Audible Picks December 15, 2021

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Genre: Children

Wizard for Hire

By Obert Skye, narrated by Kirby Heyborne
Tags: Children

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Ozzy, a fourteen-year-old boy from Oregon, is in desperate need of assistance. His scientist parents were kidnapped after discovering a formula for mind control. Their work was so top-secret that Ozzy is afraid to go to the police, but he fears he'll never find his parents if he doesn't. Then he finds a classified ad in the local newspaper that says "Hire a Wizard. Dial 555-SPEL."

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Genre: Children

Christmas Party Mystery

By PJ Ryan, narrated by Gwendolyn Druyor
Tags: Children

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Rebekah, Mouse, and R.J. all enjoy hanging out, solving mysteries, and pulling pranks on each other. The air is crisp, and Christmas is quickly approaching. It's time for R.J.'s parents' annual holiday party in town, and this year Mouse has been invited to join Rebekah. Of course, as soon as the three kids meet, a mystery begins.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

A Short Drink of Water

By Mara Altman, narrated by Mara Altman
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Altman challenges the assumption that being taller is better in her Audible Original A Short Drink of Water. Her journey to empower those on the short end of the stick provides a hilarious and heartfelt look at the differences between tall and short and how people attempt to narrow them both physically and psychologically.

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Genre: Finance

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By Caroline Criado Perez, narrated by Caroline Criado Perez
Tags: Finance Business

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Data is essential in today's world. However, because so much data fails to account for gender, because men are treated as the norm and women as outliers, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay a high price for this bias in terms of time, money, and, in some cases, their lives.

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Genre: Business

A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World out of Your Control

By Massimo Pigliucci, Gregory Lopez, narrated by Rupert Farley
Tags: Business

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Are you worried about a work meeting? Make a list of the things you can and cannot control. "In our power are thought, impulse, will to get, and will to avoid," Epictetus writes, referring to our own attitudes. Discover what you can control and achieve immediate peace of mind.

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Genre: Science Fiction

FantasticLand

By Mike Bockoven, narrated by Angela Dawe, Luke Daniels
Tags: Science Fiction

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When a hurricane wreaks havoc on the Florida coast, isolating FantasticLand, the employees find it anything but enjoyable. Five weeks later, authorities tasked with rescuing the survivors are confronted with a horrific scene. Photos of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops quickly go viral. How could a group of survivors commit such heinous crimes?

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Cloud Cuckoo Land

By Anthony Doerr, narrated by Marin Ireland, Simon Jones
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Anthony Doerr's gorgeous third novel, set in 15th-century Constantinople, a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decade's in the future. Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places in Cloud Cuckoo Land that reflects our vast interconnectedness - with other species, with each other, with those who came before us, and with those who will come after us.

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Genre: Clean Romance

One Day in December

By Josie Silver, narrated by Eleanor Tomlinson, Charlie Anson
Tags: Clean Romance

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There are two people. You have ten chances. This is one unforgettable love story. Laurie is convinced that love, at first sight, exists only in movies. But then, one snowy December day, she sees a man through a misted-up bus window and knows he's the one. When their gazes meet, there is a brief moment of pure magic...and then her bus departs.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Call Me Crazy

By Melanie Harlow, narrated by Teddy Hamilton, Samantha Brentmoor
Tags: Steamy Romance

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In order to inherit the family business, I needed a wife - temporarily. She also required a favor, one that would take nine months to complete. From the no-touching policy on our wedding night to the no-falling-in-love proclamation, we had it all figured out. She’d marry me, I’d give her the means to have the baby she’d always wanted, and one year later we’d amicably part ways with no hassle.

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Genre: True Crime

The House of Gucci: A True Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

By Sara Gay Forden, narrated by Sara Gay Forden, Fajer Al-Kaisi
Tags: True Crime

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On March 27, 1995, an unknown gunman assassinated Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, as he approached his Milan office. His ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani Martinelli was sentenced to 29 years in prison in 1998 for arranging his murder. Was she motivated by her glamorous ex's impending marriage to his mistress, Paola Franchi? Is it possible that she didn't do it at all?

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False Witness

By Karin Slaughter, narrated by Kathleen Early
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Leigh's ordinary life conceals a far from ordinary childhood... a childhood tainted by secrets, shattered by betrayal, and finally shattered by a heinous act of violence. Then a case involving a wealthy man accused of rape arrives on her desk. When she meets the accused, she realizes that his choice of her as his attorney is no accident. He knows who she is. He knows what happened 20 years ago.

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Genre: Mystery

What Alice Forgot

By Liane Moriarty, narrated by Tamara Lovatt-Smith
Tags: Mystery

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Alice Love is 29 years old, madly in love with her husband, and expecting her first child. Imagine Alice's surprise when she awakens on the floor of a gym and is whisked away to the hospital, where she discovers she's getting divorced, she has three children, and she's 39 years old. Alice must determine whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse and whether it is possible to begin again...

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Genre: Mystery

Lost in Lavender (Bennett Sisters Mysteries Book 13)

By Lise McClendon, narrated by Denice Stradling
Tags: Mystery

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Facing a crossroads, personal and professional, Elise Bennett runs away to Provence for a farm stay vacation on a picturesque lavender farm. As the only guest who is not a college student Elise feels like an outsider--she can't even plan a decent vacation. Can this girl be saved? Suspense, romance, and humor as the summer heats up in Provence.

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Genre: Fantasy

Calixta: The Vanquishers of Alhambra

By Omayra Velez, narrated by Corina Ollett
Tags: Fantasy

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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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Bullied

By Andrea M. Long, narrated by Kaya Thanky
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When Carla loses her teenage daughter after an extended period of bullying and harassment, she starts a vendetta against the perpetrator, a boy from her daughter's school. But not everything is as it seems. "A woman with nothing to lose? Satan would bow to her."

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Genre: Fantasy

Spark (Burning Moon Book 1)

By RK Close, narrated by Steven Barnett
Tags: Fantasy

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What's more dangerous to a secret wolf-shifter than vampires moving into town? A tenacious news reporter on the hunt for a story. Jessica Parker, a beautiful and determined reporter, pushes all of Liam's buttons — good and bad. Can he protect the woman who may be his mate from the town's newest blood-sucking residents—without making the evening news?

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Princess (The Johnson Family Book 1)

By Holly J. Martin, narrated by Rebecca Caton
Tags: Steamy Romance

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After escaping from an abusive halfway house, "Jack" Elsie Johnson forges her own path forward as a successful model, determined to forget about the town of Harmony, Maine, her family, and the pain of knowing their betrayal almost cost her her life. However, Jared Ross, her first love and the reason she was sent away isn't so easy to forget.