Audible Picks November 1, 2023

Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy book cover
Genre: Biography & Memoir

Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy

By Charles Busch, narrated by Charles Busch
Tags: Biography & Memoir

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Charles writes how ever since his mother's death when he was seven, he has sought out surrogate mothers in his life. In his teens, Charles moved to Manhattan to live with his Auntie Mame-like Aunt Lil, who encouraged Charles's talents and dreams, and eventually he discovered his gifts for writing plays and performing as a male actress.

The Holistic Wealth Strategy: A Framework for Building Legacy Wealth and Unlimited Freedom to Live an Extraordinary Life book cover
Genre: Finance
Tags: Finance

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Are you an entrepreneur seeking freedom of money to live the biggest future you can dream of? To have freedom of purpose to do what fascinates and motivates you in life? And to have freedom of time and relationship? It’s time to get out of the Wall Street casino and take back control of your financial future.

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Genre: Business

Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual

By Jocko Willink, narrated by Jocko Willink
Tags: Business

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In the military, a field manual provides instructions in simple, clear, step-by-step language to help soldiers complete their mission. In the civilian sector, books offer information on everything from fixing a leaky faucet to developing an effective workout program to cooking a good steak.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Red Rising

By Pierce Brown, narrated by Steward Crank and More
Tags: Science Fiction

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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.

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Genre: Science Fiction

Whalefall

By Daniel Kraus, narrated by Kirby Heyborne
Tags: Science Fiction

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Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it’s a long shot, but Jay feels it’s the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad’s death by suicide the previous year.

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Genre: Literary Fiction

Not Forever, But for Now

By Chuck Palahniuk, narrated by Raphael Corkhill
Tags: Literary Fiction

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Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their Grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not.

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Genre: Clean Romance

Jackson

By Emily March, narrated by Amy Landon
Tags: Clean Romance

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Caroline Carruthers married young to a much-older man. Now that he’s gone, she’s lost...until she dares to chase a dream all on her own. Moving to Redemption, Texas, is chapter one in Caroline’s new life story. Opening a bookstore is the next. Finding love is the last thing on her mind as she settles into this new place called home.

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War book cover
Genre: True Crime
Tags: True Crime

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If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine.

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Genre: Mystery

The Eighth Detective

By Alex Pavesi, narrated by Emilia Fox
Tags: Mystery

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There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked all the rules out - and wrote seven perfect detective stories to demonstrate. But that was 30 years ago. Now Grant lives in seclusion on a remote Mediterranean island, counting the rest of his days.

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Genre: Mystery

Dynamite Road

By Andrew Klavan, narrated by Andrew Klavan
Tags: Mystery

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A routine investigation into corruption at a North Californian airport sets in motion shocking events that lead hard man Jim Bishop and world-weary ex-cop boss Scott Weiss into the center of a massive criminal conspiracy.

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Crossing Over

By Paul Clayton, narrated by Kevin Arthur Harper
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When author Heather MacDonald appeared on Mark Levin’s, Life, Liberty and Levin, Levin asked her where she saw the US in five years. Without hesitation, MacDonald said, “In civil war.” What if the current political strife spilled into the streets? What would that be like? Think you're ready? This little thriller takes you there. Dare to listen!

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Remember Me: Revised Edition

By Sanela Ramic Jurich, narrated by Lindsay Carrillo
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At the innocent age of fifteen, Selma is just beginning to experience powers of first love. Unfortunately, living in Bosnia in 1992, Selma and her parents soon find themselves targets of the Bosnian War. Her city is attacked, her family members are murdered before her eyes. Selma is thrown into a concentration camp where she lives out her worst nightmares.

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Vengeance (The Warrick Thompson Files Book 5)

By Deborah Hawkins, narrated by Alan Taylor
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Andy Owens is a rich party boy with more than a drinking problem. He’s flunked the bar twice, and although he sincerely believes he didn’t kill his best friend, no one else does (including his defense attorneys). With only his bottom-of-the-class legal skills to rely on, he searches for the killer alone until he winds up convicted.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Hitman's Honey

By Kay Freeman, narrated by Brock Donovon
Tags: Steamy Romance

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All Rylee Reed wanted to do was attend a writer's conference and get away from her husband. She never expected to meet an Irish hitman. Not every hitman wines and dines his mark before he kills them. Now, they both have decisions to make. This story includes fish-out-of-water, a second chance at love, secret identity tropes, and "seasoned characters." 18+ content.

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Genre: Steamy Romance

Lies

By A.L. Woods, narrated by Lilly Drake and Logan Anare
Tags: Steamy Romance

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My husband was never second best — he was always number one. My first pick. My ultimate choice. But I’d never been his. Bestselling author A.L. Woods brings you an unputdownable angsty, marriage in trouble, second-chance romance that guarantees to break your heart and put it back together again.

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Genre: Fantasy

Nirel (The Timekeepers of Laeviin Book 1)

By Sarah Emmer, narrated by Grace Noble and Beau Thomas
Tags: Fantasy

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Nirel has hidden her healing magic all her life until an invading soldier mortally wounds her brother. Saving him sets in motion events no one saw coming, except perhaps the seer, who silently awaits her arrival. The soldier escorting her to the capital complicates things when he falls in love with her.

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Genre: Fantasy

Sophie La Belle and the Miniature Cities

By Gisela Heffes, narrated by Theresa Bakken
Tags: Fantasy

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In Sophie La Belle and the Miniature Cities, Heffes has conjured a dazzling postmodern fairy tale that delights and inspires as it slowly reveals its tender mysteries.