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17 audiobooks that will transform your commute

Commuting connotes stress and impatience, unless of course the must-listen album you’ve been waiting months for finally drops, making even snail-paced traffic enjoyable—or at least more bearable. And for those whose vice is books, despair not. We’ve rounded up 17 audiobooks to help you reclaim your time...

Big Ideas in Books

The summer of S.I. (Social Intelligence)

Social Intelligence is seeing people and situations for what they are, challenging us to remain objective and to think outside of our own circumstances.

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Right for the road — audiobooks perfect for a holiday road trip

Never face the open road alone. Instead, embark on a stretch of open road with an audiobook as a travel companion and notice the tedium and time vanish. In fact, a long road trip is a journey into a book for 62% of our customers. The length...

Author Interviews

Nigel Poor, prison expert and podcast creator tells us what to listen to next

Nigel Poor Nigel Poor has spent a lot of time in prison, but it’s not what you might think. She’s an artist, not a criminal, and prison is the focus of Ear Hustle, the hugely popular and well-regarded podcast she co-created in 2016 with Earlonne Woods and...

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There is nothing as scary as TRUE crime

The scariest stories are often the ones that are true. Pop culture is having a love affair with real darkness, with podcasts and TV series effectively blending entertainment with real-life investigations of some of the most troubling crimes we know of – and many of the crimes...

Author Interviews

How cozy mysteries saved my life (from breast cancer)

I’m Lynn Cahoon, author of the Tourist Trap, Cat Latimer, and coming soon, Farm to Fork mystery series. And full disclosure, I’m a true cozy mystery lover.

Learning to listen – a primer for audiobook newbies

You’d think that getting into audiobooks would be as easy as, well, listening to a story. But even die-hard audio lovers tell us that it may take a book or two to get into the swing of it, to experience what a joyous thing it is to...

Author Interviews

We sat down with top podcasters at this year’s Hot Docs Podcast Festival

Getting the inside out – a chat with Ear Hustle’s Nigel Poor Ear hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, or being nosy, which is likely a dangerous act for those on the inside. Visual artist Nigel Poor looks like the sort of woman who would learn a...

Kobo loves Toronto’s little free libraries

George Sherwood has a great appreciation for literature, so it was an obvious choice for his three adult daughters to pitch in last Christmas and get him his own Little Free Library for the front yard. In case you haven’t spotted one of these gems already, Little...

Author Interviews

The trucking truth – tales of life on the road

Truckers, as it turns out, are among the most avid audiobooks fans in the universe, which makes sense when you think about all the time they spend on the road and how dreary radio can be. So, in a way, “reading” on the road is their secret...

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