Audible Picks April 15, 2020

Becoming Eve book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

Becoming Eve

By Abby Stein
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Liar's Ball

By Vicky Ward
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Harry Macklowe is one of the most notorious wheelers and dealers of the real-estate world, and The Liar's Ball is the story of the gamblers and thieves who populate his world. Watch as Harry makes the gutsy bid for midtown Manhattan's famous GM building and puts almost no money down, landing the billion-dollar transaction that made him the poster child for New York's real-estate royalty.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

My Daddy Is a Hero

By Lena Derhally
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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A husband. A father. A killer. Chris Watts was a family man. Everybody, including his family, believed that. Yet, on August 13, 2018, he murdered Shanann, his pregnant wife, and two young daughters. As terrible as his story is, it is also a warning because, to this day, living behind bars, Watts is still acting out the character traits that made him kill in the first place.

Emberhawk (The Katrosi Revolution Book 1) book cover
Genre: Young Adult
Tags: Young Adult

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The Elementals have decided they're gods, and humans are nothing but fuel for their fire. A starving trapper. Merciless drought withers Kira's ranch, leaving her family hungry and desperate enough to cross the border into the forbidden forest to trap wild game.

The Day I Died: Apocalypse Cycle book cover
Genre: Young Adult
Tags: Young Adult

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Some say that rules are meant to be broken. For Oshin, her world shattered on the day she was betrayed. A secret meeting leads her beyond the safety of her city. Lured by the ignorance that comes with being lonely and hopeful, Oshin was about to discover just how severe consequences could be. Lost and alone, she waited; no one came. But they did. The infected, the decaying, the undead.

Hidden Desire (The Hidden Saga Book 6) book cover
Genre: Young Adult
Tags: Young Adult

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Culley Rune is the perfect guy - as far as anyone can see. Inside, he knows he's unlovable, unworthy, unwanted. He's done terrible things in service to his father, the corrupt leader of the Dark Council - including playing a pivotal role in the mysterious new drug epidemic that's sweeping the human population of the world.

Assassination Protocol (Cerberus Book 1) book cover
Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction

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Nolan Garrett is Cerberus. A government assassin, tasked with fixing the galaxy's darkest, ugliest problems with a bullet to the brain. Armed with cutting-edge weapons and an AI-run cybernetic suit that controls his paralyzed legs, he is the fist in the shadows, the dagger to the heart of the Nyzarian Empire's enemies.

The Enigma Cube book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

The Enigma Cube

By Douglas E. Richards
Tags: Science Fiction

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Dr. Kelly Connolly is part of a top-secret team studying the most important find in human history - the Enigma Cube, an alien artifact of incomprehensible power. A cube whose technology can catapult civilization to dizzying heights - or destroy it entirely.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Book of Koli

By M. R. Carey
Tags: Science Fiction

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Everything that lives hates us... Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will.

Decimate (Rise of the Realms Book 4) book cover
Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Fantasy

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The first battle is over and the people of the realms grieve for the fallen. Meanwhile, Aiden, Eliza, Kat, and Dyson return to the Earth Realm, fleeing accusations of war mongering, while Tember and Jaemes venture toward the elf tribes in seek of aid. They’ll need numbers for the coming battle and they’re not above fighting to get what they need.

The End of Surrender (Stalwart Link Series Book 4) book cover
Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Fantasy

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In this epic culmination of the series, Andar must venture deep into the ever growing rift in hopes of destroying it as the rest of his allies take on the massive beast that guards it. But when a problem forces Andar to deviate from the plan, his allies are left wondering what they must do now.

Mercy's Trial (Fury of a Rising Dragon Book 3) book cover
Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Fantasy

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Grasping at a sliver of hope, a group of friends undertake a perilous quest last attempted thousands of years ago . . . a quest to summon dragons. A ruthless enemy has conquered Augum's kingdom. Sheltered beneath a protective dome, the Academy of Arcane Arts stands as the sole remaining stronghold.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

A Luminous Republic

By Andrés Barba
Tags: Literary Fiction

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San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city - small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived. No one knew where they came from: 32 kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to the trees.

Wild at Heart (The Simple Wild Book 2) book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Calla Fletcher returns to Toronto a different person, struggling to find direction and still very much in love with the rugged bush pilot she left behind. When Jonah arrives on her doorstep with a proposition she can't dismiss, she takes the leap and rushes back to Alaska to begin their exciting future together.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Five Little Indians

By Michelle Good
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention.

Landon & Shay (The L&S Duet Book 1) book cover
Genre: Clean Romance
Tags: Clean Romance Steamy Romance

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Shay Gable hated my guts, and I hated hers, too. We went out of our way to avoid one another at all times. When she came in my direction, I went the other. When we locked eyes, she’d turn and walk away. All of that changed the day I was presented with a challenge. It started out as a stupid bet: make Shay fall in love with me before I fell in love with her first.

The Billionaire Book Club (Billionaire Collection Series Book 3) book cover
Genre: Clean Romance
Tags: Clean Romance Steamy Romance

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For the entirety of my adult life, I've been content. Content in my single lifestyle, content in my stressful-but-extremely-successful job as the main corporate counsel for almost every Fortune 500 company in North America, and content in my playful, spontaneous ways.

Need You Now book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

Need You Now

By Molly O'Keefe
Tags: Clean Romance Steamy Romance

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I have loved Rosa since I met her in high-school English, even though the odds have always been stacked against us: She’s the child of criminals, resigned to a bleak future; I’m the heir to a successful construction company, unafraid to go after what I want. And I want Rosa. Always and forever.

A Bad Day for Sunshine book cover
Genre: Mystery

A Bad Day for Sunshine

By Darynda Jones
Tags: Mystery

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Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, strong cups of coffee—and, now, a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff—thanks to her adorably meddlesome parents who nominated her—and she expects her biggest crime wave to involve an elderly flasher named Doug.

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Genre: Mystery

The New Husband

By D. J. Palmer
Tags: Mystery

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Nina Garrity learned that the hard way after discovering that her missing husband, Glen, had been leading a double life with another woman. But Glen's gone—presumably drowned while fishing on his boat—so she can't confront him about the affair or any of his other misdeeds. A year and a half after the accident, Nina considers herself a widow, even though the police never found a body.

Find Her Alive (Detective Josie Quinn Book 8) book cover
Genre: Mystery
Tags: Mystery

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Detective Josie Quinn hasn’t heard from her sister since Trinity stormed out of the house in the heat of an argument three weeks ago. So, when human remains are found at the remote hunting cabin where Trinity was last seen, Josie can only assume the worst.