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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Last Seen Leaving

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Last Seen Leaving

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/17/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Last Seen LeavingLast Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig

    Flynn’s girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking questions he can’t answer, and her friends are telling stories that don’t add up. All eyes are on Flynn — as January’s boyfriend, he must know something.

    But Flynn has a secret of his own. And as he struggles to uncover the truth about January’s disappearance, he must also face the truth about himself.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 American Philosophy: A Love Story

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 American Philosophy: A Love Story

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/16/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    American Philosophy: A Love StoryAmerican Philosophy: A Love Story
    by John Kaag

    The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life around.

    In American Philosophy, John Kaag – a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career – stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. The library includes notes from Whitman, inscriptions from Frost, and first editions of Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant.

    As he begins to catalog and preserve these priceless books, Kaag rediscovers the very tenets of American philosophy – self-reliance, pragmatism, the transcendent – and sees them in a 21st-century context.

    Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is an invigorating investigation of American pragmatism and the wisdom that underlies a meaningful life.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: The Flicker Men

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: The Flicker Men

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/15/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Flicker MenThe Flicker Men by Ted Kosmatka

    A quantum physicist shocks the world with a startling experiment, igniting a struggle between science and theology, free will and fate, and antagonizing forces not known to exist.

    Eric Argus is a washout. His prodigious early work clouded his reputation and strained his sanity. But an old friend gives him another chance, an opportunity to step back into the light.

    With three months to produce new research, Eric replicates the paradoxical double-slit experiment to see for himself the mysterious dual nature of light and matter. A simple but unprecedented inference blooms into a staggering discovery about human consciousness and the structure of the universe.

    His findings are celebrated and condemned in equal measure, but no one can predict where the truth will lead. And as Eric seeks to understand the unfolding revelations, he must evade shadowy pursuers who believe he knows entirely too much already.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/14/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About CrimeForensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid

    The dead talk… to the right listener. They can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them.

    Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces. Forensics draws on interviews with some of these top-level professionals, groundbreaking research, and Val McDermid’s own original interviews and firsthand experience on scene with top forensic scientists.

    Along the way McDermid discovers how maggots collected from a corpse can help determine one’s time of death; how a DNA trace a millionth the size of a grain of salt can be used to convict a killer; and how a team of young Argentine scientists led by a maverick American anthropologist were able to uncover the victims of a genocide.

    It’s a journey that will take McDermid to war zones, fire scenes, and autopsy suites and bring her into contact with both extraordinary bravery and wickedness as she traces the history of forensics from its earliest beginnings to the cutting-edge science of the modern day.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: News of the World

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: News of the World

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/13/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    News of the WorldNews of the World by Paulette Jiles

    Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction. News of the World explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.

    In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.

    In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows.

    Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act "civilized." Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.

    Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember – strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become – in the eyes of the law – a kidnapper himself.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/12/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and OurselvesWhat the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves by Benjamin K. Bergen

    Nearly everyone swears – whether it’s over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies, and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we’ll mutter in relief seconds after they fall asleep. Swearing, it seems, is an intimate part of us that we have decided to selectively deny.

    That’s a damn shame.

    Swearing is useful. It can be funny, cathartic, or emotionally arousing. As linguist and cognitive scientist Benjamin K. Bergen shows us, it also opens a new window onto how our brains process language and why languages vary around the world and over time.

    In this groundbreaking yet ebullient romp through the linguistic muck, Bergen answers intriguing questions: How can patients left otherwise speechless after a stroke still shout "Goddamn!" when they get upset? And why do we extend a middle finger to flip someone the bird?

    Smart as hell and funny as f–k, What the F is mandatory listening for anyone who wants to know how and why we swear.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: The Heavens May Fall

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: The Heavens May Fall

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

    The Heavens May FallThe Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskens

    Detective Max Rupert’s and attorney Boady Sanden’s friendship is being pushed to the breaking point. Max is convinced that Jennavieve Pruitt was killed by her husband, Ben. Boady is equally convinced that Ben, his client, is innocent. As the case unfolds, the two are forced to confront their own personal demons.

    Max is still struggling with the death of his wife four years earlier, and the Pruitt case stirs up old memories. Boady hasn’t taken on a defense case since the death of an innocent client, a man Boady believes he could have saved but didn’t. Now he is back in court, with student Lila Nash at his side, and he’s determined to redeem himself for having failed in the past.

    Vividly told from two opposing perspectives, the truth about the stunning death of Jennavieve Pruitt remains a mystery until the very end.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Hurry Up and Meditate

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Hurry Up and Meditate

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/10/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Hurry Up and MeditateHurry Up and Meditate by David Michie

    Hurry Up and Meditate is for people in a hurry and its message is simple: meditation will help you combat stress, cultivate happiness, enhance your performance, realise your goals and attain mastery of your mental, emotional and material destiny.

    If meditation was available in capsule form, it would be the biggest-selling drug of all time. It has been scientifically proven to deliver highly effective stress relief, boost our immune systems and dramatically slow the aging process. It has also been shown to make us much happier and more effective thinkers. Given all the physical and psychological benefits, why aren’t more of us doing it?

    In this thought-provoking and entertaining book, David Michie explains the nuts and bolts of meditation. As a busy professional, as well as long-term meditator, he also gives a first-hand account of how to integrate this transformational practice into everyday life. Combining leading edge science with timeless wisdom, Hurry Up and Meditate provides all the motivation and tools you need to achieve greater balance, better health and a more panoramic perspective on life.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Mine

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Mine

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/08/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    MineMine by Brett Battles

    Something happened that night in the woods at Camp Red Hawk. But all Joel and Leah can recall is sneaking out for a late hike with five camp friends – and that only the two of them and their friend Mike returned. They have no memory of what happened to the others. No memory of anything after leaving the camp.

    In the years that follow, they realize something has changed inside of them. They are different from others in ways they never should be. In ways that send their lives down disturbing and terrifying paths. As they grapple with adulthood, their only hope for understanding why they’ve been altered lies with them finding each other again. But how is that possible when their memories of one another have been erased?

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Time Was

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Time Was

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

    Time Was: Time and AgainTime Was: Time and Again by Nora Roberts

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts enchants listeners with this time-traveling romance about one man torn between his own time and the woman he loves in the past.

    Stranded in the present, time traveler Caleb Hornblower’s biggest problem isn’t returning to the twenty-third century – but falling head over heels for the beguiling Liberty Stone, who shows him a love more powerful than time itself. Though Caleb knows he belongs in the future, how can he leave the past, and Liberty, behind?

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