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AUDIOBOOK CATEGORIES Mysteries & Thrillers Sci-Fi & Fantasy History Science & Technology Classics Bios & Memoirs Business Self Development Romance Fiction Teens Kids Nonfiction Comedy Foreign Language More Categories Best Sellersgo back a page Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 22 mins) By Charles Duhigg Narrated By Mike Chamberlain Overall(482)Performance(417)Story(419) View full details > Drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics - as well as the experiences of CEOs, educational reformers, four-star generals, FBI agents, airplane pilots, and Broadway songwriters - this painstakingly researched book explains that the most productive people, companies, and organizations don't merely act differently. They view the world, and their choices, in profoundly different ways. rob herold says: "The appendix pulls the 8 themes together" The Girl on the Train: A Novel The Girl on the Train: A Novel UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 59 mins) By Paula Hawkins Narrated By Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, India Fisher Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(64807)Performance(56686)Story(56654) View full details > Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good? Compulsively readable, The Girl on the Train is an emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller and an electrifying debut. FanB14 says: "Don't Compare, Just Enjoy" The Lake House The Lake House UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 24 mins) By Kate Morton Narrated By Caroline Lee Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(5331)Performance(4941)Story(4937) View full details > Living on her family’s gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented fourteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure ...One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace. Mel says: "The Morton Formula" 11-22-63: A Novel 11-22-63: A Novel UNABRIDGED (30 hrs and 44 mins) By Stephen King Narrated By Craig Wasson Overall(27714)Performance(24937)Story(24888) View full details > On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. Kelly says: "I Owe Stephen King An Apology" Back Blast: A Gray Man Novel Back Blast: A Gray Man Novel UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 24 mins) By Mark Greaney Narrated By Jay Snyder Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(2490)Performance(2311)Story(2299) View full details > From the number-one New York Times best-selling coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels comes an all-new explosive thriller featuring the lethal assassin known as the Gray Man.... Court Gentry was the CIA's best agent. Until the day the agency turned against him and put out a kill-on-sight order. That's when the enigmatic international assassin called the Gray Man was born - and Court has been working for himself ever since. shelley says: "Excellent GRAY MAN book - I can't wait for more..." Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Book 1 UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 33 mins) By J.K. Rowling Narrated By Jim Dale Overall(12681)Performance(11599)Story(11609) View full details > Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin! Brenda says: "Best series ever written" The Life We Bury The Life We Bury UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 24 mins) By Allen Eskens Narrated By Zach Villa Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(9816)Performance(9004)Story(9005) View full details > College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder. Alice says: "Character driven mystery" Calamity: The Reckoners, Book 3 Calamity: The Reckoners, Book 3 UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 51 mins) By Brandon Sanderson Narrated By MacLeod Andrews Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(7699)Performance(7107)Story(7092) View full details > When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David's fate has been tied to their villainy ever since that historic night. Steelheart killed his father. Firefight stole his heart. And now Regalia has turned his closest ally into a dangerous enemy. David knew Prof's secret and kept it even when Prof struggled to control the effects of his Epic powers. But facing Obliteration in Babilar was too much. Once the Reckoners' leader, Prof has now embraced his Epic destiny. D says: "Climactic Battles Second Chances? as Calamity Ends" The Nightingale The Nightingale UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 26 mins) By Kristin Hannah Narrated By Polly Stone Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(16294)Performance(14783)Story(14752) View full details > From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes Kristin Hannah’s next novel. It is an epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II. She is the author of twenty-one novels. Her previous novels include Home Front, Night Road, Firefly Lane, Fly Away, and Winter Garden. Sara says: "Heroic & Harrowing Work Of Fiction" #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 37 mins) By Gary Vaynerchuk Narrated By Gary Vaynerchuk, Jack Welch, Dave Ramsey Overall(632)Performance(593)Story(587) View full details > Gary Vaynerchuk—the inspiring and unconventional entrepreneur who introduced us to the concept of crush it—knows how to get things done, have fun, and be massively successful. A marketing and business genius, Gary had the foresight to go beyond traditional methods and use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to reach an untapped audience that continues to grow. Toffer says: "Gary is on fire!!!" To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 17 mins) By Harper Lee Narrated By Sissy Spacek Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(11776)Performance(10629)Story(10623) View full details > Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country. Marci says: "A gift to be treasured" Fire Touched: Mercy Thompson Series, Book 9 Fire Touched: Mercy Thompson Series, Book 9 UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 7 mins) By Patricia Briggs Narrated By Lorelei King Overall(1974)Performance(1798)Story(1796) View full details > Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae. Heather Beach says: "Nudge" Find Her Find Her UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 16 mins) By Lisa Gardner Narrated By Kirsten Potter Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(2360)Performance(2118)Story(2105) View full details > Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who's never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she's become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who've never made it home. Mary says: "Dark and Fascinating" Lady Midnight: The Dark Artifices, Book 1 Lady Midnight: The Dark Artifices, Book 1 UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 45 mins) By Cassandra Clare Narrated By Morena Baccarin Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(692)Performance(630)Story(633) View full details > Together with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn't lead her in treacherous directions.... Andrea Belschner says: "If you liked 'The Mortal Instruments'..." The Widow The Widow UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 24 mins) By Fiona Barton Narrated By Hannah Curtis, Nicholas Guy Smith, full cast Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(1174)Performance(1046)Story(1040) View full details > When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on when more bad things began to happen... But that woman's husband died last week. And Jean doesn't have to be her anymore. There's a lot Jean hasn't said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment. C Reese says: "Disturbing but very good." When Breath Becomes Air When Breath Becomes Air UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 35 mins) By Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese - foreword Narrated By Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(3252)Performance(2899)Story(2875) View full details > At the age of 36, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. A. M. Potter says: "Phenomenal book!" Morning Star: Book III of the Red Rising Trilogy Morning Star: Book III of the Red Rising Trilogy UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 50 mins) By Pierce Brown Narrated By Tim Gerard Reynolds Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(5633)Performance(5254)Story(5242) View full details > Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Charles says: "One of the Great Trilogies" The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 50 mins) By Marie Kondo Narrated By Emily Woo Zeller Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(8969)Performance(7696)Story(7574) View full details > Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever. Rebecca says: "I both love and hate this life changing book" Hidden Bodies Hidden Bodies UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 3 mins) By Caroline Kepnes Narrated By Santino Fontana Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(1665)Performance(1533)Story(1528) View full details > Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. In the past 10 years, this 30-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Now he's heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him. In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. He eats guac, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor. But while others seem fixated on their own reflections, Joe can't stop looking over his shoulder. Gretchen SLP says: "Approach With Caution, All Ye Who Enter Here" The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 57 mins) By Charles Duhigg Narrated By Mike Chamberlain Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(11955)Performance(10119)Story(10074) View full details > At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. Habits aren’t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives. Mehra says: "Nice! A guide on how to change" Me Before You: A Novel Me Before You: A Novel UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 40 mins) By Jojo Moyes Narrated By Susan Lyons, Anna Bentink, Steven Crossley, and others Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(10302)Performance(9205)Story(9219) View full details > Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life - steady boyfriend, close family - who has never been farther afield than her tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life - big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel - and now he's pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy - but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. glamazon says: "A Journey Into the Unknown" The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 12 mins) By Michael Punke Narrated By Holter Graham Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(3561)Performance(3270)Story(3269) View full details > The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge. jude butler says: "solid entertainment" Modern Romance: An Investigation Modern Romance: An Investigation UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 14 mins) By Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg Narrated By Eric Klinenberg, Aziz Ansari Overall(13548)Performance(12153)Story(12045) View full details > At some point every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it's wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. Sabrina says: "10/10 would listen to this audio book again" All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 2 mins) By Anthony Doerr Narrated By Zach Appelman Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(25236)Performance(22467)Story(22477) View full details > Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. Annie M. says: "Time well spent" next page Great First ListensSee All >go back a page Eleanor & Park Eleanor & Park UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 56 mins) By Rainbow Rowell Narrated By Rebecca Lowman, Sunil Malhotra Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(2625)Performance(2364)Story(2376) View full details > Set over the course of one school year, in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits - smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love - and just how hard it pulled you under. FanB14 says: "E + P 4-ever!" Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 39 mins) By Susan Cain Narrated By Kathe Mazur Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(7437)Performance(6417)Story(6376) View full details > At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society--from van Gogh’s sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer. Theodore says: "Thought provoking and Uplifting.... A++++++++!!!!!" Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption UNABRIDGED (14 hrs) By Laura Hillenbrand Narrated By Edward Herrmann Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(29827)Performance(23515)Story(23584) View full details > Why we think it’s a great listen: Seabiscuit was a runaway success, and Hillenbrand’s done it again with another true-life account about beating unbelievable odds. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared..... Janice says: "Indescribable" The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 57 mins) By Rachel Joyce Narrated By Jim Broadbent Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(4900)Performance(4363)Story(4376) View full details > Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack is a letter addressed to Harold from a woman he hasn't seen or heard from in 20 years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. But then Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. FanB14 says: "Wonderful Walkabout" Beautiful Ruins Beautiful Ruins UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 53 mins) By Jess Walter Narrated By Edoardo Ballerini Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(7999)Performance(6981)Story(6972) View full details > The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier. Ella says: "My mind wandered" The Night Circus The Night Circus UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 39 mins) By Erin Morgenstern Narrated By Jim Dale Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(9880)Performance(8832)Story(8841) View full details > The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. Pamela says: "The circus of your dreams" The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 25 mins) By Daniel James Brown Narrated By Edward Herrmann Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(11712)Performance(10587)Story(10589) View full details > Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936. Janice says: "Do you believe in miracles??" Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 37 mins) By Conor Grennan Narrated By Conor Grennan Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(1043)Performance(844)Story(857) View full details > In search of adventure, 29-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a journey that began with a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children's Home, an orphanage in war-torn Nepal. Conor was initially reluctant to volunteer, unsure whether he had the proper skill, or enough passion, to get involved in a developing country in the middle of a civil war. But he was soon overcome by the herd of rambunctious, resilient children. Angela says: "Amazing experience + Inspiring tale" The Help The Help UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 19 mins) By Kathryn Stockett Narrated By Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and others Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(30997)Performance(17369)Story(17411) View full details > Why we think it’s a great listen: The most celebrated performance in all of Audible’s history, The Help has nearly 2,000 5-star reviews from your fellow listeners. We hear the print book’s not bad, either. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another. Jan says: "What a great surprise!" Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War UNABRIDGED (21 hrs and 10 mins) By Karl Marlantes Narrated By Bronson Pinchot Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(5419)Performance(3474)Story(3477) View full details > Why we think it’s a great listen: A performance so poignant, we gave Bronson Pinchot (yes, Balki from Perfect Strangers) our inaugural Narrator of the Year award.... In the monsoon season of 1968-69 at a fire support base called Matterhorn, located in the remote mountains of Vietnam, a young and ambitious Marine lieutenant wants to command a company to further his civilian political ambitions. But two people stand in his way. Zachary says: "Matterhorn" Water for Elephants Water for Elephants UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 26 mins) By Sara Gruen Narrated By David LeDoux, John Randolph Jones Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(16406)Performance(8540)Story(8620) View full details > Why we think it’s a great listen: Some books are meant to be read; others are meant to be heard – Water for Elephants falls into the second group, and is one of the best examples we have of how a powerful performance enhances a great story. Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Kindle Customer says: "Great Narration!!" Me Before You: A Novel Me Before You: A Novel UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 40 mins) By Jojo Moyes Narrated By Susan Lyons, Anna Bentink, Steven Crossley, and others Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(10302)Performance(9205)Story(9219) View full details > Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life - steady boyfriend, close family - who has never been farther afield than her tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life - big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel - and now he's pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy - but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. glamazon says: "A Journey Into the Unknown" The Pillars of the Earth The Pillars of the Earth UNABRIDGED (40 hrs and 54 mins) By Ken Follett Narrated By John Lee Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(16155)Performance(8241)Story(8299) View full details > Why we think it’s a great listen: Got 40 hours to kill? You’ll find the time when you start listening to Lee’s take on Follett’s epic – and widely celebrated – novel of 12th-century England. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul...and of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame.... Gina says: "Epic story to be read by all!" Angela's Ashes Angela's Ashes UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 57 mins) By Frank McCourt Narrated By Frank McCourt Overall(4020)Performance(2672)Story(2673) View full details > Why we think it’s a great listen: There’s no gentle way to put this – Frank McCourt’s performance of Angela’s Ashes is just better than the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Frank McCourt shares his sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking story of growing up poor, Irish, and Catholic in the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes. Karen says: "A classic book *and* a classic audiobook" You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 24 mins) By David McRaney Narrated By Don Hagen Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(1672)Performance(1468)Story(1462) View full details > An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you that you're as deluded as the rest of us. But that's OK - delusions keep us sane. You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of self-delusion. It's like a psychology class, with all the boring parts taken out, and with no homework. Based on the popular blog of the same name, You Are Not So Smart collects more than 46 of the lies we tell ourselves everyday. Christopher says: "It's official, I'm an idiot" Her Royal Spyness: A Royal Spyness Mystery Her Royal Spyness: A Royal Spyness Mystery UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 9 mins) By Rhys Bowen Narrated By Katherine Kellgren Overall(6349)Performance(5518)Story(5505) View full details > Georgie, aka Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, cousin of King George V of England, is penniless and trying to survive on her own as an ordinary person in London in 1932. So far she has managed to light a fire and boil an egg... She's gate-crashed a wedding... She's making money by secretly cleaning houses... And she's been asked to spy for Her Majesty the Queen. Alice says: "Happy addition to a difficult genre" The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 7 mins) By James Lee Burke Narrated By Will Patton Overall(2540)Performance(1136)Story(1138) View full details > Why we think it’s a great listen: When it comes to author/narrator pairings, nobody tops James Lee Burke and Will Patton in the Robicheaux thrillers. Beloved Burke hero Detective Dave Robicheaux here returns to New Iberia to solve a series of grisly murders. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high-school honor student, doesn’t fit. Gardner says: "Best Yet... Almost" In Cold Blood In Cold Blood UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 27 mins) By Truman Capote Narrated By Scott Brick Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(4369)Performance(2956)Story(2962) View full details > Why we think it’s a great listen: It’s a story that most people know, told here in an unforgettable way – an audio masterpiece that rivals the best thrillers, thanks to Capote genre-defining words and Brick’s subtle but powerful characterizations. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Lisa says: "Still the Best" Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 19 mins) By Jack Weatherford Narrated By Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(6100)Performance(4440)Story(4467) View full details > The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Peter says: "Brilliant, insightful, intriguing." Roots: The Saga of an American Family Roots: The Saga of an American Family UNABRIDGED (30 hrs and 7 mins) By Alex Haley Narrated By Avery Brooks Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(2839)Performance(1862)Story(1878) View full details > Why we think it’s a great listen: A masterpiece like none other, Brooks’ powerful performance of Haley’s words has been known to leave listeners in tears. It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. Danica says: "A Masterpiece" 1776 1776 UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 32 mins) By David McCullough Narrated By David McCullough Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(7301)Performance(4172)Story(4165) View full details > Why we think it’s a great listen: If you ever thought history was boring, David McCullough’s performance of his fascinating book will change your mind. In this stirring audiobook, McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence, when the whole American cause was riding on their success. DWM says: "Amazing how little you know" 11-22-63: A Novel 11-22-63: A Novel UNABRIDGED (30 hrs and 44 mins) By Stephen King Narrated By Craig Wasson Overall(27714)Performance(24937)Story(24888) View full details > On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. Kelly says: "I Owe Stephen King An Apology" Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition Ender's Game: Special 20th Anniversary Edition UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 57 mins) By Orson Scott Card Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki, Harlan Ellison, Gabrielle de Cuir Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(27019)Performance(18075)Story(18257) View full details > Why we think it’s a great listen: It’s easy to say that when it comes to sci-fi you either love it or you hate it. But with Ender’s Game, it seems to be you either love it or you love it.... The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Enter Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the result of decades of genetic experimentation. Kapila says: "6 titles in the series so far" Gone Girl: A Novel Gone Girl: A Novel UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 11 mins) By Gillian Flynn Narrated By Julia Whelan, Kirby Heyborne Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(37098)Performance(32853)Story(32938) View full details > It is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media - as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents - the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter - but is he really a killer? Theodore says: "Demented, twisted, sick and I loved it!" The End of the Affair The End of the Affair UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 28 mins) By Graham Greene Narrated By Colin Firth Overall(4548)Performance(4184)Story(4155) View full details > Graham Greene’s evocative analysis of the love of self, the love of another, and the love of God is an English classic that has been translated for the stage, the screen, and even the opera house. Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man) turns in an authentic and stirring performance for this distinguished audio release. Karen Downes says: "Colin whispers in my ear, and I melt" Persuasion Persuasion UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 47 mins) By Jane Austen Narrated By Juliet Stevenson Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(2043)Performance(1617)Story(1634) View full details > Anne Elliot has grieved for seven years over the loss of her first love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. But events conspire to unravel the knots of deceit and misunderstanding in this beguiling and gently comic story of love and fidelity. Emily - Audible says: "Juliet Stevenson is Simply Amazing" The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 51 mins) By Douglas Adams Narrated By Stephen Fry Overall(12143)Performance(9152)Story(9194) View full details > Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last 15 years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. J. Medany says: "HHTGH - Lightly Fried" next page See What's NewSee All >go back a page Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 27 mins) By Adam Hochschild Narrated By Andrew Garman Overall(0)Performance(0)Story(0) View full details > For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet far more compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war. Lust & Wonder: A Memoir Lust & Wonder: A Memoir UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 48 mins) By Augusten Burroughs Narrated By Augusten Burroughs Overall(11)Performance(9)Story(9) View full details > In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means to be in love, what it means to be in lust, and what it means to be figuring it all out. With Augusten's unique and singular observations and his own unabashed way of detailing both the horrific and the humorous, Lust & Wonder is an intimate and honest memoir that his legions of fans have been waiting for. Occasionalbooks says: "Couldn't stop listening..." The Other Side of Silence The Other Side of Silence UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 17 mins) By Philip Kerr Narrated By John Lee Overall(10)Performance(10)Story(10) View full details > The war is over. Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer, is now living on the French Riviera. It is 1956, and Bernie is the go-to guy at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, the man you turn to for touring tips or if you need a fourth for bridge. As it happens, a local writer needs just that - someone to fill the fourth seat in a regular game that is the usual evening diversion at the Villa Mauresque. Not just any writer. Perhaps the richest and most famous living writer in the world: W. Somerset Maugham. Sandra says: "Nobody beats Bernie" Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 13 mins) By Elizabeth Gilbert - introduction Narrated By Cassandra Campbell, Marc Cashman, Robbie Daymond, and others Overall(1)Performance(1)Story(1) View full details > In the 10 years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers and listeners to set out on paths they never thought possible, in search of their own best selves. Here, in this candid and captivating collection, nearly 50 of those readers and listeners - people as diverse in their experiences as they are in age and background - share their stories. The journeys they recount are transformative - sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always deeply inspiring. Gillian says: "Basically Fan Mail with Sharing" Why Bernie Sanders Matters Why Bernie Sanders Matters UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 52 mins) By Harry Jaffe Narrated By Dan Triandiflou Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(0)Performance(0)Story(0) View full details > Missionary. Radical. Hippy. Revolutionary. Red Mayor. Pragmatist. Socialist. Hot from the campaign trail, a vivid new biography that goes inside Bernie Sanders's contradictions, his unusual life, and his electrifying quest to make the American dream a reality for all. As Close to Us as Breathing: A Novel As Close to Us as Breathing: A Novel UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 9 mins) By Elizabeth Poliner Narrated By Janet Metzger Overall(2)Performance(2)Story(2) View full details > In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut, shoreline, affectionately named Bagel Beach, has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Here sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec assemble at their beloved family cottage, with children in tow and weekend-only husbands who arrive each Friday in time for the Sabbath meal. Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel Journey to Munich: A Maisie Dobbs Novel UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 18 mins) By Jacqueline Winspear Narrated By Orlagh Cassidy Overall(27)Performance(22)Story(24) View full details > It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks toward Fitzroy Square - a place of many memories - she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service wants Maisie - who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter - to retrieve the man from Dachau.... Wayne says: "Very intense thriller!" Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 48 mins) By Josh Axe Narrated By Eric Martin Overall(2)Performance(2)Story(2) View full details > In Eat Dirt, Dr. Axe explains that it's essential to get a little "dirty" in our daily lives in order to support our gut bacteria and prevent leaky gut syndrome. Dr. Axe offers simple ways to get these needed microbes, from incorporating local honey and bee pollen into your diet to forgoing hand sanitizers and even ingesting a little probiotic-rich soil. L. Murray says: "Everyone should have this in their library!" Fool Me Once Fool Me Once UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 5 mins) By Harlan Coben Narrated By January LaVoy Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(672)Performance(610)Story(609) View full details > Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya's husband, Joe - who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? Cathy says: "Terrific!" Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 29 mins) By Janna Levin Narrated By Janna Levin Overall(2)Performance(2)Story(2) View full details > The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves - by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer. William says: ""new" book crammed with old information" Riley V: The Final Path Home Riley V: The Final Path Home UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 43 mins) By Mark Tufo Narrated By Sean Runnette Overall(56)Performance(52)Story(52) View full details > After being separated from her pack and left for dead, Riley a fearless American bulldog, teams up with an unexpected ally on her quest to find the final path home. Together they face the harshness of the wilderness, the rage of the "deaders", and the murderous intent of the "two-leggers". Sometimes, man is far from a dog's best friend. Brad Thomas says: "Riley V 5 Stars" The Little Red Chairs The Little Red Chairs UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 40 mins) By Edna O'Brien Narrated By Juliet Stevenson Overall(0)Performance(0)Story(0) View full details > Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village where the locals fall under his spell. One woman, Fidelma McBride, becomes so enamored that she begs him for a child. All that world is shattered when Vlad is arrested, and his identity as a war criminal is revealed. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 25 mins) By Peggy Orenstein Narrated By Peggy Orenstein Overall(3)Performance(2)Story(2) View full details > A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow's women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over 70 young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, renowned journalist Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities of girls' sex lives in the modern world. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 10 mins) By Matthew Desmond Narrated By Dion Graham Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(46)Performance(39)Story(40) View full details > In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut. Crystal Ockenfuss says: "Should be mandatory reading/listening!" Out of My Mind Out of My Mind UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 49 mins) By Sharon M. Draper Narrated By Sisi Aisha Johnson Overall(0)Performance(0)Story(0) View full details > Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom - the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged because she cannot tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy. The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 8 mins) By Antoine van Agtmael, Fred Bakker Narrated By Christopher Lane Overall(0)Performance(0)Story(0) View full details > In The Smartest Places on Earth, van Agtmael and Bakker present a truly hopeful and inspiring investigation into the emerging sources of a new era of competitiveness for America and Europe that are coming from unlikely places - those cities and areas once known as "rustbelts" that have, from an economic perspective, been written off. Cold Barrel Zero Cold Barrel Zero UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 37 mins) By Matthew Quirk Narrated By Peter Coleman Overall(2)Performance(2)Story(2) View full details > A code hidden in plain sight. An American black Ops team that went too far. John Hayes, a disgraced elite soldier, returns from exile and risks everything to get back to his wife and daughter and to take revenge on his accusers with a series of escalating attacks inside the United States. Thomas Byrne is the only man who can stop him. Byrne once fought alongside Hayes as a combat medic, but he gave up the gun. Roman says: "A Complete Waste of Time" Because of Miss Bridgerton: The Bridgerton Series Because of Miss Bridgerton: The Bridgerton Series UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 25 mins) By Julia Quinn Narrated By Rosalyn Landor Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(25)Performance(23)Story(22) View full details > Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the tomboyish Billie ran wild with Edward and Andrew. Either one would make a perfect husband...someday. Mary says: "captivating" The Summer Before the War: A Novel The Summer Before the War: A Novel UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 47 mins) By Helen Simonson Narrated By Fiona Hardingham Overall(47)Performance(40)Story(39) View full details > East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England's brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha's husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won't come to anything. Gillian says: "Divine Book Club Listening" No One Knows No One Knows UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 9 mins) By J. T. Ellison Narrated By Teri Schnaubelt, Nick Podehl Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(137)Performance(124)Story(124) View full details > The day Aubrey Hamilton's husband is declared dead by the state of Tennessee should bring closure so she can move on with her life. But Aubrey doesn't want to move on. She just wants Josh back. It's been five years since he disappeared, since their blissfully happy marriage - they were happy, weren't they? - screeched to a halt and Aubrey became the prime suspect in his disappearance. Five years of emptiness, solitude, loneliness, questions. Why didn't Josh show up at his friend's bachelor party? Amazon Customer says: "OMG! This Book Is Amazing! No One Knows Is Right." Finley Ball: How Two Outsiders Turned the Oakland A’s into a Dynasty and Changed the Game Forever Finley Ball: How Two Outsiders Turned the Oakland A’s into a Dynasty and Changed the Game Forever UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 16 mins) By Nancy Finley Narrated By Pam Ward Overall(0)Performance(0)Story(0) View full details > When Charlie Finley bought the A's in 1960, he was an outsider to the game - an insurance businessman with a larger-than-life personality. He brought his cousin, Carl, on as his right-hand man, moved the team from Kansas City to Oakland, and pioneered a new way to put together a winning team. With legendary players like Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, and Vida Blue, the Finleys' Oakland A's won three straight World Series and riveted the nation. Think and Eat Yourself Smart: A Neuroscientific Approach to a Sharper Mind and Healthier Life Think and Eat Yourself Smart: A Neuroscientific Approach to a Sharper Mind and Healthier Life UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 41 mins) By Caroline Leaf Narrated By Teri Clark Linden Overall(2)Performance(2)Story(2) View full details > Science is beginning to understand that our thinking has a deep and complicated relationship with our eating. Our thoughts before, during, and after eating profoundly impact our food choices, our digestive health, our brain health, and more. Yet most of us give very little thought to our food beyond taste and basic nutritional content. Maria says: "Specific audience required" Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 8 mins) By Don Watkins, Yaron Brook Narrated By Jeff Cummings Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(4)Performance(4)Story(4) View full details > We've all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we're told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage. The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 15 mins) By Mohamed A. El-Erian Narrated By Dan Woren Whispersync for Voice-ready Overall(1)Performance(1)Story(0) View full details > Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian, one of the world's most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide, has written a road map to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis. Our current economic path is coming to an end. The signposts are all around us: sluggish growth, rising inequality, stubbornly high pockets of unemployment, and jittery financial markets, to name a few. Soon we will reach a fork in the road. next page close What Members are Saying What the Publisher Says What the Publisher Says What Members are Saying What Members are Saying What the Publisher Says 1 of 5 Average Customer Rating
Drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics - as well as the experiences of CEOs, educational reformers, four-star generals, FBI agents, airplane pilots, and Broadway songwriters - this painstakingly researched book explains that the most productive people, companies, and organizations don't merely act differently. They view the world, and their choices, in profoundly different ways.
"The appendix pulls the 8 themes together"
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good? Compulsively readable, The Girl on the Train is an emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller and an electrifying debut.
"Don't Compare, Just Enjoy"
Living on her family’s gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented fourteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure ...One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace.
"The Morton Formula"
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it.
"I Owe Stephen King An Apology"
From the number-one New York Times best-selling coauthor of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels comes an all-new explosive thriller featuring the lethal assassin known as the Gray Man.... Court Gentry was the CIA's best agent. Until the day the agency turned against him and put out a kill-on-sight order. That's when the enigmatic international assassin called the Gray Man was born - and Court has been working for himself ever since.
"Excellent GRAY MAN book - I can't wait for more..."
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
"Best series ever written"
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.
"Character driven mystery"
When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David's fate has been tied to their villainy ever since that historic night. Steelheart killed his father. Firefight stole his heart. And now Regalia has turned his closest ally into a dangerous enemy. David knew Prof's secret and kept it even when Prof struggled to control the effects of his Epic powers. But facing Obliteration in Babilar was too much. Once the Reckoners' leader, Prof has now embraced his Epic destiny.
"Climactic Battles Second Chances? as Calamity Ends"
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes Kristin Hannah’s next novel. It is an epic love story and family drama set at the dawn of World War II. She is the author of twenty-one novels. Her previous novels include Home Front, Night Road, Firefly Lane, Fly Away, and Winter Garden.
"Heroic & Harrowing Work Of Fiction"
Gary Vaynerchuk—the inspiring and unconventional entrepreneur who introduced us to the concept of crush it—knows how to get things done, have fun, and be massively successful. A marketing and business genius, Gary had the foresight to go beyond traditional methods and use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to reach an untapped audience that continues to grow.
"Gary is on fire!!!"
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country.
"A gift to be treasured"
Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae.
"Nudge"
Flora Dane is a victim. Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure. Flora Dane is a survivor. Miraculously alive after her ordeal, Flora has spent the past five years reacquainting herself with the rhythms of normal life, working with her FBI victim advocate, Samuel Keynes. She has a mother who's never stopped loving her, a brother who is scared of the person she's become, and a bedroom wall covered with photos of other girls who've never made it home.
"Dark and Fascinating"
Together with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn't lead her in treacherous directions....
"If you liked 'The Mortal Instruments'..."
When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on when more bad things began to happen... But that woman's husband died last week. And Jean doesn't have to be her anymore. There's a lot Jean hasn't said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment.
"Disturbing but very good."
At the age of 36, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated.
"Phenomenal book!"
Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within.
"One of the Great Trilogies"
Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you'll never have to do it again. Most methods advocate a room-by-room or little-by-little approach, which doom you to pick away at your piles of stuff forever.
"I both love and hate this life changing book"
Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. In the past 10 years, this 30-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Now he's heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him. In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. He eats guac, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor. But while others seem fixated on their own reflections, Joe can't stop looking over his shoulder.
"Approach With Caution, All Ye Who Enter Here"
At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. Habits aren’t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.
"Nice! A guide on how to change"
Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life - steady boyfriend, close family - who has never been farther afield than her tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life - big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel - and now he's pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy - but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected.
"A Journey Into the Unknown"
The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is among the company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two company men are dispatched to stay behind and tend to Glass before he dies. When the men abandon him instead, Glass is driven to survive by one desire: revenge.
"solid entertainment"
At some point every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it's wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history.
"10/10 would listen to this audio book again"
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is 12, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
"Time well spent"
Set over the course of one school year, in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits - smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love - and just how hard it pulled you under.
"E + P 4-ever!"
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society--from van Gogh’s sunflowers to the invention of the personal computer.
"Thought provoking and Uplifting.... A++++++++!!!!!"
Why we think it’s a great listen: Seabiscuit was a runaway success, and Hillenbrand’s done it again with another true-life account about beating unbelievable odds. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared.....
"Indescribable"
Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack is a letter addressed to Harold from a woman he hasn't seen or heard from in 20 years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. But then Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person.
"Wonderful Walkabout"
The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot - searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
"My mind wandered"
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
"The circus of your dreams"
Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.
"Do you believe in miracles??"
In search of adventure, 29-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a journey that began with a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children's Home, an orphanage in war-torn Nepal. Conor was initially reluctant to volunteer, unsure whether he had the proper skill, or enough passion, to get involved in a developing country in the middle of a civil war. But he was soon overcome by the herd of rambunctious, resilient children.
"Amazing experience + Inspiring tale"
Why we think it’s a great listen: The most celebrated performance in all of Audible’s history, The Help has nearly 2,000 5-star reviews from your fellow listeners. We hear the print book’s not bad, either. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another.
"What a great surprise!"
Why we think it’s a great listen: A performance so poignant, we gave Bronson Pinchot (yes, Balki from Perfect Strangers) our inaugural Narrator of the Year award.... In the monsoon season of 1968-69 at a fire support base called Matterhorn, located in the remote mountains of Vietnam, a young and ambitious Marine lieutenant wants to command a company to further his civilian political ambitions. But two people stand in his way.
"Matterhorn"
Why we think it’s a great listen: Some books are meant to be read; others are meant to be heard – Water for Elephants falls into the second group, and is one of the best examples we have of how a powerful performance enhances a great story. Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless, joins the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.
"Great Narration!!"
Why we think it’s a great listen: Got 40 hours to kill? You’ll find the time when you start listening to Lee’s take on Follett’s epic – and widely celebrated – novel of 12th-century England. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul...and of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame....
"Epic story to be read by all!"
Why we think it’s a great listen: There’s no gentle way to put this – Frank McCourt’s performance of Angela’s Ashes is just better than the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Frank McCourt shares his sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking story of growing up poor, Irish, and Catholic in the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes.
"A classic book *and* a classic audiobook"
An entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you that you're as deluded as the rest of us. But that's OK - delusions keep us sane. You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of self-delusion. It's like a psychology class, with all the boring parts taken out, and with no homework. Based on the popular blog of the same name, You Are Not So Smart collects more than 46 of the lies we tell ourselves everyday.
"It's official, I'm an idiot"
Georgie, aka Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, cousin of King George V of England, is penniless and trying to survive on her own as an ordinary person in London in 1932. So far she has managed to light a fire and boil an egg... She's gate-crashed a wedding... She's making money by secretly cleaning houses... And she's been asked to spy for Her Majesty the Queen.
"Happy addition to a difficult genre"
Why we think it’s a great listen: When it comes to author/narrator pairings, nobody tops James Lee Burke and Will Patton in the Robicheaux thrillers. Beloved Burke hero Detective Dave Robicheaux here returns to New Iberia to solve a series of grisly murders. Seven young women in neighboring Jefferson Davis Parish have been brutally murdered. While the crimes have all the telltale signs of a serial killer, the death of Bernadette Latiolais, a high-school honor student, doesn’t fit.
"Best Yet... Almost"
Why we think it’s a great listen: It’s a story that most people know, told here in an unforgettable way – an audio masterpiece that rivals the best thrillers, thanks to Capote genre-defining words and Brick’s subtle but powerful characterizations. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
"Still the Best"
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
"Brilliant, insightful, intriguing."
Why we think it’s a great listen: A masterpiece like none other, Brooks’ powerful performance of Haley’s words has been known to leave listeners in tears. It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree.
"A Masterpiece"
Why we think it’s a great listen: If you ever thought history was boring, David McCullough’s performance of his fascinating book will change your mind. In this stirring audiobook, McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence, when the whole American cause was riding on their success.
"Amazing how little you know"
Why we think it’s a great listen: It’s easy to say that when it comes to sci-fi you either love it or you hate it. But with Ender’s Game, it seems to be you either love it or you love it.... The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Enter Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the result of decades of genetic experimentation.
"6 titles in the series so far"
It is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media - as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents - the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter - but is he really a killer?
"Demented, twisted, sick and I loved it!"
Graham Greene’s evocative analysis of the love of self, the love of another, and the love of God is an English classic that has been translated for the stage, the screen, and even the opera house. Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man) turns in an authentic and stirring performance for this distinguished audio release.
"Colin whispers in my ear, and I melt"
Anne Elliot has grieved for seven years over the loss of her first love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. But events conspire to unravel the knots of deceit and misunderstanding in this beguiling and gently comic story of love and fidelity.
"Juliet Stevenson is Simply Amazing"
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last 15 years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
"HHTGH - Lightly Fried"
For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet far more compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war.
In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means to be in love, what it means to be in lust, and what it means to be figuring it all out. With Augusten's unique and singular observations and his own unabashed way of detailing both the horrific and the humorous, Lust & Wonder is an intimate and honest memoir that his legions of fans have been waiting for.
"Couldn't stop listening..."
The war is over. Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer, is now living on the French Riviera. It is 1956, and Bernie is the go-to guy at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, the man you turn to for touring tips or if you need a fourth for bridge. As it happens, a local writer needs just that - someone to fill the fourth seat in a regular game that is the usual evening diversion at the Villa Mauresque. Not just any writer. Perhaps the richest and most famous living writer in the world: W. Somerset Maugham.
"Nobody beats Bernie"
In the 10 years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers and listeners to set out on paths they never thought possible, in search of their own best selves. Here, in this candid and captivating collection, nearly 50 of those readers and listeners - people as diverse in their experiences as they are in age and background - share their stories. The journeys they recount are transformative - sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always deeply inspiring.
"Basically Fan Mail with Sharing"
Missionary. Radical. Hippy. Revolutionary. Red Mayor. Pragmatist. Socialist. Hot from the campaign trail, a vivid new biography that goes inside Bernie Sanders's contradictions, his unusual life, and his electrifying quest to make the American dream a reality for all.
In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut, shoreline, affectionately named Bagel Beach, has long been a summer destination for Jewish families. Here sisters Ada, Vivie, and Bec assemble at their beloved family cottage, with children in tow and weekend-only husbands who arrive each Friday in time for the Sabbath meal.
It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks toward Fitzroy Square - a place of many memories - she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service wants Maisie - who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter - to retrieve the man from Dachau....
"Very intense thriller!"
In Eat Dirt, Dr. Axe explains that it's essential to get a little "dirty" in our daily lives in order to support our gut bacteria and prevent leaky gut syndrome. Dr. Axe offers simple ways to get these needed microbes, from incorporating local honey and bee pollen into your diet to forgoing hand sanitizers and even ingesting a little probiotic-rich soil.
"Everyone should have this in their library!"
Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya's husband, Joe - who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to?
"Terrific!"
The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves - by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.
""new" book crammed with old information"
After being separated from her pack and left for dead, Riley a fearless American bulldog, teams up with an unexpected ally on her quest to find the final path home. Together they face the harshness of the wilderness, the rage of the "deaders", and the murderous intent of the "two-leggers". Sometimes, man is far from a dog's best friend.
"Riley V 5 Stars"
Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village where the locals fall under his spell. One woman, Fidelma McBride, becomes so enamored that she begs him for a child. All that world is shattered when Vlad is arrested, and his identity as a war criminal is revealed.
A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow's women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over 70 young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, renowned journalist Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities of girls' sex lives in the modern world.
In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the $20 a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched stickup after her hours are cut.
"Should be mandatory reading/listening!"
Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom - the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged because she cannot tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy.
In The Smartest Places on Earth, van Agtmael and Bakker present a truly hopeful and inspiring investigation into the emerging sources of a new era of competitiveness for America and Europe that are coming from unlikely places - those cities and areas once known as "rustbelts" that have, from an economic perspective, been written off.
A code hidden in plain sight. An American black Ops team that went too far. John Hayes, a disgraced elite soldier, returns from exile and risks everything to get back to his wife and daughter and to take revenge on his accusers with a series of escalating attacks inside the United States. Thomas Byrne is the only man who can stop him. Byrne once fought alongside Hayes as a combat medic, but he gave up the gun.
"A Complete Waste of Time"
Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the tomboyish Billie ran wild with Edward and Andrew. Either one would make a perfect husband...someday.
"captivating"
East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England's brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha's husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certain he will ensure that the recent saber rattling over the Balkans won't come to anything.
"Divine Book Club Listening"
The day Aubrey Hamilton's husband is declared dead by the state of Tennessee should bring closure so she can move on with her life. But Aubrey doesn't want to move on. She just wants Josh back. It's been five years since he disappeared, since their blissfully happy marriage - they were happy, weren't they? - screeched to a halt and Aubrey became the prime suspect in his disappearance. Five years of emptiness, solitude, loneliness, questions. Why didn't Josh show up at his friend's bachelor party?
"OMG! This Book Is Amazing! No One Knows Is Right."
When Charlie Finley bought the A's in 1960, he was an outsider to the game - an insurance businessman with a larger-than-life personality. He brought his cousin, Carl, on as his right-hand man, moved the team from Kansas City to Oakland, and pioneered a new way to put together a winning team. With legendary players like Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, and Vida Blue, the Finleys' Oakland A's won three straight World Series and riveted the nation.
Science is beginning to understand that our thinking has a deep and complicated relationship with our eating. Our thoughts before, during, and after eating profoundly impact our food choices, our digestive health, our brain health, and more. Yet most of us give very little thought to our food beyond taste and basic nutritional content.
"Specific audience required"
We've all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we're told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage.
Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian, one of the world's most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide, has written a road map to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis. Our current economic path is coming to an end. The signposts are all around us: sluggish growth, rising inequality, stubbornly high pockets of unemployment, and jittery financial markets, to name a few. Soon we will reach a fork in the road.
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