Audible Picks February 28, 2024

American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Since the Clinton era, shifts in media, politics, and pop culture have all redefined expectations of First Ladies, even as the boundaries set upon them have often remained anachronistic. With sharp insights and dozens of firsthand interviews with major players in the Biden, Obama, Trump, Bush, and Clinton orbits, including Jill Biden and Hillary Clinton, etc.

Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life book cover
Genre: Finance
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Billionaire investors. If we think of them, it’s with a mixture of awe and suspicion. Clearly, they possess a kind of genius - the proverbial Midas Touch. But are the skills they possess transferable? And do they have anything to teach us besides making money?

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Genre: Business

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

By General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and, Chris Fussell, narrated by Paul Michael
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Former General Stanley McChrystal held a key position for much of the War on Terror, as head of the Joint Special Operations Command. In Iraq, he found that despite the vastly superior resources, manpower, and training of the US Military, Al Qaeda had an advantage because of its structure as a loose network of small, independent cells.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Ready Player One

By Ernest Cline, narrated by Wil Wheaton
Tags: Science Fiction

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In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Forever (The Forever Series Book1)

By Craig Robertson, narrated by Scott Aiello
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Jon Ryan is irreverent, cocky, funny, and walks with a swagger. He says what he means, he says what he wants to, and, in fact, he says what needs to be said. The cocky fighter pilot turned astronaut is also Earth's only chance for survival.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Secrets We Left Behind

By Susan Elliot Wright, narrated by Ellen Archer
Tags: Literary Fiction

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It was a summer of love and a summer of secrets. She has built a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a home with warmth and love at its heart. But things were not always so good, and the truth is that she has done things she can never admit.

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Genre: Clean Romance

The Valet’s Secret

By Josi S. Kilpack, narrated by Justine Eyre
Tags: Clean Romance

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As a once happily married woman, Rebecca Parker lived a charmed life, but now widowed and working for a living, she feels alone and lives a mundane existence. That is until the day a valet speeding by on a horse nearly runs her off the road. Mr. Malcolm Henry is apologetic, gentle, and very handsome.

Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in FBI History book cover
Genre: True Crime
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Meet Michael Blutrich, mild-mannered New York lawyer and founder of Scores, the hottest strip club in New York City history, funded by the proceeds of an insurance embezzlement scheme. All Blutrich wanted was to lay low, make the club a success, and put his criminal acts behind him. But the Mafia got involved, and soon the FBI came knocking.

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Genre: Mystery

Snowstorm in August

By Marshall Karp, narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla and Michael Manuel
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They call him el Carnicero—the Butcher. He is the most powerful drug lord on the planet, and when the city of New York incurs his wrath, he utters a single word: “¡Venganza!”. With military precision, he strafes Central Park with 4,000 pounds of cocaine, killing hundreds of innocent people enjoying a summer afternoon.

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Genre: Mystery

The Crime Writer

By Gregg Hurwitz, narrated by Scott Brick
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Drew Danner, a crime novelist with a house off L.A.'s storied Mulholland Drive, awakens in a hospital bed with a scar on his head and no memory of being found convulsing over his ex-fiance's body the previous night. He was discovered holding a knife, her blood beneath his nails. He himself doesn't know whether he's guilty or innocent.

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Driven (Northern Waste Book 1)

By Eve Silver, narrated by Lillian Yves and Vincent Lee Grayson
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In a dystopian world, ice trucker Raina Bowen offers a ride to a sexy, secretive stranger and finds herself trying to outrun rival truckers, ice pirates, and a megalomaniac bent on their destruction. "Edgy, steamy, action-packed, and plotted with nail-biting tension..." —Library Journal, Starred Review.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Dragonslayer

By Isobelle Cate, narrated by Stafford Evans
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There's nothing Saxon wants to do more than rest in peace. But after five hundred years as a slayer, he still hasn't found his Omega -the last dragon he must kill and the keeper of his soul. But when he meets Orelle Molyneux, he's having second thoughts about dying and living the rest of his life with her. There's one problem. She's his Omega.

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Stranded: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Payback

By L. Lee Watkins, narrated by Virtual Voice
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A young civilian engineer agrees to provide technical support for a CIA team on a covert mission inside Iran in January 1979. The sudden exit of the Shaw, who had secretly supported the mission, puts the team in mortal danger. A female CIA agent takes the engineer under her wing and vows to get him out of the country. This is their story.

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The Haunting of Lakeside Woods

By Nicole Simon, narrated by Dini Stein
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A new beginning, a ghostly encounter, and a journey of self-discovery. Nothing could’ve prepared her for what was to come from that fateful boating accident. Now, struck by constant hauntings and visions after a near-death experience, will Sarah help the ghost that haunts her as she battles with her own demons?

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Genre: Fantasy

Demon Hunter

By Aubrey Law, narrated by Virtual Voice
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The Witch is back from Hell. All she wants is to avenge her father and defeat her enemies. However, it’s easier said than done, for her enemies are powerful Necromancers, deadly Archdemons, ruthless vampires – and her own mother. But after four hundred years of torment in the Lake of Fire, she will not give up.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Broken (Broken Trilogy Book 1)

By J.L. Drake, narrated by Elizabeth Klett
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My name is Savannah. My father is the mayor of New York. One day, I was grabbed from behind. A cloth sack pulled over my head and taken from everything I'd ever known. One night an elite group of US Army soldiers came to my rescue. As I work with a therapist and begin processing my hellish ordeal, things begin to surface. This is my story...

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Genre: Fantasy

C.H.A.R.O.N. (Night Vigil Book 2)

By Gail Z. Martin, narrated by Jeffrey Kafer
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C.H.A.R.O.N. is a dark urban fantasy thrill ride filled with Old World spirits, legends and lore, vengeful ghosts, magic, secret government agencies, Vatican ninja-priests, found family, small-town secrets, badass bartenders, psychics, mediums, witches, small-town heroes, and an unshakable bond of friendship.

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Genre: Fantasy

Beltane Fire

By A.L. Hawke, narrated by Alexa Elmy
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Cadence Hawthorne returns in this short story prequel about the pagan spring festival Beltane. The tale takes place in her Freshman year before Broomstick, Book I in the Hawthorne University Witch Series (TM). A NEW RELEASE audiobook released Dec 2023.