Audible Picks February 22, 2023

Audible Picks February 22, 2023

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

By Ada Calhoun, narrated by Ada Calhoun
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Inspired by her wildly popular New York Times essay "The Wedding Toast I'll Never Give", Ada Calhoun provides a funny (but not flip), smart (but not smug) take on the institution of marriage.

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Genre: Finance
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Building wealth is always possible, even while working full-time, earning a median income, and paying off debt. By layering philosophy with practical knowledge, Set for Life gives young professionals the action plan they need to conquer their financial goals early in life.

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Genre: Business
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Writing Without Bullsh*t is the first comprehensive guide to writing for today's world: a noisy environment where everyone reads what you write on screens. The average news story now gets only 36 seconds of attention. Unless you change how you write, your emails, reports, and Web copy don't stand a chance.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Ballistic Kiss

By Richard Kadrey, narrated by MacLeod Andrews
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As the battle between warring angels continues, James Stark is focused on seemingly simpler matters now that he's resurfaced on earth: an invasion of ghosts. L.A.'s Little Cairo neighborhood has suddenly been overrun by violent spirits, and Thomas Abbott knows if anyone can figure out why they've appeared—and how to get rid of them—it's Stark.

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Rancher's Wager

By Maisey Yates, narrated by Samantha Cook
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No one gets under Jackson Cooper’s skin like fellow ranch owner Cricket Maxfield. Now, facing off at a charity poker game, the stakes get personal. Jackson finds himself on the losing end… And paying up means being the ranch hand at Cricket’s beck and call. In close quarters, tempers flare - and the fire between them ignites into a passion that won’t be ignored…

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Genre: Mystery

How Lucky

By Will Leitch, narrated by Graham Halstead
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Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He’s got a couple close friends, a steady paycheck working for a regional airline, and, of course, for a few glorious days each fall, college football tailgates. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy - despite the fact that he’s suffered from a debilitating disease since he was a small child. .

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The Wives

By Tarryn Fisher, narrated by Lauren Fortgang
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You’ve never met the other wives. None of you know each other, and because of this unconventional arrangement, you can see your husband only one day a week. But you love him so much you don’t care. Or at least that’s what you’ve told yourself.

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Freefall

By Jessica Barry, narrated by Hillary Huber, Karissa Vacker and, MacLeod Andrews
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They say your daughter is dead. You know they’re wrong. When her fiancé’s private plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies, everyone assumes Allison Carpenter is dead.

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Genre: Mystery

Garden of Lamentations

By Deborah Crombie, narrated by Gerard Doyle
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On a beautiful morning in mid-May, the body of a young woman is found in one of Notting Hill's private gardens. To passersby, the pretty girl in the white dress looks as if she's sleeping. But Reagan Keating has been murdered, and the lead detective, DI Kerry Boatman, turns to Gemma James for help.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Song of the Lion

By Anne Hillerman, narrated by Christina Delaine
Tags: Literary Fiction

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A deadly bombing takes Navajo Tribal cops Bernadette Manuelito, Jim Chee, and their mentor, the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, back into the past to find a vengeful killer in this riveting Southwestern mystery from the best-selling author of Spider Woman's Daughter and Rock with Wings.

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Genre: True Crime
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When at a bookstore, do you bolt for the romance section, or do you linger around historical novels? Are you interested in the psychology of murderers or have a morbid curiosity about the underworld of crime? Would you prefer a coming-of-age story or an edge-of-your-seat thriller? If you said the options, I predict you did, then pick this book...

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Genre: Fantasy

The Vow That Twisted Fate (The Vow That Twisted Fate Book 2)

By Katherine D. Graham, narrated by Talon David
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When a portal to a dimension in which all evil has been banished for five hundred years, can young Queen Arlena and a company of time-traveling Dwarven warriors defeat an evil sorceress and close the portal before all that they love is lost? Find out in this Epic Fantasy novel by USA Today Bestselling Author Katherine D. Graham.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Blinded Me with Science (Lesson in Love Book 2)

By Tara September, narrated by Bridget Gardner
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College is in session, will the lesson be love or heartbreak? Good girl Emerson is about to spice things up with the rock star's son! "This is a coming-of-age story, with a fun plot, and is a great listen! Bridget Gardner does a fabulous job bringing this story to life." Also on SALE on Google Play, Chirp and Apple!

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Genre: Steamy Romance

The Cowboy and His Obsession (Rock Springs Texas Book 3)

By Kaci M. Rose, narrated by Veronica Reggie
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She's his best friend. He's the cowboy who's been obsessed with her for years. Megan is hell bent on staying friends, and I'm hell bent on making her, my wife. A friends to lovers, cowboy, small town, dual virgins romance.

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Genre: Fantasy

Of Sand and Bone (Breath Book 2)

By Victoria Dougherty, narrated by Emily Lawrence
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Cairo, 1902. The golden age of archeology is in full swing. As the rich and powerful mingle, and ancient worlds are uncovered in a gold rush attracting historians, world leaders, murderers and thieves, a pair of lovers see signs that a more sinister relic is about to be unearthed.

Audible Picks February 15, 2023

Audible Picks February 15, 2023

Dreaming the Beatles: A Love Story of One Band and the Whole World book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone columnist and best-selling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.

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Genre: Finance

Millionaire Success Habits: The Gateway to Wealth & Prosperity

By Dean Graziosi, narrated by Mark Steinbeck
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Legendary business coach Dean Graziosi has broken down the walls of complexity around success and created simple success recipes that you can quickly put to use in your life to reach the level of wealth and abundance you desire.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Master of the Revels (D.O.D.O. Book 2)

By Nicole Galland, narrated by Laurence Bouvard and More
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This fast-paced sequel to the New York Times bestselling near-future adventure The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. picks up where the original left off, as Tristan, Mel, and their fellow outcasts from the Department of Diachronic Operations (D.O.D.O.) fight to stop the powerful Irish witch Gráinne from using time travel to reverse the evolution of all modern technology.

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Genre: Fantasy

Dragon Keeper (Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 1)

By Robin Hobb, narrated by Anne Flosnik
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For years, the Trader cities valiantly battled their enemies, the Chalcedeans. But they could not have staved off invasion without the powerful dragon, Tintaglia. In return, the Traders promised to help her serpents migrate up the Rain Wild River after a long exile at sea - to find a safe haven and, Tintaglia hopes, to restore her species.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Last Port of Call (The Queenstown Series Book 1)

By Jean Grainger, narrated by Siobhan Waring
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Twelve-year-old Harp Delaney is an unusual child, quiet and intelligent far beyond her years. She would rather spend her days in the library of the grand Georgian house that she sees as her home than playing on the streets with other children. Her mother, Rose, is the reserved and ladylike housekeeper at the Cliff House.

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Genre: True Crime

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By David Grann, narrated by Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee and, Danny Campbell
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In the 1920s the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

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Violent Peace (Dan Lenson Novels Book 20)

By David Poyer, narrated by Gary Galone
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While Admiral Dan Lenson motorcycles across a post-Armageddon US in search of his missing daughter, his wife, Blair Titus, lands in a spookily deserted, riot-torn Beijing to negotiate the reunification of Taiwan with the rest of China and try to create a democratic government.

Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential book cover
Genre: Business
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Executive fellow at Harvard Business School, Guest Shark on Shark Tank, and famed angel investor Matt Higgins reveals the counterintuitive formula for a life of perpetual growth that has been practiced for thousands of years by military leaders and serial entrepreneurs alike—forget the Plan B and burn the boats.

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Genre: Mystery

The Taking (The Riverview Mysteries Book 3)

By Michele PW (Pariza Wacek), narrated by Kristin James
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Twenty-four years ago, five-year-old Tori walked into her newborn brother's room in the middle of the night and discovered a figure abducting him. Except his lifeless body was still in the crib. Or was it?

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Genre: Clean Romance

Bitten & Smitten (Immortality Bites Book 1)

By Michelle Rowen, narrated by Lillian Yves and Vincent Lee Grayson
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I'm Sarah Dearly. My fanged blind date made me a vampire against my will, I'm being chased by hunters with pointy sticks, and I'm trying to keep my sexy master vampire mentor from offing himself before we find the traitor in our midst getting us killed in droves. Welcome to my week from hell.

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More Heat than the Sun Box Set

By John Wiltshire, narrated by Gary Furlong
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If you love Hannibal/ Mads Mikkelsen, you'll LOVE the M/M Romance thriller series 'More Heat Than The Sun' series narrated by Gary Furlong. Book 1- Ex-SAS soldier Ben Rider falls in love with his enigmatic married boss, Sir Nikolas Mikkelsen, but Nikolas is living a lie.

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Genre: Mystery
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“I need you to solve my murder" was what the man partially disguised with a medical mask and large, ridiculous looking sunglasses, said when he approached Joey Mancuso.What followed was a series of murders—one body washing ashore at the Islamorada Sandbar, rattling sunbathers, another body with a bit-off leg, picked up by a fishing charter in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Love Wasn't the Goal

By J. Nichole, narrated by Edwin Andrews and Regina C. King
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He didn't want to be in a relationship. Definitely didn't want kids. But he ended up with both. And he wasn't mad about it.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Code Name (Zodiac Tactical Book 1)

By Janie Crouch, narrated by Antonio Amato and Avery Caris
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Zodiac Tactical is Ian DeRose's company. They guard, protect, rescue…eliminate the threat when nobody else can. Ian has always made sure there was nothing in his life he couldn’t live without. Until Wavy Bollinger. But now his enemies have taken her. His code name is Aries. And he will burn the world to the ground to get her back.

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Genre: Fantasy

Breath

By Victoria Dougherty, narrated by Emily Lawrence
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An ancient curse sends two lovers on a voyage through time, ensnaring them in an endless cycle of death and rebirth. From the most ancient civilizations to the modern day, Nif and Sherin must uncover a terrifying mystery – one so ominous that it threatens to destroy all of humanity - or be cast out into the universe and lose one another forever.

Audible Picks February 8, 2023

Audible Picks February 8, 2023

Nothing General About It: How Love (and Lithium) Saved Me On and Off General Hospital book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir
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The Emmy Award-winning star of General Hospital chronicles his astonishing and emotional life journey in this powerful memoir - an inspiring story of success, show business, and family, and his struggle with mental illness.

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Genre: Business

That's What She Said

By Joanne Lipman, narrated by Caroline Slaughter
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Going beyond the message of Lean In and The Confidence Code, Gannett's chief content officer contends that to achieve parity in the office, women don't have to change - men do - and, in this inclusive and realistic audio handbook, offers solutions to help professionals solve gender gap issues and achieve parity at work.

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Genre: Finance

The Last Resort

By Sarah Stodola, narrated by Ann Marie Gideon
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With its promise of escape from the strains of everyday life, the beach has a hold on the popular imagination as the ultimate paradise. In The Last Resort, Sarah Stodola dives into the psyche of the beachgoer and gets to the heart of what drives humans to seek out the sand.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Queen of Teeth

By Hailey Piper, narrated by Jenn Lee
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Within forty-eight hours, Yaya Betancourt will go from discovering teeth between her thighs to being hunted by one of the most powerful corporations in America. She assumes the vagina dentata is a side effect of a rare genetic condition caused by AlphaBeta Pharmaceutical, decades ago, when she and several thousand others were still in the womb.

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Genre: True Crime

In Cold Blood

By Truman Capote, narrated by Scott Brick
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On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.

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Ragdoll

By Daniel Cole, narrated by Alex Wyndham
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William Fawkes, a controversial detective known as The Wolf, has just been reinstated to his post after he was suspended for assaulting a vindicated suspect. Still under psychological evaluation, Fawkes returns to the force eager for a big case. W

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Never Have I Ever

By Joshilyn Jackson, narrated by Joshilyn Jackson
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Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it - teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted professor husband, her spirited 15-year-old stepdaughter, her adorable infant son.

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Genre: Mystery

In the Dark Places

By Peter Robinson, narrated by Simon Prebble
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Detective Alan Banks is back in this crackling novel of suspense, a moody and sophisticated mystery full of serpentine curves from New York Times best-selling, Edgar Award-winning author Peter Robinson. One of the world's greatest suspense writers returns with this sensational new novel featuring Inspector Alan Banks, hailed by Michael Connelly as "a man for all seasons".

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Genre: Mystery

The Strain

By Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, narrated by Ron Perlman
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They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come. In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months - the world.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Wild One

By Colleen McKeegan, narrated by Jesse Vilinsky
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Amanda is a born & bred New Yorker with an envious life: she's in a great graduate school program, lives in a cozy Tribeca apartment, and is head-over-heels for her handsome boyfriend. But Amanda's life isn't as picture-perfect as it seems. For over a decade she's been hiding a dark secret—a secret that goes back to that summer at Camp Catalpa when a man died in the woods.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Darke King (The Broken Immortals Book 1)

By Jessica White, narrated by GM Hakim
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A warlock king on a mission to defeat an ancient enemy, supernatural beings who can't seem to straighten out their love lives, and the secrets that bind them all.

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Cat Lady Special

By D. C. Gomez, narrated by Ja'Air Bush
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No money, no job or any potential of getting her life back on track, Angela finds herself at her wits end. With nothing to lose, she takes a leap of faith and goes from a depressed cat-lady to an arms dealer. Looking for a dark-humor adventure, full of quirky characters and second chances, take a listen at The Cat Lady

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Knocking Up His Nanny (Silver Mountain Book 2)

By Olivia Noble, narrated by Naomi Noble and Marcus Winter
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I’ve spent years as a dirt-broke, starving artist. When my mom's hospital bills start piling up, I take every odd job I can find in Silver Mountain. Eventually, that leads to a nanny position at the biggest mansion in town. The kids are cute as stuffed animals. The pay is great, and my luck seems to be improving.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Flirt

By Adriana Locke, narrated by Lance Greenfield and CJ Bloom
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WANTED: A SITUATION-SHIP. I’m a single female who’s tired of relationships ruining my life. However, there are times when a date would be helpful. If you’re a single man, preferably mid-twenties to late-thirties, and are in a similar situation, we might be a match. If interested, please email me. Time is of the essence. 

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Genre: Fantasy

Metamorphosis (Worlds of Fire Book 2)

By Deborah A. Bailey, narrated by Kristin James
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On the Floating World when two Alchemists fall in love it can be...complicated. Asira is a member of a high-ranking family of Alchemists. Jaydon, a powerful teacher at the university, is from a gargoyle shifter group known as the Gigun. When Asira becomes a target of dangerous magic, they must uncover the conspirators before it's too late.

Audible Picks February 1, 2023

Audible Picks February 1, 2023

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Joseph Anton

By Salman Rushdie, narrated by Sam Dastor
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On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran".

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Genre: Finance
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Dave Ramsey knows what it's like to have it all. By age 26, he had established a four-million-dollar real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age 30. He has since rebuilt his financial life and, through his workshops and his New York Times business best sellers Financial Peace and More than Enough.

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Genre: Business

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

By Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and, Alan Eagle, narrated by Dan Woren
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Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt.

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Genre: Fantasy

Burning Roses

By S.L. Huang, narrated by Nancy Wu
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Rosa, also known as Red Riding Hood, is done with wolves and woods. Hou Yi the Archer is tired, and knows she's past her prime. They would both rather just be retired, but that's not what the world has ready for them.

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Genre: Fantasy

Word Puppets

By Mary Robinette Kowal, narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal
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Celebrated as the author of five acclaimed historical fantasy novels in the Glamourist series, Mary Robinette Kowal is also well-known as an award-winning author of short science fiction and fantasy. Her stories encompass a wide range of themes, a covey of indelible characters, and settings that span from Earth's past to its near and far futures as well as even farther futures beyond.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Alive for Now (The Infected Dead Book 1)

By Bob Howard, narrated by Graham Halstead
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This is the story of the survival of one man who was the benefactor of a shelter that helped him to live through the onslaught of the infected dead. Beginning with the initial days of the apocalypse, Ed Jackson watches the world die from the safety of his shelter, but there are others who are also trying to stay alive as they seek refuge.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Book Woman's Daughter

By Kim Michele Richardson, narrated by Katie Schorr
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In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life.

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Genre: Clean Romance

His Lessons on Love

By Cathy Maxwell, narrated by Justine Eyre
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The Earl of Marsden - better known as Mars to all - has lived his life by his own rules…until he is presented with a very big problem in a very tiny package - a baby girl, his daughter cast off by his ex-mistress. Mars won’t let his child be cast adrift, except he doesn’t know the first thing about babies.

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Genre: True Crime

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

By Michelle McNamara, narrated by Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn and, Patton Oswalt
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For more than 10 years, a mysterious and violent predator committed 50 sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated 10 sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.

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The Girl on the Bridge (McCabe and Savage Thrillers Book 5)

By James Hayman, narrated by Stephen Mendel
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On a freezing December night, Hannah Reindel leaps to her death from an old railway bridge into the rushing waters of the river below. Yet the real cause of death was trauma suffered 12 years earlier, when Hannah was plucked from a crowd of freshman girls at a college fraternity party, drugged, and then viciously assaulted by six members of the college football team.

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Dead to Her

By Sarah Pinborough, narrated by Saskia Maarleveld
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"Once a cheat, always a cheat," they say. Marcie Maddox has worked hard to get where she is after the illicit affair that started her new life a few years ago. But her world of country clubs, yachts, and sumptuous houses in Savannah, Georgia, isn’t easy to maintain, no matter how hard she tries. Nor is keeping her husband, Jason, truly interested.

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Genre: Mystery

Mic Drop (Overruled Book 1)

By Jwyan C. Johnson, narrated by Priscilla Broussard
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It's a "street fight on a chessboard" as a controversial rap star switches lawyers for the courtroom war king, Miles Turner and "The Jury Whisperer" in a case they call The Mic Drop Murder. Can a top prosecutor rhyme "guilty" with "he'll be?" Or will this "David-AND-Goliath" defense once again manipulate manipulation itself? "All Rise!"

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Tender Touch

By Charlene Raddon, narrated by Douglas Wilkin
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After three years of marriage to an abusive husband, Brianna Wight fakes her death and flees to St. Louis . . . harboring terrible secrets that could be the death of her. The tragic loss of his Indian wife left Columbus Nigh a wanderer; necessity made him a wilderness guide. Now he finds himself drawn to this enigmatic widow who's hired him to take her to Oregon.

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Genre: Steamy Romance
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All three Northern Waste stories in one action-packed box set! WARNING: This box set includes non-stop action, Reavers, snowscooters, plasguns, frigid temperatures, rebels, kick-butt heroines, hot heroes, and some steamy scenes! Over 21 hours of audio! "Edgy, steamy, action-packed, and plotted with nail-biting tension..." —Library Journal

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Genre: Mystery

The Friday Edition: A Samantha Church Mystery, Book 1

By Betta Ferrendelli, narrated by Gabra Zachman
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Reporter Samantha Church must get through a corrupt police department and her own personal demons to discover her sister's murderer.

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

New Beginnings

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Helpline

By Katherine Collette, narrated by Jane U’Brien
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Germaine Johnson doesn’t need friends. She has her work and her Sudoku puzzles. Until, that is, an incident at her insurance company leaves her jobless - and it turns out that there are very few openings these days for senior mathematicians with zero people skills.

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Genre: Fantasy

Every Heart a Doorway

By Seanan McGuire, narrated by Cynthia Hopkins
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Children have always disappeared under the right conditions - slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere...else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.

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Genre: Mystery

The Good Daughter

By Karin Slaughter, narrated by Kathleen Early
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Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father - Pikeville's notorious defense attorney - devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Party of Two

By Jasmine Guillory, narrated by Janina Edwards
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Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior Senator Max Powell.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Meet Cute Diary

By Emery Lee, narrated by Logan Rozos
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Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There’s just one problem - all the stories are fake. What started as the fantasies of a trans boy afraid to step out of the closet has grown into a beacon of hope for trans listeners across the globe.

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Genre: Mystery

Blackmail and Bibingka

By Mia P. Manansala, narrated by Danice Cabanela
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It’s Christmastime in Shady Palms, but things are far from jolly for Lila Macapagal. Sure, her new business, the Brew-ha Cafe, is looking to turn a profit in its first year. And yes, she’s taken the first step in a new romance with her good friend Jae Park.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Midnight Library

By Matt Haig, narrated by Carey Mulligan
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Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir
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The megatalented creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder chronicles how saying yes for one year changed her life - and how it can change yours, too. With three hit shows on television and three children at home, the ubertalented Shonda Rhimes had lots of good reasons to say no when an unexpected invitation arrived.

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Life After Life

By Kate Atkinson, narrated by Fenella Woolgar
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On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Evvie Drake Starts Over

By Linda Holmes, narrated by Linda Holmes
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In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesn’t correct them.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

A Piece of Cake

By Cupcake Brown, narrated by Bahni Turpin
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11-year-old Cupcake woke up on the bicentennial and found her mother still in bed. She struggled to wake her up, pushing and pulling until she managed to tug her mother's lifeless corpse onto her own small body, crushing her beneath its dead weight. After squeezing out from under her mother, Cupcake calmly walked over to the phone and called her aunt Lori.

Audible Picks January 25, 2023

Audible Picks January 25, 2023

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran

By John Taylor, narrated by John Taylor
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With Duran Duran, John Taylor has created some of the greatest music of our time. From the disco dazzle of debut single "Planet Earth" right up to their latest number one album, All You Need is Now, Duran Duran has always had the power to sweep the world onto its feet.

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Genre: Finance

Everyday Millionaires

By Chris Hogan, narrated by Chris Hogan
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Everywhere we turn, we hear negative financial news - that the American Dream is dead or that the little man can’t get ahead. Our culture feeds us the lie that it’s impossible to become a millionaire in America today, but it’s time you heard the truth.

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Genre: Business

Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

By Jerry Colonna, narrated by Jerry Colonna
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Jerry Colonna helps start-up CEOs make peace with their demons, the psychological habits and behavioral patterns that have helped them to succeed - molding them into highly accomplished individuals - yet have been detrimental to their relationships and ultimate well-being.

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Genre: Fantasy

Once Upon a Midnight Drow (Goth Drow Book 1)

By Martha Carr and Michael Anderle, narrated by Devon Sorvari
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I'm not Goth to hide my Drow heritage, I'm Goth because I'm not a quitter. My name is Cheyenne Summerlin, remember that name. Somebody should... The world can't know I'm a Drow halfling. Not yet. I barely have these powers under my control, but time's up. I'm about to take magic for a test drive. Want to come along?

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Genre: Science Fiction

All Our Wrong Todays

By Elan Mastai, narrated by Elan Mastai
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You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed...because it wasn't necessary.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt

By Andrea Bobotis, narrated by Bernadette Dunne
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Judith Kratt inherited all the Kratt family had to offer - the pie safe, the copper clock, the murder that no one talks about - and she knows in her old bones that it's time to make an inventory of her household and its valuables.

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The Patient

By Jane Shemilt, narrated by Hilary Maclean
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Rachel is a respected doctor who lives in a picturesque and affluent English village where her husband Nathan teaches at an elite private school. Competent, unflappable, and nearing 50, Rachel has everything in her life firmly in her control, even if some of its early luster has worn off. But one day a new patient arrives at her practice for emergency treatment.

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Death by Cop

By Wayne Reid and Judge Charles Gill, narrated by Elizabeth Wiley
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A moving account of compassion, forgiveness, and hope for all. Learn about the emotional journey experienced from all sides and the impact on our lives. A groundbreaking story to inspire all.

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A Year at the Stables on Muddypuddle Lane

By Etti Summers, narrated by Rebecca Sharp
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One grumpy stable-owner. One hunky blacksmith. Will she fall for his charms, or will she lock the stable door on love? Fall in love with the English countryside in this delightfully feel-good story about life, love, and new beginnings

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Genre: Mystery

The Scarlet Oak: Murder, Spies, and Spirits

By Jerry Aylward, narrated by Frances Anderson
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A gripping tale of Murder, Spies, and Spirits in this riveting historical (Time Travel) thriller that mysteriously connects 238 years of unexplained deaths to the covert actions of an unsuspecting American Revolution patriot and the infamous betrayal of Benedict Arnold to the coastal village of Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.

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Desecration

By J.F. Penn, narrated by Rosalind Ashford
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A twisted thriller that will keep you guessing until the shocking end. A rebel cop and a museum researcher with an unusual gift race against time to stop a serial killer obsessed with body parts in London.

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Genre: Mystery

Ice Cold Murder (Charlie Kingsley Mysteries Book 2)

By Michele PW (Pariza Wacek), narrated by Kristin James
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What do you get when you combine an estranged family, a blizzard, a haunted house ... and murder? The world's WORST family gathering. Ever.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Ransom (Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team Book 1)

By Laramie Briscoe, narrated by Ariel Royce and Christopher Rourke
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When emergency K-9 handler Ransom comes to Stella’s rescue, she’s determined to thank him for his heroism — and finds herself caught in a firestorm of passion! A swoon-worthy romance that stars an irresistible alpha.

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Snowed in with Grumpy (Silver Mountain Book 1)

By Olivia Noble, narrated by Naomi Noble and Marcus Winter
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Ava's meeting with a powerful businessman goes horribly wrong, and she must visit his home in the mountains. He is grumpy and cold as he is handsome, and Ava's career depends on him. When an avalanche buries her car, it's Grumpy to the rescue. The two are stuck together, cozy and warm while the blizzard rages on. Will winter magic kindle a romance?

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Genre: Fantasy

Sinister Magic (Death Before Dragons Book 1)

By Lindsay Buroker, narrated by Vivienne Leheny
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I’m Val Thorvald, and I’ve been killing magical bad guys for the last twenty years. Life isn’t perfect (I’ve got enemies hunting me down left and right, my boss doesn’t appreciate my wit, and I haven’t seen my teenage daughter in ten years), but it could be worse. I’m getting by. Until a dragon shows up in Seattle and wants to kick my ass…

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Just Like the Other Girls

By Claire Douglas, narrated by Georgia Maguire
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At loose ends after the devastating death of her mother, Una Richardson responds to an advertisement for a ladies’ companion, a position that leads her into the wealthy, secluded world of Mrs. Elspeth McKenzie. But Elspeth's home isn’t the comforting haven it seems.

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Genre: Mystery

The Pallbearers Club

By Paul Tremblay, narrated by Graham Halstead, Xe Sands and, Elizabeth Wiley
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Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a 17-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friend thought the Pallbearers’ Club was cool.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

One Week to Claim It All

By Adriana Herrera, narrated by Frankie Corzo
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When Esmeralda Sambrano-Peña unexpectedly inherits her father’s media empire, it ruffles more than a few feathers. And no one is more conflicted about it than Rodrigo Almanzar. Esmeralda knows her father’s longtime protégé - and her ex-lover - wants the executive job for himself. Making matters worse, their renewed passion grows undeniable with every late-night meeting.

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Genre: Fantasy

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

By Alexander Freed, narrated by Jonathan Davis
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As the shadows of the Empire loom ever larger across the galaxy, so do deeply troubling rumors. The Rebellion has learned of a sinister Imperial plot to bring entire worlds to their knees. Deep in Empire-dominated space, a machine of unimaginable destructive power is nearing completion. A weapon too terrifying to contemplate and a threat that may be too great to overcome.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Planetside

By Michael Mammay, narrated by R.C. Bray
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War heroes aren't usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl answers the call from an old & powerful friend, he knows it's something big - and he's not being told the whole story. A high councilor's son has gone MIA out of Cappa Base, the space station orbiting a battle-ravaged planet.

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The rags-to-riches story of one of America's wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian - the daring aviator, movie mogul, risk taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las Vegas and Hollywood to become one of the leading financiers in American business.

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Melody Beattie’s compassionate and insightful look into codependency—the concept of losing oneself in the name of helping another—has guided millions of readers toward the understanding that they are powerless to change anyone but themselves and that caring for the self is where healing begins.

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The Priest (Vigilante Angels Book 1)

By Billy DeCarlo, narrated by Billy DeCarlo
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Enjoy this FREE vigilante justice noir crime audiobook! It's the tale of a former cop and Marine who receives a terminal diagnosis. He decides to make the world a better place with the little time he has, enlists the help of some like-minded patients and an unusual cast of characters. His biggest challenges, however, are inside his own home.

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Genre: Mystery

Polar Opposites

By Amity Allen, narrated by Penelope Graham
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A novice witch, a polar bear familiar & a murder under the Northern Lights. When a man is killed outside my back door, everyone becomes suspicious I'm the murderer. Eager to clear my name, I do my best to find the culprit. Now if I can only harness my newfound powers and find the murderer before Sheriff Brodie puts me in a jail cell...

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Bloodlines (Zane Clearwater Mystery Book 1)

By Lynn Lipinski, narrated by Markham Anderson
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A young man and his teenage sister dig into their late mother's history after her mysterious death, but they may have been better off not learning the family secrets.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Stolen Moments of Joy

By Hamour Baika, narrated by Finian Schwarz
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Abdul is on the edge. His loving boyfriend has violent outbursts. He faces persistent microaggressions everywhere in Baltimore. A recent police shooting reminds him of the sins of his past. When an attractive activist shows up in his workplace, Abdul gives in to his flirtatious advances. Would a sense of guilt make him stay in an abusive relationship?

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Genre: Fantasy

Calixta: The Vanquishers of Alhambra

By Omayra Velez, narrated by Corina Ollett
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Calixta works in an undesirable trade in a world where all people have a trade for life. She woke at the gates of heaven. There she met 20 of the most unlikely of beings. They sent her back to Talbert with some unique gifts. At her return, Evil chased her all over creation. She has some help from an unlikely friend. Will she succeed in her task?

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Selection (Sapient Salvation Series Book 1)

By Jayne Faith, narrated by Laurel Schroeder
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Twice a year, young men and women must compete in a deadly alien tournament. Maya must get through just one more Selection and then she's free. But fate has other plans for her. Thrown into the fight of her life, Maya must shed her innocence and use her wits to have a chance at survival -- and a love more epic than she could have imagined.

Audible Picks January 18, 2023

Audible Picks January 18, 2023

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Genre: Biography & Memoir
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Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the 45 days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life - and his family’s - as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence.

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As a newly divorced single mom making $24,000 per year and facing down $77,000 in debt, Kumiko Love worried constantly about money. She saw what other moms had - vacations, birthday parties, a house full of furniture - and felt ashamed that she and her son lived in a small apartment and ate dinner on the floor.

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Genre: Business

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

By Matt Ridley, narrated by Matt Ridley
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Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Alien Hostiles (Solar Warden Book 2)

By Ian Douglas, narrated by Nick Sullivan
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By exposing the sinister Saurians, Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Mark Hunter and his team have more than proven themselves. Yet the war between humanity and the intergalactic aliens has only begun - now they must save themselves and all of civilization.

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Genre: Fantasy

Reincarnation Blues

By Michael Poore, narrated by Mark Bramhall
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Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to "get it right". Answer all the big questions. Achieve wisdom. And become one with everything. Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. If he doesn't make the cut, oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Rewind

By Catherine Ryan Howard, narrated by Alana Kerr Collins
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Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night the unthinkable happens: a shadowy figure emerges on-screen, kills her, and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the camera? And how will Andrew live with himself?

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Genre: True Crime
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In her memoir All That Remains, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black recounted her life lived eye to eye with the Grim Reaper. During the course of it, she offered a primer on the basics of identifying human remains and a sober, compassionate understanding of its inescapable presence in our existence.

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Genre: Mystery

Lie in Wait

By Eric Rickstad, narrated by Amy Landon
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Even in a quiet Vermont town, unspeakable acts of the past can destroy the peace of the present. In the remote, pastoral hamlet of Canaan, Vermont, a high-profile legal case shatters the town's sense of peace and community. Anger simmers. Fear and prejudice awaken. Old friends turn on each other. Violence threatens.

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Genre: Mystery

The Chalk Man

By C. J. Tudor, narrated by Euan Morton
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In 1986, Eddie and his friends are on the verge of adolescence, spending their days biking in search of adventure. The chalk men are their secret code, stick figures they draw for one another as hidden messages. But one morning, the friends find a chalk man leading them to the woods. They follow the message, only to find the dead body of a teenage girl.

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A Touch of Malice (A Nick Bracco Thriller Book 4)

By Gary Ponzo, narrated by Gary Bennett
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FBI agent Nick Bracco is rushed to Columbia to save the US President's brother from a cartel leader. Bracco recruits his mafia-connected cousin Tommy to assist with the extraction, since Tommy can navigate the underground unabated. Tommy also uses a Russian assassin who owes him a favor. The story never leaves you time to breath.

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The Magdalene Deception (The Magdalene Chronicles Book 1)

By Gary McAvoy, narrated by Will Damron
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The very foundation of Christianity is at stake in this riveting thriller set in the Vatican Secret Archives. Join Father Michael Dominic and reporter Hana Sinclair, along with valiant Swiss Guards, as they try to prevent an explosive manuscript by Mary Magdalene from falling into the wrong hands—including those in the highest ranks of the Vatican.

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Genre: Fantasy

Samurai Tales: Legend of the Great Black Bear

By Timothy McCallum, narrated by Lauren Garvin
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During a time of turmoil, a samurai goes on a quest across the land to save his younger brother from a horde of barbarians. With their land under seige, they fight to survive and go on a journey that changes both their lives. Witness the legend of the Great Black Bear!

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Country Hot (The Wilders Book 4)

By Heatherly Bell, narrated by Kimberly Austin
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The infamous Wilder Sisters and the men who love them. From reunion romance, to enemies to lovers these sisters find love and romance along the coast of Monterey Bay. A collection of the three books in the popular Wilder Sisters series: Country Gold, She's Country Strong, and A Country Wedding.

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Loving Her Cowboy Enemy (Love, Faith, and Cowboys Book 1)

By Rose Verde, narrated by Lorana Hoopes
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She's everything he wants. But they do not see eye to eye. Can they let God and let love?

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Nosy Neighbors

By Nina R Schluntz, narrated by Paul Stefano
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Julian is used to drama: seeing ghosts tends to do that to a person’s life. But when he falls for a man known as the neighborhood murderer–the dead help him uncover secrets no housewife could predict. Moving into a suburban, middle class, stereotypical neighborhood was never on Julian’s to do list.

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Touch of Fondness (Stay in Touch Book 1)

By Joy Penny, narrated by Susan Marlowe
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Brielle Reyes may not have post-college life planned out, but she figures she'll work for her mother's home cleaning service while job hunting. It'll work out as long as she doesn't fall in love before she knows where she's going to wind up. Cantankerous if handsome comic book illustrator Archer Ward throws a wrench in those plans.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Crazy for You

By Kennedy Kovit, narrated by Sarah Van Sweden
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Meredith is home again, ready to settle down in her small town and open the antique shop she's always dreamed of owning. She's had enough of powerful men trying to use her and wants to simply fade away from the dating scene and enjoy life. When she runs into the diner's new owner, she quickly realizes her master plan might have been premature.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Dark Mind

By Ian Douglas, narrated by Nick Sullivan
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2425. The civil war between the United States of North America and the Pan-European Confederation is over. But before a new era of peace on Earth can begin, humankind must martial its interstellar forces as one fleet to engage in a war against an alien entity in Omega Centauri.

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Genre: Fantasy

Barren

By Peter V. Brett, narrated by Xe Sands
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Each night, the world is overrun by bloodthirsty demons. For centuries, humanity survived only by hiding behind defensive wards - magical symbols with the power to repel the demons. Now, the rediscovery of long-forgotten combat wards has given them the magic they need to fight back.

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Genre: Mystery

To Dwell in Darkness

By Deborah Crombie, narrated by Gerard Doyle
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Recently transferred to the London borough of Camden from Scotland Yard headquarters, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his new murder investigation team are called to a deadly bombing at historic St. Pancras Station. By fortunate coincidence, Melody Talbot, Gemma's trusted colleague, witnesses the explosion.

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Genre: Mystery

Rock with Wings

By Anne Hillerman, narrated by Christina Delaine
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Doing a good deed for a relative offers the perfect opportunity for Sergeant Jim Chee and his wife, Officer Bernie Manuelito, to get away from the daily grind of police work. But two cases will call them back from their short vacation and separate them - one near Shiprock and the other at iconic Monument Valley.

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Take Your Breath Away

By Linwood Barclay, narrated by Joe Knezevich and More
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One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder—it's always the husband, isn't it?—but the police could never build a strong case against him.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris “Biba” Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America

By Douglas Century, narrated by Sean Pratt and Gregory Korostishevsky
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Boris Nayfeld, aka “Biba”, is the last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America, and he’s survived to tell it all. Filled with sex, drugs, and murder, Biba’s story is a mind-boggling journey that took him from petty street crime in the USSR to billion-dollar embezzlement in America.

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Genre: True Crime
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When 11-year-old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession led James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave him PTSD.

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The Investigator

By John Sandford, narrated by Richard Ferrone
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By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master’s in economics, she’s restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles.

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Genre: Fantasy

Cowboy (Disrupted Equilibrium Book 2)

By William Bahl, narrated by William Bahl
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An elite hitman. The CEO of a major biotech firm. Strangers to each other. Connected by fate. Each will face betrayal and disaster as the secret organization behind a plan to unleash a deadly formula loses control and civilization begins to collapse worldwide.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Mail Order Abduction (Green River Brides Book 1)

By Leah Wyett, narrated by Gina Dobbs
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Immerse yourself in a heart-warming, suspense-filled adventure of growth and true love. Will Elijah rescue Lisette in time? Or is this one game that might just turn deadly?

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Discerning Grace (The White Sails Series Book 1)

By Emma Lombard, narrated by Siobhan Waring
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If Bridgerton and Pirates of the Caribbean had a love child. Grace Baxter is not a woman content with afternoon tea and scones! She would rather chance a life at sea than put up with unforgiving London society. Adventures on the high seas, bursting with action, suspense, and a dash of romance.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Good Girl

By Piper Lawson, narrated by Joe Arden and Savannah Peachwood
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When student Haley scores an internship on grumpy rock god Jax Jamieson’s tour, she doesn't plan to fall for him - or to catch his eye in return. An addictive, enthralling romance!

Audible Picks January 11, 2023

Audible Picks January 11, 2023

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart

By Massimo Vacchetta, Antonella Tomaselli and, Jamie Richards (Translator), narrated by James Anderson Foster and Hillary Huber (Introduction)
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Massimo Vacchetta, an Italian veterinarian specializing in large animals, is recently divorced and feeling heartbroken and depressed - until the day that someone brings an orphaned baby hedgehog into his clinic. As the tiny hedgehog cries and whimpers, Massimo immediately understands the extent of the animal's vulnerability and isolation.

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Genre: Business

Getting to Yes with Yourself

By William Ury, narrated by William Ury
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William Ury has taught tens of thousands of people from all walks of life - managers, salespeople, students, parents, lawyers, and diplomats - how to become better negotiators. Over the years, Ury has discovered that the greatest obstacle to successful agreements and satisfying relationships is not the other side, as difficult as they can be.

Invested: How Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Taught Me to Master My Mind, My Emotions, and My Money (With a Little Help from My Dad) book cover
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In this essential handbook - a blend of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Happiness Project - the cohost of the wildly popular InvestED podcast shares her yearlong journey learning to invest, as taught to her by her father, investor and best-selling author Phil Town.

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Genre: Fantasy

Ruthless (Immortal Enemies Book 2)

By Gena Showalter, narrated by Patrick Zeller
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Micah, fae King of the Forgotten, can tame even the most violent of beasts. Forged on the battlefield, this iron-willed warrior considers his soldiers his family, and he will stop at nothing to reclaim their dispossessed land. Gearing for war with a sadistic enemy, he is disciplined and focused—until a feral beauty he encountered long ago wanders into his camp.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Cold Between (Central Corps Book 1)

By Elizabeth Bonesteel, narrated by Katharine Mangold
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Deep in the stars, an officer and her lover are plunged into a murder mystery and a deadly conspiracy in this first entry in a stellar military science-fiction series in the tradition of Lois McMaster Bujold. When her crewmate is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps chief engineer Commander Elena Shaw is shocked to learn the main suspect is her lover, Treiko.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Heaven

By Mieko Kawakami, narrated by Scott Keiji Takeda
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Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

One Last Stop

By Casey McQuiston, narrated by Natalie Naudus
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For cynical 23-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

The Proposal

By Jasmine Guillory, narrated by Janina Edwards
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When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard proposal. Saying no isn't the hard part - they've only been dating for five months, and he can't even spell her name correctly. The hard part is having to face a stadium full of disappointed fans....

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Genre: True Crime

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

By Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher, narrated by Paul Holes
Tags: True Crime

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I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to me lately. I’m drinking too much. My sheets are soaking wet when I wake up from nightmares of decaying corpses. I order another drink and swig it, trying to forget about the latest case I can’t shake.

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Genre: Mystery

Nine Lives

By Peter Swanson, narrated by Jacques Roy and Mark Bramhall
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Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke - until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list. First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine.

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Genre: Mystery

Dark Objects

By Simon Toyne, narrated by Shazia Nicholls
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A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. But according to public records, neither of them exists. The only leads police have are several objects arranged around the woman’s body, including a set of keys and a book called How to Process a Murder by Laughton Rees. .

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The Cabin at the End of the World

By Paul Tremblay, narrated by Amy Landon
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Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road.

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Genre: Fantasy

Fangs & Fins (Blood, Bloom, & Water Book 1)

By Amy McNulty, narrated by Xoe Zen
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A dapper vampire. A sullen merman. Two heirs to a great conflict—and each needs to claim a beloved to become his kindred’s champion. Enter two stepsisters. The first book in the Blood, Bloom, & Water series sets family against family and friend against friend as an epic, ancient war comes to a head in a supposedly sleepy suburb.

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Genre: Clean Romance

A Love for the Pages

By Joy Penny, narrated by Dawn Huestis
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What bookworm library volunteer June doesn't expect to find at the library is her favorite romantic heroes brought to life--all in the same man. Obstinate, prideful and even a bit rude, Everett Rockford shouldn't exactly be "dating material," even if June's heart rate accelerates whenever she's near him.

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Cold Wallet: How Do You Trust the One You Loved?

By Rosy Fenwicke, narrated by Rosy Fenwicke
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"You have kind eyes." The last words Andrew said to Jess before he died on their honeymoon. Grief-stricken Jess returns to New Zealand and the cryptocurrency exchange Andrew left her in his will. As a physician, Jess knows nothing about cryptocurrency and turns to Andrew's associate, Henry—someone she has never liked. Does he mean to help or hinder her?