Tag: Audible

  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Sharkman

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/22/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    SharkmanSharkman by Steve Alten

    Kwan Wilson was a high school basketball star living in San Diego when a tragic accident changed his life in ways no one could predict. He only looked at his phone for a few seconds, but that was all the time it took to crash his car into a telephone pole, killing his mother and paralyzing him from the waist down.

    After the accident, his father, Admiral Douglas Wilson, sent him off to live with his maternal grandmother in South Florida. Kwan’s new principal, anticipating his depression and isolation, tells him about an internship at a genetics lab in Miami that is testing shark stem cells on rats in an effort to cure cancer and repair spinal injuries. Kwan declines, until he learns the beautiful Anya Patel is an intern at the lab. When Kwan takes the internship, he learns that the good news is that the stem cells are curing their rat subjects; the bad news is it alters their DNA so much, it kills them. But after a promising breakthrough is made, Kwan risks his life and injects himself with the experimental stem cells, forever altering his destiny and the lives of millions in the process.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Out of Africa

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/21/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Out of AfricaOut of Africa by Isak Dineson

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    Danish countess Karen Blixon, known as Isak Dineson, ran a coffee plantation in Kenya in the years when Africa remained a romantic and formidable continent to most Europeans.

    Out of Africa is her account of her life there, with stories of her respectful relationships with the Masai, Kikuyu, and Somali natives who work on her land; the European friends who visit her; and the imposing permanence of the wild, high land itself.

    Stage and television actress Julie Harris delivers a reading that is emotionally charged and reflective, recreating Dinesen’s lively appreciation for the land she loved so much.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Emotional Success

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/20/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and PrideEmotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride by David DeSteno

    A string of best sellers have alerted us to the importance of grit – an ability to persevere and control one’s impulses that is closely associated with greatness. But no book yet has charted the most accessible and powerful path to grit: our prosocial emotions. These feelings – gratitude, compassion, and pride – are easier to generate than the willpower and self-denial that underpin traditional approaches to grit. And, while willpower is quickly depleted, prosocial emotions actually become stronger the more we use them. These emotions have another crucial advantage: they’re contagious. Those around us become more likely to apply them when we do.

    As this myth-shattering book explains, prosocial emotions evolved specifically to help us resist immediate temptations in favor of long-term gains. Originally, they enabled us to build lasting relationships with other people, and they still do that brilliantly. But they can also be adapted to strengthen our bonds with our own future selves – who will benefit most from the grit we need to succeed in life.

    No matter what our goals are, Emotional Success can help us achieve them with greater ease and deeper satisfaction than we would have thought possible.

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