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Lessons Learned While Staying Put
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Annie B. Jones
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Emily P. Freeman
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Annie B. Jones
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In her first book, the popular From the Front Porch podcast host and independent bookstore owner challenges the idea that loud lives are the ones that matter most, reminding us that we don't have to leave the lives we have in order to have the lives of which we've always dreamed.
Can life be an adventure, even when it’s just . . . ordinary?
Annie Jones always assumed adulthood would mean adventure: a high-powered career; life in a big, bustling city; and travels to far-flung places she’d longed to see. But her reality turned out differently. As the years passed, Annie was still in the same small town running an independent bookstore—the kind of life Nora Ephron dreamed.
During that time, she hosted friends’ goodbye parties and mailed parting gifts; wrote recommendation letters and wished former shop staffers well. She stayed in her small town, despite her love of big cities; stayed in her marriage to the guy she met when she was 18; and she stayed at her bookstore while the world outside shifted steadily toward digital retailers. And she stayed loyal to a faith she sometimes didn’t recognize.
After ten years, Annie realized she might never leave. But instead of regret, she had an epiphany. She awakened to the gifts of a quiet life spent staying put.
In Ordinary Time, Annie challenges the idea that loud lives matter most. Rummaging through her small-town existence, she finds hidden gifts of humor and hope from a life lived quietly. Staying, can itself be a radical act. It takes courage to stay in the places we’ve always called home, Jones argues, as she paints a portrait of possibility far away from thriving metropolises and Monica Gellar-inspired apartments.
We’ve long been encouraged to follow our dreams, to pack up and move to new places and leave old lives—and past selves—behind. While there is beauty in these kinds of adventures, Ordinary Time helps us see ourselves right where we are: in the middle of messy, mundane lives, maybe not too far from where we grew up. We don’t have to leave to find what we yearn—we can choose to stay, celebrating and honoring our ordinary lives, which might turn out to be bigger and better than we ever imagined.
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Life changing book
- By Ross Wagner on 05-20-25
By: Dr. Emily Anhalt
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X: Volumes 1-6 Bundle (Dramatized Adaptation)
- Dark Horse Comics
- By: Duane Swierczynski, Eric Nguyen
- Narrated by: Christopher Graybill, Eric Messner, Joe Mallon, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Original Recording
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A masked vigilante known only as ""X"" dispenses justice without mercy to the criminals who rule the decaying city of Arcadia. When muckraking blogger Leigh Ferguson snoops down the wrong alley, she gets swept into X's bloody war with a politically powerful crime lord.
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Narration was a little flat
- By Richard A. Scott on 05-20-25
By: Duane Swierczynski, and others
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What Your Body Knows About Happiness
- How to Use Your Body to Change Your Mind
- By: Janice Kaplan
- Narrated by: Janice Kaplan
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Based on groundbreaking research and expert opinions, What Your Body Knows About Happiness will teach you: how to use your body to spark creativity; how to find joy through your senses; how changing your environment can improve your mood; the unexpected powers of diet, exercise, and sex; the ways your brain can resolve bodily pain; and how to create optimism through your body. Janice Kaplan explores the evidence showing that our feeling bodies are often smarter than our thinking minds.
By: Janice Kaplan
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The Bright Years
- By: Sarah Damoff
- Narrated by: Ferdelle Capistrano, Joy Osmanski, Lee Osorio
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Told from three intimate points of view, The Bright Years is a tender, true-to-life novel that explores the impact of each generation in a family torn apart by tragedy but, over time, restored by the power of grace and love.
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Give it a chance
- By casey Bolton on 05-24-25
By: Sarah Damoff
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Eleven Percent
- By: Maren Uthaug, Caroline Waight - translator
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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It is the New Time, a time not so different from our own except that the men are gone. All but eleven percent of them, that is, the minimum required to avoid inbreeding. But they are safely under lock and key in “spa” centers for women’s pleasure (trained by amazons to fulfill all desires) and procreation. A few women protest that the males should be treated better–more space, better food, but all agree that testosterone cannot be allowed to roam free. The old patriarchal cities are crumbling, becoming overgrown; people now live in “round communities.”
By: Maren Uthaug, and others
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Living in Wisdom
- A Path to Embodying Your Authentic Self, Embracing Grief, and Developing Self-Mastery
- By: Devi Brown
- Narrated by: Devi Brown, Charlamagne tha God
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Sometimes trauma can keep us from realizing and embracing all the good we cultivate; our successes and achievements and positive relationships—the beauty of life. This book is for those who feel like something in life is missing, but are in denial of their feelings—so they remain stuck. They lack the tools, self-trust and personal power to make their ideal life real. In this space, Devi Brown offers help for those struggling to recognize the barriers that keep them from experiencing joy, vulnerability, and self-knowledge.
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Healing thy self
- By sabrina graves on 05-23-25
By: Devi Brown
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Things Left Unsaid
- A Novel
- By: Sara Jafari
- Narrated by: Honor Gilles, Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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When twenty-six year old Shirin Bayat bumps into Kian at a house party in London, she is taken aback by the immediate feelings that resurface. It’s been a decade since they were close friends at school, before painful events pulled them apart, suddenly and seemingly forever. Ever since, Shirin has lived with the aching weight of things left unsaid between them. Now they're back in each other's lives, at a time when Shirin needs someone she can trust the most.
By: Sara Jafari
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Food Noise
- How weight loss medications & smart nutrition can silence your cravings
- By: Dr Jack Mosley
- Narrated by: Clare Bailey Mosley, Dr Jack Mosley
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Featuring interviews with people who've experienced the highs and lows of GLP-1 drugs, and insights from leading experts, this book is your trusted guide to navigating a weight-loss revolution. Whether you're considering these medications, already on them, or simply curious about what a healthy lifestyle really means, this is the ultimate resource to reclaim your health and reshape your life.
By: Dr Jack Mosley
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The Hollow Half
- A Memoir of Bodies and Borders
- By: Sarah Aziza
- Narrated by: Sarah Aziza
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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“You were dead, Sarah, you were dead.” In October 2019, Sarah Aziza, daughter and granddaughter of Gazan refugees, is narrowly saved after being hospitalized for an eating disorder. The doctors revive her body, but it is no simple thing to return to the land of the living. Aziza’s crisis is a rupture that brings both her ancestral and personal past into vivid presence. The hauntings begin in the hospital cafeteria, when a mysterious incident summons the familiar voice of her deceased Palestinian grandmother.
By: Sarah Aziza
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The Book of Alchemy
- A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
- By: Suleika Jaouad
- Narrated by: Suleika Jaouad, Vidish Athavale, Fabian Cook Jr., and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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From the time she was young, Suleika Jaouad has kept a journal. She’s used it to mark life's biggest occasions and to weather its most ferocious storms. Journaling has buoyed her through illness, heartbreak, and the deepest uncertainty. And she is not alone: for so many people, keeping a journal is an essential tool for navigating both the personal peaks and valleys and the collective challenges of modern life. More than ever, we need a space for puzzling through.
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Suleika is a gift
- By Amazon Customer on 05-17-25
By: Suleika Jaouad
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Chicken-Fried Women
- Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way
- By: Melissa Radke
- Narrated by: Melissa Radke
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Lucy and Ethel. Laverne and Shirley. Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche, and Rose. Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of them: the women who raised us, taught us to cook and clap back. The ones who prayed for us, raged at us and humbled us a notch or two when we needed it. These are the women who have encouraged us, teased us, chastised us, and mortified us. And as they fill up the seats around our table, we realize we wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Touching and funny.
- By Shirley Peterson on 05-25-25
By: Melissa Radke
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The Golden Hour
- A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood
- By: Matthew Specktor
- Narrated by: Matthew Specktor
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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Now, with The Golden Hour, Specktor blends memoir, cultural criticism, and narrative history to tell the story of the modern motion picture industry—illuminating the conflict between art and business that has played out over the last seventy-five years in Hollywood. Braiding his own story with that of his father, mother (a talented screenwriter whose career was cut short), and figures ranging from Jack Nicholson to CAA’s Michael Ovitz, Specktor reveals how Hollywood became a laboratory for the eternal struggle between art, labor, and capital.
By: Matthew Specktor
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We've Decided to Go in a Different Direction
- Essays
- By: Tess Sanchez, Max Greenfield - foreword
- Narrated by: Tess Sanchez
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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A funny and heartfelt essay collection about working in Hollywood, starting over, defining your identity, and the relatable messiness that ensues from unforeseen circumstances.
By: Tess Sanchez, and others
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