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Embracing Change by Louise L. Hay View all our Lousie Hay AudioBooks click here Embracing Change - Louise L. Hay - Audio Book CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 2 CDs In this powerful 2-CD lecture Louise L. Hay discusses the profoundly emotional experiences that have shaped and altered her belief system--and reveals how you can also "change your thinking . . . and change your life " Louise explains how she evolved from a fearful abused young woman without an ounce of self-esteem . . . to the successful empowered internationally renowned teacher/author that she is today. In her inimitably forthright manner Louise describes how she overcame a diagnosis of cancer through the use of "tools" such as affirmations visualization prayer therapy and healthful eating. She goes on to offer in more advice
Heart of the Sea by Nora RobertsGet other Horror Fiction AudioBooks here Darcy Gallagher has always believed in the pull of fate the magic of legend . . . and the importance of money. She longs to find a rich man who will sweep her away - into a world filled with glamour and adventure and the exotic life that is her destiny. A wealthy businessman with Irish blood Trevor Magee has come to Ardmore to build a theater - and uncover secrets hidden in his family's past. He thought he had given up on love long ago but Darcy Gallagher tempts him like no woman ever has. She's gorgeous intelligent and she knows what she wants - and he's more than willing to give it to her. But as their mutual attraction flares into passion they look into their hearts - and find out what happens when you truly believe. . . Nora Roberts returns to the lush green hills of Ireland where love is forever touched by magic - and where the Gallagher siblings explore the depths of their fiery hearts. Heart of the click here
Watch by Robert J SawyerGet other Science Fiction AudioBooks here Sixteen-year-old Caitlin Decter was born blind. But thanks to an implant in her head she can now see the real world?and also see webspace the structure of the World Wide Web. There she's found a nascent consciousness which she's helped bring forth letting it too see the world for the first time.The consciousness takes the name Webmind. Caitlin's parents know about it and so does WATCH a secret US government agency that monitors terrorist activity on the Web (violating civil liberties as it does so). Caitlin is convinced that Webmind is benign but her parents are afraid the public will view Webmind?which can now crack any password and read everyone's email?as Big Brother.Caitlin discovers that WATCH is on to them. She figures the best way to protect Webmind is by having it prove its benevolence to the world by eliminating all the spam from the Internet.But Caitlin's boyfriend accidentally reveals the secret of Webmind's structure to WATCH. Armed with that information the government tries to wipe out Webmind. Caitlin travels into webspace further data
Valentine's Resolve by E E KnightGet other Science Fiction AudioBooks hereGet other Vampire AudioBooks herePossessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger the Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive on the scent of fear. And if it is night as sure as darkness they will come.The Vampire Earth novels are "character-driven speculative fiction adventure at its very best." Now national best-selling author E. E. Knight continues the thrilling journey of David Valentine a man trying to survive in a New Order run by the alien Kurians and built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. It has been three years since David Valentine's forced exile from hi here
Blood Noir by Laurell K HamiltonGet other Fantasy Fiction AudioBooks hereGet other Vampire AudioBooks hereJason Schuyler is a werewolf. He's also one of Anita Blake's best friends and sometimes her lover. And right now he needs her ? not to be a vampire hunter or a federal marshal or a necromancer or even for her rank in the werewolf pack but because his father is dying. He needs Anita because she's a pretty woman who loves him who can make him look like an everyday guy who agrees to go home with him and help him say good-bye to the abusive father he never loved. The fact that Jason is about as much an everyday guy as Anita is a pretty woman is something they figure they can keep under wraps for a couple of days in a small town. How hard can that be? Really by now Anita Blake should know better. Marmee Noir ancient mother of all vampires picks this weekend to make a move. Somehow she has link here
The Tangle Box by Terry BrooksGet other Fantasy Fiction AudioBooks here Book Four in the Magic Kingdom of Landover seriesEverything should have been quiet and pleasant for Ben Holiday former Chicago lawyer become sovereign of the Magic Kingdom of Landover. But it wasn't.Horris Kew conjurer confidence-man and trickster had returned to Landover from Ben's own world. Alas Horris had not returned of his own volition - he had been sent by the Gorse a sorcerer of great evil whom Horris had unwittingly freed from the magic Tangle Box where it had long ago been imprisoned by the fairy folk. Now it had returned to enslave those who had once dared to condemn it. But first it would rid Landover of all who could stand in its way . . .Soon B click to go
A Fistful of Charms by Kim HarrisonGet other Horror Fiction AudioBooks hereGet other Fantasy Fiction AudioBooks here The evil night things that prowl Cincinnati despise witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. Her new reputation for the dark arts is turning human and undead heads alike with the intent to possess bed and kill her-not necessarily in that order.Now a mortal lover who abandoned Rachel has returned haunted by his secret past. And there are those who covet what Nick possesses-savage beasts willing to destroy the Hollows and everyone in it if necessary.Forced to keep a low profile or eternally suffer the wrath of a vengeful demon Rachel must nevertheless act quickly. For the pack is gathering for the first time in millennia to ravage and to rule. Suddenly more than Rachel's soul is at stake. Review: "Although this is her fifth outing for Tantor playing bounty-h here
The Smart Money by Michael Konik Abridged 5 CD Audio Book Set Get other Non-Fiction AudioBooks click here The Smart Money - by Michael Konik - Audio Book CD Brand New (5 CDs - 6 Hours): About The Smart Money A riveting inside look at the lucrative world of professional high-stakes sports betting by a journalist who lived a secret life as a key operative in the world's most successful sports gambling ring. When journalist Michael Konik landed an interview with Rick "Big Daddy" Matthews the largest bet he'd placed on a sporting event was 0. Konik an expert blackjack and poker player was no stranger to Vegas. But Matthews was in a different league: the man was rumored to be the world's smartest sports bettor the mastermind behind "the Brain Trust " a shadowy group of gamblers known for their expertise in beating the Vegas line. Konik had heard the word on the street -- that Mat more information.....
Chasm City by Alastair ReynoldsGet other Space Opera Science Fiction AudioBooks here Named one of the best novels of the year by both Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle Alastair Reynolds's debut Revelation Space redefined the space opera. With Chasm City Reynolds invites you to reenter the bizarre universe of his imagination as he redefines Hell...The once-utopian Chasm City-a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet-has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague capable of infecting any body organic or computerized. Now with the entire city corrupted-from the people to the very buildings they inhabit-only the most wretched sort of existence remains. For security operative Tanner Mirabel it is the landscape of nightmares through which he searches for a lowlife postmortal killer. But the stakes are raised when his search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget. In a city overrun by a virus that attacks both man and machine an agent pursues a lowlife postmortal-and uncovers a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.About the Author: Alastair Reynolds Great Britain.JOHN LEE is a more tips
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Mile 81 by Stephen KingGet other Horror Fiction AudioBooks hereGet other Stephen King Science Fiction AudioBooks here"Mile 81"is "Stand by Me" meets "Christine"--the story of an insatiable car and a heroic kid.At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded-up rest stop a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out. Not much later a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn't been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area ignoring the sign that says "closed no services." The driver's door opens but nobody gets out. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap there are half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. But two kids and a horse are the only living things left...unless you maybe count the wagon. With the heart of "Stand By Me" and click on
Eye of the Oracle by Bryan DavisGet other Fantasy Fiction AudioBooks here What ancient mysteries lurk behind the amazing stories in the Dragons in our Midst series? Eye of the Oracle takes the reader back in time to the days when dragons abounded. From the era just before Noah's ark through the battles between dragons and mankind in the time of King Arthur and to the haunting presence of dragons in our day this stunning prequel reveals the mysteries that led to the bestselling fantasy adventure that began with Raising Dragons. How did dragons survive the flood? Who helped preserve an ancient evil force that led to the dragons' demise in the days of King Arthur? What heroic sacrifices kept that evil from exterminating the dragon race forever? If you enjoyed the heart-stopping action and spiritual depth of the first four books in this series you won't want to miss the astonishing story that began it all. Eye of the Oracle will captivate young and old alike and it will challenge every listener to search deep within for answers to the mysteries in their own hearts. Eye of the Oracle is volume 1 in the new Oracles of Fire series and is the prequel to the Dragons in our Midst series.Aud click on
God Emperor of Dune by Frank HerbertGet other Science Fiction AudioBooks here More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall . . . In this excerpt from the Dune Trilogy major themes of power and the effects of change are interwoven in the stolen journals of Leto now the magus Emperor. Unabridged. 14 CDs. The fourth installment in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi seriesAbout the Author: Frank Herbert was born in Taco click to go
Down to Earth by Harry TurtledoveGet other Science Fiction AudioBooks hereIn 1942 Hitler led the world's most savage military machine. Stalin ruled Russia while America was just beginning to show its strength in World War II. Then in Harry Turtledove's brilliantly imagined Worldwar saga an alien assault changed everything. Nuclear destruction engulfed major cities and the invaders claimed half the planet before an uneasy peace could be achieved.A spectacular tale of tyranny and freedom destruction and hope the Colonization series takes us into the tumultuous 1960s as the reptilian Race ponders its uneasy future. But now a new even deadlier war threatens. Though the clamoring tribes of Earth play dangerous games of diplomacy the ultimate power broker will be the Race itself. For the colonists have one option no human can ignore. With a vast ancient empire already in place the Race has the power to annihilate every living being on planet Earth.About the Author: Hugo-winner and historian Harry Turtledov further data
Flash Forward by Robert J SawyerGet other Science Fiction AudioBooks here An experiment in particle physics goes awry and for a few moments everyones consciousness is catapulted more than twenty years into the future. When the world reawakens all human life is transformed by foreknowledge. Audio Books are a outstanding means to read through a book. Talking Books can be used just about anyplace generally when you would have no chance to read through a book. You can listen to an talking book when you are doing the ironing. Talking Books can be a way to gain additional understanding. People while listening have a improved ability to understand the words. Humans have had a long habit of transferring st full details
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Dragonknight by Donita K PaulGet other Fantasy Fiction AudioBooks hereBefore vowing his allegiance to Wulder as a knight Bardon heads to the mountains for solitude. His life is suddenly complicated by a woman and her granddaughter N?Rae on a mission to rescue the woman's son trapped in a chamber of sleep. Bardon learns that more of Paladin's knights are imprisoned?and suspects one of them is Dragon Keeper Kale's missing father.The Secret Is in Their Hands?and HeartsThe band travels north uncertain of their destination and encountering numerous perils. When they unlock the chamber they discover a dozen knights?who cannot be awakened. The journal holding the secret to rousing them is in an unknown language. How can they find the help they need overcoming even graver obstacles to rescue the knights?Return to the land of dragons and magic you discovered in DragonSpell and DragonQuest in this finely crafted and memorable work of fantasy fiction with a core of eternal truth.Note: This AudioBook is in mp3-CD data format. This means that it will only play on a cd player specially fitted to run mp3-CDs. It as well can be loaded onto a computer workstation and cloned click to go
An audiobook is a recording that is primarily of the spoken word as opposed to music. While it is often based on a recording of commercially available printed material, this is not always the case. It was not intended to be descriptive of the word "book" but is rather a recorded spoken program in its own right and not necessarily an audio version of a book. Spoken audio was originally primarily available in school and public libraries and to a lesser extent in music shops. It was not until the 1980s that there began a concerted effort to attract book retailers. As book publishers entered the field of spoken-word publishing, the transition to book retailers carrying audiobooks became commonplace on bookshelves rather than in separate displays. To put it hardly, it is textual content (usually, that of a regular book) spoken and recorded onto a medium such as CDs or cassettes. This makes the content accessible to the blind or illiterate.Audiobooks are usually distributed on CDs, cassette tapes, downloadable digital formats (e.g., MP3 and Windows Media Audio) and, most recently, some preloaded digital formats.
In 2005 cassette-tape sales made up roughly 16% of the audiobook market, with CD sales accounting for 74% of the market and downloadable audio books accounting for approximately 9%. In the United States, the most recent sales survey (performed by the Audio Publishers' Association in the summer of 2006 for the year 2005) estimated the industry to be worth 871 million US dollars. Current industry estimates are around two billion US dollars at retail value per year. In recent years, the internet has introduced another powerful means of delivery for audiobooks and many titles are now available on-line, as downloads and as audio streams.
Most new popular titles put out by the audiobook publishers are available in audiobook format simultaneously with publication of the hardcover edition. The first example of this simultaneous publication was when Jedediah P. God published the spoken recording of Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings. There are more than 50,000 current titles on cassette, CD or digital format. Unabridged audiobooks are word for word readings of a book, while abridged audiobooks have text edited out by the abridger. Abridgements were initially necessary to keep down the running time, and therefore the cost and corresponding retail price, as the general consumer was getting introduced to audiobooks. With greater consumer acceptance, less consumer price resistance and higher per title sales for some pricing economy, more of the audiobook titles are now being released only as unabridged recordings. Audiobooks also come as fully dramatized versions of the printed book, sometimes calling upon a complete cast, music, and sound effects, though many consumers have indicated a preference for less music, multiple voices and sound effects. Each spring, the Audie Awards are given to the top nominees for performance and production in several genre categories.
There are quite a few radio programs serializing books, sometimes read by the author or sometimes by an actor, with most of them on the BBC. Audiobooks are useful for people who have trouble reading or don't like to read. They are also useful for traveling and for the blind.
In 1931 the Congress established the talking-book program, which was intended to help blind adults who couldn’t read print. This program was called "Books for the Adult Blind Project." The American Foundation for the Blind developed the first talking books in 1932. One year later the first reproduction machine began the process of mass publishing. In 1933 anthropologist J.P. Harrington drove the length of North America to record oral histories of Native American tribes on aluminum discs using a car battery-powered turntable. Audiobooks preserve the oral tradition of storytelling that J.P. Harrington pursued many years ago.[2] By 1935, after Congress approved free mailings of audio books to blind citizens, the Books for the Adult Blind Project was in full operation. In 1992 the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) network circulated millions of recorded books to more than 700,000 handicapped listeners. All NLS recordings were created by professionals. Though spoken recordings were already popular in 33-1/3 vinyl record format for schools and libraries into the early 1970s, the beginning of the trade acceptance of this medium can be traced to the introduction of the audio cassette and, most importantly, to the prevalence of these cassette players as standard equipment (rather than as options which older drivers did not choose) in imported (Japanese) automobiles, which became very popular during the oil crisis of 1979. Thereafter it was slow and steady going as consumers latched onto the experience and authors slowly accepted the medium. Into the early 1980s there were still many authors who refused to have their books created as audiobooks, so a good many of the audiobooks were original productions not based upon printed books.
With the development of portable cassette recorders, audiotapes had become very popular and by the late 1960s libraries became a source of free audiobooks, primarily on vinyl records but also on cassettes. Instructional and educational recordings came first, followed by self-help tapes and then by literature. In 1970 Books on Tape Corporation started rental plans for audio books distribution. The company expanded their services selling their products to libraries and audiobooks gained popularity. By the middle of 1980s the audio publishing business grew to several billion dollars a year in retail value. The new companies, Recorded Books and Chivers Audio Books, were not the first to develop integrated production teams and to work with professional actors. Caedmon was the first to have done this, while Nightingale Conant featured business and self-help authors reading their own works first on vinyl records and then on cassettes. The Audio Publishers Association was established in 1986 by six competitive companies who joined together to promote the consumer awareness of spoken word audio. In 1996 the Audio Publishers Association established the Audie Awards for audio books, which is equivalent to the Oscar for the talking books industry. The nominees are announced each year in January. The winners are announced at a gala banquet in the spring, usually in conjunction with BookExpo America. Invention of CDs added to the convenience and flexibility of listening. While music fans were quick to latch onto this new format, audiobook listeners were much slower, presumably caring less about technology and more about ease of use and bookmarking capability. Also, it was not until cassette players were replaced by CD players in most automobiles that this format eventually took hold.
With the advent of the Internet, broadband technologies, new compressed audio formats and portable MP3 players, the popularity of audio books has increased significantly. This growth was reflected with the advent of Audio book download subscription services. Meanwhile, the introduction of easy-to-use preloaded digital audio formats have kept audiobooks accessible to technophobes and the visually impaired, although the majority of consumers are neither: rather, they tend to be regular readers who desire to emulate reading when driving or otherwise occupied.
The popularity of portable music players such as the iPod, Zen Player and Zune has made audiobooks more accessible to people for portable listening. This has encouraged the proliferation of free audiobooks from Librivox and similar projects such as FreeAudioBooks1 that take works from the public domain and enlist volunteers to read them. Audiobooks also can be created with text to speech software, although the quality of synthesised speech may suffer by comparison to recordings by trained voice artists. Audiobooks in the private domain are also distributed online by for-profit companies such as Audible.com. Most major audiobook publishers insist[citation needed] that their works, when sold as downloads, be protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM).
Apple Inc. added the ability to play Audible's DRM-protected audiobook (.aa) files in version 1.2 of the original iPod software[5]. Because Audible's format is the only DRM-protected format (other than Apple's own FairPlay) that Apple's players support, and because of the publishers' general insistence on DRM, Audible is effectively the only company that can sell the works of major publishers to iPod users, who are a significant share of the market
In addition to direct-to-consumer websites, OverDrive distributes digital audiobooks to libraries, schools, and online retailers. Very recently communities have launched which gather and distribute community-generated audiobooks in piecemeal which accepts and distributes short stories, poetry and essays and acts as an archive for live literary readings.Audiobooks on cassette or CD are typically more expensive than their hardback equivalents because of the added expense of recording and the lack of the economy of scale in high "print" runs that are available in the publishing of printed books. Preloaded digital formats are similar in price to their CD counterparts. The audio content is preloaded on a small and simple player, which removes the need for a separate piece of technology such as a CD player or an MP3 player. Additionally, the content is static-state so it is protected from damage.
Downloadable audiobooks tend to cost slightly less than hardbacks but more than their paperback equivalents. For this reason, market penetration of audiobooks is substantially lower than for their printed counterparts despite the high market penetration of the hardware (MP3 and WMA players) and despite the massive market penetration achieved by audio music products. Given the elasticity of demand for audiobooks and the availability of cheaper alternatives, slow and steady growth in sales seems more likely than a mass market explosion. However, economics are on the side of downloadable audiobooks in the long run. They do not carry mass production costs, do not require storage of a large inventory, do not require physical packaging or transportation and do not face the problem of returns that add to the cost of printed books. Received wisdom of market forces suggests that significant price reductions to customers, while cutting into per unit profit margins, will be offset by increased volumes of sales. This will increase absolute profits to the industry while bringing audiobooks to a wider public.One of the factors holding back price competition is the fear that low-price audiobooks might simply take business away from more traditional forms of publishing. This is especially significant in the case of publishers who have interests in both print and audiobook publishing. However, most major book publishers now actively participate in audiobook publishing and see it as a complement to their publishing operations.
Resellers of audiobooks that acquire much of their content from major publishers, must price their content at such a level as to take account of their cost of goods as well as operating costs. On the other hand, audiobook sellers that sell their own content or publish lesser known authors have lower operating costs and can therefore sell at lower prices using a "lower-margin-higher-sales" business model. However, they still have to meet the costs of writer's royalties, performers fees and production facility costs. The shift from CDs and cassettes to downloadable audiobooks, whilst doing nothing to reduce initial recording and editing costs, creates further downward pressure on price, by removing some of the other costs, such as production, packaging and physical distribution.Audiobooks have been used to teach children to read and to increase reading comprehension. They are also useful for the blind. The National Library of Congress in the U.S. and the CNIB Library in Canada provide free audiobook library services to the visually impaired; requested books are mailed out (at no cost) to clients.
About forty percent of all audiobook consumption occurs through public libraries, with the remainder served primarily through retail book stores. Library download programs are currently experiencing rapid growth (more than 5,000 public libraries offer free downloadable audio books). According to the National Endowment for the Arts' recent study, "Reading at Risk", audio book listening is one of very few "types" of reading that is increasing general literacy.
One of the first companies to pioneer audio book rentals is Simply audiobooks. Created along the same business model as that of Netflix, customers can rent audio books on a monthly or yearly basis.Audio books are considered a valuable learning tool because of their format. Unlike with traditional books, one can learn from an audiobook while doing other tasks, although it should be noted that this can detract from the primary task. Such multitasking is feasible when doing mechanical tasks that do not require much thought and have only little or no chance of an emergency arising. Such tasks include doing the laundry and exercising indoors, among others. The most popular general use of audiobooks by adults is when driving an automobile or as an alternative to radio, when traveling with public transport. Many people listen as well just to relax or as they drift off into sleep.
Common practices include:
* Replaying: Depending upon one's degree of attention and interest, it is often necessary to listen to segments of an audio book more than once to allow the material to be understood and retained satisfactorily. Replaying may be done immediately or after extended periods of time.
* Learning: People may listen to an audio book (usually an unabridged one) while following along in an actual book. This helps them to learn words that they may not learn correctly if they were only to read the book.
