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Americans spend billions of dollars every year in our efforts to get better. We want to be better today than we were yesterday and better tomorrow than we are today. But what if the key to "better" isn't what we think it is? What if it doesn't start with us at all? What if our concept of "better" isn't big enough? Better: My Life. God's Design. is an audiobook of essential life-application principles and in-depth personal study materials designed to help any Christian learn the keys to finding and walking in God's better plan for his or her life.

If you want to be a winner in this world, you need to have a big house, a big car, and a big paycheck. Right? Everyone thinks that having more money and owning more stuff naturally makes you happier in life. But what if everyone is wrong? What if happiness isn’t really tied to the number of things you possess, the size of your bank account, or what you can claim ownership over in this life? Building wealth and leaving a legacy isn’t just about becoming richer. It’s about understanding four important biblical principles and applying them practically in our lives.

Would you like to become rich? Stephen Hawley Martin, an entrepreneur who founded and sold two businesses, explains in this book how anyone capable of getting and holding a job can become incredibly wealthy by following one of several paths he sets out. One path is to start a business, grow a business, and sell a business. Alternatives to that direction include keeping a day job and building a fortune by starting and running a business on the side, or by investing in real estate or other passive income generators.

Claire DuMond can't believe her father would just lapse into a coma for no apparent reason. Even his doctors are mystified. But one thing is clear, she must find the cause before it's too late. Claire sets out to do just that, and soon arrives on the Caribbean island of Martinique. And wouldn't you know? Her boyfriend followed her. Why does he never seem to listen? There they meet a Voodoo priest who may be able to help find the answer. Does it have to do with the eruption of Mt. Pelée that killed more than 30,000 inhabitants some 50 years prior?

The protagonist, Brian Durston, is a bright young hotshot who left a big New York ad agency, and the fast track to mega-bucks, to join his uncle's medium-sized firm. Why? His uncle promised to turn over his stake in the agency. The future looks bright until Brian discovers his uncle slumped on his desk with a bullet through his brain.

Rebecca Fletcher grew up on the genteel plantation of Live Oaks, her father's family home on the James River in Virginia. After her father was killed in Vietnam, her grandmother, Minnie, assumed the role of both mother and father to Rebecca. Rebecca's mother, Nina, was never talked about. But after Minnie's death, Rebecca's Uncle William decided to subdivide Live Oaks. Now, to save Live Oaks, Rebecca must find Nina alive.

No Recife dos anos 1990, essa é a história de duas viúvas, vizinhas e inimigas, cujos maridos mataram um ao outro em um grotesco duelo sem sentido. Fragmentos de memória (e também de invenção) da narradora (que reescreve fatos que testemunhou na infância) revelam ao ouvinte as personagens, que poderiam comungar suas dores, mas decidem enfrentá-las com vingança.