Audible Picks August 4, 2021

My Side of the Mountain book cover
Genre: Children

My Side of the Mountain

By Jean Craighead George, narrated by Michael Crouch
Tags: Children

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Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods - all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, 40 dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever.

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties book cover
Genre: True Crime
Tags: True Crime

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A journalist's 20-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.

Launch book cover
Genre: Finance

Launch

By Jeff Walker, narrated by Jeff Walker
Tags: Finance

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From the creator of Product Launch Formula: a new edition of the number-one New York Times best-selling guide that's redefined online marketing and helped countless entrepreneurs make millions.

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

By Rebecca Donner, narrated by Rebecca Donner
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Fusing elements of biography, a real-life political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors’ testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic story, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.

End of the Line (Birth of Magic Book 3) book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

End of the Line (Birth of Magic Book 3)

By N.D. Roberts & Michael Anderle, narrated by Emily Beresford
Tags: Science Fiction

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With her duty to Earth almost complete, Sarah Jennifer prepares to leave Arcadia in the hands of Ezekiel and Adrien. However, there’s an extra Were in her company, and she must make the decision as to his place in her life...Can Sarah Jennifer move past the pain of loss and allow love into her heart?

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Songs for the Flames

By Juan Gabriel Vasquez, narrated by Sheldon Romero & Alfredo Huereca
Tags: Literary Fiction

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A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, best-selling author Juan Gabriel Vásquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence - sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing - but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces.

Singe (Men of Inked: Heatwave) book cover
Genre: Steamy Romance

Singe (Men of Inked: Heatwave)

By Chelle Bliss, narrated by Connor Crais & Samantha Brentmoor
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Arlo King is not Carmello’s usual type. She’s a bookworm who doesn’t give herself away easily. But she’s the perfect woman to help reform the serial womanizer, even though she has commitment issues of her own. Quickly, their fake relationship goes from slow-burn to scorching hot from the very first touch. But can they work through their troubled pasts and embrace a fairy tale future?

The Husbands book cover
Genre: Mystery

The Husbands

By Chandler Baker, narrated by Allyson Ryan
Tags: Mystery

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Chandler Baker, the New York Times best-selling author of Whisper Network, is back with The Husbands, a novel that asks: to what lengths will a woman go for a little more help from her husband?

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The Turnout

By Megan Abbott, narrated by Cassandra Campbell
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Megan Abbott's revelatory and mesmerizing new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio. Taut and unnerving, The Turnout is Megan Abbott at the height of her game. With uncanny insight and hypnotic writing, it is a sharp and strange dissection of family ties and sexuality, femininity, and power, and a tale that is both alarming and irresistible.

The Introvert’s Edge to Networking book cover
Genre: Business

The Introvert’s Edge to Networking

By Matthew Pollard, narrated by Matthew Pollard, Jamie Jackson, & Jeb Blount
Tags: Business

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Finally - a networking book for introverts! The sequel to Pollard’s international bestseller The Introvert’s Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone. Whether you’re a small-business owner struggling to make a living or a professional who’s hit a career plateau, The Introvert’s Edge to Networking is your path to a higher income and a rolodex of powerful connections.

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Genre: Children

An Unexpected Journey

By Naomi Barton, narrated by Naomi Barton, Emilia Lower, Lindsay Hawkes, & Kelly Ann Thorstensen
Tags: Children

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Life is wonderful until the rapidly spreading global pandemic of COVID-19 prompts her mother to take Emilia from her home in Korea to her home in New Zealand. The transformational story of Emilia honestly expresses the pain and confusion of sudden transition from a child’s point of view and celebrates the comfort that family and community can provide.

Wisteria Island book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

Wisteria Island

By Rachel Hanna, narrated by Michelle Morgan
Tags: Clean Romance

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She's running from the most embarrassing moment of her life when she finds herself smack dab in the middle of an island full of misfit old people. Wisteria Island is a standalone novel by USA Today best-selling author, Rachel Hanna. If you love southern women's fiction and lots of laughs, you'll enjoy this one!

Fall of Wizardoms Box Set (Books 1-3) book cover
Genre: Fantasy

Fall of Wizardoms Box Set (Books 1-3)

By Jeffrey L. Kohanek, narrated by Travis Baldree
Tags: Fantasy

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An evil plot throws the Eight Wizardoms into chaos. Heroes old and new assemble to combat this daunting threat. Thirty-plus hours of adventure, intrigue, and witty banter!