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Songs from Jane Austen's England, recorded in a drawing room not unlike the Bennet's. The Lonely Ash Grove, Ye Banks and Braes & Sally Gardens, performed by Alison Larkin.

Listen to Pride and Prejudice - the 200th Anniversary Audio Edition, Narrated by Alison Larkin at Audible: http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Pride-and-Prejudice-the-200th-Anniversary-Audio-Edition-Audiobook/B00GB8IMKU?source_code=SCLGB908FWS110413



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Songs from Jane Austen's England, recorded in a drawing room not unlike the Bennet's

An extract from this audio download from Ladybird - packed with all the popular nursery songs and rhymes that children tend to learn at nursery and school. Research has shown that parents often don't know the words to popular nursery songs so this is a great resources for both parents and nursery teachers.

Have fun learning the words and singing along to favourite songs such as Old MacDonald Had a Farm, Five Speckled Frogs,  The Wheels on the Bus, The House that Jack Built, Sleeping Bunnies, Wind the Bobbin Up and more.

Ladybird: I'm Ready to Sing! (Audiobook extract)

Family Life by Akhil Sharma on Audible:
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Hailed as a "supreme storyteller" (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" (The Nation). In his highly anticipated second novel, Family Life, he delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision.

We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978, where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across the world and join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more: When automatic glass doors open before them, they feel that surely they must have been mistaken for somebody important. Pressing an elevator button and the elevator closing its doors and rising, they have a feeling of power at the fact that the elevator is obeying them. Life is extraordinary until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother severely brain-damaged and the other lost and virtually orphaned in a strange land. Ajay, the family’s younger son, prays to a God he envisions as Superman, longing to find his place amid the ruins of his family’s new life.

Heart-wrenching and darkly funny, Family Life is a universal story of a boy torn between duty and his own survival.


Family Life by Akhil Sharma, Narrated by Vikas Adam

Akhil Sharma was born in New Delhi and emigrated to the US in the late 1970s. Having initially pursued a career in investment banking he came to prominence as a writer in 2001 with his debut novel, An Obedient Father, which won the Hemingway/PEN Award. And in 2007 he was named as one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. So expectations for what Akhil would do next have been high for some time. Family Life, mirroring events in Akhil's own life - his brother suffered a severe head injury and was left brain-damaged - has been a dozen years in the writing, has undergone many drafts and considerable pruning. But it's now with us and being rapturously received on both sides of the Atlantic. 

Akhil Sharma: Family Life

Listen to a specially curated collection of interviews and lectures by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, internationally renowned author and speaker in the fields of self-development and spiritual growth. He’s the author of over 40 books, has created many audio and video programs, and has appeared on thousands of television and radio shows.

His books "Manifest Your Destiny", "Wisdom of the Ages", "There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem", and the New York Times bestsellers "10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace", "The Power of Intention", "Inspiration", "Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life", "Excuses Begone!", "Wishes Fulfilled", and "I Can See Clearly Now" have all been featured as National Public Television specials.

To learn more about Wayne, visit his website at http://www.drwaynedyer.com
View http://www.hayhouse.com and Search "wayne dyer" to view and purchase books, eBooks, audio books, DVDs, and more by the "father of motivation."

The Importance of Being Extraordinary (excerpt) - Dr. Wayne Dyer with Eckhart Tolle

I Love How You Love Me: The Sullivans on Audible:
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I Love How You Love Me is Dylan Sullivan's story in Bella Andre's New York Times best-selling contemporary romance series about The Sullivans. 

I Love How You Love Me: The Sullivans by Bella Andre, Narrated by Eva Kaminsky

MORE THAN 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE FIFTY SHADES OF GREY IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.&#160; &#160; But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist.&#160;They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven and demanding Fifty Shades. &#160; While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her, and make the most important decision of her life. This book is intended for mature audiences.&#160; Available for purchase at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385360177?tag=pgus-20">Amazon - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?ISBSRC=Y&ISBN=9780385360173&cm_mmc=Random%20House-_Fifty+Shades+Darker-CD-1-9780385360173-_-Fifty+Shades+Darker-CD-1-9780385360173-_-Fifty+Shades+Darker">Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2665379-10876509?SID=Fifty+Shades+Darker-CD-1-9780385360173&url=http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Fifty+Shades+Darker/E+L+James/9780385360173">Books A Million - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385360173?aff=PenguinGroupUS">IndieBound - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780385360173?utm_source=randomhouse&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=Fifty+Shades+Darker-CD-1-9780385360173">Powell's - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://linksynergy.walmart.com/fs-bin/click?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&subid=&offerid=183959.1&type=10&tmpid=273&u1=Fifty+Shades+Darker-CD-1-9780385360173&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-ng.do%3F&RD_PARM2=search_query%3D9780385360173%2526ic%3D16_0%2526Find%3DFind%2526search_constraint%3D3920">Walmart - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearch?term=Fifty+Shades+Darker&entity=audiobook&at=11l3IH&ct=Fifty+Shades+Darker-DN-1-9780449808184">Apple - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.qksrv.net/click-2665379-10273919?url=http://www.audible.com/search?advsearchKeywords=Fifty+Shades+Darker+E+L+James&source_code=COMA0213WS031709&SID=Fifty+Shades+Darker-DN-1-9780449808184">Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2665379-11117375?SID=Fifty+Shades+Darker-DN-1-9780449808184&url=http://www.audiobooks.com/search/book/Fifty+Shades+Darker">audiobooks.com - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.downpour.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Fifty+Shades+Darker">downpour - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.qksrv.net/click-2665379-10273919?SID=Fifty+Shades+Darker-DN-1-9780449808184&url=http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/search/book/Fifty+Shades+Darker">eMusic - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a>

Fifty Shades Darker by E L James, read by Becca Battoe

The actress and author of the New York Times bestseller Down Came the Rain, Brooke Shields, explores her relationship with her unforgettable mother, Teri, in her new memoir Brooke Shields never had what anyone would consider an ordinary life. She was raised by her Newark-tough single mom, Teri, a woman who loved the world of show business and was often a media sensation all by herself. Brooke's iconic modeling career began by chance when she was only eleven months old, and Teri's skills as both Brooke's mother and her manager were formidable. But in private she was troubled and drank heavily. As Brooke became an adult the pair made choices and sacrifices that would affect their relationship forever. And when Brooke&#8217;s own daughters were born she found that her experience as a mother was shaped in every way by the woman who raised her. But despite the many ups and downs, Brooke was by Teri&#8217;s side when she died in 2012, a loving daughter until the end. Only Brooke knows the truth of the remarkable, difficult, complicated woman who was her mother. And now, in an honest, open memoir about her life growing up, Brooke will reveal stories and feelings that are relatable to anyone who has been a mother or daughter. Available for purchase at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611763851?tag=randohouseinc7911-20">Amazon - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&subid=&offerid=239662.1&type=10&tmpid=8433&u1=PRHD39095A662--9781611763850&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%252Fean%252F9781611763850">Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2665379-10876509?SID=PRHD39095A662--9781611763850&url=http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9781611763850">Books A Million - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781611763850?aff=PenguinGroupUS">IndieBound - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781611763850?utm_source=randomhouse&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9781611763850">Powell's - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://linksynergy.walmart.com/fs-bin/click?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&subid=&offerid=183959.1&type=10&tmpid=273&u1=PRHD39095A662--9781611763850&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-ng.do%3F&RD_PARM2=search_query%3D9781611763850%2526ic%3D16_0%2526Find%3DFind%2526search_constraint%3D3920">Walmart - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearch?term=There+Was+a+Little+Girl&entity=audiobook&at=11l3IH&ct=PRHD39095A662--9780698190344">Apple - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9780698186231&c=books">Google Play Store</a><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/link?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&offerid=258185.12829781935712206&type=2&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780698186231&murl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobobooks.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.html%3Fq%3D9780698186231">Kobo</a><a href="http://www.qksrv.net/click-2665379-10273919?url=http://www.audible.com/search?advsearchKeywords=There+Was+a+Little+Girl+Brooke+Shields&source_code=COMA0213WS031709&SID=PRHD39095A662--9780698190344">Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2665379-11117375?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780698190344&url=http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/9780698190344">audiobooks.com - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.downpour.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=9780698190344">downpour - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.qksrv.net/click-2665379-10273919?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780698190344&url=http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/search/book/There+Was+a+Little+Girl">eMusic - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a>

There Was a Little Girl by Brooke Shields, read by Brooke Shields

A download of guided meditations aimed to complement the learnings found in Prof Mark William's and Dr Danny Penman's guide to freeing yourself from the stresses of everyday life. Containing all the meditations that are mentioned in the book this is an invaluable resource to cement their teachings on how to find Mindfulness, and how to keep it.

Mindfulness - Finding Peace In A Frantic World - Guided Meditations

Meditation One: Mindfulness Of Body And Breath

Turkey's leading female novelist Elif Shafak discusses her novel The Forty Rules of Love.

The novel is about finding love and is written in two strands. One is the friendship between a whirling dervish and the Sufi poet Rumi in 13th century Anatolia; the other is about a mother in contemporary America who finds inspiration in the historical story to break away from an unhappy life.

Amazingly, Elif wrote the book in English, which she first learnt at the age of ten. She then worked with professional translators to write it again in Turkish.

Elif Shafak explains the importance of Sufi mysticism in the novel and in her life. She talks about the influence of her grandmother's superstitions, about the transformation of modern Turkey and how she was prosecuted - and acquitted - in 2006 for 'denigrating Turkish national identity' because of her writing.

First published in 2010, The Forty Rules of Love has now been translated into over 30 languages.

James Naughtie presents and a group of readers ask the questions.


May's Bookclub choice : Ice by Gillian Clarke

Producer : Dymphna Flynn. Published on April 7, 2013.

Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love

One woman's candid descent and triumphant emergence from baby-induced marital distress - with life-changing suggestions on enjoying parenthood as a couple

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One woman's candid descent and triumphant emergence from baby-induced marital distress - with life-changing suggestions on enjoying parenthood as a couple

How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids tackles the last taboo subject of parenthood: the startling, white-hot fury that new (and not-so-new) mothers often have for their mates. After Jancee Dunn had her baby, she found that she was doing virtually all the household chores, even though she and her husband worked equal hours. She asked herself: How did I become the 'expert' at changing a diaper?
 
Many expectant parents spend weeks researching the best crib or safest car seat, but spend little if any time thinking about the titanic impact the baby will have on their marriage - and the way their marriage will affect their child. 

Enter Jancee, her well-meaning but blithely unhelpful husband, their daughter, and her boisterous extended family, who show us the ways in which outmoded family patterns and traditions thwart the overworked, overloaded parents of today. 

On the brink of marital Armageddon, Dunn plunges into the latest relationship research, solicits the counsel of the country's most renowned couples' and sex therapists, canvasses fellow parents, and even consults an FBI hostage negotiator on how to effectively contain an "explosive situation." Instead of having the same fights over and over, Dunn and her husband must figure out a way to resolve their larger issues and fix their family while there is still time. In an exhilarating twist, they work together to save the day, happily returning to the kind of peaceful life they previously thought was the sole province of couples without children.  Inside each new parent's household is not only a new baby, but a brand new relationship-one that also takes care and perspective to nurture and get right.  

Part memoir, part self-help book with actionable and achievable advice, How Not To Hate Your Husband After Kids is an eye-opening look at how the man who got you into this position in this first place is the ally you didn't know you had.  

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HOW NOT TO HATE YOUR HUSBAND AFTER KIDS by Jancee Dunn Read by the Author - Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt of André Aciman's CALL ME BY YOUR NAME audiobook, read by Armie Hammer. 

Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and produced by the Academy Award winning producer of A Room with a View 

Celebrate the ten-year anniversary of André Aciman's tempestuous novel with a dynamic new audiobook, read by Armie Hammer

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

A Washington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year

A New York Magazine "Future Canon" Selection

A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year

One of The Seattle Times' Michael Upchurch's Favorite Books of the Year

Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. André Aciman's critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.

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Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman, read by Armie Hammer

Available in audio first, a gripping, exquisitely romantic new stand-alone by New York Times best-selling author Mia Sheridan!

Dane was her first kiss and the only man she ever loved...until their marriage crashed and burned. Now Audra has built a quiet life for herself running a flower shop she's put her whole heart into. But Audra is left reeling when an unexpected circumstance brings Dane back into her world. He's still as breathtaking as he ever was, and he still affects her more than any man she's ever known. Yet learning to trust him again could be a matter of life and death....

When Dane offers to fly his ex-wife from California to Colorado to help correct a wrong, he never imagined the harrowing twist of fate awaiting them. When their plane goes down in the snowy mountain wilderness, Dane and Audra are stranded, with no one to turn to but each other. Will their second crash end their lives - or save their souls?

Dane's Storm by Mia Sheridan on Audible:
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Dane's Storm by Mia Sheridan, Narrated by Lance Greenfield and Erin Mallon

Inferno: Canto 1 by Dante Alighieri (female)

A new full-length novel in the Fixed series from New York Times best-selling author Laurelin Paige.

Hudson Pierce -

You act so high and mighty, you and your perfect pregnant wife Alayna. With your perfect child and your perfect home. You weren't always perfect. Your past is filled with misdeeds. Does your wife know all your secrets? Would she stand behind you if she did? You think because she's on bedrest you can protect her? How sweet. Sleep tight, you two.
- An Old Friend.

Final book in the Fixed series.

Book One: Fixed on You

Book Two: Found in You

Book Three: Forever with You

Book Four: Hudson

Book Five: Fixed Forever

Chandler, a stand-alone in the Fixed Universe, is also recommended but not necessary to enjoy this series finale.

Fixed Forever on Audible:
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Fixed Forever by Laurelin Paige, Narrated by Carly Robins and Jeremy York

Performed by Greg Boudreaux.

The camping trip from hell may be the first stop on the road to happily-ever-after in Rough Terrain, the final book in Annabeth Albert’s critically acclaimed, fan-favorite Out of Uniform series.

Navy SEAL Renzo Bianchi has a soft spot for Canaan Finley, and not only because the man makes a mean smoothie. He’s the first guy to get Renzo’s motor revving in a long time. But when he agrees to Canaan’s insane charade—one all-access fake boyfriend, coming right up—he never expects more than a fling.

Creating a hot Italian SEAL boyfriend to save face seemed like a good idea…until his friends called Canaan’s bluff. Now he’s setting off into the woods with the very man who inspired his deception, and Canaan is not the outdoorsy type. The sparks are already flying when a flash flood separates them from their group, leaving Renzo and Canaan very much trapped…very much alone in the wilderness.

Working together to come up with a plan for survival is sexier than either of them expects. But back in the real world, being a couple is bringing its own set of hazards…

Rough Terrain

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ROUGH TERRAIN by Annabeth Albert

At the year's end we chat with Robin Whitten, the editor and founder of AudioFIle Magazine, and one of the voices on their new audiobook review podcast "Behind The Mic."

We talk about starting AudioFile, the growth of the audiobook industry and where it will go int he future, and so much more.

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Robin Whitten and AudioFile's Best of 2018

From Audie Award winning, New York Times best-selling author Kylie Scott comes an irresistible new romance - available in audio first!

When a vicious attack leaves 25-year-old Clementine Johns with no memory, she’s forced to start over. Now she has to figure out who she was and why she made the choices she did - which includes leaving the supposed love of her life, tattoo artist Ed Larsen, only a month before.   

Ed can hardly believe it when his ex shows up at his tattoo parlor with no memory of their past, asking about the breakup that nearly destroyed him. The last thing he needs is more heartache, but he can’t seem to let her go again.

Should they walk away for good, or does their love deserve a repeat performance?

Repeat by Kylie Scott on Audible:
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Repeat by Kylie Scott, Narrated by Andi Arndt

In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien, Read by Rob Inglis

Steve Jobs Audiobook Excerpt by Walter Isaacson, read by Dylan Baker

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