Showing results by publisher "Simply Media" in All Categories

Mark Twain's marvelous short work relating how to tell a story - an American story that is humorous, not comic as the British or witty as the French. The work also includes four marvelous but little-known essays: "The Wounded Soldier", "The Golden Arm", "Mental Telegraphy", and "The Invalid's Story". Canadian listeners will particularly enjoy "Mental Telegraphy", set in Quebec.

A story that blends practical joking with death; the irony of the Devil's Dictionary is a live and well in this story. A jewel.

Learn the art of selling in 60 minutes of conversation and instruction.

A low-cost focus is the route to wealth and happiness, because a penny saved is a penny earned, and the millionaire next door got there by what they saved, not what they earned. In good times and bad, you will have the cash to invest, with the best bargains in bad times and happiness throughout all periods. A practical guide to achieve your wealth and happiness.

This audiobook describes your responsibility to be happy by avoiding negativity and negative people and provides practical advice about how to manage your personal and work life to achieve happiness and contentment from home life to interpersonal skills and far more. It is an important book to counteract modern emphasis on victimhood, blame, anger, envy, and other negative forces in society and the media.

An early 20th Century tale about a booster & businessman who followed the standard program, deviated, and wished his son well in going his own way.

Cooperman, like Midas, stays alone in his room, adding zeroes to his bank account as Midas added gold to his pile. Both were unhappy because they never built anything or passed on their financial wisdom, so they were disliked by many and hated by others. In contrast, billionaires Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Sam Walton passed on their wisdom, built things, and helped people prosper in their lives, and were revered by virtually all. There are lessons for all of us in this book.

Come to Dust: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! This the eighth of 37 Emma Lathen best sellers featuring John Putnam Thatcher, SVP of the Sloan Guaranty Trust. This time involves fundraising for the old Ivy league college, Dartmouth in fact, with various goings-on related to missing checks, possible embezzlement, and more. It's windy twisty road to the solution made by John Putnam Thatcher. Good fun, witty, and informative.

The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. In the Penal Colony describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin in a script before letting him die, all in the course of 12 hours. As the plot unfolds, the listener learns more and more about the machine, including its origin, and original justification.  

An Excursion to Canada is a remarkable work by Thoreau, very different from his other works. Here he becomes an American traveler who shows far greater respect for America than Canada, while explaining the details of the chasm between the Church (Black) and the soldiers (Red) in Quebec that Stendhal pointed out in The Red and the Black in France. Something like DeTocqueville's Democracy in America, but here Canada is the country under the microscope.

The story centers on an impoverished clerk who is dedicated to his job as a routine copyist but not recognized for his hard work. Younger clerks mock him for his dedication. His threadbare overcoat is mocked as well. He saves up to buy a new one and wears it for one glorious evening, only to have it stolen that night. He dies soon after from his great loss. Thereafter, his ghost is reported to haunt that part of St. Petersburg where the coat was stolen.

An early 20th century American story written in the Theodore Dreiser style of each word and chapter building on the previous ones, telling the saga of evangelical religion & people with irony throughout.

An early 20th century American story written in the Theodore Dreiser style of each word and chapter building on the previous ones, telling the saga of evangelical religion & people with irony throughout.

A tale about an ocean sailing trip, the goings on at land at sea by a sailor and adventurer.

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy after the Allegory of the Cave. Incomparable logic and findings about the things that matter in life, with a clear, succinct prose touch.

The legendary ironic insightful classic by Voltaire, considered the greatest artistic genius of his era. Introducing the legendary, best-of-all-possible-worlds Pangloss. A whirlwind trip around the globe with irony, wit, insight, genius, and more at each stop.

A rollicking good tale about 4 men righting wrongs the courts did not do. These 4 act honorably by giving most of their targets a chance to escapee their form of vigilante justices. This case is about an English Cabinet minister set to expel refugees of principle from England to labor camps or execution in their despotic homelands.

The Democrat Tax deals with Democrats investing money for their own purposes and their cost to you. As a voter, you decide who to vote for to spend your money or vote Republican and have that money returned to you. The book covers all elements of Democrat expenditures from new regulations & their agencies, union support, defined pensions & federal bailouts, ESG & Non Merit based hiring & promotions, money printing & anti fracking anti pipeline costs. 

A legendary tale about witchcraft and vampires with a handsome Black man—in fact, a vampire—marrying an aristocratic White woman in one night, and the tragedies that ensue.

Brett Swartz describes how to retain the highest percentage of your wealth through deferring capital gains taxes through Deferred Sales Trusts or Delaware 1031 Exchanges.