67 Results for : overachiever
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My Life as an Extra , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 476min
After an unexpected divorce, Marla Goldberg yearns to believe "someday is now" and pursue her dream of being an actress in Chicago. But how can she quit her frustrating radio station account executive job when she's only booking work as an extra? When she dips her toes into the daunting dating pool, her first "date" wants to meet in a pet store parking lot. Other forays yield equally unfortunate results that make her friends laugh out loud. As she seeks a talent agent and speaking roles, it's one step forward, one step back. When told to eat a muffin at a commercial audition, her mouth is so dry she can't spit it out in time to say her line. Dealing with overachiever siblings, judgmental parents and longing to make her dreams come true, she struggles to learn the hardest lesson of all: how to feel special when you're not the star. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Theis, Ruth Kaufman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/098628/bk_acx0_098628_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Start Right Where You Are: How Little Changes Can Make a Big Difference for Overwhelmed Procrastinators, Frustrated Overachievers, and Recovering Perfectionists , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 362min
What are you waiting for? An overwhelmed procrastinator, frustrated overachiever, and recovering perfectionist herself, Sam Bennett knows all the ways we avoid pursuing our dreams and reaching our goals. She also knows how to "get it done". Start Right Where You Are is an easy-to-hear, easy-to-do guidebook for anyone who wants to change their life but doesn't know where or how to begin. Of course, the process of getting out of your own way, raising your self-esteem, improving your relationships, and making better choices can be a bumpy road. But Bennett's fun, original voice lets you know that you've got a friend along the way, a friend who offers a comforting cup of tea - or a bracing shot of whiskey, depending. Her gentle-kiss-on-the-cheek and loving-thwack-upside-the-head attitude gives us what we all need: inspiration, shortcuts, and breathing room. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sam Bennett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/newl/000066/bk_newl_000066_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Twisted Sisters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 514min
Reagan Bishop is a pusher. A licensed psychologist who stars on the Wendy Winsberg cable breakout show I Need a Push, Reagan helps participants become their best selves by urging them to overcome obstacles and change behaviors. An overachiever, Reagan is used to delivering results. Despite her overwhelming professional success, Reagan never seems to earn her family's respect. Her younger sister, Geri, is and always will be the Bishop family favorite. When a national network buys Reagan's show, the pressures for unreasonably quick results and higher ratings mount. But Reagan's a clinician, not a magician, and fears witnessing her own personal failings in prime time. (And seriously? Her family will never let her hear the end of it.) Desperate to make the show work and keep her family at bay, Reagan actually listens when the show's New Age healer offers an unconventional solution… Record Nielsen ratings follow. But when Reagan decides to use her newfound power to teach everyone a lesson about sibling rivalry, she's the one who will be schooled… ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jen Lancaster. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002288/bk_peng_002288_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 561min
When Michael Collins decided to become a surgeon, he was totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow residents, Collins felt inadequate and unprepared. All too soon the euphoria of beginning his career as an orthopedic resident gave way to the feeling he was a counterfeit, an imposter who had infiltrated a society of brilliant surgeons. This story of Collins' four-year surgical residency traces his rise from an eager but clueless first-year resident to accomplished chief resident in his final year. With unparalleled humor he recounts the disparity between people's perceptions of a doctor's glamorous life and the real thing: a succession of run-down cars that are towed to the junkyard, long weekends moonlighting at rural hospitals, a family that grows larger every year, and a laughable income. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Pruden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/007134/bk_tant_007134_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Distance Home , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 559min
Must a child's past define their future?In 1960s rural America two siblings grow up in a place of love and turmoil. Rene is the apple of her father’s eye: an overachiever, athletic, clever, the best brain in class and the best dancer in school. Her older brother, Leon, doted on by his mother, is shy, a stutterer, but also a brilliant dancer.Rene and Leon share a talent, but it is a gift their father adores in his daughter and loathes in his son, and that could make all the difference. These two children may be best friends, but life promises to take them down very different paths....The Distance Home is the story of two children growing up side by side - the one given opportunities the other just misses - and the fallout in their adult lives. Funny and tragic, both intimate and universal, Paula Saunders' debut is about how our parents shape the adults we become. It is a hugely moving story of devotion and neglect, impossible to put down - these are characters you will forever hold close to your heart. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca Lowman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001950/bk_macm_001950_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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BIGLAW: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 617min
Mackenzie Corbett always dreamed of living in New York City. Now, almost two years into her job as an associate at a premier Manhattan law firm, she's living her fantasy - big salary, high-profile deals, cute boyfriend, designer bag on her arm. The giant bags under her eyes from lack of sleep don't fit into the fantasy, though. To make matters worse, she's being tormented by a bitter, bitchy senior associate, her boyfriend is annoyed that she never has time for him, and now she's stuck on the deal from hell with a partner whose biggest claim to fame is throwing a stapler at a cleaning lady because she touched his ficus plant. With the opportunity to secure a prestigious secondment on the line, the overachiever in her is determined to endure whatever it takes to close the biggest deal in the firm's history. But when Mackenzie finds herself the focus of a devastating investigation, her dream job begins spiraling into a nightmare. In this pitch-perfect, frighteningly accurate novel, Lindsay Cameron throws back the curtain to this intriguing world, exposing the truth about life in Biglaw. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dara Rosenberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/005734/bk_tant_005734_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Save the Date: Modern Arrangements Trilogy, Volume 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 454min
Book One of Three Aidan Iverson III, old money wealthy and blatant playboy, has never felt the need to be with one woman. Why, when he has the looks, money and a family name to rule the nightlife? And, when it thoroughly aggravates Grandfather? LILLIAN SNOWE, do-it-yourself overachiever, has a plan to keep her father healthy and living in the home where he raised her. But, how can she, when the hospital bills are piling up, the bank wants their money and she is hundreds of miles away from home? From the moment they meet, Aidan would have to be blind not to feel an attraction, especially with Lilli's work attire and feisty humor. When illness, death, debt and a mutual friend, bring these two together, feelings are hurt and someone is insulted. It takes determination, sneaky actions and cockiness to secure the deal. But, even with an iron clad marriage agreement and pre-nup in place, there are those who would seek to destroy the spark threatening to engulf our couple in a happily ever after. So, Save the Date, because you are cordially invited to the seduction of Lilli Snowe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Craig Jessen, April Grace Lowe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/012281/bk_acx0_012281_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Notes of a Crocodile , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min
A New York Times Editors' Choice The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, this cult classic is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and major countercultural figure. Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend. Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jo Mei. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/031322/bk_adbl_031322_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Sisterhood , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min
For fans of Bryony Gordon and Dolly Alderton, The Sisterhood is an honest and hilarious audiobook which celebrates the ways in which women connect with each other.'My five sisters are the only women I would ever kill for. And they are the only women I have ever wanted to kill.'Imagine living between the pages of Pride and Prejudice, in the Bennett household. Now, imagine how the Bennett girls as they'd be in the 21st century - looking like the Kardashian sisters, but behaving like the Simpsons. This is the house Daisy Buchanan grew up in.Daisy's memoir The Sisterhood explores what it's like to live as a modern woman by examining some examples close to home - her adored and infuriating sisters. There's Beth, the rebellious contrarian; Grace, the overachiever with a dark sense of humour; Livvy, the tough girl who secretly cries during adverts; Maddy, essentially Descartes with a beehive; and Dotty, the joker obsessed with RuPaul's Drag Race and bears.In this tender, funny and unflinchingly honest account, Daisy examines her relationship with her sisters and what it's made up of - friendship, insecurity jokes, jealousy and above all, love - while celebrating the ways in which women connect with each other and finding the ways in which we're all sisters under the skin. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lily Bevan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052262/bk_adbl_052262_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Virgins Double Billionaires: A MFM Billionaire Menage Romance , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 234min, (USK 18)
They're headed into Virgin territory...and they’re going to claim it. RachelleGood girl. Overachiever. Reliable.That’s how everyone knows me. But for all the years I’ve spent trying to have the perfect life, I haven’t really been living.So, when I get the chance to spread my wings - I take it. This trendy new startup is the perfect place to make a name for myself, if I can actually get the job.Rule number one: Don’t get involved in office relationships. And I’m not a rule breaker. But no one ever said that my bosses would not only be hot, charming, and seductive, but also undressing me with a single glance.What starts out as a competition between them transforms into a whole new level of sexual debauchery. They quickly teach me what it means to be spent and yearning, and the longer we are together, the more I’m discovering about myself.I don’t want this to end, but who ever heard of a happily ever after with three people?The Virgin’s Double Bosses is an achingly hot, toe-curling listen, sure to cross the line from business to pleasure. If you’re ready to submit to your wild side, then this book is for you! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sheri Stewart. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222735/bk_acx0_222735_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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