Audible Picks June 24, 2020

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Lot Six

By David Adjmi
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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In a world where everyone is inventing a self, curating a feed and performing a fantasy of life, what does it mean to be a person? In his grandly entertaining debut memoir, playwright David Adjmi explores how human beings create themselves, and how artists make their lives into art.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Enemy of the People

By Terrence Petty
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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After serving in the First World War, Adolf Hitler encountered a serious obstacle to his plotting for power when the Munich Post, drawing on sources within the Nazi Party, began tracking the corruption and dark dreams of his inner circle. With leaked documents from Hitler's political rivals, who were shocked by his violent rhetoric and fearing the worst, the Post battled Hitler for ownership of the truth.

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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Bitter Harvest

By Ann Rule
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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In this harrowing New York Times bestseller, Ann Rule is at her masterful best as she winnows horrific truths from the ashes of what seemed like paradise in Prairie Village, Kansas. Rule probes the case of Debora Green, a doctor and a loving mother who seemed to epitomize the dreams of the American heartland.

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Genre: Young Adult
Tags: Young Adult

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What if Cinderella never tried on the glass slipper? Unable to prove that she’s the missing princess, and unable to bear life under Lady Tremaine any longer, Cinderella attempts a fresh start, looking for work at the palace as a seamstress.

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Genre: Young Adult

A Sky Painted Gold

By Laura Wood
Tags: Young Adult

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It is the summer of 1929. Lou Trevelyan is a small-town girl with big dreams of becoming a writer. Then she meets the Cardew siblings: the bubbly Caitlin and her handsome, enigmatic brother, Robert. Lou is swept into their glittering whirlwind of moonlit parties, unrivaled glamour, and whispered secrets.

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Genre: Young Adult
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After eight years, Evadne will finally be reunited with her older sister, Halcyon, who has been serving in the queen’s army. But when Halcyon unexpectedly appears a day early, Eva knows something is wrong. Halcyon has charged with a heinous crime, and though her life is spared, she is sentenced to 15 years.

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Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction

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Thanks to the heroics of former New York City Mayor Tom Cafferty and his team, the world is once again safe. The villainous Foundation for Human Advancement has been dismantled, the cities of the world are safe from nuclear annihilation, and Cafferty is now on a hunt to decimate every nest of creatures on the planet.

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Genre: Science Fiction

The Coordinate (The Coordinate Book 1)

By Marc Jacobs, narrated by MacLeod Andrews
Tags: Science Fiction

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Logan West and Emma James grew up together but are now high school seniors going in totally opposite directions after graduation. When they are assigned to work together on one last history project, they hardly expect the monotony of high school life to change.

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Genre: Science Fiction
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A shattered Concord. A united crew. A critical mission. The Concord is in shambles after the return of the Statu, but under the guidance of the Zilph'i, trust is slowly being rebuilt. Thomas Baldwin remains confident in his team, the secrets of his ship and the Concord no longer a dire threat.

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Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Fantasy

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Roark von Graf built a nation on the bodies of griefed players and disgruntled mobs who wanted him dead. He grinded his way up to the level cap of the Troll Evolutionary Path and made powerful underhanded alliances along the way, but even all of that isn’t enough to defeat the Tyrant King’s right-hand mage, Lowen, and the Divine armies of the most powerful dungeon in the game.

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Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Fantasy

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Nikolis’ parents are dead - murdered before his eyes. What’s worse, they were traitors to the crown. At least that’s what he hears the village folk saying moments before he is whisked away to the castle of Highkeep. There he finds himself before the aged King Alginor, a man brought to a boil by his very presence.

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Genre: Fantasy
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War built the Kisian Empire. War will tear it down. Seventeen years after rebels stormed the streets, factions divide Kisia. Only the firm hand of the god-emperor holds the empire together. But when a shocking betrayal destroys a tense alliance with neighboring Chiltae, all that has been won comes crashing down.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

That Summer in Maine

By Brianna Wolfson
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Years ago, during a certain summer in Maine, two young women, unaware of each other, met a charismatic man at a craft fair and each had a brief affair with him. For Jane it was a chance to bury her recent pain in raw passion and redirect her life. For Susie it was a fling that gave her troubled marriage a way forward.

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Genre: Literary Fiction
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Esther, Frankie, and Ruth live in a small Ohio town anchored by the thriving Juliet Pencils factory. After a freak accident at the plant, these women have to re-create their lives using the only tools they’ve got: wits, molars, and a new pair of shoes.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Jane and Prudence

By Barbara Pym
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane lives in the country, is married to a vicar, has a daughter she adores, and lives a very proper life in a very proper English parish.

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Genre: Clean Romance
Tags: Clean Romance Steamy Romance

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Miss Amelia Hathaway, a beautiful and strong-willed spinster, has looked after her unruly younger siblings ever since the death of her parents. Romance is the last thing on her mind. But when reckless brother inherits a title, the Hathaways are flung into the unfamiliar world of the English peerage.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Test Drive

By Samantha Chase
Tags: Clean Romance Steamy Romance

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Willow Andrews would do anything for her grandmother.Rather than having to keep fielding questions about her love life, making up a boyfriend to ease her grandmother’s worries didn’t seem like such a big deal.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Party of Two

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

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Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe’s mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell.

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Genre: Mystery

The Swap

By Robyn Harding
Tags: Mystery

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Low Morrison is not your average teen. You could blame her hippie parents or her looming height or her dreary, isolated hometown on an island in the Pacific Northwest. But whatever the reason, Low just doesn’t fit in—and neither does Freya, an ethereal beauty and once-famous social media influencer who now owns the local pottery studio.

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Genre: Mystery

What I Know

By Miranda Smith
Tags: Mystery

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My brother was 13 the first time he tried to kill me. These days, Della is a loving wife, a dedicated teacher, a woman trying to do her best. She has put her past far behind her. But she hasn’t forgotten the lessons she learned.

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Genre: Mystery
Tags: Mystery

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The beautiful Farrell sisters, Jackie and Ryder, are unlikely private investigators in quaint, old Savannah. In their latest case, the two must dive deep into a murky demimonde of crooked cops, high-class brothels, and low-rent thugs. In the middle of it all, Jackie falls for homicide cop Harry Bull. Harry is from an old Savannah family but…seems like he just might have a skeleton or two rattling around in his closet.