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The Listening Life (26-Minute Excerpt)

Embracing Attentiveness in a World of Distraction

By: Adam McHugh
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 26 minutes

Listen to this 26-minute excerpt and then get the full-length audiobook of The Listening Life: Embracing Attentiveness in a World of Distraction. How would our lives change if we approached every experience with the intention of listening first? In this noisy, distracting world, it is difficult to truly hear. People talk past each other, eager... Read more

I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses (22-minute excerpt)

By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella
Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella
Length: 22 minutes

Listen to this 22-minute excerpt and then get the full-length audiobook of I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses. In I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses, the bestselling mother/daughter pair is back with another hilarious and heartfelt collection of essays about the possibilities and pitfalls of everyday life. The New York Times... Read more

The Feral Detective (26-minute excerpt)

By: Jonathan Lethem
Narrated by: Zosia Mamet
Length: 26 minutes

Listen to this 26-minute excerpt and then get the full-length audiobook of The Feral Detective. Jonathan Lethem’s first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn“One of America’s greatest storytellers.” —Washington PostPhoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s... Read more

Quarantine Session #13 Zaina Arafat + Mallika Rao

By: Zaina Arafat
Narrated by: Mallika Rao
Length: 59 minutes

Palestinian-American writer Zaina Arafat presents her debut novel You Exist Too Much with Mallika Rao of the Atlantic. In unfolding the novel's explorations of the longing for love, and a place to call home, they also discuss Arab stereotypes and queer stereotypes in media, the tension between generations and cultures in immigrant families. Read more

Read Up Greenville 2017

By: Multiple Authors
Narrated by: Multiple Narrators
Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

A selection of audiobooks from authors appearing at Read Up Greenville 2017: Solo By Kwame Alexander & Mary Rand Hess From award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander, with Mary Rand Hess, comes Solo, a YA novel written in poetic verse. Solo tells the story of seventeen-year-old Blade Morrison, who knows the life of a... Read more

Sloane Crosley (Look Alive Out There) at Skylight Books

By: Sloane Crosley
Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
Length: 42 minutes

Skylight Books hosted Sloane Crosley, author of Look Alive Out There, to discuss her new book. Sloane Crosley returns to the form that made her a household name in really quite a lot of households: Essays! These small doses of wit and sass make for an exuberant, unforgettable audiobook. Look Alive Out There arrives a decade after I Was Told... Read more

Sarah Smarsh, John Freeman, Whitney Terrell (Tales of Two Americas) at Watermark Books

By: Sarah Smarsh, John Freeman & Whitney Terrel
Narrated by: Whitney Terrel, Sarah Smarsh & John Freeman
Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Watermark Books hosted authors Sarah Smarsh, John Freeman, Whitney Terrell to discuss Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation. In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily... Read more

James McLaughlin (Bearskin) at The King's English Bookshop

By: James McLaughlin
Narrated by: James McLaughlin
Length: 44 minutes

The King's English Bookshop hosted James McLaughlin, author of Bearskin, to discuss his new novel. Read more

John Hart (The Hush) at Quail Ridge Books

By: John Hart
Narrated by: John Hart
Length: 45 minutes

Quail Ridge Books hosted John Hart, author of The Hush, to discuss his new book. Set in the same dark world as his beloved novel The Last Child, John Hart delivers a stunning vision of a secret world — rarely seen — in this unforgettable audiobook. More than an exploration of friendship, persistence, and forgotten power, The Hush leaves all... Read more

Peter Heller (Celine) at Watermark Books

By: Peter Heller
Narrated by: Peter Heller
Length: 58 minutes

Watermark Books hosted Peter Heller, author of Celine, to discuss his new novel. From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter , a luminous, masterful novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past. combines... Read more

Bart Ehrman (The Triumph of Christianity) at Quail Ridge Books

By: Bart Ehrman
Narrated by: Bart Ehrman
Length: 49 minutes

Quail Ridge Books hosted Bart Ehrman, author of The Triumph of Christianity, to discuss his new book. The Triumph of Christianity combines deep knowledge and meticulous research in an eye-opening narrative that upends the way we think about the single most important cultural transformation our world has ever seen—one that revolutionized art,... Read more

Bridgett Davis (The World According to Fannie Davis) with James Hannaham at Greenlight Bookstore

By: Bridgett Davis
Narrated by: James Hannaham
Length: 51 minutes

Award-winning writer and filmmaker Bridgett M. Davis offers an homage to an extraordinary parent in her memoir The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers. She discusses the book (and complicated mothers) with James Hannaham, author of the novel Delicious Foods. (Recorded at the Fort Greene bookstore on February... Read more

I Miss You When I Blink (11-Minute Excerpt)

By: Mary Laura Philpott
Narrated by: Mary Laura Philpott
Length: 11 minutes

Listen to this 11-minute excerpt of Mary Laura Philpott's bestseller and then get the full-length audiobook of I Miss You When I Blink. Acclaimed essayist and bookseller Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on her successful life’s to-do list and... Read more

Super Human (58-Minute Excerpt)

By: Dave Asprey
Narrated by: Dave Asprey
Length: 58 minutes

Listen to this 58-minute excerpt of Dave Asprey's new book and then get the full-length audiobook of Super Human. From Bulletproof creator and bestselling author Dave Asprey comes a revolutionary approach to anti-aging that will help you up your game at any age. Read more