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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 One of These Things First

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 One of These Things First

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/27/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    One of These Things FirstOne of These Things First by Steven Gaines

    From New York Times best-selling author Steven Gaines comes a wry and touching memoir of his trials as a gay teen at the famed Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic.

    One of These Things First is a poignant reminiscence of a 15-year-old gay Jewish boy’s unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother’s Brooklyn bra-and-girdle store to Manhattan’s infamous Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, whose alumni includes writers, poets, and madmen as well as Marilyn Monroe and best-selling author Steven Gaines.

    With a true gift for storytelling, Gaines captures his childhood shtetl in Brooklyn, and all its drama and secrets, including a pair of tormenting bullies whose taunts drive him to a suicide attempt.

    Gaines also takes the listener behind the walls of Payne Whitney – the "Harvard of psychiatric clinics", populated by a captivating group of neurasthenics who affect his life in unexpected ways. The cast of characters includes a famous Broadway producer who becomes his unlikely mentor; an elegant woman who claims to be the ex-mistress of newly elected president John F. Kennedy; a snooty, suicidal architect; and a seductive young contessa. At the center of the story is a brilliant young psychiatrist who promises to cure a young boy of his homosexuality and give him the normalcy he so longs for.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 All Joy and No Fun

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 All Joy and No Fun

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/26/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern ParenthoodAll Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood by Jennifer Senior

    Over 350 5-Star Reviews!

    Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. But almost none have thought to ask: What are the effects of children on their parents?

    In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents’ lives, whether it’s their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today’s mothers and fathers, making their mandates at once more complex and far less clear.

    The result is an unforgettable series of family portraits, starting with parents of young children and progressing to parents of teens. Through lively and accessible storytelling, Senior follows these mothers and fathers as they wrestle with some of parenthood’s deepest vexations – and luxuriate in some of its finest rewards.

    Meticulously researched yet imbued with emotional intelligence, All Joy and No Fun makes us reconsider some of our culture’s most basic beliefs about parenthood, all while illuminating the profound ways children deepen and add purpose to our lives. By focusing on parenthood, rather than parenting, this audiobook is original and essential listening for mothers and fathers of today – and tomorrow.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Woman in the Window

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Woman in the Window

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/25/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Woman in the WindowThe Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn

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    Over 1,800 5-Star Reviews!

    For listeners of Gillian Flynn and Tana French comes a twisty, powerful Hitchcockian thriller about an agoraphobic woman who believes she witnessed a crime in a neighboring house.

    It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening…

    Anna Fox lives alone – a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times…and spying on her neighbors.

    Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble. And its shocking secrets are laid bare.

    What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one – and nothing – is what it seems.

    Twisty and powerful, ingenious and moving, The Woman in the Window is a smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Ladies of Ivy Cottage

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Ladies of Ivy Cottage

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/24/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Ladies of Ivy CottageThe Ladies of Ivy Cottage by Julie Klassen

    Return to Ivy Hill in The Ladies of Ivy Cottage as friendships deepen, romances blossom, and mysteries unfold.

    Living with the two Miss Groves in Ivy Cottage, impoverished gentlewoman Rachel Ashford is determined to earn her own livelihood…somehow. When the village women encourage her to open a subscription library with the many books she has inherited or acquired through donations, Rachel discovers two mysteries hidden among them. A man who once broke her heart helps her search for clues, but will both find more than they bargained for?

    Rachel’s friend and hostess, Mercy Grove, has given up thoughts of suitors and fills her days managing her girls’ school. So when several men take an interest in Ivy Cottage, she assumes pretty Miss Ashford is the cause. Exactly what – or who – has captured each man’s attention? The truth may surprise them all.

    Meanwhile, life has improved at the coaching inn, and Jane Bell is ready to put grief behind her. Now if only the man she misses would return – but where is he?

    As the women of Ivy Hill search for answers about the past and hope for the future, might they find love along the way?

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 My Sister’s Grave

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 My Sister’s Grave

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/23/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    My Sister's GraveMy Sister’s Grave by Robert Dugoni

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    Over 8,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Tracy Crosswhite has spent 20 years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the murder trial that followed. She doesn’t believe that Edmund House – a convicted rapist and the man condemned for Sarah’s murder – is the guilty party. Motivated by the opportunity to obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated her life to tracking down killers.

    When Sarah’s remains are finally discovered near their hometown in the northern Cascade mountains of Washington State, Tracy is determined to get the answers she’s been seeking. As she searches for the real killer, she unearths dark, long-kept secrets that will forever change her relationship to her past – and open the door to deadly danger.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Traitor’s Blade

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Traitor’s Blade

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/22/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Traitor's BladeTraitor’s Blade by Sebastien de Castell

    With swashbuckling action that recalls Dumas’s Three Musketeers, Sebastien de Castell has created a dynamic new fantasy series. In Traitor’s Blade, a disgraced swordsman struggles to redeem himself by protecting a young girl caught in the web of a royal conspiracy.

    The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced to watch the killer plant evidence framing them for the murder. Oh wait, that’s exactly what’s happening.

    Now a royal conspiracy is about to unfold in the most corrupt city in the world. A carefully orchestrated series of murders that began with the overthrow of an idealistic young king will end with the death of an orphaned girl and the ruin of everything that Falcio, Kest, and Brasti have fought for. But if the trio want to foil the conspiracy, save the girl, and reunite the Greatcoats, they’ll have to do it with nothing but the tattered coats on their backs and the swords in their hands, because these days every noble is a tyrant, every knight is a thug, and the only thing you can really trust is a traitor’s blade.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Her Name in the Sky

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Her Name in the Sky

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/21/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Her Name in the SkyHer Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen

    Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    Seventeen-year-old Hannah wants to spend her senior year of high school going to football games and Mardi Gras parties. She wants to drive along the oak-lined streets of Louisiana’s Garden District and lie on the hot sand of Florida’s beaches. She wants to spend every night making memories with her tight-knit group of friends.

    The last thing she wants is to fall in love with a girl – especially when that girl is her best friend, Baker.

    Hannah knows she should like Wally, the kind, earnest boy who asks her to prom. She should cheer on her friend Clay when he asks Baker to be his girlfriend. She should follow the rules of her conservative community – the rules that have been ingrained in her since she was a child.

    But Hannah longs to be with Baker, who cooks macaroni and cheese with Hannah late at night, who believes in the magic of books as much as Hannah does, and who challenges Hannah to be the best version of herself.

    And Baker might want to be with Hannah, too – if both girls can embrace that world-shaking, wondrous possibility.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Dead Key

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Dead Key

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/20/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Dead KeyThe Dead Key by D. M. Pulley

    ⭐ Over 5,000 5-Star Reviews ⭐

    It’s 1998, and for years the old First Bank of Cleveland has sat abandoned, perfectly preserved, its secrets only speculated on by the outside world.

    Twenty years before, amid strange staff disappearances and allegations of fraud, panicked investors sold Cleveland’s largest bank in the middle of the night, locking out customers and employees and thwarting a looming federal investigation. In the confusion that followed, the keys to the vault’s safe-deposit boxes were lost.

    In the years since, Cleveland’s wealthy businessmen have kept the truth buried in the abandoned high-rise. The ransacked offices and forgotten safe-deposit boxes remain locked in time until young engineer Iris Latch stumbles upon them during a renovation survey. What begins as a welcome break from her cubicle becomes an obsession as Iris unravels the bank’s sordid past. With each haunting revelation, Iris follows the looming shadow of the past deeper into the vault – and soon realizes that the key to the mystery comes at an astonishing price.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Year One: Chronicles of The One

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Year One: Chronicles of The One

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/19/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Year One: Chronicles of The OneYear One: Chronicles of The One
    by Nora Roberts

    Over 6,000 5-Star Reviews!

    A stunning new novel from the number-one New York Times best-selling author – an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magic, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives…

    It began on New Year’s Eve.

    The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed – and more than half of the world’s population was decimated.

    Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river – or in the ones you know and love the most.

    As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City.

    In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain.

    The end has come. The beginning comes next.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Addictive Brain

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Addictive Brain

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/18/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Addictive BrainThe Addictive Brain by Thad A. Polk

    Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Addiction is a problem that affects everyone – even if we haven’t experienced addiction ourselves, we all know someone who has. Unfortunately many sources of information about addiction seem inaccessible or irrelevant because they present vague or false science, they present accurate science in an excessively complicated way, or they are more moralistic than informative.

    Addiction is sometimes viewed as a failure of character or will or morality. But neuroscience offers a very different picture – one that can inform how we, as individuals and as a society, treat addicts and the problems caused by addiction. These 12 eye-opening lectures will show you that addiction is a scientifically understandable problem that has its origins in neurobiology and genetics.

    Professor Polk gives you a comprehensive but concise survey of addiction and the major drugs of abuse, highlighting the differing neurological effects of stimulants, opioids, and more. He also delves into the world of behavioral addictions, such as gambling and compulsive video gaming, which, neurologically, operate very similarly to drug addiction. This course will clearly and compassionately inform you on what addiction means scientifically, socially, and behaviorally.

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