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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe
Grab a glass of blue milk and press play on one of our favorite stories set in the Star Wars universe. In the nearly 48 years since George Lucas's interstellar fantasy epic Star Wars first hit theaters, the saga has grown to include a dozen (and counting!) canonical feature-length films, a growing number of television and streaming series (both animated and live-action), and hundreds of novels and comics inspired by that galaxy far, far away.
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2 months ago | 
audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe |F. Scott Fitzgerald |Nghi Vo |Jillian Cantor
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”Well over a decade has passed since the first time I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and yet its last line remains indelible, an elegiac refrain so innately human, so attuned to our greatest pains and most fervent desires, that it was impossible to forget.
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2 months ago | 
audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe
This essential listening guide houses all of John Green’s published works in audio, from his acclaimed young adult novels to his fan-favorite podcasts. Though I can distinctly recall checking The Fault in Our Starsout of my high school library at the height of its massive popularity to see what all the buzz was about, I admittedly was unfamiliar with the wider John Green canon until I hit college.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe
Turn up the volume and press play on this selection of pitch-perfect memoirs from music legends in a variety of genres and styles. Of course, we love audiobooks, but we also find joy and solace in our other favorite thing to listen to—music. And for music fans, nothing hits a high note quite like listening to recollections on art, music, and fame from the legendary musicians who lived through it all.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe
It's that time again—football's biggest night is almost here. The 2024-2025 season concludes this Sunday, February 9, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Whether you're a die-hard football obsessive or you're just looking for an excuse to eat pigs-in-a-blanket (hey, we don't judge), there's nothing quite like gathering around with family and friends to celebrate on game day.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe
Activist and astronaut Amanda Nguyen shares her deeply personal memoir about surviving sexual assault, fighting for change, and learning to honor her whole self. Note: Text has been lightly edited for clarity and does not match audio exactly. Alanna McAuliffe: Hi there, listeners. I'm Audible's memoir editor Alanna McAuliffe, and today it is my distinct privilege and pleasure to be speaking with Nobel Peace Prize-nominated activist Amanda Nguyen on her stunning, necessary debut, Saving Five.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe |Sigrid Nunez
The cover of Holly Brickley's debut, Deep Cuts, is adorned with a playlist of songs ranging from Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" to Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill," tracks that are not so much musical interludes as they are pillars of the novel's narrative in their own right.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe
The sci-fi author discusses his new novel, how his professional background informs his work, and his feelings on the upcoming blockbuster adaptation of "Mickey7."Edward Ashton is having quite the year. Just over a week after dropping his buzzy new novel, The Fourth Consort, Ashton’s Mickey7launches into another stratosphere with a major blockbuster adaptation helmed by celebrated director Bong Joon-ho.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe |Mona Awad |Mira Grant |Allie Rowbottom
“Beauty is pain.” It’s an old adage meant to assuage the blisters born from pointed-toe heels, the pinch and pull of shapewear, the sting of bleach searing your scalp raw. It also hints at the horror beneath the endless pursuit of perfection, the impossible societal standards that fuel a twisted desire to be poreless, ageless, ever-shrinking—standards that disproportionately impact women but increasingly target men and kids, too.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
audible.com | Alanna McAuliffe
In his latest fictional take on class and culture, the bestselling writer gets real about "Entitlement."Author Rumaan Alam’s star has been on the rise since 2020’s Leave the World Behind, a grim, thoughtful work of literary suspense that follows two disparate families forced to co-exist and rely on one another in the face of catastrophe.
