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Happy Pub Day to THE ABCs OF BLACK HISTORY, written by Pushcart-nominated poet Rio Cortez and narrated by Audie and Odyssey award-winner Bahni Turpin! B is for Beautiful, Brave, and Bright! And for a Book that takes a Bold journey through the alphabet of Black history and culture. Letter by letter, The ABCs of Black History celebrates a story that spans continents and centuries, triumph and heartbreak, creativity and joy. It’s a story of big ideas––P is for Power, S is for Science and Soul. Of significant moments––G is for Great Migration. Of iconic figures––H is for Zora Neale Hurston, X is for Malcom X. It’s an ABC book like no other, and a story of hope and love. In addition to rhyming text, the book includes back matter with information on the events, places, and people mentioned in the poem, from Mae Jemison to W. E. B. Du Bois, Fannie Lou Hamer to Sam Cooke, and the Little Rock Nine to DJ Kool Herc. Get it here: https://www.workman.com/products/the-abcs-of-black-history/audio #audiobook #audiobooksforkids #picturebook #kidsbooks #audiobooklovers #newbooks #reading #booksforkids #historybooks #educational #bookexcerpt #readaloud #audiobooklove #Blackhistory #BlackHistoryMonth #poetryforkids #igreads #RioCortez #BahniTurpin Workman Publishing

The countdown is over . . . THE COUNTERCLOCKWISE HEART, written by Brian Farrey and narrated by Kirby Heyborne, is now available wherever audiobooks are sold! Tick . . . tick . . . tick . . . Time is running out in the empire of Rheinvelt. The sudden appearance of a strange and frightening statue foretells darkness. The Hierophants—magic users of the highest order—have fled the land. And the shadowy beasts of the nearby Hinterlands are gathering near the borders, preparing for an attack. Young Prince Alphonsus is sent by his mother, the Empress Sabine, to reassure the people while she works to quell the threat of war. But Alphonsus has other problems on his mind, including a great secret: He has a clock in his chest where his heart should be—and it’s begun to run backwards, counting down to his unknown fate. Searching for answers about the clock, Alphonsus meets Esme, a Hierophant girl who has returned to the empire in search of a sorceress known as the Nachtfrau. When riddles from their shared past threaten the future of the empire, Alphonsus and Esme must learn to trust each other and work together to save it—or see the destruction of everything they both love. Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/the-counterclockwise-heart/audio #audiobooks #audiobook #newaudiobook #audiobooklovers #audiobooklove #middlegrade #kidsbooks #fantasy #mgfantasy #bookexcerpt #newbook #books #booklover Algonquin Young Readers

“Suspenseful, seductive . . . A thrill ride from cover to cover.” —Oprah Daily, “The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2022” Happy Pub Day to PERPETUAL WEST, the riveting new novel from the critically-acclaimed author of SUGAR RUN, Mesha Maren! Narrated by Tony Chiroldes, PERPETUAL WEST is a brilliant and evocative story of borders—between countries, between lovers, and between facets of the self. When Alex and Elana move from smalltown Virginia to El Paso, they are just a young married couple, intent on a new beginning. Mexican by birth but adopted by white American Pentecostal parents, Alex is hungry to learn about the place where he was born. He spends every free moment across the border in Juárez—perfecting his Spanish, hanging with a collective of young activists, and studying lucha libre (Mexican wrestling) for his graduate work in sociology. Meanwhile Elana, busy fighting her own demons, feels disillusioned by academia and has stopped going to class. And though they are best friends, Elana has no idea that Alex has fallen in love with Mateo, a lucha libre fighter. When Alex goes missing and Elana can’t determine whether he left of his own accord or was kidnapped, it’s clear that neither of them has been honest about who they are. Spanning their journey from Virginia to Texas to Mexico, Mesha Maren’s thrilling follow-up to Sugar Run takes us from missionaries to wrestling matches to a luxurious cartel compound, and deep into the psychic choices that shape our identities. A sweeping novel that tells us as much about our perceptions of the United States and Mexico as it does about our own natures and desires, Perpetual West is a fiercely intelligent and engaging look at the false divide between high and low culture, and a suspenseful story of how harrowing events can bring our true selves to the surface. Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/perpetual-west/audio #audiobooks #audiobook #newaudiobook #audiobooklovers #audio

Happy Pub Day to WHEN THE WORLD RUNS DRY: Earth’s Water in Crisis, written by Nancy Castaldo and narrated by Jesse Vilinsky! What would you do if you turned on the faucet one day and nothing happened? What if you learned the water in your home was harmful to drink? Water is essential for life on this planet, but not every community has the safe, clean water it needs. In When the World Runs Dry, award-winning science writer Nancy Castaldo takes readers from Flint, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey, to Iran and Cape Town, South Africa, to explore the various ways in which water around the world is in danger, why we must act now, and why you’re never too young to make a difference.

Topics include: Lead and water infrastructure problems, pollution, fracking contamination, harmful algal blooms, water supply issues, rising sea levels, and potential solutions. Suggested for readers ages 10 and up. Get it here: https://www.workman.com/products/when-the-world-runs-dry/audio #audiobooks #audiobook #newaudiobook #audiobooklovers #audiobooklove #audiobooksforkids #kidsbooks #kidsnonfiction #kidsaudiobooks #newbooks #nonfiction #booklover #reading #readaloud #NancyCastaldo #JesseVilinsky #WhentheWorldRunsDry Algonquin Young Readers

The Reese’s Book Club pick for January is here! HONOR, written by bestselling author Thrity Umrigar and narrated by Sneha Mathan, tells the riveting story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide. Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena—a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man—Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one’s own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful secrets of Smita’s own past. While Meena’s fate hangs in the balance, Smita tries in every way she can to right the scales. She also finds herself increasingly drawn to Mohan, an Indian man she meets while on assignment. But the dual love stories of Honor are as different as the cultures of Meena and Smita themselves: Smita realizes she has the freedom to enter into a casual affair, knowing she can decide later how much it means to her. In this tender and evocative novel about love, hope, familial devotion, betrayal, and sacrifice, Thrity Umrigar shows us two courageous women trying to navigate how to be true to their homelands and themselves at the same time. Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/honor/audio #audiobooks #audiobook #newaudiobook #audiobooklovers #audiobooklove #reads #diversebooks #newbooks #reading #bookexcerpt #bookclub #bookclubs #ThrityUmrigar #ReesesBookClub #HelloSunshine #ReeseWitherspoon Reese Witherspoon Thrity Umrigar Algonquin Books

Available now in audio: THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE IN 100 STARS, written by Florian Freistetter and narrated by Adam Verner! These 100 amazing stars shine a light on astronomy’s greatest hits and their enduring impact on our culture. With roughly 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone, the cosmos is simply too vast for an unabridged tell-all. But here’s the next best thing: 100 stars—bright and faint, near and far, famous and obscure, long dead and as-yet unborn, red, yellow, blue, and white (but, as you’ll learn, never green)—handpicked by astronomer Florian Freistetter because they have the very best stories to tell: * GRB 080319B, the farthest we’ve seen into space with the naked eye * Gamma Draconis, the star that proved Earth rotates on its axis * V1364 CYGNI, pivotal in the discovery of dark matter * 72 Tauri, definitive evidence for Einstein’s theory of relativity * V1, which revealed horizons beyond the Milky Way * Algol, called the Demon Star for its mysterious blinking—and many more! Freistetter’s short, easy-to-read profiles not only invite you to gaze into the past and future of the universe, they introduce a stellar cast of scientists who came before: from Annie Jump Cannon, who revolutionized how we classify the stars, to Dorrit Hoffleit, who first counted them. Enjoy your journey through the cosmos. . . . Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/the-story-of-the-universe-in-100-stars/audio The Experiment #books #audiobooks #audiobook #audiobooklovers #audiobooklove #booklovers #reader #reading #nonfiction #science #STEM #astronomy #astronomer #universe #stars #educational #learning #sciencebooks #stembooks #readaloud #bookexcerpt #astronomybooks #TheStoryoftheUniversein100Stars #FlorianFreistetter #AdamVerner

Available now in audio: PATIENT ZERO: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases, written by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen and narrated by Hillary Huber! From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters include medical stories about a particular disease or virus—smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV—that combine “Patient Zero” narratives, or the human stories behind outbreaks, with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, and more. Learn the tragic stories of Patient Zeros throughout history, such as Mabalo Lokela, who contracted Ebola while on vacation in 1976, and the Lewis Baby on London’s Broad Street, the first to catch cholera in an 1854 outbreak that led to a major medical breakthrough. Interspersed are origin stories of a different sort—how a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small village in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more. Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/patient-zero/audio #audiobook #audiobooks #audiobooklovers #audiobooklove #amreading #narrator #reads #reading #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #nonfictionaudiobooks #historybooks #sciencebooks #STEM #medicine #history #disease #publichealth #medicalbooks #medicalhistory #PatientZero Workman Publishing

Available now in audio: UNEARTHING THE SECRET GARDEN: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, written by Marta McDowell and narrated by Jane Copland! “McDowell’s gorgeous book opens an ivy-covered door to new information about one of the world’s most famous authors.” —Angelica Shirley Carpenter, editor of In the Garden New York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has revealed the way that plants have stirred some of our most cherished authors, including Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. In her latest, she shares a moving account of how gardening deeply inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of the beloved children's classic The Secret Garden. In Unearthing The Secret Garden, McDowell delves into the professional and gardening life of Frances Hodgson Burnett. In this fascinating account, McDowell paints an unforgettable portrait of a great artist and reminds us why The Secret Garden continues to touch readers after more than a century. This deeply moving book is a must-read for fans of The Secret Garden and anyone who loves the story behind the story. Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/unearthing-the-secret-garden/audio Timber Press #audiobook #audiobooks #audiobooklovers #amreading #readaloud #narrator #writers #reading #books #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #TheSecretGarden #gardening #gardeningbooks #garden #FrancesHodgsonBurnett #UnearthingTheSecretGarden

Happy Pub Day to VOLUNTEERS: Growing Up in the Forever War, written and narrated by Jerad W. Alexander! “Riveting and morally complex, Volunteers is not only an insider’s account of war. It takes you inside the increasingly closed culture that creates our warriors.” —Elliot Ackerman, author of the National Book Award finalist Dark at the Crossing As a child, Jerad Alexander lay in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. As a teenager at an American base in Japan, he immersed himself in war games, war movies, and pulpy novels about Vietnam. Obsessed with all things military, he grew up playing with guns, joined the Civil Air Patrol for the uniform, and reveled in the closed and safe life “inside the castle,” within the embrace of the armed forces, the only world he knew or could imagine. Most of all, he dreamed of enlisting—like his mother, father, stepfather, and grandfather before him—and playing his part in the Great American War Story. He joined the US Marines straight out of high school, eager for action. Once in Iraq, however, he came to realize he was fighting a lost cause, enmeshed in the ongoing War on Terror that was really just a fruitless display of American might. The myths of war, the stories of violence and masculinity and heroism, the legacy of his family—everything Alexander had planned his life around—was a mirage. Alternating scenes from childhood with skirmishes in the Iraqi desert, this original, searing, and propulsive memoir introduces a powerful new voice in the literature of war. Jerad W. Alexander—not some elite warrior, but a simple volunteer—delivers a passionate and timely reckoning with the troubled and cyclical truths of the American war machine. Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/volunteers/audio Algonquin Books #VOLUNTEERS #JeradAlexander #audiobook #audiobooks #newrelease #excerpt #bookexcerpt #reading #audiobooklovers #readalo

Happy Pub Day to CARRY THE DOG, written by Stephanie Gangi and available as an audiobook narrated by Cheryl Smith! “Magnificent . . . A dark, utterly convincing exploration of family trauma and individual survival . . . It’s easy to forget that Carry the Dog is fiction; it feels deeply real, like a true memoir from a slightly alternate world just beyond our reach.” —New York Journal of Books Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughter of a famous photographer, she and her brothers were the subjects of an explosive series of images in the 1960s known as the Marx Nudes. Disturbing and provocative, the photographs shadowed the family long past the public outcry and media attention. Now, decades later, both the Museum of Modern Art and Hollywood have come calling, eager to cash in on Bea’s mother’s notoriety. Twice divorced from but still entangled with aging rock star Gary Going, Bea lives in Manhattan with her borrowed dog, Dory, and sort-of sister, Echo. After years of avoiding her past, Bea must make a choice: let the world in—and be compensated for the trauma of her childhood—or leave it all locked away in a storage unit forever. Carry the Dog sweeps readers into Bea’s world as the little girl in the photographs and the woman in the mirror meet at the blurry intersection of memory and truth, vulnerability and resilience. Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/carry-the-dog/audio #audiobooks #newaudiobook #newreleasetuesday #reads #reading #amreading #amlistening #bookbirthday #pubday #audiobooklovers #audiobook #fiction #audiobooklove #CarrytheDog #StephanieGangi #CherylSmith Algonquin Books

Yesterday was Pub Day for THE GENOME DEFENSE: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA, written by Jorge L. Contreras and available as an audiobook narrated by Kaleo Griffith! In this riveting, behind-the-scenes courtroom drama, a brilliant legal team battles corporate greed and government overreach for our fundamental right to control our genes. When attorney Chris Hansen learned that the U.S. government was issuing patents for human genes to biotech companies, his first thought was, How can a corporation own what makes us who we are? Then he discovered that women were being charged exorbitant fees to test for hereditary breast and ovarian cancers, tests they desperately needed—all because Myriad Genetics had patented the famous BRCA genes. So he sued them. Jorge L. Contreras, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on human genetics law, has devoted years to investigating the groundbreaking civil rights case known as AMP v. Myriad. In The Genome Defense Contreras gives us the view from inside as Hansen and his team of ACLU lawyers, along with a committed group of activists, scientists, and physicians, take their one-in-a-million case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Contreras interviewed more than a hundred key players involved in all aspects of the case—from judges and policy makers to ethicists and genetic counselors, as well as cancer survivors and those whose lives would be impacted by the decision—expertly weaving together their stories into a fascinating narrative of this pivotal moment in history. The Genome Defense is a powerful and compelling story about how society must balance scientific discovery with corporate profits and the rights of all people. Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/the-genome-defense/audio Algonquin Books #audiobooks #newbooks #newaudiobook #reading #sciencebooks #genetics #supremecourtcases #lawbooks #stembooks #science #stem #geneticsbooks #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #n

"Empowering, necessary, and required reading for all. Game changing." --Kirkus Reviews Happy Pub Day to AFRICAN ICONS: Ten People Who Shaped History, written by New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste and available as an audiobook narrated by Karen Chilton! Meet the ten remarkable kings, queens, inventors, scholars, and visionaries who changed the world. Black history begins thousands of years ago with the many cultures and people of the African continent. Through portraits of ten heroic figures, author Tracey Baptiste takes readers on a journey across Africa to meet some of the great leaders and thinkers whose vision built a continent and shaped the world. Get the audiobook here! https://www.workman.com/products/african-icons-2 Algonquin Young Readers #newbook #newaudiobook #audiobook #books #reading #kidsbooks #booksforkids #kidsnonfiction #historybook #Africanhistory #TraceyBaptiste #KarenChilton

Happy Pub Day to FLESH & BLOOD: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life, written by N. West Moss and available as an audiobook narrated by Erin Spencer! “I drive and say to myself, if I am dying, if this is how I die, then this is how I die.” When N. West Moss finds herself bleeding uncontrollably in the middle of a writing class, she drives herself to the hospital. Doctors are baffled, but eventually a diagnosis—hemangioma—is determined and a hysterectomy is scheduled. We follow Moss through her surgery, complications, and recovery as her thoughts turn to her previous struggles with infertility, to grief and healing, to what it means to leave a legacy. Moss’s wisdom and limitless curiosity lift this beautiful memoir beyond any narrow focus. Among her interests: yellow fever, good cocktails, the history of New Orleans, and, always, the natural world, including the praying mantis in her sunroom whom she names Claude. And we learn about the inspiring women in Moss’s family—her mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother—as she sorts out her feeling that this line will end with her. But Moss discovers that there are other ways besides having children to make a mark, and that grief is not a stopping place but a companion that travels along with us through everything, even happiness. With public figures like Chrissy Teigen and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, speaking out about infertility recently, women are eager for voices that acknowledge their struggles. Fans of Lena Dunham, Leslie Jamison, and Jenny Lawson—along with readers of medical memoirs like When Breath Becomes Air and The Bright Hour—will find that connection in Moss’s Flesh & Blood. Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/flesh-blood-2 Algonquin Books #audiobook #newaudiobook #audiobooks #newbook #booklovers #bookexcerpt #infertility #womenshealth #womenwriters #memoir #NWestMoss #FleshandBlood

Happy Pub Day to HOW MAGICIANS THINK: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters, written and narrated by Joshua Jay! This "thoughtful, engaging look into the secretive world of magicians" is sure to "excite anybody with a curiosity or love for magic” (David Blaine). The door to magic is closed, but it’s not locked. And now Joshua Jay, one of the world’s most accomplished magicians, not only opens that door but brings us inside to reveal the artistry and obsessiveness, esoteric history, and long-whispered-about traditions of a subject shrouded in mystery. And he goes one step further: Joshua Jay brings us right into the mind of a magician—how they develop their other worldly skills, conjure up illusions, and leave the rest of us slack jawed with delight time after time. Along the way, Jay reveals another kind of secret, one all readers will find meaningful even if they never aspire to perform sleight of hand: What does it take to follow your heart and achieve excellence? In 52 short, engaging essays, Jay describes how he does it, whether it’s through the making of illusions, the psychology behind them, or the way technology influences the world of magic. He considers the aesthetics of performance, discusses contemporary masters, including David Copperfield, Penn & Teller, and David Blaine, and details how magicians hone their craft. And answers questions like: Can a magic trick be too good? How do you saw a person in half? Is there real magic in the universe? The answers, like so much in magic and life, depend on you. Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/how-magicians-think-2 Workman Publishing #audiobooks #newaudiobook #booklovers #audiobooklovers #magic #magicians #magicshow #magiclovers #magictricks #history #bookrelease #reading #newbook #nonfiction #HowMagiciansThink #JoshuaJay

Happy Pub Day to PUMP: A Natural History of the Heart, written by Bill Schutt and available as an audiobook narrated by LJ Gasner! Take a journey into the heartbeat of life on Earth with the book that Publishers Weekly called "informative, playful, and impossible to put down." Millennia ago, when we first began puzzling over the mysteries of the human body, one organ stood out as vital. The heart was warm, it was central, and it moved as it pumped blood. The ancient Egyptians treated it with reverence, mummifying it separately from the body so that the soul inside it could be weighed. Aristotle believed that it was the seat of consciousness. Over the centuries, science has dispelled the myths, but our fascination with the heart has endured. From the origins of circulation, still evident in some microorganisms today, to the enormous hearts of blue whales, we journey with Bill to beaches where horseshoe crabs are being harvested for their life-saving blood, and under the sea to learn about the world’s most natural antifreeze, flowing through the veins of icefish. And we follow him through human history, too, as scientists hypothesize wrongly and rightly about what is arguably our most important organ, ultimately developing the technologies that have helped us study the heart—and now, in the most cutting-edge labs, the tools that will help us regenerate it. Deeply researched and engagingly told, Pump is a fascinating natural history sure to be loved by readers of Mary Roach and Bill Bryson. Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/pump-2 Algonquin Books #audio #newaudiobook #audiobooklovers #audiobooks #audiobookstagram #audiobook #bookrecommendation #newrelease #nonfictionbooks #nonfiction #science #stem #biology #bookstagram #igreads #amreading #amlistening #booklover #bookbirthday #sciencebooks

“Timberlake creates an irresistible mix of high stakes, laugh-out-loud moments, and truly unexpected plot twists . . . making for an unforgettable expedition.” — Booklist, starred Review of the Day Happy Pub Day to the new Skunk and Badger story: EGG MARKS THE SPOT! Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake and audiobook narrator Michael Boatman are taking listeners on a second adventure in the series that reviewers have called an instant classic, with comparisons to Frog and Toad, Winnie-the-Pooh, and The Wind in the Willows. Buried in the heart of every animal is a secret treasure. Badger’s is the Spider Eye Agate, stolen years ago by his crafty and treasure-trade-dealing cousin, Fisher. Skunk’s is Sundays with the New Yak Times Book Review. When Mr. G. Hedgehog threatens to take the Book Review as soon as it thumps on the doorstep, Skunk decides an adventure (“X Marks the Spot!”) will solve both their problems. Badger agrees, and together they set off for his favorite campsite on Endless Lake. But all is not as it seems at Campsite #5. Harrumphs in the night. Unexpected friends. Then Fisher appears, and Badger knows something is up. Something involving secrets, betrayals, and lies. And a luminous, late-Jurassic prize . . . Get the audiobook here: https://www.workman.com/products/egg-marks-the-spot-skunk-and-badger-2-2 Algonquin Young Readers #audiobook #newaudiobook #kidsaudiobooks #releaseday #pubday #bookbirthday #newreleasetuesday #childrensbooks #childrensbookseries #bestseller #NewberyHonor #bookreview #readaloud #booksforkids #SKUNKANDBADGER #EGGMARKSTHESPOT

Happy Pub Day to THE ARCHER, written by Shruti Swamy and available as an audiobook narrated by Sneha Mathan! Kiese Laymon called Shruti Swamy’s debut book of stories, A House Is a Body, “one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s.” Now, Swamy brings us an accomplished and immersive coming-of-age novel set in the Bombay of the 1960s and 1970s. Vidya’s childhood is marked by the shattering absence and then the bewildering reappearance of her mother and baby brother at the family home. Restless, observant, and longing for connection with her brilliant and increasingly troubled mother, Vidya navigates the stifling expectations of her life with a vivid imagination until one day she peeks into a classroom where girls are learning kathak, a dazzling, centuries-old dance form that requires the utmost discipline and focus. Her pursuit of artistic transcendence through kathak soon becomes the organizing principle of her life, even as she leaves home for college and falls in complicated love with her best friend. As the uncertain future looms, she must ultimately confront the tensions between romantic love, her art, and the legacy of her own imperfect mother. Lyrical and deeply sensual, with writing as mesmerizing as kathak itself, Shruti Swamy’s The Archer is a bold portrait of a singular woman coming of age as an artist—navigating desire, duty, and the limits of the body. It is also an electrifying and utterly immersive story about the transformative power of art, and the possibilities that love can open when we’re ready. Get the audiobook here! https://www.workman.com/products/the-archer-2 Algonquin Books #audiobooks #newaudiobook #newreleasetuesday #amreading #amlistening #bookbirthday #pubday #audiobooklovers #audiobook #fiction #bookclub

“I love this book so much I turned the pages so fast . . . It’s all about the search for independence and being true to yourself and who you really are.” — Reese Witherspoon It’s been one year since the release of HIS ONLY WIFE by Peace Adzo Medie! This Reese’s Book Club pick and New York Times Notable Book of the Year is available as an audiobook narrated by Soneela Nankani. Have you listened to this “mesmerizing debut novel” (The New York Times Books) yet? Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. She is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Afi knows who he is, of course—Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she is moved from her small hometown of Ho to live in Accra, Ghana’s gleaming capital, a place of wealth and sophistication where she has days of nothing to do but cook meals for a man who may or may not show up to eat them. She has agreed to this marriage in order to give her mother the financial security she desperately needs, and so she must see it through. Or maybe not? His Only Wife is a witty, smart, and moving debut novel about a brave young woman traversing the minefield of modern life with its taboos and injustices, living in a world of men who want their wives to be beautiful, to be good cooks and mothers, to be women who respect their husbands and grant them forbearance. And in Afi, Peace Medie has created a delightfully spunky and relatable heroine who just may break all the rules. Get the audiobook here! https://www.workman.com/products/his-only-wife-3 Algonquin Books #PeaceAdzoMedie #SoneelaNankani #bookbirthday #audiobooks #amreading #bookrecommendations #amlistening #hellosunshine #reesewitherspoonbookclub #HISONLYWIFE

Learn to “see” the forecast through the hidden weather signs all around you in THE SECRET WORLD OF WEATHER, written and narrated by New York Times bestselling author Tristan Gooley! In this eye-opening trove of outdoor clues, groundbreaking natural navigator Tristan Gooley turns his keen senses to the weather. By “reading” nature as he does, you’ll not only detect what the weather is doing (and predict what’s coming), you’ll enter a secret wonderland of sights and sounds you’ve never noticed before: 🌡 Listen for the way crickets chirp faster as the temperature rises. ❄️ Spot how snowflakes shrink with colder air and grow just before they stop falling. 💨 Let perching birds point out the direction of the wind. ☀️ Learn why pine cones close up in high humidity. ⛈ Watch out for storms when clouds are more tall than wide! Most fascinating of all, you’ll discover distinct microclimates with every step you take—through the woods or down a city street. There are unique weather clues to be found on opposite sides of a tree—and even beneath a blade of grass! And once you can read the forecast in every cloud, breeze, sunbeam, plant, and raindrop? You may well delete your weather app! Click here to get the audiobook now: https://linktr.ee/workmanaudio The Experiment #audiobooks #amlistening #amreading #weather #forecast #sciencebooks #stembooks #nonfiction #TristanGooley #THESECRETWORLDOFWEATHER

Missing the excitement of the Olympics? Want to be more in-the-know when you watch the next Games? TOTAL OLYMPICS, written by Jeremy Fuchs and available as an audiobook narrated by Oliver Wyman, is “an indispensable Olympic resource and a lot of pure fun” (Jack McCallum, author of the New York Times bestseller Dream Team). Faster! Higher! Stronger! Stranger! A glorious tapestry of legendary characters, forgotten records, crazy accomplishments, unbelievable feats, wacky contests, and controversial moments, Total Olympics is pure pleasure for anyone who loves the world’s greatest sporting event. Discover how the modern Games began, in an out-of-the-way Victorian English town named Much Wenlock. Long-discontinued Olympic sports like tug of war, firefighting, live pigeon shooting, and painting. (Picasso for the gold?) And the over-the-top, heroic exploits that make it all so thrilling––like the inspiring story of gymnast Shun Fujimoto who brought his team to victory while fighting through the pain of a broken knee. With hundreds of true stories, it’s a collection of sports yearns unlike any other. Click here to get the audiobook now! https://www.workman.com/products/total-olympics-2 Workman Publishing #JeremyFuchs #OliverWyman #books #audiobooks #newbooks #newaudiobooks #nonfiction #sports #sportsbooks #summerreads #Tokyo2020 #Olympics #TOTALOLYMPICS