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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Somebody I Used to Know

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Somebody I Used to Know

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/06/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Somebody I Used to KnowSomebody I Used to Know by David Bell

    When Nick Hansen sees the young woman at the grocery store, his heart stops. She is the spitting image of his college girlfriend, Marissa Minor, who died in a campus house fire 20 years earlier. But when Nick tries to speak to her, she acts skittish and rushes off.

    The next morning the police arrive at Nick’s house and show him a photo of the woman from the store. She’s been found dead, murdered in a local motel, with Nick’s name and address on a piece of paper in her pocket. Convinced there’s a connection between the two women, Nick enlists the help of his college friend, Laurel Davidson, to investigate the events leading up to the night of Marissa’s death. But the young woman’s murder is only the beginning… and the truths Nick uncovers may make him wish he never doubted the lies.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/05/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the UniverseSpaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Mike Massimino

    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that’s about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space Telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you’re about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind’s chance to unlock the universe’s secrets? Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit, with all the zip and buoyancy of life in microgravity.

    Massimino’s childhood space dreams were born the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Growing up in a working-class Long Island family, he catapulted himself to Columbia and then MIT, only to flunk his first doctoral exam and be rejected three times by NASA before making it through the final round of astronaut selection. Taking us through the surreal wonder and beauty of his first spacewalk, the tragedy of losing friends in the Columbia shuttle accident, and the development of his enduring love for the Hubble Telescope – which he and his fellow astronauts were tasked with saving on his final mission – Massimino has written an ode to never giving up and the power of teamwork to make anything possible.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Greyhound

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Greyhound

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

    GreyhoundGreyhound by Steffan Piper

    Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    Sebastien’s single mom and her feckless boyfriend can’t be bothered to take care of a stuttering 12-year-old. Banished to live with his grandmother on the far side of the country, the boy can barely understand a bus schedule when he gets dumped at the Greyhound station in Stockton, California. Given $35 and a one-way ticket to Altoona, Pennsylvania, Sebastien must cross the country – alone, without a clue how to fend for himself.

    Filled with youthful anger and naïveté, Sebastien heads out into the "Morning in America" of Ronald Reagan’s 1980s, encountering temperamental bus drivers, charming, shifty, and downright dangerous strangers, the music of Daryl Hall and John Oates, and an ex-con named Marcus, who takes the boy under his wing. In an unforgettable trek that evokes Oliver Twist and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the unlikely pair lurch from one misadventure to another, tumbling toward an elusive understanding of where and how, in a troubling world, to look for light.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: The Hoarder in You

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: The Hoarder in You

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/02/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered LifeThe Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life by Dr. Robin Zasio

    We all have treasured possessions – a favorite pair of shoes, a much-beloved chair, an ever-expanding record collection. But sometimes this emotional attachment to our belongings can spiral out of control. From hobbyists and collectors to pack rats and compulsive shoppers – it is close to impossible for hoarders to relinquish their precious objects, even if it means that stuff takes over their lives and their homes.

    According to psychologist Dr. Robin Zasio, our fascination with hoarding stems from the fact that most of us fall somewhere on the hoarding continuum. Even though it may not regularly interfere with our everyday lives, to some degree or another, many of us hoard.

    The Hoarder in You provides practical advice for decluttering and organizing, including how to tame the emotional pull of acquiring additional things, make order out of chaos by getting a handle on clutter, and create an organizational system that reduces stress and anxiety. Dr. Zasio also shares some of the most serious cases of hoarding that she’s encountered, and explains how we can learn from these extreme examples – no matter where we are on the hoarding continuum.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Chasing the Moon

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Chasing the Moon

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 04/01/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Chasing the MoonChasing the Moon
    by A. Lee Martinez

    Diana’s life was in a rut – she hated her job, she was perpetually single, and she needed a place to live But then the perfect apartment came along. It seemed too good to be true – because it was. As it turns out, the apartment was already inhabited – by monsters.

    Vom the Hungering was the first to greet Diana and to warn her that his sole purpose in life was to eat everything in his path. This poses a problem for Diana since she’s in his path…and is forbidden from ever leaving the apartment. It turns out though that there are older and more ancient monstrous entities afoot – ones who want to devour the moon and destroy the world as we know it. Can Diana, Vom, and the other horrors stop this from happening? Maybe if they can get Vom to stop eating everything…and everyone.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: All the Birds in the Sky

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: All the Birds in the Sky

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 03/30/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    All the Birds in the SkyAll the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

    A deeply magical, darkly funny examination of life, love, and the apocalypse.

    Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn’t expect to see each other again after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alarm one’s peers and families. But now they’re both adults, living in the hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart around them.

    Laurence is an engineering genius who’s working with a group that aims to avert catastrophic breakdown through technological intervention into the changing global climate. Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the world’s magically gifted, and works with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the world’s ever-growing ailments. Little do they realize that something bigger than either of them, something begun years ago in their youth, is determined to bring them together – to either save the world or plunge it into a new dark ages.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: The Woman on the Orient Express

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: The Woman on the Orient Express

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 03/28/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Woman on the Orient Express

    The Woman on the Orient Express
    by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

    Over 1,100 5-Star Reviews!

    Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can’t neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey.

    Agatha isn’t the only passenger on board with secrets. Her cabinmate Katharine Keeling’s first marriage ended in tragedy, propelling her toward a second relationship mired in deceit. Nancy Nelson – newly married but carrying another man’s child – is desperate to conceal the pregnancy and teeters on the brink of utter despair. Each woman hides her past from the others, ferociously guarding her secrets. But as the train bound for the Middle East speeds down the track, the parallel courses of their lives shift to intersect – with lasting repercussions.

    Filled with evocative imagery, suspense, and emotional complexity, The Woman on the Orient Express explores the bonds of sisterhood forged by shared pain and the power of secrets.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Not My Father’s Son – A Memoir

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day: Not My Father’s Son – A Memoir

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    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 03/27/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Audie Award, Autobiography/Memoir, 2015

    Dark, painful memories can be like a cage. Or, in the case of Alan Cumming, they can be packed away in a box, stuck in the attic to be forgotten. Until one day the box explodes and all the memories flood back in horrible detail. Alan Cumming grew up in the grip of a man who held his family hostage, someone who meted out violence with a frightening ease, who waged a silent war with himself that sometimes spilled over onto everyone around him. That man was Alex Cumming, Alan’s father.

    When television producers approached Alan to appear on a popular celebrity genealogy show in 2010, he enthusiastically agreed.

    His father, whom Alan had not seen or spoken to for more than a decade, reconnected just before filming for Who Do You Think You Are? began. He had a secret he had to share, one that would shock his son to his very core and set into motion a journey that would change Alan’s life forever.

    With ribald humor, wit, and incredible insight, Alan seamlessly moves back and forth in time, integrating stories from his childhood in Scotland and his experiences today as the celebrated actor of film, television, and stage. At times suspenseful, at times deeply moving, but always incredibly brave and honest, Not My Father’s Son is a powerful story of embracing the best aspects of the past and triumphantly pushing the darkness aside.

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