Audible Picks January 4, 2023

Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

By Neil Patrick Harris, narrated by Neil Patrick Harris
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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You've already made a great choice by picking up the audio edition of Neil Patrick Harris' Choose Your Own Autobiography. This hilarious book has been adapted especially for the audiobook edition so you’ll hear all of the same fun and humor from the printed version but you don’t have to make any decisions or jump around - just kick back, relax, and listen.

Red Rising book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

Red Rising

By Pierce Brown, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds
Tags: Science Fiction

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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

After Her

By Joyce Maynard, narrated by Joyce Maynard
Tags: Literary Fiction

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I was always looking for excitement, until I found some.... Summer, 1979: A dry, hot Northern California school vacation stretches before Rachel and her younger sister, Patty - the daughters of a larger-than-life, irresistibly handsome (and chronically unfaithful) detective father and the mother whose heart he broke.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

For Butter or Worse

By Erin La Rosa, narrated by Mela Lee
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Chef Nina Lyon dreams of cooking her way to culinary stardom and becoming a household name. She thought hosting The Next Cooking Champ! was her golden ticket, but she and her cohost/arch-nemesis, Leo O'Donnell, go together like water and oil, and he undercuts her at every turn.

This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life book cover
Genre: True Crime

This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life

By Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods, narrated by Nigel Poor and More
Tags: True Crime

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When Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods met, Nigel was a photography professor volunteering with the Prison University Project and Earlonne was serving thirty-one years to life at California’s San Quentin State Prison.

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The Chateau

By Catherine Cooper, narrated by Hannah Donelon, Sophie Aldred, Sid Sagar, Genevieve Swallow and, Leighton Pugh
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They thought it was perfect. They were wrong.... A glamorous chateau. Aura and Nick don’t talk about what happened in England. They’ve bought a chateau in France to make a fresh start, and their kids need them to stay together - whatever it costs.

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The Bachelorette Party

By Carissa Ann Lynch, narrated by Rebecca LaChance
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The bachelorette begins on a Friday night; all six women are excited for a chance to escape their everyday lives. But then friendly rivalries turn vicious, and a game of truth or dare turns deadly. By the end of the weekend one of them will be dead…

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Genre: Mystery

Desperate Measures

By Jo Bannister, narrated by Jane Copland
Tags: Mystery

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When Gabriel Ash's wife and kids were kidnapped four years ago by Somali pirates, his life spiraled out of control. He left his job working for the British government and moved to a small town where he descended into near madness. But with the help of his dog, Patience, and his friendship with young police officer Hazel Best, his focus returned.

Ballad of the Beanstalk book cover
Genre: Fantasy

Ballad of the Beanstalk

By Amy McNulty, narrated by Kaitlin Descutner
Tags: Fantasy

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A prequel to Jack and the Beanstalk that reveals the story behind the magical singing harp. As her fingers move across the strings of her harp, Clarion becomes the melody and loses herself in the song. When Mack, a lord's dashing young son, arrives to marry Clarion's girlfriend, Clarion finds herself falling in love with a boy for the first time.

The Blood (The Redemption Series Book 1) book cover
Genre: Mystery

The Blood (The Redemption Series Book 1)

By Nancy Jackson, narrated by Daniela Acitelli
Tags: Mystery

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Her need to see the fresh blood, to touch it and to feel it drove her to kill. She was smart and controlled and turned a small rural community in Oklahoma into chaos. Two seasoned OSBI agents were assigned to the case. But could their years of experience and training overcome their own personal baggage?

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Genre: Fantasy

The Last Lumenian

By S. G. Blaise
Tags: Fantasy

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Lilla is fighting for the refugees's freedom from oppression. The arrival of Callum, a powerful Teryn general, complicates Lilla's life. Now the Era War between two ruling archgods forces Lilla to act: accept who she really is magic and all; find true love; fulfill her destiny by defeating the Archgod of Chaos and Destruction before He finds her.

Career ReCharge: Five Strategies to Boost Resilience and Beat Burnout book cover
Genre: Business

Career ReCharge: Five Strategies to Boost Resilience and Beat Burnout

By Beth Benatti Kennedy, narrated by Caroline Slaughter
Tags: Business Finance

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In Career ReCharge: Five Strategies to Boost Resilience and Beat Burnout, Beth Kennedy explains her Benatti Resiliency Model®: strategies to develop your resilience and give you the energy to recharge your career and your life, even if circumstances are discouraging or disruptive. Included are exercises that generate insights, Resiliency Boosters, and success stories from Beth's coaching clients.

An Inconvenient Flame (Love in the Adirondacks Book 1) book cover
Genre: Clean Romance
Tags: Clean Romance

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Gael had no idea life had passed him by until his parents died suddenly. He vowed to make changes in his life, but he had no idea what that looked like until the day Tayla Johnson came home. He sees in her exactly who he used to be. While he tells himself he's only trying to give her the gift of time, he ends up giving her his heart.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Succubus Heart (Succubus Sirens Book 2)

By Lina Jubilee, narrated by Tori Wells
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Her aura takes powers away. Ally or foe, no Natch or Nelian elf can rely on their supernatural strengths in the proximity of the Nelian princess. Superpowered battles devolve into pandemonium when she enters the fray. Now she has four rogue men lusting after her, despite the fact they lose all hope of winning in their crusade whenever she’s near.