51 Results for : afterthought
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The Book of Polly: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 559min
With a kick like the best hot sauce, this is the laugh-out-loud story of a girl determined to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother. Willow Havens is 10 years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to chase varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors - and she sticks out like a sore thumb among the young, modern mothers of their small conventional Texas town. She was in her late 50s when Willow was born, so Willow knows she's here by accident, a late-life afterthought. Willow's father died before she was born, her much older brother and sister are long grown and gone and failing elsewhere. It's just her and bigger-than-life Polly. Willow is desperately hungry for clues to the family life that preceded her, and especially Polly's life pre-Willow. Why did she leave her hometown of Bethel, Louisiana, 50 years ago and vow never to return? Who is Garland Jones, her long-ago suitor who possibly killed a man? And will Polly be able to outrun the Bear, the illness that finally puts her on a collision course with her past? The Book of Polly has a great blend of humor and sadness, pathos and hilarity. This is a bittersweet novel about the grip of love in a truly quirky family, and you'll come to know one of the most unforgettable mother-daughter duos you've ever met. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jenna Lamia. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003067/bk_peng_003067_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Neon Lights , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 177min
An anthology set in the 80s."The Treasure Keeper" by James Agee Jr.What would you do for the chance to have your idea turned into a music video by none other than MTV? When a contest promising fame and fortune comes to their small hometown, best friends Rick and Ridley must decide what is important to them: winning or their friendship."Cassidy and Lesley’s Dating Adventure" by Katie JohnsBest friends Cassidy Martin and Lesley Peterson are duped dates and tired of the modern dating scene. Their afterthought that they could survive dating in the 80s becomes a strange adventure where they choose between bachelors they meet on a blind-date game show, run into wannabe rockstars at the mall, and have to choose who they’d want to date. "Carter Kane" by Oliver Roe The circus brings with it strangers to town. They fill the streets and the shadows. They infest once-safe space. The small hours of the night become hours of terror. But the true danger is not hidden away. Sometimes it stands plainly before you. "Unholy Addiction" by Chris Manning It's 1987 - the height of the crack epidemic. Two young brothers living in crime-infested South Central, LA must find their mother who's fallen prey to crack addiction and has recently disappeared. As they search for her, in hopes of making their family whole again, they discover she's been seduced by a vampire who's made a home in their neighborhood. Aware that people are constantly going missing in the neighborhood (as result of the violence and crime), he uses it to his advantage to prey on his victims undetected. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brianne Vega. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/181818/bk_acx0_181818_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Billy Hayes Interview, Hörbuch, Digital, 42min
Midnight Express was one of the scariest movies I ever saw. It was probably one of the most horrifying films you ever saw, too. The story of Billy Hayes, an American tourist caught attempting to leave Turkey by plane in 1970 with bags of hashish taped to his stomach, for which he was subsequently jailed for five years - and, with only 42 days left to serve, resentenced to life in prison - was made into a major motion picture starring Brad Davis and written by Oliver Stone. It won numerous Academy Awards and caused the Turkish government to go on the attack around the world against the filmmakers and Hollywood over its incredibly unflattering portrait of the Turkish nation. And it turns out that the Turks were right about one thing – many key aspects of Midnight Express may have been invented by Stone. In a new documentary film about his life, Hayes admits the movie got several aspects of his Turkish experience wrong, starting with the fact he was not an innocent, first-time drug smuggler. When he was caught, it was at least his fourth time moving hash out of the country. Hayes apologizes in Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey to the Turkish government for the negative portrayal of all Turks created by the original film. It has more than a few surprises for anyone that remembers the original. Billy Hayes interview excerpt: "You don’t see any good Turks in the whole Midnight Express film [written by Oliver Stone]. That wasn’t true to my experience or to reality…. And in the film’s escape scene - which is like an afterthought! - he kills a guard, which I did NOT do. Big fact change. That’s not how I escaped prison." Language: English. Narrator: Bob Andelman, Billy Hayes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/001370/bk_bigh_001370_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Entrepreneurship for the Rest of Us: How to Create Innovation and Opportunity Everywhere , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 275min
Today when the competition, technology, and the economy are evolving faster than ever before, organizations and the people like us who work in them need a proven approach to help us adapt - and succeed. The key, according to Paul B. Brown, is to think like an entrepreneur, no matter what your position or industry. What works for the most successful entrepreneurs will work for us, Brown argues, whether we want to stay employed working for someone else or are thinking of going off on our own. Based on extensive research, Entrepreneurship for the Rest of Us reveals the best practices of the most successful entrepreneurs, those who are adept at continually innovating and seeing opportunity where others do not. They do that by following a rigid approach. For example: They never start with a new idea, but by trying to solve a market need. Financing is an afterthought. They get started with the resources at hand (not only does that allow them to move quickly, if things don't work out, they are not out much). Perfect is the enemy of good, it is much more important to get out into the marketplace with a prototype than to keep fiddling with what you have. In short, the entrepreneurial mindset is a protection against economic uncertainty, and Brown's goal is to spread that thinking to individuals and large organizations alike. Though of course we won’t all start or run our own companies, we need to learn to think like entrepreneurs so that when uncertainty hits, as it will again and again, individuals and companies will be better prepared to not only survive but win. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001529/bk_gdan_001529_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Amplify Your Value: Leading IT with Strategic Vision , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 228min
Are you tired of being treated like an afterthought? Discover the step-by-step methods to put your IT department front and center in the minds of senior management.Are you a CIO or a director of IT who struggles to make your voice heard? Does your company’s executive team leave you out of important meetings? Are your business ideas and opinions never taken seriously? Keynote speaker and IT visionary Jeff Ton spent 35 years helping companies build strategic technology plans and innovative practices. Now, he’s here to share hard-won tactics that will have senior management hanging on your every word. Amplify Your Value - Leading IT with Strategic Vision contains the framework you need to take your rightful place among the senior leadership ranks. You’ll learn simple strategies to cultivate a culture of support within your own team so you can better advocate on their behalf. Through Jeff Ton’s transformative methods, you and your department will transition from “the computer guys” to the heart of the business.In Amplify Your Value, you'll discover:Simple techniques to establish your involvement in every key business initiative The step-by-step process to make positive transformational changes in your own departmentMethods to develop a strategic vision, increase your agility, and innovate from the topTactics for identifying key projects that drive business value and getting stakeholders investedThe core principles for managing your day-to-day workAnd much, much more!Amplify Your Value is a must-have reference for IT heads ready to take their leadership skills to the next level. If you like systematic action plans, innovative management, and real-world examples, then you'll love Jeff Ton's insightful guide.Buy Amplify Your Value to step out from behind the computer screen and into the boardroom today! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ronald Fox. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129200/bk_acx0_129200_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Cybersecurity Hygiene for the Healthcare Industry: The Basics in Healthcare IT, Health Informatics and Cybersecurity for the Health Sector, Volume 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 153min
In recent years, the volume of hospitals and the health sector entities that have fallen victim to hackers has continued to rise at an alarming rate. With each breach, there are empty promises and finger-pointing while the organizations attempt to attribute the hack to a bad actor like Deep Panda based off of exploit kit components that were used in a previous breach. Where are they getting their information? Who knows and who cares because it's almost always wrong and attribution is typically a waste of time as it is an attempt to take the responsibility and public outrage off of the hospital or healthcare organization's lack of proper cybersecurity hygiene and non-existent cybersecurity culture. When one takes a closer look at the actual problem in order to remedy a scalable solution the most profound reality is the pure lack of cybersecurity training in perfectly applicable environments where students are learning health IT, healthcare informatics, nursing, and HIPPA. The fact that cybersecurity hygiene is an afterthought rather than an academic course in the health sector should have the victims of these breaches rioting in the street, yet there is a deafening silence on this topic of educational reform. I'm not saying that a full on curriculum covering Advanced Persistent Threat intricacies such as hacker tool kits, exploits, droppers, remote access trojans or how to forensically investigate code. But, perhaps it may be useful, while studying a technical topic to add a few ingredients of cybersecurity to, keep tens of millions of innocent people from having their health records exfiltrated by bad actors wishing to do them harm. This book series is intended to introduce the listener to healthcare informatics, health IT, and HIPAA, while simultaneously enhancing this information with cybersecurity content. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kelly Rhodes. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049357/bk_acx0_049357_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Untwisted Sister (eBook, ePUB)
Untwisted Sister cordially invites the readers of those with obstacles of common grounds mentioned therein, who'd experienced, retrospectively, such adversities of life by reason of naivety or unawareness, whereby our universes are mathematically ordained, orderly and constructively spoken into its existing manifestation from the afterthought of God (Genesis 1:1-5). God said, and it was so; thus, the laws, bylaws, and commandments were solely God's to construct and establish, the only existing being who is, was, and is to come-the alpha and omega (Revelations 1:4).It behooved me to exclaim in the writings of this book a beginning, middle, and faith-believing end, making the reader aware of a forerunner of chaos, imbalance, and waste of precious, valued time in the earth's realm-that has no holds barred-then a transition to an orchestrated afterlife, as well as to inform you that no matter what, God Himself has already weighed the outcome of any plight-far above principalities and powers of indifference, Satan's obscured methods at distractions and diversions. Satan has misconstrued the perspectives and priorities of life's partnership belonging to God alone. Our lives here are of great significance (Deuteronomy 28:30, Joshua 1:6-9, Romans 12:1-21). The truth shall set us free, for the joy of the Lord is our strength. We were purposely created. Not to be consumed by the "wang dang doodles" that sin derives. Such high pollutants are superficially temporal. There is profound orderly guidance in revering God, the architect of our universe and the physical, mental, and spiritual fabric of our makeup. Similar to trees, let's grow, bear good fruits of gratitude and adoration to the God of glory.- Shop: buecher
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Rebecca , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 242min, (USK 18)
Thirty and single? Well, getcha ass to the Gathering! Wait...what? Rebecca Twynham hates nature, loves a juicy steak, is not Marked, and thinks wolves come in one form: on four feet and with fur. So when she's hauled to the annual werewolf Gathering by this scary as hell magical vortex, she's pretty surprised to find out werewolves are real. With that new knowledge, she finds she still hates nature, she'd love a juicy steak, and maybe - she might be - Marked. Well, she doesn't see a Mark, but she also has heavy scarring from a childhood accident - or was it intentional? Plus, she really wants to climb the gorgeous Alpha Pair, Aidan and Carson, like a tree. Luckily, the two hot werewolves wanna sink their roots into her flower and...the nature analogies have gone too far. Aidan and Carson have been a strong Alpha Pair for 14 years. They're tied together by their bond, and ache to claim a woman as their own. But while Carson has always been the GQ ladies' man, Aidan has been the afterthought - the heavily scarred and frightening werewolf who's caused more than one woman to faint. When they find Rebecca hiding in the Bad Doggie ballroom, they rejoice that they've finally found the one for them. Except with curvaceous, delicious Rebecca, their roles are reversed. Instead of rushing into the arms of sleek and sexy Carson, Rebecca clings to Aidan. Carson should rejoice in her acceptance of Aidan, but jealousy rears its ugly head, destroying their triad before it has a moment to form. Then things go from jealousy-driven bad to worse when the five families decide there won't be any more Wickhams joining the wolfy family trees. Oh, right, she forgot that part. Apparently her Wickham cousins are kind of a big deal in werewolf land. Big. The Alpha Marked series: The Wickham Sisters Scarlet Gabriella Whitney The Twynham Sisters l ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dana Lane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031003/bk_adbl_031003_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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13 Mistakes You Are Making Right Now That Are Ruining Your Marriage: A Practical Guide to Turn Your Marriage Around Through Mutual Listening, Understanding, and Love , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 214min
Are you living with something worse than an unhappy marriage without even knowing it?We all know the honeymoon stage of a relationship: Everything your partner does is perfect, every conversation goes smoothly, and it seems that it will be that way forever.But, we also know that just like honeymoons, this period won't last forever. Some of these blissful starts create relationships that last a lifetime, while others crash and burn.Do you remember when your spouse gave you a present for the first time? Or the first time you had a meaningful conversation?We all carry with us the memories that our relationships are built on, but it can be hurtful and frustrating to realize that those experiences seem to exist solely in the past.What most people overlook when worrying about a ruined marriage is that it takes time to decide what kind of marriage yours will be.Ending up in an unhappy marriage is a trying enough ordeal on its own, but imagine waking up one day and realizing that you've been living in one for months, or even years!Maybe you've had the same realization strike you. Here's what makes you different: You refuse to ignore what's happening or put up with feeling unheard for even a moment longer.In 13 Mistakes You Are Making Right Now That Are Ruining Your Marriage, here is just a fraction of what you will discover:Techniques for identifying the areas of your relationship that need the most work, and what you can do to improve them in your own marriage The four distinct communication styles we use and how understanding their unique quirks can revolutionize how you and your spouse talk How giving your partner your undivided attention can take quality time from an afterthought to a loving and affirming experience Actionable strategies to assert yourself in your relationship dynamic and tackle the difficult conversations that every couple has to work throug ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Marlowe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/221372/bk_acx0_221372_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Before You Say I Do , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 120min
The ultimate power base of the Black man and woman is the family. In family, we learn our past and define our future, and occasionally, because of family, we redefine our future. The rise of the Black man and woman will be a direct reflection of the elevation of the family.Our families nurture us and are the lens through which we first view the world. The initial establishment of a relationship creates a dynamic ripple effect that can either negatively or positively impact the soul of the person for generations to come.The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan once said, "They breed horses better than they breed people", meaning that more care and consideration goes into preserving and extending the blood line of thorough-bred horses than goes into perfecting and evolving the human being.When Allah (God) is the true center of the relationship, then gods come forward, and progress is unlimited, but when Allah (God) is an afterthought, then the progress of the couple is limited, stymied, and erratic, at best. In his first book, Bro. Nuri Muhammad wants to create a paradigm shift, wherein the listener will evolve to see family as the perfect reflection of the first Allah's self-creation and that family formation in this critical time must be seen as the foundation of dynasties.We are not only living in the now, we are creating the future through our words, deeds, and actions. That which is done out of sync with the time is done in vain and is born from a reptilian mind-set. The entire existence of reptiles can be categories as a struggle to ensure three primary and primal needs: food, procreation (sex), and the seeking of shelter from the elements. For far too many people, these same primal needs have become the motivating foundation for entering into relationships.We can no longer - as a people - afford to think only in terms of the now; we must think in terms of the future perfect tense before you say "I do". This is the distil ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: NVMD Studios Taigo X. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/214667/bk_acx0_214667_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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