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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Death in the English Countryside

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Death in the English Countryside

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 09/29/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Death in the English CountrysideDeath in the English Countryside by Sara Rosett

    Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    Location scout and Jane Austen aficionado Kate Sharp is thrilled when the company she works for lands the job of finding locations for a new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, but then her boss, Kevin, fails to return from a scouting trip to England. Kate travels to England to salvage Kevin’s and the company’s reputation before word gets out that he is missing.

    Things go from bad to worse when Kate arrives in Nether Woodsmoor, a quaint village of golden stone cottages and rolling green hills, only to find no trace of Kevin except his abandoned luggage. Even the rumpled, easygoing local scout they consulted, Alex, doesn’t know where Kevin might be.

    Increasingly worried about Kevin and with an antsy director waiting for updates about the preproduction details, Kate embarks on a search that includes a pub-crawl and cozy cottages as well as stately country manors. But Kevin remains missing, and she begins to suspect that the picturesque village and beautiful countryside may not be as idyllic as they seem.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 No Apparent Distress

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 No Apparent Distress

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 09/28/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American MedicineNo Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
    by Rachel Pearson MD

    In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America’s medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poor — and the poor suffer from their mistakes.

    Rachel Pearson confronted these harsh realities when she started medical school in Galveston, Texas. Pearson, herself from a working-class background, remains haunted by the suicide of a close friend, experiences firsthand the heartbreak of her own errors in a patient’s care, and witnesses the ruinous effects of a hurricane on a Texas town’s medical system. In No Apparent Distress, she chronicles her experiences and the raging disparities in a system that favors the rich and the white.

    This is at once an indictment of American health care and a deeply moving tale of one doctor’s coming-of-age.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 City of Endless Night

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 City of Endless Night

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 09/27/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    City of Endless NightCity of Endless Night
    by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she has simply sped off on another wild adventure. Until the young woman’s body is discovered in an abandoned warehouse in Queens, the head nowhere to be found.

    Lieutenant CDS Vincent D’Agosta quickly takes the lead. He knows his investigation will attract fierce scrutiny, so D’Agosta is delighted when FBI Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast shows up at the crime scene assigned to the case…

    But neither Pendergast nor D’Agosta are prepared for what lies ahead. A diabolical presence is haunting the greater metropolitan area, and Grace Ozmian was only the first of many victims to be murdered…and decapitated. Worse still, there’s something unique to the city itself that has attracted the evil eye of the killer.

    As mass hysteria sets in, Pendergast and D’Agosta find themselves in the crosshairs of an opponent who has threatened the very lifeblood of the city. It’ll take all of Pendergast’s skill to unmask this most dangerous foe – let alone survive to tell the tale.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Differently Morphous

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Differently Morphous

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 09/26/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Differently MorphousDifferently Morphous by Yahtzee Croshaw

    Over 1,500 5-Star Reviews!

    A magical serial killer is on the loose, and gelatinous, otherworldly creatures are infesting the English countryside. Which is making life for the Ministry of Occultism difficult, because magic is supposed to be their best kept secret.

    After centuries in the shadows, the Ministry is forced to unmask, exposing the country’s magical history – and magical citizens – to a brave new world of social media, government scrutiny, and public relations.

    On the trail of the killer are the Ministry’s top agents: a junior operative with a photographic memory (and not much else), a couple of overgrown schoolboys with godlike powers, and a demonstrably insane magician.

    But as they struggle for results, their superiors at HQ must face the greatest threat the Ministry has ever known: the forces of political correctness…

    Differently Morphous is the latest and greatest tale to emerge from the mind of writer (and narrator) Yahtzee Croshaw.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 How Language Began

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 How Language Began

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 09/25/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest InventionHow Language Began: The Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention by Daniel L. Everett

    Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth?

    Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper’s), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than 7,000 languages that exist today.

    Although fossil hunters and linguists have brought us closer to unearthing the true origins of language, Daniel Everett’s discoveries have upended the contemporary linguistic world, reverberating far beyond academic circles. While conducting field research in the Amazonian rainforest, Everett came across an age-old language nestled amongst a tribe of hunter-gatherers. Challenging long-standing principles in the field, Everett now builds on the theory that language was not intrinsic to our species. In order to truly understand its origins, a more interdisciplinary approach is needed – one that accounts as much for our propensity for culture as it does our biological makeup.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Ploughmen

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Ploughmen

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 09/24/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The PloughmenThe Ploughmen by Kim Zupan

    A young sheriff and a hardened killer form an uneasy and complicated bond in this mesmerizing first novel set on the plains of Montana.

    Steeped in a lonesome Montana landscape as unyielding and rawas it is beautiful, Kim Zupan’s The Ploughmen is a new classic in the literature of the American West.

    At the center of this searing fever-dream of a novel are two men – a killer awaiting trial and a troubled young deputy – sitting across from each other in the dark, talking through the bars of a county jail cell: John Gload, so brutally adept at his craft that only now, at the age of 77, has he faced the prospect of long-term incarceration; and Valentine Millimaki, low man in the Copper County sheriff’s department, who draws the overnight shift after Gload’s arrest.

    With a disintegrating marriage further collapsing under the strain of his night duty, Millimaki finds himself seeking counsel from a man whose troubled past shares something essential with his own. Their uneasy friendship takes a startling turn with a brazen act of violence that yokes together the two haunted souls by the secrets they share – and by the rugged country that keeps them.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Ocean Liner

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Ocean Liner

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 09/23/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Ocean LinerThe Ocean Liner
    by Marius Gabriel

    As war engulfs Europe, 1,500 passengers risk everything to find a brighter future.

    Cousins Masha and Rachel Morgenstern board the luxury liner the SS Manhattan bound for New York, desperate to escape the concentration camps that claimed the rest of their family. America offers a safe haven, but to reach it they must survive a hazardous Atlantic crossing.

    Among their fellow passengers fleeing the war, each with their own conflicts, secrets and surprises, are the composer Igor Stravinsky, making a new start after a decade of tragedy, and Rose Kennedy, determined to keep her four children from harm. Particularly worrying to Rose is her daughter Rosemary, a vivacious but troubled woman whose love for a Californian musician may derail her family’s political ambitions. And then there’s young Thomas, a Nazi with a secret…

    But, under the waves, the Manhattan is being stalked by a German U-boat. Will any of those aboard the ocean liner ever achieve their dream of a new life in America?

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 A Universe from Nothing

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 A Universe from Nothing

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 09/22/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than NothingA Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss

    Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?

    In this cosmological story that rivets as it enlightens, pioneering theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss explains groundbreaking scientific advances that turn the most basic philosophical questions on their head. One of the few prominent scientists to have actively crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss reveals that modern science is indeed addressing the question of why there is something rather than nothing-with surprising and fascinating results. The beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending theories are all described accessibly, and they suggest that not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing.

    With his characteristic wry humor and clear explanations, Krauss takes us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting recent evidence for how our universe evolved–and the implications for how it will end. It will provoke, challenge, and delight listeners as it looks at the most basic underpinnings of existence in a whole new way. And this knowledge that our universe will be quite different in the future has profound consequences and directly affects how we live in the present. As Richard Dawkins described it, this could potentially be the most important scientific book with implications for supernaturalism since Darwin.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Noble Beginnings

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Noble Beginnings

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 09/21/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Noble BeginningsNoble Beginnings by L. T. Ryan

    Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    In March of 2002, while the eyes of the world focused on Afghanistan, Jack Noble finds himself on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. A Marine in name only, Jack is on loan to the CIA. Normally an integral part of the team, he finds that he is nothing more than a security detail in Iraq.

    Jack and his partner Bear have a run-in with four CIA special agents over the treatment of an Iraqi family. Within hours Jack and Bear are detained.

    All Jack wanted was to finish his enlistment and move on with his life. All he did was intervene and save a family from unwarranted violence at the hands of four CIA agents. But he soon discovers that he did far more than intervene. He has placed himself dead square in the middle of a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the US government.

    This fast-paced political crime thriller by USA Today best-selling author L.T. Ryan will leave you burning through the minutes as Jack races to stop the conspiracy before it claims his life. Fans of Jack Reacher, Mitch Rapp, and Jason Bourne should enjoy Jack Noble.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Half a Heart

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Half a Heart

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 09/20/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Half a HeartHalf a Heart by Karen McQuestion

    Over 300 5-Star Reviews!

    From best-selling author Karen McQuestion comes a moving novel about broken hearts…and what it takes to put them back together again.

    At nine years of age, Logan Weber knows the routine. Keep quiet, make the food last, and don’t ever cause trouble. He’ll do what it takes to evade the rages of his troubled, violent father. Even though he’s only a child, Logan already knows too much – has seen too much.

    So when the opportunity presents itself, Logan runs. He has no idea where his journey will lead, or that the grandmother he’s been told is dead is desperately searching for him.

    Alone with no home of his own, Logan looks for a safe place to hide. Relying on his instincts and the kindness of strangers, the boy manages to touch the lives of everyone he meets. But his innocent heart cannot survive in the adult world without the most basic human need of all: love.

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