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  Beautiful Child: The Story of a Child Trapped in Silence and the Teacher Who Refused to Give Up on Her , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 762min

  In the tradition of David Pelzer's A Child Called 'It' comes the unsettling story of a mute, almost catatonic seven-year-old and the special education teacher who tries to save her from the silence and abuse of her world. Hayden has chronicled experiences from her long career as a special education teacher in several books, including One Child and The Tiger's Child. Successes in this difficult and often frustrating field can be few and hard won, a fact which Hayden deftly illustrates while simultaneously offering hope and joy in small victories. This time she brings to life the story of a scruffy seven-year-old, Venus, who is so unresponsive that Hayden searches for signs of deafness, brain damage, or mental retardation. The author is relentless in her attempt to diagnose the cause of Venus's 'almost catatonic' state, which is punctuated by occasional violent outbursts. In this first-person narrative, Hayden also shares her own thoughts, worries, and reflections on the strained relationship with a mismatched classroom aide, creating a rich tapestry of the dynamics of a group of special needs youngsters and the adults who try to help them. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Larkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/015223/bk_adbl_015223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Art of Floating , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 612min

  At a time when nothing seems real, it takes something truly unusual to put your life into focus. When her beloved husband, Jackson, disappeared without a trace, popular novelist Sia Dane stopped writing, closed down her house, stuffed her heart into a cage, and started floating. It wasn’t the normal response to heartache, but Sia rarely did things the normal way. Exactly one year, one month, and six days after Jackson’s disappearance, Sia discovers a mysterious man on the beach. He’s mute, unresponsive, and looks as if he has just walked out of the sea. It’s the sort of situation Jackson would have solved with a simple call to the police. But Jackson is gone. As unreal as he seems, Sia is determined to help this man. Perhaps she can return him to his place in the world - to whoever lost him and loves him. Perhaps she can answer their questions the way no one could answer hers. As her friends and family help her winnow her way to the truth, Sia comes to realize that the unfathomable leap between sorrow and healing begins with a single step. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christina Traister. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/005994/bk_brll_005994_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 202min

  Women and men experience the world differently - not only do they see things differently, but they see different things. Men tend to have a bottom line, sharply focused, linear way of thinking that excludes any role for emotion or empathy. Women are more empathetic, more aware of the critical impact of interpersonal factors both within and without the organization. Both perspectives are important, but at the moment organizations only reward traditionally male skills and points of view. Based on extensive research and workplace experience, The Female Vision demonstrates that what women perceive in organizations and beyond that goes unnoticed and unrewarded is exactly what so many companies need to succeed.Helgesen and Johnson delve deeply into the stories of a number of women whose vision improved their companies - although often they had to struggle not only against unresponsive organizations, peers, or others, but also against their own personal fears. They show how companies can create environments that welcome and encourage women to share what they notice, to the benefit not only of the women themselves but also, perhaps ironically, to the all important bottom line. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/002481/bk_adbl_002481_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Dead Man Dancing, A Handbook Of Stroke Survival & Recovery (eBook, ePUB)

  I always thought I was afraid of death. And yet, when they brought me back from the medical places, and I was lying paralyzed, in a metal hospital bed at home, with catheter in my dick, bedpan at my ass, attendant maid looking anxiously on, and death in a clasp around me, I found myself utterly unafraid of it. I had become afraid of life! Whether you're a stroke survivor, or a caregiver to one, the chances are you need information on absolutely every front. This book contains information from someone who used to be just another one of everyone, until, in an instant, he became incapable of independently conducting body functions, ended up dependent on those around, and became a hazard to himself. Everything in here is stroke-related, but is not all to do with medicine and exercise. I do not offer specific medical advice, although I do give details of what I did, or what may have been done to me, on the medical front. Similarly, while I am not a physiotherapist, I have worked on a frozen, unresponsive body, my own, and therefore give out insider information on what was done. Enter a terrible place, where endless effort makes nothing at all seem to happen…

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  Homeland, Hörbuch, Digital, 277min

  It is 1946, and the eve of the harshest winter for a hundred years. Servicemen are pouring home from the war to a land beset by stringent food and job shortages and a desperate housing crisis. As anti-Polish refugee propaganda reaches its height, Wladyslaw Malinowski, a young veteran of Monte Cassino, now stranded in a resettlement camp on the Somerset Levels, attempts to start a new life on a withy farm in the middle of the wetlands. His taskmaster is Billy Greer, newly de-mobbed, and itching to escape to a job in London. Stella, the local schoolteacher, has been waiting for the return of Lyndon Hanley, a hero of the Burma Campaign. But Lyndon is troubled, elusive, and ultimately unresponsive. When he goes away again, she finds herself falling for the beguiling and irrepressible Wladyslaw. As the country is brought to its knees by blizzards and coal shortages, people start to go hungry and attitudes harden. Then a death occurs on the wetlands, and it seems Wladyslaw, the outsider, will be held responsible. Homeland is Clare Francis's finest achievement. Atmospheric, rich in description, it depicts with dramatic power the turbulence of a country beggared by war, and the uncertainties of the men returning to it. Language: English. Narrator: Simon Russell Beale. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/000331/bk_macm_000331_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Vanishing Girls: Detective Josie Quinn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 700min

  She was close enough to see that the girl had written a word on the wall in bright, warm red blood. Not a word, actually. A name... Everyone in the small town of Denton is searching for Isabelle Coleman, a missing 17-year-old girl. All they've found so far is her phone and another girl they didn't even know was missing. Mute and completely unresponsive to the world around her, it's clear this mysterious girl has been damaged beyond repair. All Detective Josie Quinn can get from her is a name: Ramona. Currently suspended from the force for misconduct, Josie takes matters into her own hands as the name leads her to evidence linking the two girls. She knows the race is on to find Isabelle alive, and she fears there may be others.... The trail leads Josie to another victim, a girl who escaped but whose case was labelled a hoax by authorities. To catch this monster, Josie must confront her own nightmares and follow her instinct to the darkest of places. But can she make it out alive? Fans of Angela Marsons, Helen Fields, and Robert Dugoni will be utterly gripped and listening long into the night once they discover the first in this unputdownable new crime thriller series. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Eilidh Beaton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105454/bk_acx0_105454_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Nixon's Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Detente (Studies In Conflict Diplomacy Peace) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 777min

  Most Americans consider détente, the reduction of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, to be among the Nixon administration's most significant foreign policy successes. The diplomatic back channel that national security advisor Henry Kissinger established with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, became the most important method of achieving this thaw in the Cold War. Kissinger praised back channels for preventing leaks, streamlining communications, and circumventing what he perceived to be the US State Department's unresponsive and self-interested bureaucracy. Nixon and Kissinger's methods however, were widely criticized by State Department officials left out of the loop, and by an American press and public weary of executive branch prevarication and secrecy. Richard A. Moss's penetrating study documents and analyzes US-Soviet back channels from Nixon's inauguration, through what has widely been heralded as the apex of détente, the May 1972 Moscow Summit. He traces the evolution of confidential-channel diplomacy and examines major flashpoints, including the 1970 crisis over Cienfuegos, Cuba, the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT), US dealings with China, deescalating tensions in Berlin, and the Vietnam War. Moss argues that while the back channels improved US-Soviet relations in the short term, the Nixon-Kissinger methods provided a poor foundation for lasting policy. The audiobook is published by The University Press of Kentucky. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Peterson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095454/bk_acx0_095454_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Summary, Analysis, and Review of Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant's Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 26min

  Please note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the audiobook and not the original book. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant's Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy includes a summary of the audiobook, review, analysis & key takeaways, and detailed "About the Author" section. Preview: Part memoir and part pop psychology presentation, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant is about the struggles that Sandberg faced after her 47-year-old husband's unexpected death in 2015. Option A - the life that Sandberg always thought she would have - was to grow old with her husband. Option B was to figure out how to live her best life without him. Sandberg and her husband Dave Goldberg, were on vacation, celebrating a friend's birthday in Mexico when he died. They'd been married 11 years and had two young children. At the time of his death, the kids were staying back with Sandberg's parents in California. After Dave was missing for a few hours, Sandberg and two other people found him unresponsive. He couldn't be resuscitated, and it was a 30-minute ambulance ride to the nearest hospital. Dave died instantaneously, as it turns out, from a massive cardiac event - but Sandberg wouldn't learn that until later. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Gilboe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094469/bk_acx0_094469_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  JJ's Journey: A Story of Heroes and Heart , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 485min

  It was 2014 at Samaritan Evergreen Hospice House in Oregon, and a 90-year-old woman in a coma had been totally unresponsive for several days. The woman had no family or friends, and the staff expected she would pass very soon. Tracy, one of the nurses, went in to sit by her side during these final hours. While she was there, her dog, JJ, a staff "therapist", came to join her and hopped up on the bed. JJ snuggled up next to the elderly woman and nuzzled the woman's hand with her snout. And, the woman began stroking JJ's face. Somehow, JJ had reached her, wherever the woman was. Tracy was touched and quickly recorded it on her phone. In August 2015, that video went viral and has been seen tens of millions of times. JJ's Journey is a heartwarming memoir of a nurse and her dog, and their combined efforts to bring peace and consolation to humans in times of crisis and grief. We learn about the work done at the hospice house and the different kinds of work a therapy dog does both inside and outside of hospitals. Rich with informative detail, we also learn the intricacies of training animals for this work, the complexities of recognizing whether the dog has the right personality, and how to engage their supportive spirit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rachel Dulude. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tant/008545/bk_tant_008545_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Finding Ted James (eBook, ePUB)

  Winston and his buddies break into homes when no one is there. They do it for the rush and never take anything of value.Except for this one time.Winston agrees to break into old man Kelley's home while he and his daughter are at the theatre. However, this B&E will be different. The rumor is Kelley is a millionaire with thousands of dollars in cash laying around the house. Winston agrees to break in and steal $300, assured the old man will never miss it.But there is this one problem. The house isn't empty.Upon entering, Winston finds Mr. Kelley on the floor. He is unconscious and unresponsive. He knows he could get the money and leave. Mr. Kelley is in no position to stop him. He could go and call 9-1-1. Winston is convinced no one would know he was there.The real Winston appeared. He gave up the burglary, dials 9-1-1, and remains with Mr. Kelley until help arrives.This simple act of kindness creates an unlikely bond between Kelly and Winston. Winston agrees to move in and be Mr. Kelley's caretaker. Kelly decides to bring Winston in and provide stability and encouragement needed to become the person destiny called him to be.All actions have consequences. The consequences of Winston's actions that night change not only his life of the lives he touches as he grows into the man he was destined to become.

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