Audible Picks December 6, 2023

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Genre: Finance

Outsmart the Money Magicians

By Christopher R. Manske, narrated by Graham Rowat
Tags: Finance

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Outsmart the Money Magicians provides clear, easy-to-understand action steps to protect your portfolio and maximize your wealth-building efforts. This book also gives experts and beginners alike an inside view to how Wall Street should improve.

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Genre: Business

Mastery

By Robert Greene, narrated by Fred Sanders
Tags: Business

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What did Charles Darwin, a middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? In Mastery, Robert Greene's fifth book, he mines the biographies of great historical figures for clues about gaining control over our own lives and destinies.

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Genre: Mystery

I'll Be Watching You

By Courtney Evan Tate, narrated by Vivienne Leheny
Tags: Mystery

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In an unthinkable flash, Emmy Fisher’s 15-year-old daughter, Leah, seemingly drowns close to shore one summer night - at least that is what the police report says. In deep grief, Emmy needs time and courage before she can enter Leah’s bedroom. But when she does, she finds something at first bewildering, then unspeakable, as she begins to understand the full implications....

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Legion: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Lawrence of Arabia

By Kevin Jackson, narrated by Mark Elstob
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Legion tells the astonishing life story of a man who was far more than a war hero; for Lawrence was also an archaeologist, a linguist and translator, a historian and classicist, a marine engineer, an airman, and one of the great English writers of the 20th century.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Troop

By Nick Cutter, narrated by Corey Brill
Tags: Science Fiction

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Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip - a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. The boys are a tight-knit crew. There’s Kent, one of the most popular kids in school; Ephraim and Max, also well-liked and easygoing; then there’s Newt the nerd, and Shelley the odd duck.

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Genre: Science Fiction

A Trick of Light

By Stan Lee and Kat Rosenfield, narrated by Yara Shahidi and More
Tags: Science Fiction

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Narrated by Yara Shahidi, one of today’s brightest talents, Stan Lee’s Alliances: A Trick of Light introduces listeners to a mysterious young woman, Nia, whose fate is intertwined with a seemingly ordinary Midwestern teenager, Cameron Ackerson, whose quest for YouTube stardom takes him to the heart of the Great Lakes Triangle where he is imbued with the power to "see" and "hear" a new reality.

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Genre: Fantasy

The Black Prism

By Brent Weeks, narrated by Simon Vance
Tags: Fantasy

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Guile is the Prism. He is high priest and emperor, a man whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. Yet Prisms never last, and Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live. When Guile discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

By Abbi Waxman, narrated by Emily Rankin
Tags: Literary Fiction

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The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner, and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book.

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Rebound

By Leeanne Slade, narrated by Claudia Jessie
Tags: Clean Romance

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Kitty Harris has it all: cosily coupled up with boyfriend Archie, she’s putting in the hours at an ad agency to land her dream job. OK, so maybe they’ve become a bit too comfortable in their routine, with pizza night every Thursday, and maybe the agency isn’t so much up-and-coming as been-and-gone, but Kitty is happy.

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Genre: True Crime
Tags: True Crime

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During the early morning hours of July 17, 1983, fatigue became a factor for the young couple from central Illinois who spent their day under the hot sun at Marriott’s Great America amusement park north of Chicago. On their drive home, the tired teenagers pulled to the shoulder of Interstate 55 to get a restful sleep.

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Chapter One

By Michael Wood, narrated by Stephen Hogan and Lucy Paterson
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For years, Aidan Cullen has dreamed of becoming a successful crime writer. When his hard work finally pays off and his first book is published, what should have been a night of celebration unravels into an evening of horror. Left for dead after a brutal attack, trauma leaves him paranoid and reclusive, and he retreats to the remote countryside with only his dog Nanook for company.

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The Rented Family

By Leliz Andiz, narrated by Danielle Fliller
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Stella Marigold ventured into van life for a reason, but a tempting job offer derails her plans. While the extra money is helpful and she'll get to mentor a young girl, the man who hired her isn't what he seems. The more Stella uncovers the truth, the more fearful she becomes as she realizes he’ll stop at nothing to protect his dark secrets.

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Genre: Mystery

Cimarron Falls

By Julie Adkison, narrated by Sydney Ryan and Hayden Hotchkiss
Tags: Mystery

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Could eavesdropping be deadly? Erica must answer this question when her dad admits that he wrote an anonymous letter to a young woman - a young woman who turned up dead at the bottom of Cimarron Falls. As the mystery unfolds in beautiful Colorado, Erica and her sisters must lay aside family dysfunction to rally around their parents in this crisis.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

The Billionaire's Demand (The Billionaire's Series Book 1)

By Ashley Sands, narrated by Zach Kovach and Natalie Armstrong
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Jenna has always found herself labeled as a good girl and is fed up with it. She yearns for some excitement and she plans on getting it with her stepbrother, Caleb. For Caleb, Jenna is the epitome of purity, and perhaps too good for him. Yet, the very moment he sees her, she becomes the object of his unyielding desire.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Show of Honor (Juniper Ridge Romantic Comedies Book 4)

By Tawna Fenske, narrated by Craig Zagurski and Aleta Nissen
Tags: Steamy Romance

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She rocked my world last Christmas. Now she’s here with my baby in her arms and I’m dressed as a deranged bear. I never dreamed I’d have a daughter since family life’s not easy for a Navy SEAL. But between gift wrap gaffes and mistletoe kisses, I’m falling hard. My mission now? Convince her we’re family before our small-town holiday clock runs out.

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Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Fantasy

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Abbie Lite witnesses a murder but she's terrified to come forward. At the end of her rope, she seeks guidance from a Brazilian shaman. During her shamanic session, she experiences visions that foretell events soon to come. On the street, she meets a man with silvery skin and the ability to read her thoughts--he's a time traveler from the year 2050.