Audible Picks June 8, 2022

The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World

By Mason Funk, narrated by Mason Funk, Robin Miles, & More
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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The Book of Pride tells the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed and contributed to the movement. These people fought personal and political battles on their own, often without the support of family or friends, and often under the threat of violence and persecution.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Perhaps You Should Speak With Someone is groundbreaking in its candor, providing a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds, as well as the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, as well as a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.

Rich Dad Advisors: How to Build Massive Wealth by Permanently Lowering Your Taxes book cover
Genre: Finance

Rich Dad Advisors: How to Build Massive Wealth by Permanently Lowering Your Taxes

By Tom Wheelwright CPA, narrated by Tom Wheelwright CPA
Tags: Finance

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Tax-Free Wealth is a book about tax planning and how to take advantage of tax laws to your advantage. Tom explains how tax laws work and how they are intended to lower, not raise, your taxes. The audiobook explains how to use tax laws to your advantage and in ways that help business owners achieve their vision and growth goals.

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure book cover
Genre: Business

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

By Grant Cardone, narrated by Grant Cardone
Tags: Business

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You must eliminate chance and luck from your business equation in order to achieve massive success. The 10X Rule will show you how to do it! Success is your duty, obligation, and responsibility, and this audiobook will show you how to achieve phenomenal success in your own life!

The Dark Forest book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

The Dark Forest

By Cixin Liu, narrated by P. J. Ochlan
Tags: Science Fiction

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Earth is reeling in The Dark Forest after learning of an impending alien invasion - in just four centuries. This is the driving force behind the Wallfacer Project, a risky scheme that gives four men vast resources to devise secret strategies that are hidden from Earth and Trisolaris alike through deception and misdirection.

Meant to Be book cover
Genre: Literary Fiction

Meant to Be

By Emily Giffin, narrated by Emily Giffin, Caroline Hewitt, Robert Petkoff
Tags: Literary Fiction

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In this "glorious, satisfying" new novel from the #1 New York Times, bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and The Lies That Bind, a restless golden boy and a girl with a troubled past navigate a love story that may be doomed before it even begins.

Sanibel Dreams (Shellseeker Beach Book 1) book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

Sanibel Dreams (Shellseeker Beach Book 1)

By Hope Holloway, narrated by Leslie Howard
Tags: Clean Romance

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Come to Shellseeker Beach and fall in love with an unforgettable cast of characters who face life's challenges with wit, heart, and hope. Sisters, secrets, romance, mothers and daughters... and the moments that make life worth living... for fans of riveting and inspirational sagas.

The Other Man book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

The Other Man

By Farhad J. Dadyburjor, narrated by Ariyan Kassam
Tags: Clean Romance

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Ved Mehra has money, looks, and status as the heir to his father's Mumbai business empire. He is also a gay man who is living in secret. Ved agrees to an arranged marriage at the age of 38. Regrettably, he now has a doomed future with the stunning Disha Kapoor. When Ved meets Carlos Silva, an American on a business trip in India, his world is turned upside down.

Toxic (Mafia Wars New York Book 1) book cover
Genre: Steamy Romance

Toxic (Mafia Wars New York Book 1)

By Maggie Cole, narrated by Aaron Shedlock
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Toxic is the first book in the Mafia Wars New York series. It's a first-love, second-chance dark mafia romance with a HEA, and it's an interconnected stand-alone. Please be aware that this episode contains scenes and topics about sexual abuse that may be upsetting to some listeners.

Not a Role Model (Battle Crows MC Book 4) book cover
Genre: Steamy Romance

Not a Role Model (Battle Crows MC Book 4)

By Lani Lynn Vale, narrated by Tor Thom, Lidia Dornet
Tags: Steamy Romance

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It all began in high school when he began to see her as a competitor rather than a random girl. They became "frenemies" as a result of their friendship, despite their fundamental dislike or rivalry. At least, that's how it started. Everyone says there's a thin line between love and hatred. Tide and Coreline don't realize how true this is at first.

Doctor Ice Pick book cover
Genre: True Crime

Doctor Ice Pick

By Claire Prentice, narrated by Chanté McCormick
Tags: True Crime

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From the author of Miracle at Coney Island comes a haunting and true short story about a lobotomist who carved a brutal swath through the lives of thousands of vulnerable Americans.

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Two Nights in Lisbon

By Chris Pavone, narrated by January LaVoy
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Ariel Pryce wakes up alone in Lisbon. Her husband has vanished without warning, leaving no note, and refusing to answer his phone. Something isn't right. She begins with hotel security, then police, and finally the American embassy, each encountering questions she can't fully answer: What is John doing in Lisbon? Why would he take her on a business trip with him? Who would want to put him in harm's way? The time is running out.

The Housemaid book cover
Genre: Mystery

The Housemaid

By Freida McFadden, narrated by Lauryn Allman
Tags: Mystery

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As I shake Nina Winchester's elegant, manicured hand, she says, "Welcome to the family." I give a polite smile as I look around the marble corridor. Working here is my final opportunity to start over. I'm free to act as whoever I want. However, I'll quickly discover that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than mine...

One Year Gone book cover
Genre: Mystery

One Year Gone

By Avery Bishop, narrated by Brittany Pressley
Tags: Mystery

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When Jessica Moore's seventeen-year-old daughter, Wyn, goes missing, the police tell her, "Teens have a tendency to run away... Give her a couple of days. "She'll be back." All indications point to this being the case. However, days turn into weeks. Weeks turn into months. Jessica begins to fear the unthinkable: she may never see her daughter again.

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Francis Laurent

By Schuyler Randall, narrated by Ann Bumbak
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Winner of the 2021 Audio Book Reviewer - Best Thriller in Crime Category. The story is told by Raina, the daughter of the titular character. This is an old-fashioned cop-drama, about an FBI agent seeking out the murderers of his partner, and enacting vengeance. No perpetrator is safe, and the corruption goes all the way to the top.

From Salt to Skye (Legends and Lovers) book cover
Genre: Fantasy

From Salt to Skye (Legends and Lovers)

By Adriane Leigh, narrated by John Lane, Sarah Sampino
Tags: Fantasy

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A young woman travels to the mystical hills of Scotland in search of answers to her family's tragic past. She discovers more than she expected in her brooding new neighbor and a charming local bartender who help her unravel the truth in the island's legends and leave her wondering just how fine the line is that exists between fiction and reality.

Shem's Quest: Shem 'o the West book cover
Genre: Fantasy

Shem's Quest: Shem 'o the West

By Bill Eckel, narrated by Daymon Eckel
Tags: Fantasy

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First in a series of four. Kidnapped as a child and bonded to the Sun Father of the West, Shem seeks redemption. While drowning his lost love in ale and wine, he pledges to the new Central Lands goddess, Tierra who accepts him as her Hero. To save himself and the Central Lands, Shem must raise the Hjerte, the heartstone, before the western goddess, Mieze, achieves her Ascendency and the power to prevent Tierra's awakening.