Audible Picks July 1, 2020

My Time with the Kings book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

My Time with the Kings

By Kathryn Johnson
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Three simple words that provided Kathryn Johnson, a reporter for The Associated Press' Atlanta bureau, unprecedented access to the grieving widow in the days following her husband's death. Johnson was on her way to a movie date when word came from Memphis that Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.

All the Horrors of War book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

All the Horrors of War

By Bernice Lerner
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10,000 unburied, putrefying corpses and 60,000 living prisoners, starving and sick.

Disability Visibility book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.

The Ghost Runner (The Lithia Trilogy Book 2) book cover
Genre: Young Adult
Tags: Young Adult

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Introducing Book Two in the Lithia Trilogy… In The Ghost Runner, Kat is still in Lithia, trying not to see Roman’s face everywhere she looks. It’s not easy, but she tries to move on: She starts taking classes at the local college, keeps up with her job at the running store, and is beginning a relationship with Alex.

Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee book cover
Genre: Young Adult

Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee

By Mary G. Thompson
Tags: Young Adult

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When sixteen-year-old Amy returns home, she can't tell her family what's happened to her. She can't tell them where she's been since she and her best friend, her cousin Dee, were kidnapped six years ago-who stole them from their families or what's become of Dee.

Shadow Weaver (Shadow Weaver Series Book 1) book cover
Genre: Young Adult
Tags: Young Adult

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Emmeline's gift of controlling shadows has isolated her from the rest of the world, but she's grown to be content, hidden away in her mansion with Dar, her own shadow, as her only company.

Ronin (Rebel Stars Book 3) book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

Ronin (Rebel Stars Book 3)

By Edward W. Robertson
Tags: Science Fiction

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With their manufacturing base in Finn's hands, it's only a matter of time before they're outnumbered and destroyed. As Rada searches for a path to victory, she stumbles on a horrifying secret: the aliens who've kept humanity confined to the Solar System are about to make their move.

Twisted Metal Heart (Deviant Future Book 3) book cover
Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction

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A devastating injury takes Titan's arm and leg, but a chance encounter with a woman in the Wasteland sees them replaced with a bionic set. These are no simple metal limbs. His body speaks with him. The alien presence forces a bond that he struggles to accept.

Survive (Atlantis Grail Series Book 4) book cover
Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction

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The Games of the Atlantis Grail have come to a ground-shaking halt and Gwen Lark, nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl, survived the remarkable ordeal, for the time being. But the worst is yet to come!

Earth to Hell (Journey to Wudang Book 1) book cover
Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Fantasy

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In Earth to Hell, Chan launches the characters from her Dark Heavens trilogy (White Tiger, Red Phoenix, Blue Dragon) on a new adventure that will take them from the teeming streets of Hong Kong through the portals of Hell to set free a friend-as demons and devils rise up to challenge them in life-or-death battle.

Heart of Shadows (Alice Worth Series Book 5) book cover
Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Fantasy

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A magic-induced bloodbath during a Vampire Court gala leaves Alice and her boyfriend, alpha werewolf Sean Maclin, wounded. Alice and her ghost sidekick Malcolm reluctantly agree to investigate the deadly supernatural attack.

The Fiery Crown (Forgotten Empires Series Book 2) book cover
Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Fantasy

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Queen Euthalia has reigned over her island kingdom of Calanthe with determination, grace, and her magical, undying orchid ring. After she defied an empire to wed Conrí, the former Crown Prince of Oriel-a man of disgraced origins with vengeance in his heart-Lia expected the wizard's prophecy to come true: Claim the hand that wears the ring and the empire falls.

Self Care book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Self Care

By Leigh Stein
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Maren Gelb is on a company-imposed digital detox. She tweeted something terrible about the President's daughter, and as the COO of Richual, “the most inclusive online community platform for women to cultivate the practice of self-care and change the world by changing ourselves,” it's a PR nightmare.

The Way Back to You (Blessings, Georgia Book 9) book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Sully Raines sets out to find his birth mother, and ends up in Blessings, Georgia. A new surprise awaits him here, but of the best kind-his childhood sweetheart, whom he hasn't seen since she moved away when they were teens, is living in Blessings now.

You Exist Too Much book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

You Exist Too Much

By Zaina Arafat
Tags: Literary Fiction

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On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgment will echo on through her adolescence.

Legacy (The Steel Brothers Saga Book 14) book cover
Genre: Clean Romance
Tags: Clean Romance Steamy Romance

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Brad Steel is in love. Daphne Wade is more than just his wife-to-be and the mother of his unborn child. She’s his destiny. Fate brought them together, and he vows to protect her. His determination doesn’t waver when he learns a secret about his bride - a secret she herself doesn’t know.

Reining Her In book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

Reining Her In

By Katie Ashley
Tags: Clean Romance Steamy Romance

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The last time I saw Declan St. James was at our rehearsal dinner. That was shortly before he jilted me at the altar. To avoid the swarm of whispers and finger pointing every time I dared to show my face in public, I fled two hours south to Atlanta and never looked back.

Dear Sexy Ex-Boyfriend book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

Dear Sexy Ex-Boyfriend

By Lauren Blakely
Tags: Clean Romance Steamy Romance

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Let me just say - none of this was supposed to happen. I didn't expect the letter to go viral. I didn't think anyone would figure out who Dear Sexy Ex was. And I especially never thought he would find out about it. Yeah, bit of a miscalculation there.

Dark August book cover
Genre: Mystery

Dark August

By Katie Tallo, narrated by Piper Goodeve
Tags: Mystery

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Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she learns that her great grandmother—her last living relative—has just died. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns to the home she left as a young girl. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated house and an old dog named Levi.

The Lion's Den book cover
Genre: Mystery

The Lion's Den

By Katherine St. John
Tags: Mystery

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Belle likes to think herself immune to the dizzying effects of fabulous wealth. But when her best friend, Summer, invites her on a glamorous getaway to the Mediterranean aboard her billionaire boyfriend's yacht, the only sensible answer is yes.

Love & Other Crimes: Stories book cover
Genre: Mystery
Tags: Mystery

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“Sara Paretsky is a genius.” —LEE CHILD. In “Miss Bianca,” a young girl becomes involved in espionage when she befriends a mouse in a laboratory that is conducting dark experiments. Ten-year-old V.I. Warshawski appears in “Wildcat,” embarking on her very first investigation to save her father.