Audiobooks narrated by Lisa Flanagan

FBI: Strange Crimes Unit Books 1-3 Audiobook

Her Darkest Secret "A taut, psychological thriller with deeply relatable characters. Patch's brilliantly created plot will keep readers turning pages until they reach the shocking conclusion. I highly recommend it!" -Nancy Mehl, author of the Quantico Files series When a cold-case serial killer returns, FBI special agent Fiona Kelly has one last chance to stop him before he claims the prize he's always wanted-her. The sight of a goose feather at a murder scene modeled after a children's poem is enough to make FBI special agent Fiona Kelly's blood turn to ice. Almost two decades ago, a feather was left with her sister's body-and with every subsequent victim of the Nursery Rhyme Killer. Now he's back. Only this time, his latest gruesome murder is a message to the only one who ever got away: Fiona. Finding "Rhyme" is an obsession that's fueled Fiona's career-and destroyed her marriage to fellow FBI agent Asa Kodiak. Now Fiona and Asa have to put their past tensions aside and work together one last time. But Rhyme is watching, and catching this killer may force Fiona to reveal her biggest, darkest secret…the one only he knows. "Her Darkest Secret by Jessica R. Patch grabbed me in the first scene of this edge-of-your-seat suspense and didn't let go until the end!" -Patricia Bradley, author of the Memphis Cold Case novels A Cry in the Dark "Jessica R. Patch is my newest automatic buy author. If you like romantic suspense, you need to read this book." -Lynette Eason, award-winning, best-selling author of the Extreme Measures series Deep in the Kentucky hills, three women have been found brutalized and murdered. But the folks in Night Holler have their own ways and their own laws. And they're not talking… Led to an isolated Appalachian Mountain town by a trail of disturbing murders, FBI special agent Violet Rainwater's determined to catch a serial killer with a twisted agenda. With locals refusing to reveal their secrets, Violet's only ally is Detective John Orlando. But even John has an ulterior motive-he's convinced this case is connected to his wife's murder. As they dig deeper, Violet uncovers a link to her own unresolved past. For years she's worked the cold case of her mother's abduction, which had led to her birth. The need to look into the eyes of the sinful man who fathered her consumes Violet. Until she can, she'll never have peace. Because she's terrified she might be exactly like him. In this chilling novel, when the present collides with Violet's mysterious past and John's tragic loss, they must unravel the warped, sinuous connections before the killer strikes again. But solving the case might not be nearly as terrifying as the possibility that Violet's finally found her roots… "With twisted psychology and relatable characters, readers will feel like they discovered the Criminal Minds version of a fiction book. I definitely recommend reading this book after dark for the full effect, and be sure to lock your doors before you go to sleep." -Jaime Jo Wright, author of The Souls of Lost Lake The Garden Girls "A perfect storm of thrilling suspense and intricate plot twists that will leave readers breathless!" --Nancy Mehl, author of the Ryland & St. Clair series On a remote Outer Banks island, a serial killer collects his prized specimens. And to stop him, an FBI agent must confront his own twisted past. FBI agent Tiberius Granger has seen his share of darkness. But a new case sets him on edge. It's not just the macabre way both victims-found posed in front of lighthouses-are tattooed with flowers that match their names. There's also the unsettling connection to the woman Ty once loved and to the shadowy cult they both risked everything to escape. Bexley Hemmingway's sister has gone missing, and she'll do anything to find her-including teaming up with Ty. That may prove a mistake, and not just because Ty doesn't know he's the father of her teenaged son. It seems the killer is taunting Ty, drawing everyone close to him into deeper danger. As the slashing winds and rain of a deadly hurricane approach the coast of North Carolina, the search leads Ty and Bex to an island that hides a grisly secret. But in his quest for the truth, Ty has ignored the fact that this time, he's not just the hunter. Every move has been orchestrated by a killer into a perfect storm of terror, and they will need all their skills to survive…

Jessica R. Patch (Author), Courtney Patterson, Lisa Flanagan, Teri Schnaubelt (Narrator)

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Merkel's Law: Wisdom from the Woman Who Led the Free World

For readers of Notorious RBG and The World According to Star Wars, a fun and inspiring biography filled with lessons from the most powerful woman in the world, based on New York Times Berlin correspondent Melissa Eddy's more than a decade's worth of coverage of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the modern nation she helped shape. Angela Merkel is a boss. A trailblazer. An icon of colorful suits. Formerly the new leader of the free world. With an entire hand gesture named after her (the "Merkel Diamond"), and celebrated in a viral meme for sparring with Trump, Angela Merkel spent a decade economically and politically revitalizing her country. The first woman chancellor of Germany and one of the longest-serving European leaders ever, Merkel's quiet resolve, calculated confidence, and extreme privacy around her personal life have made her a feminist role model for the ages. Merkel's Law is a revelatory look at an unlikely vanguard, and at the country she led for sixteen years. No one is better positioned than New York Times Berlin correspondent Melissa Eddy to pull back the curtain on the woman who engineered Germany's rise to wealth, power, and an economy worth 3.8 trillion in USD. Drawing upon an unparalleled well of sources close to Merkel, Merkel's Law traces her childhood in East Germany as the daughter of a clergyman, her meteoric rise to power, and her more recent public acclaim—as well as the numerous setbacks she faced along the way both from political rivals and from men in her own party who scoffed at her ambition. Told in short chapters framed by the laws of Merkel's leadership, like "Know Where You Come From" and "Nothing Remains the Same, Embrace Change," it is a clever and insightful tour of the wisdom of Merkel. Painting a portrait of a political genius, savvy businesswoman, and model for modern power, Merkel's Law is not only the story of her life, but the lessons we can learn from it.

Melissa Eddy (Author), Lisa Flanagan, TBD (Narrator)

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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race that Could Break the World

It took Facebook four years to reach 100 million users. ChatGPT, released in November 2022, did it in two months. The simple text box was unlike anything experienced before. It could craft poems, write screenplays and letters of condolence, and tell jokes. It told one writer that it was in love with him and another that it had spied on Microsoft's programmers through their webcams. But this is just the beginning. Things are going to get much, much worse, as Google and Microsoft compete to monetize this rapidly evolving technology. The danger isn't that humanity is going to be eliminated as in Terminator or The Matrix; no, the danger is that these untested, rapidly evolving technologies will undermine our way of life more insidiously, sucking value out of our economy, replacing high-level creative jobs and enabling a new, terrifying era of disinformation. It was never meant to be this way. The founders of the two companies behind the most advanced AIs in existence - San Francisco-based OpenAI and London-based DeepMind - started their journeys determined to solve humanity's greatest problems. But they couldn't develop their technologies without huge amounts of money and that much money comes with obligations - the kind that Google and Microsoft plan to make back a hundred-fold. Supremacy is the astonishing, untold, behind-the-scenes story of the battle between these two AI companies, their struggles to use their tech for good, and the dangerous direction that they're now going in. It's a story of manipulation, exploitation, secrecy and perhaps the greatest invention in technological history - but, above all, it's a story of ruthless, relentless human progress, and how it will impact all of us for years to come.

Parmy Olson (Author), Lisa Flanagan, TBD (Narrator)

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No Escape

Following the success of her unputdownable debut, Escape Room, Maren Stoffels is back with a new standalone horror novel about a twisted game master who has no intention of letting their players go. "You have been chosen to participate in a new Escape Room. You can bring one person. The one you trust the most. Your very best friend." When Lexi receives an invitation to participate in a brand-new escape room, along with her best friend Tess, she's thrilled. They could both use the distraction after a recent tragedy. But once inside, they learn that they must compete against one another. What do you do when your best friend suddenly becomes your biggest adversary, and every choice you make puts her in danger? How far will you go to win?

Maren Stoffels (Author), Elena Rey, Graham Halstead, Lisa Flanagan, Philip Hernandez, TBD, Victoria Villarreal (Narrator)

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Naked in the Rideshare: Stories of Gross Miscalculations

From Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold, the youngest comedy writers ever for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and masterminds behind the viral 2018 Yale graduation speech, comes a hilarious collection of short stories taking on coming-of-age, memes, sex, politics, relationships, and Goop, with satire, self-deprecation, and utter irreverence. Showing off their trademark humor and writing chops that have made them a viral sensation, Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold provide a collection of startlingly funny short stories that will keep readers laughing. Naked in the Rideshare is a riotous collection of comedic short stories, bursting with the safe spaces, shrooms dealers, and Notes app apologies that define growing up right now. The essays take a drunken cannonball into this generation’s hopes and anxieties. A camp color war ends in ritual sacrifice. A twenty-something enters a sexual relationship with his childhood fairy god milf. A summit outside of space and time brings together a teen's selves from ages 1 to 81. Irreverent, disturbing, and surprisingly rife with hope, Naked in the Rideshare aims to shine a light on the generation we can’t stop talking about—and all the ways we get them so wrong.

Ben Kronengold, Rebecca Shaw (Author), Ben Kronengold, Emeka Emecheta, Lisa Flanagan, Mark Sanderlin, Oliver Wyman, Pete Cross, Rebecca Shaw (Narrator)

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Good Girls Don't Die

A sharp-edged, supremely twisty thriller about three women who find themselves trapped inside stories they know aren't their own, from the author of Alice and Near the Bone. Celia wakes up in a house that's supposed to be hers. There's a little girl who claims to be her daughter and a man who claims to be her husband, but Celia knows this family-and this life-is not hers… Allie is supposed to be on a fun weekend trip-but then her friend's boyfriend unexpectedly invites the group to a remote cabin in the woods. No one else believes Allie, but she is sure that something about this trip is very, very wrong… Maggie just wants to be home with her daughter, but she's in a dangerous situation and she doesn't know who put her there or why. She'll have to fight with everything she has to survive… Three women. Three stories. Only one way out. This captivating novel will keep readers guessing until the very end.

Christina Henry (Author), Lisa Flanagan (Narrator)

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The Legacies

'Our new favorite thriller.' - COSMOPOLITAN A glitzy YA thriller set in New York City elite social circles, filled with backstabbing and blackmail, twisty secrets, and a dead body, from New York Times bestselling author Jessica Goodman. Perfect for fans of Euphoria, Holly Jackson, and Jessica Knoll. An invitation for membership to the exclusive Legacy Club in New York City is more than an honor. It gives lifetime access to power and wealth beyond any prep school doors, as Legacy Club members always look out for their own. That is, after you make it through a rigorous week of events and the extravagant gala, the Legacy Ball. It's not surprising when Excelsior Prep seniors Bernie Kaplan, Isobel Rothcroft, and Skyler Hawkins are nominated as Legacies; their family pedigrees have assured their membership since birth-even if they're all keeping secrets that could destroy their reputations. But scholarship kid from Queens Tori Tasso is the surprise nominee no one saw coming. She's never fit in this world of designer bags, penthouse apartments, and million-dollar donations. So what did she do to secure her place? The evening of the Legacy Ball arrives, and everyone expects a night of luxury and excess, haute couture, and plenty of hushed gossip. No one expects their secrets to come out. Or for someone to die trying to keep them hidden.

Jessica Goodman (Author), Jesse Vilinsky, Kristen Sieh, Lisa Flanagan, Phoebe Strole (Narrator)

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Everyday Utopia: In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home

The traditional 'nuclear' family home is a problem: it places unfair and unnecessary burdens on women (and men too), it entrenches inequalities, it entraps us financially and it hinders certain kinds of child development. Also, it doesn't seem to make us very happy. And yet throughout history and around the world today, forward-thinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living - from the all-female 'beguinages' of medieval Belgium to the matriarchal ecovillages of contemporary Colombia; from the ancient Greek commune founded by Pythagoras, where men and women lived as equals and shared property, to present-day Connecticut, where new laws make it easier for extra 'alloparents' to help raise children not their own. Some of these experiments burned brightly and briefly; others are living proof of what is possible. Everyday Utopia upends our assumptions and raises our sights by gathering these and many more inspiring examples together, arguing that many of the most important and effective ways of changing our lives and the world are to be found in the home. The result is a radically hopeful and practical vision of more connected - and contented - ways of living.

Kristen Ghodsee (Author), Lisa Flanagan (Narrator)

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Love Bites

Book two in the nationally bestselling Argeneau Vampire series, where true love is good from the first bite to the last! Etienne Argeneau?s three hundred years of bachelorhood were at an end. Either that, or he?d be forever alone. He could only turn one human in his lifetime, and most of his kind created a life mate. If he turned this stranger...But what choice did he have? The beautiful coroner had saved his life. To save hers, he would make her immortal. Rachel Garrett awoke surprised. All she?d wanted was to get off the night shift in the morgue; now here she was staggering to her feet naked and in a strange place. But everything would be all right. She?d just make like a bat out of?Then she saw the man of her dreams emerging from his...coffin? And the look in his bright silver eyes said they?d be spending a lot of time together. She just hoped he tasted as good as he looked.

Lynsay Sands (Author), Lisa Flanagan (Narrator)

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The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie

Luckily for humanity, scientist Marie Curie applied her brilliant mind and indomitable spirit to expanding the frontiers of science, but what if she had instead drifted toward the darkness? At the cusp of between child- and adulthood, at the crossroads between science and superstition, a teen Marie Curie faces the factual and the fantastic in this fabulous collection of stories that inspire, delight, and ask the question: What if she had used her talents for diabolical purposes? The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie includes twenty short stories and poems by award-winning writers including New York Times bestselling authors Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler, Jane Yolen, Alethea Kontis, and Jonathan Maberry, among others.

Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Henry Herz (Author), Alex Picard, Amy Landon, Anna Caputo, Cindy Kay, Emily Ellet, Emily Lawrence, Kelli Tager, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Lisa Flanagan, Nancy Peterson, Natalie Duke, Natalie Naudus, Natasha Soudek, Shiromi Arserio, Stephanie Németh-Parker, Stina Nielsen, Tim Campbell, Zura Johnson (Narrator)

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I’d Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories

Bestselling author Julianna Baggott delivers her mind-bending debut short-story collection, featuring an array of genres populated by deeply human characters, and with film rights to the stories already having been sold to Netflix, Paramount, Amblin, Lionsgate, and others! In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who’s been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group with others who have been “banned for life,” and finds herself falling in love. In “Backwards,” a twist on Benjamin Button, a woman reconnects with her estranged father as he de-ages ten years each day they spend together. In “Welcome to Oxhead,” all the parents in a gated community “shut off” when the power goes out. In “Portals,” a small town deals with hope and loss when dozens of portals suddenly open. In “How They Got In,” a grieving family starts to see a murdered girl in all of their old home videos. This fantastical collection from a unique voice contains a myriad of stories of the weird and wonderful. Julianna Baggott is a talented and clever guide, and I’d Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You will take the reader on a journey unlike anything they’ve experienced.

Julianna Baggott (Author), Andi Arndt, Cassandra Campbell, Em Grosland, Emily Lawrence, Emily Woo Zeller, Erin Bennett, January Lavoy, Kelli Tager, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Lisa Flanagan, Natasha Soudek, Rachel Jacobs, Sarah Beth Pfeifer, Tavia Gilbert, Xe Sands (Narrator)

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Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life

Prologue read by the author Over her four decades of working in newsrooms big and small, Margaret Sullivan has become a trusted champion and critic of the American news media. In this bracing memoir, Sullivan traces her life in journalism and how trust in the mainstream press has steadily eroded. Sullivan began her career at the Buffalo News, where she rose from summer intern to editor in chief. In Newsroom Confidential she chronicles her years in the trenches battling sexism and throwing elbows in a highly competitive newsroom. In 2012, Sullivan was appointed the public editor of The New York Times, the first woman to hold that important role. She was in the unique position of acting on behalf of readers to weigh the actions and reporting of the paper's staff, parsing potential lapses in judgment, unethical practices, and thorny journalistic issues. Sullivan recounts how she navigated the paper’s controversies, from Hillary Clinton's emails to Elon Musk's accusations of unfairness to the need for greater diversity in the newsroom. In 2016, having served the longest tenure of any public editor, Sullivan left for the Washington Post, where she had a front-row seat to the rise of Donald Trump in American media and politics. With her celebrated mixture of charm, sharp-eyed observation, and nuanced criticism, Sullivan takes us behind the scenes of the nation's most influential news outlets to explore how Americans lost trust in the news and what it will take to regain it. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Margaret Sullivan (Author), Lisa Flanagan, Margaret Sullivan (Narrator)

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