Today’s Audible Daily Deal, Skepticism 101: How to Think like a Scientist (5/5 stars, priced at $3.95 TODAY ONLY), is a great pick for anyone who wants to learn how to think more critically. In today’s information age, where urban myths, scams and pseudoscience are supercharged by the power of the internet, it’s more important … Read more
Mycroft Holmes (4/5 stars) is today’s Audible Daily Deal, priced at $3.95 TODAY ONLY. From Amazon: A new novel written by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar! Fresh out of Cambridge University, the young Mycroft Holmes is already making a name for himself in government, working for the Secretary of State for War. Yet this most British … Read more
Bream Gives Me Hiccups, a short story collection written by actor Jesse Eisenberg and read by Eisenberg and others, is today’s Audible Daily Deal, priced at $1.95 TODAY ONLY. Note that while this audiobook only has a 3.5/5 star rating (across 45 reviews) on the Amazon site, on the Audible site its average review rating … Read more
Betty Friedan’s landmark feminist work The Feminine Mystique (4/5 stars) is available in Audible format for $4.95 TODAY ONLY, as an Audible Daily Deal. From Amazon: First published in 1963, The Feminine Mystique ignited a revolution that profoundly changed our culture, our consciousness, and our lives. Today it newly penetrates to the heart of issues … Read more
The literary bestseller The Perfect Son (4.5/5 stars) is featured in today’s Audible Daily Deal, priced at $3.95 TODAY ONLY. From Amazon: From a distance Felix Fitzwilliam, the son of an old English family, is a good husband and father. But, obsessed with order and routine, he’s a prisoner to perfection. Disengaged from the emotional … Read more
Today’s Audible Daily Deal features Flat Spin: A Cordell Logan Mystery, currently rated 4.5/5 stars and priced at $3.95 TODAY ONLY. From Amazon: The irresistible David Freed’s first mystery is a stay-up-late-to-finish thriller. Based in sunny Rancho Bonita – “California’s Monaco”, as the city’s moneyed minions like to call it – Cordell Logan is a … Read more
In this pastiche of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and bone-dry humor, proper etiquette and procedure are the axles on which galactic events turn. Master of Formalities (4.5/5 stars, priced at $2.95 TODAY ONLY) Even when finding oneself engaged in interstellar war, good form must be observed. Our story is set thousands of years after the Terran Exodus, … Read more
Today’s Audible Daily Deal features a classic work of feminist thought. A Room of One’s Own (4.5/5 stars, priced at $1.95 TODAY ONLY) Narrated by actress Juliet Stevenson. Essay by Virginia Woolf, published in 1929. The work was based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, Cambridge. … Read more