This week in Audiobooks we have some great new books on the charts.
My personal recommendation is The Big Short audiobook. It tells you how the banks and hedge funds destroyed Wall Street with their greed and shenanigans. If you want to understand what happened to cause the current recession, this book is a must listen.
Next up for me is Daemon Audiobook, where technology takes over. I’ve heard it’s really good.
And for Jim Butcher fans, a brand new audiobook for the Changes: Dresden Files Audiobook series.
Hope you find something you like.
Alex
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1. Changes: The Dresden Files, Book 12 (Unabridged) by Jim Butcher
Summary: The new novel in the #1 New York Times best-selling Dresden Files series. Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden’s lover – until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it. Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered a secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it – agai…
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2. Deception: An Alex Delaware Novel (Unabridged) by Jonathan Kellerman
Summary: Masterly storytelling and expert insight into the darkest of human compulsions make number-one New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware novels as compelling as they are addictive. And just when you think he has taken his spellbinding tales of mystery and psychological suspense to the limit, with Deception he takes a bold leap into terrifying and uncharted new territory. Her name is Elise Freeman, and her chilling cry for help to whoever may be listening comes…
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3. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Unabridged) by Michael Lewis
Summary: Featuring an exclusive audio interview with Michael Lewis When the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine, and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real-estate derivative markets, where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class American…
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4. Caught (Unabridged) by Harlan Coben
Summary: From the number-one New York Times best-selling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive. Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three month…
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5. The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett
Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…
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6. A River in the Sky: The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 19 (Unabridged) by Elizabeth Peters
Summary: Elizabeth Peters brings back beloved Egyptologist and amateur sleuth Amelia Peabody in an exciting tale set amid the ancient temples and simmering religious tensions of Palestine on the eve of World War I. August 1910. Amelia Peabody and her husband, Emerson, are relaxing at home in Kent, enjoying the tranquil beauty of summer. But adventure soon beckons when they are persuaded to follow would-be archaeologist Major George Morley on an expedition to Palestine. Searching for the vanished tre…
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7. House Rules (Unabridged) by Jodi Picoult
Summary: They tell me I’m lucky to have a son who’s so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there’s a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn’t know how. Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with …
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8. Storm Front: The Dresden Files, Book 1 (Unabridged) by Jim Butcher
Summary: My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk. I’m a wizard. I work out of an office in midtown Chicago. As far as I know, I’m the only openly practicing professional wizard in the country. You can find me in the yellow pages, under Wizards. Believe it or not, I’m the only one there. With rent past due and a decent meal becoming an issue of some importance, Harry needs work, and soon. A call from a distraught wife, and another from Lt Murphy of the Chicago PD…
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9. Blood Rites: The Dresden Files, Book 6 (Unabridged) by Jim Butcher
Summary: Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas – a vampire of dubious integrity – only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.
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10. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson
Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (“An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller” The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…
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11. Dead Beat: The Dresden Files, Book 7 (Unabridged) by Jim Butcher
Summary: When a killer vampire threatens to destroy head of Special Investigations Karrin Murphy’s reputation, unless Harry delivers the powerful Word of Kemmler to her, he has no choice. Now Harry is in a race against time to find the Word before Chicago experiences a Halloween night to wake the dead.
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12. WWW: Watch (Unabridged) by Robert J. Sawyer
Summary: Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH – the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the United States – and they’re fully aware of Caitlin’s involvement in its awakening. WATCH is convinced that Webmind represents a risk to national security and wants it purged from cyberspace. But Caitlin believes in Webmind’s capacity for compassion -…
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13. The Silent Sea: A Novel of the Oregon Files (Unabridged) by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul
Summary: Another thrilling adeventure from the number-one New York Times best-selling author. Clive Cussler’s tales of the Oregon and its crew -”the clever, indefatigable Juan Cabrillo and his merry band of tough, tech-savvy fighting men and women” ( Publishers Weekly ) – have made fans of hundreds of thousands of readers and listeners. But the Oregon ’s sixth adventure is its most remarkable one yet. On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washin…
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14. Under the Dome: A Novel (Unabridged) by Stephen King
Summary: On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when–or if–it will go awa…
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15. Daemon (Unabridged) by Daniel Suarez
Summary: Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can’t always be said for the pe…
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16. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand: A Novel (Unabridged) by Helen Simonson
Summary: You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson’s wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major Pettigrew is one of the most indelible characters in contemporary fiction, and from the very firs…
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17. Worst Case (Unabridged) by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge
Summary: One by one, children of New York’s wealthiest are taken hostage. But the criminal doesn’t crave money or power – he only wants to ask the elite if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. And, if they don’t, he corrects their ignorance – by killing them. To Detective Michael Bennett, it becomes clear that these murders are linked and must be part of a greater, more public demonstration. With the city thrown into chaos, he is forced to team up with FBI agent Emily Parke…
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18. The Lost Symbol (Unabridged) by Dan Brown
Summary: The Lost Symbol is Dan Brown’s follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s writing shows us why he is the one of the world’s most popular author of thrillers. Just like the Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol is thrilling race to find the secret. Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon is once again needed to meet the challenge. He must search the hidden codes, unravel the secrets while avoiding the bad guys.
Set within the underground of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol races through a t…
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19. Bite Me: A Love Story (Unabridged) by Christopher Moore
Summary: “The city of San Francisco is being stalked by a huge, shaved vampyre cat named Chet, and only I, Abby Normal, emergency backup mistress of the Greater Bay Area night, and my manga-haired love monkey, Foo Dog, stand between the ravenous monster and a bloody massacre of the general public. Whoa. And this is a love story? Yup. “‘Cept there’s no whining. See, while some lovers were born to run, Jody and Tommy were born to bite. Well, reborn, that is, now that they’re vampires. Good thing th…
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20. Presumed Innocent (Unabridged) by Scott Turow
Summary: Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of crimes. Prosecutor Rusty Sabich is transformed from accuser to accused when he is handed an explosive case – that of the brutal murder of a woman who happens to be his former lover.
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