Tag: Audiobook

  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Funny in Farsi

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/14/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in AmericaFunny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since.

    In a series of deftly drawn scenes, we watch the family grapple with American English (hot dogs and hush puppies?—a complete mystery), American traditions (Thanksgiving turkey?), and American culture (Firoozeh’s parents laugh uproariously at Bob Hope on television, although they don’t get the jokes even when she translates them into Farsi).

    Above all, this is an unforgettable story of identity, discovery, and the power of family love. It is a book that will leave us all laughing—without an accent.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Ten-Cent Plague

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/13/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed AmericaThe Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America
    by David Hajdu

    The story of the rise and fall of those comic books has never been fully told — until The Ten-Cent Plague. David Hajdu’s remarkable new book vividly opens up the lost world of comic books, its creativity, irreverence, and suspicion of authority.

    In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created–in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new culture emerged than it was beaten down by church groups, community bluestockings, and a McCarthyish Congress–only to resurface with a crooked smile on its face in Mad magazine.

    When we picture the 1950s, we hear the sound of early rock and roll. The Ten-Cent Plague shows how–years before music–comics brought on a clash between children and their parents, between prewar and postwar standards. Created by outsiders from the tenements, garish, shameless, and often shocking, comics spoke to young people and provided the guardians of mainstream culture with a big target. Parents, teachers, and complicit kids burned comics in public bonfires. Cities passed laws to outlaw comics. Congress took action with televised hearings that nearly destroyed the careers of hundreds of artists and writers.

    The Ten-Cent Plague radically revises common notions of popular culture, the generation gap, and the divide between "high" and "low" art.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Secrets of Wishtide

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/12/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Secrets of WishtideThe Secrets of Wishtide by Kate Saunders

    Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged 52, is the widow of an archdeacon who makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in nearby Highgate with his wife and 10 children. Frederick finds the cases, and Laetitia solves them using her arch intelligence and her immaculate cover as an unsuspecting widow.

    When a case arises involving the son of the highly connected Sir James Calderstone, Laetitia sets off for Lincolnshire undercover as the family’s new governess – quickly making herself indispensable. But the seemingly simple case – looking into young Charles Calderstone’s inappropriate love interest – soon takes an unpleasant turn. And as the family’s secrets begin to unfold, Laetitia discovers the Calderstones have more to hide than most.

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