Audible Picks August 9, 2023

Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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From Tunde Oyeneyin, the massively popular Peloton instructor, fitness star, and founder of SPEAK, comes an empowering, inspiring book about how she transformed grief, setbacks, and flaws into growth, self-confidence, and triumph—perfect for fans of Shonda Rhimes, Brene Brown, and Glennon Doyle.

Relax & Retire: Debunking Inflation Fears book cover
Genre: Finance

Relax & Retire: Debunking Inflation Fears

By Josh Scandlen, narrated by Zachary Locklear
Tags: Finance

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Inflation worries keeping you from retiring? Are you stuck in a Crappy, Old Job (COJ) feeling hopeless that you'll never be able to leave? Have no fear! We destroy the fear-mongers in this book with example after example of how wrong the naysayers are. Oh, they won't stop with the peddling of doom and gloom mind you.

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships book cover
Genre: Business

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

By Leil Lowndes, narrated by Leil Lowndes and Joyce Bean
Tags: Business

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What is that magic quality that makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover). In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their “Midas touch?” What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Foundation

By Isaac Asimov, narrated by Scott Brick
Tags: Science Fiction

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For 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years.

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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 79-year-old librarian Millicent Carmichael, a.k.a. 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: Clean Romance

A Home of Her Own

By Brenda Novak, narrated by Brenda Novak
Tags: Clean Romance

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When Lucky Caldwell was 10, her mother, Red - the best-known hooker in Dundee, Idaho - married Morris Caldwell, a wealthy and much older man. It didn't last, of course, but Morris' kindness was the highlight of Lucky's life. Mike Hill, Morris' grandson, doesn't feel too well-disposed toward Red or her kids. He believes they alienated Morris from his family.

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Genre: True Crime

Torture Mom

By Ryan Green, narrated by Steve White
Tags: True Crime

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In July 1965, teenagers Sylvia and Jenny Likens were left in the temporary care of Gertrude Baniszewski, a middle-aged single mother, and her seven children. The Baniszewski household was overrun with children. There were few rules and ample freedom. Sadly, the environment created a dangerous hierarchy of social Darwinism where the strong preyed on the weak.

The Ghostly Visitation (The Sycamore Grove Paranormal Cozy Mystery Series Book 1) book cover
Genre: Mystery
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When Eden Kyle, artist and tarot reader, moves to Sycamore Grove to help her niece develop a new store, she starts seeing and hearing ghosts in the building where she is visiting. Eden gets pulled into figuring out who recently killed one ghost. A new & exciting cozy mystery series. Will she be able to uncover the disturbing secrets behind his death?

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The Man in the Vents

By Oliver Kane, narrated by Jon Alpha
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Two curious young boys seek to investigate a long-abandoned gangster mansion on the far end of their town. What has truly drawn them toward it and just what they might find, they do not know. Sometimes violent places attract violent things. Dark things. Hungry things...Evil is hungry. Curiosity kills.

Club Vidéo (The Hugo Duchamp Prequel Trilogy Book 2) book cover
Genre: Mystery

Club Vidéo (The Hugo Duchamp Prequel Trilogy Book 2)

By GN Hetherington, narrated by Charlie Keefe
Tags: Mystery

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A year since the explosive events of "Hugo & Josef, and a teenage Hugo Duchamp is struggling to overcome the mental and physical scars of the trauma.When a young girl is reported missing, Hugo is befriended by a charming and charismatic young man. But as Hugo has already learned, nothing is ever what it seems and it is not long before his own life is in danger once again.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

This Baby Business

By Heatherly Bell, narrated by Kimberly Austin
Tags: Steamy Romance

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When the single dad next door needs a nanny, it turns out he might actually save my online baby business.

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The Catastrophe Test

By NJ Barker, narrated by Johny Walsh
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A short novella thriller introducing Kennedy Logan. If you like the idea of a female Jack Reacher meets The Kingsman, you might enjoy this. ‘The Catastrophe Test is a fast-moving, clever, well-written novella that will only leave you wanting more.’ - Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things.

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Genre: Steamy Romance
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Lady Cassandra Fallon is finally ready to take control of her life and join her late mother’s investigative society. She’s more than confident she can do the job—even when her first case involves a potentially deadly scandal. What she’s not quite prepared for is her brother’s attractive friend acting as her self-appointed bodyguard....

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Genre: Fantasy

The Starved God

By Thomas Norford, narrated by Richard Auty
Tags: Fantasy

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In a distant, plausible future, an amateur naturalist contends with theocracy and monsters, to unlock the mysteries of life. The Starved God is a philosophical adventure, with rich world-building, memorable characters and a riveting plot.

Westside Oracle (Midlife Olympians: The Oracle Chronicles Book 1) book cover
Genre: Fantasy

Westside Oracle (Midlife Olympians: The Oracle Chronicles Book 1)

By T.J. Deschamps, narrated by Cassandra Medcalf
Tags: Fantasy

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When I quit my job as a fake fortuneteller to become the Oracle, of course, there were strings attached. Olympic-sized strings. Westside Oracle is a modern epic of Homeric proportions with romance, belly laughs, and ibuprofen chasers.