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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Beyond Band of Brothers

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Beyond Band of Brothers

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/29/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick WintersBeyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters, Cole C. Kingseed

    Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    In war, great commanders lead soldiers into hell to do the impossible.

    They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered huge casualties while liberating Europe in an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters led them through the Battle of the Bulge, the attack on Foy—where Easy Company reached its breaking point—and finally into Germany, by which time each member had been wounded. Outside Munich, they liberated an S.S. death camp and captured Berchtesgaden, Hitler’s alpine retreat.

    Beyond Band of Brothers is Winters’s memoir, based on his wartime diary, but it also includes his comrades’ untold stories. Only Winters was present from the activation of Easy Company until the war’s end. This is their story, told in his words for the first time.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Oedipus Plays

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Oedipus Plays

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/28/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Oedipus Plays: An Audible Original DramaThe Oedipus Plays: An Audible Original Drama by Sophocles, Ian Johnston

    The three Theban plays by Sophocles – Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone – are one of the great landmarks of Western theatre. They tell the story of Oedipus, King of Thebes, who was destined to suffer a terrible fate – to kill his father, marry his mother, and beget children of the incestuous union. He does this unknowingly but still has to suffer terrible consequences, which also tragically affect the next generation.

    These three plays were written around 450 BC, with the playwright following the established convention of presenting the story through main characters but using a chorus – sometimes one voice, sometimes more – as an independent commentator that also occasionally participates in the drama. When the audiences of ancient Athens went to the amphitheatres to see the plays, they would have known the basic story of poor Oedipus.

    Nevertheless, the power of Sophocles’ retelling made the Theban plays deeply horrifying and affecting – and this is still true now, some 2,500 years later.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 NPCs

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 NPCs

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/27/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    NPCsNPCs by Drew Hayes

    Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    What happens when the haggling is done and the shops are closed? When the quest has been given, the steeds saddled, and the adventurers are off to their next encounter? They keep the world running, the food cooked, and the horses shoed, yet what adventurer has ever spared a thought or concern for the Non-Player Characters? In the town of Maplebark, four such NPCs settle in for a night of actively ignoring the adventurers drinking in the tavern when things go quickly and fatally awry.

    Once the dust settles, these four find themselves faced with an impossible choice: pretend to be adventurers undertaking a task of near-certain death or see their town and loved ones destroyed. Armed only with salvaged equipment, second-hand knowledge, and a secret that could get them killed, it will take all manner of miracles if they hope to pull off their charade. And even if they succeed, the deadliest part of their journey may well be what awaits them at its end.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Secrets of Story

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Secrets of Story

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/26/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating ReadersThe Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers by Matt Bird

    The Secrets of Story is a revolutionary and comprehensive writing guide for the 21st century, focused on clever ways to get an audience to fully identify with an all-too-human hero.

    Authors will learn to how to cut through pop culture noise and win over a jaded modern audience by rediscovering the heart of writing: shaping stories that ring true to our shared understanding of human nature.

    Providing conversational advice that spans multiple disciplines – from fiction to film to creative nonfiction – Matt Bird’s insightful techniques allow characters to come alive and stories to reach a new level of appeal.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 When We Were Sisters

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 When We Were Sisters

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/25/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    When We Were SistersWhen We Were Sisters by Emilie Richards

    Love and loyalty made them sisters. Secrets could still destroy them.

    As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters they had never had. Cecelia, now a superstar singer-songwriter, is living life on the edge. Robin set aside her career as a successful photojournalist to create the loving family she always yearned for. But gazing through a wide-angle lens at both past and future, she sees that her marriage is disintegrating. Her attorney husband is rarely home. She and the children need Kris’ love and attention, but does Kris need them?

    For Cecilia, a lifetime of lies has finally caught up with her, and she wants a chance to tell the real story of their childhood and free herself from the nightmares that still haunt her. When she asks Robin to be the still photographer for a documentary on foster care, Robin agrees, even though Kris will be forced to take charge for the months she’s away. She gambles that he’ll prove to them both that their children – and their marriage – are a priority in his life.

    As the documentary unfolds, memories will be tested and the meaning of family redefined, but the love two young girls forged into bonds of sisterhood will help them move forward as the women they were always meant to be.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Nest

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Nest

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/24/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    NestNest by Terry Goodkind

    Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    Kate Bishop is in a world of trouble. In the wake of several inexplicable and brutal murders, Kate is thrust into a police inquiry that reveals shocking family secrets. Suddenly exposed to a shadowy network of global evil, her life takes a dramatic turn with the arrival of Jack Raines, an author with a mysterious past who says he has the answers to her questions. What’s more, he suggests that Kate herself might be the solution.

    But hot on their heels are a force of superpredators, vicious and bloodthirsty killers who will stop at nothing until Kate and Jack are eliminated. Like Jack, they’ve realized just how special Kate is, and now she’s marked for death.

    An explosive mix of action and suspense, Nest is a complete reinvention of the paranormal thriller. Travel with Goodkind on a dangerous journey to the back alleys of the darknet, to the darkest corners of our minds, and to the very origins of what it is to be human, a place few have ventured to and fewer still have survived.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 A Canticle for Leibowitz

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 A Canticle for Leibowitz

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/23/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    A Canticle for LeibowitzA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

    Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, A Canticle for Leibowitz is a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.

    In a nightmarish, ruined world, slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infantile rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From there, the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes.

    Seriously funny, stunning, tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its ability to enthrall and amaze. It is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Louder Than Words

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Louder Than Words

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/22/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes MeaningLouder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning by Benjamin K. Bergen

    Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning – a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your vocal cords to make your innermost thoughts pop up in someone else’s mind. You can use it to talk about all sorts of things – from your new labradoodle puppy to the expansive gardens at Versailles, from Roger Federer’s backhand to things that don’t exist at all, like flying pigs.

    And when you talk, your listener fills in lots of details you didn’t mention – the curliness of the dog’s fur or the vast statuary on the grounds of the French palace. What’s the trick behind this magic? How does meaning work? In Louder than Words, cognitive scientist Benjamin Bergen draws together a decade’s worth of research in psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience to offer a new theory of how our minds make meaning.

    Through whimsical examples and ingenious experiments, Bergen leads us on a virtual tour of the new science of embodied cognition. A brilliant account of our human capacity to understand language, Louder than Words will profoundly change how you read, speak, and listen.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Some Danger Involved

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Some Danger Involved

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/21/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Some Danger InvolvedSome Danger Involved by Will Thomas

    An atmospheric novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar in London’s Jewish ghetto. When the eccentric and enigmatic Barker takes the case, he must hire an assistant, and out of all who answer an ad for a position with "some danger involved", he chooses downtrodden Llewelyn, a gutsy young man with a murky past.

    As they inch ever closer to the shocking truth behind the murder, Llewelyn is drawn deeper and deeper into Barker’s peculiar world of vigilante detective work, as well as the heart of London’s teeming underworld.

    Brimming with wit and unforgettable characters and steeped in authentic period detail, Some Danger Involved is a captivating novel that introduces an equally captivating duo.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/20/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Alcatraz versus the Evil LibrariansAlcatraz versus the Evil Librarians
    by Brandon Sanderson

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    Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    The author of the Mistborn trilogy and Elantris, Brandon Sanderson is winning abundant praise for this rollicking – and unusual – tale.

    On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry gets a bag of sand in the mail-his only inheritance from his father and mother. He soon learns that this is no ordinary bag of sand. It is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians who are taking over the world by spreading misinformation and suppressing truth. Alcatraz must stop them, using the only weapon he has: an incredible talent for breaking things.

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