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Title: Startup

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Doree Shafrir

Narrator: Eliana Marianes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 215 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From veteran online journalist and BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir comes a hilarious debut novel that proves there are some dilemmas that no app can solve.

Mack McAllister has a $600 million idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech, and he's about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion business - in startup parlance, an elusive unicorn.

Katya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young journalist at a gossipy tech blog, Katya knows that she needs more than another PR-friendly puff piece to make her the go-to byline for industry news.

Sabrina Choe Blum just wants to stay afloat. The exhausted mother of two and failed creative writer is trying to escape from her credit card debt and an inattentive husband - who also happens to be Katya's boss - as she rejoins a workforce that has gotten younger, hipper, and much more computer literate since she's been away.

Before the ink on Mack's latest round of funding is dry, an errant text message hints that he may be working a bit too closely for comfort with a young social media manager in his office. When Mack's bad behavior collides with Katya's search for a salacious post, Sabrina gets caught in the middle as TakeOff goes viral for all the wrong reasons. As the fallout from Mack's scandal engulfs the lower Manhattan office building where all three work, it's up to Katya and Sabrina to write the story the men in their lives would prefer remain untold.

An assured, observant debut from veteran online journalist Doree Shafrir, Startup is a sharp, hugely entertaining story of youth, ambition, love, money, and technology's inability to hack human nature.

Critic Reviews:

"Exacting, though not without empathy - Shafrir renders even the most infuriating of her characters with unexpected humanity - the novel is a page-turning pleasure that packs a punch. To call it expertly observed is an understatement." (

Kirkus)

"[A] deliciously detailed satire." (Jenny Comita,

W Magazine)

"Don't buy this book. Don't open. Don't start reading it. Because if you do, I can assure you, you won't be able to put it down. I was hooked from the first page and found myself lost in a beautifully-written fiction that so succinctly echoes today's bizarre reality." (Nick Bilton, special correspondent,

Vanity Fair, and author of

Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal)

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Title: Memorial Day

Author: Vince Flynn

Narrator: Armand Schultz

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-23-04

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 547 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

It's just seven days before Memorial Day, and a spike in CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States. Now it's up to Rapp to pull out all the stops.

Rapp immediately leaves for Afghanistan, where he leads a special forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into a remote Pakistani village. Their target: an al-Qaeda stronghold. Within a subterranean room, Rapp and his team discover plans for a catastrophic nuclear attack on Washington, DC.

Information is quickly relayed back to CIA headquarters, and a nuclear emergency support team scrambles to the scene. In a few hours, the freighters have been located and disarmed and the danger has been averted. Or has it? Mitch Rapp can't shake the feeling that the operation seemed just a bit too easy. Rapp follows his instincts on a quest to unearth the whole truth. What he finds is truly terrifying, and with Memorial Day closing fast, Rapp must find a way to prevent a disaster of unimaginable proportions.

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Title: The Inn at Eagle Point

Subtitle: A Chesapeake Shores Novel, Book 1

Author: Sherryl Woods

Narrator: Christina Traister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-24-10

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 740 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Its been years since Abby OBrien Winters set foot in Chesapeake Shores. The Maryland town her father built has too many sad memories and Abby too few spare moments, thanks to her demanding Wall Street career, the crumbling of her marriage, and her energetic twin daughters. Then one panicked phone call from her youngest sister brings her racing back home to protect Jesss dream of renovating the charming Inn at Eagle Point.

But saving the inn from foreclosure means dealing not only with her own fractured family but also with Trace Riley, the man Abby left 10 years ago. Trace can be a roadblock to her plansor proof that second chances happen in the most unexpected ways.

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Title: Nature Girl

Author: Carl Hiaasen

Narrator: Lee Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-30-06

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 769 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

What she doesn't know is that she's being followed by her Honey-obsessed former employer, Piejack. And he doesn't know he's being followed by Honey's still-smitten, former-drug-running ex-husband, Perry, and their wise-and-protective-way-beyond-his-years 12-year-old son, Fry. And when they all pull up on Dismal Key, they don't know they're intruding on Sammy Tigertail, a half white-half Seminole failed alligator wrestler, trying like hell to be a hermit despite the Florida State coed who's dying to be his hostage.

Critic Reviews:

"Old fans and newcomers alike should delight in Hiaasen's 11th novel, another hilarious Florida romp [with an] engaging and diverse screwball cast...Hiaasen's humorous touches and his all-too-human characters carry the book to its satisfying close." (Publishers Weekly)

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Title: Christmas Bliss

Author: Mary Kay Andrews

Narrator: Kathleen McInerney

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-13

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 229 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Twas the night before Christmas, and Savannah was breezy...

But there's trouble afoot - and it's heading toward Weezie. Seems BeBes been holding a big secret back that would make Santas reindeer stop dead in their tracks. Can these two best friends wriggle out of these twists? Will they do it in time to ensure Christmas Bliss?

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Title: One Summer Day in Rome

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Mark Lamprell

Narrator: Steve West

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 121 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

"New York, Paris, London - every grand metropolis - has its own irresistible attraction, but Rome so swirls with stories of saints and sinners...lovers and fighters, that she compels you towards her, like gravity.... No one leaves her unaltered. Part of you always loves her. This is the place where passions are aroused, senses inflamed, and lovers fall into each other's arms. It all appears to unfold like magic, but I will tell you what really happens.... Come with me, if you will, and observe my labors."

Mark Lamprell's One Summer Day in Rome is an enchanting audiobook about three couples drawn irresistibly to Rome, narrated by the city itself. Alice, an art student in New York City, has come to Rome in search of adventure and inspiration before settling down with her steady, safe fiancé. Meg and Alec, busy parents and successful businesspeople from LA, are on a mission to find the holy grail, a certain blue tile that will make their home renovation complete - but soon it becomes clear that their marriage needs a makeover as well. Connie and Lizzie are women of a certain age - "Sometimes I look at my laughter lines and wonder what on earth could have been that funny" - who come from London to scatter the ashes of their beloved husband and brother. Both women are seemingly done with romance, but Rome has other ideas.

Brimming with wit and charm (and gelato), One Summer Day in Rome is the most delicious audiobook you will listen to this summer.

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