

Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

by Brad Stone ...

Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

Unabridged

13 hours

The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low
... Read more

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Tomatoland

How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

by Barry Estabrook ...

Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

Unabridged

7 hours 11 min

Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award–winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are ... Read more

$16.99 USD

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Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award–winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are
... Read more

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The Unteachables

by Gordon Korman ...

Narrated by Sarah Beth Goer, Oliver Wyman, Josh Hurley, Tristan Morris, Sean Welsh Brown, Pete Larkin, Fred Berman, Jennifer Nittoso, Christopher Gebauer ...

Unabridged

6 hours

A hilarious new middle grade novel from beloved and bestselling author Gordon Korman about what happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher—perfect for fans of Ms. Bixby’s Last Day. A good choice for summer reading or anytime!The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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A hilarious new middle grade novel from beloved and bestselling author Gordon Korman about what happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher—perfect for fans of Ms. Bixby’s Last Day. A good choice for summer reading or anytime!The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker
... Read more

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JFK and the Unspeakable

Why He Died and Why It Matters

by James W. Douglass ...

Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

Unabridged

22 hours 21 min

At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, ... Read more

$25.99 USD

At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost,
... Read more