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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Ask Him Why

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Ask Him Why

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/27/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Ask Him WhyAsk Him Why by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes the stunning and emotional story of a young soldier’s unthinkable act… and the bonds of a sister and brother’s love.

    Ruth and her little brother, Aubrey, are just teenagers when their older brother ships off to Iraq. When Joseph returns, uninjured, only three and a half months later, Ruth is happy he is safe but also deeply worried. How can it be that her courageous big brother has been dishonorably discharged for refusing to go out on duty? Aubrey can’t believe that his hero doesn’t have very good reasons.

    Yet as the horrifying details of the incident emerge, Joseph disappears. In their attempts to find him, Ruth and Aubrey discover he has a past far darker than either of them could imagine. But even as they learn more about their brother, important questions remain unanswered – why did he betray his unit, his country, and now his family? Joseph’s refusal to speak ignites a fire in young Aubrey that results in a disastrous, and public, act of rebellion.

    The impact of Joseph’s fateful decision one night in Baghdad will echo for years to come, with his siblings caught between their love for him and the media’s engulfing frenzy of judgment. Will their family ever make their way back to each other and find a way to forgive?

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Yes Please

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Yes Please

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/26/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Yes PleaseYes Please by Amy Poehler

    Over 1,600 5-Star Reviews!

    Amy Poehler is hosting a dinner party and you’re invited! The guest list is star-studded with vocal appearances from Carol Burnett, Seth Meyers, Michael Schur, Patrick Stewart, Kathleen Turner, and even Amy’s parents – Yes Please is the ultimate audiobook extravaganza.

    Also included? A one-night-only live performance at Poehler’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Hear Amy read a chapter live in front of a young and attractive Los Angeles audience.

    While listening to Yes Please, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll become convinced that your phone is trying to kill you. Don’t miss this collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, lists, and haikus from the mind of one of our most beloved entertainers. Offering Amy’s thoughts on everything from her "too safe" childhood outside of Boston to her early days in New York City, her ideas about Hollywood and "the biz", the demon that looks back at all of us in the mirror, and her joy at being told she has a "face for wigs" – Yes Please is chock-full of words, and wisdom, to live by.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Dandelion Wine

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Dandelion Wine

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/25/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Dandelion WineDandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

    Over 350 5-Star Reviews!

    Ray Bradbury’s moving recollection of a vanished golden era is one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author’s most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical story of a magical small-town summer in 1928.

    Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis shoes, the first harvest of dandelions for Grandfather’s renowned intoxicant, the distant clang of the trolley’s bell on a hazy afternoon. It is yesteryear and tomorrow blended into an unforgettable always. But as young Douglas is about to discover, summer can be more than the repetition of established rituals whose mystical power holds time at bay. It can be a best friend moving away, a human time machine that can transport you back to the Civil War, or a sideshow automaton able to glimpse the bittersweet future.

    Come and savor Ray Bradbury’s priceless distillation of all that is eternal about boyhood and summer.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Lost Art of Listening

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Lost Art of Listening

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/24/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve RelationshipsThe Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships
    by Michael P. Nichols PhD

    One person talks; the other listens. It’s so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we actually are.

    Why do we so often fail to connect when speaking with family members, romantic partners, colleagues, or friends? How do emotional reactions get in the way of real communication?

    This thoughtful, witty, and empathic book has already helped over 100,000 people break through conflicts and transform their personal and professional relationships. Experienced therapist Michael P. Nichols, PhD, provides vivid examples, easy-to-learn techniques, and practical exercises for becoming a better listener and making yourself heard and understood, even in difficult situations.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Blood on the Tracks

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Blood on the Tracks

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/23/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Blood on the TracksBlood on the Tracks by Barbara Nickless

    Over 2,700 5-Star Reviews!

    A young woman is found brutally murdered, and the main suspect is the victim’s fiancé, a hideously scarred Iraq War vet known as the Burned Man. But railroad police Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell, brought in by the Denver Major Crimes unit to help investigate, can’t shake the feeling that larger forces are behind this apparent crime of passion.

    In the depths of an icy winter, Parnell and her K9 partner, Clyde – both haunted by their time in Iraq – descend into the underground world of a savage gang of rail riders. There, they uncover a wide-reaching conspiracy and a series of shocking crimes. Crimes that threaten everything Parnell holds dear.

    As the search for the truth puts her directly in the path of the killer, Parnell must struggle with a deadly question: Can she fight monsters without becoming one herself?

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: The Triumph of Seeds

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: The Triumph of Seeds

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/22/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human HistoryThe Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson

    We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe.

    Just as the search for nutmeg and the humble peppercorn drove the Age of Discovery, so did coffee beans help fuel the Enlightenment and cottonseed help spark the Industrial Revolution. And from the fall of Rome to the Arab Spring, the fate of nations continues to hinge on the seeds of a Middle Eastern grass known as wheat.

    In nature and in culture, seeds are fundamental – objects of beauty, evolutionary wonder, and simple fascination. How many times has a child dropped the winged pip of a maple, marveling as it spirals its way down to the ground, or relished the way a gust of wind(or a stout breath) can send a dandelion’s feathery flotilla skyward? Yet despite their importance, seeds are often seen as a commonplace, their extraordinary natural and human histories overlooked. Thanks to Thor Hanson and this stunning new book, they can be overlooked no more.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Those Girls

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Those Girls

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/21/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Those GirlsThose Girls by Chevy Stevens

    Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters.

    Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they work hard and try to stay out of the way of their father’s fists. One night a fight gets out of hand, and the sisters are forced to go on the run, only to get caught in an even worse nightmare when their truck breaks down in a small town. Events spiral out of control, and a chance encounter with the wrong people leaves them in a horrific and desperate situation. They are left with no choice but to change their names and create new lives.

    Eighteen years later they are still trying to forget what happened — when one of the sisters goes missing, and they are pulled back into their past. But this time there’s nowhere left to run.

    As much a thriller as it is a deep exploration of the bonds among sisters, Those Girls is an unforgettable portrait of desperation, loyalty, and evil.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/20/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from NeurosurgeryWhen the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery by Frank T Vertosick Jr. MD

    Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick, Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia, and a minister with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his skull.

    Told through intimate portraits of Vertosick’s patients and unsparing-yet-fascinatingly detailed descriptions of surgical procedures, When the Air Hits Your Brain – the culmination of decades spent struggling to learn an unforgiving craft – illuminates both the mysteries of the mind and the realities of the operating room.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Anansi Boys

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Anansi Boys

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/19/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    ⭐ Over 400 5-Star Reviews ⭐

    Anansi BoysAnansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

    In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Neil Gaiman returns to the territory of his masterpiece, American Gods, to once again probe the dark recesses of the soul.

    God is dead. Meet the kids.

    Fat Charlie Nancy’s normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn’t know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider is on his doorstep—about to make Fat Charlie’s life more interesting… and a lot more dangerous.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: A Quiet Life in the Country

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: A Quiet Life in the Country

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/18/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    A Quiet Life in the Country: A Lady Hardcastle MysteryA Quiet Life in the Country: A Lady Hardcastle Mystery by T E Kinsey

    Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they’ve just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life.

    But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There’s a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady Hardcastle makes some enquiries of her own, and it seems she knows a surprising amount about crime investigation…

    As Lady Hardcastle and Flo delve deeper into rural rivalries and resentment, they uncover a web of intrigue that extends far beyond the village. With almost no one free from suspicion, they can be certain of only one fact: there is no such thing as a quiet life in the country.

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