Tag: nonfiction

New Release: SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE

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Audiobook cover of Simplify Your Life: Get organized and stay that way by Marsha Ramsland. A photo of clear food containers with light green plastic lids stacked on top of each other. The text and image has a clean and simple aesthetic with text to "Learn the "PUSH" sequence" in yellow. Ready to simplify your life and reclaim your time?

Dive into SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE by Marcia Ramsland, an audiobook filled with practical tips and the ‘PuSH’ Sequence to declutter your life and maintain a stress-free lifestyle. 📚✨

Get organized, manage your schedule, and enjoy more quality time, starting today! Available now in audio format. 🎧

From the Publisher:

Is it really possible to simplify your life? The answer is a resounding “yes,” if you know the necessary steps to unclutter your life and lifestyle. Get the inside scoop from professional organizer Marcia Ramsland and begin to solve your life management issues like a pro. With fast-paced, step-by-step instructions, Marcia walks you through refreshing new ways to manage your daily schedule, your life at home and at work, and special seasons of your life such as parenting, the holidays, and transitions.

Simplify Your Life reveals do-able tips and practical systems using Marcia’s trademark “PuSH” Sequence—an acronym for Project, you (the key component), System, Habit—which not only gets you organized but help you stay that way. Tips include how to:

✔️Create the illusion of a clean home in just minutes each day
✔️Predict a pending time crunch . . . and sail through it
✔️Dissolve any paper pile by answering three key questions
✔️Power through projects you never get around to
✔️Learn how to put things back together when everything falls apart

Offering practical solutions designed to change your life immediately, this simplified style of living gives you and your loved ones more time to do the things you really enjoy—starting today.

Accompanying charts and menu plans are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE is available wherever books are sold, including Apple Books, Libro.fm, Chirp, and Audible.

New Release: The Gender Identity Workbook for Kids

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audiobook cover wth white background, for The Gender Identity Workbook for Kids (in mauve lettering): A Guide to Exploring Who You Are (in sky blue letters). A full length of a child about 4 years old wearing a black leotard, a poofy tutu in light blue and mauve. The child is spinning, making the skirt expand. Other text: 37 simple, fun activites to help kids. By Kelly Stork LCSWI’m honored to have narrated this workbook that released last month! THE GENDER IDENTITY WORKBOOK FOR KIDS by Kelly Stork LCSW allows children, their parents, families, and all others involved in a child’s development help guide children in fully exploring who they really are — inside and out.

From the Publisher:

Transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) children need validation and support on their journey toward self-discovery. Unfortunately, due to stigma and misinformation, these kids can be especially vulnerable to bullying, discrimination, and even mental health issues such as anxiety or depression. The good news is that there are steps you can take to empower your child as they explore, understand, and affirm their gender identity. This important workbook will guide you both.

In this guide, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in gender-nonconforming youth offers real tools to help your child thrive in all aspects of life. You and your child will discover a more expansive way of understanding gender; gain insight into gender diverse thoughts, feelings, and experiences; and find engaging activities with fun titles such as “Apple, Oranges, and Fruit Bowls” and “Pronoun Town” to help your child to explore their own unique identity in a way that is age-appropriate and validating.

No child experiences gender in a vacuum, and children don’t just transition—families do. Let this workbook guide you and your child on this important journey in their lives.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

 

THE GENDER IDENTITY WORKBOOK FOR KIDS is available wherever audiobooks are sold, including Libro.fm,  Chirp, and Audible.

New Release: HOW TO LOSE THE INFORMATION WAR

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audiobook cover for How To Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict by Nina Jankowicz, narrated by Amy Deuchler. Image is white text with a blurred shadow effect over a multicolored background of yellow, orange, vivid purple, and streaks of cobalt, magenta and neon green, which provides the feeling of abstract movementYesterday, the audiobook for HOW TO LOSE THE INFORMATION WAR: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict by Nina Jankowicz released to the world!

Special thanks to Grover Gardner at Blackstone Publishing for asking me to audition!

From the Publisher:

Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: What can the West do about it?

Central and Eastern European states, however, have been aware of the threat for years. Nina Jankowicz has advised these governments on the front lines of the information war. The lessons she learnt from that fight—and from her attempts to get US congress to act—make for essential listening.

How to Lose the Information War takes the listener on a journey through five Western governments’ responses to Russian information warfare tactics—all of which have failed. She journeys into the campaigns the Russian operatives run, and shows how we can better understand the motivations behind these attacks and how to beat them. Above all, this book shows what is at stake: the future of civil discourse and democracy, and the value of truth itself.

HOW TO LOSE THE INFORMATION WAR: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict is available at most places audiobooks are sold and distributed, including Amazon, Audible, Chirp, Libro.fm, and Overdrive.

New Release: THE SHIFT

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You guys! I am so excited to announce THE SHIFT by Gary Foster, CSO of Weight Watchers, is now available!

 

I’m so grateful to Guy Oldfield at Macmillan Audio for asking me to tell the success stories of multiple women throughout the book. Weight loss and weight maintenance is HARD (believe me, I know this), and hearing how one little thing – mindset – changed that for these women is really inspiring!

 

Thank you also to Gary Foster for writing about using mindset first to meet your goals instead of the prescription of “eat this, not that.” *This* I can get on board with.

And lastly, I can now say I have narrated a book with the amazing Gary Bennett and Joel Richards!

From the Publisher:

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

Gary Foster’s The Shift is not about what to eat or not eat. It’s not about when to eat. It’s about building thinking habits, proven through science, that help you lose weight.

Can you lose weight before you value your body? Are big goals needed to achieve big results? Do you deserve to go it alone because you got yourself into this? Is it possible for a weight-loss journey to avoid setbacks? Must gratitude and happiness wait until you’ve succeeded at your wellness goal?

No. To all of it.

Dr. Foster’s seven mindset shifts show you how – and why – to treat yourself in a way that feels better and primes you for likelier success. His argument and the techniques in each chapter, built on years of research and breakthroughs in cognitive behavioral therapy and positive psychology, can lead to results on the scale – but, more important, in your own thinking. The Shift flips old-fashioned weight-loss theory on its head, training you to recognize when your thinking is taking you away from your goals, to focus on action rather than outcome, and to value non-scale victories more than the number on the digital display. It’s evidence-based motivation – and it really works!

The seven mindset shifts include learning to enhance the traits you like best about yourself, leaning into your strengths, appreciating the power of small steps (and more frequent reward), finding your people, and truly relaxing into happiness and gratitude.

“Diet thinking” isn’t habit-forming; mindset thinking is. And muscular yet kind mental habits, like the ones found in The Shift, are key to permanent, positive change.

 

You can listen to the audiobook of THE SHIFT on Audible, or pretty much anywhere audiobooks are sold.

New Release: HELPING FAMILIES RECOVER FROM ADDICTION

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Audiobook cover for Helping Families Recover from Addiction by Jean HeatonI’m so pleased to announce this release to audio: HELPING FAMILIES RECOVER FROM ADDICTION: Coping, Growing, and Healing through 12-Step Practices and Ignatian Spirituality by Jean Heaton, published by Loyola Press.

A “relevant, timely and a very necessary book as this disease of addiction reaches epidemic proportions in our current society. Jean helps us to recognize and understand how our loved one’s addictions affect the entire family dynamic. . . Jean’s universal message is crystal clear: it is a message of hope, healing, unity and love.” -Donna Rathgeb, Amazon Review

Thank you to the team at Loyola Press for allowing me to tell Jean Heaton’s lovely story of love for family, overcoming shame and moving to hope, and commitment to paying-it-foward.

Publisher’s Summary:

A story-driven, integrative, and practical book to help families heal from the effects of a loved one’s addiction and move forward into a healthy future.

 

HELPING FAMILIES RECOVER FROM ADDICTION is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.

New Release: SCANDAL IN THE PARISH

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I’m excited to announce that SCANDAL IN THE PARISH: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France by Karen E. Carter, is now available as an audiobook.

Challenging both my narration skill and my knowledge of religion in relationship to the French Revolution, SCANDAL IN THE PARISH studies the important relationship between parishioners and the priests in small, rural parishes of France, and “forcefully corrects the notion that Catholicism declined in importance in the period before the Revolution.”

“Well-written and clearly argued study.” – Jeremy Hayhoe, UniversitĂ© de Moncton

From the Publisher:

In 1770, the priest Nicolas Vernier was accused of neglecting church services, inappropriate behaviour in the confessional, financial improprieties, and affairs with the village schoolmistresses. In a contentious church court case, parishioners described all of their priest’s wrongdoings, and in turn, he detailed many of theirs. Ultimately, Vernier finished his career as a cathedral canon in another diocese. 

Scandal in the Parish recounts Vernier’s story and many similar 18th-century cases. In fascinating detail that reveals essential facets of rural religion during the Catholic Reformation period, Karen Carter considers French lay people’s relationship with their parish curĂ©, who governed and influenced so much of their religious practice. Although the priest’s role as purveyor of God’s grace through the sacraments was secure as long as he performed his duties appropriately, priests who were unable to navigate the pressures and high expectations put on them by their superiors and parishioners risked broken relationships, public disturbances of the peace, and even prosecution. These scandals, Carter demonstrates, tell us much about rural parish life, the processes of negotiation and accommodation between curĂ©s and their parishioners, and ongoing religious reforms and enforcement throughout the 18th century. 

An engaging venture into the world of the parish that highlights the centrality of the priest-parishioner relationship, Scandal in the Parish reveals the attitudes and practices of ordinary people who were active agents in their religious and spiritual lives.

The book is published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

SCANDAL IN THE PARISH is available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.