Audible Picks November 9, 2022

The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of the four men described in Don Lattin's The Harvard Psychedelic Club. Huston Smith, tirelessly working to promote cross-cultural religious and spiritual tolerance. Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, inspiring generations with his mantra "be here now".

The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated book cover
Genre: Finance
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TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated, and if you don't follow their guidance, you'll end up in the poorhouse. They're wrong.

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Genre: Business

Play the Game

By Adam Strong, narrated by Graham Mack
Tags: Business

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Are you winning the game of business? Has your business plateaued, or are you feeling stuck? Play the Game outlines 18 strategies from game-changing leaders and disruptors on how to break the cycle that stunts your business growth.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Ready Player One

By Ernest Cline, narrated by Wil Wheaton
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At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut - part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Cider House Rules

By John Irving, narrated by Grover Gardner
Tags: Literary Fiction

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This is the screenplay of the novel "The Cider House Rules". Set in the rural town of Maine, this tale follows the bizarre story of Hormer Wells, from his apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery to his adult life running a cider-making factory and the relationship he has with his wife's best friend.

The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity book cover
Genre: True Crime
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Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents both had their identities stolen. Their credit ratings were ruined, and they were constantly fighting over money. This was before the age of the Internet, when identity theft became more commonplace, so authorities and banks were clueless and reluctant to help Axton's parents.

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Genre: Mystery

Sign Off

By Patricia McLinn, narrated by Betsy Moore
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TV journalist Elizabeth “E.M.” Danniher will tell you she committed two sins: She didn’t stay young, and she made an enemy of a powerful news executive - her ex. She used to break national news. Now, her top story as the "Helping Out!" reporter at dinky KWMT-TV in Sherman, Wyoming, is getting a defective toaster repaired.

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The Girlfriend

By Michelle Frances, narrated by Henrietta Meire
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A chilling domestic thriller, The Girlfriend brilliantly renders the relationships between a fiercely protective mother, a charming son, and the young woman who will stop at nothing to come between them.

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Genre: Mystery

Pieces of Her

By Karin Slaughter, narrated by Kathleen Early
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The number one international best-selling author returns with an electrifying novel of devastating secrets and hidden lives that probes the fraught relationship between daughters and mothers and the lengths we go to protect those we love.

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Ararat

By Christopher Golden, narrated by Robert Fass
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Christopher Golden's Ararat is the heart-pounding tale of an adventure that goes wrong - on a biblical scale. When an earthquake reveals a secret cave hidden inside Mount Ararat in Turkey, a daring, newly engaged couple are determined to be the first ones inside...and what they discover will change everything.

Bear Creek Brides (Books 1-4) book cover
Genre: Clean Romance
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Can you find love while living on the ruthless Frontier? Follow four passionate romances as they try to find happiness in the dangerous untamed wild west.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Dirty Filthy Rich Men

By Laurelin Paige, narrated by Elena Wolfe
Tags: Steamy Romance

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I knew poor scholarship girls like me didn't stand a chance against guys like Weston King and Donovan Kincaid, but I was in love with their world of parties, sex and power. I knew who and what I wanted until one night, their world tried to bite me back and Donovan saved me. Ten years later, I’ve found my way back. And this time I'm ready for him.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Inked (Gilded Blood Book 1)

By Rachel Rener, narrated by Tara Novie
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When your smoking-hot boss tells you NEVER to touch the deluxe tattoo ink locked in his office, you listen to him... Until the day you don't. Now, through (mostly) no fault of my own, I have to deal with sentient tattoos, interdimensional filing cabinets, my unhinged Jewish mother, and – worst of all – an incu-boss with serious intimacy issues.

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Genre: Fantasy

Daughters of the Oak

By Becky Wright, narrated by Lesley Dessalles
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'The Conjuring' meets 'The Witch' in this dark, chilling mix of horror and history. Before Salem, there was Manningtree. A modern-day Paranormal Investigation team stumble on the dark history of an English 17th-century witch trial. But this time, the haunting is personal, as lies, secrets and betrayals are never forgotten.

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Genre: Fantasy

Beneath the Ruins

By Louis Woyak
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The month of Darkness is quickly approaching. It is a time when the denizens of the night roam the land freely and the citizens of Arkdale lock themselves behind their high walls seeking refuge. This cycle has repeated itself for centuries. Now the world is changing. An ancient secret buried deep beneath the land mournfully sings of the approaching chaos.