Audible Picks April 8, 2020

Stop Surviving Start Fighting book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Jazz Thornton first attempted to take her own life at the age of 12. Multiple attempts followed and she spent time in psychiatric wards and under medical supervision as she rode the rollercoaster of depression and anxiety through her teenage years - yet the attempts continued.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

True Crime USA

By Adrian Langenscheid
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It's no secret that "True Crime" is not for the faint-of-heart. These true and authentic criminal cases tell the stories of people known to us - friendly neighbors, devoted parents and/or loving partners. This book is about the people behind their bourgeois façade, where unspeakably deep human abysses exist that nobody, not even those closest to them, would have thought was possible.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

In Unison

By Jeremy Camp
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Jeremy Camp became a Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter, released four gold albums, and received two American Music Awards nominations. While on a three-month-long tour, Jeremy met and built a friendship with the lead singer of another band.

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Genre: Young Adult

What I Like About You

By Marisa Kanter
Tags: Young Adult

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Can a love triangle have only two people in it? Online, it can…but in the real world, its more complicated. In this debut novel that’s perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Morgan Matson, Marisa Kanter hilariously and poignantly explores what happens when internet friends turn into IRL crushes.

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Genre: Young Adult
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Sara Zarr, author of the National Book Award finalist Story of a Girl, returns with an intimate, exquisitely crafted novel of the courage it takes to see those we love for who they are. Kyle Baker thought his family was happy. Happy enough, anyway. That’s why, when Kyle learns that his mother has been having an affair and his father has been living with the secret, his reality is altered.

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Genre: Young Adult
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Fifteen-year-old JL Markham’s life used to be filled with carnival nights and hot summer days spent giggling with her forever-best-friend Aubrey about their families and boys. Together, they were unstoppable. But they aren’t the friends they once were.

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Genre: Science Fiction
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The chance of a lifetime... To live in a thrilling world of adventure... One with endless possibilities. Down on his luck and with his back against a wall, John Crussel would do anything to provide for his family. Even rob a bank out of desperation.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Shadow City

By Anna Mocikat
Tags: Science Fiction

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Los Angeles is an apocalyptic wasteland. Without orientation, Colton stumbles through the vast, deserted city. He doesn’t remember who he is and where he came from. Scavengers save his life from mutants and bring him to the only remaining inhabited area and safe zone in former Hollywood.

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Genre: Science Fiction
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The human race is running out of time on overcrowded Earth, and only one man has the courage to do what is necessary to save it. Colony ship Ark is the greatest project the human race will ever attempt, a self-contained world one hundred years in the building, launched on a ten thousand year voyage to carry the seeds of civilization to the stars.

Infernal Games (The Templar Chronicles Book 4) book cover
Genre: Fantasy
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer still…. The war with the Chiang Shih is over but the Templars have paid a high price for victory. Even the Echo Team has not escaped unscathed, its commander returned a changed man with his thirst for vengeance quenched, but his spirit broken.

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Genre: Fantasy

A Time of Courage

By John Gwynne
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Heroes shall rise and fall, the earth shall be stained red, and the fate of the Banished Lands will be decided once and for all in A Time of Courage, the final book in acclaimed fantasy author John Gwynne's Of Blood and Bone trilogy.

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Genre: Fantasy
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al Hawkins has succeeded in wreaking revenge on Kaspar, the evil Duke of Olasko. Banished to a distant land, Kaspar begins a journey that will take him halfway around the world. Reduced to the role of farm-hand, then common laborer, the former ruler endures dangers and horrors beyond his imagination as he struggles to return home.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Love Story of Missy Carmichael

By Beth Morrey, narrated by Harriet Walter
Tags: Literary Fiction

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The world has changed around seventy-nine-year-old librarian Millicent Carmichael, aka Missy. Though quick to admit that she often found her roles as a housewife and mother less than satisfying, Missy once led a bustling life driven by two children, an accomplished and celebrated husband, and a Classics degree from Cambridge.

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Genre: Literary Fiction
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In a small Australian country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family is beginning to unravel. Martha is straining against the confines of her life, lost in regret for what might have been, when an old flame shows up. In turn, her husband Mike becomes frustrated with his increasingly distant wife.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Ancestor

By Danielle Trussoni
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From the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of the Angelology series comes a bewitching gothic novel of suspense that plunges readers into a world of dark family secrets, the mysteries of human genetics, and the burden of family inheritance.

No Broken Beast (Heroes of Heart’s Edge Book 3) book cover
Genre: Clean Romance
Tags: Clean Romance Steamy Romance

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Fierce. Scarred. Ginormous grump. And I get to tell him he's a father... Brilliant life decisions - falling for the bad guy. Leo damn Regis. Hated scourge of Heart's Edge. A wall with arms and legs. Hercules dipped in ink. Incandescent eyes. The legend, the outcast, the boy I loved. But the man they call "Nine" isn't the villain they think.

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Genre: Clean Romance
Tags: Clean Romance Steamy Romance

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Three full-length office romance novels from number one New York Times best sellers, Vi Keeland. The collection includes: We Shouldn't, Ego Maniac, and The Naked Truth.

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Cruelest Stranger

By Winter Renshaw
Tags: Clean Romance Steamy Romance

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The first time I saw him was at a bar called Ophelia's on a misty Thursday night. I was there to drown my sorrows after a trying day, he was there to escape the storm. After a brief yet incredibly cruel exchange, the handsome stranger bolted before I had a chance to tell him off. Incensed and two cocktails deep, I followed him out the door, determined to give the audacious Adonis a piece of my mind.

Fake Truth (Ian Ludlow Thrillers Book 3) book cover
Genre: Mystery
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Author Ian Ludlow writes great adventures...but after helping Chinese movie star Wang Mei defect to the United States, he becomes the accidental hero of a real-life espionage thriller. Now he’s stuck with the actress - and suffering a nasty case of writer’s block - when he stumbles into a secret Russian plot using "fake news" to outrage Americans into believing a terrifying lie.

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Genre: Mystery
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Shayna Darby is finally coming to terms with her parents' deaths when she's delivered another blow. The body of her estranged twin sister, Angela - the possible victim of a serial killer - has been pulled from the Seine. Putting what's left of her life on hold, Shayna heads to Paris.

Hidden Salem (The Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Series Book 7) book cover
Genre: Mystery
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Nellie Cavendish has very good reasons to seek out her roots—and not only because she has no memory of her mother, and hardly knew the father who left her upbringing to paid caregivers. In the eight years since her twenty-first birthday, very odd things have begun to happen. Crows gather near her wherever she goes, electronics short out when she touches them, and when she’s upset, really upset, it storms.