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Audio Book Version of Ultra-Metabolism

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UltraMetabolismFinally an easy to follow 8 week plan to help you lose weight and keep it off. 
 
Based on 10 years of study and research at “Canyon Ranch Health Resort” Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D.  formulated the Ultra-Metabolism Diet’s seven keys to weight loss which are controlling appetite and metabolism, reducing stress, managing inflammation, preventing cellular “rust,” turbo charging your metabolism, ensuring optimal thyroid function and detoxifying your liver.

This book uses a series of short quizes to help readers find their personal trouble areas and then implement a diet that works for them. Dieters are required to eat every three hours but not within three hours of bedtime. The program has three main stages: one week of preparation, Phase I and Phase II.

In the initial preparation phase, bad foods are banished all together. These foods include caffeine, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated fats, junk food and alcohol.

In Phase I a three week detoxification dieters introduce “healing” foods and eliminate common food allergens like dairy products, eggs and gluten.

Phase II lasts for life. This is where you reprogram your body and genes to lose weight and keep it off. The lifetime phase allows you to reintroduce previously banished foods in a way that allows you to monitor their effects on your health.

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50 Success Classics – Self Help Audio Books

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sn506766.jpgAn extremely Comprehensive Audio Book Success Library

In this audio book you’ll discover the all about the books that have already enriched millions. This unabridged audio guide to the literature of prosperity and motivation surveys 50 of the all-time classics, giving you their key ideas, insights and applications—everything you need to know to start benefiting from these legendary works.

You’ll find rags-to-riches stories about such entrepreneurs as Carnegie, Buffett and Walton, to master motivators like Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and Napoleon Hill, to such contemporary business greats as Jack Welch, Spencer Johnson and Robert Kiyosaki, these are the leaders and pioneers who have helped generations of readers unleash their potential and discover the secrets of success.

You’ll be introduced to works ranging from the classic (Acres of Diamonds, The Science of Getting Rich, The Way to Wealth) to the current (Good to Great, The Millionaire Mind) you will:
· Profit from lessons of business legends
· Explore financial road to wealth
· Gain insights into success secrets in life and work
· Uncover the strength of the spirit that infuses inspirational tales of personal triumph

The Audio Book Edition of 50 SUCCESS CLASSICS is a must for any listener working towards personal and financial success. MORE…

“Incredible … the very best of success literature ever written” —Brian Tracy

EarthSearch – A Must Listen For The Sci-Fi Buff -

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Published for the first time, both series of James Follett’s classic 1980s radio science fiction series are presented in this set.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 to wide acclaim, Earthsearch is set in the far future and concerns Earth’s sole survivors, now living on the massive Challenger starship but longing to return to the home they have never known. Their problems arise when it transpires that the planet Earth has disappeared…MORE

This title has three reveiws

Five Star A brilliant SF series
Quite simply, Eathsearch is the greatest audio SF series ever made and overall one of the greatest SF series in total. Both the scripts and acting are of an unbelievably high standard, the pace and excitement (pure menace in some areas) is spine chilling. I would recommend this to all SF and non SF listeners.
August 2006 Adrian Hayward from London
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I was a bit reluctent at first to buy Earthsearch as usually I don’t listen to older recordings of radio shows because of the sound quality. However Earthsearch had me open-mouthed as it was such an enthrawling story from the first episode to the last! I just couldn’t get it on to cd fast enough and even sat up late listening to it. Each episode has surprises in store and will keep you on the edge of your seat wondering what will happen next. It is full of mystery intreeg and deception at every turn. Expect the unexpected. The casting was stunning and the performance spectacular from start to finish. There’s a lot of scares in it, won’t give too much away but the end of each episode always had me jumping out of my skin because of the music. It’s a must have trust me, it’s a classic adventure, you won’t regrette buying it. All you fans of Science fiction get it now!! It more than deserves it’s 5 star rating
March 2007 Lori Duncan from Dundee
Five Star Earthsearch
I resisted buying this as $30.00 for a download is kind of high, but I am very glad that I did! The sound quility is perfect and it is a great listen! If you like Sci-Fi Radio I would highly recomend this!
March 2007 Mike from Pendleton

 

Audio Book Review of Batman: Knightfall

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“… Dirk Maggs, who wrote and produced, threw everything into the pot and stirred vigorously. The result was richly textured, highly flavoursome, original and wonderfully energetic …”   Daily Telegraph

Gotham City is reeling from the shocking news that Batman is confined to a wheelchair. Who will now protect the innocent from the dangerous inmates of Arkham Asylum, whom Bane has released? A new hero – Asrael – takes up the mantle of the Bat. But Azrael is a more brutal Batman than Bruce Wayne, and far more eager to punish the guilty than to protect the innocent. Will he destroy Gotham City in order to save it?

This fantastic full-cast adventure stars Bob Sessions, Michael Gough, Peter Marinker and Kerry Shale, and it comes from the renowned producer Dirk Maggs, of Superman and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio fame.

This stunning audio production was first aired on BBC Radio 1, and it’s cliffhanging, all-action adventure can now be heard uninterrupted and remastered – complete with dazzling sound effects and specially composed orchestral music. This edition also includes a bonus out-takes reel, never heard before.

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Tom had this to say about Batman: Knightfall

5 stars Dirk Maggs is a genius!
Why there aren’t more superhero-based pieces on audio is beyond me. Thank God for Dirk Maggs! “Batman: Knightfall” never lets up, and is a perfect adaptation of the sprawling Batman saga of years ago. All we need now is for the BBC to re-release all of Maggs’ sci-fi and comic book masterpieces.
March 2007 Tom from San Francisco

Audio Book Review of Every Mother is a Daughter

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Biography & Memoir

EVERY MOTHER IS A DAUGHTER
Perri Klass, Sheila Solomon Klass
Read by Anna Fields, Carrington MacDuffie

Anna Fields and Carrington MacDuffie capture the rapport, love, frustrations, and gentle teasing between mother and daughter as they read this memoir by Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass. The two women share their very different perspectives on each other, housework, child-rearing, and money, even as they travel the world and reflect on life with Sheila’s late husband, who was an anthropologist. Both Klass women are accomplished writers who bring an engaging and conversational style to this humorous and heartwarming memoir. Fields and MacDuffie are the perfect combination to highlight this style. The outstanding performance by the two women brings this well-written account of a unique family vividly to life. H.L.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: FEB/ MAR 07]

Audio Book Review of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Mark Twain
Read by Tom Parker

One of the better unabridged recordings of Mark Twain’s masterpiece is on par with others vis-à-vis interpretation and excels in sheer beauty. In this impeccably quiet release, Tom Parker (aka Grover Gardner) contributes a resonant announcer’s baritone, superb technique, musical expressiveness, and a fond, intelligent understanding. He is less a narrator here than a storyteller, one of the best this reviewer has heard, sounding as if he were speaking extemporaneously. Of the half-dozen recorded renditions I’ve auditioned, this is the one that best expresses the brilliance of Twain’s rendering of dialect and a rural boy’s sensibility. A judicious use of sound processing enhances his performance. Y.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 02/ JAN 03]

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