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Why I Am a Buddhist: No-Nonsense Buddhism with Red Meat and Whiskey

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Stephen T. Asma
• Narrated By Tom Pile

There have been a lot of books that have made the case for Buddhism. What makes this book fresh and exciting is Asma's iconoclasm, irreverence, and hardheaded approach to the subject. He is distressed that much of what passes for Buddhism is really little more than "New Age mush." He loudly asserts that it is time to "take the California out of Buddhism." And he presents a spiritual practice that does not require a belief in creeds or dogma.

A Dirty Job

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Christopher Moore
• Narrated By Fisher Stevens
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People start dropping dead around Charlie, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death.

The Help

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Kathryn Stockett
• Narrated By Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Why we think it’s a great listen: The most celebrated performance in all of Audible’s history, The Help has nearly 2,000 5-star reviews from your fellow listeners. We hear the print book’s not bad, either. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another.

Letting Go, Moving On

• UNABRIDGED (59 mins)
• By Lucinda Drayton
• Narrated By Lucinda Drayton

This first installment in the simple truths series by Lucinda Drayton is an inspirational four-track meditation to help heal the pain of grief, divorce, and separation.

Lucinda is the singer of the well known band Bliss, and she has created this wonderful recording after her own personal experience of loss. It comes straight from her heart and was inspired by a year of huge changes and challenges.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Jonathan Safran Foer
• Narrated By Jeff Woodman, Barbara Caruso, Richard Ferrone

Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated, wowed critics on its way to winning several literary prizes, including Book of the Year honors from the Los Angeles Times. It has been published in 24 countries and will soon be a major motion picture. Foer's talent continues to shine in this sometimes hilarious and always heartfelt follow-up.

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Edith Hahn Beer, Susan Dworkin
• Narrated By Barbara Rosenblat

Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman, so she went underground.