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Here’a another few free Audible files you can download and listen to. Amongst the files I’m mentioning include the latest issue of Ear to the Ground, an Agatha Christie podcast and an interview with book authors.

The latest issue of Audible’s Ear to the Ground with Corey Thrasher is now out. Seems like a long time since the last edition. Anyway, it’s now out. Again, it’s a free download just like a lot of other Audible original content.

Ear to the Ground: Scott Joplin in Bed, Witch Hunting, Dame Does Audible

Narrator: Kevin Trainor, Corey Thrasher
Audible, Inc., 2006
26 min.

Publisher’s Summary

Coupling with famous ghost, witches burn, Dame Agatha arrives at last, and more.

Your monthly guide to the best of Audible features introductions to the following programs:

• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
• Joplin’s Ghost by Tananarive Due

Discover great new additions to the store, little-known gems, old favorites, and find out about special sales, contests, and more. Ear to the Ground is everything you need to know about Audible, every month.

Program Format: Abridged
The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., 2006
23 min.

Publisher’s Summary

Ask anyone today “Who is the world’s best-selling fiction writer?”, and you’re likely to hear “J.K. Rowling” or “Dan Brown”. But check the Guinness Book of World Records, and you’ll find that the honor belongs to Agatha Christie, whose 78 mysteries have sold an estimated two billion copies in more than 45 languages, and have added two iconic investigators to our culture: Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. In addition to her books, Christie wrote 19 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, has been in continuous production in London for 54 years, yet another world record. She was also named Best Writer of the 20th Century at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention.

Agatha Christie was born on September 15, 1890, in Torquay, Devonshire, England. The youngest of three, she was educated at home and encouraged to read and write, and was also trained in the fine arts of dance, piano and cooking. In 1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie, who was an officer in the Royal Air Corps. Their only child, Rosalind, was born in 1919.

During the First World War, Agatha Christie served as a Red Cross volunteer at a hospital in Torquay. She began as a nurse, then worked as an assistant in the dispensary, or pharmacy, for two years. It was at this time that she began writing. Her sister Madge had once challenged her to write a detective story, and, surrounded by the poisons on the dispensary shelves, Christie found inspiration for a murder mystery. She began with what became her best-known character, Hercule Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer.

©2006 The Audio Partners Publishing Corp

Check out the all the available Agatha Christie works at Audible.com

A Conversation with Joseph Finder and Malcolm Gladwell

Joseph Finder and Malcolm Gladwell

Program Format: Audio Original
Audio Renaissance, 2006
1 hour and 9 min.

Publisher’s Summary

Joseph Finder and Malcolm Gladwell are both best-selling authors who write about issues from the business world – one in fiction and the other in nonfiction. Listen to this insightful conversation between these authors as they discuss topics that range from the best qualities of CEOs and sales people, to the nature of genius, to how they do their research and the mechanics of writing, to the intricacies of interpreting facial micro-expressions.

Joseph Finder is the author of Paranoia, Company Man, and the upcoming Killer Instinct. His thrillers focus on characters who inhabit the cut-throat corporate world.

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of Blink and The Tipping Point. He writes on corporate culture as well as social habits. Killer Instinct will be available for download on May 16, 2006.

Listen to books by Joseph Finder and Malcolm Gladwell.

(P)2006 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC.

For more information on the Audible program and services, please check out my review on Audible here.

Also, don’t forget to check out This is Audible (free bi-weekly Audible file) that discusses audio books with interviews, clips and discussions related to audio books and entertainment. They come out every Tuesday and Friday of each week.

There’s also Harry Shearer’s Le Show (another free file) that discusses the politics and news of the past week. I don’t particularly care about his skits but do enjoy his perspective on politics and makes for interesting listening.

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