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Summertime Listens

Allow us to complement your summer days with comedy, adventure, romance, and fantasy. We've selected four audio books perfect for summertime listening…

Allow us to complement your summer days with comedy, adventure, romance, and fantasy. We've selected four audio books perfect for summertime listening. Two will soon be adapted for movie screens and the TV screens in your homes! Check back each week for a new audio book excerpt, featuring the opening passages of the following four audio books sure to make your summertime listening more fun.

How Did You Get This Number

Laugh a little at the brand-new book of hilarious and insightful personal essays by the iconic, irresistible Sloane Crosley.

The Left Hand of God

Expand your imagination with this tale of a darkly gifted teenage boy at the center of a brutal holy war, in this first novel in an epic, ambitious trilogy.

The Pillars of the Earth

Prepare for the premiere of The Pillars of the Earth on Starz, and travel back to the Middle Ages for the building of the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known.

Eat, Pray, Love

Experience the memoir as told by Elizabeth Gilbert, travel with her, hear her recollect her decision to choose the unknown in pursuit of worldly pleasure and spiritual devotion.

Summertime Offer!

Buy any of these four audio books—on CD or via download—and receive 15% off, plus free shipping, now through August 2nd! Enter code SUMMERAUDIO into the coupon code field on your shopping cart page, then click the 'update cart' button to activate your coupon and see your savings.

Audio books featured in this episode:
Eat, Pray, Love

One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

It's no wonder this story caught the eye of producer Brad Pitt and movie star Julia Roberts, who gear up for the release of the Eat, Pray, Love film adaptation this summer. This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among readers across the world. With sincerity and heart, Elizabeth Gilbert reveals how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, homes, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out alone, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali.

A choice book pick for any book club, view the Eat, Pray, Love reading group guide»

about the AUTHOR and NARRATOR Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert is an award-winning writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her short story collection, Pilgrims, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her novel, Stern Men, was a New York Times Notable Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love which has been published in more than thirty languages, and the major motion picture premieres in summer 2010.

Listen to our interview with Elizabeth Gilbert»

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