The Four Swords
A Parable of Leadership, Video Games, and Dead Dragons
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Paul Tozour
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Four friends meet a mysterious stranger with a robotic voice, and their lives are changed forever.
Working under industry legend Mickey Whitmore, Jake and Leo have spent the last two years developing a sequel to a successful shooter and role-playing game at Scrub-Liminal Studios in Austin, Texas. Meanwhile, Tim and Allison are working on a hugely anticipated new sci-fi space-exploration game at Green Gryphon Games on the outskirts of town under the eccentric leadership of Bentley Bartle. The friends tell the robotic voice their riveting story of teamwork, ambition, struggle, tragedy, and office politics.
The Four Swords: A Parable of Leadership, Video Games, and Dead Dragons is replete with extraordinary personal suffering and the clash of expectations and personalities. The Four Swords gives a unique and entertaining "in the trenches" take on how teams succeed or fail as the friends navigate their quest to achieve video game development greatness. Revealing the critical role of leadership and values, how values drive culture, and how culture drives outcomes, The Four Swords captures the rare point of view of hardworking video game developers doing everything they can to help their teams succeed.
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Enter the world of Metamorphosis Online, a fully immersive video game where players compete for spots in the Global Top 10 - ranks that actually pay you to play the game. Gracie doesn't play the game to make money...at first. Broke, single, and working a crappy job as a blackjack dealer, Gracie's just blowing off steam and having fun. Can playing a new type of immersive game help her overcome real-life issues, or will it cause more problems?
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4 out of 5 stars
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soundtrack
- By Kindle Customer on 02-08-20
By: Natalie Grey, and others
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The Best of Us
- By: Karen Traviss
- Narrated by: Fred Tatasciore
- Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,059
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 976
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 972
The West has been devastated by epidemics, bio-terrorism, war, and famine. Asia has shut its borders to keep the threats at bay, and some with power and influence have already abandoned Earth. Now an escape route a century in the making - the Nomad mission - finally offers hope to a small town and a secret research centre hidden in a rural American backwater. Shrouded in lies and concealed even from the research centre's staff, Nomad is about to fulfil its long-dead founder's vision of preserving the best of humanity to forge a new future. But who decides who's worthy?
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4 out of 5 stars
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what the hell? not galaxys edge. total retcon.
- By Ethomas on 12-06-19
By: Karen Traviss
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88 Names
- A Novel
- By: Matt Ruff
- Narrated by: Ewan Chung
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 94
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4 out of 5 stars 80
John Chu is a “sherpa” - a paid guide to online role-playing games. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor. Chu’s new client, "Mr. Jones", claims to be a “wealthy, famous person” with powerful enemies, and he’s offering a ridiculous amount of money for a comprehensive tour. For Chu, this is a dream assignment, but then he begins to suspect that Mr. Jones is really North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. But Chu also has to worry about “Ms. Pang”, and his angry ex-girlfriend, Darla Jean Covington....
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3 out of 5 stars
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I love this author... didn’t love this book.
- By Anonymous User on 03-30-20
By: Matt Ruff
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Planetside
- By: Michael Mammay
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,715
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6,172
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,160
War heroes aren't usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl Butler answers the call from an old and powerful friend, he knows it's something big - and he's not being told the whole story. A high councilor's son has gone MIA out of Cappa Base, the space station orbiting a battle-ravaged planet. The young lieutenant had been wounded and evacuated - but there's no record of him having ever arrived at hospital command.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Refreshing Sci-Fi
- By Chris Duemig on 08-01-18
By: Michael Mammay
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Black Founder
- The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider
- By: Stacy Spikes
- Narrated by: Stacy Spikes
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story5 out of 5 stars 59
From the award-winning entrepreneur USA Today named one of the twenty-one most influential Blacks in technology comes an empowering, bracingly honest, entertaining blueprint for success in life and work—including the true story of what really happened to MoviePass—straight from the cofounder and former CEO himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Epic Journey
- By Amazon Customer on 10-04-24
By: Stacy Spikes
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Max of the Rebellion
- The Last Time Loop, Book 1
- By: Anton Emelianov, Sergei Savinov
- Narrated by: Joshua Story
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 139
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4 out of 5 stars 121
Any kind of death annuls everything except his present knowledge and returns him to the past. This is a good way to test all sorts of things. That is, it would be, if not for one little thing.... This loop has real lords and it's unlikely that they'll be happy to hear about an uninvited guest. And that isn't his only problem - all of his memories of the last year have simply disappeared, but the world around him has changed in the meantime.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Great
- By Erik on 04-30-20
By: Anton Emelianov, and others
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O Great One!
- A Little Story About the Awesome Power of Recognition
- By: David Novak, Christa Bourg - contributor
- Narrated by: James Foster
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 192
Based on real experiences that David Novak had as the Chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands, this parable will empower listeners to recognize the contributions of those around them in order to drive bigger and better results. It's not hard, it's not expensive, and you don't need an MBA or even a position of authority to do it. It's a deceptively simple principle that can have a huge impact on both your life and your business.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome story with great principles
- By Anonymous User on 10-16-18
By: David Novak, and others
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Booked for Murder
- Poppy Perkins Mystery, Book 1
- By: Jasmine Webb
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 348
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 284
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 284
When Poppy Perkins decides to talk back to a customer who thinks it’s okay to scream at her over donuts, Poppy knows she’s going to get fired. But what she doesn’t expect is for the customer to be a local celebrity, and for a video of their interaction to go viral—or for the customer to drop dead five minutes later, poisoned by the donut Poppy had just served him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great performance!
- By Tori Cerda on 03-02-23
By: Jasmine Webb
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Conversations with My Agent (and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke)
- By: Rob Long
- Narrated by: Rob Long
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Barely out of film school, Rob Long struck the jackpot and landed a job on the phenomenally successful TV sitcom Cheers. However, with the demise of the show, Long was faced with the question, "Is there life after Cheers?" Mercilessly witty about the daunting process of setting up a new series and getting it on air, these two audiobooks tell the absurd tale of what came next.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The writers should run the business
- By Charles on 04-21-23
By: Rob Long
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Works Well with Others
- An Outsider's Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting up, Handling Jerks, and Other Crucial Skills in Business That No One Ever Teaches You
- By: Ross McCammon
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Story4 out of 5 stars 89
This is McCammon's honest, funny, and entertaining journey from impostor to authority - a story that begins with periods of debilitating workplace anxiety but leads to rich insights and practical advice from a guy who still remembers what it's like to feel entirely ill equipped for professional success.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Amusing but really limited
- By Margaret on 11-24-15
By: Ross McCammon
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Game Changer
- By: Neal Shusterman
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden, Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 271
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Story4 out of 5 stars 242
An explosive new novel by the author of the National Book Award-winning Challenger Deep and the New York Times best-selling Arc of a Scythe series, about the limited ways we see our world - and how a jolt out of the ordinary can upend the universe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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mind expanding questions are asked and explored.
- By Klokfixr on 02-11-21
By: Neal Shusterman