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Listen & Craft: Chalk Painted Furniture and A Breakout Summer Listen August 4, 2022

If you’re inspired by coastal or cottage decor, and love shades of whites accompanied by bleached wood trends but don’t have the budget to buy all new furniture, I’m serving you an easy paint hack you can apply to almost any piece of furniture you have in your home. Better yet, here is an audiobook that is making its way into everyone’s summer must-read list, by debut author Carley Fortune. Every Summer After, is sure to delight and pull on every teenaged nostalgic heart-string you didn’t know you had.

Tags: best summer reads, book club, crafter, Listen and Craft, romance

Ardently Admired: Jane Austen Retellings on Audio June 7, 2022

Independent heroines, sharp social commentary, and the complicated business of love are all staples of Jane Austen novels that have proven timeless. Oh, alright, and she writes romantic leads who make downright dreamy declarations of love. Perhaps that’s why we often find ourselves with the remote in hand, queueing up one of the many brilliant Austen film adaptations (and debating our friends about which one is the best). READ MORE

Tags: book club, cook, cooking, crafter, crafting, Jane Austen, summer listening, valentine's day

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Listen & Cook: The Tiny Chef Returns with a New Book April 8, 2022

Our beloved Tiny Chef has returned with a new book to delight and indulge us in another lovable and relatable tale of delicious misadventure in The Tiny Chef: and Da Nighttime Bladventure (Available 4/12). READ MORE

Tags: book club, cooking, crafter, Family Listening, Listen & Cook, Tiny Chef

Hear Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club Faves on Audio April 5, 2022

There are so many reasons to love Reese Witherspoon: not only is she a smart businesswoman and the actress who elevated Elle Woods to icon status, but she has stellar taste in books to boot. READ MORE

Tags: bookclub, braving the wilderness, Brené Brown, Catherine Steadman, celeste ng, cook, crafter, curtis sittenfeld, Daisy Jones and the Six, Delia Owens, eleanor oliphant is completely fine, Flynn Berry, Gail Honeyman, gardener-cook, holiday, Jasmine Guillory, Jill Santopolo, jojo moyes, Josie Silver, Julia Whelan, Kiley Reid, Lara Prescott, little fires everywhere, Nicole Lewis, Northern Spy, One Day in December, Something in the Water, Such a Fun Age, Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Giver of Stars, The Light We Lost, The Proposal, The Secrets We Kept, Where the Crawdads Sing, you think it I'll say it

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Crafts for the Uncrafty: Happy Accidents with Modeling Clay March 9, 2022

I am a distinctly non-crafty person. READ MORE

Tags: crafter, crafting, Listen and Craft, staff picks

Audiobooks & Chill: Binge Listen Your Way Through Winter (Image Featuring Station Eleven and A Journal for Jordan Movie Tie-In Covers)

Audiobooks & Chill: Binge Listen Your Way Through Winter January 19, 2022

TV and movie buffs know this slushy season is prime time for home streaming, from Sci-Fi classics like Isaac Asimov’s Foundation to immersive adventures like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad. READ MORE

Tags: A Journal for Jordan, book club, books to screen, Colson Whitehead, crafter, Cry Macho, Dana Canedy, Emily St. John Mandel, Foundation, harriet the spy, Haruki Murakami, Isaac Asimov, Karen M. McManus, Louise Fitzhugh, Men Without Women, movie adaptations, movie tie-in, Munich, Netflix, One of Us is Lying, Richard Nash, Robert Harris, station eleven, The Underground Railroad

Make Any Day a Snow Day with Holiday Romance Audiobooks December 16, 2021

Like mulled cider simmering on a hot stove, a warm-hearted romance on audio can really set the holiday mood. READ MORE

Tags: book club, Christmas, cook, crafter, Dear Santa, Debbie Macomber, Give the Gift of Audiobooks, holiday, Holiday 2021, Holiday Listens, Jasmine Guillory, Josie Silver, One Day in December, Rom-com, romance, romantic comedy, Royal Holiday

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Hanukkah Lights and Latke Delights December 1, 2021

Happy Hanukkah! There are eight nights to celebrate the Festival of Lights, a time when families gather together to tell stories, hone their dreidel spins, and enjoy the gently flickering candles of the menorah. And then, there are the latkes: fried potato pancakes that are perhaps one of the most delicious homages to the miracle of oil ever to grace a plate. READ MORE

Tags: chef, cook, crafter, David Stromberg, dreidels on the brain, Family Listening, gardener-cook, Gavriel Savit, Give the Gift of Audiobooks, hanukkah, holiday, Holiday Listens, In the Land of Happy Tears: Yiddish Tales for Modern Times, Jewish Holidays, joel ben izzy, latkes, Listen and Cook, Nadine Epstein, RBG's Brave & Brilliant Women, recipe, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Way Back

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Warm Up Your Kitchen with Sparkling Gingerbread and Cozy Kids’ Audiobooks November 12, 2021

Here at PRH Audio we’ve got holiday baking on the brain! And so in this week’s Listen and Cook, we’re sharing this easy recipe for Sparkling Gingerbread from Yossy Arefi’s cookbook Snacking Cakes. And since cake and heartwarming stories go perfectly together, especially if you’re sharing your kitchen with little bakers, see below to get our recommendations for cozy kids’ audiobooks (that adults will also love). READ MORE

Tags: All You Knead Is Love, baking, Bunnicula, chef, cook, crafter, Deborah Howe, Family Listening, gardener-cook, gingerbread recipe, holiday baking, J. Dillard, J.D. and the Family Business, James Howe, kate dicamillo, Katherine Applegate, Listen and Cook, Pony, R. J. Palacio, recipe, Tanya Guerrero, The Beatryce Prophecy, Willodeen

Podcast Aficionado? Meet Your Audiobook Match September 30, 2021

Today is International Podcast Day (September 30th)! If you’re obsessed with charismatic hosts, revealing interviews, and the addictive episodic structures of podcasts, then you’ll want to bend your discerning ear to these audiobooks—many of which are written and read by your favorite podcasters. READ MORE

Tags: book club, cooking, crafter, International Podcast Day, Podcast, podcasts