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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Once Upon a Haunted Moor

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Once Upon a Haunted Moor

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/17/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Once Upon a Haunted MoorOnce Upon a Haunted Moor by Harper Fox

    Gideon Frayne has spent his whole working life as a policeman in the village of Dark on Bodmin Moor. It’s not life in the fast lane, but he takes it very seriously, and his first missing-child case is eating him alive. When his own boss sends in a psychic to help with the case, he’s gutted – he’s a level-headed copper who doesn’t believe in such things, and he can’t help but think that the arrival of clairvoyant Lee Tyack is a comment on his failure to find the little girl.

    But Lee is hard to hate, no matter how Gideon tries. At first Lee’s insights into the case make no sense, but he seems to have a window straight into Gideon’s heart. Son of a Methodist minister, raised in a tiny Cornish village, Gideon has hidden his sexuality for years. It’s cost him one lover, and he can’t believe it when this green-eyed newcomer stirs up old feelings and starts to exert a powerful force of attraction.

    Gideon and Lee begin to work together on the case. But there are malignant forces at work in the sleepy little village of Dark, and not only human ones – Gideon is starting to wonder, against all common sense, if there might be some truth in the terrifying legend of the Bodmin Beast after all. As a misty Halloween night consumes the moor, Gideon must race against time to save not only the lost child but the man who’s begun to restore his faith in his own heart.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Murder in an English Village

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Murder in an English Village

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/16/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Murder in an English VillageMurder in an English Village by Jessica Ellicott

    Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    As friends, the boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn’t be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they’re the perfect match.

    The year is 1920: Flying in the face of convention, legendary American adventuress Beryl Helliwell never fails to surprise and shock. The last thing her adoring public would expect is that she craves some peace and quiet. The humdrum hamlet of Walmsley Parva in the English countryside seems just the ticket. And, honestly, until America comes to its senses and repeals Prohibition, Beryl has no intention of returning stateside and subjecting herself to bathtub gin.

    For over three decades, Edwina Davenport has lived comfortably in Walmsley Parva, but the post-World War I bust has left her in dire financial straits and forced her to advertise for a lodger. When her long-lost school chum Beryl arrives on her doorstep – actually crashes into it in her red motorcar – Edwina welcomes her old friend as her new roommate.

    But her idyllic hometown has a hidden sinister side, and when the two friends are drawn in, they decide to set up shop as private inquiry agents, helping Edwina to make ends meet and satisfying Beryl’s thirst for adventure. Now this odd couple will need to put their heads together to catch a killer – before this sleepy English village becomes their final resting place.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/15/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
    by Lyudmila Trut, Lee Alan Dugatkin

    Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs – they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken – imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades.

    In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time in order to witness the process of domestication.

    Most accounts of the natural evolution of wolves place it over a span of about 15,000 years, but within a decade, Belyaev and Trut’s fox breeding experiments had resulted in puppy-like foxes with floppy ears, piebald spots, and curly tails. Along with these physical changes came genetic and behavioral changes, as well. The foxes were bred using selection criteria for tameness, and with each generation, they became increasingly interested in human companionship. Trut has been the lead scientist on this work since Belyaev’s death in 1985, and with Lee Dugatkin, biologist and science writer, she tells the story of the adventure, science, politics, and love behind it all.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Solar Bones

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Solar Bones

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/14/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Solar BonesSolar Bones by Mike McCormack

    A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland’s most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language and our inescapable nearness to our last end.

    It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing, relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man, father, husband, citizen. His ruminations move from childhood memories of his father’s deftness with machines to his own work as a civil engineer, from transformations in the local economy to the tidal wave of global financial collapse. Conway’s thoughts go still further, outward to the vast systems of time and history that hold us all. He stares down through the "vortex of his being", surveying all the linked circumstances that combined to bring him into this single moment, and he makes us feel, if only for an instant, all the terror and gratitude that existence inspires.

    Solar Bones is a masterwork that builds its own style and language one broken line at a time; the result is a visionary accounting of the now.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/13/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman ProtectionAndrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection by Alexander C. Kane

    Over 600 5-Star Reviews!

    Andrea Vernon always thought she would spend her life living in Paris writing thought-provoking historical novels all day and sipping wine on the Seine all night… But the reality is she’s drowning in debt, has no prospects, and is forced to move back to Queens, where her parents remind her daily that they are very interested in grandchildren.

    Then, one morning, she is kidnapped, interviewed, and hired as an administrative assistant by the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection. Superheroes for hire, using their powers for good. What could possibly go wrong?

    Lots.

    Her coworkers may be able to shoot lightning out of their hands or have skin made of diamonds, but they refuse to learn how to use the company’s database. She has a swell hook-up buddy relationship with The Big Axe, but he’s pushing to go exclusive. Then there’s the small matter of a giant alien space egg hovering over Yankee Stadium, threatening civilization as we know it.

    Will Andrea find contentment in office drudgery? Can she make a life together with a guy who’s eight feet tall and never puts down his axe? And will she ever figure out how her boss likes her coffee?

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Single Malt Murder

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Single Malt Murder

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/12/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Single Malt MurderSingle Malt Murder by Melinda Mullet

    Abigail Logan never expected to inherit a whisky distillery in the Scottish Highlands. But in the first novel of an engaging new series blending fine spirits with chilling mystery, Abi finds that there are secrets lurking in the misty glens that some will go to any lengths to protect…even murder.

    When Abi inherits her uncle’s quaint and storied single malt distillery, she finds herself immersed in a competitive high-stakes business that elicits deep passions and prejudices. An award-winning photojournalist, Abi has no trouble capturing the perfect shot – but making the perfect shot is another matter. When she starts to receive disturbing, anonymous threats, it’s clear that someone wants her out of the picture. But Abi’s never been one to back down from a fight.

    Arriving on the scene with her whisky-loving best friend, Patrick, and an oversized wheaten terrier named Liam, Abi seems to put everyone in the bucolic village on edge – especially her dour but disturbingly attractive head distiller. Acts of sabotage and increasingly personal threats against Abi make it clear that she is not welcome. When one of Abi’s new employees is found floating face down in a vat of whisky, Abi is determined to use her skills as an investigative journalist to identify the cold-blooded killer and dispense a dram of justice before he strikes again. But distilling truth from lies is tricky, especially when everyone seems to have something to hide.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Financial Diet

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Financial Diet

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/11/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner's Guide to Getting Good with MoneyThe Financial Diet: A Total Beginner’s Guide to Getting Good with Money by Chelsea Fagan

    How to get good with money, even if you have no idea where to start.

    The Financial Diet is the personal finance book for people who don’t care about personal finance. Whether you’re in need of an overspending detox, buried under student debt, or just trying to figure out how to live on an entry-level salary, The Financial Diet gives you tools to make a budget, understand investments, and deal with your credit.

    Chelsea Fagan has tapped a range of experts to help you make the best choices for you, but she also knows that being smarter with money isn’t just about what you put in the bank. It’s about everything – from the clothes you put in your closet, to your financial relationship habits, to the food you put in your kitchen (instead of ordering in again). So The Financial Diet gives you the tools to negotiate a raise and the perfect cocktail recipe to celebrate your new salary.

    The Financial Diet will teach you:

    • How to get good with money in a year.
    • The ingredients everyone needs to have a budget-friendly kitchen.
    • How to talk about awkward money stuff with your friends.
    • The best way to make (and stick to!) a budget.
    • How to take care of your house like a grown-up.
    • What the heck it means to invest (and how you can do it).

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Teeth

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Teeth

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/10/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in AmericaTeeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
    by Mary Otto

    In this shattering new work, veteran health journalist Mary Otto looks inside America’s mouth, revealing unsettling truths about our unequal society.

    Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America’s silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects, low educational achievement, social mobility, and the troubling state of our public health.

    Otto’s subjects include the pioneering dentist who made Shirley Temple and Judy Garland’s teeth sparkle on the silver screen and helped create the all-American image of "pearly whites"; Deamonte Driver, the young Maryland boy whose tragic death from an abscessed tooth sparked congressional hearings; and a marketing guru who offers advice to dentists on how to push new and expensive treatments and how to keep Medicaid patients at bay.

    Otto also goes back in time to understand the roots of our predicament in the history of dentistry, showing how it became separated from mainstream medicine, despite a century of growing evidence that oral health and general bodily health are closely related.

    Muckraking and paradigm-shifting, Teeth exposes for the first time the extent and meaning of our oral health crisis. It joins the small shelf of books that change the way we view society and ourselves – and will spark an urgent conversation about why our teeth matter.

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Walden on Wheels

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Walden on Wheels

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/09/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to FreedomWalden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom by Ken Ilgunas

    ⭐ Over 800 5-Star Reviews ⭐

    The story of a student who went to extraordinary lengths – including living in a van on a campus parking lot – to complete his education without sacrificing his financial future.

    In a frank and self-deprecating voice, memoirist Ken Ilgunas writes about the existential terror of graduating from college with 32,000 in student debt.

    Inspired by Thoreau, Ilgunas set himself a mission: get out of debt as soon as humanly possible. To that end, he undertook an extraordinary 3-year transcontinental journey, driving to Alaska and taking a series of low-paying jobs. Debt-free, Ilgunas then enrolled himself in a master’s program at Duke University, using the last of his savings to buy himself a used Econoline, his new "dorm." The van, stationed in a campus parking lot, would be an adventure, a challenge, a test of his limits. It would be, in short, his "Walden on Wheels."

    Ilgunas went public in a widely read Salon article that spoke to the urgent student debt situation in America today. He offers a funny and pointed perspective on the dilemma faced by those who seek an education but who also want to, as Thoreau wrote, "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Opportunist

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 The Opportunist

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 07/08/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    The OpportunistThe Opportunist by Tarryn Fisher

    ⭐⭐⭐ Over 1,000 5-Star Reviews ⭐⭐⭐

    Olivia Kaspen has just discovered that her ex-boyfriend Caleb Drake has lost his memory. With an already lousy reputation for taking advantage of situations, Olivia must decide how far she is willing to go to get Caleb back.

    Wrestling to keep her true identity and their sordid past under wraps, Olivia’s greatest obstacle is Caleb’s wicked new girlfriend Leah Smith. It is a race to the finish as these two vipers engage in a vicious tug of war to possess a man who no longer remembers them. But, soon enough Olivia must face the consequences of her lies, and in the process discover that sometimes love falls short of redemption.

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