StomperMobile – Free Mobile Social Media Webinar

I’ve always thought that podcasting’s biggest moment would come when smart mobile phones like the iPhone become widespread. That day seems to be getting bigger and bigger. As a result, I’ve been on the lookout for information about how to be successful with mobile social media and mobile marketing.

I received a notice this morning about a free webinar on Mobile Social Media and Mobile Marketing that will be held Tonight at 8pm Eastern – 5PM pacific. That is Tuesday, March 9 at 8pm Eastern.

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This one should be pretty cool because the guest will be Dan Hollings. This guy knows a LOT about internet marketing but has been testing and tweaking new MOBILE marketing strategies for months now.

Dan says the the biggest misconception most people have is that they think Mobile Marketing is just Internet Marketing on a smaller screen.

You really should join Dan and Brad Fallon Tuesday night on the call and they’ll give you some great new mobile strategies and tactics you’ll be able to use right off the bat.

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J.D. Robb’s Fantasy in Death – This Week’s Best Selling Audiobook

This week J.D. Robb’s Fantasy in Death is this week’s best selling audiobook. Robb’s Big Jack audiobook also hits the list at number 16.

My personal recommendation is at number 15. The audiobook is Switch, which focuses on why change is hard. I’m just finishing the authors previous audiobook, Made to Stick, which deals with why some ideas stick and other don’t. If you like Gladwell, these two are worth checking out.

Hope you find something you enjoy.

1. Fantasy in Death: In Death, Book 30 (Unabridged) by J. D. Robb
Summary: Bart Minnock, founder of the computer gaming giant U-Play, enters his private playroom, and eagerly can’t wait to lose himself in an imaginary world, to play the role of a sword-wielding warrior king, in his company’s latest top-secret project, Fantastical. The next morning, he is found in the same locked room, in a pool of blood, his head separated from his body. It is the most puzzling case Eve Dallas has ever faced, and it is not a game. Lt. Eve Dallas is having as much trouble figuring…
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2. The Broken Teaglass (Unabridged) by Emily Arsenault
Summary: The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher, a hidden cache of coded clues, a story written by a phantom author, an unsolved murder in a gritty urban park. All collide memorably in Emily Arsenault’s magnificent debut, at once a teasing literary puzzle, an ingenious suspense novel, and an exploration of definitions: of words, of who we are, and of the stories we choose to define us. In the maze of cubicles at Samuelson Company, editors toil away in silence, studying the English langu…

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3. House Rules (Unabridged) by Jodi Picoult
Summary: They tell me I’m lucky to have a son who’s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there’s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn’t know how. Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with …
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4. The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett
Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…
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5. Shutter Island (Unabridged) by Dennis Lehane
Summary: Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe’s radical approach to psychiatry; an approach that may include drug experimentat…
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6. The Man from Beijing (Unabridged) by Henning Mankell
Summary: The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller. January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjvallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andrns, are among the victims, and Birgitta soon learns that an Andrn family in Nevada has also been murdered. She then discov…
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7. Black Magic Sanction: Rachel Morgan, Book 8 (Unabridged) by Kim Harrison
Summary: In New York Times best-selling author Kim Harrison’s most complex and nuanced adventure yet, bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan fights a deadly battle – mind, body, and soul. Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves, banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunter – and lived to tell the tale. But she’s never faced off against her own kind, until now. Denounced and shunned for dealing with demons and black magic, her best hope is life i…

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8. Worst Case (Unabridged) by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
Summary: One by one, children of New York’s wealthiest are taken hostage. But the criminal doesn’t crave money or power – he only wants to ask the elite if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. And, if they don’t, he corrects their ignorance – by killing them. To Detective Michael Bennett, it becomes clear that these murders are linked and must be part of a greater, more public demonstration. With the city thrown into chaos, he is forced to team up with FBI agent Emily Parke…
Click to hear an audio sample of Worst Case (Unabridged) audiobook…

9. The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1 (Unabridged) by Rick Riordan
Summary: Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school…again. No matter how hard he tries, he can’t seem to stay out of trouble. But can he really be expected to stand by and watch while a bully picks on his scrawny best friend? Or not defend himself against his pre-algebra teacher when she turns into a monster and tries to kill him? Of course, no one believes Percy about the monster incident; he’s not even sure he believes himself. Until the Minotaur chases him to summe…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1 (Unabridged) audiobook…

10. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) by Stephen King
Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

Click to hear an audio sample of Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

11. Split Image (Unabridged) by Robert B. Parker
Summary: The body in the trunk was just the beginning. Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable "retirement" with his beautiful wife, Rebecca, in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife, Robbie, who also happens to be Rebecca’s twin. But what initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Stressed by the case, his faile…
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12. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Unabridged) by Jack Weatherford
Summary: The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the…
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13. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Unabridged) by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
Summary: "This shit would be really interesting if we weren’t in the middle of it."–Barack Obama, September 2008 In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama…. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton – and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama’s partner and America’s face to the world…. The mercurial p…

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14. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) by Dan Brown
Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…
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15. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Unabridged) by Dan Heath, Chip Heath
Summary: Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict thats built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed best seller Made to Stick . Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems, the rational mind and the emotional mind, that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The …
Click to hear an audio sample of Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Unabridged) audiobook…

16. Big Jack (Unabridged) by J. D. Robb
Summary: In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist…someone who’s willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is used to travelling in the shadowy corners outside the law. And in a future where crime meets cutting-edge technology, she will attempt to track down the diamonds once and for all – and stop the danger and death that have surrounded them for years.
Click to hear an audio sample of Big Jack (Unabridged) audiobook…

17. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson
Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…
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18. UR (Unabridged) by Stephen King
Summary: Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology, which made Cell a number-one best seller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR , in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds. Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book lover Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend’s parting shot: "Why can’t you just read off the computer like everyone else?" He buys an e-book reader out of spite, but soon finds…
Click to hear an audio sample of UR (Unabridged) audiobook…

19. No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller (Unabridged) by Harry Markopolos
Summary: No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller is exactly what the title promises. This is more than another book about the Bernie Madoff scandal, this is a fast-paced, blow-by-blow, true-crime story that you have to hear to believe. In a true David and Goliath tale, the underdog number cruncher uncovers the largest financial fraud in history, and has to fight everything and everyone in the system to bring it down. Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths tell first-hand how they…

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20. The Sea of Monsters: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2 (Unabridged) by Rick Riordan
Summary: After a summer spent trying to prevent a catastrophic war among the Greek gods, Percy Jackson finds his seventh-grade school year unnervingly quiet. His biggest problem is dealing with his new friend, Tyson, a six-foot-three, mentally challenged homeless kid who follows Percy everywhere, making it hard for Percy to have any "normal" friends.
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Audiobooks for iPod and iPhones

Listening to audiobooks for iPods is one of the best ways to make a commute or an exercise session much more fun and productive. The iPod and it’s sister the iPhone play audiobooks in addition to music and video. And I find that audiobooks for iPods really enhance the original book by turning it into a performance that can packed with more excitment and emotion than the book by itself. For non-fiction, I especially like it when the author reads the book and adds in some off script narrative, as Gary Vanerchuck does in his Crush It audiobook. On the fiction side, you want the best narrator you can find to bring the story to life.

If you want to buy audiobooks for ipod, I recommend shopping at my audiobooks for iPod store called Castlibrary.com. Castlibrary works in partnership with Audible (a division of Amazon) and Ingram Books to provide the widest selection of audiobooks for iPod and iPhones possible. I also have an audiobooks for iPod store for the UK and can also point you to audiobook stores for Germany and France. And you can also buy them from iTunes, but I find that you can get better deals on audiobooks from Castlibrary.

In addition, Digital Podcast lists about 2,000 free audiobooks for ipod, iPhone and MP3 players in our downloadable audiobook section. These audiobooks have been organized into podcasts so you can subscribe to them as podcasts.

You can also buy audiobooks on CD, and then import them into iTunes and then listen to them via your iPod. The process works like importing music from a music CD. However, if you get your audiobooks from Castlibrary the process is almost automatic, with the books forming one or two files that are easily navigated using your iPod music menu.

Options for Buying Audiobooks for iPod

Buying a single audiobook is expensive. Some audiobooks, like the Harry Potter books, can go for as much as $50-60 per audiobook. Fortunately, there is a better option called a subscription plan. The deal that Castlibrary has with Audible allows you to start getting audiobooks for only $7.49. Talk about great savings. The way it works is that you pay the $7.49 and get one credit for an audiobook. You can then exchange the credit for one of the audiobooks in the library and the audiobook you download is yours to keep, even if you decide to cancel. If you want more, the next two months are only $7.49 per month for 2 more audiobooks. After that the price goes up to about $15 per month, still a fantastic deal compared to the full price of audiobooks and you can cancel anytime you want with no further payments. And yes, you get to keep the audiobooks you download.

On the other hand, if a subscription is not for you and you want to buy a single audiobook, I suggest checking both Castlibrary and iTunes to find the best deal. Just remember, that for the price of one audiobook you could have received 2-3 audiobooks for your iPod via the subscription service.

CastLibrary’s audiobooks for iPod, iPhone and MP3 players are easily searchable and organized by tags, best sellers and new audiobooks. If find the tags and best seller lists to be great ways to find new audiobooks for my iPod. If I know what I want, I just use the easy search feature to find the audiobook for iPod.

Here’s a video I made showing how to find an audiobook, download it and get it onto to your iPod.

The subscription service has a big advantage over the iTunes Music Store, because you can re-download the audiobook if you lose it. The subscription service keeps a library of books you buy and you can download them again if needed. With iTunes, you need to be careful to make a backup.

If you want to buy an audiobook for your ipod on iTunes, then you can find them in the iTunes Music Store.

At the time I write this post, you can find a link to audiobooks in the banner in the iTunes Music Store next to the Podcast link. It seems to move around over time so you may need to hunt it down to find them.

Listening to your Audiobook on Your iPod

Both services format the audiobooks for iPod and iPhones and make then easy to navigate and re-start via automatic bookmarking of an audiobook made for iPods. You can listen, stop it, and come back later to the same place to re-start the audio. It’s a real nice feature of audiobooks for iPod.

The bookmarks are also included when you sync your iPod with iTunes, which means that you can listen to the audiobook on your PC just like on your iPod.

After you sync up your iPod and iTunes, if the audiobooks are made for iPods you can find the audiobooks in the Audiobook section of the Music menu, if not then you will have to search for them via artist or song title.

The audiobooks for iPod play like music files and if you want you can even speed them up.

In all, I recommend getting audiobooks that are designed for your iPod or iPhone, as you will get to experience audiobooks for iPod the way they were meant to be played.

Conspirata Audiobook-This Week’s Best Selling Audiobook

1. Conspirata: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Unabridged) by Robert Harris
Summary: On the eve of Marcus Cicero’s inauguration as consul of Rome, the grisly death of a boy sends ripples of fear through a city already wracked by civil unrest, crime, and debauchery of every kind. Felled by a hammer, his throat slit and his organs removed, the young slave appears to have been offered as a human sacrifice, forbidden as an abomination in the Roman Republic. For Cicero, the ill forebodings of this hideous murder only increase his frustrations and the dangers he already faces as …
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2. Worst Case (Unabridged) by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
Summary: One by one, children of New York’s wealthiest are taken hostage. But the criminal doesn’t crave money or power – he only wants to ask the elite if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. And, if they don’t, he corrects their ignorance – by killing them. To Detective Michael Bennett, it becomes clear that these murders are linked and must be part of a greater, more public demonstration. With the city thrown into chaos, he is forced to team up with FBI agent Emily Parke…

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3. Killing Floor (Unabridged) by Lee Child
Summary: All is not well in Margrave, Georgia. The sleepy, forgotten town hasn’t seen a crime in decades, but within the span of three days it witnesses events that leave everyone stunned. An unidentified man is found beaten and shot to death on a lonely country road. The police chief and his wife are butchered on a quiet Sunday morning. Then a bank executive disappears from his home, leaving his keys on the table and his wife frozen with fear. The easiest suspect is Jack Reacher – an outsider, a man …
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4. Outlander (Unabridged) by Diana Gabaldon
Summary: This stunning blend of historical romance and time traveling adventure has captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world and catapulted author Diana Gabaldon to the top of the New York Times best seller list. Outlander introduces an exhilarating world of heroism and breathtaking thrills as one woman is torn between past and present, passion and love. In 1945, former combat nurse Claire Randall returns from World War II and joins her husband for a second honeymoon. Their blis…
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5. The Black Echo: Harry Bosch, Book 1 (Unabridged) by Michael Connelly
Summary: For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch – hero, maverick, nighthawk – the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal. The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell. Now, Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city to the torturous link that…

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6. River God: A Novel of Ancient Egypt (Unabridged) by Wilbur Smith
Summary: Ancient Egypt. Land of the Pharaohs. A kingdom built on gold. A legend shattered by greed. Now the Valley of Kings lies ravaged by war, drained of its lifeblood, as weak men inherit the cherished crown. On the eve of the festival of Osiris, the loyal subjects of the Pharaoh gather in Thebes to pay tribute to their leader. Exploding with all the passion and rage of a bygone time, River God is a masterpiece of historical writing.
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7. The Camel Club (Unabridged) by David Baldacci
Summary: It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country’s actions. One man leads this aging, ragtag crew. He has no known past and has taken the name "Oliver Stone". Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government, hoping to discover some truth that will hold America’s…
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8. Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, Book 1 (Unabridged) by Charlaine Harris

Summary: Though a small town at heart, Lawrenceton, Georgia, has its dark side – and its crime buffs. One of them is librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, a member of the Real Murders Club, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It’s a harmless pastime – until the night she finds a member killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. As other brutal "copycat" killings follow, Roe will have to uncover the person behind the terrifying game, one that casts all…
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9. The Modern Scholar: The Anglo-Saxon World by Prof. Michael D. C. Drout

Summary: Had the Angles and Saxons not purposefully migrated to the isles of the Britons and brought with them their already-well-developed use of language, Angelina Jolie may never have appeared in the movie Beowulf . Professor Michael D.C. Drout is at his best when lecturing on the fascinating history, language, and societal adaptations of the Anglo-Saxons. He not only presents their storytelling abilities using their own words; he does so in their own voice – the incredibly melodious Old English.
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10. The Hunger Games (Unabridged) by Suzanne Collins
Summary: Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don’t live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by 12 outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who l…
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11. Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Unabridged) by Jeff Lindsay
Summary: Jeff Lindsay is one of the most exciting voices to explode onto the literary scene in quite some time. From his boundless imagination comes the tale of a serial killer like no other, hailed by Booklist in a starred review as "one of the genre’s most original, compelling characters to appear in years". Dexter Morgan appears to be the perfect gentleman. He is handsome and polite, and has been in a relationship for nearly a year and a half. Yet appearances can be deceiving, for Dexter is a ser…
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12. Rain Fall: John Rain Thrillers (Unabridged) by Barry Eisler

Summary: Meet John Rain. Assassin. He follows his own code – he needs no one, trusts no one – until betrayal transforms him from hunter into hunted and loner into loyal friend. Haunted by the past, Rain kills to order and leaves no trace, but the death at his hand of an old man has unforeseen complications – and soon Rain is trying to protect not just his carefully preserved anonymity but his own life and those of the people he cares for. A stunning, page-turning reinvention of the hitman thriller, R…
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13. Destroyermen: Into the Storm, Book I (Unabridged) by Taylor Anderson
Summary: Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker—a Great-War vintage "four-stacker" destroyer—finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, knows that he and his crew are in dire straits. In desperation, he heads Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover—and emerges somewhere else. Familiar landmarks appear, but the water teems with monstrous, vicious fish. And there …

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14. The Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery (Unabridged) by Craig Johnson
Summary: Award-winning author Craig Johnson’s critically acclaimed debut Western mystery takes listeners to the breathtaking mountains of Wyoming for a tale of cold-blooded vengeance. Two years earlier, four high-school boys were given suspended sentences for raping a Cheyenne girl. Now, two of the boys have been killed, and only Sheriff Walt Longmire can keep the other two safe.
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15. Mistress of Magic: The Mists of Avalon: Book 1 (Unabridged) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Summary: In the tradition of T. H. White’s The Once and Future King , the author makes use of the prerequisites of the Arthurian legend: Excalibur, the Holy Grail, Lancelet’s illicit love for Gwenhwyfar, the destruction of Camelot, but with a twist – she presents the entire panoramic story from the female point of view. No passive by-standers, these earthy priestesses from Avalon literally breathe life into a musty, oft-told tale. In Book One: Mistress of Magic , the Lady of the Lake – Viviane – br…
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16. Kitty and The Midnight Hour: Kitty Norville, Book 1 (Unabridged) by Carrie Vaughn
Summary: Kitty Norville is a midnight-shift DJ for a Denver radio station—and a werewolf in the closet. Sick of lame song requests, she accidentally starts "The Midnight Hour," a late-night advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. After desperate vampires, werewolves, and witches across the country begin calling in to share their woes, her new show is a raging success. But it’s Kitty who can use some help. With one sexy werewolf hunter and a few homicidal undead on her tail, Kitty may have …

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17. Red Hot Lies (Unabridged) by Laura Caldwell
Summary: "Usually I pride myself on my intuition. I listen to that voice that says, ‘Something bad is happening…’ or maybe ‘Get out. Now.’ But on that Tuesday at the end of October, my psyche must have been protecting the one remaining day I still believed life was orderly and the universe liked me. Because I didn’t hear that voice. I never saw it coming." They say bad things happen in threes. When her fiance, Sam, disappears on the same day her mentor and biggest client is killed, hotshot Chicago a…
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18. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) by Stephen King
Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…
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19. Until Proven Guilty: J.P. Beaumont Series, Book 1 (Unabridged) by J. A. Jance
Summary: The little girl was found murdered, her pink nightgown twisted around her throat. She was only five. The woman who came to the funeral to throw a single rose on the coffin was very much alive, and beautiful. The kind of beautiful that homicide detective J. P. Beaumont couldn’t resist. But lurking in the dark corners of this bizarre case was not just a demented mind obsessed with murder, but secrets so deadly, so close to Beaumont’s own life, that even a street tough cop could die guessing at …
Click to hear an audio sample of Until Proven Guilty: J.P. Beaumont Series, Book 1 (Unabridged) audiobook…

20. The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett
Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Help (Unabridged) audiobook…

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Meetup – Podcasting 101: For Beginners

If you’re in the Long Beach, CA area LBPodcasters.com will be meeting at the GoCatalyst.org (Catalyst Community) space for a FREE seminar on starting a podcast!

ABOUT THE MEETUP:

February 17, 2010 – 7PM at GoCatalyst.org, 430 E. First Street, Long Beach, CA

Creating a podcast is an effective way of communicating your organizations and personal opinions to a large audience. In this meetup podcasting expert, Alex Nesbitt (publisher of DigitalPodcast.com) will detail how to produce your podcast, as well as the numerous techniques you can employ at each stage of production to get your podcast to as many people as possible. We will also detail best practices for marketing and outreach for your podcast giving you optimal visibility online.

Top 5 Things You’ll Learn:

1. Types of podcast and which will best suit your needs
2. Types of platforms and how to use them
3. Best practices for creating and maintaining your podcast
4. Ways to get your podcast noticed
5. Search Engine Optimization for the podcasting community

Event should run 60-90mins.

About The Presenter

Speaker: Alex Nesbitt, Publisher of DigitalPodcast.com. Alex started Digital Podcast in 2004 at the birth of podcasting. With more that 100,000 visitors each month, Digital Podcast is now one of the leading podcast directories. Digital Podcast also powers 500,000 podcast searches each month on Nokia phones and other web sites. In addition to publishing Digital Podcast, Alex actively advises companies in the social and new media value chain who need to more successfully monetize their businesses. He focuses on turning communities into economies, engaging and activating super fans and on the advertising supply chain.

Game Change – This Week’s Best Selling Audiobook

This Week in Audio Books – This Week’s Best Sellers

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1. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Unabridged) audiobook by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Summary: "This shit would be really interesting if we weren’t in the middle of it."–Barack Obama, September 2008 In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction. The meteoric rise and historic triumph of Barack Obama…. The shocking fall of the House of Clinton – and the improbable resurrection of Hillary as Obama’s partner and America’s face to the world…. The mercurial p…
Click to hear an audio sample of Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Unabridged) audiobook…

2. The First Rule (Unabridged) by Robert Crais
Summary: The organized criminal gangs of the former Soviet Union are bound by what they call the thieves’ code. The first rule is this: A thief must forsake his mother, father, brothers, and sisters. He must have no family – no wife, no children – because only other criminals are his family. If any of the rules are broken, it is punishable by death. Frank Meyer had the American dream – a wife and family he adored, a successful business – until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdere…
Click to hear an audio sample of The First Rule (Unabridged) audiobook…

3. The Swan Thieves (Unabridged) by Elizabeth Kostova
Summary: Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life–solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. In response, Marlowe finds himself going beyond his own legal and ethical boundaries to understand the secret that torments this genius, a journey that will lead him into the lives of the women closest to Robert Ol…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Swan Thieves (Unabridged) audiobook…

4. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) by Stephen King
Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

Click to hear an audio sample of Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

5. The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett
Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Help (Unabridged) audiobook…

6. Impact (Unabridged) by Douglas Preston
Summary: Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater. A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the data missing. High resolution NASA images reveal an…
Click to hear an audio sample of Impact (Unabridged) audiobook…

7. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) by Dan Brown
Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) audiobook…

8. I, Alex Cross (Unabridged) by James Patterson
Summary: Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington’s wildest scenes. And she was not this killer’s only victim. The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. Alex and Bree are soon facing down …
Click to hear an audio sample of I, Alex Cross (Unabridged) audiobook…

9. Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion (Unabridged) by Gary Vaynerchuk
Summary: Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that passion and make a living doing what you love. In Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion , Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses. Gary spent years building his family business from a local wine shop into a national industry leader. Then one day he turned on a video …

Click to hear an audio sample of Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion (Unabridged) audiobook…

10. Flip It: How to Get the Best Out of Everything (Unabridged) by Michael Heppell
Summary: It seems we’re all growing more negative. Bad news on the TV and in the papers makes us all feel fed up, and we find it easier to talk about what’s wrong instead of looking for what’s good. But imagine knowing a simple trick that you could use to help you feel better about everything. No matter how bad, how upsetting, how annoying or how frustrating the situation, wouldn’t it be great if you had the power to take it on and make it better? Well, that simple trick does exist, and it’s time t…
Click to hear an audio sample of Flip It: How to Get the Best Out of Everything (Unabridged) audiobook…

11. U Is for Undertow: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (Unabridged) by Sue Grafton
Summary: Calling T is for Trespass "taut, terrifying, transfixing and terrific", USA Today went on to ask, "What does it take to write 20 novels about the same character and manage to create a fresh, genre-bending novel every time?" It’s a question worth pondering. Through 20 excursions into the dark side of the human soul, Sue Grafton has never written the same book twice. And so it is with this, her 21st. Once again, she breaks genre formulas, giving us a twisting, complex, surprise-filled, and …
Click to hear an audio sample of U Is for Undertow: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (Unabridged) audiobook…

12. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Unabridged) by Malcolm Gladwell

Summary: Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In The New Yorker, his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers significantly more money for ads that run within his articles. With his #1 best sellers, The Tipping Point , Blink and Outliers , he has reached millions of readers. And now the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in a brilliant and provocative anthology. Among th…
Click to hear an audio sample of What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Unabridged) audiobook…

13. Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (Unabridged) by Elizabeth Gilbert
Summary: At the end of her best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love , Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous horrific divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government, which -…
Click to hear an audio sample of Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (Unabridged) audiobook…

14. Deeper Than the Dead (Unabridged) by Tami Hoag
Summary: Tami Hoag is in a class by herself, beloved by readers and critic s alike, with more than 22 million copies of her books in print. With Hoag’s first novel for Dutton, she proves anew why the Chicago Tribune called her "one of the most intense suspense writers around." California, 1984. Three children, running in the woods behind their school, stumble upon a partially buried female body, eyes and mouth glued shut. Close behind the children is their teacher, Anne Navarre, shocked by this di…
Click to hear an audio sample of Deeper Than the Dead (Unabridged) audiobook…

15. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson
Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…
Click to hear an audio sample of The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) audiobook…

16. The Lovely Bones (Unabridged) by Alice Sebold
Summary: Now read by the author, this edition also includes an interview with Alice Sebold and the first chapter of her new book, The Almost Moon . When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public-service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed things like that didn’t happen. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of he…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Lovely Bones (Unabridged) audiobook…

17. Freedom (TM) (Unabridged) by Daniel Suarez
Summary: Here is the propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times best seller Daemon . In one of the most buzzed-about debuts of 2009, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an insidious computer program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured the attention of the tech community, became a New York Times and Indie best seller, and left readers hungry for more. Well, more is here, and it’s even more gripping than i…
Click to hear an audio sample of Freedom (TM) (Unabridged) audiobook…

18. Pirate Latitudes (Unabridged) by Michael Crichton
Summary: From one of the best-loved authors of all time comes an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal. The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there’s a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease – or by dagg…
Click to hear an audio sample of Pirate Latitudes (Unabridged) audiobook…

19. Daemon (Unabridged) by Daniel Suarez
Summary: Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can’t always be said for the pe…
Click to hear an audio sample of Daemon (Unabridged) audiobook…

20. Lucifer’s Hammer (Unabridged) by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Summary: The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival – a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known….
Click to hear an audio sample of Lucifer’s Hammer (Unabridged) audiobook…

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Intel Ad Trys to Make Earthquakes Funny – Major Social Media Fail

Intel’s social media marketing efforts failed miserably today. Intel was running a pretty bad ad campaign about earthquakes for some unknown reason. The earthquake in Haiti happens and Sky News has been running the ad repeatedly in front of a clip about the Haiti earthquake.

A bad disaster, a bad ad – you have to ask Intel what were you thinking?

Here’s the ad and a bit of the Sky News clip.

UPDATE:

Kari Aakre from Intel reached out to me to let me know Intel realized the issue and took action to remove the add. It’s good to see them respond responsibly and quickly. Apparently, Intel is working on technology to help deal with situations where two way communications have been interrupted/destroyed by situations like the Haiti earthquake. I hope they succeed.

Here’s Kari’s comment for reference:

The timing of Intel’s ad about its disaster communications technology research is unfortunate. While the media buy was made months ago, we are sensitive to the current situation and the people of Haiti, and pulled this ad as quickly as we could.

Separately, the Intel Foundation will match Intel employee donations to help support the people of Haiti during this difficult time.

Help Haiti

In case you missed it, there has been a terrible earthquake in Haiti. 1,000s of people are now homeless and many will die in the aftermath of the terrible disaster.  Please help if you can.

Here are a couple of charities to start with if you can spare any help:

World Vision

Oxfam

Samaritan’s Purse

Best Audiobooks for That New iPod

This Week in Audio Books – This Week’s Best Sellers

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1. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

Click to hear an audio sample of Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

2. U Is for Undertow: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (Unabridged)

Summary: Calling T is for Trespass “taut, terrifying, transfixing and terrific”, USA Today went on to ask, “What does it take to write 20 novels about the same character and manage to create a fresh, genre-bending novel every time?” It’s a question worth pondering. Through 20 excursions into the dark side of the human soul, Sue Grafton has never written the same book twice. And so it is with this, her 21st. Once again, she breaks genre formulas, giving us a twisting, complex, surprise-filled, and …

Click to hear an audio sample of U Is for Undertow: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (Unabridged) audiobook…

3. I, Alex Cross (Unabridged)

Summary: Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington’s wildest scenes. And she was not this killer’s only victim. The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. Alex and Bree are soon facing down …

Click to hear an audio sample of I, Alex Cross (Unabridged) audiobook…

4. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged)

Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) audiobook…

5. The Paris Vendetta: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: When Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in 1821, he took to the grave a powerful secret. As general and emperor, he had stolen immeasurable riches from palaces, national treasuries, and even the Knights of Malta and the Vatican. In his final days, his British captors hoped to learn where the loot lay hidden. But he told them nothing, and in his will he made no mention of the treasure. Or did he? Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn’t looking for trouble when it comes knocking a…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Paris Vendetta: A Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

6. The Help (Unabridged)

Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Help (Unabridged) audiobook…

7. Going Rogue: An American Life

Summary: One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. As chief executive of America’s largest state, Sarah Palin had built a record as a reformer who pushed through changes other politicians only talked about: energy independence, ethics reform, and the biggest private-sector energy infrastructure project in U.S. history. While revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its res…

Click to hear an audio sample of Going Rogue: An American Life audiobook…

8. Pirate Latitudes (Unabridged)

Summary: From one of the best-loved authors of all time comes an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal. The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there’s a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease – or by dagg…

Click to hear an audio sample of Pirate Latitudes (Unabridged) audiobook…

9. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged)

Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (“An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller” The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) audiobook…

10. Witch & Wizard (Unabridged)

Summary: The world is changing – the government has seized control of almost everything and kids are disappearing. For 15 year-old Wisty and her older brother, Whit, life turns upside-down when they are hauled out of bed one night, separated from their parents, and thrown into a secret compound for no reason they can comprehend, except that the new government is clearly trying to suppress Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Imprisoned together in a decrepit cell, Wisty and Whit cling to the…

Click to hear an audio sample of Witch & Wizard (Unabridged) audiobook…

11. Too Big to Fail (Unabridged)

Summary: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times reporter. Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true, behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South K…

Click to hear an audio sample of Too Big to Fail (Unabridged) audiobook…

12. Nanny Returns: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: Nan is back. After living abroad for 12 years, she and her husband, Ryan, aka H.H., have returned to New York to make a life for themselves. In the midst of getting her new business off the ground and fixing up their fixer-upper, Ryan announces his sudden desire to start a family. His timing simply couldn’t be worse. To compound the mounting construction and marital chaos, her former charge, Grayer X, now 16 years old, makes a drunken, late-night visit, wanting to know why she abandoned him …

Click to hear an audio sample of Nanny Returns: A Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

13. SuperFreakonomics (Unabridged)

Summary: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in 35 languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics , and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we…

Click to hear an audio sample of SuperFreakonomics (Unabridged) audiobook…

14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (Unabridged)

Summary: Of all of John Irving’s books, this is the one that lends itself best to audio. In print, Owen Meany’s dialogue is set in capital letters; for this production, Irving himself selected Joe Barrett to deliver Meany’s difficult voice as intended. In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys — best friends — are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy’s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn’t beli…

Click to hear an audio sample of A Prayer for Owen Meany (Unabridged) audiobook…

15. Breathless (Unabridged)

Summary: Grady Adams lives a simple, solitary life deep in the Colorado mountains. Here the 35-year-old carpenter works out of a converted barn, crafting exquisite one-of-a-kind furniture. There’s little about this strong yet gentle man to suggest the experiences that have alienated him from the contemporary world. But that is about to change. One day, while hiking, Grady spots a pair of stunningly beautiful furred animals unlike anything he’s ever seen. They flee the instant they detect his presence…

Click to hear an audio sample of Breathless (Unabridged) audiobook…

16. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Unabridged)

Summary: A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue…. It’s about the disappearance 40 years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden…and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance…and about Lisbeth Salander, a…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Unabridged) audiobook…

17. Wolf Hall (Unabridged)

Summary: Winner of the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction. In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political powerEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king’s freedo…

Click to hear an audio sample of Wolf Hall (Unabridged) audiobook…

18. The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time (Unabridged)

Summary: Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light , was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times best-selling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor – his wife, Harriet McDougal – to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gath…

Click to hear an audio sample of The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time (Unabridged) audiobook…

19. True Blue (Unabridged)

Summary: A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation’s capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci’s new, heart-stopping thriller. Mason “Mace” Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything – her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she’s back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major …

Click to hear an audio sample of True Blue (Unabridged) audiobook…

20. Lucifer’s Hammer (Unabridged)

Summary: The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival – a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known….

Click to hear an audio sample of Lucifer’s Hammer (Unabridged) audiobook…

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This Week’s Best Selling Audiobooks – 11-27-09

This Week in Audio Books – This Week’s Best Sellers

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1. Going Rogue: An American Life

Summary: One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is. As chief executive of America’s largest state, Sarah Palin had built a record as a reformer who pushed through changes other politicians only talked about: energy independence, ethics reform, and the biggest private-sector energy infrastructure project in U.S. history. While revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its res…

Click to hear an audio sample of Going Rogue: An American Life audiobook…

2. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged)

Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…

Click to hear an audio sample of Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) audiobook…

3. I, Alex Cross (Unabridged)

Summary: Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington’s wildest scenes. And she was not this killer’s only victim. The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to a place where every fantasy is possible, if you have the credentials to get in. Alex and Bree are soon facing down …

Click to hear an audio sample of I, Alex Cross (Unabridged) audiobook…

4. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged)

Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.

Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…

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5. Good Omens (Unabridged)

Summary: The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch , the world’s only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist. Put New York T…

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6. The Wrecker (Unabridged)

Summary: In The Chase , Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero: the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early-20th-century America pursuing thieves and killers – and sometimes criminals much worse. It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn send…

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7. True Blue (Unabridged)

Summary: A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation’s capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci’s new, heart-stopping thriller. Mason "Mace" Perry was a firebrand cop on the D.C. police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything – her badge, her career, her freedom-and spent two years in prison. Now she’s back on the outside and focused on one mission: to be a cop once more. Her only shot to be a true blue again is to solve a major …

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8. The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time (Unabridged)

Summary: Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light , was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times best-selling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor – his wife, Harriet McDougal – to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so Tor proudly presents The Gath…

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9. Pursuit of Honor: Mitch Rapp Series (Unabridged)

Summary: The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp and his trusted team member, Mike Nash. Now that the initial shock of the catastrophe is over, key Washington officials are up in arms over whether to make friend…

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10. SuperFreakonomics (Unabridged)

Summary: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in 35 languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics , and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we…

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11. Open: An Autobiography (Unabridged)

Summary: From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography. Agassi’s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child. By the age of 13, he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp. Lonely, scared, a ninth-grade dropout, he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon. He dyes his hair, pierces his ears, dresses like a punk rocker. By the time he…

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12. David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure

Summary: LIVE recordings of new, previously unreleased David Sedaris stories! "Cat and Baboon" Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre in Denver, Colorado "Author, Author" Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City "Innocence abroad" Durham Performing Arts Center, in Durham, North Carolina "Laugh, Kookaburra" Royce Hall, UCLA in Los Angeles, California Diary entries Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia

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13. The Help (Unabridged)

Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…

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14. Nine Dragons: Harry Bosch, Book 15 (Unabridged)

Summary: LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store’s owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li’s family that he’ll find the killer. The world Bosch steps into next is unknown territory. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with translation–not just of languages but also of the cul…

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15. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (Unabridged)

Summary: Over the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has become the most gifted and influential journalist in America. In The New Yorker, his writings are such must-reads that the magazine charges advertisers significantly more money for ads that run within his articles. With his #1 best sellers, The Tipping Point , Blink and Outliers , he has reached millions of readers. And now the very best and most famous of his New Yorker pieces are collected in a brilliant and provocative anthology. Among th…

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16. The Copper Bracelet (Unabridged)

Summary: LIMITED-TIME OFFER: The Copper Bracelet is on sale for only $9.95 till November 24, 2009. A peaceful picnic in the French countryside explodes in violence. A mysterious assassin hisses a deadly threat. And events are set in motion that could propel India and Pakistan down the road to nuclear confrontation. Two years after the events of the Audiobook of the Year – The Chopin Manuscript – former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton and his Volunteers once again must crack a secreti…

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17. Let the Great World Spin (Unabridged)

Summary: In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in best-selling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaim…

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18. Twilight: The Twilight Saga, Book 1 (Unabridged)

Summary: The Twilight Saga begins with Stephenie Meyer’s book Twilight. A classic tale of danger and romance set against violence of vampires and werewolfs. Bella Swan is forced to move to a remote village to live with her dad. As she gets to know Forks, she begins to discover its secrets and the secrets of a mysteries boy she finds in school, Edward. As their passion for one another grows, Edward’s secret is discovered by Bella.

This secret puts her in danger from Edward and his entire clan of…

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19. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged)

Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…

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20. Eclipse: The Twilight Saga, Book 3 (Unabridged)

Summary: Eclipse, book 3 of the Twilight saga, yet again brings the romance and drama to life. Stephenie Meyer’s masterful saga continues in Seattle. Horrible things are happening. Killings and revenge are everywhere. Danger threatens Bella like never before. Even while dealing with the danger of her environment, Bella has to choose between Edward, her lover vampire, and her friendship for Jacob. Bella knows that she is the key to restarting one of histories longest battles, between vampire and w…

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