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Educated by Tara Westover: Top 10 Audiobook of 2018
Educated by Tara Westover currently holds the #2 spot on the Libro.fm Bestselling Audiobooks list, with good reason. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University.
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Top Ten Audiobooks of 2018
The Libro.fm Top 10 Audiobooks of 2018 were selected based on sales through more than 550 independent bookstores and recommendations by our 5,000 bookselling partners. Congratulations to the authors, narrators, and publishers of these audiobooks!
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Becoming by Michelle Obama
The excitement surrounding Becoming, the memoir by former First Lady Michelle Obama, is continuing to build. It currently holds the #1 spot on the Libro.fm Pre-Order Bestsellers list and tickets are now on sale for Obama’s book tour, which includes appearances at ten major arenas across the United States.
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Behind the Mic: LeVar Burton
We are excited to share Behind the Mic from AudioFile Magazine. This podcast highlights favorite audiobooks in short daily episodes, along with extended feature conversations with narrators and authors—like this bonus episode with LeVar Burton!
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The Great American Read: Top Ten
The Great American Read has sparked a national conversation about reading and the books that have inspired, moved, and shaped us. You voted on 100 novels, which you can see on our The Great American Read playlist.
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The Literary Life: Rick Bragg, the great story teller
We are excited to share the podcast that is for book and bookstore enthusiasts everywhere: The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan. Kaplan has been a bookseller and has owned the independent bookstores Books & Books for over 35 years.
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Author Spotlight: Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds is a New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, National Book Award Honoree, a Kirkus Award winner, a two time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors. He is also a champion of local, independent bookstores as the American Booksellers Association’s spokesperson for Indies First.
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Freedom to Read
Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community in a celebration of our freedom to read. This year it will be held September 23-29 with the theme “Banning Books Silences Stories.” Books and the […] Read More
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Celebrating 20 Years of Magic
This September, we celebrate twenty years of everyone’s favorite wizard, Harry Potter.
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Celebrate Audiobook Month
It’s Audiobook Month! What’s to celebrate? For starters, the growth of this amazing category as people find creative ways to read, learn, and discover in a society that is short on time. While we love ourselves a physical book, audio enables you to read on the go and works as the perfect compliment to your literary closet.
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