Audible Picks May 11, 2022

Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo

By Reggie Fils-Aimé, narrated by Reggie Fils-Aimé
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Reggie Fils-story Aimé's is the ultimate game plan for anyone looking to beat the odds and achieve success. He is best known as Nintendo's iconic President of the Americas, immortalized for opening Nintendo's 2004 E3 presentation with, "My name is Reggie, I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games."

Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

By Laurie Zaleski, narrated by Erin Moon
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Laurie Zaleski had no desire to establish an animal shelter; her mother Annie had. Laurie, on the other hand, had been dedicated to realizing her dream since childhood. She bought a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey thirty years later as a wealthy businesswoman.

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Genre: Finance

The Millionaire Real Estate Agent

By Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, Jay Papasan, narrated by Kyle Hebert
Tags: Finance

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The Millionaire Real Estate Agent lays out a strategy for turning your real estate sales career into a multimillion-dollar enterprise. The book examines the models that must be implemented and then explains to you how to do so step by step. Gary, Dave, and Jay expose the beliefs that keep people from reaching their full potential and set out the path to success.

The Restart Roadmap: Rewire and Reset Your Career book cover
Genre: Business

The Restart Roadmap: Rewire and Reset Your Career

By Jason Tartick, narrated by Jason Tartick
Tags: Business

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It's never too late to rethink your priorities and yourself. Jason Tartick, a motivational business speaker, investment banker, life coach, and host of the Trading Secrets podcast, gives simple action steps to help you create and accomplish your vision of financial, professional, and emotional success in this guide to altering your career and your life.

Old Man's War book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

Old Man's War

By John Scalzi, narrated by William Dufris
Tags: Science Fiction

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On his 75th birthday, John Perry accomplished two things. He began by paying respects to his wife's grave. He then enlisted in the army. The good news is that humanity has successfully entered interstellar space. The bad news is those hospitable planets are hard to come by - yet alien cultures eager to fight us for them are plenty. For decades, a battle has raged far from Earth: harsh, bloody, and uncompromising.

Firestarter book cover
Genre: Science Fiction

Firestarter

By Stephen King, narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris
Tags: Science Fiction

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Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson took part in a cloaked government agency known as The Shop's drug experiment. They married a year later. Charlie, their small child, sets her teddy bear on fire by simply glancing at it two years later.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

The Dictionary of Lost Words

By Pip Williams, narrated by Pippa Bennett-Warner
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Esme comes from a world of words. She spends her youth in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are gathering words for the first Oxford English Dictionary. A slip of paper with the term bondmaid flutters beneath the table one day. She saves the slip and she begins to gather other words that the dictionary men have rejected or disregarded.

The Summer House book cover
Genre: Clean Romance

The Summer House

By Lauren K. Denton, narrated by Devon Oday
Tags: Clean Romance

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Lily and Rose strike an unexpected friendship, and Lily's salon quickly becomes the gathering spot for town gossip and a few secrets. Lily is quickly drawn to Rose's nephew, Rawlins, a single father and shrimper with experience starting over...

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Layla

By Colleen Hoover, narrated by Brian Pallino
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Leeds believes he'll spend the rest of his life with Layla after meeting her - until an unforeseen attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. Layla recovers physically after weeks in the hospital, but the emotional and mental scars have changed the woman Leeds fell in love with.

Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy book cover
Genre: True Crime

Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

By Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel, narrated by Derek Perkins
Tags: True Crime

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The oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the dangerous Gulf of Aden in July 2011 when she was ambushed by pirates who set her ablaze in a horrific explosion. When David Mockett, a Lloyd's of London maritime surveyor, examined the damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers.

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I Am Not Who You Think I Am

By Eric Rickstad, narrated by Steven Weber
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Wayland Maynard is eight years old when he witnesses his father commit suicide, discovers a note that reads, "I am not who you believe I am," and is left in a state of grief and shock. If not the loving guy Wayland knew, who was his father? Wayland, terrified, hides the message, but his reasons for being fearful are only beginning.

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Genre: Mystery

The Good Turn

By Dervla McTiernan, narrated by Aoife McMahon
Tags: Mystery

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Three seemingly unrelated events will be linked by one small town: police corruption, a tragic investigation, and the mystery of a little girl's quiet.

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Genre: Mystery

Pretty Girls

By Karin Slaughter, narrated by Kathleen Early
Tags: Mystery

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Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss — a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed.

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Gavert City Series Box Set (Books 1-3)

By Elodie Nowodazkij, narrated by Megan Carter
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Are you ready to step into Gavert City? Only one credit for more than 20 hours of twists and turns and romance. This audiobook is perfect for fans of Criminal Minds and the movie Scream. Those three stories will keep you up at night and may break your heart before piecing it back together.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Alpha's Dirty Little Secret

By Symone R., narrated by Stella Rose
Tags: Steamy Romance

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Amira was sent to stay under the roof of the emotionless Alpha Xavier. With her heat in power, she couldn't seem to resist his sensual touch behind closed doors. Soon, their interest in one another blossomed, even though they were not mates. But things turned when Amira ran into her mate. Who would she choose, and what happened to Xavier’s mate?

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Genre: Fantasy

The Book of Souls

By Kevin Moore, narrated by Luke Welland
Tags: Fantasy

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Jack Kelly remembers everything about his wife and children, but that was before the accident. When he awakens, he’s his 13-year-old self and can read people’s minds, recall their pasts, and see and hear dead people, demons, and more. Thus begins his journey to help one soul cross over as he resolves to find his way back to his true existence.

Searching for the Eminent: March of the Meek book cover
Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Fantasy

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March of the Meek is the first installment in the Searching for the Eminent trilogy, and it chronicles the narrative of Rekco Curse, a 13-year-old kid who lives in the rural plains just outside of the planet, Last Thesi's, last inhabited city. He is far apart from the people who dwell inside, who are terrified that the apocalypse is approaching and that all life will be wiped away in its wake.