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Last-Minute Summer Reading

Oh no, did you wait too long to begin your foray into summer reading, and now a new school year is breathing its heated breath upon your neck as your breath is stuttered in terror? Or maybe you’re a parent of just such a shirker of literary responsibility and seek …

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New Audio Listens for August 

As we reach the other side of yet another season full of audiobook listening – we are not quite done yet. Check out some of these new summer audio arrivals that will perfectly wrap up your road trips, pool-side days, and long flights home.  Where Dogs Bark with Their Tails …

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Book to Screen Adaptations: Audiobook Edition 

One of the most controversial topics known to humankind: which was better – the book or the movie? Well, today we don’t have to answer that question, but we can talk about the audiobooks that have their very own big-screen adaptations.  Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney  With Sally Rooney …

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New Season New You

*insert obvious metaphor of springtime blossoms mirroring your own aspirations of personal development in this new season of growth* Let’s self-help this mess! Will – Will Smith You’d never know it by his winsome persona (Oscar scuffles notwithstanding) but early in his life Smith struggled with anxiety more than most …

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Philippa Gregory: The Queen of Historical Fiction

We’re not sure about you, but when we think about Tudor England, we conjure visions of huge foreheads, strange dress collars, and a really creepy poem as a means of remembering the order of King Henry VIII’s wives- “divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived”. You’re welcome.  Being that it’s so …

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Boss Up Your Life

The days of cold calling on sales leads in a 3 piece suit are over in terms of establishing yourself in the business world. Now, more than ever, people are branching out and deciding what running a business looks like for them. But between advice from “solopreneurs” and the unrelenting …

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Books that Inspired Musicals

Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux Pretty orphan Christine is raised in an opera house in Paris since her father worked there and apparently, there were no child custody laws back in the day. There also wasn’t any adult supervision since from her childhood on she receives singing lessons …

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Spring Break Listens

Shout out to springtime! Every year we trudge through February, our hope as low as our vitamin D stores only to stumble into the remembrance that things begin anew! But then, just as soon as we begin to feel the stirrings of serotonin, we encounter spring break. Visions of clawing …

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