This brand-new unabridged audio book of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings, is read by the BAFTA award-winning actor, director and author, Andy Serkis. 

 In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power – the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord Sauron’s evil dominion.

Thus begins J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

The Fellowship of the Ring, By J. R. R. Tolkien, Read by Andy Serkis

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“Bold, original, and utterly captivating, The Apology is a sweeping intergenerational saga, delivered by one of the sharpest, most memorable voices I’ve ever read. A stunning new novel by a writer whose work I’ve long admired.” —Kirstin Chen, author of Counterfeit

In South Korea, a 105-year-old woman receives a letter. Ten days later, she has been thrust into the afterlife, fighting to head off a curse that will otherwise devastate generations to come.
 
Jeonga Cha has always shouldered the burden of upholding the family name. When she sent her daughter-in-law to America to cover up an illegitimate birth, she was simply doing what was needed to preserve the reputations of her loved ones. How could she have known that decades later, this decision would return to haunt her—threatening to tear apart her bond with her beloved son, her relationship with her infuriatingly insolent sisters, and the future of the family she has worked so hard to protect?
 
Part ghost story and part family epic, The Apology is an incisive tale of sisterhood and diaspora, reaching back to the days of Japanese colonialism and the Korean War, and told through the singular voice of a defiant, funny, and unforgettable centenarian.

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The Apology by Jimin Han Read by Kathleen Kim - Audiobook Excerpt

Written and read by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

 

The seven rules to follow to realise your true purpose in life distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.

 

The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke. But this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident.

 

Arnold's stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold's father hammered into him above all: be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father's adage close to his heart.

 

Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice, BE USEFUL takes readers on an inspirational tour through Arnold's toolkit for a meaningful life. Arnold shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike--some of them famous, some told here for the first time ever.

 

Too many of us struggle to disconnect from our self-pity and connect to our purpose. At an early age, Arnold forged the mental tools to build the ladder out of the poverty and narrow-mindedness of his rural Austrian hometown, tools he used to add rung after rung from there. Now he has shared that wisdom with all of us. As he puts it, no one is going to come rescue you - you only have yourself. The good news, it turns out, is that you are all you need.

Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger

The wonderful Stephen Fry reads more stories by Oscar Wilde. The Model Millionaire, The Star Child and The Birthday of the Infanta 

 Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. Stephen's voice takes you into a different kind of listening experience, enabling you to imagine narrative, settings, animals and people with vivid colour and meaning.
Enjoy the work of one of the most celebrated writers of our time – Irish poet, playwright and short story writer Oscar Wilde. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these six Children’s short stories which are available from the 1st Decemeber 2008 on digital download only.

Children’s Stories by Oscar Wilde Volume 2, By Oscar Wilde, Read by Stephen Fry

With James Naughtie. Recorded at the BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals, Allan Massie discusses his novel A Question of Loyalties. First published in 1989, the book is widely acclaimed as his finest.

The novel engages with all the complexities and ambiguities of loyalty and nationality as it follows a family through the divisions in France during World War II, and the repercussions which last for decades. 

In the early 1950s Etienne de Balafré strives to find out what happened to his father when the German invasion of 1940 divided the country between collaboration and resistance. Where some might see an accomplice, the author Allan Massie seeks to understand a human being making difficult choices.

As always on Bookclub, a group of especially invited readers join in the discussion.

October's Bookclub choice : Dirt Music by Tim Winton (2002)

Presenter : James Naughtie
Interviewed Guest : Allan Massie
Producer : Dymphna Flynn. Published on September 7, 2014.

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Marisa Peer, who was once named the Best British Therapist by Men’s Health magazine, has spent 25 years working with an extensive client list including royalty, rock stars, Hollywood actors, Olympic athletes, CEOs of multi-billion dollar companies and political leaders.

Her tools and techniques aim to bridge the gap between 99% of the population and the top 1% of super-achievers she works with. She’s discovered eight unique Mental Thought Models (which are the result of the eight transformations) that will do this for most people.

Marisa Peer - How To Purify Your Mind With Powerful Beliefs

Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistency and helps traders overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost them money.&#160; He takes on the myths of the market and exposes them one by one teaching traders to look beyond random outcomes, to understand the true realities of risk, and to be comfortable with the "probabilities" of market movement that governs all market speculation. Available for purchase at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004H1TBCG?tag=randohouseinc7911-20">Amazon</a><a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-8373827-11819508?sid=PRHD39095A662&url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/?ean=9781440625411">Barnes & Noble</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8373827-10876509?SID=PRHD39095A662--9781440625411&url=http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9781440625411">Books A Million</a><a href="http://www.hudsonbooksellers.com/book/9780735201446?utm_source=prh&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_term=301&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780735201446&utm_campaign=9780735201446">Hudson Booksellers</a><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780735201446?aff=PenguinGroupUS">IndieBound</a><a href="http://www.powells.com/book/-9780735201446?utm_source=randomhouse&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780735201446">Powell's</a><a href="http://goto.target.com/c/128773/81938/2092?subId1=PRHD39095A662--9780735201446&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fs%3FsearchTerm%3D9780735201446">Target</a><a href="http://linksynergy.walmart.com/fs-bin/click?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&subid=0&offerid=183959.1&type=10&tmpid=273&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780735201446&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-ng.do%3F&RD_PARM2=search_query%3D9780735201446%2526ic%3D16_0%2526Find%3DFind%2526search_constraint%3D3920">Walmart</a><a href="https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011ld4r/pubref:PRHD39095A662--9780525642312/destination:https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9780525642312&c=books">Google Play Store - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/id437715505?at=11l3IH&ct=PRHD39095A662--9780525642312">iBooks - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/link?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&offerid=258185.12829781935712206&type=2&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780525642312}&murl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fsearch%3FQuery%3D9780525642312">Kobo - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.qksrv.net/click-8373827-10273919?url=http://www.audible.com/search?advsearchKeywords=Trading+in+the+Zone+Mark+Douglas&source_code=COMA0213WS031709&SID=PRHD39095A662--9780525642312">Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8373827-11117375?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780525642312&url=http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/9780525642312">audiobooks.com - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a>

Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas, read by Kaleo Griffith

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you&rsquo;re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren&rsquo;t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of S&atilde;o Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again. Available for purchase at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0818ZZNLR?tag=randohouseinc7911-20">Amazon</a><a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-8373827-11819508?sid=PRHD39095A662&url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/?ean=9780735213630">Barnes & Noble</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8373827-10747236?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780735213630&url=http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9780735213630">Books A Million</a><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2186/9780735213616?prhc=PRHD39095A662">Bookshop.org</a><a href="http://www.hudsonbooksellers.com/book/9780735213616?utm_source=prh&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_term=301&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780735213616&utm_campaign=9780735213616">Hudson Booksellers</a><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780735213616?aff=penguinrandom">IndieBound</a><a href="http://www.powells.com/book/-9780735213616?utm_source=randomhouse&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780735213616">Powell's</a><a href="http://goto.target.com/c/128773/81938/2092?subId1=PRHD39095A662--9780735213616&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fs%3FsearchTerm%3D9780735213616">Target</a><a href="http://linksynergy.walmart.com/fs-bin/click?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&subid=0&offerid=183959.1&type=10&tmpid=273&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780735213616&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-ng.do%3F&RD_PARM2=search_query%3D9780735213616%2526ic%3D16_0%2526Find%3DFind%2526search_constraint%3D3920">Walmart</a><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1487371974?at=11l3IH&ct=PRHD39095A662--9780735213630">Apple Books</a><a href="https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011ld4r/pubref:PRHD39095A662--9780735213630/destination:https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9780735213630&c=books">Google Play Store</a><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/link?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&offerid=258185.12829781935712206&type=2&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780735213630}&murl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fsearch%3FQuery%3D9780735213630">Kobo</a>

Breath by James Nestor, read by James Nestor

'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. Available for purchase at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B085BVSXS9?tag=randohouseinc7911-20">Amazon</a><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/?ean=9780525559481">Barnes & Noble</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8373827-10747236?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780525559481&url=http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9780525559481">Books A Million</a><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2186/9780525559474?prhc=PRHD39095A662">Bookshop.org</a><a href="http://www.hudsonbooksellers.com/book/9780525559474?utm_source=prh&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_term=301&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780525559474&utm_campaign=9780525559474">Hudson Booksellers</a><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525559474?aff=penguinrandom">IndieBound</a><a href="http://www.powells.com/book/-9780525559474?utm_source=randomhouse&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780525559474">Powell's</a><a href="http://goto.target.com/c/128773/81938/2092?subId1=PRHD39095A662--9780525559474&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fs%3FsearchTerm%3D9780525559474">Target</a><a href="http://linksynergy.walmart.com/fs-bin/click?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&subid=0&offerid=183959.1&type=10&tmpid=273&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780525559474&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-ng.do%3F&RD_PARM2=search_query%3D9780525559474%2526ic%3D16_0%2526Find%3DFind%2526search_constraint%3D3920">Walmart</a><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1501107758?at=11l3IH&ct=PRHD39095A662--9780525559481">Apple Books</a><a href="https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011ld4r/pubref:PRHD39095A662--9780525559481/destination:https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9780525559481&c=books">Google Play Store</a><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/link?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&offerid=258185.12829781935712206&type=2&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780525559481}&murl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fsearch%3FQuery%3D9780525559481">Kobo</a>

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, read by Carey Mulligan

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