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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Deep

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Deep

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/07/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About OurselvesDeep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
    by James Nestor

    Over 150 5-Star Reviews!
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

    Deep is a voyage from the ocean’s surface to its darkest trenches, the most mysterious places on Earth.

    Fascinated by the sport of freediving – in which competitors descend to great depths on a single breath – James Nestor embeds with a gang of oceangoing extreme athletes and renegade researchers. He finds whales that communicate with other whales hundreds of miles away, sharks that swim in unerringly straight lines through pitch-black waters, and other strange phenomena. Most illuminating of all, he learns that these abilities are reflected in our own remarkable and often hidden potential – including echolocation, directional sense, and the profound bodily changes humans undergo when underwater.

    Along the way Nestor unlocks his own freediving skills as he communes with the pioneers who are expanding our definition of what is possible in the natural world – and in ourselves.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 You Do You

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 You Do You

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/06/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You WantYou Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You’ve Got to Get What You Want
    by Sarah Knight

    From New York Times best-selling author Sarah Knight comes straight talk about how to stand up for who you are and what you really want, need, and deserve – showing when it’s okay to be selfish, why it’s pointless to be perfect, and how to be "difficult".

    Being yourself should be easy, yet too many of us struggle to live on other people’s terms instead of our own. Rather than feeling large and in charge, we feel little and belittled.

    Sound familiar? Best-selling "anti-guru" Sarah Knight has three simple words for you:

    You do you.

    It’s time to start putting your happiness first – and stop letting other people tell you what to do, how to do it, or why it can’t be done. And don’t panic! You can do it without losing friends and alienating people. Knight delivers her trademark no-bullsh*t advice about:

    • The tyranny of "just because"
    • The social contract and how to amend it
    • Turning "flaws" into strengths – aka "mental redecorating"
    • Why it’s not your job to be nice
    • Letting your freak flag fly
    • How to take risks, silence the doubters, and prove the haters wrong

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Red Sister

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Red Sister

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/05/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Red SisterRed Sister by Mark Lawrence

    Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    From the international best-selling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy comes the first in a brilliant new breakout fantasy series.

    At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don’t truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls.

    A bloodstained child of nine falsely accused of murder, guilty of worse, Nona is stolen from the shadow of the noose. It takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist, but under Abbess Glass’s care there is much more to learn than the arts of death. Among her class Nona finds a new family—and new enemies.

    Despite the security and isolation of the convent, Nona’s secret and violent past finds her out, drawing with it the tangled politics of a crumbling empire. Her arrival sparks old feuds to life, igniting vicious struggles within the church and even drawing the eye of the emperor himself.

    Beneath a dying sun, Nona Grey must master her inner demons, then loose them on those who stand in her way.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Wake Up

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Wake Up

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/04/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Wake UpThe Wake Up by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a hauntingly emotional novel of how one man’s life changes forever when he rediscovers his ability to feel the pain of others.

    Something has been asleep in forty-year-old cattle rancher Aiden Delacorte for a long time. It all comes back in a rush during a hunting trip, when he’s suddenly attuned to the animals around him, feeling their pain and fear as if it were his own. But the newfound sensitivity of Aiden’s "wake up" has its price. He can no longer sleepwalk through life, holding everyone at arm’s length. As he struggles to cope with a trait he’s buried since childhood, Aiden falls in love with Gwen, a single mother whose young son bears a burden of his own.

    Sullen and broken from his experiences with an abusive father, Milo has turned to acting out in violent and rebellious ways. Aiden can feel the boy’s pain, as well as that of his victims. Now he and Milo must sift through their pasts to find empathy with the innocent as well as the guilty, to come to terms with their deepest fears, and to finally discover the compassionate heart of a family.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/03/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Frankenstein: Prodigal SonFrankenstein: Prodigal Son
    by Dean Koontz

    Over 350 5-Star Reviews!

    From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic…

    Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself.

    Deucalion’s path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O’Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire race of killers who are much more – and less – than human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Helios – once known as Frankenstein.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 How Music Works

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 How Music Works

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/02/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    How Music WorksHow Music Works by David Byrne

    Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    Best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the iconic band Talking Heads, David Byrne has received Grammy, Oscar, and Golden Globe awards and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    In the insightful How Music Works, Byrne offers his unique perspective on music – including how music is shaped by time, how recording technologies transform the listening experience, the evolution of the industry, and much more.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Return

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Return

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/01/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in BetweenThe Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar

    Pulitzer Prize Winner: Biography/Autobiography, 2017

    From the author of In the Country of Men, a Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, comes a beautifully written, uplifting memoir of his journey home to his native Libya in search of the truth behind his father’s disappearance.

    When Hisham Matar was a 19-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime’s most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison in Libya. Hisham would never see him again. But he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. "Hope," as he writes, "is cunning and persistent." Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells were empty, and there was no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returned with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he’d go back to again.

    The Return is the story of what he found there. It is at once an exquisite meditation on history, politics, and art; a brilliant portrait of a nation and a people on the cusp of change; and a disquieting depiction of the brutal legacy of absolute power. Above all, it is a universal tale of loss and love and of one family’s life. Hisham Matar asks the harrowing question: How does one go on living in the face of a loved one’s uncertain fate?

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 This Is Your Brain on Parasites

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 This Is Your Brain on Parasites

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/31/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape SocietyThis Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
    by Kathleen McAuliffe

    A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures – including humans – think, feel, and act.

    These tiny organisms can live only inside another animal, and, as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host’s behavior. Far more often than appreciated, these puppeteers orchestrate the interplay between predator and prey. With astonishing precision, parasites can coax rats to approach cats, spiders to transform the patterns of their webs, and fish to draw the attention of birds that then swoop down to feast on them.

    We humans are hardly immune to the profound influence of parasites. Organisms we pick up from our own pets are strongly suspected of changing our personality traits and contributing to recklessness, impulsivity – even suicide. Microbes in our gut affect our emotions and the very wiring of our brains. Germs that cause colds and flu may alter our behavior even before symptoms become apparent.

    Parasites influence our species on the cultural level, too. As McAuliffe documents, a subconscious fear of contagion impacts virtually every aspect of our lives, from our sexual attractions and social circles to our morals and political views. Drawing on a huge body of research, she argues that our dread of contamination is an evolved defense against parasites – and a double-edged sword. The horror and revulsion we feel when we come in contact with people who appear diseased or dirty helped pave the way for civilization but may also be the basis for major divisions in societies that persist to this day.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Honest Spy

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Honest Spy

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/29/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Honest SpyThe Honest Spy by Andreas Kollender, Steve Anderson – translator

    Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    During one of history’s darkest chapters, one man is determined to make a difference.

    In the tradition of Schindler’s List comes a thrilling novel based on the heroic true story of Fritz Kolbe, a widowed civil servant in Adolf Hitler’s foreign ministry. Recognizing that millions of lives are at stake, Kolbe uses his position to pass information to the Americans – risking himself and the people he holds most dear – and embarks on a dangerous double life as the Allies’ most important spy.

    Summoned from his South African post to return to Nazi Germany, Kolbe leaves behind his beloved fourteen-year-old daughter, a decision made for her safety that nonetheless torments him. And as he lives under the constant threat of arrest, he wrestles with the guilt of putting Marlene Wiese, a married nurse and the love of his life, in danger as they collaborate on Kolbe’s clandestine work.

    But no matter the personal cost, Kolbe will not be deterred. In scenes that pulse with suspense, he emerges as a towering figure who risked everything to save innocent lives – and Germany from itself.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Good Soldiers

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Good Soldiers

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/28/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Good SoldiersThe Good Soldiers by David Finkel

    Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    With The Good Soldiers, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Finkel has produced an eternal story ― not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.

    It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as "the surge." Among those called to carry it out were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them.

    Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home ― forever changed. The chronicle of their tour is gripping, devastating, and deeply illuminating for anyone with an interest in human conflict.

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