29 Best books for men to read
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Differentiate or Die
- By: Jack Trout
- Narrator: John Lescault
- Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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4.04(1330 ratings)
4.04(1330 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDIn today’s ultra-competitive world, the average supermarket has forty thousand brand items on its shelves. Car shoppers can wander through the showrooms of over twenty auto makers. Differentiating products today is more challenging than at anyIn today’s ultra-competitive world, the average supermarket has forty thousand brand items on its shelves. Car shoppers can wander through the showrooms of over twenty auto makers. Differentiating products today is more challenging than at any time in history, yet it remains a key to a company’s survival, the heart of successful marketing.
In Differentiate or Die, bestselling author Jack Trout takes marketers to task for taking the easy route of high-tech razzle-dazzle and sleight of hand instead of working to discover and market their product’s uniquely valuable qualities. He examines successful differentiation initiatives from giants like Dell Computer, Southwest Airlines, and Walmart to smaller success stories like Streit’s Matzoh and Connecticut’s tiny Trinity College to determine why some marketers succeed while others struggle and fail. The author outlines the many ways to achieve differentiation, while also warning of how difficult it is to achieve differentiation by being creative, cheap, customer oriented, or quality driven–things that your competitor can do as well.
Carve out your own image in a crowded marketplace. This book can help.
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Disciplined Dreaming
- By: Josh Linkner
- Narrator: Marc Cashman
- Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 05, 2011
- Language: English
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3.56(435 ratings)
3.56(435 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWe live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity – at all levels of an organization. Disciplined Dreaming shows you how to create profitableWe live in an era when business cycles are measured in months, not years. The only way to sustain long term innovation and growth is through creativity – at all levels of an organization. Disciplined Dreaming shows you how to create profitable new ideas, empower all your employees to be creative, and sustain your competitive advantage over the long term. Linkner distills his years of experience in business and jazz – as well as hundreds of interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and artists – into a 5-step process that will make creativity easy for you and your organization. The methodology is simple, backed by proven results. Disciplined Dreaming shows even the stuffiest corporate bureaucracies how to cultivate creativity in order to become more competitive in today’s shifting marketplace.
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Guerrilla Negotiating
- By: Jay Conrad Levinson
- Narrator: Edward Lewis
- Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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3.07(31 ratings)
3.07(31 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDIn this sequel to the successful Guerrilla Selling, listeners learn insider secrets such as the ten most common mistakes made in negotiation, one hundred negotiating weapons, and twenty things you can expect to gain in a negotiation. GuerrillaIn this sequel to the successful Guerrilla Selling, listeners learn insider secrets such as the ten most common mistakes made in negotiation, one hundred negotiating weapons, and twenty things you can expect to gain in a negotiation. Guerrilla Selling(r) tactics help you get the most out of any negotiation.
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Permission Marketing
- By: Seth Godin
- Narrator: Seth Godin
- Length: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1999
- Language: English
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3.91(13847 ratings)
3.91(13847 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.95 USDThe man Business Week calls “the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age” explains “Permission Marketing”‚Äîthe groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willinglyThe man Business Week calls “the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age” explains “Permission Marketing”‚Äîthe groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it.
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Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favorite program, or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a family dinner, traditional advertising is based on the hope of snatching our attention away from whatever we are doing. Seth Godin calls this Interruption Marketing, and, as companies are discovering, it no longer works.
Instead of annoying potential customers by interrupting their most coveted commodity‚Äîtime‚ÄîPermission Marketing offers consumers incentives to accept advertising voluntarily. Now this Internet pioneer introduces a fundamentally different way of thinking about advertising products and services. By reaching out only to those individuals who have signaled an interest in learning more about a product, Permission Marketing enables companies to develop long-term relationships with customers, create trust, build brand awareness — and greatly improve the chances of making a sale. -
R.E.D. Marketing
- By: Greg Creed
- Narrator: Greg Creed
- Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: June 08, 2021
- Language: English
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3.83(63 ratings)
3.83(63 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDCreate breakthrough marketing campaigns by harnessing the power of R.E.D. Marketing: a transparent and flexible methodology straight from marketing powerhouse Yum! Brands. Sidestep the marketing books, courses, and even TED talks that offerCreate breakthrough marketing campaigns by harnessing the power of R.E.D. Marketing: a transparent and flexible methodology straight from marketing powerhouse Yum! Brands.
Sidestep the marketing books, courses, and even TED talks that offer hypothetical explanations that sound sensible and embrace the proven, systematic approach of R.E.D. Marketing, which the recent CEO and current CMO of Yum! Brands applied to lead Taco Bell and KFC to double digit growth.
This book, filled with simple frameworks and engaging stories, will help everyone in your company understand what really works for driving sustainable brand growth and business success.
In 2011, Greg Creed had just been elevated from President to CEO of Taco Bell, a brand in deep distress at the time. It was on his shoulders to turn things around quickly along with co-author and CMO, Ken Muench. Together, they developed the R.E.D (Relevance, Ease, Distinctiveness) method.
It’s simple methodology does not require complicated terms and a PhD to understand, it’s actually quite simple–marketing works in three very different ways:
- Relevance–Is it relevant to the marketplace?
- Ease–Is it easy to access and use?
- Distinction–Does it stand out from competition?
By combining actual examples from Yum! and other recognizable brands of every size around the world with the latest findings in marketing, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, and the author’s own experience marketing three different brands across 120 countries, your brand can set and achieve a truly breakthrough marketing campaign utilizing R.E.D Marketing.
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101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees
- By: Paul Falcone
- Narrator: Paul Falcone
- Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: February 11, 2020
- Language: English
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3.89(206 ratings)
3.89(206 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USD101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees provides guidance for managers on how to broach uncomfortable conversations across a wide range of issues. Inappropriate workplace conduct, lateness, sexually offensive behavior, productivity and101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees provides guidance for managers on how to broach uncomfortable conversations across a wide range of issues.
Inappropriate workplace conduct, lateness, sexually offensive behavior, productivity and communication issues . . . these are just a few of the uncomfortable topics supervisors must sometimes discuss with their employees.
Top human resources author Paul Falcone offers realistic sample dialogues managers can use to facilitate clear, direct interactions with their employees that help sidestep potential awkwardness and meet issues head-on.
This practical, solution-oriented book walks you through some of the most common and most serious employee problems you are likely to encounter.
In 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees, Falcone covers topics including:
- substandard performance reviews,
- progressive disciplinary warnings and termination meetings,
- FMLA abuse and ADA accomodations,
- wage and hour challenges,
- team turnarounds,
- compensation conflicts, and more.
This handy guide helps you treat their people with dignity and respect, focusing not just on what to say but also on how to say it. It provides proven techniques you can use to protect yourself and your organizations–and get the very best from your people.
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A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug
- By: Sarah Lacy
- Narrator: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: November 14, 2017
- Language: English
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3.97(381 ratings)
3.97(381 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDA rally cry for working mothers everywhere that demolishes the “distracted, emotional, weak” stereotype and definitively shows that these professionals are more focused, decisive, and stronger than any other force. Working mothersA rally cry for working mothers everywhere that demolishes the “distracted, emotional, weak” stereotype and definitively shows that these professionals are more focused, decisive, and stronger than any other force.
Working mothers aren’t a liability. They are assets you–and every manager and executive–want in your company, in your investment portfolio, and in your corner.
There is copious academic research showing the benefits of working mothers on families and the benefits to companies who give women longer and more flexible parental leave. There are even findings that demonstrate women with multiple children actually perform better at work than those with none or one.
Yet despite this concrete proof that working mothers are a lucrative asset, they still face the “Maternal Wall”–widespread unconscious bias about their abilities, contributions, and commitment. Nearly eighty percent of women are less likely to be hired if they have children–and are half as likely to be promoted. Mothers earn an average $11,000 less in salary and are held to higher punctuality and performance standards. Forty percent of Silicon Valley women said they felt the need to speak less about their family to be taken more seriously. Many have been told that having a second child would cost them a promotion.
Fortunately, this prejudice is slowly giving way to new attitudes, thanks to more women starting their own businesses, and companies like Netflix, Facebook, Apple, and Google implementing more parent-friendly policies. But the most important barrier to change isn’t about men. Women must rethink the way they see themselves after giving birth. As entrepreneur Sarah Lacy makes clear in this cogent, persuasive analysis and clarion cry, the strongest, most lucrative, and most ambitious time of a woman’s career may easily be after she sees a plus sign on a pregnancy test.
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Black Faces in High Places
- By: Randal D. Pinkett
- Narrator: Randal D. Pinkett
- Length: 9 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Publish date: February 08, 2022
- Language: English
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4.89(9 ratings)
4.89(9 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDA timely resource for Black professionals on how to rise to the top of their organizations or industries and, just as importantly, to stay there. Black Faces in High Places is the essential guide for Black professionals who are moving up throughA timely resource for Black professionals on how to rise to the top of their organizations or industries and, just as importantly, to stay there.
Black Faces in High Places is the essential guide for Black professionals who are moving up through their organizations or industries but need a roadmap for how to get to the top and stay there. Based on the authors’ considerable experiences in business, in the public eye, and as a minority, the book shows how African-American professionals can (and must) think and act both entrepreneurially and “intrapreneurially”.
In this book, you will:
- Expand yourself beyond your comfort zone
- Recognize and demonstrate the four facets of excellence
- Build beneficial relationships and powerful networks
- Identify different mentors and learn from others’ experiences
- Discover ways of working with others to facilitate collective action
Black Faces in High?Places highlights the experiences of other Black faces in high places who were able to navigate various crossroads, reach the top, and stay there, including insights from President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Cathy Hughes, Angela Glover Blackwell, Ken Chenault, Senator Cory Booker, Geoffrey Canada, and others.
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Do This, Not That: Career
- By: Jenny Foss
- Narrator: Kacy Combest
- Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4(1 ratings)
4(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDA must-have step-by-step guide on what to do (and what NOT to do) in the workplace featuring clear instructions and helpful scripts so you can deal with any unexpected situation at work.How do you deal with a difficult boss who is alwaysA must-have step-by-step guide on what to do (and what NOT to do) in the workplace featuring clear instructions and helpful scripts so you can deal with any unexpected situation at work.
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How do you deal with a difficult boss who is always unavailable? How should you handle a coworker who never completes their portion of a project on schedule? How can you establish a strong work-life balance when starting a new job? The workplace can be full of challenging situations and no matter how passionate, frustrated, excited, or downright angry you feel, it’s important to stay polite and professional. Whether you struggle with finding the right words or simply aren’t sure how to approach a topic, Do This, Not That: Career is here to help!
This book gives you the tools you need to move forward productively so you can learn when to let go and move on. You’ll find more than 75 common workplace issues that cover everything from your first day on the job to your last. For each situation, discover what to do and what to avoid, then learn exactly how to make it happen. Find tips to reframe your thinking, simple scripts to help you figure out what to say, and even advice on your next steps depending on your initial response. Do This, Not That: Career is your one-stop-shop to handling any situation that work throws your way so you can prepare yourself for a successful career. -
Leading with Kindness
- By: William Baker
- Narrator: William Baker
- Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: AMACOM
- Publish date: January 26, 2021
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDAuthors William Baker and Michael O’Malley teach you that–far from popular media portrayals of corporate callousness–kindness has a very distinct and essential place in the office. Without presenting a naive idea of kindness, thisAuthors William Baker and Michael O’Malley teach you that–far from popular media portrayals of corporate callousness–kindness has a very distinct and essential place in the office.
Without presenting a naive idea of kindness, this eye-opening book identifies the surprising attributes successful and resoundingly kind leaders share–revealing how traits like sincerity, honesty, and respect can benefit organizations and help them to thrive.
In Leading With Kindness, business professionals will learn how to apply these lessons in their own workplace, gaining tips for how to:
- motivate employees, committee members, and others;
- recognize unique talents while nurturing all employees;
- establish a supportive environment;
- spur continuous organizational growth;
- adapt to change;
- and prepare the next generation of leaders.
Subtly and very effectively, a gentler, more human conception of leadership has become the gold standard for excellence. Leading With Kindness shows leaders how they can leverage the deceptively complex notion of kindness as guiding principle to lead more effectively.
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Ant-Man
- By: Jason Starr
- Narrator: Richard Rohan
- Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Marvel
- Publish date: October 15, 2019
- Language: English
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3.68(221 ratings)
3.68(221 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDScott Lang–the Astonishing Ant-Man–has a new life in New York City with his daughter, Cassie. Scott’s determined to make it work: Cassie’s in a good school, he’s got a steady job, and he’s finally ready to exploreScott Lang–the Astonishing Ant-Man–has a new life in New York City with his daughter, Cassie. Scott’s determined to make it work: Cassie’s in a good school, he’s got a steady job, and he’s finally ready to explore that wide, safe, non-spandexed dating world. But despite his best intentions, Scott just can’t stay out of the spotlight–or magnifying glass–and it doesn’t take long for his new life to fall apart. When an old partner-in-crime goes to trial, Scott and Cassie are stuck with federal bodyguards. Scott is convinced the protection is unnecessary, but he hasn’t calculated in the teenager factor! When trouble finds Cassie, Scott throws caution to the wind and dons the suit. But what is the villain really after?
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Astonishing X-Men
- By: Peter David
- Narrator: Richard Rohan
- Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Marvel
- Publish date: October 15, 2019
- Language: English
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3.91(267 ratings)
3.91(267 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDCyclops and Emma Frost re-form the team with the express purpose of astonishing the world. But when breaking news regarding the mutant gene unexpectedly hits the airwaves, will it derail their new plans before they even get started? As demand forCyclops and Emma Frost re-form the team with the express purpose of astonishing the world. But when breaking news regarding the mutant gene unexpectedly hits the airwaves, will it derail their new plans before they even get started? As demand for the mutant cure reaches near-riot levels, the X-Men go head-to-head with the enigmatic Ord, with an unexpected ally–and some unexpected adversaries–tipping the scales!
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Belonging
- By: Nora Krug
- Narrator: Nora Krug
- Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.34(4205 ratings)
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4.34(4205 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USD* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators *
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* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal
This “ingenious reckoning with the past” (The New York Times), by award-winning artist Nora Krug investigates the hidden truths of her family’s wartime history in Nazi Germany.
Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement; though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.
After twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. In this extraordinary quest, “Krug erases the boundaries between comics, scrapbooking, and collage as she endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family’s place in it all” (The Boston Globe). A highly inventive, “thoughtful, engrossing” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) graphic memoir, Belonging “packs the power of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David Small’s Stitches” (NPR.org). -
Cuphead in Carnival Chaos
- By: Ron Bates
- Narrator: Jack Meloche
- Length: 3 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 03, 2020
- Language: English
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4.3(6 ratings)
4.3(6 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.98 USDFans of the award-winning and visually stunning video game can see Cuphead, Mugman, and friends like never before in this original, illustrated middle-grade novel. Join them on their adventure as they make merry mischief in the vibrant and... Read moreFans of the award-winning and visually stunning video game can see Cuphead, Mugman, and friends like never before in this original, illustrated middle-grade novel. Join them on their adventure as they make merry mischief in the vibrant and topsy-turvy world of the Inkwell Isles!It’s a special day on the Inkwell Isles: Elder Kettle’s birthday! Yes, sirree, it’s a very special day. So Cuphead and Mugman need to find the perfect gift to honor their beloved mentor. But along the way, the brothers and their new friend Ms. Chalice are captivated by the sights and sounds of the carnival that just rolled into town. Despite Elder Kettle’s warning that the attraction is filled with liars and thieves, the trio gets reeled in.At the carnival, the friends are bamboozled and burgled by enemies, old and new. Will they escape the chaos and get their gift before it’s too late?Includes over 20 never-before-seen illustrations drawn by Studio MDHR’s Lance Miller that feature hidden items for an interactive treasure hunt!Cuphead in Carnival Chaos is the first book in an original series and perfect for players of Cuphead, and readers of Hello Neighbor, Bendy and the Ink Machine, and Five Nights at Freddy’s.(c) 2020 StudioMDHR Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Cuphead(TM), the Cuphead(TM) logo, StudioMDHR(TM) and the StudioMDHR(TM) logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of StudioMDHR Entertainment Inc. throughout the world. -
Dirty Pictures
- By: Brian Doherty
- Narrator: Liam DiCosimo
- Length: 15 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.24(38 ratings)
4.24(38 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of underground comix In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine,A complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of underground comix
In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of creators set out to subvert the medium, and with it, American culture.
Their “comix”–spelled that way to distinguish the work from their dime-store contemporaries–presented tales of taboo sex, casual drug use, and a transgressive view of society. Embraced by hippies and legions of future creatives, this subgenre of comic books and strips was printed on out-of-date machinery, published in zines and underground newspapers, and distributed in head shops, in porno stores, and on street corners. Comix often ran afoul of the law, but that would not stop them from casting cultural ripples for decades to come, eventually moving the entire comics form out of the gutter and into fine-art galleries.
Author Brian Doherty weaves together the stories of R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Harvey Pekar, and Howard Cruse among many others, detailing the complete narrative history of this movement that came to define “cool.” Via dozens of new interviews and archival research, Doherty chronicles the scenes that sprang up around the country in the 1960s and ’70s and the rivalries, ideological battles, and conflicts that flourished. Dirty Pictures is the essential exploration of a truly American art form that re-contextualized the way people thought about war, race, sex, gender, and expression.
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Doctor Strange
- By: Devin Grayson
- Narrator: Richard Rohan
- Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Marvel
- Publish date: October 22, 2019
- Language: English
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3.63(269 ratings)
3.63(269 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDDoctor Stephen Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme, has defeated demonic hordes, battled evil wizards, and tirelessly defended our realm against invading interdimensional armies. But when a dangerous dream begins inspiring normal people to act out theirDoctor Stephen Strange, the Sorcerer Supreme, has defeated demonic hordes, battled evil wizards, and tirelessly defended our realm against invading interdimensional armies. But when a dangerous dream begins inspiring normal people to act out their darkest ambitions, even Doctor Strange is pushed to his very limits. Working alongside his longtime nemesis, Nightmare, the Sorcerer Supreme must delve into the nightmares, delusions, and desires of an entire planet. To save the Dream Realms, he’ll have to give up some illusions of his own–including his heroism. In the fallout, what dreams will haunt the Sorcerer Supreme?
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Galactic Hot Dogs 1
- By: Max Brallier
- Narrator: Vincent Martella
- Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.06(349 ratings)
4.06(349 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDFrom the creator of the bestselling series The Last Kids on Earth, this hilarious middle grade adventure follows a young boy thrust into the world of selling hot dogs in space!Over the course of one very strange night, Cosmoe went from being anFrom the creator of the bestselling series The Last Kids on Earth, this hilarious middle grade adventure follows a young boy thrust into the world of selling hot dogs in space!
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Over the course of one very strange night, Cosmoe went from being an adventure-seeking, thirteen-year-old Earthling orphan to a hot-dog-slinging space traveler. He has all the adventure he once craved and more aboard the Neon Wiener–part spaceship, part food truck–selling their trademark “Galactic Hot Dogs.”
Cosmoe and the rest of the crew journey to food competitions across the universe serving up the wildly popular wieners…until they gain a troublesome stowaway. The half-evil, half-awesome Princess Dagger doesn’t plan on going anywhere, and her presence on the ship means her all-evil mother is gunning for the Neon Wiener.
Cosmoe rallies his friends to fight space jerks in all their many forms and vows to protect the princess. But can a group of hot dog enthusiasts face down an evil space queen? -
I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing
- By: A. D. Jameson
- Narrator: A. D. Jameson
- Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 22, 2018
- Language: English
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3.38(254 ratings)
3.38(254 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDA. D. Jameson celebrates the triumph of geekdom in I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, an insightful and irreverent journey through the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero pop-culture cinematic icons whose legions of fans have put them at theA. D. Jameson celebrates the triumph of geekdom in I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, an insightful and irreverent journey through the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero pop-culture cinematic icons whose legions of fans have put them at the top of the box office over and over.
Star Wars, Marvel superheroes, The Lord of the Rings–properties that were once supposedly the domain of socially maladroit youth have become mainstream entertainment, enjoyed by enormous audiences and by more than a few film critics too. But there are those commentators who have decried the way in which serious adult cinema has seemingly vanished, with Hollywood dominated by mindless kiddie fare such as tent-pole-event movies, franchises, and endless remakes and reboots.
As a lifelong geek, A. D. Jameson blasts through the cliches that have always surrounded pop-culture phenomena: that fans are mindless followers who will embrace all things Spider-Man, regardless of quality; or that the popularity and financial success of nerd cinema represents the death of ambitious film-making. Instead, he makes a case for why genre films are worthy of serious critical attention–and shares his thoughts on where their true flaws lie.
Shining a new light on beloved classics, and exploding misconceptions as to their historical and intellectual value, I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing explores how the geek inherited the earth.
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Hellboy: The Lost Army
- By: Christopher Golden
- Narrator: Wayne Mitchell
- Length: 7 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 04, 2020
- Language: English
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3.9(966 ratings)
3.9(966 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn 525 B.C., the Persian king Cambyses sent fifty-thousand soldiers across the conquered Egyptian desert to take an oasis city not far from where the Libyan border stands today. According to Greek history, a hurricane-force sandstorm struck nearIn 525 B.C., the Persian king Cambyses sent fifty-thousand soldiers across the conquered Egyptian desert to take an oasis city not far from where the Libyan border stands today.
According to Greek history, a hurricane-force sandstorm struck near the end of their six-hundred-mile trek. The army–all fifty thousand men–vanished without a single trace. Fast forward to 1986. A British archaeological team, sent to the edge of the Great Sand Sea to exhume evidence of the incident, has also gone missing. So the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense is sending the world’s greatest paranormal investigator, Hellboy, to find the missing Brits and to discover what became of The Lost Army.
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King of the Bench: No Fear!
- By: Steve Moore
- Narrator: Maxwell Glick
- Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Publish date: March 28, 2017
- Language: English
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3.76(141 ratings)
3.76(141 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDFrom the nationally syndicated cartoonist of “In the Bleachers” comes a new, highly illustrated middle grade series about Steve, who plays the same position in every sport: bench-warmer. Perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and TimmyFrom the nationally syndicated cartoonist of “In the Bleachers” comes a new, highly illustrated middle grade series about Steve, who plays the same position in every sport: bench-warmer. Perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Timmy Failure, King of the Bench is an ode to teammates, underdogs, and bench-warmers everywhere.
Steve is King of the Bench. No brag. It’s just a fact. But this year, Steve and his friends are excited to try out for the Spiro T. Agnew Middle School baseball team. The only problem is, after watching another player get beaned by a fastball, Steve has developed a serious case of bean-o-phobia–the fear of getting hit by a pitch. If Steve ever wants to get off the bench and get in the game, he’s going to have to muster up some courage, and fast.
Oh, and if you’re wondering why Steve would write a book and tell total strangers all about the humiliating phobia that almost ruined his first year on the baseball team? Duh. It’s pretty much a rule that you spill your guts when you write a book about yourself.
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Laddertop
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrator: Emily Janice Card
- Length: 1 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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3.38(585 ratings)
3.38(585 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.95 USDAn original science fiction tale by the bestselling author of Ender’s Game and his daughter Twenty-five years ago, the alien Givers came to Earth and bestowed upon the human race the greatest technology ever seen—four giant towers knownAn original science fiction tale by the bestselling author of Ender’s Game and his daughter
Twenty-five years ago, the alien Givers came to Earth and bestowed upon the human race the greatest technology ever seen—four giant towers known as Ladders that rise thirty-six thousand miles and culminate in space stations that power the entire planet. Then, for reasons unknown, the Givers disappeared. Due to the unique alien construction of the Laddertop space stations, only a skilled crew of children can perform the maintenance necessary to keep the stations up and running.
Back on Earth, competition is fierce to enter Laddertop Academy. It is an honor few students will achieve. Best friends Robbi and Azure, two eleven-year-old girls who are candidates for the academy, will become entangled in a dangerous mystery that may help them solve the riddle of the Givers—if it doesn’t destroy the Earth first.
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See You at San Diego
- By: Mathew Klickstein
- Narrator: Liam DiCosimo
- Length: 19 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.1(9 ratings)
4.1(9 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDA comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless intimate, hilarious, and often thought-provoking stories by nearly fifty of the most integral members of today’s convention and fandomA comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless intimate, hilarious, and often thought-provoking stories by nearly fifty of the most integral members of today’s convention and fandom community.
See You At San Diego is the comprehensive chronicle of Comic-Con International and modern geekdom itself as told through countless stories by nearly fifty of the most integral members of the Comic-Con and fandom scene. This full-fledged oral history–bursting with intimate reflections, hilarious observations, and at times, heartbreaking stories–is about how the geek at last inherited the earth and the story of the transformation of mainstream American pop culture into comic book culture over the past century.
Join some of the biggest names in fandom as they launch off at ludicrous speed into the spiraling galaxy of geek culture through the kaleidoscopic lens of the planet’s biggest pop culture gathering worldwide (clocked twice by Guinness!): the San Diego Comic-Con. With such special guests as: Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Kevin Smith, Bruce Campbell, Felicia Day, Scott Aukerman, Stan Sakai, Sergio Aragones, Trina Robbins, the Russo Bros., Lloyd Kaufman, Tim Seeley, Kevin Eastman, and many others.
The audiobook also features forewords by Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo) and Jeff Smith (Bone), plus an afterword by Wu-Tang Clan’s own uber-nerd mastermind RZA.
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Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1 (light novel)
- By: Isuna Hasekura
- Narrator: J. Michael Tatum
- Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Yen Press
- Publish date: March 15, 2022
- Language: English
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4.33(55 ratings)
4.33(55 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDThe life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft Lawrence is well acquainted. Wandering from town to town with just his horse, cart, and whatever wares have come his way, the peddler has pretty well settled into hisThe life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which... Read more
Kraft Lawrence is well acquainted. Wandering from town to town with just
his horse, cart, and whatever wares have come his way, the peddler has
pretty well settled into his routine-that is, until the night Lawrence
finds a wolf goddess asleep in his cart. Taking the form of a fetching
girl with wolf ears and a tail, Holo has wearied of tending to harvests
in the countryside and strikes up a bargain with the merchant to lend
him the cunning of “Holo the Wisewolf” to increase his profits in
exchange for taking her along on his travels. What kind of businessman
could turn down such an offer? Lawrence soon learns, though, that having
an ancient goddess as a traveling companion can be a bit of a mixed
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The Death of Captain America
- By: Larry Hama
- Narrator: Richard Rohan
- Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Marvel
- Publish date: October 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.75(266 ratings)
3.75(266 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDHe was a hero to millions, an inspiration to America’s armed services, and the representative of his nation’s greatest ideals. He lived for his country–and now, he has given his last final measure for the nation he loved. In theHe was a hero to millions, an inspiration to America’s armed services, and the representative of his nation’s greatest ideals. He lived for his country–and now, he has given his last final measure for the nation he loved. In the aftermath of the superhuman Civil War, Captain America was shot down in cold blood. In the aftermath of his death, Cap’s longtime partner the Falcon makes revenge his first order of business. Sharon Carter finds herself spiraling out of control, a captive of the Red Skull’s minions. And Bucky Barnes, a.k.a. the Winter Soldier, must reconcile his own sordid past with the calling to become…the new Captain America!
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Drawn Together
- By: Olivia de Recat
- Narrator: Olivia de Recat
- Length: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 05, 2022
- Language: English
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4.49(51 ratings)
4.49(51 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.99 USDExperience the beauty of romance in this charmingly illustrated book showcasing true stories of true love, in all its magnificence and mess.From The New Yorker contributor and @drawingolive Instagrammer Olivia de Recat comes a heartwarming look atExperience the beauty of romance in this charmingly illustrated book showcasing true stories of true love, in all its magnificence and mess.
From The New Yorker contributor and @drawingolive Instagrammer Olivia de Recat comes a heartwarming look at love, in its many forms. Drawing on interviews with “the best couples she knows”–young and old, from all walks of life–de Recat explores the question: what makes love work? But instead of trying to solve the puzzle of all relationships, ever, Drawn Together simply reflects the world back to itself, with stories of love and belonging, from pet names, to first date anxieties, to the enduring tales of life-long partnership.
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Throughout, Olivia gracefully weaves in her own experiences, exploring how sometimes finding love can mean learning to embrace yourself. A perfect gift for a partner, a couple celebrating an anniversary, or a friend who just went through a break up, Drawn Together is a hopeful, humorous, entertaining book that will inspire even the shiest among us to take a chance on love. -
Batman and Psychology
- By: Travis Langley
- Narrator: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 05, 2020
- Language: English
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4.08(1996 ratings)
4.08(1996 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDBatman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Why does thisBatman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Why does this superhero without superpowers fascinate us? What does that fascination say about us? Batman and Psychology explores these and other intriguing questions about the masked vigilante, including the following: Does Batman have PTSD? Why does he fight crime? Why as a vigilante? Why the mask, the bat, and the underage partner? Why are his most intimate relationships with bad girls he ought to lock up? And why won’t he kill that homicidal green-haired clown? This book, which is written by a psychology professor and Superherologist (a scholar of superheroes), gives fresh insight into the complex inner world of Batman and Bruce Wayne (and the other characters of Gotham City), using this popular comic-book character as a lens to help explain psychological theory and concepts.
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Superman on the Couch
- By: Danny Fingeroth
- Narrator: Danny Fingeroth
- Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.5(211 ratings)
3.5(211 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDWhy are so many of the superhero myths tied up with loss, often violent, of parents or parental figures? What is the significance of the dual identity? What makes some superhuman figures “good” and others “evil”? Why are soWhy are so many of the superhero myths tied up with loss, often violent, of parents or parental figures? What is the significance of the dual identity? What makes some superhuman figures “good” and others “evil”? Why are so many of the prime superheroes white and male? How has the superhero evolved over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries? And how might the myths be changing?
Why is it that the key superhero archetypes–Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, the X-Men–touch primal needs and experiences in everyone? Why has the superhero moved beyond the pages of comics into other media?
All these topics, and more, are covered in this lively and original exploration of the reasons why the superhero–in comic books, films, and TV–is such a potent myth for our times and culture.
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The Ultimates
- By: Michael Jan Friedman
- Narrator: Richard Rohan
- Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Marvel
- Publish date: October 22, 2019
- Language: English
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3.54(208 ratings)
3.54(208 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThe Ultimates–the first government-sponsored cadre of Super Heroes–was assembled to face threats to humanity too insanely powerful for other operatives to handle. Led by a general who gave an eye in the service of his country, theThe Ultimates–the first government-sponsored cadre of Super Heroes–was assembled to face threats to humanity too insanely powerful for other operatives to handle. Led by a general who gave an eye in the service of his country, the super-powered roster includes a billionaire playboy in a high-tech suit of armor, a World War II super-soldier whom fate has thrust into the twenty-first century, an environmentalist icon who claims to be an ancient Norse god, and a scientist whose mutant powers allow her to shrink to the stature of an insect. But even the Ultimates are unprepared for a quintet of mysterious visitors who appear in the midst of the team’s top-security base of operations, claiming to be emissaries from the future. These Tomorrow Men say Earth’s civilization are at a crossroads–on the verge of enslavement by a secret, immensely efficient organization known in the future as Tiber. Only the Ultimates have the skills and the firepower to ferret Tiber out of its nests around the world and crush its plans for global conquest. But there is much more the Tomorrow Men will not say. After all, they don’t want to alter the timeline any more than they have to. But wealthy Tony Stark, A.K.A Iron Man, is dying by degrees of an incurable medical condition. For him, the temptation to make an additional change in the timeline may be too great to ignore–even though mankind’s future might be damaged in the process. GraphicAudio(r) Production.
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