Audible Picks January 31, 2024

High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

By Tiffany Jenkins, narrated by Tiffany Jenkins
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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When word got out that Tiffany Jenkins was withdrawing from opiates on the floor of a jail cell, people in her town were shocked. Not because of the 20 felonies she’d committed, or the nature of her crimes, or even that she’d been captain of the high school cheerleading squad just a few years earlier, but because her boyfriend was a Deputy Sherriff and his friends ...

Strategy in 3D: Essential Tools to Diagnose, Decide, and Deliver book cover
Genre: Finance

Strategy in 3D: Essential Tools to Diagnose, Decide, and Deliver

By Greg Fisher, John E. Wisneski and, Rene M. Bakker, narrated by Al Kessel
Tags: Finance

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Strategy decision-making and action used to be off-limits to all but the select few at the very top of an organization. It was a largely cerebral activity focused on grand long-term plans made at annual off-site retreats away from the daily challenges of the business. That is no longer the case.

Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say--and What You Don't book cover
Genre: Business
Tags: Business

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You might imagine that an effective leader is someone who makes quick, intelligent decisions, gives inspiring speeches, and issues clear orders to their team so they can execute a plan to achieve your organization's goals. Unfortunately, David Marquet argues, that's an outdated model of leadership that just doesn't work anymore.

Abducted (The Alien Mate Index Book 1) book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

Abducted (The Alien Mate Index Book 1)

By Evangeline Anderson, narrated by Mackenzie Cartwright and William Martin
Tags: Science Fiction

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My name is Zoe McKinley. I have a boring life, an awful job, and a boss who throws staplers at my head. What could be worse? How about being abducted by aliens? Being dragged through a mirror, naked and screaming, onto an extraterrestrial ship was bad.

Left Behind book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

Left Behind

By Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, narrated by Richard Ferrone
Tags: Science Fiction

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An airborne Boeing 747 is headed to London when, without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun.

Sea Witch book cover
Genre: Fantasy

Sea Witch

By Sarah Henning, narrated by Billie Fulford-Brown
Tags: Fantasy

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Ever since her best friend Anna died, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. Hiding her talents, mourning her loss, drowning in her guilt. Then a girl with an uncanny resemblance to Anna appears on the shore, and the two girls catch the eyes of two charming princes. Suddenly Evie feels like she might finally have a chance at her own happily ever after.

Black Cake book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Black Cake

By Charmaine Wilkerson, narrated by Lynnette R. Freeman and Simone Mcintyre
Tags: Literary Fiction

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In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder.

Terror to the Wicked: America's First Trial by Jury That Ended a War and Helped to Form a Nation book cover
Genre: True Crime
Tags: True Crime

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A little-known moment in colonial history that changed the course of America’s future. A riveting account of a brutal killing, an all-out manhunt, and the first murder trial in America set against the backdrop of the Pequot War (between the Pequot tribe and the colonists of Massachusetts Bay) that ended this two-year war and brought about a peace that allowed the colonies to become a nation.

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The Dilemma

By B. A. Paris, narrated by Beth Eyre and Peter Noble
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Knowing the truth will destroy her. Keeping it secret will destroy him. It's Livia's 40th birthday, and her husband, Adam, is throwing her the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding they never had. Everyone she loves will be there, except her daughter, Marnie, who's studying abroad. But Livia is secretly glad Marnie won't be there.

The Watchers book cover
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The Watchers

By A.M. Shine, narrated by Jacqueline Milne
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You can't see them. But they can see you. This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging Mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her, the building is besieged by screams.

The Cold, Cold Ground book cover
Genre: Mystery

The Cold, Cold Ground

By Adrian McKinty, narrated by Gerard Doyle
Tags: Mystery

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Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things—and people—aren’t always what they seem. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all.

Later book cover
Genre: Mystery

Later

By Stephen King, narrated by Seth Numrich
Tags: Mystery

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The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine—as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit ...

My Three-Year-Old Is a Barbarian and Other Parenting Problems (Misfits of Carnt Book 1) book cover
Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Fantasy

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Necromantic rituals, murderous ogres, battle-scarred rangers: not a typical Saturday detention for unsuspecting teaching assistant Petra and her delinquent teen charges.

Three Stupid Weddings book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

Three Stupid Weddings

By Ann Gallagher, narrated by Michael Ferraiuolo
Tags: Clean Romance

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Victor is still licking his wounds after a breakup. The last thing he needs is everyone playing matchmaker for him... especially at the three stupid weddings he has to attend this summer. His best friend Dom comes to his rescue, though, pretending to be his boyfriend to fend off suitors. Dom just wishes it wasn't pretending... Asexual M/M romcom.

Inked 8 (Multiple Love Book 6) book cover
Genre: Steamy Romance

Inked 8 (Multiple Love Book 6)

By Stephanie Brother, narrated by Connor Crais and Melanie Hastings
Tags: Steamy Romance

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What begins as a kinky game ends up as something else entirely. When I start a new job as the Ink Factor tattoo parlor receptionist, I have no idea what to expect. The eight huge, sexy, tattooed men who own it overhear me talking about my lack of 'experience' and offer me a deal I can't refuse. 8 MEN 8 KINKS 8 WILD NIGHTS How many Mr. Rights?

One Night with a Fireman: An Opposites Attract, Fake Relationship Romance book cover
Genre: Steamy Romance

One Night with a Fireman: An Opposites Attract, Fake Relationship Romance

By Emma J Bowen, narrated by Ryder Wolfe and Serena Moon
Tags: Steamy Romance

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One hot night with a fireman sparks a steamy pretend romance in a small town. Fate has brought him back into her life, and she needs his help. They’re faking a relationship, but they can't fake the desire they continue to feel. When her past comes back to haunt her, is her firefighter ready to be her protector once again?