Tag: Audiobook

  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The First Player

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/28/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The First PlayerThe First Player by Andrew Novak

    Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    This is Alterra, where you can be the master of your own castle… or a field hand on a farm. And this is Jack, who wants to make his way to a different continent, hidden in the virtual mist. And this is an ancient quest line, buried under new versions of the game.

    Jack’s goal: create his own guild. Buy a ship. And set off on the Great Journey. The journey of his life. The dangerous Gravediggers are not the only ones opposing him. Necromancers from sinister Nightmare, elite alpha-citizens, and relic hunters are only a small fraction of the enemies that the First Player will have to face.

    In the perilous Wasteland, the drifter Jack finds an abandoned truck, where an old-world game console is hidden. This moment marks the beginning of Jack’s path to the lost continent, hidden in the virtual depths of the colossal Alterra. He still isn’t aware of the enemies standing in his way. Not only are the guilds against him, but also the secret masters of the game world themselves. But the discoveries of ancient quest lines, long buried under new versions of the game, give Jack access to the Dark Service…

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  • 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

    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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