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Profit First
- Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
- By: Mike Michalowicz
- Narrated by: Mike Michalowicz
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 178
Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The story of someone who never read a finance book
- By Hippsternation on 12-08-23
- Profit First
- Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
- By: Mike Michalowicz
- Narrated by: Mike Michalowicz
A gift wrapping that never ends
Reviewed: 11-28-23
This book is like one of those prank gifts a friend might get for your birthday to make a hilarious surprise watching you struggle to open one gift box after another. You know, the one that starts with a huge gift box that has a smaller one inside also wrapped and taped, and then another one, and another, like a nesting doll. And you keep tearing down that silly shiny paper, and keep cutting through carton, only to unravel more of the same stuff without getting to the actual gift that turns out to be a mediocre meaningless useless excuse of an item placed at the very bottom of the very last package for the sake of a prank.
This book offers some very basic, minimally useful information with a whole lot of shiny wrapping paper alongside plenty of pathetic attempts at poorly written dad jokes.
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The Coldest Case: A Black Book Audio Drama
- By: James Patterson, Aaron Tracy, Ryan Silbert
- Narrated by: Aaron Paul, Krysten Ritter, Nathalie Emmanuel, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22,802
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20,593
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20,477
In The Coldest Case: A Black Book Audio Drama, homicide detective Billy Harney sends his new partner, Kate, deep undercover in a notorious Chicago drug ring. When several members of the ring soon turn up dead, Billy abruptly pulls Kate out, blowing her cover. Kate’s informant inside the gang quickly disappears. As does the ring’s black book.... When Billy can’t find the informant, he wonders if Kate is secretly harboring her, since the two grew close during Kate's weeks undercover.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rizzoli & Isles, minus Isles, and starring Frankie
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 03-11-21
Tribute to 2000’s Action Movies
Reviewed: 07-30-21
Corny dad jokes and stereotypical idioms have completely killed this already mediocre story that lacks logic in many places.
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The Deepest Well
- Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
- By: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Narrated by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,146
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,892
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,886
Two-thirds of us have experienced at least one adverse childhood experience, or ACE, such as abuse, neglect, parental substance dependence, or mental illness. Even though these events may have occurred long ago, they have the power to haunt us long into adulthood, and now we have found that they may even contribute to lifelong illness. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, the founder/CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness and recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award, expands on similar topics as in her popular TED talk.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A waste of time.
- By Sharrie DeCouto on 06-13-18
- The Deepest Well
- Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
- By: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Narrated by: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
Opposite Effect
Reviewed: 07-24-21
I can’t put a finger on it quite yet right after finishing The Deepest Well, but I have a feeling that Dr Burke is not being a 100% sincere. Maybe it’s her manner of speaking or the way she chose to structure this book, or maybe it’s my own ACE score talking, whatever it is, the book had an opposite effect on my appreciation for knowledge of ACE. Disappointedly, the only question I have left upon finishing it is So What? We have been well aware for ages that ACE of any sort is more likely to suppress and depress a person rather than make them stronger. The wonderful work Dr Burke and colleagues have done provides medical proof of ACE affecting our physical health just as much as mental. And still, so what? If causing mental issues was not enough for bad parents to stop being bad, do you think knowing that they are also causing psychical harm would help them stop being bad? What difference does it really make whether you and your caregivers are aware of the ACE score? There’s some satisfaction in understanding why you are the way you are for about a minute but then you are right back to dealing with current situation? Dr Burke can teach me how to change a tire, nevertheless I’m still stuck with the same old car. Knowing, researching, and learning about ACE for over a year did not help me a bit, unfortunately…
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You Should Have Known
- By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,770
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,560
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,555
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: She lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended. Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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watch out -- you will have trouble unplugging
- By DrK on 05-16-14
- You Should Have Known
- By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Not the Undoing
Reviewed: 11-26-20
I had no idea the TV series is so much different than this original story and, frankly, I prefer the TV version even though the book is also quite good. It makes you ask questions and think on topics that arise out of the story but can exist without it, so the actual plot feels like a background to the real story happening in Grace’s mind. To the narrator: please practice your Scottish accent a bit more or do not attempt it at all as it sounds like a mockery.
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Malorie
- A Bird Box Novel
- By: Josh Malerman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,246
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,126
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,125
Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. One glimpse of the creatures that stalk the world will drive a person to unspeakable violence. There remains no explanation. No solution. All Malorie can do is survive - and impart her fierce will to do so on her children. But then comes what feels like impossible news. And with it, the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope. Someone very dear to her, someone she believed dead, may be alive.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just *dreadful* - Unbelievably awful!
- By Ole Hippie on 07-30-20
- Malorie
- A Bird Box Novel
- By: Josh Malerman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Adolescent Drama
Reviewed: 11-16-20
Disappointing, dissatisfactory, dull adolescent drama. Huge chunks of story do not make sense and feel like patches that only attract more attention to the holes they are meant to cover. Although, the Twilight saga fans would probably enjoy this novel.
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The Outsider
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63,604
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57,573
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 57,342
An 11-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Will Patton great - story so so
- By Randall on 06-19-18
- The Outsider
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton
Good Old Stephen King
Reviewed: 06-07-18
Finally, some good old Stephen King story. Remember It? Remember Desperation/Regulators? Well... It’s back!
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Behind Closed Doors
- By: B. A. Paris
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57,011
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 51,241
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51,182
Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He's a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You're hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow
- By Designs by Prim on 08-15-16
- Behind Closed Doors
- By: B. A. Paris
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
Keira Knightly Should Play the Main Character
Reviewed: 05-25-18
I can totally see a movie getting made based on this story with Keira Knightly playing the main character. Also, I hope every one of us has such a good friend at the end. Superb performance.
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Touch & Go
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Gardner
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,872
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,071
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,083
Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you’d find in the pages of a glossy magazine: A beautiful 14-year-old daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. A great marriage, admired by all. A perfect life. When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes’ home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and a million tiny pieces of bright green Taser confetti. The family appears to have been abducted.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Go-To for Going
- By Mel on 02-26-13
- Touch & Go
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Gardner
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Good Detective
Reviewed: 03-25-16
Well-written investigative story with an interesting twist. Great choice of a narrator - wonderful and emotional reading/performance.
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
- Stories
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Brooke Bloom, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,055
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,958
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,946
A master storyteller at his best - the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King's finest gifts to his constant fan. "I made them especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth."
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5 out of 5 stars
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HE'S A CUP OF COFFEE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 12-10-15
- The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
- Stories
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Brooke Bloom, Hope Davis, Kathleen Chalfant, Santino Fontana, Peter Friedman
Not the best of King
Reviewed: 02-11-16
Most stories are hard to follow. Moreover, most of them don't answer the "so what?" question. Lazy Stephen King. My favorite is the "Bad Little Kid" but even this story seems unfinished. "Ur" - great idea and an amazing dream that leaves a feeling that King got bored of it halfway through the writing.
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