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Make My Life Count

Yes! God Speaks and Works Today to Ensure Your Life Will Count

by Lois Smith ...

This is my story of the times when the Lord had caused me to perceive his amazing presence and to know by experience his preservation of my life.It is my desire to share how God is continually at work even today in our lives, in this generation, just as he had in previous generations. I want to share the many wonderful times that he has chosen to reveal his hand to me as he has been involved in ... Read more

$5.39 USD

This is my story of the times when the Lord had caused me to perceive his amazing presence and to know by experience his preservation of my life.It is my desire to share how God is continually at work even today in our lives, in this generation, just as he had in previous generations. I want to share the many wonderful times that he has chosen to reveal his hand to me as he has been involved in
... Read more
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Family Matters

by Shirley Jackson, Frank O'Connor, Diane Leslie, Etgar Keret, Grace Paley, Rick Moody, Toure ...

Narrated by Lois Smith, Malachy McCourt, B. D. Wong, Daniel Alexander Jones, Jill Eikenberry, Linda Lavin, Robert Sean Leonard ...

Series series Selected Shorts
Unabridged

2 hours 28 min

Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families... many depicted from a kid's-eye-view... are the theme for this compilation. Being part of a family is often trying, and stranger than any fiction, but never dull and always worth it in the end. Join these very different families as they face the shrinking of parents, the preemptive guilt of First Confession, the secret worlds of children, ... Read more

$28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families... many depicted from a kid's-eye-view... are the theme for this compilation. Being part of a family is often trying, and stranger than any fiction, but never dull and always worth it in the end. Join these very different families as they face the shrinking of parents, the preemptive guilt of First Confession, the secret worlds of children,
... Read more
Audiobook

Thalia Book Club: Nicole Krauss' Great House

by Nicole Krauss ...

Narrated by Deborah Treisman, Lois Smith ...

Series series Thalia Book Club
Unabridged

1 hour 18 min

Nicole Krauss sits down with Deborah Treisman to discuss her book, Great House. Lois Smith reads an excerpt. ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Nicole Krauss sits down with Deborah Treisman to discuss her book, Great House. Lois Smith reads an excerpt.
... Read more
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Skeleton Crew

Stories

by Stephen King ...

Narrated by Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Kyle Beltran, Matthew Broderick, Norbert Leo Butz, Michael C. Hall, Paul Giamatti, Dana Ivey, Will Patton, Robert Petkoff0, David Morse1, Lois Smith2, Frances Sternhagen3 ...

Unabridged

22 hours 31 min

Includes the story “The Monkey”—now a major motion picture!The #1 New York Times bestseller—a mesmerizing treasury of short stories by Stephen King.An eerie-looking child’s toy harbors an unimaginable evil. A supermarket is unexpectedly the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. An idyllic lake conceals a bottomless terror. And ... Read more

$34.99 USD

Includes the story “The Monkey”—now a major motion picture!The #1 New York Times bestseller—a mesmerizing treasury of short stories by Stephen King.An eerie-looking child’s toy harbors an unimaginable evil. A supermarket is unexpectedly the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. An idyllic lake conceals a bottomless terror. And
... Read more
Lord of the Flies

by William Golding, Jennifer Buehler ...

William Golding’s profound tale of stranded youth, survival, and the shadowy depths of human natureA Penguin ClassicAt the dawn of the next World War, a plane crash strands a group of schoolboys on a remote island. There are no grownups. No rules. Freedom is celebrated. But when strange, distant noises and visions of a beast begin to haunt the boys, their fragile order unravels, and all hopes of ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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William Golding’s profound tale of stranded youth, survival, and the shadowy depths of human natureA Penguin ClassicAt the dawn of the next World War, a plane crash strands a group of schoolboys on a remote island. There are no grownups. No rules. Freedom is celebrated. But when strange, distant noises and visions of a beast begin to haunt the boys, their fragile order unravels, and all hopes of
... Read more

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Becoming a Word Learner

A Debate on Lexical Acquisition

by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Lois Bloom, Linda B. Smith, Amanda L. Woodward, Nameera Akhtar, Michael Tomasello, George Hollich ...

Series series Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language
Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At twelve months, an infant learns new words slowly and laboriously but at twenty months he or she acquires an average of ten new words per day. How ... Read more

$25.69 USD

Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists. Perhaps the key component to understanding how language is mastered is explaining word acquisition. At twelve months, an infant learns new words slowly and laboriously but at twenty months he or she acquires an average of ten new words per day. How
... Read more
Champions Needed

Unlocking the Potential of Family Advocacy in Assisted Living and Memory Care

by Artell Smith, Carol J. Purdy Miller ...

Champions Needed delivers an essential guide for families navigating the evolving landscape of long-term care. As our senior loved ones enter vulnerable phases of their lives, often unable to advocate for themselves, the responsibility increasingly falls on family members to step into the role of advocates. This book provides a powerful blueprint for active participation in critical decisions-from ... Read more

$2.99 USD

Champions Needed delivers an essential guide for families navigating the evolving landscape of long-term care. As our senior loved ones enter vulnerable phases of their lives, often unable to advocate for themselves, the responsibility increasingly falls on family members to step into the role of advocates. This book provides a powerful blueprint for active participation in critical decisions-from
... Read more
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A Year Down Yonder

by Richard Peck ...

Narrated by Lois Smith ...

Unabridged

3 hours 24 min

Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel return for more astonishing, laugh-out-loud adventures when fifteen-year-old Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for the year. Her extended visit is filled with moonlit schemes, romances both foiled and founded, and a whole parade of fools made to suffer in unusual (and always hilarious) ways. ... Read more

$9.99 USD

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Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel return for more astonishing, laugh-out-loud adventures when fifteen-year-old Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for the year. Her extended visit is filled with moonlit schemes, romances both foiled and founded, and a whole parade of fools made to suffer in unusual (and always hilarious) ways.
... Read more

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It Ain't Over . . . Till It's Over

Reinventing Your Life--and Realizing Your Dreams--Anytime, at Any Age

by Marlo Thomas ...

Narrated by Marlo Thomas, January LaVoy, Michele Pawk, Lois Smith, Becky Ann Baker ...

Unabridged

10 hours 28 min

From actress, activist, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Marlo Thomas comes a unique, inspirational book “filled with stories of bold and brave women who won’t give up and won’t be held back” (Sheryl Sandberg, bestselling author of Lean In).Anyone who has ever tried to make a big life change knows it can be complicated—and frightening. Especially if you’re feeling stuck. But how do you get ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

From actress, activist, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Marlo Thomas comes a unique, inspirational book “filled with stories of bold and brave women who won’t give up and won’t be held back” (Sheryl Sandberg, bestselling author of Lean In).Anyone who has ever tried to make a big life change knows it can be complicated—and frightening. Especially if you’re feeling stuck. But how do you get
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Light in the Night

Spirit Photography at the Cottage

by Lois Anne Smith ...

Light in the Night contains stunning photographic evidence of the light-filled beings that medium Lois Anne Smith says have always been with her. The pictures were taken in the gardens surrounding her small healing center located in the quiet community of Valley Mede, Maryland.It never occurred to her to share them in book form until the summer of 2013 when, standing in the middle of the garden, ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Light in the Night contains stunning photographic evidence of the light-filled beings that medium Lois Anne Smith says have always been with her. The pictures were taken in the gardens surrounding her small healing center located in the quiet community of Valley Mede, Maryland.It never occurred to her to share them in book form until the summer of 2013 when, standing in the middle of the garden,
... Read more
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Sweet By and By, The

A Novel

by Todd Johnson ...

Narrated by Becky Ann Baker, Adriane Lenox, Lois Smith, Robin Miles ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

Meet five North Carolina women who are about to change the way you think about friendship. For Rhonda, a gritty, fun-loving hairdresser in tight jeans, the sights and smells of Ridgecrest Nursing Center are depressing. But before she can change her mind about working there, two residents glue themselves to her: Margaret, droll and whip-smart, with a will of iron that never fails her even when her ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Meet five North Carolina women who are about to change the way you think about friendship. For Rhonda, a gritty, fun-loving hairdresser in tight jeans, the sights and smells of Ridgecrest Nursing Center are depressing. But before she can change her mind about working there, two residents glue themselves to her: Margaret, droll and whip-smart, with a will of iron that never fails her even when her
... Read more

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Like

by Ali Smith ...

Narrated by Lois Chimimba ...

Unabridged

11 hours 26 min

Ali Smith’s “beautifully written, precise, poetic” (The Observer) debut that follows the briefly intertwined lives of two young womenWhen we meet Amy Shone, she is a young parent struggling to raise Kate, a precocious eight-year-old. Amy is an enigma—a brilliant scholar who has forgotten how to read. She is estranged from her wealthy English parents and lives a nomadic life in Scotland, dragging ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Ali Smith’s “beautifully written, precise, poetic” (The Observer) debut that follows the briefly intertwined lives of two young womenWhen we meet Amy Shone, she is a young parent struggling to raise Kate, a precocious eight-year-old. Amy is an enigma—a brilliant scholar who has forgotten how to read. She is estranged from her wealthy English parents and lives a nomadic life in Scotland, dragging
... Read more