Audible Picks January 24, 2024

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By Katherine May, narrated by Rebecca Lee
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a breakup, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job.

Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side book cover
Genre: Finance

Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side

By Howard Marks, narrated by Howard Marks and LJ Ganser
Tags: Finance

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We all know markets rise and fall, but when should you pull out, and when should you stay in? The answer is never black or white but is best reached through a keen understanding of the reasons behind the rhythm of cycles.

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Genre: Business
Tags: Business

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The Deluxe Edition of Leaders Eat Last, now with an expanded chapter and appendix on leading millennials, includes over 30 minutes of exclusive video and 30 minutes of audio of Simon Sinek. The acclaimed, bestselling author of Start With Why and Together is Better delves deeper into the book’s themes and shares additional examples and insights.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Days of Lot

By Mark Goodwin, narrated by A.W. Miller
Tags: Science Fiction

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As it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built, but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

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Genre: Science Fiction

TFS Ingenuity (The Terran Fleet Command Saga Book 1)

By Tori L. Harris, narrated by Jeffrey Kafer
Tags: Science Fiction

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It's the year 2277. For 50 years, Earth has received mysterious data transmissions from random locations in deep space. The streams include advanced technology, allowing humans to achieve faster-than-light travel virtually overnight. As we prepare to take our first tentative steps into interstellar space, we know almost nothing about our alien benefactors, and their motivations remain unexplained.

Blue Desert book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Blue Desert

By Celia Jeffries, narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Alice George is a headstrong young British woman who finds herself living among the Tuareg, a tribe of nomadic warriors. While the outside world faces the catastrophe of World War I, the Tuareg continue to crisscross the Sahara as a matrilineal society in which the men are veiled, and the women hold property—a world in which anything can happen.

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Genre: Clean Romance

So Not My Thing

By Melanie Jacobson, narrated by Jorjeana Marie
Tags: Clean Romance

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I hated Miles Crowe more than itchy socks, "namaste" puns on yoga tank tops, and chigger bites. Combined. Twenty-six-year-old New Orleans native Elle Jones used to be the internet's most famous meme for rejection thanks to an embarrassing teenage TV appearance.

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Genre: True Crime

The Ghost Club

By Kate Winkler Dawson, narrated by Kate Winkler Dawson
Tags: True Crime

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For more than a century, some of the world’s most important thinkers and leaders—men like Arthur Conan Doyle and William Butler Yeats—gathered once a month and discussed the supernatural at The Ghost Club in London. In the early 1900s, the club's chairman was Harry Price, the world’s most well-known ghost hunter.

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The Finishing School

By Joanna Goodman, narrated by Andi Arndt
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In this suspenseful, provocative novel of friendship, secrets, and deceit, a successful writer returns to her elite Swiss boarding school to get to the bottom of a tragic accident that took place while she was a student 20 years earlier. How far would you go to uncover the truth?

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Genre: Mystery

A Perfect Stranger

By Shalini Boland, narrated by Alison Campbell, Tamsin Kennard and, Ciaran Saward
Tags: Mystery

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Annie comes home from a market trip with her young son, George, only to make a gruesome discovery. Could the perpetrator be the new lodger she and her husband, David, just rented their spare bedroom to?

Triple Witch (Home Repair Is Homicide Book 2) book cover
Genre: Mystery

Triple Witch (Home Repair Is Homicide Book 2)

By Sarah Graves, narrated by Lindsay Ellison
Tags: Mystery

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Jacobia Tiptree saved her sanity - and her son, Sam - the day she abandoned Wall Street for the seacoast village of Eastport, Maine. In her new home, a charmingly dilapidated fixer-upper, she looks forward to repairing old radiators and restoring antique shutters for years to come. But Jake's hopes of serenity are dashed when tiny Eastport erupts in a crime wave.

The Gatekeeper's Staff: TJ Young & The Orishas, Book 1 book cover
Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Fantasy

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14-year-old TJ Young, raised in a secretive community of gifted diviners, embarks on a quest to uncover his magical roots after his sister's mysterious demise in Nigeria. He enrolls in Camp Olosa, a New Orleans-based school for those struggling with their magical abilities, where he uncovers his ties to the ancient Orishas.

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Genre: Fantasy

Brian Bradford's Bedtime Bookshop

By Brian Bradford, narrated by Wayne Farrell
Tags: Fantasy

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Embark on a whimsical journey with Brian Bradford’s seven captivating short stories! From the magic of reading to lessons in responsibility, love, and compassion, each tale blends enchantment with wisdom. Ideal for kids aged 8-12, these stories make perfect personal reads, bedtime stories, or road trip listens. Don’t miss out!

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Big Bad Billionaires Boxset

By L. Steele, narrated by Shane East, Roxy Isles, Faye Adele, John Hartley and, Ava Lucas
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Get EIGHT audiobooks for ONE Audible credit Chemistry ignites in these emotional romances featuring headstrong women and the grumpy billionaires who will do anything to win their hearts! For the first time ever, this boxed set bundle collects eight romance novels in a series that will satisfy discerning fans of the Billionaire genre.

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Her Last Lie

By J.S. Lark, narrated by Jodie Harris
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When the body of Jen’s teenage son, Eli, is found at the edge of a lake, her shock and grief are overwhelming. Fighting against the prejudice of the police and the press it becomes more and more difficult to separate the fiction from the facts… Will Jen catch the killer of her beloved son?

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Blind Date Rescue

By Serenity Raine, narrated by Natasha Nite
Tags: Steamy Romance

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His compliments and mannerisms ensured me he was feeling the same connection. A night of heated passion following a morning debacle led me to walk away alone. I have zero intentions of being a stage five clinger. Reality smacks me in the face, it turns out Mr. New is in town, and one-night stand is now my next-door neighbor…

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Genre: Fantasy

Waterspell: The Complete Series

By Deborah J. Lightfoot, narrated by Simon de Deney
Tags: Fantasy

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How far would you go to find where you belong? Seeking her identity and her destiny, lost traveler Carin moves in with a hot-tempered, emotionally damaged warlock who can't seem to decide whether to help her, love her, or kill her. "Epic. A riveting series and a great listen. Complex, well-developed characters. Plenty of mystery."