Audible Picks July 20, 2022

Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

By Chrysta Bilton, narrated by Chrysta Bilton
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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A riveting, nuanced portrait of unforgettable characters thrown together by chance and DNA, this is a story of nature, nurture, and coming to terms with one's true inheritance.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The World's Worst Assistant

By Sona Movsesian, Conan O'Brien, narrated by Sona Movsesian, Conan O'Brien
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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From Conan O’Brien’s longtime assistant and cohost of his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, a completely hilarious and irreverent how-to guide for becoming a terrible, yet unfireable employee, spilling her trade secrets for minimizing effort while maximizing the rewards.

Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity book cover
Genre: Finance
Tags: Finance

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Tackling nine specific financial myths, Killing Sacred Cows is a must for mission-driven individuals. It plainly reveals these shocking truths kept hidden by the traditional financial industry.

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Genre: Business

The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.

By Robin Sharma, narrated by Adam Verner
Tags: Business

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Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept more than 20 years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Upgrade

By Blake Crouch, narrated by Henry Levya
Tags: Science Fiction

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At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little...sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep. But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To his body. He’s starting to see the world, and those around him—even those he loves most—in whole new ways.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Tobacco Wives

By Adele Myers, narrated by Shannon McManus, Janet Metzger
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Maddie Sykes, a budding seamstress, has recently relocated to Bright Leaf, North Carolina, the region's tobacco capital, where her aunt runs a successful sewing business. Maddie is mesmerized by the bustle of the neatly uniformed female factory workers, the opulent homes, and, most of all, her aunt's glossiest clientele: the wives of the powerful tobacco executives. After years of war rations and shortages, Bright Leaf is a prosperous wonderland in full technicolor bloom.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Royal Valentine (A Museum of Literature Romance Book 1)

By Jenn McKinlay, narrated by Sara Young
Tags: Clean Romance

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Fairy tales and love at first sight are not things Molly Graham believes in. She has experienced too many previous burns. She can't help but be drawn to the similarly reclusive academic when she meets the very attractive British professor Albert George hiding out in her office during the Valentine's Day gala for the opening of the Museum of Literature's Austen exhibit. They leave the event together and start a month-long relationship. He vanishes just as she starts to change her mind about happily ever afters.

Empires and Kings (A Mafia Duet Book 1) book cover
Genre: Steamy Romance

Empires and Kings (A Mafia Duet Book 1)

By A. C. Bextor, narrated by Lidia Dornet
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Vlad Zalesky was a tyrant to the lost. I hated him. He was a terror of mass destruction. I was afraid of him. He was a tormentor of the weak. I wanted only to hide from him. But not far beneath the venomous man's outward indifference was something else.

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Genre: True Crime

Torture Mom

By Ryan Green, narrated by Steve White
Tags: True Crime

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In July 1965, teenagers Sylvia and Jenny Likens were left in the temporary care of Gertrude Baniszewski, a middle-aged single mother, and her seven children. The Baniszewski household was overrun with children. There were few rules and ample freedom. Sadly, the environment created a dangerous hierarchy of social Darwinism where the strong preyed on the weak. What transpired in the following three months was both riveting and chilling.

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Layla

By Colleen Hoover, narrated by Brian Pallino
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When Leeds first meets Layla, he is certain they will be together forever. However, after an unexpected attack, Layla is left fighting for her life. Layla makes a physical recovery after spending weeks in the hospital, but the emotional and mental scarring has changed the Layla that Leeds fell in love with. Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met in order to restart their relationship. When they get there, Layla starts acting strangely...

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Genre: Mystery

The Big Dark Sky

By Dean Koontz, narrated by Fajer Al-Kaisi
Tags: Mystery

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A group of strangers bound by terrifying synchronicity becomes humankind’s hope of survival in an exhilarating, twist-filled novel by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.

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Genre: Mystery

The Pledge

By Kathleen Kent, narrated by Christie Moreau Church
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Things are looking up for Detective Betty Rhyzyk. She’s settled into a happy marriage and been promoted to sergeant in the Dallas Police Department. But when a hostage stand-off puts her on the phone with legendary cartel leader The Knife, things take a turn. The Knife has heard a rival is making a play for the streets of Dallas - none other than Evangeline Roy.

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Moonlight Beach: Murder and Magic

By Yurie Kiri, narrated by Rose London
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Yurie Kiri’s novel Moonlight Beach won the 2020 Hollywood Book Festival’s award for Genre Fiction. The rich and sleepy town of Rancho California has been the scene of a series of brutal murders or shark attacks. One night, four friends have an ancient ceremony and contact the spirit of the dead woman and then have to fight for their lives.

Slye Team Romantic Suspense Series Box Set (Slye Team Black Ops (Romantic Action Adventure) Book 7) book cover
Genre: Steamy Romance
Tags: Steamy Romance

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"Engrossing, thrilling, and wonderfully steamy..." 1 Credit for 34+ hours of 3 hot enemies-to-lovers romances from NYT Bestseller Dianna Love. Deeply emotional romantic thrillers at a nonstop pace. Three fierce male protectors face brutal odds to keep deadly secrets from killing the strong women they love. "Taut pacing with sizzling tension.”

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Genre: Fantasy

Magic-Price (The Crown of Stones Book 1)

By C. L. Schneider, narrated by Joey Bosco
Tags: Fantasy

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All he wanted was to end the war. But with one use of the Crown of Stones, Ian Troy changed the world—and Fate took notice. Immerse yourself in this time-spanning epic tale of a flawed hero, a fallen race, and a land at war. Discover a dark realm where peace hinges on the strength of one man to embrace the very thing he fears most: his own power.

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Genre: Fantasy

Tide and Tempest: A Forgotten Lands Novel

By Lindsey Pogue, narrated by Hannah Chiclana
Tags: Fantasy

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“Best book of the year!” Forged by fire. Bound by blood. Tortured by fate. Desolation Day stole everything from Samara except the drive to be stronger, fight harder, and never look back. When the enemy washes ashore, her world is upturned again, and her heart isn’t all that’s at stake. An enemies to lovers adventure for Vikings & Black Sails fans!

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Secrets of the Kings

By Nora Delzelle, narrated by Laura Horowitz
Tags: Clean Romance Fantasy

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No mask can hide the truth. Alex leads a quiet life. Her free time is spent with friends like Emma Bastian, who wants to meddle in Alex’s love life. That’s what friends do, right? But Alex is preoccupied with a letter she’s received – one that grants her an inheritance from a stranger, including a magical mask that will change Alex’s life forever.