Audible Picks March 16, 2022

How Do I Un-Remember This?: Unfortunately True Stories book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

How Do I Un-Remember This?: Unfortunately True Stories

By Danny Pellegrino, narrated by Danny Pellegrino
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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It's not easy growing up in a small-town Ohio, especially when you're a closeted gay kid surrounded by... no one who is openly gay. Danny Pellegrino was fortunate enough to grow up in the 1990s, a time when the internet opened up a whole new world to a curious child yearning for a life outside of Midwest suburbia.

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Elizebeth Smith, a great Shakespeare expert, went to work for an eccentric businessman on his home outside Chicago in 1912, during the height of World War I. The tycoon had extensive contacts with the US government, and he quickly requested Elizebeth to use her linguistic abilities to help him with an intriguing new project: code-cracking. There she met the man who would become her husband, William Friedman, a pioneering cryptologist.

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail book cover
Genre: Finance

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

By Clayton M. Christensen, narrated by L.J. Ganser
Tags: Finance

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From Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell, his work has been cited by some of the world's most well-known thinkers. Clayton Christensen, an innovation expert, shows how even the best firms may do everything right and still lose market leadership.

Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life book cover
Genre: Business
Tags: Business

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You sit down at your desk to start on a critical assignment, but your morning is interrupted by a notification on your phone. Later, as you're about to return to work, a coworker touches you on the shoulder to strike up a conversation. What could you achieve if you were able to stay focused and avoid distractions? What if you had the ability to make yourself "indistractable"?

The Trials of Koli (Rampart Trilogy Book 2) book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

The Trials of Koli (Rampart Trilogy Book 2)

By M. R. Carey, narrated by Theo Solomon, Saffron Coomber
Tags: Science Fiction

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Koli has no intention of leaving his small community. He knew there was a terrifying world beyond its boundaries, full of choker trees, dangerous monsters, and Shunned men. When he was exiled, however, he had no choice but to go out into this alien realm, where every moment is a battle for existence. Koli's life isn't the only one in jeopardy. Entire towns, just like his, are vanishing.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Last Garden in England

By Julia Kelly, narrated by Shiromi Arserio, Marisa Calin, & More
Tags: Literary Fiction

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The author of The Light Over London and The Whispers of War bring us "a riveting read, filled with lovable characters and an alluring twist of fates" (Ellen Keith, author of The Dutch Wife) about five women living in three distinct times whose lives are all connected by one very unique garden.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Fortnight in September

By R.C. Sherriff, narrated by Jilly Bond
Tags: Literary Fiction

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When the Stevens family arrives in Bognor, they proceed to Seaview, the guesthouse where they stay every year. It's a little scruffier than it used to be; the landlord has passed away, and his widow is struggling as the number of visitors declines year after year. The Stevenses make the most of their vacation, knowing that things may not be the same next year. Delightfully nostalgic and soothing, The Fortnight in September is an extraordinary novel about ordinary people enjoying life’s simple pleasures.

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases book cover
Genre: True Crime

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

By Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher, narrated by Paul Holes
Tags: True Crime

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A tale of investigating America's toughest cold cases and the pleasures – and tolls - of a life solving-crime from the detective who discovered the Golden State Killer.

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers book cover
Genre: True Crime
Tags: True Crime

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The world saw the beginning of a strange wave of cyberattacks in 2014. They reached a climax in the summer of 2017, when the malware known as NotPetya was released, infiltrating, disrupting, and crippling some of the world's top corporations. NotPetya spread over the world, causing an astonishing $10 billion in damage – the world's largest and most damaging cyberattack.

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A Slow Fire Burning

By Paula Hawkins, narrated by Rosamund Pike
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When a young man is found gruesomely slain on a London houseboat, three ladies who knew him are interrogated. Laura is a troubled one-night stand who was last seen at the victim's residence. Carla is his bereaved aunt, who has recently experienced the death of yet another family member. Miriam, on the other hand, is the nosy neighbor who is plainly keeping secrets from the cops.

Missing You book cover
Genre: Mystery

Missing You

By Harlan Coben, narrated by January LaVoy
Tags: Mystery

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Kat Donovan, an NYPD detective, finds her entire world shattered while surfing an online dating site. Her ex-fiancé is staring back at her. When Kat contacts the man in the profile, however, a horrific conspiracy emerges. Kat's views about everyone she's ever loved are tested as she investigates, even her father, whose horrible murder so long ago has never been properly explained.

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Genre: Mystery

No One Will Miss Her

By Kat Rosenfield, narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Sophie Amoss and, Chris Andrew Ciulla
Tags: Mystery

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A state police homicide detective pulls into the hard-luck village of Copper Falls on a lovely October morning in rural Maine. The local junkyard is on fire, and Lizzie Oullette, the town's outcast, is dead, with her husband Dwayne missing.

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Hugo & Josef

By GN Hetherington, narrated by Joseph Eisenreich
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The year is 1995. Hugo Duchamp’s life is in turmoil. Bullied at school, abandoned by his parents, and living in the attic belonging to his rigid grandmother, the future appears bleak. And then everything changes. Over a long, hot summer, for the first time, Hugo falls in love with both a person and what will become the other passion in his life: the righting of wrongs.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Love Ordained

By Tara Taffera, narrated by Wendy Arcega
Tags: Clean Romance

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Love Ordained is a story of family, heartbreak, and, of course, love. Readers praise the book for its "real and flawed characters" that you fall in love with on their journey. "From the beginning, this novel was full of complex characters and deep emotions. It is also a story of surprises and the hope, love, and grace that are possible with faith and growth after a tragedy."

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Tropical Tiger Spy (Shifting Sands Resort Book 1)

By Zoe Chant, narrated by Jay Alder, P.J. Morgan
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Shifter Affairs agent Tony Lukin is on a mission to solve an escalating mystery of missing shifters at a secluded luxury resort. Andean mountain cat Amber Allen is hoping to find answers about her own past. Instead, they find each other and are swept into an adventure of love, danger, and deception.

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Genre: Fantasy

Undraland (Book 1)

By Mary E. Twomey, narrated by Madeline Mrozek
Tags: Fantasy

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Follow Lucy Kincaid as she falls down the rabbit hole, uncovering a world of adventure that leads her to the darkness she both fears and loves.

Something Lost (Funerals and Weddings Book 1) book cover
Genre: Steamy Romance

Something Lost (Funerals and Weddings Book 1)

By Bernadette Marie, narrated by Whitney Dykhouse
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Rekindling a forbidden romance after her father died, Rachel Diaz and Craig Turner must deal with the demons and secrets that kept them apart for a decade. But is Rachel woman enough to face her past and is Craig man enough to accept it? Or will their encounter be as brief as the affair they had a decade ago, behind her father’s back?

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Genre: Fantasy

Catching Genesis

By Nicole Riddley, narrated by Kamala Alcantara
Tags: Fantasy

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Genesis found herself getting more than what she bargained for when she attracted not only her mate who rejected her at first but also a lycan. Between the future alpha of their pack and the lycan who was said to be a direct descendant of the moon goddess herself, who would she choose?