Audible Picks July 7, 2021

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong Book 1) book cover
Genre: Children
Tags: Children

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Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle-grade American Gods set in a richly imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods.

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Genre: Children

The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children Mysteries Book 1)

By Gertrude Chandler Warner, narrated by Aimee Lilly
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One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are orphans. Can they find a home where they can stay together as a family?

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Genre: Business

The War on Small Business

By Carol Roth, narrated by Chris Henry Coffey
Tags: Business

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In 2020, the American economy suffered the biggest financial collapse in history. But while Main Street suffered like never before, the stock market continued to reach new highs. How could this be? The answer is that the government had slapped oppressive restrictions on small businesses while propping up Wall Street and engineering a historic consolidation of power and wealth.

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Genre: Finance

Three Days at Camp David

By Jeffrey E. Garten, narrated by Grover Gardner
Tags: Finance

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The former dean of the Yale School of Management and undersecretary of commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard - breaking the link between gold and the dollar - transforming the entire global monetary system.

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Genre: True Crime

The Key Man

By Simon Clark, narrated by Peter Noble
Tags: True Crime

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In this compelling story of lies, greed, and tarnished idealism, two Wall Street Journal reporters investigate a man who Bill Gates, Western governments, and other investors entrusted with billions of dollars to make profits and end poverty, but who now stands accused of masterminding one of the biggest, most brazen financial frauds ever.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

How I Saved the World

By Jesse Watters, narrated by Larry Wayne
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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In How I Saved the World, Jesse Watters takes listeners on a tour of his life from basement-dwelling Fox minion to pampered champion of right-thinking Americans. He has divined great truths about the nature of our country while stumbling across beaches asking oblivious college students basic political questions and while stumbling out of Air Force One with the president.

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Genre: Science Fiction

We Have Always Been Here

By Lena Nguyen, narrated by Catherine Ho
Tags: Science Fiction

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Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. Her purpose is to observe the thirteen human crew members aboard the ship as they assess the colonization potential of the planet, Eos. But frictions develop as Park befriends the androids of the ship, while the rest of the crew treats them with suspicion and even outright hostility.

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Genre: Fantasy

Half Sick of Shadows

By Laura Sebastian, narrated by Ell Potter
Tags: Fantasy

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The Lady of Shalott reclaims her story in this bold feminist reimagining of the Arthurian myth from the New York Times best-selling author of Ash Princess. "Magical, haunting, unique - I haven't been so excited about an Arthur book since I read The Once and Future King." (Tamora Pierce, number-one New York Times best-selling author.)

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Tiger Mom's Tale

By Lyn Liao Butler, narrated by Natalie Naudus
Tags: Literary Fiction

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"The Tiger Mom's Tale is a heartfelt, delightful read. Lyn Liao Butler's story of Taiwanese and American identity had me turning pages and laughing (and drooling over the delicious descriptions of food)." (Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown, winner of the 2020 National Book Award.)

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Genre: Clean Romance

Too Good to Be Real

By Melonie Johnson, narrated by Juliana Solo & Cody Gordon
Tags: Clean Romance

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In her debut, Melonie Johnson brings her signature humor, sexy romance, and strong female friendships in this hilarious romantic comedy about finding perfectly imperfect love, Too Good to Be Real. She plans to prove there's a dozen reasons why life isn't like a romantic comedy, only to discover the one reason it is...

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Just One Scandal

By Carly Phillips, narrated by Mackenzie Cartwright & Connor Crais
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Chloe Kingston’s life is exactly how she needs it: safe and stable. Right up until her reliable, low-risk fiancé jilts her on their fairy-tale wedding day. As she works her way through the reception champagne - and wonders where she’s going to live - she stumbles into her brother Linc’s ex-best friend.

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Genre: Mystery

An Ambush of Widows

By Jeff Abbott, narrated by Christine Lakin
Tags: Mystery

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In New York Times best-selling author Jeff Abbott’s latest novel of riveting psychological suspense, an uneasy alliance forms as two widows delve into their husbands’ deadly and dangerous secrets - as they try to protect their own.

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Sleeping Bear

By Connor Sullivan, narrated by Hillary Huber
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“Sleeping Bear is one of the very best thrillers you’ll read this year. It’s one of those rare novels that keeps getting better and better and better.” - James Patterson. This white-knuckled debut thriller follows a former Army veteran seeking solitude in the Alaskan wilderness after her husband’s death - only to find herself a pawn in a deadly game with Russia.