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Character ethic is rooted in fidelity, courage, compassion, contribution, responsibility and justice. Learn the difference between adopting these traits and appearing to adopt these traits as part of a personality ethic. Module 4 of 20.

Habits possess the power to shape our character. Stephen R. Covey offers perspective on how to approach the hard work necessary to change your habits. Module 3 of 20.

A brief overview of the essential habits for effectiveness in your personal and professional relationships. Keep listening to hear these life-changing habits that you can start practicing today. Module 2 of 20.

Interdependence is the key to reaching goals on a large and small scale. Stephen R. Covey explains how we can accomplish everything we want, together. Module 6 of 20.

Character alone cannot build trustworthiness. This lesson explains that to affect real change in yourself and others, you must also be competent. Module 5 of 20.

The 7 Habits Foundational Principles by Stephen R. Covey is a program based off of his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. With this program you will learn the basics of each principle and how to integrate them into your everyday life to solve personal and professional problems. Portions of this audiobook were recorded in front of a live audience.

Msgr. Rossetti’s uplifting words are suffused with a spirit of gratitude and joy. He encourages listeners to abandonment to God and a habitual awareness of God’s loving presence. It is precisely this Presence that gives inner peace and radiates God’s joy. This retreat given to the Bishops, focuses on the Divine invitation to a deeper relationship with God. Drawing on a lifetime of ministry to priests and bishops, speaking of such important spiritual topics as prayer, Eucharistic amazement, the Mother of God, hope, facing suffering, thanksgiving, and joy.

Combining short fiction with speculative history, this entertaining book invites listeners to look at what didn't happen to gain a richer understanding of what did. What if Napoleon had become emperor of the United States? Could one faulty screw have altered America's atomic-bomb policy? If Lincoln had been assassinated during the Gettysburg Address, would the Confederate States have remained a separate country?

Weary of Cold War politics, CIA operative Gabriel Haines can't wait to leave the Company life for a job on his friend's isolated Texas ranch. All he needs to do is go to Dallas and seal the deal. But when President John F. Kennedy is assassinated just yards from where Haines stands, the former agent finds himself in tighter crosshairs than ever before. Keeping a low profile on the ranch couldn't come at a better time.

The time is 1993, a young democratic president has been swept into the White House. It is a time of cautious hope. All white noise to a dramatic story that surrounds a deeply psychotic US soldier who has lived in the jungles of Vietnam for the past 20 years. By accident the man discovers American POWs in a camp in the haunted and rugged central highlands. He is stunned by the discovery and decides to free the prisoners. During his escape, he runs across two Vietnam Veterans who have come to Vietnam on a civilian aircraft recovery mission.

Stacy Richardson is a microbiology graduate student at the University of Southern California, taking her final doctoral exams. In the middle of her "Quals," Stacy learns that her husband, head of the university's Microbiology Department, has "committed suicide" while on sabbatical at a super-secret bio-weapons lab known as the Devil's Workshop. Meanwhile, two train-riding hobos, "Lucky" Cunningham and "Hollywood Mike", are traveling near Vanished Lake, Texas, where the newest generation of bio-weapons is secretly being tested. A bio-accident at Vanishing Lake turns the town into a living hell.

Leonard Riggio is the chairman of Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world's largest bookseller. He is also the chairman and principal shareholder of several privately held companies, including Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, which serves more than 500 colleges and universities across the country. Starting with a single college bookstore in 1965, Riggio built one of the largest enterprises in the history of American retail.

Change is inevitable. It's heading for Earth at 12,000 miles per hour... and it will land virtually undetected. For Jack McAllister, a young writer who has finally launched a career for himself, it begins tragically: his estranged father, a former NASA engineer, dies suddenly at his home in Merriweather, Indiana, leaving Jack's Alzheimer's-stricken mother a widow. But in the wake of personal heartbreak, he's confronted by an even more astonishing event.

Jessica Ann Stark, known as Jess, has lost the love of their life. A non-binary 20-something with a soft spot for girly girls, Jess has finally found the one: Emma Lee. The only problem is that she is dating their best bud, Rick. Watching Rick take Emma Lee from 19-year-old innocent high school dropout to a girl who needs to work "the program" takes its toll on Jess, who, when all is said and done, is left grieving and questioning everything.