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In the mood for a page-turning mystery? One by One by Ruth Ware is now out in paperback. Get it in print from GGP at http://bit.ly/ggpOnebyOne or in #audiobook from @librofm at http://bit.ly/ggpOnebyOneAB @RuthWareWriter #ShopLocal #IndieBookstore

We loved the Libro.fm audiobook of Lauren Hough’s essay collection, Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing narrated by Cate Blanchett. http://bit.ly/LeavingAB Here’s the origin story of the book: https://www.nytimes.com//leaving-isnt-the-hardest-thing-la?

This is a preview of the digital audiobook of How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine (Audiobook Excerpt from Chap. 8), available on Libro.fm at https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781732380395. Would you like a print copy instead? Find it at https://www.ggpbooks.com/book/9781621067061. Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to directly support independent bookstores. Your purchases will directly support A Great Good Place for Books. ... How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! By: Danny Caine Narrated by: Danny Caine Length: 3 hours 39 minutes When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, and its business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own companies, and its CEO is the richest person in the world while its workers make minimum wage with impossible quotas...wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas, compiled this zine about his commitment to fighting Amazon. Includes: the open letter he wrote to Jeff Bezos, examples of successful social media activism, links to other resources, and some sobering words about boycotting. You can find How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine (Audiobook Excerpt from Chap. 8) here: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781732380395. Pear Press

This is a preview of the digital audiobook of How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine, available on Libro.fm at https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781732380394. Would you like a print copy instead? Find it at https://www.ggpbooks.com/book/9781621067061. Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to directly support independent bookstores. Your purchases will directly support A Great Good Place for Books. ... How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! By: Danny Caine Narrated by: Danny Caine Length: 3 hours 39 minutes When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, and its business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own companies, and its CEO is the richest person in the world while its workers make minimum wage with impossible quotas...wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas, compiled this zine about his commitment to fighting Amazon. Includes: the open letter he wrote to Jeff Bezos, examples of successful social media activism, links to other resources, and some sobering words about boycotting. You can find How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine (Audiobook Excerpt from Chap. 2) here: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781732380394. Pear Press

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"HONEY GIRL is an emotional, heartfelt, charming debut, and I loved every moment of it."Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal Bookseller Recommendation: Millennial angst, mythical monsters, parental expectations, chosen family, and astronomy. A story sweet like honey and messy like real life.Elon, Apotheosis Comics This is a preview of the digital audiobook of Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers, available on Libro.fm at https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9...781488210754?bookstore=ggpbooks. Would you like a print copy instead? Find it at https://www.ggpbooks.com/book/9780778311027. Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to directly support independent bookstores. Your purchases will directly support A Great Good Place for Books. Honey Girl A Novel By: Morgan Rogers Narrated by: York Whitaker Length: 10 hours 11 minutes A refreshingly timely and relatable debut novel about a young woman whose life plans fall apart when she meets her wife. With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She's a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't know...until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father's plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn't feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her parent's expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. In New York, she's able to ignore all the constant questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife, Yuki Yamamoto. But when reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she's been running from all along--the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood. You can find Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers here: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781488210754?bookstore=ggpbooks Harlequin Audio

Did you love Pete Souza’s documentary THE WAY I SEE IT? GGP has the book, SHADE: A TALE OF YWO PRESIDENTS, that inspired it back in stock. GET YOURS TODAY! https://www.ggpbooks.com/book/9780316458214

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Hey friends GGP is hosting a special event with our friend Lynn Bartsch author of BRING THE SPIRITS on Saturday, 11/14 at 6:30 p.m. Join us and bring your cocktail glasses and open your liquor cabinets!

Make a nice hot cup of tea and join us for BOOK CLUB tomorrow night! Tuesday, November 10 at 7pm we will be gathering to discuss the heartfelt and hilarious https://bit.ly/ggpSweeney by @liandolan. You can find the audio at https://bit.ly/SweeneyAB. Join us here https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275010328. About: Maggie, Eliza, and Tricia Sweeney grew up as a happy threesome in the idyllic seaside town of Southport, Connecticut. But their mother’s death from cancer fifteen years ag...o tarnished their golden-hued memories, and the sisters drifted apart. Their one touchstone is their father, Bill Sweeney, an internationally famous literary lion and college professor universally adored by critics, publishers, and book lovers. When Bill dies unexpectedly one cool June night, his shell- shocked daughters return to their childhood home. They aren’t quite sure what the future holds without their larger-than-life father, but they do know how to throw an Irish wake to honor a man of his stature. But as guests pay their respects and reminisce, one stranger, emboldened by whiskey, has crashed the party. It turns out that she too is a Sweeney sister. Once the shock wears off, questions abound. What does this mean for William’s literary legacy? Where is the unfinished memoir he’s stashed away, and what will it reveal? And how will a fourth Sweeney sistera blond among redheadsfit into their story? Praise: "This is a big-hearted belly-laugh of a book, told with wit and poignancy. Family secrets, laughter and tears, shocking reveals, and an uplifting ending make this a story to savor-- and share." Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author of The Oysterville Sewing Circle "Dolan uses her experience in podcasting with her own sisters to craft believable women characters who worry about real problems and use wry humor to push through dark moments . . . . A warmhearted portrait of love embracing true hearts." Kirkus See more

"A must-read for anyone who regularly gives talks to audiences or appears on panels. Even if you just have to do a single speech, Confessions contains some great tips to help you compartmentalize your fears and make sure you do the best that you can do."Diane Danielson, Entrepreneur This is a preview of the digital audiobook of Confessions of a Public Speaker by Scott Berkun, available on Libro.fm at https://libro.fm//9781705223468-confessions-of-a-public-sp. Would you li...ke a print copy instead? Find it at https://www.ggpbooks.com/book/9781449301958. Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to directly support independent bookstores. Your purchases will directly support A Great Good Place for Books. Confessions of a Public Speaker By: Scott Berkun Narrated by: Ryan Burke Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Description In this hilarious and highly practical book, author and professional speaker Scott Berkun reveals the techniques behind what great communicators do, and shows how anyone can learn to use them well. For managers and teachersand anyone else who talks and expects someone to listenConfessions of a Public Speaker provides an insider's perspective on how to effectively present ideas to anyone. It's a unique, entertaining, and instructional romp through the embarrassments and triumphs Scott has experienced over fifteen years of speaking to crowds of all sizes. With lively lessons and surprising confessions, you'll get new insights into the art of persuasionas well as teaching, learning, and performancedirectly from a master of the trade. Highlights include: Berkun's hard-won and simple philosophy, culled from years of lectures, teaching courses, and hours of appearances on NPR, MSNBC, and CNBC; practical advice, including how to work a tough room, the science of not boring people, how to survive the attack of the butterflies, and what to do when things go wrong; the inside scoop on who earns $30,000 for a one-hour lecture and why; and the worstand funniestdisaster stories you've ever heard (plus countermoves you can use). Tantor Media

"Scott Berkun, formerly a project manager for Microsoft, has a knack for skipping the complicated jargon and convoluted methodologies that characterize most project management books. Instead, he breaks complex subjects down to the critical essentials and provides a copious amount of real-world examples, which makes this book very approachable and easy to understand."Josh Kaufman, author of The Personal MBA This is a preview of the digital audiobook of Making Things HappenMa...stering Project Management by Scott Berkun, available on Libro.fm at https://libro.fm/audiob/9781705223505-making-things-happen. Would you like a print copy instead? Find it at https://www.ggpbooks.com/book/9780596517717. Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to directly support independent bookstores. Your purchases will directly support A Great Good Place for Books. Making Things Happen Mastering Project Management By: Scott Berkun Narrated by: Ryan Burke Length: 15 hours 12 minutes Description Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on field-tested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new edition now adds more value for leaders and managers of projects everywhere. Making Things Happen doesn't cite specific methods, but focuses on philosophy and strategy. Unlike other project management books, Berkun offers personal essays in a comfortable style and easy tone that emulate the relationship of a wise project manager who gives good, entertaining, and passionate advice to those who ask. Making Things Happen offers in-depth exercises to help you apply lessons from the book to your job. It is inspiring, funny, honest, and compelling, and definitely the one book that you and your team need to have within arm's reach throughout the life of your project. Coming from the rare perspective of someone who fought difficult battles on Microsoft's biggest projects and taught project design and management for MSTE, Microsoft's internal best practices group, this is valuable advice indeed. It will serve you well with your current work, and on future projects to come. Tantor Media

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"Sets us free to try and change the world."--Guy Kawasaki, Author of Art of The Start "Small, simple, powerful: an innovative book about innovation."--Don Norman, author of Design of Everyday Things This is a preview of the digital audiobook of The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun, available on Libro.fm at https://libro.fm/aud/9781705223482-the-myths-of-innovation. ... Would you like a print copy instead? Find it at https://www.ggpbooks.com/book/9781449389628. Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to directly support independent bookstores. Your purchases will directly support A Great Good Place for Books. The Myths of Innovation By: Scott Berkun Narrated by: Ryan Burke Length: 4 hours 50 minutes Description In the new edition of this fascinating book, a book that has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Slashdot.org, Lifehacker.com and in the New York Times, bestselling author Scott Berkun pulls the best lessons from the history of innovation, including the recent software and web age, to reveal powerful and suprising truths about how ideas become successful innovationstruths people can easily apply to the challenges of today. Through his entertaining and insightful explanations of the inherent patterns in how Einstein's discovered E=mc2 or Tim Berner Lee's developed the idea of the world wide web, you will see how to develop existing knowledge into new innovations. Each entertaining chapter centers on breaking apart a powerful myth, popular in the business world despite its lack of substance. Through Berkun's extensive research into the truth about innovations in technology, business and science, you'll learn lessons from the expensive failures and dramatic successes of innovations past, and understand how innovators achieved what they didand what you need to do to be an innovator yourself. Tantor Media

The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self brings her signature voice and insight to the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. This is a preview of the digital audiobook of The Office of Historical CorrectionsA Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans, available on Libro.fm at https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780593294703?bookstore=ggpbooks. Would you like a print copy instead? Find it at https://www.ggpbooks.com/book/9781594487330. ... Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to directly support independent bookstores. Your purchases will directly support A Great Good Place for Books. The Office of Historical Corrections A Novella and Stories By: Danielle Evans Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nicole Lewis, Brittany Pressley, Shayna Small, January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo & Janina Edwards Length: 7 hours 13 minutes Bookseller Recommendation I have been holding my breath for Danielle Evans’ next book of short stories since Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, and The Office of Historical Corrections was worth the wait. She delivers the same great storytelling, insight, and sharp cultural commentary. Her touch on themes usually associated with older people, such as redemption, reconciliation, and propitiation, moved me. I read the whole collection in two days.Miesha Headen, Loganberry Books Description Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and x-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters’ lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. She introduces us to Black and multiracial characters who are experiencing the universal confusions of lust and love, and getting walloped by griefall while exploring how history haunts us, personally and collectively. Ultimately, she provokes us to think about the truths of American historyabout who gets to tell them, and the cost of setting the record straight. In Boys Go to Jupiter, a white college student tries to reinvent herself after a photo of her in a Confederate-flag bikini goes viral. In Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain, a photojournalist is forced to confront her own losses while attending an old friend’s unexpectedly dramatic wedding. And in the eye-opening title novella, a black scholar from Washington, DC, is drawn into a complex historical mystery that spans generations and puts her job, her love life, and her oldest friendship at risk. Penguin Random House Audio