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Self publishing is the way to get into the marketplace these days. Jenny Hudson is an expert at it and provides a succinct way to get started, develop your writing plan, work on editing, prepare your cover, promote, and get reviews and support for your activities. A must listen for all people interested in self-publishing.

Market Your Book points out that even the best-selling authors, such as James Patterson, must do this. To succeed you must too. This one-hour audiobook, by expert Jenny Hudson of Merrimack Media, leads starting and self publishing authors through the steps. It starts with how to make your book fly in the marketplace and includes tips and tools for creating interest, developing a marketing plan, building your audience, and promoting through social media. It also includes an excellent checklist. A must listen for all authors.

An introductory guide to the subject to get you started. Rob has great insights but doesn't pretend to know it all and acknowledges how the field is growing. Provides lots of practical tips to get started right away to expand your work and personal contacts.

George Washington was the Mozart of American politics who succeeded in ways no President since has. He was the head of the military and resigned when the war was over; George III, his opponent, called him "the greatest man of our age" for voluntarily giving up power. Washington set the precedent of serving only two terms that was not broken until FDR, and then a Constitutional Amendment was passed to prevent that temptation in the future. Washington was nominated by John Adams to run the Constitutional Convention and was later elected unanimously by the Electoral College to be president.

Here is the story of Deaver Brown and Simply Magazine facing two critical sales presentations to move forward the company. Created by serial entrepreneur Deaver Brown, this audio contains key background information and analysis, plus 16 crucial questions for students to review to make their work more productive and meaningful. This is one of the few pure sales cases offered in business and MBA programs. Versions of this story are contained in Babson, Texas, Stanford, and Harvard case studies.

Practical health guides with no extremism. Simple to follow rules to follow the habits of the happiest and healthiest people, learn to sleep soundly at night, use a food plan that will eliminate diets forever and keep you healthy for the rest of your life, and use yoga for exercise and thought mellowing, with no politics involved.

The Truckers Health Guide was suggested by a number of truckers who used the CDL to study for their tests as well as those who read our general health guides. This audiobook is specifically focused on the constraints drivers suffer from: long rides, being away from home, tempted by comfort food and drink, and a lack of easy exercising opportunities. A must read for drivers as well as sales people with many of the same issues.

Collections presents the approach that gets the most collection dollars and has the highest percentage ability to keep your late customers and get them out of the bad pay habit. Collections is about selling companies and people to pay you. Have the end in mind: they have the money; your job is to get them to send their money to you. A must listen for all business people involved in finance and collections.

>"Killed at Resaca" is the story of a brave man, loved by his fellow soldiers and driven by a heartless, beautiful woman. Full of Bierce's infamous sense of outrage and morality, this is a classic Civil War story.

A story of betrayal by a wife that launches a man into war; thought makes him a Yankee, feeling a Southerner, and he fights for his thoughts. The dignitary who signed his papers comes to the front for the ironic end.

The Civil War divided West Point graduates as the North tried to get Robert E. Lee to be their Commander in Chief, brothers, and here son and father, with lamentable results.

Considered one of the great American short stories; Kurt Vonnegut said it was the best. Set in the Civil War with a Southwestern humor twist worthy of Mark Twain, but much grimmer. The story of betrayal as a Northern Scout in the Civil War lures a planter to blow up a bridge so he can be caught and hanged. Short, concise, worthy.

Chickamauga is a heart-rending Civil War story told through the eyes of a lost boy. The child bears witness to the atrocities of war. He sees dying men crawling across the ground, and later returns to his old homestead, only to find it has been largely destroyed. A must read for people interested in the Civil War and Americana in general, this short story by Ambrose Bierce sheds new light war and its aftermath.

"The Story of a Conscience" is a classic story by Ambrose Bierce, relating how soldiers are often closer to one another, on either side of a war, than to outsiders. This story probes the depths of complicated issues that come up during wartime, including loyalty, trust, and of course, conscience.

This story wonderfully combines a murder trial and apparitions - or more plainly, ghosts. It describes a moment in the life of a bored bank official who has an alarming experience. A great story, smoothly presented by the pen of Dickens. (American accent narration.)

> Conflict Resolution, Volume 2: More Training emphasizes more in-depth identifying and solving of conflicts. The basic plan continues from Volume 1: how to work to see if you can conclude by saying, "Let it Be as You Say," in order to build a bridge to the other side.This volume is more complete than Volume 1. If you wish to buy only one, we would suggest Volume 2 for those who want more in-depth analysis and Volume 1 for those who want a quicker listen.

Dr. John Sand is a Board Certified physician in Family Practice. He is a sleep expert and a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Sand presents a straightforward approach to get you off pills. He tells how the medical community has become increasingly concerned about over the counter drugs including sleep medicine and underscores the special magic of sleep that can restore us to a wonderful state each morning.

This is the simplest guide to weight loss, getting your weight in balance for the long term, and living a healthy life. The author lost 40 lbs through this plan. But more importantly, as he says, he kept the weight off, the thing most of us fail to do over and over again. The plan emphasizes the overall goal of changing your food plan, not dieting which never seems to work. The plan emphasizes investing in your calories as you would in a financial plan.

"The Knife" is a story about temptation, a near betrayal, and then a recovery. A cycle of danger and redemption, told with Crane's ironic touch. A black man with a penchant for fun jokes with the White owner of a watermelon patch. They both enjoy the racial stereotyping image of the black man being entranced by watermelons. Well, Peter Washington has a moment of such entrancement. He tells his friend Alek Williams and they work themselves into a fit of envy about those watermelons....

"An Episode of War", which is quite short, is an unexpected Stephen Crane jewel. Crane is best known for three short stories, "The Open Boa"t, thought by many to be the best short story ever written, "The Blue Hotel", and "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky". "An Episode of War" is perhaps the best known of the other ten Crane stories.