Go the Distance!Whether you're running a race or running a company, pacing is everything. Go too fast and you'll burn yourself out—too slow and you're left in the dust. So how can leaders find the right speed? Growth expert Alison Eyring, who is also a long-distance runner and triathlete, found the answer in endurance training.It's a concept she calls Intelligent Restraint. Eyring shows leaders how to evaluate their company's and team's current capacity for...

Relentless speed and unconstrained activity are not necessary for growth-you need only look to companies like Enron, Pets.com, and Groupon to see that "fast" does not always mean "good." Leading growth consultant Alison Eyring provides a different view on growth, preaching restraint, not rushing in."It's a marathon, not a sprint." We hear this truism all the time, but in business there's constant pressure to go all out and never let up. Leaders are driven to set stretch targets, re...

“Narrating the story of Jane Eyre showed me that the bravery it takes for an unwanted orphan to forge her own path in life was as great in 1847 as it is today.” (Alison Larkin)The epic love story of the plain, unloved orphan with an indomitable spirit who becomes a great romantic heroine despite all odds still resonates with millions of fans all over the world.In this brilliant, highly accessible recording, award-winning narrator Alison Larkin draws on her own adoption experi...

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!--I have as much soul as you,--and full as much heart!Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is a beloved classic, celebrated today by readers of all ages and revered as a masterwork of literary prowess. But what of the famous writer herself?Originally published under the pseudonym of Currer Bell, Jane Eyre was born out of a magnificent, vivid imaginatio...

Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.After an introduction by the editors, Paul B. Kane and Marie O’Regan, this collection includes the following stories:“The Bully” by Jeffery Deaver“Dead Weight” by Fiona Cummins“Like a Glass Jaw” by Mark Billingham“On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man

The latest entry in Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger’s popular Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery seriesSherlock Holmes has not only captivated readers for more than a century and a quarter, he has fascinated writers as well. It is little wonder, then, that when the renowned Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger invited their writer-friends and colleagues to be inspired by the Holmes canon, a cornucopia of stories sprang forth, with more than sixty of...

The epic love story of the plain, unwanted orphan with an indomitable spirit who becomes a great romantic heroine despite all odds still resonates with millions of fans all over the world. In this brilliant, highly accessible recording, award-winning narrator Alison Larkin draws on her own adoption experience to bring Charlotte Bronte's story to authentic new life. After being subjected to cruelty in her foster home and at boarding school, Jane becomes a governess in the home of the myster...

The beloved classic of courage, passion, and independence-brought to life in this award-winning narration by Alison Larkin, followed by a new Student Guide (as told by Charlotte Brontë). Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award, Alison Larkin's performance was praised for its "clarity, warmth, and emotional intelligence" and described by AudioFile Magazine as "a deeply moving experience that reveals new depths in Brontë's classic." In Jane Eyre, the plain, unwanted orphan who refuses to be b...

“But we can’t possibly have a garden-party with a man dead just outside the front gate.”****— “The Garden-Party” by Katherine MansfieldSkyboat Media presents The Best of Katherine Mansfield, an original compilation of stories from one of the defining writers of modernist fiction. Katherine Mansfield’s stories shine a light on the duality and the overpowering nature of psychology through her delicate, nuanced, and often stream-of-consciousness narration sty...

Alison Larkin’s Earphones award-winning recordings of Jane Eyre and The Secret Garden are now brought together in this stunning double bill.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is the epic love story of the plain, unwanted orphan with an indomitable spirit who becomes a great romantic heroine despite all odds.The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is the story of Mary Lennox who, when her parents die of cholera, is sent to live with her uncle in a cold, dark mansion in Engla...