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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Ladies’ Room

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Ladies’ Room

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/08/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Ladies' RoomThe Ladies’ Room by Carolyn Brown

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    Over 5,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Secrets told in the church ladies’ room are supposed to stay in the ladies’ room. But that doesn’t mean that what Trudy overhears there during her great-aunt Gertrude’s funeral won’t change the rest of her life.

    Trudy has a daughter in the middle of a major rebellion; a two-timing husband who has been cheating for their entire married life; and a mother with Alzheimer’s residing in the local nursing home. She doesn’t really need a crumbling old house about to fall into nothing but a pile of memories and broken knickknacks.

    Billy Lee Tucker, resident oddball in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, lived next door to Gert, and in her will she leaves him the funds to help Trudy remodel the old house. That’s fine with Billy Lee, because he’s been in love with Trudy since before they started school. And just spending time with her is something he’d never ever allowed himself to dream about.

    A beautiful home rises up from the old house on Broadway, and right along with it rises up a relationship. But is Trudy too scarred from what she heard in the ladies’ room to see a lovely future with Billy Lee?

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/07/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Trekonomics: The Economics of Star TrekTrekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek
    by Manu Saadia

    What would the world look like if everybody had everything they wanted or needed?

    Trekonomics, the premier book in financial journalist Felix Salmon’s imprint PiperText, approaches scarcity economics by coming at it backward – through thinking about a universe where scarcity does not exist.

    Delving deep into the details and intricacies of 24th-century society, Trekonomics explores post-scarcity and whether we, as humans, are equipped for it. What are the prospects of automation and artificial intelligence? Is there really no money in Star Trek? Is Trekonomics at all possible?

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 A Conflict of Interest

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 A Conflict of Interest

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/06/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    A Conflict of InterestA Conflict of Interest by Adam Mitzner

    Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    A stunning debut thriller in the best-selling tradition of Scott Turow and John Grisham!

    Alex Miller is a criminal defense lawyer leading the life he always imagined. At thirty-five, he is the youngest partner at New York City’s most prestigious law firm, with a beautiful wife and a perfect daughter. When Alex’s father suddenly passes away, Alex is introduced to Michael Ohlig, a rich and powerful man who holds an almost mythical place in his family lore. But Alex is surprised when Ohlig admits that he’s in serious legal trouble, accused of crimes involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Alex agrees to take on Ohlig’s defense.

    Through the course of two trials, secrets are revealed that force Alex to question whether any of the people in his life are who they appear to be. Most importantly, he must decide whether the identity he projects to the world is the man he truly is or even wants to be.

    With its powerful voice, pause-resistant tension, and strong cast of characters, A Conflict of Interest will captivate listeners right up to its electrifying conclusion.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 My Man Jeeves

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 My Man Jeeves

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/05/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    My Man JeevesMy Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

    My Man Jeeves, first published in 1919, introduced the world to affable, indolent Bertie Wooster and his precise, capable valet, Jeeves. Some of the finest examples of humorous writing found in English literature are woven around the relationship between these two men of very different classes and temperaments. Where Bertie is impetuous and feeble, Jeeves is coolheaded and poised.

    This collection, the first book of Jeeves and Wooster stories, contains eight stories, including “Absent Treatment”, “Helping Freddie”, “Rallying Round Old George”, “Doing Clarence a Bit of Good”, “Fixing It for Freddie”, and “Bertie Changes His Mind”.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/04/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Barbarian Days: A Surfing LifeBarbarian Days: A Surfing Life
    by William Finnegan

    ⭐ Pulitzer Prize Winner ⭐
    Over 900 5-Star Reviews!

    Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.

    Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter.

    Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses – off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the listener in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships annealed in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu even while his closest friend was a Hawaiian surfer. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly – he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay on Maui – is served up with rueful humor. He and a buddy, their knapsacks crammed with reef charts, bushwhack through Polynesia. They discover, while camping on an uninhabited island in Fiji, one of the world’s greatest waves.

    As Finnegan’s travels take him ever farther afield, he becomes an improbable anthropologist: unpicking the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissecting the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, navigating the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying listeners with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Billy Budd, Sailor

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Billy Budd, Sailor

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/03/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Billy Budd, SailorBilly Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville

    Written some 40 years after Moby Dick, Melville’s Billy Budd is a moving tale of good versus evil.

    Set aboard a British navy ship at the end of the eighteenth century, a young, innocent sailor’s charm and good nature put the men around him at ease. Ship life agreed with Billy. He made friends quickly and was well liked, which infuriated John Claggart, the ship’s cold-blooded superior officer.

    Mutiny was a continual threat greatly feared by naval officers. Even minor offences were dealt with harshly to keep crews in their place, regardless of whether the accused was guilty or innocent.

    The envious Master-at-Arms becomes obsessed with the destruction of the ‘Handsome Sailor’ and torments the young man until his false accusations lead to an eventual charge of treason against Billy.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Practice Perfect

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Practice Perfect

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/02/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting BetterPractice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better by Doug Lemov, Katie Yezzi, Erica Woolway

    Rules for developing talent with disciplined, deliberate, intelligent practice.

    We live in a competition loving culture. We love the performance, the big win, the ticking seconds of the clock as the game comes down to the wire. We watch games and cheer, sometimes to the point of obsession, but if we really wanted to see greatness – wanted to cheer for it, see it happen, understand what made it happen – we’d spend our time watching, obsessing on, and maybe even cheering the practices instead. This book puts practice on the front burner of all who seek to instill talent and achievement in others as well as in themselves. This is a journey to understand that practice, not games, makes champions.

    In this book, the authors engage the dream of better, both in fields and endeavors where participants know they should practice and also in those where many do not yet recognize the transformative power of practice. And it’s not just whether you practice. How you practice may be a true competitive advantage. Deliberately engineered and designed practice can revolutionize our most important endeavors. The clear set of rules presented in Practice Perfect will make us better in virtually every performance of life. The "how-to" rules of practice cover such topics as rethinking practice, modeling excellent practice, using feedback, creating a culture of practice, making new skills stick, and hiring for practice.

    A hands-on resource to practice, the rules within will help to create positive outliers and world-changing reservoirs of talent.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Heiress of Linn Hagh

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Heiress of Linn Hagh

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/01/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Heiress of Linn HaghThe Heiress of Linn Hagh by Karen Charlton

    Northumberland, 1809: A beautiful young heiress disappears from her locked bedchamber at Linn Hagh. The local constables are baffled and the townsfolk cry "witchcraft".

    The heiress’ uncle summons help from Detective Lavender and his assistant, Constable Woods, who face one of their most challenging cases: The servants and local gypsies aren’t talking, Helen’s siblings are uncooperative, and the sullen local farmers are about to take the law into their own hands.

    Lavender and Woods find themselves trapped in the middle of a simmering feud as they uncover a world of family secrets, intrigue and deception in their search for the missing heiress.

    Taut, wry, and delightful, The Heiress of Linn Hagh is a rollicking tale featuring Lavender and Woods – a double act worthy of Holmes and Watson.

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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 06/30/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

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

    Over 200 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 🎧 Wrong

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Wrong

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 06/29/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    WrongWrong by Jana Aston

    Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews!

    I have a history of picking the wrong guy. Gay? Player? Momma’s boy? Check, check and check.

    Now I can’t stop fantasizing about one of the customers at the coffee shop I work at between classes. It’s just a harmless crush, right? It’s not like I ever see this guy outside of the coffee shop. It’s not like I’m going to see him while attempting to get birth control at the student clinic. While wearing a paper gown. While sitting on an exam table. Because he’s the doctor. Shoot. Me.

    But what if, for once, the man I’ve had the dirtiest, most scandalous fantasies about turned out to be everything but wrong?

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