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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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