Audible Picks January 11, 2023

A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart book cover
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)
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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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.

Getting to Yes with Yourself book cover
Genre: Business

Getting to Yes with Yourself

By William Ury, narrated by William Ury
Tags: Business

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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
Genre: Finance
Tags: Finance

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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
Tags: Fantasy

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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
Tags: Science Fiction

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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.

Heaven book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Heaven

By Mieko Kawakami, narrated by Scott Keiji Takeda
Tags: Literary Fiction

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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
Tags: Steamy Romance

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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.

The Proposal book cover
Genre: Steamy Romance

The Proposal

By Jasmine Guillory, narrated by Janina Edwards
Tags: Steamy Romance

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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....

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases book cover
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.

Nine Lives book cover
Genre: Mystery

Nine Lives

By Peter Swanson, narrated by Jacques Roy and Mark Bramhall
Tags: Mystery

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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.

Dark Objects book cover
Genre: Mystery

Dark Objects

By Simon Toyne, narrated by Shazia Nicholls
Tags: Mystery

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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
Tags: Fantasy

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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
Tags: Clean Romance

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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.

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