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Listen to an excerpt of Megan Goldin's Dark Corners, read by Samantha Desz, January LaVoy, and André Santana.

Rachel Krall, the true crime podcaster star of Megan Goldin’s acclaimed The Night Swim, returns to search for a popular influencer who disappears after visiting a suspected serial killer.

Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have long suspected him in the murders of six women. As his release date approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot, young influencer with a huge social media following. Hours later, Maddison disappears, and police suspect she’s been kidnapped—or worse. Is Maddison’s disappearance connected to her visit to Bailey? And why was she visiting him in the first place?

When they hit a wall in the investigation, the FBI reluctantly asks for Rachel Krall’s help in finding the missing influencer. Maddison seems to only exist on social media; she has no family, no friends, and other than in her posts, most people have never seen her. Who is she, really? Using a fake Instagram account, Rachel goes undercover to BuzzCon, a popular influencer conference, where she discovers a world of fierce rivalry that may have turned lethal.

When police find the body of a woman with a tattoo of a snake eating its tail—identical to a tattoo Rachel had seen on Bailey’s hand—the FBI must consider a chilling possibility: Bailey has an accomplice on the outside and a dangerous obsession with influencers, including Rachel Krall herself. Suddenly the target of a monster hiding in plain sight, Rachel is forced to confront the very real dangers that lurk in the dark corners of the internet.

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Dark Corners by Megan Goldin, audiobook excerpt

Read by Elizabeth Acevedo, Sixta Morel, Danyeli Rodriguez del Orbe

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: Today.com * Time * Electric Literature * Seattle Times * Telemundo * Washington Post * HipLatina * Harper's Bazaar * Elle * AARP * Shondaland * New York Times * The Millions * LitHub

From the bestselling, National Book Award–winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the story of one Dominican-American family told through the voices of its women as they await a gathering that will forever change their lives.

Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else’s? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila.

But Flor isn’t the only person with secrets: her sisters are hiding things, too. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi, face tumult of their own.

Spanning the three days prior to the wake, Family Lore traces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, Santo Domingo and New York City. Told with Elizabeth Acevedo’s inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and nieces—one family’s journey through their history, helping them better navigate all that is to come.

An Excerpt From FAMILY LORE By Elizabeth Acevedo

How to design any workspace—at home, the office, or anywhere in between—to enhance both physical and emotional wellbeing. “Full of tips, stories, and cutting-edge science, Well at Work helps us thrive wherever we work.” (Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global)

Staying healthy at work has never been more top-of-mind than it is today.  But staying healthy isn’t the same as staying well. Staying well at work isn’t just about the germs and toxins that impact how we feel physically or even make us sick; it’s also about the many aspects of the environment that affect our stress levels, mood, focus, and productivity.

Whether you work in a traditional office or a corner of your bedroom, healthy workplaces need not be a luxury. Well at Work reveals how to design these spaces for wellbeing across the seven domains of integrative health: stress and resilience, movement, sleep, relationships, nutrition, spirituality, nature and the air we breathe. You’ll learn:
How the environment you work in all day can impact your sleep at night
Optimal lighting and noise levels for reducing stress and staying alert
How to adjust temperature and humidity to protect against infection
Why open-plan offices can keep you more active
The myriad benefits of access to nature (and how to bring nature indoors)
Office layouts that foster social interaction, but not distraction.
Foods to enhance cognitive performance
And more
On this eye-opening journey of discovery, you’ll meet Dr. Sternberg’s colleagues in science and medicine, design and architecture, and building sciences who are striving to make workplaces more conducive to wellbeing. And you’ll glimpse into the future of the workplace, where artificial intelligence and the metaverse will help us design environments that respond to our individual needs.

 Above all, you’ll come away with a menu of simple steps anyone can take to be—and stay—well at work.

Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. is Professor of Medicine, Psychology, and Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Arizona. Internationally recognized for her pioneering discoveries on the mind-body-stress interaction in illness and healing and on the impact of built environments on integrative health and wellness,  Dr. Sternberg has advised the World Health Organization, the US Institute of Medicine, and the Vatican, and has briefed high level government officials including the Surgeon General, the Department of Defense, and the United States Congress. Previously a senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health, she is the author of The Balance Within and Healing Spaces.

Available 9/5/2023 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Little, Brown Spark.

Well At Work by Esther M. Sternberg, MD, Read by Susan Hanfield - Audiobook Excerpt

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the definitive history of East Germany, "a fascinating, sparkling book, filled with insights" (Peter Frankopan)
 
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the German Democratic Republic presented a radically different Germany than what had come before and what exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics. 
  
In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer sets aside the usual Cold War caricatures of the GDR to offer a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country, revealing the rich political, social, and cultural landscape that existed amid oppression and hardship. Drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews and documents, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, beyond the Wall.

Katja Hoyer is a German British historian, journalist, and the author of the widely acclaimed Blood and Iron. A visiting research fellow at King’s College London and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she is a columnist for the Washington Post and host of the podcast The New Germany. She was born in East Germany and is now based in the UK.

Available 9/5/2023 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Basic Books.

Beyond the Wall by Katja Hoyer Read by Sam Peter Jackson - Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to this hilarious short story from David Walliams' book The World's Worst Pets!

Furp the FISH from The World's Worst Pets by David Walliams

Intune Meditation and Music with Jonathan Baker

Betterlisten is pleased to present you with Mindfulness Based therapeutic Music & Meditation with Jonathan Baker.  This set Includes music, and guided meditations. Inspired by the works of Jon Kabat-Zinn - Pioneer of: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Providing safe and relaxing material recorded during meditations to help guide you in your personal experience. And music which holds the heart and speaks what words can not say.

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"Passage Meditation" Audiobook Excerpt | Chapter One: Meditation on a Passage

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Whether you’re into getting outside or staying right where you are, take these three meditations to experience a journey in the great outdoors.

A Mindful Walk with Danielle Mika Nagel

Our global yoga ambassador Chelsea Jackson Roberts guides you through a 30-minute yoga nidra practice. Also known as yogic sleep, the practice of yoga nidra is a meditation that guides you into a state of consciousness between being awake, and being asleep, giving your body and brain the opportunity to fully relax.

Yoga Nidra with Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts

Let your mind run free with this guided running meditations curated by run ambassador, Rob Smith.

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