![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. ![]() Now let’s talk favorites-and please, share YOUR favorite audiobooks in the comments section!Īll books featured here were chosen because I loooove them. This list is representative of my listening habits: I love immersive novels and intimate memoirs in my ears, and that’s exactly what populates this list. Bonus points to any book that makes me want to run another mile, fold another load of laundry, or sit in my car in the driveway so I can keep listening.Ģ022 was once again a great year for audiobooks these are my very favorites. Did a narrator bring a little something extra to the story, something I couldn’t have gotten from reading in print? In my mind, that is the mark of a truly great audiobook.įor me, an additional mark of a great listening experience-of any good book, for that matter-is that I’m still thinking about the story, even months later. When choosing my favorite audiobooks, I especially want to celebrate audiobooks that elevate the reading experience. This year I didn’t duplicate titles on these lists so make sure you check them both out! Today, I’m sharing my favorite audiobooks. Last week I shared my favorite books of 2022. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() DI Stephens seems to have PTSD and he’s not really happy with anything in his life. I like surprises.īut somehow the whole novel felt a bit gray. There was a more personal twist at the end that did surprise me quite a bit. I had a vague guess as to “whodunnit” but I didn’t really know why or how. I’ve never read any of Elly Griffiths’ other mysteries but this one was good. ![]() The two men served together in WWII in a secret unit known as “The Magic Men.” Edgar calls on Max, who just happens to be in Brighton for the week, and the two set about solving the mystery together. The murder reminds him of a magic trick that his old friend Max Mephisto used to do as part of his show. When the missing third is delivered to the police station, addressed to “Captain” Edgar Stephens, his rank when he left the army, the inspector starts to think this might be a bit personal. Brighton’s Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is called to the train station where a dead body has been found in the “left luggage” area. ![]() ![]() He spends a summer in Blackrock, exploring the neighborhood with his friend Aubrey, reading The Count of Monte Christo, and restlessly wandering the streets. Stephen complains to the rector, who takes Stephen's side, and Stephen is cheered by his schoolmates. A boy had broken his glasses, and a teacher beats him unjustly during one of his classes for sitting out. When he returns to school, he finds out to his bewilderment that two of his classmates were caught doing something sexual with upperclassmen. He listens to his family having a bitter argument about Parnell and the Catholic Church. He wakes up with a cold the next day and spends some time in the infirmary, where he hears that the Irish nationalist Parnell has died.Ī few months later, Stephen comes home for the winter holidays. ![]() In the next scene, an older Stephen is in his first year of school at Clongowes he is playing outside with the other boys and longing for the warmth and peace of study hall. Stephen’s thoughts and memories careen wildly – from a woman that sells candy on the street, to his mother’s warm smell, to his governess Dante’s brushes, to his neighbor Eileen. ![]() The novel’s first scene shows an infant Stephen listening to his father’s nonsense fairy tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Books will be available for sale at a discounted price. In this gripping account, he takes readers behind the scenes to expose how this deception happened, who discovered it, and how the company tried to cover up its misdeeds.Ī book signing will take place after the event. In FASTER, HIGHER, FARTHER: The Volkswagen Scandal, the first book on Volkswagen’s shocking fraud, Jack Ewing offers a riveting cautionary tale about power and corruption. He is the Founder and Director of Ethical Systems, a non-profit organization that aims to improve business ethics through social and behavioral science research. ![]() Haidt is a social psychologist whose research examines the intuitive foundations of morality and how morality varies across cultures, including the cultures of American progressives, conservatives, and libertarians. Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at the NYU Stern School of Business. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College, and a master’s degree in history from Trinity College. He has spent more than twenty years covering German business and economics, including a decade at BusinessWeek magazine. Jack Ewing is European economics correspondent for The New York Times, based in Frankfurt, Germany. NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business and Ethical Systems invite you to a book launch and discussion of Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal with author Jack Ewing and Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU Stern. ![]() ![]() ![]() WINNER: Victorian Premiers Literary Awards, Writing for Young Adults, 2020 WINNER: Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Young Adult Literature, 2020 She explores the hard, bewildering, and beautiful places loss can take us, and honors those who hold us tightly when the current wants to tug us out to sea. Helena Fox tells a story about love and grief and family and friendship, about inter-generational mental illness, and how living with it is both a bridge to someone loved and lost and, also, a chasm. This is a mesmerizing, radiant debut, at once heart-rending, humorous, and impossible to put down. Or maybe–maybe maybe maybe–there’s a third way Biz just can’t see yet. It might be easier, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Or maybe stay a little longer, find her father, bring him back to her. ![]() Dad disappears and, with him, all comfort. And Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface–normal okay regular fine.īut after what happens on the beach–first in the ocean, and then in the sand–the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. And she doesn’t tell anyone about her dad. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, and who shouldn’t be here but is. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. A stunning, gutting, deeply hopeful YA novel about love and loss and living with mental illness, from an exceptional new voiceīiz knows how to float. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now with charming full-color photographs of the scenery around which Heidi would have grown up, this is a fantastic gift for children at any time of year. ![]() Simple writing, a lovely, relatable plot, and a recognition of the importance of family and nature make Heidi a great book for families to read aloud. ![]() The book has been translated into more than fifty languages and has sold over fifty million copies. ![]() Since its original publication in Switzerland in 1880, Johanna Spyri's classic story has delighted generations of children. But even though Heidi bonds with Clara and brings new life to the household, she becomes more and more homesick and wants desperately to return to her grandfather. Three years later, Heidi's aunt returns to take her to the town to become a companion for Clara, a sick little girl of a wealthy family. Soon, however, she comes to appreciate her new, simple life she loves walking through the pastures with her friend Peter the goatherd and spending quiet time with her grandfather. When an aunt drops five-year-old Heidi off to live with her grandfather in the Alps-the two of them alone in a small hut on a hill-she's initially very lonely. ![]() ![]() ![]() Print: Never-before-seen photo of UGK, signed by Peter Beste.Cassette: Double-tape version The Legend, containing the entire mix, fully licensed from Bigtyme Records.The artwork is unique and features Beste's photography Album: 2/LP version of the DJ Screw The Legend, presenting all of the original tracks on vinyl, in a fully licensed album from Bigtyme Records.Please note: we offer USPS Express Mail shipping but cannot guarantee delivery for Christmas. Revised 2nd Edition (Hardcover) including 32 new pages of never-before-seen photos and text, Northside/Southside Houston maps, and a complete index of the timeline and history of the scene. The book also features community leaders, rappers, producers, businessmen, and family members, all providing an astonishing and important insight into a great American cultural narrative, and the second edition features even more details into this astonishing and influential scene. Houston Rap profiles noted artists such as Bun B of UGK, Z-Ro, Big Mike, K-Rino, Willie D of the Geto Boys, Lil’ Troy, and Paul Wall, alongside reflections on the lives of departed legends such as DJ Screw, Pimp C, and Big Hawk. ![]() ![]() The book features the photography of Peter Beste, who spent 9 years documenting the culture alongside writer Lance Scott Walker. Houston Rap is an immersion into the everyday life of the Houston hip-hop community. “The book that defines Houston hip-hop” - Bun B ![]() ![]() ![]() I had spent the last five years writing about my dating life at a tiny Texas newspaper, and the number of failed dates I went on, and eventually wrote about, made me wary of my first date with a girl in L.A. ![]() She seemed funny, and her Instagram proved that she was cute and clever. We spent the days leading up to the date making small talk while I tried to lower my big expectations. Also, she was super cute, so that made saying yes easier. No one had ever slid into my DMs until Emilia. And rather than pay $14.99 for Bumble Boost to extend the match, she boldly went where no woman had gone before. She told me we matched on Bumble, but because neither of us messaged each other (oops), the match expired. Emilia was real, and she was asking me on a date. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are a reader with certain triggers or sensitivities common to the dark romance genre, please heed the author’s note at the beginning of this book. It is categorized as DARK ROMANCE for a reason. ![]() ![]() Now, since I’m the girl no one likes or believes, I guess I’m the perfect target for his dark games and twisted desires.Īfter surviving my first encounter with his casual depravity, all I really want is for Carter to leave me alone. Beneath his carefully constructed façade lurks a monster, a predator looking for the perfect prey to play with. Never imagined his coveted attention would turn out to be such a nightmare. I never dreamed I would attract the attention of locally worshipped star quarterback, Carter Mahoney. I didn’t care if it was an unpopular thing to do I stood up for myself… and in doing so, opened Pandora’s Box. See, I got a player suspended from the football team for harassing me, and in my small Texas town, you don’t mess with the football players-even if they mess with you first. Okay Then you’ll still get to play this year. I’ll ask him to cut your suspension in half. ![]() Listen, I won’t take back what I said, but I’llI’ll talk to the coach. Senior year was off to a rough start: lube in my locker, panties on my front porch, unimaginative name-calling. Untouchable: A Bully Romance by Sam Mariano (2) Chapter 2 Wait, I say, grabbing his hand, trying to stop this before it can go any further. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, being very much a comic book newbie I was not yet supposed to be ready or worthy to graduate to manga. This 10 volume long manga which I know will wreck my shit and will not let me sleep for days Well that's it it's sweet and funny in disturbing sort of way full of blood, gore and parasites.Īll the new young adult, contemporaries, new may releases, pending April releases, ARCs ![]() ![]() They were there just to add character to Shinichi which I disliked a bit. The greatest flaw of the series is side characters, they weren't good or bad they weren't fleshed out properly. It adds a great volume to Shinichi character and it can be funny sometimes. attention. It can seem a little weird at first, but it’s still fairly accessible and the weirdness wears off pretty fast. The illustrations stood out most for me they are bizzare, off-putting, different. This manga makes no qualms about blood and gore. It’s a journey of discovery for the protagonist and the monsters he faces. Intersting fact is that Parasyte are clueless as to their purpose, their reason of being, or even where they come from. It's tough coz parasites morph and are powerful. ![]() Parasites take over the human brain and then try to kill other humans. It's about a boy named Shinichi who one night gets a parasite ( Migi) accidentally stuck in his arm. ![]() |