Tag: Audiobook

  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Listener

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Listener

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 08/17/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The ListenerThe Listener by Robert McCammon

    It’s 1934. Businesses went under by the hundreds, debt and foreclosures boomed, and breadlines grew in many American cities. In the midst of this misery, some folks explored unscrupulous ways to make money. Angel-faced John Partlow and carnival huckster Ginger LaFrance are among the worst of this lot. Joining together they leave their small-time confidence scams behind to attempt an elaborate kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in New Orleans.

    In a different part of town, Curtis Mayhew, a young black man who works as a redcap for the Union Railroad Station, has a reputation for mending quarrels and misunderstandings among his friends. What those friends don’t know is that Curtis has a special talent for listening…and he can sometimes hear things that aren’t spoken aloud.

    One day, Curtis Mayhew’s special talent allows him to overhear a child’s cry for help (THIS MAN IN THE CAR HE’S GOT A GUN), which draws him into the dangerous world of Partlow and LaFrance.

    This gritty Depression-era crime thriller is a complex tale enriched by powerfully observed social commentary and hints of the supernatural, and it represents Robert McCammon writing at the very top of his game.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Romeo and Juliet: A Novel

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Romeo and Juliet: A Novel

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 08/16/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Romeo and Juliet: A NovelRomeo and Juliet: A Novel by David Hewson

    Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    It’s a story you think you know: the age-old tale of "star-cross’d lovers"; two families at war; a romance, so pure and absolute, fated for a tragic end. It’s a story so thoroughly embedded in our culture, and so frequently retold. Yet, nothing captures the spark, the possibility, and the surprise of Shakespeare’s work quite like this…

    In Romeo and Juliet: A Novel, author David Hewson reworks and expands on the classic story so that it becomes something richer, something new and entirely its own. Much more than a simple love story, it is a brilliant examination of young versus old, hope against despair, and, for Juliet, the search for individual identity at a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel.

    Hewson’s talent for writing for audio is undeniable, and he finds his perfect vocal foil in Armitage, an actor of immense range and absorbing intensity. Together, they bring you a familiar story told in a surprising way – with an ending you might not expect.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 On Intelligence

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 On Intelligence

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 08/15/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    On IntelligenceOn Intelligence
    by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee

    Over 900 5-Star Reviews!

    Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself.

    Hawkins develops a powerful theory of how the human brain works, explaining why computers are not intelligent and how, based on this new theory, we can finally build intelligent machines.

    The brain is not a computer, but a memory system that stores experiences in a way that reflects the true structure of the world, remembering sequences of events and their nested relationships and making predictions based on those memories. It is this memory-prediction system that forms the basis of intelligence, perception, creativity, and even consciousness.

    In an engaging style that will captivate audiences from the merely curious to the professional scientist, Hawkins shows how a clear understanding of how the brain works will make it possible for us to build intelligent machines, in silicon, that will exceed our human ability in surprising ways.

    Written with acclaimed science writer Sandra Blakeslee, On Intelligence promises to completely transfigure the possibilities of the technology age. It is a landmark book in its scope and clarity.

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