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If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>enFictionCopyright Jimmy Gleichnerhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/8ab71c1ebe616bc8090769f6cac69662.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/discover-top-full-audiobooks-in-fiction-coming-of-age--6575881Sat, 29 Mar 2025 02:43:54 +0000Jimmy GleichnerJimmy Gleichnerfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/394/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. With a library of over 500,000+ audiobooks, we bring you classics, Romantic Novels, and Mystical Fiction stories....https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/394/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. With a library of over 500,000+ audiobooks, we bring you classics, Romantic Novels, and Mystical Fiction stories. Get 3 free audiobooks to start. Easily listen on iPhone, iPad, Android, and enjoy audiobooks whenever you want. Let the sounds of these wonderful stories accompany you! Note: The authors receive royalties paid by the audiobook service provider for this free offer. If you do not want your audiobook to be in the podcast please send us an email to info@thebookvoice.com.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-glassmaker-by-tracy-chevalier--65202069https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Glassmaker Author: Tracy Chevalier Narrator: Juliet Aubrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'Ingenious' THE TIMES, Book of the Month 'Sparkling'OBSERVER 'A triumph… beyond admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Spellbinding…. Chevalier at her fabulous best' ELIF SHAFAK 'As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead… one of the reigning queens of historical fiction' INDEPENDENT ‘A spectacular feat, crafted by a maestra at the top of her game’ SPECTATOR FROM THE GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to handle. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. She works in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect to be accepted by men. But perfection may take a lifetime. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola as she hones her craft through war and plague, tragedy and triumph, love and loss. The beads she creates will adorn the necks of empresses and courtesans from Paris to Vienna – but will she ever earn the respect of those closest to her? Tracy Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is vivid, inventive, spellbinding: a virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are as everlasting as their glass.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629240Thu, 12 Sep 2024 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Glassmaker Author: Tracy Chevalier Narrator: Juliet Aubrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 12,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Glassmaker Author: Tracy Chevalier Narrator: Juliet Aubrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: September 12, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'Ingenious' THE TIMES, Book of the Month 'Sparkling'OBSERVER 'A triumph… beyond admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Spellbinding…. Chevalier at her fabulous best' ELIF SHAFAK 'As finely wrought as a dazzling Murano bead… one of the reigning queens of historical fiction' INDEPENDENT ‘A spectacular feat, crafted by a maestra at the top of her game’ SPECTATOR FROM THE GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to handle. Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. She works in secret, knowing her creations must be perfect to be accepted by men. But perfection may take a lifetime. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola as she hones her craft through war and plague, tragedy and triumph, love and loss. The beads she creates will adorn the necks of empresses and courtesans from Paris to Vienna – but will she ever earn the respect of those closest to her? Tracy Chevalier is a master of her own craft, and The Glassmaker is vivid, inventive, spellbinding: a virtuoso portrait of a woman, a family and a city that are as everlasting as their glass.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-stone-of-authority-complete-set-by-allan-n-packer--65202147https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone of Authority Complete Set Series: #2 of The Stone Cycle Complete Sets Author: Allan N. Packer Narrator: Greg John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The epic fantasy saga of The Stone Cycle continues with over 24 hours of listening… The Stone of Authority The invasion is over, and the survivors of the shattered Rogandan army have straggled home. The people of Arvenon and the surrounding kingdoms are at peace. Or so they believe. Little do they know that a new stone of power has emerged, controlled by a cruel tyrant bent on destruction. But King Agon of Rogand lusts after much more than conquest. He will settle for nothing less than unending power. No armies are massing at the border. The kingdoms face a threat from within. As chaos spreads, Will, Steffan, Essanda, and Arvenon’s other key defenders are each confronted with crisis. If any one of them stumbles, the kingdom will fall. The Struggle for Authority Arvenon is controlled by a traitor. The kingdom of Castel teeters on the brink. With the unseen hand of King Agon of Rogand pulling the strings, a mantle of oppression is slowly settling over the four kingdoms. Now recovered from the assassination attempt, King Steffan of Arvenon sets out to wrest back control of his kingdom, vigorously supported by Will, Rufe, Thomas, and their allies. Unlikely influences might ultimately tip the balance. In a desperate attempt to block Agon, Will and Thomas set out for Rogand. What each of them encounters there will shake them to the core. The fate of four kingdoms will hinge upon the Stone of Authority. The Stone of Authority Complete Set is a complete story that continues the ongoing saga of The Stone Cycle. It includes the novels The Stone of Authority and The Struggle for Authority. If you enjoy epic fantasy with gripping action, relatable characters, and clean romance in a sweeping coming of age saga, then try The Stone of Authority Complete Set now!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586243Tue, 02 Apr 2024 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone of Authority Complete Set Series: #2 of The Stone Cycle Complete Sets Author: Allan N. Packer Narrator: Greg John Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/586243 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone of Authority Complete Set Series: #2 of The Stone Cycle Complete Sets Author: Allan N. Packer Narrator: Greg John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 25 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The epic fantasy saga of The Stone Cycle continues with over 24 hours of listening… The Stone of Authority The invasion is over, and the survivors of the shattered Rogandan army have straggled home. The people of Arvenon and the surrounding kingdoms are at peace. Or so they believe. Little do they know that a new stone of power has emerged, controlled by a cruel tyrant bent on destruction. But King Agon of Rogand lusts after much more than conquest. He will settle for nothing less than unending power. No armies are massing at the border. The kingdoms face a threat from within. As chaos spreads, Will, Steffan, Essanda, and Arvenon’s other key defenders are each confronted with crisis. If any one of them stumbles, the kingdom will fall. The Struggle for Authority Arvenon is controlled by a traitor. The kingdom of Castel teeters on the brink. With the unseen hand of King Agon of Rogand pulling the strings, a mantle of oppression is slowly settling over the four kingdoms. Now recovered from the assassination attempt, King Steffan of Arvenon sets out to wrest back control of his kingdom, vigorously supported by Will, Rufe, Thomas, and their allies. Unlikely influences might ultimately tip the balance. In a desperate attempt to block Agon, Will and Thomas set out for Rogand. What each of them encounters there will shake them to the core. The fate of four kingdoms will hinge upon the Stone of Authority. The Stone of Authority Complete Set is a complete story that continues the ongoing saga of The Stone Cycle. It includes the novels The Stone of Authority and The Struggle for Authority. If you enjoy epic fantasy with gripping action, relatable characters, and clean romance in a sweeping coming of age saga, then try The Stone of Authority Complete Set now!]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-struggle-for-authority-by-allan-n-packer--65202131https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Struggle for Authority Series: #4 of The Stone Cycle Author: Allan N. Packer Narrator: Greg John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Arvenon is controlled by a traitor. The kingdom of Castel teeters on the brink. With the unseen hand of King Agon of Rogand pulling the strings, a mantle of oppression is slowly settling over the four kingdoms. Now recovered from the assassination attempt, King Steffan of Arvenon sets out to wrest back control of his kingdom, vigorously supported by Will, Rufe, Thomas, and their allies. Unlikely influences might ultimately tip the balance. In a desperate attempt to block Agon, Will and Thomas set out for Rogand. What each of them encounters there will shake them to the core. The fate of four kingdoms will hinge upon the Stone of Authority. Note: The Struggle for Authority (The Stone Cycle Book 4) is a complete story within a multi-part saga.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608385Tue, 02 Apr 2024 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Struggle for Authority Series: #4 of The Stone Cycle Author: Allan N. Packer Narrator: Greg John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608385 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Struggle for Authority Series: #4 of The Stone Cycle Author: Allan N. Packer Narrator: Greg John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Arvenon is controlled by a traitor. The kingdom of Castel teeters on the brink. With the unseen hand of King Agon of Rogand pulling the strings, a mantle of oppression is slowly settling over the four kingdoms. Now recovered from the assassination attempt, King Steffan of Arvenon sets out to wrest back control of his kingdom, vigorously supported by Will, Rufe, Thomas, and their allies. Unlikely influences might ultimately tip the balance. In a desperate attempt to block Agon, Will and Thomas set out for Rogand. What each of them encounters there will shake them to the core. The fate of four kingdoms will hinge upon the Stone of Authority. Note: The Struggle for Authority (The Stone Cycle Book 4) is a complete story within a multi-part saga.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-stone-of-vitality-by-allan-n-packer--65202082https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone of Vitality Series: #5 of The Stone Cycle Author: Allan N. Packer Narrator: Greg John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When the abduction of an imperial princess sparks a tense standoff between Rogand and the distant Empire of Ahr, the dispute threatens to engulf Arvenon and its allies. Hurrying to the Rogandan capital with an Arvenian delegation, Will joins the kings of Rogand, Castel, and Varas to plan a response. The upheavals that overtake them quickly thrust all else aside. While the Grand Vizier of Ahr ruthlessly pursues his secretive agenda, mystery and suspicion swirl around the long-lived High Priest of the Rogandan Dark Gods. No one is prepared for the emergence of the Stone of Vitality. Note: The Stone of Vitality is Book 5 of The Stone Cycle, a multi-part saga. The story will continue and conclude in Book 6, The Hope of Vitality.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608386Tue, 02 Apr 2024 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone of Vitality Series: #5 of The Stone Cycle Author: Allan N. Packer Narrator: Greg John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/608386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone of Vitality Series: #5 of The Stone Cycle Author: Allan N. Packer Narrator: Greg John Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When the abduction of an imperial princess sparks a tense standoff between Rogand and the distant Empire of Ahr, the dispute threatens to engulf Arvenon and its allies. Hurrying to the Rogandan capital with an Arvenian delegation, Will joins the kings of Rogand, Castel, and Varas to plan a response. The upheavals that overtake them quickly thrust all else aside. While the Grand Vizier of Ahr ruthlessly pursues his secretive agenda, mystery and suspicion swirl around the long-lived High Priest of the Rogandan Dark Gods. No one is prepared for the emergence of the Stone of Vitality. Note: The Stone of Vitality is Book 5 of The Stone Cycle, a multi-part saga. The story will continue and conclude in Book 6, The Hope of Vitality.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hidden-fires-by-sairish-hussain-raj-ghatak--65202164https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hidden Fires Author: Sairish Hussain, Raj Ghatak Narrator: Krupa Pattani, Amerjit Deu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 18, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: How can you live in the present when you’re trying to bury the past? ‘A sweeping tale of resilience’ i News 'An ineffably touching novel by a talented young author' Saga Magazine 'Harrowing yet uplifting…A visceral exploration of family, identity and loss' Sunday Post]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616769Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hidden Fires Author: Sairish Hussain, Raj Ghatak Narrator: Krupa Pattani, Amerjit Deu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616769 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hidden Fires Author: Sairish Hussain, Raj Ghatak Narrator: Krupa Pattani, Amerjit Deu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: January 18, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: How can you live in the present when you’re trying to bury the past? ‘A sweeping tale of resilience’ i News 'An ineffably touching novel by a talented young author' Saga Magazine 'Harrowing yet uplifting…A visceral exploration of family, identity and loss' Sunday Post]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sweetest-revenge-by-lizzy-dent--65202057https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sweetest Revenge Author: Lizzy Dent Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “I love, love, love Lizzy Dent.”—Emily Henry, author of People We Meet on Vacation and Happy Place Bridesmaids meets Emily in Paris—in London—in this hilarious and heartfelt story of one handsome neighbor, one no-good ex, and the summer Amy Duffy makes the comeback of her life. Her past is a mess. But her present is about to get delicious. Amy is more than one disastrous night of drunken revenge on her boss/ex-boyfriend’s Audi—the night that tanked her rising TV producer career and led to a hasty move to London for a fresh start. She is thirty years of awesomeness. At least, that’s what Amy tells herself every morning before trekking to her mediocre job making trailers at a failing British TV channel. Two years later, she’s finally starting to believe it. Sparks are flying between her and Jake, her handsome new downstairs neighbor, and there’s a competition at work that just might get her career back on track while bringing her and Jake even closer. But then, in a twisted turn of fate, the ex-boyfriend who wrecked her life is hired as her new boss and past and present are about to epically, hilariously collide.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630963Tue, 25 Jul 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sweetest Revenge Author: Lizzy Dent Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sweetest Revenge Author: Lizzy Dent Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “I love, love, love Lizzy Dent.”—Emily Henry, author of People We Meet on Vacation and Happy Place Bridesmaids meets Emily in Paris—in London—in this hilarious and heartfelt story of one handsome neighbor, one no-good ex, and the summer Amy Duffy makes the comeback of her life. Her past is a mess. But her present is about to get delicious. Amy is more than one disastrous night of drunken revenge on her boss/ex-boyfriend’s Audi—the night that tanked her rising TV producer career and led to a hasty move to London for a fresh start. She is thirty years of awesomeness. At least, that’s what Amy tells herself every morning before trekking to her mediocre job making trailers at a failing British TV channel. Two years later, she’s finally starting to believe it. Sparks are flying between her and Jake, her handsome new downstairs neighbor, and there’s a competition at work that just might get her career back on track while bringing her and Jake even closer. But then, in a twisted turn of fate, the ex-boyfriend who wrecked her life is hired as her new boss and past and present are about to epically, hilariously collide.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/homebodies-by-tembe-denton-hurst--65202056https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631123 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homebodies Author: Tembe Denton-Hurst Narrator: Marcella Cox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 6, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ’THIS BOOK IS SO FUN AND HOT AND EXCEPTIONALLY WRITTEN!!’ Reader review,⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I melted into this book and loved every minute of it – if you're looking for a contemporary story of a queer black girl finding herself, you'll love this’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Homebodies is so many different things. Political and social commentary, romance, drama, journey to self-discovery— it’s the story of a young queer Black woman caught up in the whirlwind of everything life can throw at you’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Quiet, complex, vulnerable … it's really powerful to show a raw, relatable character trying to decide if the career she's worked toward for her entire life is worth the pain it causes her’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ * * * * She’s stayed quiet for too long. Now it’s time to speak her truth. Until twenty-four hours ago, Mickey Hayward was living the life she’d always dreamed of. She was working for a popular media company, and she was in a committed loving relationship. Now she’s fired, tossed aside for a younger, more ‘agreeable’ Black writer. Sick of being overlooked, she responds with an online letter detailing the racism she’s faced within the industry. And when a media scandal turns Mickey’s post into a viral sensation, suddenly everyone wants to hear what she has to say. That’s what Mickey has always wanted – isn’t it? Don’t miss this incredibly witty, intimate, and moving debut. Perfect if you love: ❤️Coming of age ❤️Old flame ❤️Love triangle ❤️City girl/small hometown * * * * Praise for Tembe Denton-Hurst ‘I saw so much of myself in her utterly delicious and sometimes aching story’ Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of the New York Times bestselling The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois 'Denton-Hurst has written a warm, brilliant novel that’s stunning and poignant; Homebodies is wonderfully witty and full of empathy and entirely original’ Bryan Washington, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot 'A gorgeous and compulsively readable coming-of-age story about a young, Black, queer writer trying to figure out her purpose and her identity’ Vogue]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631123Thu, 06 Jul 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631123 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homebodies Author: Tembe Denton-Hurst Narrator: Marcella Cox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 6, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631123 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homebodies Author: Tembe Denton-Hurst Narrator: Marcella Cox Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: July 6, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ’THIS BOOK IS SO FUN AND HOT AND EXCEPTIONALLY WRITTEN!!’ Reader review,⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I melted into this book and loved every minute of it – if you're looking for a contemporary story of a queer black girl finding herself, you'll love this’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Homebodies is so many different things. Political and social commentary, romance, drama, journey to self-discovery— it’s the story of a young queer Black woman caught up in the whirlwind of everything life can throw at you’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Quiet, complex, vulnerable … it's really powerful to show a raw, relatable character trying to decide if the career she's worked toward for her entire life is worth the pain it causes her’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ * * * * She’s stayed quiet for too long. Now it’s time to speak her truth. Until twenty-four hours ago, Mickey Hayward was living the life she’d always dreamed of. She was working for a popular media company, and she was in a committed loving relationship. Now she’s fired, tossed aside for a younger, more ‘agreeable’ Black writer. Sick of being overlooked, she responds with an online letter detailing the racism she’s faced within the industry. And when a media scandal turns Mickey’s post into a viral sensation, suddenly everyone wants to hear what she has to say. That’s what Mickey has always wanted – isn’t it? Don’t miss this incredibly witty, intimate, and moving debut. Perfect if you love: ❤️Coming of age ❤️Old flame ❤️Love triangle ❤️City girl/small hometown * * * * Praise for Tembe Denton-Hurst ‘I saw so much of myself in her utterly delicious and sometimes aching story’ Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of the New York Times bestselling The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois 'Denton-Hurst has written a warm, brilliant novel that’s stunning and poignant; Homebodies is wonderfully witty and full of empathy and entirely original’ Bryan Washington, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot 'A gorgeous and compulsively readable coming-of-age story about a young, Black, queer writer trying to figure out her purpose and her identity’ Vogue]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bellies-by-nicola-dinan--65202060https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bellies Author: Nicola Dinan Narrator: Octavia Nyombi, Nathaniel Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 8 minutes Release date: June 29, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at a university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a charming young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom's awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming's orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he's already mapped out their future together. But, shortly after they move to London to start their next chapter, Ming announces her intention to transition. From London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, we follow Tom and Ming as they face shifts in their relationship in the wake of Ming's transition. Through a spiral of unforeseen crises - some personal, some professional, some life-altering - Tom and Ming are forced to confront the vastly different shapes their lives have taken since graduating, and each must answer the essential question: is it worth losing a part of yourself to become who you are? 'Smart, hilarious and deeply moving' Elliot Page, author of Pageboy 'Bellies announces Nicola Dinan as a genuine literary talent, a gimlet-eyed cartographer of the human heart' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'Thoughtful, seductive, and entirely engrossing - Bellies is already a classic' Bryan Washington, author of Memorial and Lot ©2023 Nicola Dinan (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632512Thu, 29 Jun 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bellies Author: Nicola Dinan Narrator: Octavia Nyombi, Nathaniel Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 8 minutes Release date: June 29,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/632512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bellies Author: Nicola Dinan Narrator: Octavia Nyombi, Nathaniel Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 8 minutes Release date: June 29, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at a university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a charming young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom's awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming's orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he's already mapped out their future together. But, shortly after they move to London to start their next chapter, Ming announces her intention to transition. From London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, we follow Tom and Ming as they face shifts in their relationship in the wake of Ming's transition. Through a spiral of unforeseen crises - some personal, some professional, some life-altering - Tom and Ming are forced to confront the vastly different shapes their lives have taken since graduating, and each must answer the essential question: is it worth losing a part of yourself to become who you are? 'Smart, hilarious and deeply moving' Elliot Page, author of Pageboy 'Bellies announces Nicola Dinan as a genuine literary talent, a gimlet-eyed cartographer of the human heart' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'Thoughtful, seductive, and entirely engrossing - Bellies is already a classic' Bryan Washington, author of Memorial and Lot ©2023 Nicola Dinan (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/locks-by-ashleigh-nugent--65202213https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Locks Author: Ashleigh Nugent Narrator: Ashleigh Nugent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ‘1993 was the year that Stephen Lawrence got murdered by racists, and I became an angry Black lad with a “chip on his shoulder”’ Aeon, a mixed-up and mixed-race teenager from a leafy Liverpool suburb, is desperate to understand the Black identity thrust upon him. He grows dreadlocks and immerses himself in ‘gangsta’ rap. But Aeon’s journey of self-discovery is hampered by the fact that the only Black people in his life are his dad and his cousin, Increase. Aeon’s ambition to find his place in the world takes him to Jamaica. Here, Aeon soon finds that smoking loads of weed, growing messy locks and wearing massive red boots don’t necessarily help him to fit in. Within days of his arrival he is mugged, arrested and banged up in a Jamaican detention centre. Seen as the ‘White boy’, he finds that his journey of self-discovery has only just begun – and he’s going to have to fight for the respect and recognition he deserves . . . A coming-of-age comedy of errors, Locks is an electric debut novel about growing up, wising up, and finding your place in a world of opposites. 'Blends humour and introspection, poetry and the poignant' - Derek Owusu, author of the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning That Reminds Me 'Irreverent, authentic and utterly enthralling. A wonderful book' - Jimmy McGovern, creator of the drama series Cracker 'Twisty, energetic, voice-led . . . Nugent is pure talent' - Raymond Antrobus, author of the Rathbones Folio Prize-winning The Perseverance 'Thought provoking and funny' - David Beckler, author of A Long Shadow]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614937Thu, 22 Jun 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Locks Author: Ashleigh Nugent Narrator: Ashleigh Nugent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Locks Author: Ashleigh Nugent Narrator: Ashleigh Nugent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ‘1993 was the year that Stephen Lawrence got murdered by racists, and I became an angry Black lad with a “chip on his shoulder”’ Aeon, a mixed-up and mixed-race teenager from a leafy Liverpool suburb, is desperate to understand the Black identity thrust upon him. He grows dreadlocks and immerses himself in ‘gangsta’ rap. But Aeon’s journey of self-discovery is hampered by the fact that the only Black people in his life are his dad and his cousin, Increase. Aeon’s ambition to find his place in the world takes him to Jamaica. Here, Aeon soon finds that smoking loads of weed, growing messy locks and wearing massive red boots don’t necessarily help him to fit in. Within days of his arrival he is mugged, arrested and banged up in a Jamaican detention centre. Seen as the ‘White boy’, he finds that his journey of self-discovery has only just begun – and he’s going to have to fight for the respect and recognition he deserves . . . A coming-of-age comedy of errors, Locks is an electric debut novel about growing up, wising up, and finding your place in a world of opposites. 'Blends humour and introspection, poetry and the poignant' - Derek Owusu, author of the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning That Reminds Me 'Irreverent, authentic and utterly enthralling. A wonderful book' - Jimmy McGovern, creator of the drama series Cracker 'Twisty, energetic, voice-led . . . Nugent is pure talent' - Raymond Antrobus, author of the Rathbones Folio Prize-winning The Perseverance 'Thought provoking and funny' - David Beckler, author of A Long Shadow]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-late-americans-by-brandon-taylor--65202058https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626722 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Late Americans Author: Brandon Taylor Narrator: Kevin R. Free Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Selected as a Best Book of 2023 by the Guardian, Irish Times, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire and i-D The highly-anticipated new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author Brandon Taylor. An exploration of sex, love, identity and politics In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a social circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to figure out what they want, and who they are. At the centre of the group are three dancers: Ivan, tall and stoic, who is leaving ballet for a career in finance; Fatima, whose work ethic earns her both admiration and enmity; and Noah, who 'didn't seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection.' As they test their own desires in a series of relationships - and in other, clandestine ways - they are buffeted by other volatile figures in town, from an unruly, vulnerable young poet to a local landlord nursing a lifetime of resentment. Finally, after a series of violent encounters, the group heads to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives, and waves of long-buried heartache resolve into moments of unexpected tenderness. Filled with scenes of aching intimacy, The Late Americans is Brandon Taylor's richest and most involving work of fiction to date, confirming his position as one of our most perceptive chroniclers of loneliness and desire in contemporary life. ©2023 Brandon Taylor (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626722Thu, 22 Jun 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626722 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Late Americans Author: Brandon Taylor Narrator: Kevin R. Free Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626722 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Late Americans Author: Brandon Taylor Narrator: Kevin R. Free Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Selected as a Best Book of 2023 by the Guardian, Irish Times, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire and i-D The highly-anticipated new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author Brandon Taylor. An exploration of sex, love, identity and politics In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a social circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled webs of connection as they try to figure out what they want, and who they are. At the centre of the group are three dancers: Ivan, tall and stoic, who is leaving ballet for a career in finance; Fatima, whose work ethic earns her both admiration and enmity; and Noah, who 'didn't seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection.' As they test their own desires in a series of relationships - and in other, clandestine ways - they are buffeted by other volatile figures in town, from an unruly, vulnerable young poet to a local landlord nursing a lifetime of resentment. Finally, after a series of violent encounters, the group heads to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives, and waves of long-buried heartache resolve into moments of unexpected tenderness. Filled with scenes of aching intimacy, The Late Americans is Brandon Taylor's richest and most involving work of fiction to date, confirming his position as one of our most perceptive chroniclers of loneliness and desire in contemporary life. ©2023 Brandon Taylor (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/old-enough-a-novel-by-haley-jakobson--65202050https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630947 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Old Enough: A Novel Author: Haley Jakobson Narrator: Haley Jakobson, Jenna Kray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction “Old Enough is full of growth, heartbreak, and winsome bisexual chaos.”—Vogue A debut novel “as astute, funny, and loving as your best friend from college”* about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyalty to a friendship she’s outgrown *Isle McElroy Savannah 'Sav' Henry is almost the person she wants to be, or at least she's getting closer. It’s the second semester of her sophomore year. She’s finally come out as bisexual, is making friends with the other queers in her dorm, and has just about recovered from her disastrous first queer “situationship.” She is cautiously optimistic that her life is about to begin.   But when she learns that Izzie, her best friend from childhood, has gotten engaged, Sav faces a crisis of confidence. Things with Izzie haven’t been the same since what happened between Sav and Izzie’s older brother when they were sixteen. Now, with the wedding around the corner, Sav is forced to reckon with trauma she thought she could put behind her.   On top of it all, Sav can’t stop thinking about Wes from her Gender Studies class—sweet, funny Wes, with their long eyelashes and green backpack. There’s something different here—with Wes and with her new friends (who delight in teasing her about this face-burning crush); it feels, terrifyingly, like they might truly see her in a way no one has before.   With a singularly funny, heartfelt voice, Old Enough explores queer love, community, and what it means to be a sexual assault survivor. Haley Jakobson has written a love letter to friendship and an honest depiction of what finding your people can feel like—for better or worse.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630947Tue, 20 Jun 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630947 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Old Enough: A Novel Author: Haley Jakobson Narrator: Haley Jakobson, Jenna Kray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630947 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Old Enough: A Novel Author: Haley Jakobson Narrator: Haley Jakobson, Jenna Kray Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: June 20, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction “Old Enough is full of growth, heartbreak, and winsome bisexual chaos.”—Vogue A debut novel “as astute, funny, and loving as your best friend from college”* about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyalty to a friendship she’s outgrown *Isle McElroy Savannah 'Sav' Henry is almost the person she wants to be, or at least she's getting closer. It’s the second semester of her sophomore year. She’s finally come out as bisexual, is making friends with the other queers in her dorm, and has just about recovered from her disastrous first queer “situationship.” She is cautiously optimistic that her life is about to begin.   But when she learns that Izzie, her best friend from childhood, has gotten engaged, Sav faces a crisis of confidence. Things with Izzie haven’t been the same since what happened between Sav and Izzie’s older brother when they were sixteen. Now, with the wedding around the corner, Sav is forced to reckon with trauma she thought she could put behind her.   On top of it all, Sav can’t stop thinking about Wes from her Gender Studies class—sweet, funny Wes, with their long eyelashes and green backpack. There’s something different here—with Wes and with her new friends (who delight in teasing her about this face-burning crush); it feels, terrifyingly, like they might truly see her in a way no one has before.   With a singularly funny, heartfelt voice, Old Enough explores queer love, community, and what it means to be a sexual assault survivor. Haley Jakobson has written a love letter to friendship and an honest depiction of what finding your people can feel like—for better or worse.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ciao-for-now-by-kate-bromley--65202073https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ciao For Now Author: Kate Bromley Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “Hands down a standing ovation from me!” —Suzanne Park, author of So We Meet Again, on Here for the Drama A Most Anticipated Book of the Season by Goodreads, Distractify and Biblio Lifestyle! When an American interning at a fashion house in Rome butts heads with her professor's surly son, sparks fly! With her thirties rapidly approaching and a mountain of student debt looming over her, Violet Luciano’s dream of finishing design school and working in fashion has cost her everything. So when she lands an internship at an up-and-coming fashion brand in Rome, she brings her A game to Italy. With nothing left to lose, Violet plans to win the competition among the interns for the ultimate prize—a job at a New York label. But when a coffee run goes wrong and Violet accidentally destroys a stranger’s laptop, all of the apology Americanos in the world won’t help her. Because it turns out that the man from the café is Matteo, her professor’s eternally grumpy son, who thinks she’s a clumsy American…and maybe a stalker. Their animosity (and undeniable chemistry) grows as together they’re forced to face a summer of chic parties, adventures through Rome and sharing a home…with the person they can’t stand the most.    The more time she spends with him, the more distracted she finds herself. With her chance to win the competition slipping out of her grasp, Violet has to decide whether to say ciao to Matteo—or ciao to her dreams.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622040Tue, 06 Jun 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ciao For Now Author: Kate Bromley Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ciao For Now Author: Kate Bromley Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “Hands down a standing ovation from me!” —Suzanne Park, author of So We Meet Again, on Here for the Drama A Most Anticipated Book of the Season by Goodreads, Distractify and Biblio Lifestyle! When an American interning at a fashion house in Rome butts heads with her professor's surly son, sparks fly! With her thirties rapidly approaching and a mountain of student debt looming over her, Violet Luciano’s dream of finishing design school and working in fashion has cost her everything. So when she lands an internship at an up-and-coming fashion brand in Rome, she brings her A game to Italy. With nothing left to lose, Violet plans to win the competition among the interns for the ultimate prize—a job at a New York label. But when a coffee run goes wrong and Violet accidentally destroys a stranger’s laptop, all of the apology Americanos in the world won’t help her. Because it turns out that the man from the café is Matteo, her professor’s eternally grumpy son, who thinks she’s a clumsy American…and maybe a stalker. Their animosity (and undeniable chemistry) grows as together they’re forced to face a summer of chic parties, adventures through Rome and sharing a home…with the person they can’t stand the most.    The more time she spends with him, the more distracted she finds herself. With her chance to win the competition slipping out of her grasp, Violet has to decide whether to say ciao to Matteo—or ciao to her dreams.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mosquitoes-by-william-faulkner--65202092https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mosquitoes Author: William Faulkner Narrator: Nick Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Faulkner’s second novel follows a bohemian cast of artists, socialites, and dilettantes as they set sail on a four-day excursion aboard the Nausikaa. Faulkner’s quick wit and endless appetite for satire make this audiobook a fascinating exploration of character, as well as a rare glimpse into the author himself. The novel explores questions of sex and sexuality, as well as the societal role of the artist. Inspired by his own participation in the arts community in New Orleans, Mosquitoes is an engaging and delightful novel from one of America’s greatest writers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610709Tue, 30 May 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mosquitoes Author: William Faulkner Narrator: Nick Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610709 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mosquitoes Author: William Faulkner Narrator: Nick Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 30, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Faulkner’s second novel follows a bohemian cast of artists, socialites, and dilettantes as they set sail on a four-day excursion aboard the Nausikaa. Faulkner’s quick wit and endless appetite for satire make this audiobook a fascinating exploration of character, as well as a rare glimpse into the author himself. The novel explores questions of sex and sexuality, as well as the societal role of the artist. Inspired by his own participation in the arts community in New Orleans, Mosquitoes is an engaging and delightful novel from one of America’s greatest writers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-adult-by-bronwyn-fischer--65202087https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Adult Author: Bronwyn Fischer Narrator: Emma Love Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: An addictively gripping queer coming-of-age story about an all-consuming, insidious love affair between a college freshman and a mysterious older woman, from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.  Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for the big, impersonal city. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. She reads advice listicles and watches videos online and thinks about how to fit in, how to really become someone, whoever that might be. And then she meets Nora, an older woman who takes an unexpected interest in her, and is drawn unstoppably into Nora’s orbit. She begins spending more and more of her time off campus at Nora’s perfect, tidy home. Natalie lies to her floormates about her absence, inventing a fake off-campus boyfriend, and carefully protects this sacred, adult relationship. This only deepens her obsession, even as she realizes Nora is hiding something. As the secrets multiply and the intensity of the romance threatens to overwhelm her, Natalie realizes that the new, adult identity she had imagined for herself is far from the one she’s actually growing into. Propelled by atmospheric, electric prose, The  Adult is about sex, yearning, poetry, and trying to find yourself in the expectations of others—and ultimately finding parts of yourself despite that. For readers of Michelle Hart and Alyssa Songsiridej, Bronwyn Fischer is an immensely talented new writer to watch.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623543Tue, 23 May 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Adult Author: Bronwyn Fischer Narrator: Emma Love Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Coming...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Adult Author: Bronwyn Fischer Narrator: Emma Love Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 23, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: An addictively gripping queer coming-of-age story about an all-consuming, insidious love affair between a college freshman and a mysterious older woman, from an unforgettable new voice in fiction.  Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for the big, impersonal city. Everyone she encounters seems to know exactly who they are. She reads advice listicles and watches videos online and thinks about how to fit in, how to really become someone, whoever that might be. And then she meets Nora, an older woman who takes an unexpected interest in her, and is drawn unstoppably into Nora’s orbit. She begins spending more and more of her time off campus at Nora’s perfect, tidy home. Natalie lies to her floormates about her absence, inventing a fake off-campus boyfriend, and carefully protects this sacred, adult relationship. This only deepens her obsession, even as she realizes Nora is hiding something. As the secrets multiply and the intensity of the romance threatens to overwhelm her, Natalie realizes that the new, adult identity she had imagined for herself is far from the one she’s actually growing into. Propelled by atmospheric, electric prose, The  Adult is about sex, yearning, poetry, and trying to find yourself in the expectations of others—and ultimately finding parts of yourself despite that. For readers of Michelle Hart and Alyssa Songsiridej, Bronwyn Fischer is an immensely talented new writer to watch.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/small-worlds-by-caleb-azumah-nelson--65202103https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617979 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Worlds Author: Caleb Azumah Nelson Narrator: Caleb Azumah Nelson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024 An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water The one thing that can solve Stephen's problems is dancing. Dancing at Church, with his parents and brother, the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise; he might have lost his faith, but he does believe in rhythm. Dancing with his friends, somewhere in a basement with the drums about to drop, while the DJ spins garage cuts. Dancing with his band, making music which speaks not just to the hardships of their lives, but the joys too. Dancing with his best friend Adeline, two-stepping around the living room, crooning and grooving, so close their heads might touch. Dancing alone, at home, to his father's records, uncovering parts of a man he has never truly known. Stephen has only ever known himself in song. But what becomes of him when the music fades? When his father begins to speak of shame and sacrifice, when his home is no longer his own? How will he find space for himself: a place where he can feel beautiful, a place he might feel free? Set over the course of three summers in Stephen's life, from London to Ghana and back again, Small Worlds is an exhilarating and expansive novel about the worlds we build for ourselves, the worlds we live, dance and love within. © 2023 Caleb Azumah Nelson (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617979Thu, 11 May 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617979 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Worlds Author: Caleb Azumah Nelson Narrator: Caleb Azumah Nelson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 11,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617979 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small Worlds Author: Caleb Azumah Nelson Narrator: Caleb Azumah Nelson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 23 minutes Release date: May 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2024 An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water The one thing that can solve Stephen's problems is dancing. Dancing at Church, with his parents and brother, the shimmer of Black hands raised in praise; he might have lost his faith, but he does believe in rhythm. Dancing with his friends, somewhere in a basement with the drums about to drop, while the DJ spins garage cuts. Dancing with his band, making music which speaks not just to the hardships of their lives, but the joys too. Dancing with his best friend Adeline, two-stepping around the living room, crooning and grooving, so close their heads might touch. Dancing alone, at home, to his father's records, uncovering parts of a man he has never truly known. Stephen has only ever known himself in song. But what becomes of him when the music fades? When his father begins to speak of shame and sacrifice, when his home is no longer his own? How will he find space for himself: a place where he can feel beautiful, a place he might feel free? Set over the course of three summers in Stephen's life, from London to Ghana and back again, Small Worlds is an exhilarating and expansive novel about the worlds we build for ourselves, the worlds we live, dance and love within. © 2023 Caleb Azumah Nelson (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/steal-away-home-by-billy-coffey--65202098https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Steal Away Home Author: Billy Coffey Narrator: Chad Escue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “This is a powerful story of grief, love, forgiveness, and holy mystery, and I loved it. Billy Coffey is a master storyteller.” —Lauren K. Denton, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Hideaway Owen Cross grew up with two loves: one a game, the other a girl. One of his loves ruined him. Now he’s counting on the other to save him. Owen Cross’s father is a hard man, proud in his brokenness, who wants nothing more than for Owen to succeed where he failed. With his innate talents and his father’s firm hand guiding him, Owen goes to college with dreams of the major leagues—and an emptiness full of a girl named Micky Dullahan. Owen loved Micky from the first time they met on the hill between their two worlds: his middle-class home and her troubled Shantytown. Years later he leaves her for the dugouts and the autographs, but their days together follow him. When he finally returns home, he discovers that even peace comes at a cost. And that the hardest things to say are to the ones we love the most. From bestselling author Billy Coffey comes a haunting story of small-town love, blinding ambition, and the risk of giving it all for one last chance. “In one evening, a single baseball game, Coffey invites us into a lifetime. With lyrical prose and aching description we join Owen Cross on a journey of love, loss, faith, the unexpected—and America’s favorite pastime.” —Katherine Reay, bestselling author of The London House]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612603Tue, 09 May 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Steal Away Home Author: Billy Coffey Narrator: Chad Escue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Steal Away Home Author: Billy Coffey Narrator: Chad Escue Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “This is a powerful story of grief, love, forgiveness, and holy mystery, and I loved it. Billy Coffey is a master storyteller.” —Lauren K. Denton, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Hideaway Owen Cross grew up with two loves: one a game, the other a girl. One of his loves ruined him. Now he’s counting on the other to save him. Owen Cross’s father is a hard man, proud in his brokenness, who wants nothing more than for Owen to succeed where he failed. With his innate talents and his father’s firm hand guiding him, Owen goes to college with dreams of the major leagues—and an emptiness full of a girl named Micky Dullahan. Owen loved Micky from the first time they met on the hill between their two worlds: his middle-class home and her troubled Shantytown. Years later he leaves her for the dugouts and the autographs, but their days together follow him. When he finally returns home, he discovers that even peace comes at a cost. And that the hardest things to say are to the ones we love the most. From bestselling author Billy Coffey comes a haunting story of small-town love, blinding ambition, and the risk of giving it all for one last chance. “In one evening, a single baseball game, Coffey invites us into a lifetime. With lyrical prose and aching description we join Owen Cross on a journey of love, loss, faith, the unexpected—and America’s favorite pastime.” —Katherine Reay, bestselling author of The London House]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-free-a-novel-by-martha-b-boone--65202086https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Free: A Novel Author: Martha B. Boone Narrator: Amy Brassette-Mckeon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A young female doctor faces the violence, debauchery, and larger-than-life characters of a New Orleans surgery in this funny and gritty medical novel. New Orleans, 1982. Voodoo spells, prostitutes, prisoners, and veterans who are adamant about the size of their manhood—it's all just another day at Charity Hospital, also known as The Big Free. It's a medical free-for-all with the toughest trauma surgery in America, and Elizabeth—fresh from medical school in Charleston, wearing pearls and pink plaid socks—is one of the first women to work there. Half of the doctors who start the surgery program never finish. Nothing in her proper Southern upbringing prepared Elizabeth for the gritty and gruesome world she now experiences on a daily basis. And even if she's tougher than anyone first expected, the question remains . . . will she make the cut? Full of drama, humor, and New Orleans flavor, The Big Free is a young doctor's coming of age story as only a true medical insider can tell it.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626691Tue, 09 May 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Free: A Novel Author: Martha B. Boone Narrator: Amy Brassette-Mckeon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626691 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Big Free: A Novel Author: Martha B. Boone Narrator: Amy Brassette-Mckeon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A young female doctor faces the violence, debauchery, and larger-than-life characters of a New Orleans surgery in this funny and gritty medical novel. New Orleans, 1982. Voodoo spells, prostitutes, prisoners, and veterans who are adamant about the size of their manhood—it's all just another day at Charity Hospital, also known as The Big Free. It's a medical free-for-all with the toughest trauma surgery in America, and Elizabeth—fresh from medical school in Charleston, wearing pearls and pink plaid socks—is one of the first women to work there. Half of the doctors who start the surgery program never finish. Nothing in her proper Southern upbringing prepared Elizabeth for the gritty and gruesome world she now experiences on a daily basis. And even if she's tougher than anyone first expected, the question remains . . . will she make the cut? Full of drama, humor, and New Orleans flavor, The Big Free is a young doctor's coming of age story as only a true medical insider can tell it.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-unbreakable-heart-of-oliva-denaro-a-novel-by-viola-ardone--65202063https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620450 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro: A Novel Author: Viola Ardone Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the internationally bestselling author of The Children’s Train comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries old tradition to win the right to control her own life. As provincial Sicily bursts into life with the jaunty hum of pop music and the heady scent of wild jasmine, fifteen-year-old Oliva Denaro dares to challenge convention, ignoring the taunts of peers, her mother’s scolds, and her own changing body. Spirited and carefree, she loves to run until her lungs burst: to feel the strength of her lithe limbs, to relish the freedom she cherishes, to honor the friends forced by propriety to conform. Though she knows she cannot stop growing up, Oliva resists the future. To her, becoming a woman means denying oneself. But adulthood comes all too quickly when the baker’s son sets his sights on her. Offered a blood orange, Oliva—haunted by her mother’s warning, “a girl who smiles has already said yes”—spurns the fruit. Yet, this act sets into motion an unwanted courtship that will force Oliva to fight for the right to choose her own path, even though the odds of winning are steep. While America and Europe are in the throes of social change, Sicily fiercely clings to its rigid traditions, including the custom of fuitina –by which kidnappings could be disguised as elopements– which is accepted and enshrined in law. Oliva’s battle for independence is based on the real-life story that would ultimately rock Italy–capturing the attention of both the Pope and the nation’s president—and transform life for all Italians. The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro is a lyrical tale of staggering beauty. Viola Ardone beautifully evokes a land and its people, customs, and passions, and breathes life into an unforgettable girl in all her intensity, desperation, perseverance, and bravery. Alternating between the lighthearted and the tragic, it is a classic coming-of-age novel—powerful, spellbinding, and liberating. Translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620450Tue, 09 May 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620450 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro: A Novel Author: Viola Ardone Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620450 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro: A Novel Author: Viola Ardone Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the internationally bestselling author of The Children’s Train comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries old tradition to win the right to control her own life. As provincial Sicily bursts into life with the jaunty hum of pop music and the heady scent of wild jasmine, fifteen-year-old Oliva Denaro dares to challenge convention, ignoring the taunts of peers, her mother’s scolds, and her own changing body. Spirited and carefree, she loves to run until her lungs burst: to feel the strength of her lithe limbs, to relish the freedom she cherishes, to honor the friends forced by propriety to conform. Though she knows she cannot stop growing up, Oliva resists the future. To her, becoming a woman means denying oneself. But adulthood comes all too quickly when the baker’s son sets his sights on her. Offered a blood orange, Oliva—haunted by her mother’s warning, “a girl who smiles has already said yes”—spurns the fruit. Yet, this act sets into motion an unwanted courtship that will force Oliva to fight for the right to choose her own path, even though the odds of winning are steep. While America and Europe are in the throes of social change, Sicily fiercely clings to its rigid traditions, including the custom of fuitina –by which kidnappings could be disguised as elopements– which is accepted and enshrined in law. Oliva’s battle for independence is based on the real-life story that would ultimately rock Italy–capturing the attention of both the Pope and the nation’s president—and transform life for all Italians. The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro is a lyrical tale of staggering beauty. Viola Ardone beautifully evokes a land and its people, customs, and passions, and breathes life into an unforgettable girl in all her intensity, desperation, perseverance, and bravery. Alternating between the lighthearted and the tragic, it is a classic coming-of-age novel—powerful, spellbinding, and liberating. Translated from the Italian by Clarissa Botsford]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-daydreams-by-laura-hankin--65202116https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Daydreams Author: Laura Hankin Narrator: Elena Rey, Tyla Collier, Laura Hankin, Briggon Snow, Stephanie Sheh, James Fouhey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s—and the reunion special, thirteen years after their scandalous flameout, that will either be their last chance at redemption, or destroy them all for good. Back in 2004, The Daydreams had it all: a cast of innocent-seeming teenagers acting and singing their hearts out, amazing ratings, and a will-they-or-won’t-they romance that steamed up fan fiction forums. Then, during the live season two finale, it all imploded, leaving everyone scrambling to understand why. Afterward, the four stars went down very different paths. Kat is now a lawyer in Washington, DC. Liana is the bored wife of a famous athlete. Noah, the show’s golden boy, emerged unscathed and is poised to become a household name. And Summer, the object of Noah’s fictional (and maybe real-life) affections, is the cautionary tale. But now the fans are demanding a reunion special. The stars all have private reasons to come back: forgiveness, revenge, a second chance with a first love. But as they tentatively rediscover the magic of the original show, old secrets threaten to resurface—including the real reason behind their downfall. Will this reunion be a chance to make things right? Or will it be the biggest mess the world has ever seen? No matter what, the ratings will be wild.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616281Tue, 02 May 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Daydreams Author: Laura Hankin Narrator: Elena Rey, Tyla Collier, Laura Hankin, Briggon Snow, Stephanie Sheh, James Fouhey Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616281 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Daydreams Author: Laura Hankin Narrator: Elena Rey, Tyla Collier, Laura Hankin, Briggon Snow, Stephanie Sheh, James Fouhey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 14 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s—and the reunion special, thirteen years after their scandalous flameout, that will either be their last chance at redemption, or destroy them all for good. Back in 2004, The Daydreams had it all: a cast of innocent-seeming teenagers acting and singing their hearts out, amazing ratings, and a will-they-or-won’t-they romance that steamed up fan fiction forums. Then, during the live season two finale, it all imploded, leaving everyone scrambling to understand why. Afterward, the four stars went down very different paths. Kat is now a lawyer in Washington, DC. Liana is the bored wife of a famous athlete. Noah, the show’s golden boy, emerged unscathed and is poised to become a household name. And Summer, the object of Noah’s fictional (and maybe real-life) affections, is the cautionary tale. But now the fans are demanding a reunion special. The stars all have private reasons to come back: forgiveness, revenge, a second chance with a first love. But as they tentatively rediscover the magic of the original show, old secrets threaten to resurface—including the real reason behind their downfall. Will this reunion be a chance to make things right? Or will it be the biggest mess the world has ever seen? No matter what, the ratings will be wild.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hula-a-novel-by-jasmin-iolani-hakes--65202115https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hula: A Novel Author: Jasmin Iolani Hakes Narrator: Mapuana Makia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award Winner • Named a Best Book of the Summer by Harper's Bazaar and ELLE “Stunning…an intricately built novel that spans decades, moving in and out of a collective voice, while also telling Hi’i’s deeply personal and devastating story of trying to find her way.” –Los Angeles Times “A full-throated chant for Hawai'i. . . . It’s impossible to come away unchanged.” —KAWAI STRONG WASHBURN, author of the PEN/Hemingway award-winning Sharks in the Times of Saviors Set in Hilo, Hawai’i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that unfolds through the lives of three generations of women—a tale of mothers and daughters, dance and destiny. “There’s no running away on an island. Soon enough, you end up where you started.” Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there’s a lot she doesn’t understand. She’s never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the identity of her father. Worse, unspoken divides within her tight-knit community have started to grow, creating fractures whose origins are somehow entangled with her own family history. In hula, Hi'i sees a chance to live up to her name and solidify her place within her family legacy. But in order to win the next Miss Aloha Hula competition, she will have to turn her back on everything she had ever been taught, and maybe even lose the very thing she was fighting for. Told in part in the collective voice of a community fighting for its survival, Hula is a spellbinding debut that offers a rare glimpse into a forgotten kingdom that still exists in the heart of its people.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616351Tue, 02 May 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hula: A Novel Author: Jasmin Iolani Hakes Narrator: Mapuana Makia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hula: A Novel Author: Jasmin Iolani Hakes Narrator: Mapuana Makia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award Winner • Named a Best Book of the Summer by Harper's Bazaar and ELLE “Stunning…an intricately built novel that spans decades, moving in and out of a collective voice, while also telling Hi’i’s deeply personal and devastating story of trying to find her way.” –Los Angeles Times “A full-throated chant for Hawai'i. . . . It’s impossible to come away unchanged.” —KAWAI STRONG WASHBURN, author of the PEN/Hemingway award-winning Sharks in the Times of Saviors Set in Hilo, Hawai’i, a sweeping saga of tradition, culture, family, history, and connection that unfolds through the lives of three generations of women—a tale of mothers and daughters, dance and destiny. “There’s no running away on an island. Soon enough, you end up where you started.” Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but there’s a lot she doesn’t understand. She’s never met her legendary grandmother and her mother has never revealed the identity of her father. Worse, unspoken divides within her tight-knit community have started to grow, creating fractures whose origins are somehow entangled with her own family history. In hula, Hi'i sees a chance to live up to her name and solidify her place within her family legacy. But in order to win the next Miss Aloha Hula competition, she will have to turn her back on everything she had ever been taught, and maybe even lose the very thing she was fighting for. Told in part in the collective voice of a community fighting for its survival, Hula is a spellbinding debut that offers a rare glimpse into a forgotten kingdom that still exists in the heart of its people.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-animal-a-novel-by-ramona-ausubel--65202146https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Animal: A Novel Author: Ramona Ausubel Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Whip-smart and compulsively readable. . . both a wildly entertaining adventure story and a meditation on what it means to love your children—fiercely and imperfectly.”—Oprah Daily “Springs alive to explore questions that stump scientists and families, problems of the head and the heart.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post “A full-hearted portrait of sisterhood, family and the ways we process grief. Charming, wry, and original.” —People TWO SISTERS, ONE MOM, AND ONE WOOLLY SECRET. Teenage sisters Eve and Vera never imagined their summer vacation would be spent in the Arctic, tagging along on their mother’s scientific expedition. But there’s a lot about their lives lately that hasn’t been going as planned, and truth be told, their single mother might not be so happy either. Now in Siberia with a bunch of serious biologists, Eve and Vera are just bored enough to cause trouble. Fooling around in the permafrost, they accidentally discover a perfectly preserved, four-thousand-year-old baby mammoth, and things finally start to get interesting. The discovery sets off a surprising chain of events, leading mother and daughters to go rogue, pinging from the slopes of Siberia to the shores of Iceland to an exotic animal farm in Italy, and resulting in the birth of a creature that could change the world—or at least this family. The Last Animal takes readers on a wild, entertaining, and refreshingly different kind of journey, one that explores the possibilities and perils of the human imagination on a changing planet, what it’s like to be a woman in a field dominated by men, and how a wondrous discovery can best be enjoyed with family. Even teenagers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617639Tue, 18 Apr 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Animal: A Novel Author: Ramona Ausubel Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Animal: A Novel Author: Ramona Ausubel Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Whip-smart and compulsively readable. . . both a wildly entertaining adventure story and a meditation on what it means to love your children—fiercely and imperfectly.”—Oprah Daily “Springs alive to explore questions that stump scientists and families, problems of the head and the heart.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post “A full-hearted portrait of sisterhood, family and the ways we process grief. Charming, wry, and original.” —People TWO SISTERS, ONE MOM, AND ONE WOOLLY SECRET. Teenage sisters Eve and Vera never imagined their summer vacation would be spent in the Arctic, tagging along on their mother’s scientific expedition. But there’s a lot about their lives lately that hasn’t been going as planned, and truth be told, their single mother might not be so happy either. Now in Siberia with a bunch of serious biologists, Eve and Vera are just bored enough to cause trouble. Fooling around in the permafrost, they accidentally discover a perfectly preserved, four-thousand-year-old baby mammoth, and things finally start to get interesting. The discovery sets off a surprising chain of events, leading mother and daughters to go rogue, pinging from the slopes of Siberia to the shores of Iceland to an exotic animal farm in Italy, and resulting in the birth of a creature that could change the world—or at least this family. The Last Animal takes readers on a wild, entertaining, and refreshingly different kind of journey, one that explores the possibilities and perils of the human imagination on a changing planet, what it’s like to be a woman in a field dominated by men, and how a wondrous discovery can best be enjoyed with family. Even teenagers.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sizzle-reel-a-novel-by-carlyn-greenwald--65202143https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617679 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sizzle Reel: A Novel Author: Carlyn Greenwald Narrator: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: An unputdownable queer coming-of-age rom-com about life and love in Hollywood. • 'Both an irresistible love story and a riveting exploration of Hollywood dynamics.” —Rachel Lynn Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk For aspiring cinematographer Luna Roth, coming out as bisexual at twenty-four is proving more difficult than she anticipated. Sure, her best friend and fellow queer Romy is thrilled for her—but she has no interest in coming out to her backwards parents, she wouldn't know how to flirt with a girl if one fell at her feet, and she has no sexual history to build off. Not to mention she really needs to focus her energy on escaping her emotionally-abusive-but-that’s-Hollywood talent manager boss and actually get working under a real director of photography anyway. When she meets twenty-eight-year-old A-list actress Valeria Sullivan around the office, Luna thinks she’s found her solution. She'll use Valeria's interest in her cinematography to get a PA job on the set of Valeria's directorial debut—and if Valeria is as gay as Luna suspects, and she happens to be Luna's route to losing her virginity, too . . . well, that's just an added bonus. Enlisting Romy’s help, Luna starts the juggling act of her life—impress Valeria’s DP to get another job after this one, get as close to Valeria as possible, and help Romy with her own career moves. But when Valeria begins to reciprocate romantic interest in Luna, the act begins to crumble—straining her relationship with Romy and leaving her job prospects precarious. Now Luna has to figure out if she can she fulfill her dreams as a filmmaker, keep her best friend, and get the girl. . . or if she’s destined to end up on the cutting room floor.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617679Tue, 18 Apr 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617679 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sizzle Reel: A Novel Author: Carlyn Greenwald Narrator: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: April...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617679 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sizzle Reel: A Novel Author: Carlyn Greenwald Narrator: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: An unputdownable queer coming-of-age rom-com about life and love in Hollywood. • 'Both an irresistible love story and a riveting exploration of Hollywood dynamics.” —Rachel Lynn Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of The Ex Talk For aspiring cinematographer Luna Roth, coming out as bisexual at twenty-four is proving more difficult than she anticipated. Sure, her best friend and fellow queer Romy is thrilled for her—but she has no interest in coming out to her backwards parents, she wouldn't know how to flirt with a girl if one fell at her feet, and she has no sexual history to build off. Not to mention she really needs to focus her energy on escaping her emotionally-abusive-but-that’s-Hollywood talent manager boss and actually get working under a real director of photography anyway. When she meets twenty-eight-year-old A-list actress Valeria Sullivan around the office, Luna thinks she’s found her solution. She'll use Valeria's interest in her cinematography to get a PA job on the set of Valeria's directorial debut—and if Valeria is as gay as Luna suspects, and she happens to be Luna's route to losing her virginity, too . . . well, that's just an added bonus. Enlisting Romy’s help, Luna starts the juggling act of her life—impress Valeria’s DP to get another job after this one, get as close to Valeria as possible, and help Romy with her own career moves. But when Valeria begins to reciprocate romantic interest in Luna, the act begins to crumble—straining her relationship with Romy and leaving her job prospects precarious. Now Luna has to figure out if she can she fulfill her dreams as a filmmaker, keep her best friend, and get the girl. . . or if she’s destined to end up on the cutting room floor.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arthur-and-teddy-are-coming-out-by-ryan-love--65202176https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out Author: Ryan Love Narrator: Caius Nicholas, Bruce Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The feel-good read of 2024. Perfect for fans of Mike Gayle, Beth O’Leary and Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper. Selected as one of the Independent’s 19 debut authors set to make their mark in 2023 ‘Gentle, honest and beautifully authentic’ Julietta Henderson ’Touching and sincere’ The Sunday Times ‘Feel-good, heartwarming fiction’ Holly Miller ’I’m totally #TeamArthurandTeddy’ Heidi Swain ’A feel-good novel to inspire’ My Weekly ’Uplifting and emotional’ Justin Myers ’A celebration of family and love’ Platinum ‘Joyful, big-hearted’ Freya Sampson ’Will stay with me for a VERY long time’ Miranda Dickinson When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is prepared for the bombshell he drops: he's gay, and after a lifetime in the closet, he's finally ready to come out. Arthur's 21-year-old grandson, Teddy, has a secret of his own: he's also gay, and developing serious feelings for his colleague Ben. But Teddy doesn't feel ready to come out yet – especially when Arthur’s announcement causes shockwaves in the family. Arthur and Teddy have always been close, and now they must navigate first loves, heartbreak, and finding their place in their community. But can they – and their family – learn to accept who they truly are? Readers are LOVING Arthur and Teddy! ‘Too often, queer literature is enjoyed only by the LGBT+ community, but this is a novel ready to be loved by the masses.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This book is genuinely a hug in book form.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The multiple relationship threads running through the story come together beautifully at the end and the book is a joy to read from start to finish!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘What an absolutely beautiful book! Dealt with sensitive subjects really, really well and brilliantly descriptive characters.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I'd love to have read something like this when I was younger and finding myself.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593060Thu, 13 Apr 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out Author: Ryan Love Narrator: Caius Nicholas, Bruce Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out Author: Ryan Love Narrator: Caius Nicholas, Bruce Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The feel-good read of 2024. Perfect for fans of Mike Gayle, Beth O’Leary and Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper. Selected as one of the Independent’s 19 debut authors set to make their mark in 2023 ‘Gentle, honest and beautifully authentic’ Julietta Henderson ’Touching and sincere’ The Sunday Times ‘Feel-good, heartwarming fiction’ Holly Miller ’I’m totally #TeamArthurandTeddy’ Heidi Swain ’A feel-good novel to inspire’ My Weekly ’Uplifting and emotional’ Justin Myers ’A celebration of family and love’ Platinum ‘Joyful, big-hearted’ Freya Sampson ’Will stay with me for a VERY long time’ Miranda Dickinson When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is prepared for the bombshell he drops: he's gay, and after a lifetime in the closet, he's finally ready to come out. Arthur's 21-year-old grandson, Teddy, has a secret of his own: he's also gay, and developing serious feelings for his colleague Ben. But Teddy doesn't feel ready to come out yet – especially when Arthur’s announcement causes shockwaves in the family. Arthur and Teddy have always been close, and now they must navigate first loves, heartbreak, and finding their place in their community. But can they – and their family – learn to accept who they truly are? Readers are LOVING Arthur and Teddy! ‘Too often, queer literature is enjoyed only by the LGBT+ community, but this is a novel ready to be loved by the masses.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This book is genuinely a hug in book form.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The multiple relationship threads running through the story come together beautifully at the end and the book is a joy to read from start to finish!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘What an absolutely beautiful book! Dealt with sensitive subjects really, really well and brilliantly descriptive characters.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I'd love to have read something like this when I was younger and finding myself.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/go-as-a-river-by-shelley-read--65202108https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go as a River Author: Shelley Read Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The powerful Sunday Times bestselling Richard and Judy Pick A MESMERIZING READ FOR FANS OF WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, GREAT CIRCLE AND THE PAPER PALACE I've come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary like the deep and mysterious world beneath the sea. On a cool autumn morning, Torie Nash heads into her village pulling a rickety wagon filled with late-season peaches. As she nears an intersection, a mysterious drifter with grimy thumbs and smudged cheeks and eyes as dark as a raven's wing stops to ask her the way. She could turn left or cross over. But she does not. 'Go as a river,' he whispers. So begins a mezmerising story that unfolds over a tumultuous lifetime as Torie begins to absorb and follow his words. Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary life, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever. 'Completely spellbinding, vivid, and luminous' JANE GREEN 'Go As a River delivers so very much: the tenderness and curiosity of young love, the eternal pangs of loss, the brutality of racism, the sustaining power of nature and the miracle of a mother's love. Suffused with wisdom and compassion, this shattering testimony to life is to be savored, treasured, shared' MEG WAITE CLAYTON, author of The Postmistress of Paris 'Shelley Read's lyrical voice is a force of nature. Tragic, uplifting and completely unforgettable' BONNIE GARMUS, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY ©2023 Shelley Read (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622362Thu, 13 Apr 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go as a River Author: Shelley Read Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622362 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Go as a River Author: Shelley Read Narrator: Cynthia Farrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: April 13, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 4 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The powerful Sunday Times bestselling Richard and Judy Pick A MESMERIZING READ FOR FANS OF WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, GREAT CIRCLE AND THE PAPER PALACE I've come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary like the deep and mysterious world beneath the sea. On a cool autumn morning, Torie Nash heads into her village pulling a rickety wagon filled with late-season peaches. As she nears an intersection, a mysterious drifter with grimy thumbs and smudged cheeks and eyes as dark as a raven's wing stops to ask her the way. She could turn left or cross over. But she does not. 'Go as a river,' he whispers. So begins a mezmerising story that unfolds over a tumultuous lifetime as Torie begins to absorb and follow his words. Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary life, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life for ever. 'Completely spellbinding, vivid, and luminous' JANE GREEN 'Go As a River delivers so very much: the tenderness and curiosity of young love, the eternal pangs of loss, the brutality of racism, the sustaining power of nature and the miracle of a mother's love. Suffused with wisdom and compassion, this shattering testimony to life is to be savored, treasured, shared' MEG WAITE CLAYTON, author of The Postmistress of Paris 'Shelley Read's lyrical voice is a force of nature. Tragic, uplifting and completely unforgettable' BONNIE GARMUS, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY ©2023 Shelley Read (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-weight-by-jeff-boyd--65202218https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Weight Author: Jeff Boyd Narrator: Jd Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon, playing in a rock band on the verge of success while struggling with racism, romance, and the legacy of his strict religious upbringing. Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he’s the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that’s just about to break through. But to himself, he’s a sheltered Christian homeschool kid who used to write book reports on Leviticus. A virgin until the night of his marriage, divorced at twenty-four, he’s still in disarray two years later—pretending to fit in, wondering if any of his relationships are real, estranged from his family, and struggling to reconcile his relationship with God. Then he meets Ida Blair, a Black painter at the start of a promising career. They begin a tentative relationship, and Ida seems to offer Julian relief from his confusion. But suddenly she stops responding to his texts. Things only get worse when Julian’s best friend mysteriously turns on him, his house burns down, and the band considers breaking up on the eve of their most important show yet. It seems the only thing Julian has left—the only thing he’s ever had, really—is the weight he is carrying. Jeff Boyd’s beguiling first novel is a piercing exploration of faith, racial identity, love, and friendship—woven of acid humor, disarming vulnerability, and unforgettable poignance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603529Tue, 11 Apr 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Weight Author: Jeff Boyd Narrator: Jd Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Coming...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603529 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Weight Author: Jeff Boyd Narrator: Jd Jackson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon, playing in a rock band on the verge of success while struggling with racism, romance, and the legacy of his strict religious upbringing. Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he’s the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that’s just about to break through. But to himself, he’s a sheltered Christian homeschool kid who used to write book reports on Leviticus. A virgin until the night of his marriage, divorced at twenty-four, he’s still in disarray two years later—pretending to fit in, wondering if any of his relationships are real, estranged from his family, and struggling to reconcile his relationship with God. Then he meets Ida Blair, a Black painter at the start of a promising career. They begin a tentative relationship, and Ida seems to offer Julian relief from his confusion. But suddenly she stops responding to his texts. Things only get worse when Julian’s best friend mysteriously turns on him, his house burns down, and the band considers breaking up on the eve of their most important show yet. It seems the only thing Julian has left—the only thing he’s ever had, really—is the weight he is carrying. Jeff Boyd’s beguiling first novel is a piercing exploration of faith, racial identity, love, and friendship—woven of acid humor, disarming vulnerability, and unforgettable poignance.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-seaside-library-by-brenda-novak--65202179https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seaside Library Author: Brenda Novak Narrator: Amy Mcfadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookstore on the Beach There are secrets that bring friends together, and others that drive them apart… Mariners Island is barely ten miles long, but when Ivy, Ariana and Cam were teenagers, it was their whole world. Beyond the pristine beaches and iconic lighthouse lies the beautiful old library that belongs to Ivy’s family. While that bound Ivy to the island as an adult, Ariana could not leave Mariners behind fast enough. The town holds too many…memories. Not only her unrequited feelings for Cam, but the tragedy that left a scar on the community. When a young girl went missing, a teenage Cam was unthinkably the prime suspect. Ariana and Ivy knew he couldn’t have hurt anyone, and they promised to protect him—even if it meant lying on his behalf. Now, twenty years later, Ariana returns to Mariners just as new evidence emerges on the case, calling into question everything the three friends thought they knew—and everyone they thought they could trust. What really happened that night? Over the course of one eventful summer, Ariana, Ivy and Cam will learn the truth—about their pasts, their futures and the ties that still bind them as closely as the pages of a book… Don't miss these other great summer beach reads from Brenda Novak - One Perfect Summer - The Bookstore on the Beach - Summer on the Island]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615111Tue, 11 Apr 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seaside Library Author: Brenda Novak Narrator: Amy Mcfadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615111 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seaside Library Author: Brenda Novak Narrator: Amy Mcfadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 17 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookstore on the Beach There are secrets that bring friends together, and others that drive them apart… Mariners Island is barely ten miles long, but when Ivy, Ariana and Cam were teenagers, it was their whole world. Beyond the pristine beaches and iconic lighthouse lies the beautiful old library that belongs to Ivy’s family. While that bound Ivy to the island as an adult, Ariana could not leave Mariners behind fast enough. The town holds too many…memories. Not only her unrequited feelings for Cam, but the tragedy that left a scar on the community. When a young girl went missing, a teenage Cam was unthinkably the prime suspect. Ariana and Ivy knew he couldn’t have hurt anyone, and they promised to protect him—even if it meant lying on his behalf. Now, twenty years later, Ariana returns to Mariners just as new evidence emerges on the case, calling into question everything the three friends thought they knew—and everyone they thought they could trust. What really happened that night? Over the course of one eventful summer, Ariana, Ivy and Cam will learn the truth—about their pasts, their futures and the ties that still bind them as closely as the pages of a book… Don't miss these other great summer beach reads from Brenda Novak - One Perfect Summer - The Bookstore on the Beach - Summer on the Island]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/close-to-home-by-michael-magee--65202072https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Close to Home Author: Michael Magee Narrator: Conor Macneill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023 WATERSTONES IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023 Sean is back. Back in Belfast and back into old habits. Back on the mad all-nighters, the borrowed tenners and missing rent, the casual jobs that always fall through. Back in these scarred streets, where the promised prosperity of peacetime has never arrived. Back among his brothers, his ma, and all the things they never talk about. Until one night Sean finds himself at a party – dog-tired, surrounded by jeering strangers, his back against the wall – and he makes a big mistake. 'Staggeringly humane, unfaltering, taut and tender... [It] feels like that rarest of things: a genuinely necessary book' Guardian 'Every detail rings true, every character is fleshy and real and heartbreaking... Michael Magee has a remarkable talent' Sunday Times ©2023 Michael Magee (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626923Thu, 06 Apr 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Close to Home Author: Michael Magee Narrator: Conor Macneill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Close to Home Author: Michael Magee Narrator: Conor Macneill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 37 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023 WATERSTONES IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023 Sean is back. Back in Belfast and back into old habits. Back on the mad all-nighters, the borrowed tenners and missing rent, the casual jobs that always fall through. Back in these scarred streets, where the promised prosperity of peacetime has never arrived. Back among his brothers, his ma, and all the things they never talk about. Until one night Sean finds himself at a party – dog-tired, surrounded by jeering strangers, his back against the wall – and he makes a big mistake. 'Staggeringly humane, unfaltering, taut and tender... [It] feels like that rarest of things: a genuinely necessary book' Guardian 'Every detail rings true, every character is fleshy and real and heartbreaking... Michael Magee has a remarkable talent' Sunday Times ©2023 Michael Magee (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-short-end-of-the-sonnenallee-by-thomas-brussig--65202066https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Short End of the Sonnenallee Author: Thomas Brussig Narrator: Matthew Hendrickson, Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ‘A kind of miracle … Not only made me laugh (again and again) but brought tears to my eyes’ Jonathan Franzen ‘One of the most brilliant satirical novels about life in East Berlin’ New York Times Thomas Brussig’s classic German satire, translated into English for the first time and introduced by Jonathan Franzen, is a comedic, moving account of life in East Berlin before the Fall of the Berlin Wall The Short End of the Sonnenallee, is a satire set, literally, on the Sonnenallee, the famed 'boulevard of the sun' in East Berlin. Within this boulevard lives Michael, an adolescent who faces daily ridicule whenever he steps out of his apartment building and comes into view of the observation platform on the West side. 'Look, a real Zonie. Can we take your picture?' Hopelessly in love with the most beautiful girl on the street, Michael is batted away in favour of the Western boys who are free to cross the border. What chance does Michael have, and how much trouble will he get into by pursuing her? Laugh-out-loud funny and unabashedly silly, Brussig's novel follows the bizarre, grotesque quotidian details of life in the German Democratic Republic. As this new translation shows, the ideas at its heart – freedom, democracy and life’s fundamental hilarity – hold great relevance for today. ‘Gentle comedy … Funny, rueful’ Telegraph]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626759Tue, 04 Apr 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Short End of the Sonnenallee Author: Thomas Brussig Narrator: Matthew Hendrickson, Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 11...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626759 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Short End of the Sonnenallee Author: Thomas Brussig Narrator: Matthew Hendrickson, Kris Dyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ‘A kind of miracle … Not only made me laugh (again and again) but brought tears to my eyes’ Jonathan Franzen ‘One of the most brilliant satirical novels about life in East Berlin’ New York Times Thomas Brussig’s classic German satire, translated into English for the first time and introduced by Jonathan Franzen, is a comedic, moving account of life in East Berlin before the Fall of the Berlin Wall The Short End of the Sonnenallee, is a satire set, literally, on the Sonnenallee, the famed 'boulevard of the sun' in East Berlin. Within this boulevard lives Michael, an adolescent who faces daily ridicule whenever he steps out of his apartment building and comes into view of the observation platform on the West side. 'Look, a real Zonie. Can we take your picture?' Hopelessly in love with the most beautiful girl on the street, Michael is batted away in favour of the Western boys who are free to cross the border. What chance does Michael have, and how much trouble will he get into by pursuing her? Laugh-out-loud funny and unabashedly silly, Brussig's novel follows the bizarre, grotesque quotidian details of life in the German Democratic Republic. As this new translation shows, the ideas at its heart – freedom, democracy and life’s fundamental hilarity – hold great relevance for today. ‘Gentle comedy … Funny, rueful’ Telegraph]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/last-summer-on-state-street-by-toya-wolfe--65202099https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Summer on State Street Author: Toya Wolfe Narrator: Shayna Small Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. State Street Chicago, 1999. One summer that changes everything. An unlikely trio: Felicia 'Fe Fe' Stevens, daughter of fiercely protective mother; Precious Brown, daughter of a prominent church Elder; and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin. They have a simple friendship, wiling away sunny days with games of Double Dutch. But when Fe Fe invites mysterious Tonya into their fold, life as they know it will never be the same again. Last Summer on State Street is a profound coming-of-age story about the restorative power of community, the claiming of one's own past, and the defining friendships which form the heartbeat of our lives. © Toya Wolfe 202 3(P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603766Thu, 23 Mar 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Summer on State Street Author: Toya Wolfe Narrator: Shayna Small Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 23,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603766 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Summer on State Street Author: Toya Wolfe Narrator: Shayna Small Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 23, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. State Street Chicago, 1999. One summer that changes everything. An unlikely trio: Felicia 'Fe Fe' Stevens, daughter of fiercely protective mother; Precious Brown, daughter of a prominent church Elder; and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin. They have a simple friendship, wiling away sunny days with games of Double Dutch. But when Fe Fe invites mysterious Tonya into their fold, life as they know it will never be the same again. Last Summer on State Street is a profound coming-of-age story about the restorative power of community, the claiming of one's own past, and the defining friendships which form the heartbeat of our lives. © Toya Wolfe 202 3(P) Penguin Audio 2023]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/daughter-dalloway-a-brilliant-spin-off-of-the-virginia-woolf-classic-by-emily-france--65202212https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter Dalloway: A Brilliant Spin-off of the Virginia Woolf Classic Author: Emily France Narrator: Sasha Higgins, Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Perfect for fans of Marie Benedict and Renée Rosen, Daughter Dalloway is both an homage to the Virginia Woolf classic and a brilliant spin-off—the empowering, rebellious coming-of-age story of Mrs. Dalloway’s only child, Elizabeth. London, 1952: Forty-six-year-old Elizabeth Dalloway feels she has failed at most everything in life, especially living up to her mother, the elegant Mrs. Dalloway, an ideal socialite and model of perfection until she disappeared in the summer of 1923—and hasn’t been heard from since. When Elizabeth is handed a medal with a mysterious inscription from her mother to a soldier named Septimus Warren Smith, she’s certain it contains a clue from the past. As she sets out, determined to deliver the medal to its rightful owner, Elizabeth begins to piece together memories of that fateful summer. London, 1923: At seventeen, Elizabeth carouses with the Prince of Wales and sons of American iron barons and decides to join the Bright Young People—a group of bohemians whose antics often land in the tabloids. She is a girl who rebels against the staid social rules of the time, a girl determined to do it all differently than her mother. A girl who doesn’t yet feel like a failure. That summer, Octavia Smith braves the journey from the countryside to London, determined to track down her older brother Septimus who returned from the war but never came home. She falls in with a group of clever city boys who have learned to survive on the streets. When one starts to steal her heart, she must discover whether he is a friend or foe—and whether she can make it in the city on her own. Elizabeth and Octavia are destined to cross paths, and when they do, the truths they unearth will shatter their understanding of the people they love most.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613354Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter Dalloway: A Brilliant Spin-off of the Virginia Woolf Classic Author: Emily France Narrator: Sasha Higgins, Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613354 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter Dalloway: A Brilliant Spin-off of the Virginia Woolf Classic Author: Emily France Narrator: Sasha Higgins, Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Perfect for fans of Marie Benedict and Renée Rosen, Daughter Dalloway is both an homage to the Virginia Woolf classic and a brilliant spin-off—the empowering, rebellious coming-of-age story of Mrs. Dalloway’s only child, Elizabeth. London, 1952: Forty-six-year-old Elizabeth Dalloway feels she has failed at most everything in life, especially living up to her mother, the elegant Mrs. Dalloway, an ideal socialite and model of perfection until she disappeared in the summer of 1923—and hasn’t been heard from since. When Elizabeth is handed a medal with a mysterious inscription from her mother to a soldier named Septimus Warren Smith, she’s certain it contains a clue from the past. As she sets out, determined to deliver the medal to its rightful owner, Elizabeth begins to piece together memories of that fateful summer. London, 1923: At seventeen, Elizabeth carouses with the Prince of Wales and sons of American iron barons and decides to join the Bright Young People—a group of bohemians whose antics often land in the tabloids. She is a girl who rebels against the staid social rules of the time, a girl determined to do it all differently than her mother. A girl who doesn’t yet feel like a failure. That summer, Octavia Smith braves the journey from the countryside to London, determined to track down her older brother Septimus who returned from the war but never came home. She falls in with a group of clever city boys who have learned to survive on the streets. When one starts to steal her heart, she must discover whether he is a friend or foe—and whether she can make it in the city on her own. Elizabeth and Octavia are destined to cross paths, and when they do, the truths they unearth will shatter their understanding of the people they love most.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/our-best-intentions-a-novel-by-vibhuti-jain--65202134https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Best Intentions: A Novel Author: Vibhuti Jain Narrator: Ulka Simone Mohanty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A Good Morning America Buzz Pick * NPR 1A Inaugural Book Club Pick * A 'Must-Read' by USA Today * Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize * Booklist Editor's Choice * CrimeReads' Best of the Year A suspenseful drama about an immigrant family caught in a criminal investigation, perfect for readers of Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You. “Our Best Intentions is a thoughtful, gripping suspense that shakes up definitions of family and identity in a beautiful and refreshing way!” —Kal Penn, actor and national bestselling author During summer break one day, Angie, the teenage daughter of Indian immigrant Babur Singh, is walking home after swimming at the high school pool when she finds Henry McCleary, a white classmate from a wealthy family, stabbed and bleeding on the football field. The police immediately focus their investigation on Chiara Thompkins, a runaway Black girl who disappears after the stabbing and—it’s later discovered—wasn’t properly enrolled in the public high school. The incident sends shock waves through the community and reveals jarring truths about the lengths to which families will go to protect themselves. Alternating between multiple perspectives, Our Best Intentions is a gripping story about a father and daughter re-examining their familial bonds and place in the community that explores how easily friendships, careers, communities, and individual lives can unravel when the toxicity of privilege and racial bias are exposed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601135Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Best Intentions: A Novel Author: Vibhuti Jain Narrator: Ulka Simone Mohanty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Best Intentions: A Novel Author: Vibhuti Jain Narrator: Ulka Simone Mohanty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A Good Morning America Buzz Pick * NPR 1A Inaugural Book Club Pick * A 'Must-Read' by USA Today * Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize * Booklist Editor's Choice * CrimeReads' Best of the Year A suspenseful drama about an immigrant family caught in a criminal investigation, perfect for readers of Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You. “Our Best Intentions is a thoughtful, gripping suspense that shakes up definitions of family and identity in a beautiful and refreshing way!” —Kal Penn, actor and national bestselling author During summer break one day, Angie, the teenage daughter of Indian immigrant Babur Singh, is walking home after swimming at the high school pool when she finds Henry McCleary, a white classmate from a wealthy family, stabbed and bleeding on the football field. The police immediately focus their investigation on Chiara Thompkins, a runaway Black girl who disappears after the stabbing and—it’s later discovered—wasn’t properly enrolled in the public high school. The incident sends shock waves through the community and reveals jarring truths about the lengths to which families will go to protect themselves. Alternating between multiple perspectives, Our Best Intentions is a gripping story about a father and daughter re-examining their familial bonds and place in the community that explores how easily friendships, careers, communities, and individual lives can unravel when the toxicity of privilege and racial bias are exposed.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-likely-story-a-novel-by-leigh-mcmullan-abramson--65202120https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Likely Story: A Novel Author: Leigh Mcmullan Abramson Narrator: James Fouhey, Cynthia Farrell, Devon Sorvari, Mia Barron, Adam Grupper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: CBS New York Book Club with Mary Calvi and Belletrist Book Club Pick “Raw, complex, and utterly unforgettable.” —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author The only child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her parents, her gilded childhood, and her own stalled writing career in this standout debut, perfect for fans of Pineapple Street and The Plot. Growing up in the nineties in New York City as the only child of famous parents was both a blessing and a curse for Isabelle Manning. Her beautiful society hostess mother, Claire, and New York Times bestselling author father, Ward, were the city’s intellectual It couple. Ward’s glamorous obligations often took him away from Isabelle, but Claire made sure her childhood was always filled with love. Now an adult, all Isabelle wants is to be a successful writer like her father but after many false starts and the unexpected death of her mother, she faces her upcoming thirty-fifth birthday alone and on the verge of a breakdown. Her anxiety only skyrockets when she uncovers some shocking truths about her parents and begins wondering if everything she knew about her family was all based on an elaborate lie. This “literary page-turner” (KJ Dell’Antonia, New York Times bestselling author) is punctuated with fragments of a compulsively readable book-within-a-book about a woman determined to steal back the spotlight from a man who has cheated his way to the top. The characters seem eerily familiar but is the plot based on fact? And more importantly, who is the author?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601040Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Likely Story: A Novel Author: Leigh Mcmullan Abramson Narrator: James Fouhey, Cynthia Farrell, Devon Sorvari, Mia Barron, Adam Grupper Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Likely Story: A Novel Author: Leigh Mcmullan Abramson Narrator: James Fouhey, Cynthia Farrell, Devon Sorvari, Mia Barron, Adam Grupper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: CBS New York Book Club with Mary Calvi and Belletrist Book Club Pick “Raw, complex, and utterly unforgettable.” —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author The only child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her parents, her gilded childhood, and her own stalled writing career in this standout debut, perfect for fans of Pineapple Street and The Plot. Growing up in the nineties in New York City as the only child of famous parents was both a blessing and a curse for Isabelle Manning. Her beautiful society hostess mother, Claire, and New York Times bestselling author father, Ward, were the city’s intellectual It couple. Ward’s glamorous obligations often took him away from Isabelle, but Claire made sure her childhood was always filled with love. Now an adult, all Isabelle wants is to be a successful writer like her father but after many false starts and the unexpected death of her mother, she faces her upcoming thirty-fifth birthday alone and on the verge of a breakdown. Her anxiety only skyrockets when she uncovers some shocking truths about her parents and begins wondering if everything she knew about her family was all based on an elaborate lie. This “literary page-turner” (KJ Dell’Antonia, New York Times bestselling author) is punctuated with fragments of a compulsively readable book-within-a-book about a woman determined to steal back the spotlight from a man who has cheated his way to the top. The characters seem eerily familiar but is the plot based on fact? And more importantly, who is the author?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/johanna-porter-is-not-sorry-by-sara-read--65202184https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johanna Porter Is Not Sorry Author: Sara Read Narrator: Marni Penning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “Laugh out loud funny and poignant. I loved it!”—LORI FOSTER, New York Times bestselling author Johanna is not a thief—and she is definitely not sorry. In the back room at an elite gallery party, 40-something soccer mom Johanna Porter stands face to face with her younger self. The girl in the portrait, La Rosa Blanca, is fierce and fearless, and Johanna sees the great painter she almost was before her lover, the powerful artist Nestor Pinedo, torched her career. When she cuts the million-dollar masterpiece out of its frame, rolls it up and walks out, it’s not a theft. It’s a rescue. Hiding out in a shack on the Chesapeake Bay with La Rosa Blanca looking on, Johanna tries to paint again, but encounters only the cringe-worthy atrophy of her talent. When she reluctantly goes sailing with the injured surgeon two houses away, and chemistry flares between the struggling misanthropes, Johanna realizes that to fulfill the promise of her younger self, she’s got to quit playing it safe. Battling novice-thief paranoia, impostor syndrome and mom guilt, she can stay one step ahead of the law. But it will take an act of desperation to become the woman La Rosa Blanca was meant to be. “Vivid, visceral, and sexy—I loved it.”—JEN DEVON, author of Bend Toward the Sun Don’t miss Sara Read’s next captivating book, Principles of Emotion, a smart, poignant STEMinist novel perfect for fans of Lessons in Chemistry]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615099Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johanna Porter Is Not Sorry Author: Sara Read Narrator: Marni Penning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 7,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/615099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Johanna Porter Is Not Sorry Author: Sara Read Narrator: Marni Penning Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “Laugh out loud funny and poignant. I loved it!”—LORI FOSTER, New York Times bestselling author Johanna is not a thief—and she is definitely not sorry. In the back room at an elite gallery party, 40-something soccer mom Johanna Porter stands face to face with her younger self. The girl in the portrait, La Rosa Blanca, is fierce and fearless, and Johanna sees the great painter she almost was before her lover, the powerful artist Nestor Pinedo, torched her career. When she cuts the million-dollar masterpiece out of its frame, rolls it up and walks out, it’s not a theft. It’s a rescue. Hiding out in a shack on the Chesapeake Bay with La Rosa Blanca looking on, Johanna tries to paint again, but encounters only the cringe-worthy atrophy of her talent. When she reluctantly goes sailing with the injured surgeon two houses away, and chemistry flares between the struggling misanthropes, Johanna realizes that to fulfill the promise of her younger self, she’s got to quit playing it safe. Battling novice-thief paranoia, impostor syndrome and mom guilt, she can stay one step ahead of the law. But it will take an act of desperation to become the woman La Rosa Blanca was meant to be. “Vivid, visceral, and sexy—I loved it.”—JEN DEVON, author of Bend Toward the Sun Don’t miss Sara Read’s next captivating book, Principles of Emotion, a smart, poignant STEMinist novel perfect for fans of Lessons in Chemistry]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lessons-at-the-school-by-the-sea-the-third-school-by-the-sea-novel-by-jenny-colgan--65202142https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons at the School by the Sea: The Third School by the Sea Novel Series: #3 of School by the Sea Author: Jenny Colgan Narrator: Alex Tregear Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The summer holiday brings new passion and new challenges in the enchanting third book of Jenny Colgan’s utterly delightful School by the Sea series, set at a girls’ boarding school in Cornwall. School is out, following a bit of saucy scandal at Downey House... Beloved high school teacher Maggie Adair had been comfortably, if somewhat ambivalently, engaged to her dependable long-distance boyfriend Stan. But in the heat of summer, Maggie’s attraction to her colleague David McDonald has caught fire. Now both are facing an uncertain future as they try to figure out how to stay committed to their careers—and each other. Meanwhile, the girls of Downey House—mercurial Fliss, glamorous Alice, and shy, hard-working Simone—have had long summers at home, which weren’t quite the respite they had been hoping for. But the new school year is thankfully here, and it will bring new pupils and lots of fresh challenges for students and teachers alike at the school by the sea.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600967Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons at the School by the Sea: The Third School by the Sea Novel Series: #3 of School by the Sea Author: Jenny Colgan Narrator: Alex Tregear Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons at the School by the Sea: The Third School by the Sea Novel Series: #3 of School by the Sea Author: Jenny Colgan Narrator: Alex Tregear Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The summer holiday brings new passion and new challenges in the enchanting third book of Jenny Colgan’s utterly delightful School by the Sea series, set at a girls’ boarding school in Cornwall. School is out, following a bit of saucy scandal at Downey House... Beloved high school teacher Maggie Adair had been comfortably, if somewhat ambivalently, engaged to her dependable long-distance boyfriend Stan. But in the heat of summer, Maggie’s attraction to her colleague David McDonald has caught fire. Now both are facing an uncertain future as they try to figure out how to stay committed to their careers—and each other. Meanwhile, the girls of Downey House—mercurial Fliss, glamorous Alice, and shy, hard-working Simone—have had long summers at home, which weren’t quite the respite they had been hoping for. But the new school year is thankfully here, and it will bring new pupils and lots of fresh challenges for students and teachers alike at the school by the sea.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-theory-of-not-quite-everything-a-novel-by-kara-gnodde--65202139https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything: A Novel Author: Kara Gnodde Narrator: Pippa Bennett-Warner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: With the offbeat charm of The Rosie Project and generous warmth of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, a wry, moving debut novel about a pair of unforgettable siblings and a love triangle of sorts—one with math as its beating heart. One of Cosmopolitan's Best Books of 2023 Meet Art and Mimi Brotherton. Devoted siblings and housemates, they’re bound together by the tragic death of their parents. Mathematical genius Art relies on logic, while Mimi prefers to follow her heart. When Mimi decides she needs more from life than dutifully tending to her brilliant brother, she asks for his help to find love. Art agrees, but on one condition: that she find her soulmate using a strict mathematical principle. Things seem promising, until Mimi meets Frank: a romantic, spontaneous stargazer who’s also a mathematician. Despite Mimi’s obvious affection for the quirky Frank, Art is wary of him from their very first encounter. As Art's mistrust of Frank grows, so do Mimi's feelings, and the siblings' relationship is brought to a breaking point. Something about Frank doesn't quite add up, and only Art can see it . . . The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything is a tender, intelligent and uplifting novel about brothers and sisters, true love in all its forms, and how the answers to life’s biggest questions follow a logic of their own.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600977Tue, 28 Feb 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything: A Novel Author: Kara Gnodde Narrator: Pippa Bennett-Warner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600977 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything: A Novel Author: Kara Gnodde Narrator: Pippa Bennett-Warner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: With the offbeat charm of The Rosie Project and generous warmth of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, a wry, moving debut novel about a pair of unforgettable siblings and a love triangle of sorts—one with math as its beating heart. One of Cosmopolitan's Best Books of 2023 Meet Art and Mimi Brotherton. Devoted siblings and housemates, they’re bound together by the tragic death of their parents. Mathematical genius Art relies on logic, while Mimi prefers to follow her heart. When Mimi decides she needs more from life than dutifully tending to her brilliant brother, she asks for his help to find love. Art agrees, but on one condition: that she find her soulmate using a strict mathematical principle. Things seem promising, until Mimi meets Frank: a romantic, spontaneous stargazer who’s also a mathematician. Despite Mimi’s obvious affection for the quirky Frank, Art is wary of him from their very first encounter. As Art's mistrust of Frank grows, so do Mimi's feelings, and the siblings' relationship is brought to a breaking point. Something about Frank doesn't quite add up, and only Art can see it . . . The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything is a tender, intelligent and uplifting novel about brothers and sisters, true love in all its forms, and how the answers to life’s biggest questions follow a logic of their own.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-small-voice-by-santanu-bhattacharya--65202079https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Small Voice Author: Santanu Bhattacharya Narrator: Mikhail Sen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 23, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'A joy to read, a full universe of feeling, an effortless page-turner by a born storyteller. One Small Voice is the great contemporary middle class Indian novel, showing us ordinary people knocked about by the specific sociopolitical currents of turn-of-the-century India, but also wrestling with universal challenges of family, ambition, friendship and shame' Max Porter, author of The Death of Francis Bacon India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence in which his family are complicit: an act that will alter the course of his life. In the two decades that follow, Shabby must wrestle with the ghosts of his past, the expectations of his family, and the seismic shifts taking place around him as the country enters the new millennium. As an adult in Mumbai, he encounters Syed and Shruti, who, like him, are seeking the freedom to rewrite their stories while navigating the contradictions of modern India. As the rising tide of nationalism sweeps across the country, their friendship becomes a rock they all cling to. Until one day, Shabby makes a split-second decision that will change everything... Dazzling and deeply moving, One Small Voice is a novel of modern India: of violence and prejudice, friendship and loyalty, community and tradition, and of a young man coming of age in a country on fire. ©2023 Santanu Bhattacharya (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617699Thu, 23 Feb 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Small Voice Author: Santanu Bhattacharya Narrator: Mikhail Sen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 23,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617699 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Small Voice Author: Santanu Bhattacharya Narrator: Mikhail Sen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 23, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'A joy to read, a full universe of feeling, an effortless page-turner by a born storyteller. One Small Voice is the great contemporary middle class Indian novel, showing us ordinary people knocked about by the specific sociopolitical currents of turn-of-the-century India, but also wrestling with universal challenges of family, ambition, friendship and shame' Max Porter, author of The Death of Francis Bacon India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence in which his family are complicit: an act that will alter the course of his life. In the two decades that follow, Shabby must wrestle with the ghosts of his past, the expectations of his family, and the seismic shifts taking place around him as the country enters the new millennium. As an adult in Mumbai, he encounters Syed and Shruti, who, like him, are seeking the freedom to rewrite their stories while navigating the contradictions of modern India. As the rising tide of nationalism sweeps across the country, their friendship becomes a rock they all cling to. Until one day, Shabby makes a split-second decision that will change everything... Dazzling and deeply moving, One Small Voice is a novel of modern India: of violence and prejudice, friendship and loyalty, community and tradition, and of a young man coming of age in a country on fire. ©2023 Santanu Bhattacharya (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-sun-to-be-sewn-by-jean-d-amerique--65202062https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sun to Be Sewn Author: Jean D'amérique Narrator: Marie-Françoise Theodore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A brutal fable full of poetry, desire, and blood, where the naïveté of a young Haitian girl struggling against impossible odds collides with the unrelenting cruelty of the world. “You will be alone in the great night.” That’s what Papa has always prophesied to her. Papa, who isn’t her real father—he disappeared when she was born. Since then, her mother has been forced to walk the streets to provide for herself and her daughter, while Papa robs and murders for the local gang leader, to ensure his access to ganja and alcohol, but also for the sheer pleasure of it. Often finding herself alone within the four walls of a hovel in a Haitian slum with corrugated iron for a roof, the young girl tirelessly tries to compose a letter that will capture what is in her heart and soul. She is consumed with love for a classmate, the daughter of her teacher, and struggles to find words to faithfully express her feelings and her dreams. In a poetic language that encompasses poverty and idealism, she quietly observes the violence, the shortcomings, and the addictions of the adults around her. Her love and passion make her resilient, nurturing her character and helping her to invent a destiny that enables her to escape the fate to which she seemed doomed.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626365Tue, 21 Feb 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sun to Be Sewn Author: Jean D'amérique Narrator: Marie-Françoise Theodore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626365 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Sun to Be Sewn Author: Jean D'amérique Narrator: Marie-Françoise Theodore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 18 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A brutal fable full of poetry, desire, and blood, where the naïveté of a young Haitian girl struggling against impossible odds collides with the unrelenting cruelty of the world. “You will be alone in the great night.” That’s what Papa has always prophesied to her. Papa, who isn’t her real father—he disappeared when she was born. Since then, her mother has been forced to walk the streets to provide for herself and her daughter, while Papa robs and murders for the local gang leader, to ensure his access to ganja and alcohol, but also for the sheer pleasure of it. Often finding herself alone within the four walls of a hovel in a Haitian slum with corrugated iron for a roof, the young girl tirelessly tries to compose a letter that will capture what is in her heart and soul. She is consumed with love for a classmate, the daughter of her teacher, and struggles to find words to faithfully express her feelings and her dreams. In a poetic language that encompasses poverty and idealism, she quietly observes the violence, the shortcomings, and the addictions of the adults around her. Her love and passion make her resilient, nurturing her character and helping her to invent a destiny that enables her to escape the fate to which she seemed doomed.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/danny-boy-by-barry-walsh--65202127https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Danny Boy Author: Barry Walsh Narrator: Ethan Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Danny Boy is ‘gloriously nostalgic’ My Weekly Books of 2023 choice ‘A terrific, edge-of-the-seat story … whose ending had me in the right kind of tears’ Maggie Gee ‘As evocative as Graham Green's iconic Brighton Rock ***** Amazon reviewer ‘Fantastic storytelling’ ***** Amazon reviewer ‘Gripping story – engaging, entertaining and moving. A terrific read’ ***** Amazon reviewer Danny Byrne has grown up on a sprawling council estate in Pimlico. He knows every stone of it, and until now, his life has followed the same pattern as all his friends. Danny is heading for A-levels and then university. Dodds is following his dad into the family butcher’s business, Crockett will sail on opportunity’s wings as it comes his way, and Nobby is flirting with drugs, and disaster. As the long summer unfolds, the boys focus on girls, trade banter and test their friendships to the limit. When things take a darker turn, Danny must wrestle with his conscience and is pushed to breaking point. Can Danny find love and work out what is important to become the kind of man he wants to be? Praise for Barry Walsh: ‘Perfectly evokes the era’ Daily Mail ‘Refreshing… a nostalgic and heartfelt novel’ Pen and Paper Blog ‘A beautifully written tale… poignant’ Andrew Blackman, author of A Virtual Love]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595295Thu, 16 Feb 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Danny Boy Author: Barry Walsh Narrator: Ethan Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595295 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Danny Boy Author: Barry Walsh Narrator: Ethan Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Danny Boy is ‘gloriously nostalgic’ My Weekly Books of 2023 choice ‘A terrific, edge-of-the-seat story … whose ending had me in the right kind of tears’ Maggie Gee ‘As evocative as Graham Green's iconic Brighton Rock ***** Amazon reviewer ‘Fantastic storytelling’ ***** Amazon reviewer ‘Gripping story – engaging, entertaining and moving. A terrific read’ ***** Amazon reviewer Danny Byrne has grown up on a sprawling council estate in Pimlico. He knows every stone of it, and until now, his life has followed the same pattern as all his friends. Danny is heading for A-levels and then university. Dodds is following his dad into the family butcher’s business, Crockett will sail on opportunity’s wings as it comes his way, and Nobby is flirting with drugs, and disaster. As the long summer unfolds, the boys focus on girls, trade banter and test their friendships to the limit. When things take a darker turn, Danny must wrestle with his conscience and is pushed to breaking point. Can Danny find love and work out what is important to become the kind of man he wants to be? Praise for Barry Walsh: ‘Perfectly evokes the era’ Daily Mail ‘Refreshing… a nostalgic and heartfelt novel’ Pen and Paper Blog ‘A beautifully written tale… poignant’ Andrew Blackman, author of A Virtual Love]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/this-could-be-everything-exquisite-enchanting-quite-possibly-perfect-the-next-one-day-me-before-you-veronica-henry-by-eva-rice--65202094https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Could be Everything: 'Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You' VERONICA HENRY Author: Eva Rice Narrator: Jessica Alade Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The perfect, feel-good, comforting read to cosy up with as the nights draw in. Escape to 1990, Notting Hill, first love, and hope. ‘Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You’ VERONICA HENRY 'Every time I have read one of Eva Rice’s books it has felt like a modern classic. Tender, and acutely observed, the characters of This Could Be Everything have stayed with me. Reading it every night felt like wrapping myself a comfort blanket' JOJO MOYES ‘The most gorgeous feel-good story about love and grief and how the smallest things can start a journey of healing.’ GEORGINA MOORE, author of The Garnett Girls 'I finished it in a breathless emotional gulp. Truly wonderful, incredibly moving...funny, witty, wise and superbly written...The age beautifully evoked' STEPHEN FRY 'You will rejoice as February gradually finds happiness again, consoled by two little canaries, the treadmill of the Top 40, the rare beauties of Nineties London and finally true love. Eva’s latest story HAS everything' JILLY COOPER It’s 1990. The Happy Mondays are in the charts, a 15-year-old called Kate Moss is on the cover of the Face magazine, and Julia Roberts wears thigh-boots for the poster for a new movie called Pretty Woman.    February Kingdom is nineteen years old when she is knocked sideways by family tragedy. Then one evening in May she finds an escaped canary in her kitchen and it sparks a glimmer of hope in her. With the help of the bird called Yellow, Feb starts to feel her way out of her own private darkness, just as her aunt embarks on a passionate and all-consuming affair with a married American drama teacher.      THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING is a coming-of-age story with its roots under the pavements of a pre-Richard Curtis-era Notting Hill that has all but vanished. It’s about what happens when you start looking after something more important than you, and the hope a yellow bird can bring…  Praise for This Could Be Everything: 'A beautiful, atmospheric, brilliantly observed thing of joy. Eva Rice is a fantastic observer and relayer of the human experience. Absolutely wonderful' Mel Giedroyc 'A beautiful balm of a book full of hope and possibility, This Could Be Everything will break your heart and piece it back together again with wit, warmth and magic. The way Rice weaves together fiction and reality is delicious, with details on every page that will have pop fans, Londoners and 90s nostalgics squealing with delight. Nobody captures the exhilaration of first love and teen fandom quite like her' Lauren Bravo ‘A reason to be cheerful - THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING is the book I've been waiting my whole life for, a perfect 90s period piece about sisters, it's glam, gorgeous, a little bit melancholic and a lot charming’ Daisy Buchanan   ‘This moving, hopeful and brilliantly told story inhabits the West London of my youth. I loved it’ Betty Boo ‘A gorgeous story about first love and hope’ Red ‘A moving novel about sisterhood, grief and first love’ Good Housekeeping 'The story of loss, love - and ultimately hope - is beautifully told. You won't be able to put it down' Heat]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601002Thu, 16 Feb 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Could be Everything: 'Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You' VERONICA HENRY Author: Eva Rice Narrator:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Could be Everything: 'Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You' VERONICA HENRY Author: Eva Rice Narrator: Jessica Alade Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The perfect, feel-good, comforting read to cosy up with as the nights draw in. Escape to 1990, Notting Hill, first love, and hope. ‘Exquisite. Enchanting. Quite possibly perfect. The next One Day/Me Before You’ VERONICA HENRY 'Every time I have read one of Eva Rice’s books it has felt like a modern classic. Tender, and acutely observed, the characters of This Could Be Everything have stayed with me. Reading it every night felt like wrapping myself a comfort blanket' JOJO MOYES ‘The most gorgeous feel-good story about love and grief and how the smallest things can start a journey of healing.’ GEORGINA MOORE, author of The Garnett Girls 'I finished it in a breathless emotional gulp. Truly wonderful, incredibly moving...funny, witty, wise and superbly written...The age beautifully evoked' STEPHEN FRY 'You will rejoice as February gradually finds happiness again, consoled by two little canaries, the treadmill of the Top 40, the rare beauties of Nineties London and finally true love. Eva’s latest story HAS everything' JILLY COOPER It’s 1990. The Happy Mondays are in the charts, a 15-year-old called Kate Moss is on the cover of the Face magazine, and Julia Roberts wears thigh-boots for the poster for a new movie called Pretty Woman.    February Kingdom is nineteen years old when she is knocked sideways by family tragedy. Then one evening in May she finds an escaped canary in her kitchen and it sparks a glimmer of hope in her. With the help of the bird called Yellow, Feb starts to feel her way out of her own private darkness, just as her aunt embarks on a passionate and all-consuming affair with a married American drama teacher.      THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING is a coming-of-age story with its roots under the pavements of a pre-Richard Curtis-era Notting Hill that has all but vanished. It’s about what happens when you start looking after something more important than you, and the hope a yellow bird can bring…  Praise for This Could Be Everything: 'A beautiful, atmospheric, brilliantly observed thing of joy. Eva Rice is a fantastic observer and relayer of the human experience. Absolutely wonderful' Mel Giedroyc 'A beautiful balm of a book full of hope and possibility, This Could Be Everything will break your heart and piece it back together again with wit, warmth and magic. The way Rice weaves together fiction and reality is delicious, with details on every page that will have pop fans, Londoners and 90s nostalgics squealing with delight. Nobody captures the exhilaration of first love and teen fandom quite like her' Lauren Bravo ‘A reason to be cheerful - THIS COULD BE EVERYTHING is the book I've been waiting my whole life for, a perfect 90s period piece about sisters, it's glam, gorgeous, a little bit melancholic and a lot charming’ Daisy Buchanan   ‘This moving, hopeful and brilliantly told story inhabits the West London of my youth. I loved it’ Betty Boo ‘A gorgeous story about first love and hope’ Red ‘A moving novel about sisterhood, grief and first love’ Good Housekeeping 'The story of loss, love - and ultimately hope - is beautifully told. You won't be able to put it down' Heat]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hayley-aldridge-is-still-here-a-novel-by-elissa-r-sloan--65202129https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hayley Aldridge Is Still Here: A Novel Author: Elissa R. Sloan Narrator: Jacob Patalive, Caitlin Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes comes yet another sharp, page-turning novel about a forgotten child star and former Hollywood “It” Girl who is now fighting back against the conservatorship that has controlled her life for the past decade. It’s been years since anyone really thought about Hayley Aldridge. A child star turned television royalty, Hayley spent years in Hollywood partying and being plastered across the front page of all the tabloids before quietly disappearing after a whirlwind marriage and divorce and very public breakdown. Once the tabloids wrung every last drop out of the drama, they moved on to the next It Girl. But Hayley is still here. For over a decade, she’s been trapped in a conservatorship and had every aspect of her life controlled by her parents. She goes nowhere, does nothing without their approval, which is rarely granted. Her visits with her kids are monitored, her fan mail is censored, and she’s a prisoner in her own home. She thought things might change once she was well enough to work, but the restrictions got even tighter as she continued to bring money in—the only thing her parents ever really cared about. Hayley is beginning to realize that this nightmare is her actual life. And she’s sick of it. When the hashtag #helphayley starts to emerge on social media, and the public starts thinking critically about what happened to her all those years ago, there’s finally some momentum on her side. With an upcoming court date to review the status of the conservatorship, Hayley might finally have a chance to break free. But how can she go up against her parents when they’re aware of her every move? It’s time for Hayley Aldridge to remind the world who she is, this time on her own terms.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593030Tue, 14 Feb 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hayley Aldridge Is Still Here: A Novel Author: Elissa R. Sloan Narrator: Jacob Patalive, Caitlin Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hayley Aldridge Is Still Here: A Novel Author: Elissa R. Sloan Narrator: Jacob Patalive, Caitlin Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes comes yet another sharp, page-turning novel about a forgotten child star and former Hollywood “It” Girl who is now fighting back against the conservatorship that has controlled her life for the past decade. It’s been years since anyone really thought about Hayley Aldridge. A child star turned television royalty, Hayley spent years in Hollywood partying and being plastered across the front page of all the tabloids before quietly disappearing after a whirlwind marriage and divorce and very public breakdown. Once the tabloids wrung every last drop out of the drama, they moved on to the next It Girl. But Hayley is still here. For over a decade, she’s been trapped in a conservatorship and had every aspect of her life controlled by her parents. She goes nowhere, does nothing without their approval, which is rarely granted. Her visits with her kids are monitored, her fan mail is censored, and she’s a prisoner in her own home. She thought things might change once she was well enough to work, but the restrictions got even tighter as she continued to bring money in—the only thing her parents ever really cared about. Hayley is beginning to realize that this nightmare is her actual life. And she’s sick of it. When the hashtag #helphayley starts to emerge on social media, and the public starts thinking critically about what happened to her all those years ago, there’s finally some momentum on her side. With an upcoming court date to review the status of the conservatorship, Hayley might finally have a chance to break free. But how can she go up against her parents when they’re aware of her every move? It’s time for Hayley Aldridge to remind the world who she is, this time on her own terms.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/becky-by-sarah-may--65202209https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562336 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becky Author: Sarah May Narrator: Charly Clive Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'Spiky, clever, funny' – Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters 'Brilliant, propulsive . . . A riot'– Maddie Mortimer, author of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies 'A delicious gallop through 90s tabloid London' – Sam McAlister, author of Scoops It’s peak 90s London. Shoulder pads are out, crimped hair is in, supermodels are known by their first names, and Becky Sharp will do anything to escape her past. From mingling with tabloid millionaires to trading favours and fortunes with royalty, she will stop at nothing to reach the top of the career ladder at the Mercury newspaper. Landing scoop after scoop, Becky ruthlessly carves a place for herself in a society determined to ignore her. These are the biggest stories and scandals of the decade, and she has something to do with every one of them. But Becky may have more in common with the people she writes about than she thinks – what takes a lifetime to build takes only a moment to destroy . . . 'A Vanity Fair for the mass-media age' - The Guardian]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562336Thu, 09 Feb 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562336 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becky Author: Sarah May Narrator: Charly Clive Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: Coming...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562336 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becky Author: Sarah May Narrator: Charly Clive Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'Spiky, clever, funny' – Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters 'Brilliant, propulsive . . . A riot'– Maddie Mortimer, author of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies 'A delicious gallop through 90s tabloid London' – Sam McAlister, author of Scoops It’s peak 90s London. Shoulder pads are out, crimped hair is in, supermodels are known by their first names, and Becky Sharp will do anything to escape her past. From mingling with tabloid millionaires to trading favours and fortunes with royalty, she will stop at nothing to reach the top of the career ladder at the Mercury newspaper. Landing scoop after scoop, Becky ruthlessly carves a place for herself in a society determined to ignore her. These are the biggest stories and scandals of the decade, and she has something to do with every one of them. But Becky may have more in common with the people she writes about than she thinks – what takes a lifetime to build takes only a moment to destroy . . . 'A Vanity Fair for the mass-media age' - The Guardian]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-love-scribe-by-amy-meyerson--65202169https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love Scribe Author: Amy Meyerson Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays comes a charming novel about a woman with a special gift—her stories help people fall in love. When Alice’s best friend, Gabby, is reeling from a breakup, Alice writes her a heartfelt story to cheer her up. While reading it in a café, Gabby, as if by magic, meets the man of her dreams. Thinking the story might have some special power to it, Gabby shares it with her sister and other friends, who all find instant love. Word of mouth spreads, and Alice stumbles upon a new calling—to be a love scribe. But not all the love stories she writes unfold as expected. And while Alice tries to harness her extraordinary gift, she is summoned to a mansion in the woods where she encounters the reclusive Madeline Alger and her mysterious library. As Alice struggles to write a story for Madeline, her most challenging assignment yet, she’s forced to confront her own guarded heart. Because maybe—just maybe—there’s a love story waiting to be written for her, too. Emotional, deeply imaginative and brimming with valuable life lessons, The Love Scribe explores love, fate and the power of stories when we choose to believe in them.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593519Tue, 07 Feb 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love Scribe Author: Amy Meyerson Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love Scribe Author: Amy Meyerson Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays comes a charming novel about a woman with a special gift—her stories help people fall in love. When Alice’s best friend, Gabby, is reeling from a breakup, Alice writes her a heartfelt story to cheer her up. While reading it in a café, Gabby, as if by magic, meets the man of her dreams. Thinking the story might have some special power to it, Gabby shares it with her sister and other friends, who all find instant love. Word of mouth spreads, and Alice stumbles upon a new calling—to be a love scribe. But not all the love stories she writes unfold as expected. And while Alice tries to harness her extraordinary gift, she is summoned to a mansion in the woods where she encounters the reclusive Madeline Alger and her mysterious library. As Alice struggles to write a story for Madeline, her most challenging assignment yet, she’s forced to confront her own guarded heart. Because maybe—just maybe—there’s a love story waiting to be written for her, too. Emotional, deeply imaginative and brimming with valuable life lessons, The Love Scribe explores love, fate and the power of stories when we choose to believe in them.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/vampire-weekend-by-mike-chen--65202128https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vampire Weekend Author: Mike Chen Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood “A love letter to the power of music, this thoughtful, humorous exploration of what constitutes living versus mere survival sees Chen (Light Years from Home) at the top of his game.” —Publishers Weekly starred review "A strong emotional core carries Chen’s (Light Years from Home, 2022) latest, which is ultimately about healing from old wounds and learning how to embrace life again after loss—even if you’re dead." —Booklist Being a vampire is far from glamorous…but it can be pretty punk rock. Everything you’ve heard about vampires is a lie. They can’t fly. No murders allowed (the community hates that). And turning into a bat? Completely ridiculous. In fact, vampire life is really just a lot of blood bags and night jobs. For Louise Chao, it’s also lonely, since she swore off family ages ago. At least she’s gone to decades of punk rock shows. And if she can join a band of her own (while keeping her…situation under wraps), maybe she’ll finally feel like she belongs, too. Then a long-lost teenage relative shows up at her door. Whether it’s Ian’s love of music or his bad attitude, for the first time in ages, Louise feels a connection. But as Ian uncovers Louise’s true identity, things get dangerous—especially when he asks her for the ultimate favor. One that goes beyond just family…one that might just change everything vampires know about life and death forever.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593513Tue, 31 Jan 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vampire Weekend Author: Mike Chen Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593513 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vampire Weekend Author: Mike Chen Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood “A love letter to the power of music, this thoughtful, humorous exploration of what constitutes living versus mere survival sees Chen (Light Years from Home) at the top of his game.” —Publishers Weekly starred review "A strong emotional core carries Chen’s (Light Years from Home, 2022) latest, which is ultimately about healing from old wounds and learning how to embrace life again after loss—even if you’re dead." —Booklist Being a vampire is far from glamorous…but it can be pretty punk rock. Everything you’ve heard about vampires is a lie. They can’t fly. No murders allowed (the community hates that). And turning into a bat? Completely ridiculous. In fact, vampire life is really just a lot of blood bags and night jobs. For Louise Chao, it’s also lonely, since she swore off family ages ago. At least she’s gone to decades of punk rock shows. And if she can join a band of her own (while keeping her…situation under wraps), maybe she’ll finally feel like she belongs, too. Then a long-lost teenage relative shows up at her door. Whether it’s Ian’s love of music or his bad attitude, for the first time in ages, Louise feels a connection. But as Ian uncovers Louise’s true identity, things get dangerous—especially when he asks her for the ultimate favor. One that goes beyond just family…one that might just change everything vampires know about life and death forever.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/daughter-in-exile-a-novel-by-bisi-adjapon--65202096https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter in Exile: A Novel Author: Bisi Adjapon Narrator: Anniwaa Buachie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome. Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn’t be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a nice apartment, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand, an American Marine stationed at the U.S. Embassy. Her mother, a high court judge in Ghana, disapproves of her choice, but nothing will stop Lola from boarding a plane for Armand and America. That fateful flight is only the beginning of an extraordinary journey; she has traded her carefree existence in Senegal for the perilous position of an undocumented immigrant in 1990s America. Lola encounters adversity that would crush a less-determined woman. Her fate hangs on whether or not she’ll grow in courage to forge a different life from one she’d imagined, whether she’ll succeed in putting herself and family together again. Daughter in Exile is a hope-filled story about mother love, resilience, and unyielding strength.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600951Tue, 31 Jan 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter in Exile: A Novel Author: Bisi Adjapon Narrator: Anniwaa Buachie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter in Exile: A Novel Author: Bisi Adjapon Narrator: Anniwaa Buachie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome. Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn’t be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a nice apartment, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand, an American Marine stationed at the U.S. Embassy. Her mother, a high court judge in Ghana, disapproves of her choice, but nothing will stop Lola from boarding a plane for Armand and America. That fateful flight is only the beginning of an extraordinary journey; she has traded her carefree existence in Senegal for the perilous position of an undocumented immigrant in 1990s America. Lola encounters adversity that would crush a less-determined woman. Her fate hangs on whether or not she’ll grow in courage to forge a different life from one she’d imagined, whether she’ll succeed in putting herself and family together again. Daughter in Exile is a hope-filled story about mother love, resilience, and unyielding strength.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/margot-a-novel-by-wendell-steavenson--65202076https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Margot: A Novel Author: Wendell Steavenson Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A moving portrait of a young woman's struggle to break free of her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution. It's the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York and her family's sumptuous Oyster Bay estate as the presumed heir to her late grandfather's steel fortune. Her domineering mother has charted a course for her—to forego education and marry well—but Margot is more interested in microscopes and beetles and books. When a devastating fire brings the family legacy crashing down and the sexual revolution dawns, a new path opens up—the expansive world of late-1960s Radcliffe College and the intellectual, cultural, and sexual freedom Margot has been reaching for. Hailed for her 'intelligent and heartfelt fiction' (Kirkus Reviews), Wendell Steavenson writes with grace, precision, and great psychological perception. With Margot, she has crafted a vivid portrayal of the quiet torment of young women of its era, a comically caustic mother-daughter story, and a memorable evocation of one woman's passion for the wonder of science.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620782Tue, 24 Jan 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Margot: A Novel Author: Wendell Steavenson Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 24,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Margot: A Novel Author: Wendell Steavenson Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A moving portrait of a young woman's struggle to break free of her upper-class upbringing amid the whirlwind years of the sexual revolution. It's the mid-1950s and Margot Thornsen is growing up between a Park Avenue apartment in New York and her family's sumptuous Oyster Bay estate as the presumed heir to her late grandfather's steel fortune. Her domineering mother has charted a course for her—to forego education and marry well—but Margot is more interested in microscopes and beetles and books. When a devastating fire brings the family legacy crashing down and the sexual revolution dawns, a new path opens up—the expansive world of late-1960s Radcliffe College and the intellectual, cultural, and sexual freedom Margot has been reaching for. Hailed for her 'intelligent and heartfelt fiction' (Kirkus Reviews), Wendell Steavenson writes with grace, precision, and great psychological perception. With Margot, she has crafted a vivid portrayal of the quiet torment of young women of its era, a comically caustic mother-daughter story, and a memorable evocation of one woman's passion for the wonder of science.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cold-people-from-the-multi-million-copy-bestselling-author-of-child-44-by-tom-rob-smith--65202233https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567739 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold People: From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Child 44 Author: Tom Rob Smith Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'An ambitious, cinematic thriller' Observer 'A talented storyteller' The Times 'A cinematic epic' Daily Mail What if our only hope of survival becomes our greatest threat? From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable. The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist… Antarctica. Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. Because as they cling to life on the ice, the remnants of their past swept away, they must also confront the urgent challenge: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity’s future? Can they build a new society in the sub-zero cold? Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a masterful and unforgettable epic. Praise for Tom Rob Smith ‘A remarkable achievement’ Jeffery Deaver ‘Amazing’ Lee Child ‘Chilling, hypnotic and thoroughly compelling’ Mark Billingham ‘Truly original and chilling’ Jojo Moyes ‘Tom Rob Smith’s mastery of suspense will make any reader’s heart pound’ Financial Times ‘A thrilling, intense piece of fiction’ Observer ‘Ingeniously plotted... a high voltage story’ New York Times ‘Perfectly plotted, utterly terrifying’ Daily Mail ‘A mind-blowing, addictive plot that will have you on the edge of your seat’ Stylist ‘A powerful page-turner’ GQ ‘Taut and atmospheric’ Irish Independent ‘Masterly... read this and shiver’ Telegraph]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567739Thu, 19 Jan 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567739 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold People: From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Child 44 Author: Tom Rob Smith Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567739 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cold People: From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Child 44 Author: Tom Rob Smith Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'An ambitious, cinematic thriller' Observer 'A talented storyteller' The Times 'A cinematic epic' Daily Mail What if our only hope of survival becomes our greatest threat? From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable. The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist… Antarctica. Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. Because as they cling to life on the ice, the remnants of their past swept away, they must also confront the urgent challenge: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity’s future? Can they build a new society in the sub-zero cold? Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a masterful and unforgettable epic. Praise for Tom Rob Smith ‘A remarkable achievement’ Jeffery Deaver ‘Amazing’ Lee Child ‘Chilling, hypnotic and thoroughly compelling’ Mark Billingham ‘Truly original and chilling’ Jojo Moyes ‘Tom Rob Smith’s mastery of suspense will make any reader’s heart pound’ Financial Times ‘A thrilling, intense piece of fiction’ Observer ‘Ingeniously plotted... a high voltage story’ New York Times ‘Perfectly plotted, utterly terrifying’ Daily Mail ‘A mind-blowing, addictive plot that will have you on the edge of your seat’ Stylist ‘A powerful page-turner’ GQ ‘Taut and atmospheric’ Irish Independent ‘Masterly... read this and shiver’ Telegraph]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/please-report-your-bug-here-a-novel-by-josh-riedel--65202141https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Please Report Your Bug Here: A Novel Author: Josh Riedel Narrator: Torian Brackett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “An unexpected, inventive, heartfelt riff on the workplace novel—startup realism with a multiverse twist.” —Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley 'Torian Brackett shines in his performance of this debut novel. Showing his impressive range as a narrator, Brackett deftly switches between descriptions of picturesque San Francisco neighborhoods and Block's endless questions about his priorities and future.'- AudioFile Introducing Josh Riedel's adrenaline-packed debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a glitch that transports him to other worlds Once you sign an NDA it's good for life. Meaning legally, I shouldn't tell you this story. But I have to. A college grad with the six-figure debt to prove it, Ethan Block views San Francisco as the place to be. Yet his job at hot new dating app DateDate is a far cry from what he envisioned. Instead of making the world a better place, he reviews flagged photo queues, overworked and stressed out. But that's about to change. Reeling from a breakup, Ethan decides to view his algorithmically matched soulmate on DateDate. He overrides the system and clicks on the profile. Then, he disappears. One minute, he’s in a windowless office, and the next, he’s in a field of endless grass, gasping for air. When Ethan snaps back to DateDate HQ, he’s convinced a coding issue caused the blip. Except for anyone to believe him, he’ll need evidence. As Ethan embarks on a wild goose chase, moving from dingy startup think tanks to Silicon Valley’s dominant tech conglomerate, it becomes clear that there’s more to DateDate than meets the eye. With the stakes rising, and a new world at risk, Ethan must choose who—and what—he believes in. Adventurous and hypertimely, Please Report Your Bug Here is an inventive millennial coming-of-age story, a dark exploration of the corruption now synonymous with Big Tech, and, above all, a testament to the power of human connection in our digital era. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602113Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Please Report Your Bug Here: A Novel Author: Josh Riedel Narrator: Torian Brackett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602113 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Please Report Your Bug Here: A Novel Author: Josh Riedel Narrator: Torian Brackett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “An unexpected, inventive, heartfelt riff on the workplace novel—startup realism with a multiverse twist.” —Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley 'Torian Brackett shines in his performance of this debut novel. Showing his impressive range as a narrator, Brackett deftly switches between descriptions of picturesque San Francisco neighborhoods and Block's endless questions about his priorities and future.'- AudioFile Introducing Josh Riedel's adrenaline-packed debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a glitch that transports him to other worlds Once you sign an NDA it's good for life. Meaning legally, I shouldn't tell you this story. But I have to. A college grad with the six-figure debt to prove it, Ethan Block views San Francisco as the place to be. Yet his job at hot new dating app DateDate is a far cry from what he envisioned. Instead of making the world a better place, he reviews flagged photo queues, overworked and stressed out. But that's about to change. Reeling from a breakup, Ethan decides to view his algorithmically matched soulmate on DateDate. He overrides the system and clicks on the profile. Then, he disappears. One minute, he’s in a windowless office, and the next, he’s in a field of endless grass, gasping for air. When Ethan snaps back to DateDate HQ, he’s convinced a coding issue caused the blip. Except for anyone to believe him, he’ll need evidence. As Ethan embarks on a wild goose chase, moving from dingy startup think tanks to Silicon Valley’s dominant tech conglomerate, it becomes clear that there’s more to DateDate than meets the eye. With the stakes rising, and a new world at risk, Ethan must choose who—and what—he believes in. Adventurous and hypertimely, Please Report Your Bug Here is an inventive millennial coming-of-age story, a dark exploration of the corruption now synonymous with Big Tech, and, above all, a testament to the power of human connection in our digital era. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-reunion-a-novel-by-kayla-olson--65202089https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reunion: A Novel Author: Kayla Olson Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When two former teen stars reconnect at the reunion for their hit TV show, they discover their feelings for one another were not merely scripted in this charming and heartwarming novel perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne. Liv Latimer grew up on TV. As the star of the popular teen drama Girl on the Verge, Liv spent her adolescence on the screen trying to be as picture perfect as her character in real life. But after the death of her father and the betrayal of her on-screen love interest and off-screen best friend Ransom Joel, Liv wanted nothing more than to retreat, living a mostly normal life aside from a few indie film roles. But now, twenty years after the show’s premiere, the cast is invited back for a reunion special, financed by a major streaming service. Liv is happy to be back on set, especially once she discovers Ransom has only improved with age. And their chemistry is certainly still intact. They quickly fall into their old rhythms, rediscovering what had drawn them together decades before. But with new rivalries among the cast emerging and the specter of a reboot shadowing their shoot, Liv questions whether returning to the past is what she needs to finally get her own happy ending.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601045Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reunion: A Novel Author: Kayla Olson Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reunion: A Novel Author: Kayla Olson Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When two former teen stars reconnect at the reunion for their hit TV show, they discover their feelings for one another were not merely scripted in this charming and heartwarming novel perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne. Liv Latimer grew up on TV. As the star of the popular teen drama Girl on the Verge, Liv spent her adolescence on the screen trying to be as picture perfect as her character in real life. But after the death of her father and the betrayal of her on-screen love interest and off-screen best friend Ransom Joel, Liv wanted nothing more than to retreat, living a mostly normal life aside from a few indie film roles. But now, twenty years after the show’s premiere, the cast is invited back for a reunion special, financed by a major streaming service. Liv is happy to be back on set, especially once she discovers Ransom has only improved with age. And their chemistry is certainly still intact. They quickly fall into their old rhythms, rediscovering what had drawn them together decades before. But with new rivalries among the cast emerging and the specter of a reboot shadowing their shoot, Liv questions whether returning to the past is what she needs to finally get her own happy ending.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-things-that-we-lost-by-jyoti-patel--65202081https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Things That We Lost Author: Jyoti Patel Narrator: Nikki Patel, Nikesh Patel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. *** WINNER OF THE 2021 #MERKY BOOKS NEW WRITERS' PRIZE*** Nik has lots of questions about his late father but knows better than to ask his mother, Avani. It's their unspoken rule. When his grandfather dies, Nik has the opportunity to learn about the man he never met. Armed with a key and new knowledge about his parents' past, Nik sets out to unlock the secrets that his mother has been holding onto his whole life. As the carefully crafted portrait Avani has painted for her son begins to crack, and painful truths emerge, can the two of them find their way back to each other? The Things That We Lost is a beautifully tender exploration of family, loss and the lengths to which we go to protect the ones we love. It is the first work of fiction by Jyoti Patel, winner of the 2021 #Merky Books New Writers' Prize, and one of the most exciting new novelists to watch. © 2023 Jyoti Patel (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617694Thu, 12 Jan 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Things That We Lost Author: Jyoti Patel Narrator: Nikki Patel, Nikesh Patel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617694 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Things That We Lost Author: Jyoti Patel Narrator: Nikki Patel, Nikesh Patel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 12, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. *** WINNER OF THE 2021 #MERKY BOOKS NEW WRITERS' PRIZE*** Nik has lots of questions about his late father but knows better than to ask his mother, Avani. It's their unspoken rule. When his grandfather dies, Nik has the opportunity to learn about the man he never met. Armed with a key and new knowledge about his parents' past, Nik sets out to unlock the secrets that his mother has been holding onto his whole life. As the carefully crafted portrait Avani has painted for her son begins to crack, and painful truths emerge, can the two of them find their way back to each other? The Things That We Lost is a beautifully tender exploration of family, loss and the lengths to which we go to protect the ones we love. It is the first work of fiction by Jyoti Patel, winner of the 2021 #Merky Books New Writers' Prize, and one of the most exciting new novelists to watch. © 2023 Jyoti Patel (P)2023 Penguin Audio]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mr-right-next-door-by-naima-simone--65202181https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/582674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Right Next Door Series: #4 of Rose Bend Author: Naima Simone Narrator: Mari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Return to Rose Bend in a brand new romance from Naima Simone and Mills & Boon ‘Passion, heat and deep emotion – Naima Simone is a gem!’ Maisey Yates, New York Times bestselling author Jenna Landon has spent her life aiming for perfection — and missing. The pressure and disappointment has been hard to deal with and she took it out on anyone in town, sealing her reputation as ‘mean girl’. Now she is ready to leave Rose Bend and start again. Only first she must help her family with the town’s carnival fundraiser. And endure her new neighbour who seems to do everything possible to annoy her. Isaac Hunter didn’t mean to disturb his neighbour with his music. But if anyone could use ‘messing with,’ it’s prissy, perfect, sexy Jenna Landon. But soon their clashes turn into something hotter. Recently divorced, Isaac’s focus should be rebuilding his life, not an entanglement with a woman who spells nothing but trouble. Because Jenna is leaving Rose Bend. And they both know he can’t go with her, and he can’t ask her to stay…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/582674Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/582674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Right Next Door Series: #4 of Rose Bend Author: Naima Simone Narrator: Mari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/582674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mr. Right Next Door Series: #4 of Rose Bend Author: Naima Simone Narrator: Mari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Return to Rose Bend in a brand new romance from Naima Simone and Mills & Boon ‘Passion, heat and deep emotion – Naima Simone is a gem!’ Maisey Yates, New York Times bestselling author Jenna Landon has spent her life aiming for perfection — and missing. The pressure and disappointment has been hard to deal with and she took it out on anyone in town, sealing her reputation as ‘mean girl’. Now she is ready to leave Rose Bend and start again. Only first she must help her family with the town’s carnival fundraiser. And endure her new neighbour who seems to do everything possible to annoy her. Isaac Hunter didn’t mean to disturb his neighbour with his music. But if anyone could use ‘messing with,’ it’s prissy, perfect, sexy Jenna Landon. But soon their clashes turn into something hotter. Recently divorced, Isaac’s focus should be rebuilding his life, not an entanglement with a woman who spells nothing but trouble. Because Jenna is leaving Rose Bend. And they both know he can’t go with her, and he can’t ask her to stay…]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-miseries-this-is-not-a-story-about-my-childhood-by-kimberly-olson-fakih--65202166https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story About My Childhood Author: Kimberly Olson Fakih Narrator: Elizabeth Cottle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Sometimes misery is little, and sometimes it is epic and yawning, capable of swallowing every childhood memory. There are the miseries the Castles will talk about—old family lore about a great great great uncle who was split in two while connecting railroad cars—and the misery none of them will face. There are days at the lake, placid except for inexplicable tension the parents won't address and the three Castle children don't have names for. There are stories about sex and gore at cocktail parties, around bonfires, at sleepovers, in classrooms, and in the newspaper. Everyday growing pains are shadowed by the abduction of a local girl, reports of a massacre of nurses, and the harm done by strangers and by those who are charged to care for children. To survive childhood is to survive all of these miseries and tragedies—because growing up means waking up to a world that can be random and brutal. With some thematic overlap with Rick Moody’s The Ice Storm or what Mad Men would have been like if Sally Draper got to tell her side of the story, Little Miseries is set in Iowa and Minnesota in the 60s and 70s, a time and place when parents didn’t talk much to their children but certainly talked around them—while dipping into whiskey or rum punch, whether on a long drive, on the beach, or in the comfort of their own home. Little Miseries is a tribute to what it means to come into awareness, to be a part of a family unit, and to bear responsibility for those you loved and who have been harmed along the way.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616728Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story About My Childhood Author: Kimberly Olson Fakih Narrator: Elizabeth Cottle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616728 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Miseries: This Is Not a Story About My Childhood Author: Kimberly Olson Fakih Narrator: Elizabeth Cottle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Sometimes misery is little, and sometimes it is epic and yawning, capable of swallowing every childhood memory. There are the miseries the Castles will talk about—old family lore about a great great great uncle who was split in two while connecting railroad cars—and the misery none of them will face. There are days at the lake, placid except for inexplicable tension the parents won't address and the three Castle children don't have names for. There are stories about sex and gore at cocktail parties, around bonfires, at sleepovers, in classrooms, and in the newspaper. Everyday growing pains are shadowed by the abduction of a local girl, reports of a massacre of nurses, and the harm done by strangers and by those who are charged to care for children. To survive childhood is to survive all of these miseries and tragedies—because growing up means waking up to a world that can be random and brutal. With some thematic overlap with Rick Moody’s The Ice Storm or what Mad Men would have been like if Sally Draper got to tell her side of the story, Little Miseries is set in Iowa and Minnesota in the 60s and 70s, a time and place when parents didn’t talk much to their children but certainly talked around them—while dipping into whiskey or rum punch, whether on a long drive, on the beach, or in the comfort of their own home. Little Miseries is a tribute to what it means to come into awareness, to be a part of a family unit, and to bear responsibility for those you loved and who have been harmed along the way.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/red-clay-suzie-a-novel-inspired-by-true-events-by-jeffrey-dale-lofton--65202091https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Clay Suzie: A Novel Inspired by True Events Author: Jeffrey Dale Lofton Narrator: Pete Cross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The coming-of-age story of Philbet, a gay, physically-misshapen boy in rural Georgia, battles bullying, ignorance, and disdain as he makes his way in life as an outsider—before finding acceptance in unlikely places. Fueled by tomato sandwiches and green milkshakes and obsessed with cars, Philbet struggles with life and love as a gay boy in rural Georgia. He is happiest when helping Grandaddy dig potatoes from the vegetable garden that connects their houses. But Philbet’s world is shattered and his resilience shaken by events that crush his innocence and sense of security; expose his misshapen chest, skillfully hidden behind shirts Mama makes at home; and convince him that he’s not fit to be loved by Knox, the older boy he idolizes to distraction. Over time, Philbet finds refuge in unexpected places and inner strength in unexpected ways, leading to a resolution in the form of a letter from beyond the grave.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618527Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Clay Suzie: A Novel Inspired by True Events Author: Jeffrey Dale Lofton Narrator: Pete Cross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 14...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618527 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Red Clay Suzie: A Novel Inspired by True Events Author: Jeffrey Dale Lofton Narrator: Pete Cross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 14 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The coming-of-age story of Philbet, a gay, physically-misshapen boy in rural Georgia, battles bullying, ignorance, and disdain as he makes his way in life as an outsider—before finding acceptance in unlikely places. Fueled by tomato sandwiches and green milkshakes and obsessed with cars, Philbet struggles with life and love as a gay boy in rural Georgia. He is happiest when helping Grandaddy dig potatoes from the vegetable garden that connects their houses. But Philbet’s world is shattered and his resilience shaken by events that crush his innocence and sense of security; expose his misshapen chest, skillfully hidden behind shirts Mama makes at home; and convince him that he’s not fit to be loved by Knox, the older boy he idolizes to distraction. Over time, Philbet finds refuge in unexpected places and inner strength in unexpected ways, leading to a resolution in the form of a letter from beyond the grave.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finding-home-again-by-brenda-jackson--65202162https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Home Again Series: #3 of Catalina Cove Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Ron Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 5, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: New from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson. When Kaegan Chambray returned to Catalina Cove he knew there’d be no avoiding Bryce Witherspoon. The woman he thought he’d one day marry was, instead, the biggest heartbreak of his life. Despite the animosity between them, staying away from each other is difficult, and when Bryce lets slip a devastating secret, Kaegan must accept he was the one in the wrong all those years ago. But how can you earn forgiveness from someone who won’t forgive? Kaegan knows they both still feel a spark, but it will take more than attraction to convince Bryce. Now he must show her he’s the man who can give her the future they once dreamed of—if only she’d give love a second chance…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576205Thu, 05 Jan 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Home Again Series: #3 of Catalina Cove Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Ron Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding Home Again Series: #3 of Catalina Cove Author: Brenda Jackson Narrator: Ron Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 28 minutes Release date: January 5, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: New from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson. When Kaegan Chambray returned to Catalina Cove he knew there’d be no avoiding Bryce Witherspoon. The woman he thought he’d one day marry was, instead, the biggest heartbreak of his life. Despite the animosity between them, staying away from each other is difficult, and when Bryce lets slip a devastating secret, Kaegan must accept he was the one in the wrong all those years ago. But how can you earn forgiveness from someone who won’t forgive? Kaegan knows they both still feel a spark, but it will take more than attraction to convince Bryce. Now he must show her he’s the man who can give her the future they once dreamed of—if only she’d give love a second chance…]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/our-friends-in-the-north-based-on-the-landmark-bbc-tv-drama-by-adam-usden-peter-flannery--65202118https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Friends in the North: Based on the landmark BBC TV drama Author: Adam Usden, Peter Flannery Narrator: Tony Hirst, James Gaddas, Tracey Wilkinson, Trevor Fox, Philip Correia, Luke Macgregor, James Baxter, Norah Lopez Holden, Tom Goodman-Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 5, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Peter Flannery's adaptation of his own iconic BAFTA award winning TV series - with a brand new final episode by award-winning writer Adam Usden 'A stunning state-of-the-nation social commentary' The Telegraph First broadcast in 1996, Our Friends in the North was one of the most highly acclaimed TV shows of the 1990s. It launched the careers of Daniel Craig, Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee and Mark Strong, won numerous awards including three BAFTAs, and is widely regarded as a modern classic. Now, 26 years later, Peter Flannery has recreated his epic saga for radio. Ambitious in scale and scope, the drama follows the fortunes of four friends over three decades, beginning in 1964. Drawing on real-life controversies from the Sixties and Seventies, it tackles corporate, political and police corruption in the 1960s, the Soho porn empires of the 1970s, the nouveau riche and the Miners' Strike of the 1980s and the rise of New Labour in the 1990s. A final episode by Adam Usden brings the story up to the present day, picking up on several characters from 26 years before and showing them dealing with familiar challenges including housing conditions, young people's engagement with politics and father/son relationships. Starring four talented young actors - Norah Lopez Holden, James Baxter, Luke MacGregor and Philip Correia - this powerful, poignant audio retelling immerses us in the world of Tyneside pals Mary, Nicky, Geordie and Tosker, as they face personal, political and social upheaval, experience triumph and tragedy, and make decisions that will change their lives forever. Production credits Written by Peter Flannery Episode 10 written by Adam Usden and dedicated to the memory of Warren Usden Produced by Melanie Harris Executive Producer: Jeremy Mortimer Trainee Production Co-ordinator: Emma O'Mahoney Studio Engineer: Paul Clark Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore, Jon Nicholls, Paul Cargill and Steve Brooke A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4 Cast Mary/Julia/Francine - Norah Lopez Holden Nicky/Young Anthony/Christopher Collins - James Baxter Geordie/Ray/Anthony - Luke MacGregor Tosker/DI Salway/Toby Roddy - Philip Correia Felix - Trevor Fox Florrie/Sandra/Claudia Seabrook/Psychiatrist/Mrs Wilkinson - Tracey Wilkinson Austin Donohue/Charlie/Claud Seabrook/DI Cockburn/Colin Butler/Christopher - Tom Goodman-Hill Eddie Wells/Arthur Watson/Commander Harold Chapple - James Gaddas Bede Connor/Benny Barratt/Chief Constable Roy Johnson/Alan Roe/The Close Encounterer - Tony Hirst John Edwards - Maanuv Thiara DS Conrad/Priest - Andrew Byron Ernie/Sir Colin Blamire/Asst Commander Fieldson - Des Yankson Helen/Paula/Lucille/Alison/Elaine/Alice - Eve Shotton Commissioner Jellicoe/Superintendent - Darren Kuppan Sean Collins - Alfie Williams Amy - Bryony Corrigan Roy - David Leon Kira - Lucy Aiston Wazza - Noel Walton Mike - Tom Machell First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 17 March-9 June 2022 ©2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605568Thu, 05 Jan 2023 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Friends in the North: Based on the landmark BBC TV drama Author: Adam Usden, Peter Flannery Narrator: Tony Hirst, James Gaddas, Tracey Wilkinson,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605568 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Friends in the North: Based on the landmark BBC TV drama Author: Adam Usden, Peter Flannery Narrator: Tony Hirst, James Gaddas, Tracey Wilkinson, Trevor Fox, Philip Correia, Luke Macgregor, James Baxter, Norah Lopez Holden, Tom Goodman-Hill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 5, 2023 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Peter Flannery's adaptation of his own iconic BAFTA award winning TV series - with a brand new final episode by award-winning writer Adam Usden 'A stunning state-of-the-nation social commentary' The Telegraph First broadcast in 1996, Our Friends in the North was one of the most highly acclaimed TV shows of the 1990s. It launched the careers of Daniel Craig, Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee and Mark Strong, won numerous awards including three BAFTAs, and is widely regarded as a modern classic. Now, 26 years later, Peter Flannery has recreated his epic saga for radio. Ambitious in scale and scope, the drama follows the fortunes of four friends over three decades, beginning in 1964. Drawing on real-life controversies from the Sixties and Seventies, it tackles corporate, political and police corruption in the 1960s, the Soho porn empires of the 1970s, the nouveau riche and the Miners' Strike of the 1980s and the rise of New Labour in the 1990s. A final episode by Adam Usden brings the story up to the present day, picking up on several characters from 26 years before and showing them dealing with familiar challenges including housing conditions, young people's engagement with politics and father/son relationships. Starring four talented young actors - Norah Lopez Holden, James Baxter, Luke MacGregor and Philip Correia - this powerful, poignant audio retelling immerses us in the world of Tyneside pals Mary, Nicky, Geordie and Tosker, as they face personal, political and social upheaval, experience triumph and tragedy, and make decisions that will change their lives forever. Production credits Written by Peter Flannery Episode 10 written by Adam Usden and dedicated to the memory of Warren Usden Produced by Melanie Harris Executive Producer: Jeremy Mortimer Trainee Production Co-ordinator: Emma O'Mahoney Studio Engineer: Paul Clark Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore, Jon Nicholls, Paul Cargill and Steve Brooke A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4 Cast Mary/Julia/Francine - Norah Lopez Holden Nicky/Young Anthony/Christopher Collins - James Baxter Geordie/Ray/Anthony - Luke MacGregor Tosker/DI Salway/Toby Roddy - Philip Correia Felix - Trevor Fox Florrie/Sandra/Claudia Seabrook/Psychiatrist/Mrs Wilkinson - Tracey Wilkinson Austin Donohue/Charlie/Claud Seabrook/DI Cockburn/Colin Butler/Christopher - Tom Goodman-Hill Eddie Wells/Arthur Watson/Commander Harold Chapple - James Gaddas Bede Connor/Benny Barratt/Chief Constable Roy Johnson/Alan Roe/The Close Encounterer - Tony Hirst John Edwards - Maanuv Thiara DS Conrad/Priest - Andrew Byron Ernie/Sir Colin Blamire/Asst Commander Fieldson - Des Yankson Helen/Paula/Lucille/Alison/Elaine/Alice - Eve Shotton Commissioner Jellicoe/Superintendent - Darren Kuppan Sean Collins - Alfie Williams Amy - Bryony Corrigan Roy - David Leon Kira - Lucy Aiston Wazza - Noel Walton Mike - Tom Machell First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 17 March-9 June 2022 ©2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/seared-book-1-by-robyn-wideman-scribes-of-sulterra--65202078https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seared, Book 1 Series: #1 of Seared Author: Robyn Wideman, Scribes Of Sulterra Narrator: Jay Lai Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When Jace was a newborn baby, he was branded with a metal bracer to prevent cultivation. Destined to live a life of slavehood for a crime he didn't commit, he can only dream of one day becoming a powerful cultivator and leaving his shackles behind. But when danger threatens the life of his sister, Jace decides to take fate into his own hands. He boldly escapes his master's estate and makes his way through dangerous lands to rescue her. As a lowly seared facing powerful hunters looking to punish him for escaping and deadly monsters wanting to make a meal of him, he has only one option: grow stronger. This exciting coming-of-age, progression, and cultivation series is perfect for fans of series like Cradle, A Thousand Li, and He Who Fights with Monsters.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625458Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seared, Book 1 Series: #1 of Seared Author: Robyn Wideman, Scribes Of Sulterra Narrator: Jay Lai Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 13...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Seared, Book 1 Series: #1 of Seared Author: Robyn Wideman, Scribes Of Sulterra Narrator: Jay Lai Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 13 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When Jace was a newborn baby, he was branded with a metal bracer to prevent cultivation. Destined to live a life of slavehood for a crime he didn't commit, he can only dream of one day becoming a powerful cultivator and leaving his shackles behind. But when danger threatens the life of his sister, Jace decides to take fate into his own hands. He boldly escapes his master's estate and makes his way through dangerous lands to rescue her. As a lowly seared facing powerful hunters looking to punish him for escaping and deadly monsters wanting to make a meal of him, he has only one option: grow stronger. This exciting coming-of-age, progression, and cultivation series is perfect for fans of series like Cradle, A Thousand Li, and He Who Fights with Monsters.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ingenue-a-novel-by-rachel-kapelke-dale--65202202https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ingenue: A Novel Author: Rachel Kapelke-Dale Narrator: Stephanie Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'Willis empowers Saskia with a righteous rage that listeners will embrace.' - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner) 'Willis’ vocal characteristics convey the repercussions of sexual abuse in a compassionate style that envelops the listener. Within the heart-wrenching storyline, the atmospheric and suspenseful tones are built and emphasized with sweeping acoustics. Willis brings a deeply emotional connection to Saskia with her intense, melodious narration.'- Booklist My Dark Vanessa meets The Queen's Gambit in this new novel of suspense about the bonds of family, the limits of talent, the risks of ambition, and the rewards of revenge. When former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis returns home to Milwaukee after her mother's unexpected death, she expects to inherit the family estate, the Elf House. But with the discovery that her mother's will bequeathed the Elf House to a man that Saskia shares a complicated history with, she is forced to reexamine her own past––and the romantic relationship that changed the course of her life––for answers. Can she find a way to claim her heritage while keeping her secrets buried, or will the fallout from digging too deep destroy her? Set against a post #MeToo landscape, Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ingenue delves into mother-daughter relationships, the expectations of talent, the stories we tell ourselves, and what happens when the things that once made you special are taken from you. Moving between Saskia's childhood and the present day, this dark, contemporary fairy tale pulses with desire, longing, and uncertainty, as it builds to its spectacular, shocking climax. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564627Tue, 06 Dec 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ingenue: A Novel Author: Rachel Kapelke-Dale Narrator: Stephanie Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 18 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ingenue: A Novel Author: Rachel Kapelke-Dale Narrator: Stephanie Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 18 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'Willis empowers Saskia with a righteous rage that listeners will embrace.' - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner) 'Willis’ vocal characteristics convey the repercussions of sexual abuse in a compassionate style that envelops the listener. Within the heart-wrenching storyline, the atmospheric and suspenseful tones are built and emphasized with sweeping acoustics. Willis brings a deeply emotional connection to Saskia with her intense, melodious narration.'- Booklist My Dark Vanessa meets The Queen's Gambit in this new novel of suspense about the bonds of family, the limits of talent, the risks of ambition, and the rewards of revenge. When former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis returns home to Milwaukee after her mother's unexpected death, she expects to inherit the family estate, the Elf House. But with the discovery that her mother's will bequeathed the Elf House to a man that Saskia shares a complicated history with, she is forced to reexamine her own past––and the romantic relationship that changed the course of her life––for answers. Can she find a way to claim her heritage while keeping her secrets buried, or will the fallout from digging too deep destroy her? Set against a post #MeToo landscape, Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Ingenue delves into mother-daughter relationships, the expectations of talent, the stories we tell ourselves, and what happens when the things that once made you special are taken from you. Moving between Saskia's childhood and the present day, this dark, contemporary fairy tale pulses with desire, longing, and uncertainty, as it builds to its spectacular, shocking climax. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-little-book-of-wonders-by-r-w-berky--65202083https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Book of Wonders Author: R.W. Berky Narrator: Gabrielle De Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Four curiously gifted children from different parts of the world come together in a kingdom ruled by a peanut brittle–addicted monarch who wishes to destroy their uniqueness in his quest for absolute power. When Izzerdory dances, everyone and everything dances with her. With ears the size of dinner plates, Doughfan hears all the sounds of the world and beyond. Zephyie reads the past, present, and future in the clouds. Tenzing finds knowledge in the currents of waterways and oceans. These youngsters are fated to sail across malevolent seas, hike high mountains, experience imprisonment, and float winding rivers deep within the earth to confront the greedy, peanut brittle–addicted monarch who has a bad attitude, and very bad teeth.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628964Tue, 06 Dec 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Book of Wonders Author: R.W. Berky Narrator: Gabrielle De Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628964 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Book of Wonders Author: R.W. Berky Narrator: Gabrielle De Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 50 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Four curiously gifted children from different parts of the world come together in a kingdom ruled by a peanut brittle–addicted monarch who wishes to destroy their uniqueness in his quest for absolute power. When Izzerdory dances, everyone and everything dances with her. With ears the size of dinner plates, Doughfan hears all the sounds of the world and beyond. Zephyie reads the past, present, and future in the clouds. Tenzing finds knowledge in the currents of waterways and oceans. These youngsters are fated to sail across malevolent seas, hike high mountains, experience imprisonment, and float winding rivers deep within the earth to confront the greedy, peanut brittle–addicted monarch who has a bad attitude, and very bad teeth.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/winterland-a-novel-by-rae-meadows--65202186https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winterland: A Novel Author: Rae Meadows Narrator: Daphne Kouma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'Daphne Kouma offers a beautiful performance, meticulously detailing 8-year-old Anya's experiences. Kouma's credible Russian accents and outstanding character development make this a story filled with heart that listeners won't soon forget.'- AudioFile Magazine Perfection has a cost . . . Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me and Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth, Winterland tells the story of a previous era, shockingly pertinent today, shaped by glory and loss and finding light where none exists. In the Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps no greater honor for a young girl than to be chosen to be part of the famed USSR gymnastics program. So when eight-year-old Anya is tapped, her family is thrilled. What is left of her family, that is. Years ago her mother disappeared. Anya’s only confidant is her neighbor, an older woman who survived unspeakable horrors during her ten years in a Gulag camp—and who, unbeknownst to Anya, was also her mother’s confidant and might hold the key to her disappearance. As Anya moves up the ranks of competitive gymnastics, and as other girls move down, Anya soon comes to realize that there is very little margin of error for anyone. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569878Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winterland: A Novel Author: Rae Meadows Narrator: Daphne Kouma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Winterland: A Novel Author: Rae Meadows Narrator: Daphne Kouma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'Daphne Kouma offers a beautiful performance, meticulously detailing 8-year-old Anya's experiences. Kouma's credible Russian accents and outstanding character development make this a story filled with heart that listeners won't soon forget.'- AudioFile Magazine Perfection has a cost . . . Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me and Julia Phillips’s Disappearing Earth, Winterland tells the story of a previous era, shockingly pertinent today, shaped by glory and loss and finding light where none exists. In the Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps no greater honor for a young girl than to be chosen to be part of the famed USSR gymnastics program. So when eight-year-old Anya is tapped, her family is thrilled. What is left of her family, that is. Years ago her mother disappeared. Anya’s only confidant is her neighbor, an older woman who survived unspeakable horrors during her ten years in a Gulag camp—and who, unbeknownst to Anya, was also her mother’s confidant and might hold the key to her disappearance. As Anya moves up the ranks of competitive gymnastics, and as other girls move down, Anya soon comes to realize that there is very little margin of error for anyone. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/u-up-by-catie-disabato--65202080https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: U Up? Author: Catie Disabato Narrator: Krystal Hammond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Best Mystery Book of 2021 A young woman investigates her best friend's disappearance while navigating codependent friendships, toxic exes, and witchy rituals. Eve has a carefully curated online life, works occasionally, and texts constantly with her best friend, Ezra. Basically, she is an archetypal LA millennial. She has also been carrying on a year-long conversation with her deceased friend Miggy over text. But when Ezra goes missing on the anniversary weekend of Miggy's death, Eve feels like her world is shattering. Over a frantic weekend Eve investigates Ezra's disappearance, scouring social media for clues, while drowning her anger and anxiety in drinks, drugs, and spiritual cleansing. Eve starts to spiral as her friends try to convince her that she's overreacting, and ghosts—both real and metaphorical—continue to haunt her. When she uncovers clues to a life Ezra kept hidden, Eve starts to question how much she really knows about her best friend . . . and herself. In U Up? Catie Disabato holds a mirror to the ways the phantom selves we create online permeate our emotional lives and hide our worst traits from everyone, including ourselves.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619286Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: U Up? Author: Catie Disabato Narrator: Krystal Hammond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619286 to listen full audiobooks. Title: U Up? Author: Catie Disabato Narrator: Krystal Hammond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Best Mystery Book of 2021 A young woman investigates her best friend's disappearance while navigating codependent friendships, toxic exes, and witchy rituals. Eve has a carefully curated online life, works occasionally, and texts constantly with her best friend, Ezra. Basically, she is an archetypal LA millennial. She has also been carrying on a year-long conversation with her deceased friend Miggy over text. But when Ezra goes missing on the anniversary weekend of Miggy's death, Eve feels like her world is shattering. Over a frantic weekend Eve investigates Ezra's disappearance, scouring social media for clues, while drowning her anger and anxiety in drinks, drugs, and spiritual cleansing. Eve starts to spiral as her friends try to convince her that she's overreacting, and ghosts—both real and metaphorical—continue to haunt her. When she uncovers clues to a life Ezra kept hidden, Eve starts to question how much she really knows about her best friend . . . and herself. In U Up? Catie Disabato holds a mirror to the ways the phantom selves we create online permeate our emotional lives and hide our worst traits from everyone, including ourselves.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jade-is-a-twisted-green-a-novel-by-tanya-turton--65202059https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jade Is a Twisted Green: A Novel Author: Tanya Turton Narrator: Julienne Irons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: For fans of Queenie and Honey Girl, a coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life's pleasures after loss. Jade Brown, a twenty-four-year-old first-generation Jamaican woman living in Toronto, must find a way to pick up the pieces and discover who she is following the mysterious death of her twin sister. Grappling with her grief, Jade seeks solace in lovers and friends during an array of hilarious and heartbreaking adventures. As she investigates some of life's most frustrating paradoxes, she holds tight to old friends and her ex-girlfriend, lifelines between past and present. On the journey to turning twenty-five, she finally sees that she belongs to herself, and goes about the business of reclaiming that self. Through a series of whirlwind love affairs, parties, and trips abroad, Jade stumbles toward relinquishing the weight of her trauma as she fully comes into her own as a young Black woman and writer.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622842Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jade Is a Twisted Green: A Novel Author: Tanya Turton Narrator: Julienne Irons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jade Is a Twisted Green: A Novel Author: Tanya Turton Narrator: Julienne Irons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: For fans of Queenie and Honey Girl, a coming-of-age story about queer Black identity, love, passion, chosen family, and rediscovering life's pleasures after loss. Jade Brown, a twenty-four-year-old first-generation Jamaican woman living in Toronto, must find a way to pick up the pieces and discover who she is following the mysterious death of her twin sister. Grappling with her grief, Jade seeks solace in lovers and friends during an array of hilarious and heartbreaking adventures. As she investigates some of life's most frustrating paradoxes, she holds tight to old friends and her ex-girlfriend, lifelines between past and present. On the journey to turning twenty-five, she finally sees that she belongs to herself, and goes about the business of reclaiming that self. Through a series of whirlwind love affairs, parties, and trips abroad, Jade stumbles toward relinquishing the weight of her trauma as she fully comes into her own as a young Black woman and writer.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-am-the-light-of-this-world-by-michael-parker--65202084https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am the Light of This World Author: Michael Parker Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed author Michael Parker tells the searing  and unforgettable story of one decision that irrevocably changes  the course of a young man’s life. In  the  early  1970s,  in  Stovall,  Texas,  seventeen-year-old  Earl—a  loner,  dreamer,  lover of music and words—meets Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two  days  later,  Earl  is  being  questioned  by  the  police  about  Tina’s  disappearance  and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can’t remember what happened in Austin,  and  with  little  financial  support  from  his  working-class  family,  he  is  sentenced for a crime he did not commit. Forty  years  later,  Earl  is  released  into  a  world  he  can  barely  navigate.  Settling  in a small town on the Oregon coast, he attempts to establish a sense of freedom from both bars and razor wire and the emotional toll of incarceration. But just as Earl finds the rhythm he’s always sought, his past returns to endanger the new life he’s built. Steeped in the music and atmosphere of the 1970s, I Am the Light of This World is a gritty, gripping, and gorgeously written story of loss, redemption, and the power of the imagination, perfect for fans of Ron Rash, Rachel Kushner, and Laird Hunt.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603116Tue, 15 Nov 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am the Light of This World Author: Michael Parker Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am the Light of This World Author: Michael Parker Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Acclaimed author Michael Parker tells the searing  and unforgettable story of one decision that irrevocably changes  the course of a young man’s life. In  the  early  1970s,  in  Stovall,  Texas,  seventeen-year-old  Earl—a  loner,  dreamer,  lover of music and words—meets Tina, the new girl in town. Tina convinces Earl to drive her to see her mother in Austin, where Earl and Tina are quickly separated. Two  days  later,  Earl  is  being  questioned  by  the  police  about  Tina’s  disappearance  and the blood in the trunk of his car. But Earl can’t remember what happened in Austin,  and  with  little  financial  support  from  his  working-class  family,  he  is  sentenced for a crime he did not commit. Forty  years  later,  Earl  is  released  into  a  world  he  can  barely  navigate.  Settling  in a small town on the Oregon coast, he attempts to establish a sense of freedom from both bars and razor wire and the emotional toll of incarceration. But just as Earl finds the rhythm he’s always sought, his past returns to endanger the new life he’s built. Steeped in the music and atmosphere of the 1970s, I Am the Light of This World is a gritty, gripping, and gorgeously written story of loss, redemption, and the power of the imagination, perfect for fans of Ron Rash, Rachel Kushner, and Laird Hunt.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/now-is-not-the-time-to-panic-a-novel-by-kevin-wilson--65202232https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel Author: Kevin Wilson Narrator: Ginnifer Goodwin, Kevin Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: An exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them and start to panic. Satanists, kidnappers—the rumors won’t stop, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. Twenty years later, Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that threatens to upend her carefully built life: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that? A bold coming-of-age story, written with Kevin Wilson’s trademark wit and blazing prose, Now Is Not the Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of young love, identity, and the power of art. It’s also about the secrets that haunt us—and, ultimately, what the truth will set free.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573783Tue, 08 Nov 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel Author: Kevin Wilson Narrator: Ginnifer Goodwin, Kevin Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel Author: Kevin Wilson Narrator: Ginnifer Goodwin, Kevin Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: An exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them and start to panic. Satanists, kidnappers—the rumors won’t stop, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. Twenty years later, Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that threatens to upend her carefully built life: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that? A bold coming-of-age story, written with Kevin Wilson’s trademark wit and blazing prose, Now Is Not the Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of young love, identity, and the power of art. It’s also about the secrets that haunt us—and, ultimately, what the truth will set free.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/anon-pls-a-novel-by-deuxmoi--65202175https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anon Pls.: A Novel Author: Deuxmoi Narrator: Callie Dalton, Graham Halstead, Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Soon-to-be a Max Original series, written and co-produced by Diablo Coby and Ryan O'Connell! ''Dazzling, propulsive, and delightfully juicy, Anon Pls. is the digital age’s love letter to The Devil Wears Prada. Sexy, suspenseful, and so good you won’t want to put it down—not even to check on the latest stories in Deuxmoi’s feed. What an incredible debut.'' — Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author When Cricket Lopez, assistant to one of the most notorious celebrity stylists, revamps her old fashion Instagram account and turns it into a source for celebrity gossip on a drunken whim, she never thinks it will become anything. It's just a way to blow off steam after a terrible, terrible day at work where her nightmarish boss screams at her and blames her for some 18-year-old influencer's screw-up. But when the account grows overnight and, even wilder, when she starts getting gossip from fans and insiders —juicy gossip—she has to face facts: her Instagram is now famous. She is now famous. Though no one knows that she is behind the account, its newfound success quickly wreaks havoc on her real life. Her boss wonders why she’s disappearing on the job, her friends are increasingly irritated by her dedication to the account, and she has celebrities, investors, and journalists approaching her nonstop. Plus, there's a steamy new love interest who she meets through her online persona—except she has no idea if she can truly trust his motives.  As the account grows and becomes more and more influential, she has to wonder: is it—the fame, the insider access, the escape from real life—really worth losing everything she has?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575673Tue, 08 Nov 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anon Pls.: A Novel Author: Deuxmoi Narrator: Callie Dalton, Graham Halstead, Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575673 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anon Pls.: A Novel Author: Deuxmoi Narrator: Callie Dalton, Graham Halstead, Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Soon-to-be a Max Original series, written and co-produced by Diablo Coby and Ryan O'Connell! ''Dazzling, propulsive, and delightfully juicy, Anon Pls. is the digital age’s love letter to The Devil Wears Prada. Sexy, suspenseful, and so good you won’t want to put it down—not even to check on the latest stories in Deuxmoi’s feed. What an incredible debut.'' — Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author When Cricket Lopez, assistant to one of the most notorious celebrity stylists, revamps her old fashion Instagram account and turns it into a source for celebrity gossip on a drunken whim, she never thinks it will become anything. It's just a way to blow off steam after a terrible, terrible day at work where her nightmarish boss screams at her and blames her for some 18-year-old influencer's screw-up. But when the account grows overnight and, even wilder, when she starts getting gossip from fans and insiders —juicy gossip—she has to face facts: her Instagram is now famous. She is now famous. Though no one knows that she is behind the account, its newfound success quickly wreaks havoc on her real life. Her boss wonders why she’s disappearing on the job, her friends are increasingly irritated by her dedication to the account, and she has celebrities, investors, and journalists approaching her nonstop. Plus, there's a steamy new love interest who she meets through her online persona—except she has no idea if she can truly trust his motives.  As the account grows and becomes more and more influential, she has to wonder: is it—the fame, the insider access, the escape from real life—really worth losing everything she has?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-strange-inheritance-of-leah-fern-by-rita-zoey-chin--65202123https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern Author: Rita Zoey Chin Narrator: Sarah Skaer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A luminous coming of age story about a fiercely lonely young woman's quest to uncover the truth behind her mother's disappearance. Born in a carnival trailer, Leah Fern begins her life as the 'The Youngest and Very Best Fortuneteller in the World,' taking strangers' hands and feeling the depths of their emotions. Her mother Jeannie Starr is a captivating magician, but not always an attentive mother, and when Leah is six, Jeannie upends their carnival life with an unexpected exit. With little fanfare and no explanation, she leaves her daughter at the home of Edward Murphy, a kindly older man with whom Leah shares one fierce wish: that Jeannie Starr will return to them. After fifteen years as a small-town outcast, Leah decides to end her life on the occasion of her twenty-first birthday. But the intricate death ritual she has devised is interrupted by a surprise knock on her door. Her mysterious neighbor, the curmudgeonly and reclusive art photographer Essie East, has died and left Leah a very strange inheritance. Through a series of letters, Essie will posthumously lead Leah on a journey to nine points on the map, spanning from an island in Wisconsin to an island in the Arctic Circle—a journey that, the first note promises, will reveal the story of Leah's mother.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619166Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern Author: Rita Zoey Chin Narrator: Sarah Skaer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern Author: Rita Zoey Chin Narrator: Sarah Skaer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A luminous coming of age story about a fiercely lonely young woman's quest to uncover the truth behind her mother's disappearance. Born in a carnival trailer, Leah Fern begins her life as the 'The Youngest and Very Best Fortuneteller in the World,' taking strangers' hands and feeling the depths of their emotions. Her mother Jeannie Starr is a captivating magician, but not always an attentive mother, and when Leah is six, Jeannie upends their carnival life with an unexpected exit. With little fanfare and no explanation, she leaves her daughter at the home of Edward Murphy, a kindly older man with whom Leah shares one fierce wish: that Jeannie Starr will return to them. After fifteen years as a small-town outcast, Leah decides to end her life on the occasion of her twenty-first birthday. But the intricate death ritual she has devised is interrupted by a surprise knock on her door. Her mysterious neighbor, the curmudgeonly and reclusive art photographer Essie East, has died and left Leah a very strange inheritance. Through a series of letters, Essie will posthumously lead Leah on a journey to nine points on the map, spanning from an island in Wisconsin to an island in the Arctic Circle—a journey that, the first note promises, will reveal the story of Leah's mother.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/boyfriend-for-hire-by-kendall-ryan--65202067https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boyfriend for Hire Series: #1 of Escorts, Inc. Author: Kendall Ryan Narrator: Jason Clarke, Erin Mallon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: I’m the guy you call when you need to impress your overbearing family, your boss, or your ex. Yeah, I’m a male escort, but not just any escort, I’m the escort. The one with a mile-long waiting list and a pristine reputation that’s very well-deserved. I’m the guy who’ll make you feel beautiful, desired, and worshipped...all for a steep price. I’m hired to make you shine, and I always deliver. I’ll be whatever you want me to be for one night - except my true self. This is just a job, a role I play to earn a paycheck. But I’m not the guy who falls for a client. Not once in six years. And then I meet Elle. Her friend has hired me to escort her to a wedding, but Elle doesn’t know we’re just pretending. There’s a fire between us I never expected. A connection I haven’t felt in so long. One kiss, and I’m losing all control. But what will happen when she finds out who I really am?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629823Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boyfriend for Hire Series: #1 of Escorts, Inc. Author: Kendall Ryan Narrator: Jason Clarke, Erin Mallon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629823 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boyfriend for Hire Series: #1 of Escorts, Inc. Author: Kendall Ryan Narrator: Jason Clarke, Erin Mallon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: I’m the guy you call when you need to impress your overbearing family, your boss, or your ex. Yeah, I’m a male escort, but not just any escort, I’m the escort. The one with a mile-long waiting list and a pristine reputation that’s very well-deserved. I’m the guy who’ll make you feel beautiful, desired, and worshipped...all for a steep price. I’m hired to make you shine, and I always deliver. I’ll be whatever you want me to be for one night - except my true self. This is just a job, a role I play to earn a paycheck. But I’m not the guy who falls for a client. Not once in six years. And then I meet Elle. Her friend has hired me to escort her to a wedding, but Elle doesn’t know we’re just pretending. There’s a fire between us I never expected. A connection I haven’t felt in so long. One kiss, and I’m losing all control. But what will happen when she finds out who I really am?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-escuela-del-canto-by-nell-leyshon--65202049https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La Escuela Del Canto Author: Nell Leyshon Narrator: Brenda Vázquez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 21, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Inglaterra, 1573. Los días de la pequeña Ellyn transcurren trabajando de sol a sol en la humilde granja de su familia, paleando las heces de los animales y recibiendo los menosprecios y los golpes de su hermano Tomas. Desde que su padre quedara inválido en un accidente, y más ahora que una nueva hermanita, Agnes, ha llegado a ese mundo de miseria y privaciones, todos han de deslomarse aún más para asegurar el sustento. En esa atmósfera de brutalidad, fatiga e inmundicia, la única alegría de Ellyn es Agnes, a quien la une un vínculo muy especial. Todo dará un vuelco inesperado el día en que Ellyn acude al mercado y, empujada por la curiosidad, entra en una iglesia vacía en la que oye un canto como jamás había oído antes, un canto que la estremece, que la hace flotar. Desde ese preciso instante comienza a crecer en su interior un poderoso deseo: ingresar en la escuela de canto, donde los jóvenes caballeros aprenden a cantar, pero también a leer y escribir, un lugar donde nunca se pasa hambre y al que sin embargo las niñas tienen vedado el acceso. La determinación por cumplir su sueño llevará a Ellyn a rebelarse y hacerse pasar por un chico, pero ¿cuánto tiempo podrá mantener el engaño? ¿Cuánto podrá soportar esos grilletes impuestos a la verdad de su cuerpo? Escrita con un formidable talento para reflejar el habla de una niña criada en un entorno rural y transmitir con ese lenguaje tan personal una energía, una libertad y una visión de las cosas de enorme aliento poético, La escuela de canto narra el camino sin vuelta atrás de una chica analfabeta que descubre que el mundo es mucho más vasto de lo que jamás hubiera sospechado, un mundo bello e injusto en el que un don puede llevarte muy lejos y los prejuicios te condenan de por vida; un mundo que es preciso cambiar, sea como sea, para legárselo a aquellos a quienes más amamos.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633335Fri, 21 Oct 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La Escuela Del Canto Author: Nell Leyshon Narrator: Brenda Vázquez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/633335 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La Escuela Del Canto Author: Nell Leyshon Narrator: Brenda Vázquez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 21, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Inglaterra, 1573. Los días de la pequeña Ellyn transcurren trabajando de sol a sol en la humilde granja de su familia, paleando las heces de los animales y recibiendo los menosprecios y los golpes de su hermano Tomas. Desde que su padre quedara inválido en un accidente, y más ahora que una nueva hermanita, Agnes, ha llegado a ese mundo de miseria y privaciones, todos han de deslomarse aún más para asegurar el sustento. En esa atmósfera de brutalidad, fatiga e inmundicia, la única alegría de Ellyn es Agnes, a quien la une un vínculo muy especial. Todo dará un vuelco inesperado el día en que Ellyn acude al mercado y, empujada por la curiosidad, entra en una iglesia vacía en la que oye un canto como jamás había oído antes, un canto que la estremece, que la hace flotar. Desde ese preciso instante comienza a crecer en su interior un poderoso deseo: ingresar en la escuela de canto, donde los jóvenes caballeros aprenden a cantar, pero también a leer y escribir, un lugar donde nunca se pasa hambre y al que sin embargo las niñas tienen vedado el acceso. La determinación por cumplir su sueño llevará a Ellyn a rebelarse y hacerse pasar por un chico, pero ¿cuánto tiempo podrá mantener el engaño? ¿Cuánto podrá soportar esos grilletes impuestos a la verdad de su cuerpo? Escrita con un formidable talento para reflejar el habla de una niña criada en un entorno rural y transmitir con ese lenguaje tan personal una energía, una libertad y una visión de las cosas de enorme aliento poético, La escuela de canto narra el camino sin vuelta atrás de una chica analfabeta que descubre que el mundo es mucho más vasto de lo que jamás hubiera sospechado, un mundo bello e injusto en el que un don puede llevarte muy lejos y los prejuicios te condenan de por vida; un mundo que es preciso cambiar, sea como sea, para legárselo a aquellos a quienes más amamos.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/demon-copperhead-a-novel-by-barbara-kingsolver--65202201https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Demon Copperhead: A Novel Author: Barbara Kingsolver Narrator: Charlie Thurston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 654 Ratings of Narrator: 4.87 of Total 229 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller • A New York Times ''Ten Best Books of the Year'' ''Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick ''May be the best novel of [the year]. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees and the recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567334Tue, 18 Oct 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Demon Copperhead: A Novel Author: Barbara Kingsolver Narrator: Charlie Thurston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 3 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567334 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Demon Copperhead: A Novel Author: Barbara Kingsolver Narrator: Charlie Thurston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 3 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 654 Ratings of Narrator: 4.87 of Total 229 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller • A New York Times ''Ten Best Books of the Year'' ''Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick ''May be the best novel of [the year]. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees and the recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities. Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-viaje-de-los-colibries-by-sue-zurita--65202071https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El viaje de los colibríes Author: Sue Zurita Narrator: Astrid Mariel Romo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Acércate a la nueva edición del fenómeno de la autopublicación de México. Una novela para todos aquellos que no saben vivir en cautiverio. El viaje de los colibríes ocupa ya un lugar en los corazones de los lectores mexicanos, desde que Sue Zurita publicó una edición independiente hace ocho años con la que logró llegar a más de 70 mil personas. Esta nueva edición, revisada y actualizada, incluye un capítulo inédito: un nuevo final para Romina. ¿Qué fue de ella? ¿A dónde fue? ¿Qué experiencias vivió? Todo ello se cuenta en el nuevo desenlace de la novela. La vida de Romina representa la de todos aquellos que sueñan con irse lejos y abrazar un nuevo futuro, con la principal ex-pectativa del amor y del encuentro consigo mismos. El viaje de los colibríes es un vuelo sin final, en el que Romina decide hacerdiferentes escalas. En ellas conoce amigos, abre jaulas extrañas, descubre alas inesperadas y conquista el cielo que lleva dentro... Si una vez decidiste escapar..., ¡no dejes que nadie te atrape!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630046Thu, 13 Oct 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El viaje de los colibríes Author: Sue Zurita Narrator: Astrid Mariel Romo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El viaje de los colibríes Author: Sue Zurita Narrator: Astrid Mariel Romo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Acércate a la nueva edición del fenómeno de la autopublicación de México. Una novela para todos aquellos que no saben vivir en cautiverio. El viaje de los colibríes ocupa ya un lugar en los corazones de los lectores mexicanos, desde que Sue Zurita publicó una edición independiente hace ocho años con la que logró llegar a más de 70 mil personas. Esta nueva edición, revisada y actualizada, incluye un capítulo inédito: un nuevo final para Romina. ¿Qué fue de ella? ¿A dónde fue? ¿Qué experiencias vivió? Todo ello se cuenta en el nuevo desenlace de la novela. La vida de Romina representa la de todos aquellos que sueñan con irse lejos y abrazar un nuevo futuro, con la principal ex-pectativa del amor y del encuentro consigo mismos. El viaje de los colibríes es un vuelo sin final, en el que Romina decide hacerdiferentes escalas. En ellas conoce amigos, abre jaulas extrañas, descubre alas inesperadas y conquista el cielo que lleva dentro... Si una vez decidiste escapar..., ¡no dejes que nadie te atrape!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beasts-of-the-earth-a-novel-by-james-wade--65202214https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beasts of the Earth: A Novel Author: James Wade Narrator: Roger Clark Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2023 Spur Award James Wade, whose first two novels were praised as “rhapsodic” and “haunting,” delivers his most powerful work to date—a chilling parable about the impossible demands of hate and love, trauma and goodness, vividly set in the landscapes of Texas and Louisiana. Beasts of the Earth tells the story of Harlen LeBlanc, a dependable if quiet employee of the Carter Hills High School’s grounds department whose carefully maintained routine is overthrown by an act of violence. As the town searches for answers, LeBlanc strikes out on his own to exonerate a friend while drawing the eyes of the law to himself and fending off unwelcome voices that call for a sterner form of justice. Twenty years earlier, young Michael Fischer dreads the return of his father from prison. He spends his days stealing from trap lines in the Louisiana bayou to feed his fanatically religious mother and his cherished younger sister, Doreen. When his father eventually returns, an evil arrives in Michael’s life that sends him running from everything he has ever known. He is rescued by a dying poet and his lover, who extract from him a promise: to be a good man, whatever that may require. Beasts of the Earth deftly intertwines these stories, exploring themes of time, fate, and free will, to produce a revelatory conclusion that is both beautiful and heartbreaking.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568628Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beasts of the Earth: A Novel Author: James Wade Narrator: Roger Clark Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 11,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beasts of the Earth: A Novel Author: James Wade Narrator: Roger Clark Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2023 Spur Award James Wade, whose first two novels were praised as “rhapsodic” and “haunting,” delivers his most powerful work to date—a chilling parable about the impossible demands of hate and love, trauma and goodness, vividly set in the landscapes of Texas and Louisiana. Beasts of the Earth tells the story of Harlen LeBlanc, a dependable if quiet employee of the Carter Hills High School’s grounds department whose carefully maintained routine is overthrown by an act of violence. As the town searches for answers, LeBlanc strikes out on his own to exonerate a friend while drawing the eyes of the law to himself and fending off unwelcome voices that call for a sterner form of justice. Twenty years earlier, young Michael Fischer dreads the return of his father from prison. He spends his days stealing from trap lines in the Louisiana bayou to feed his fanatically religious mother and his cherished younger sister, Doreen. When his father eventually returns, an evil arrives in Michael’s life that sends him running from everything he has ever known. He is rescued by a dying poet and his lover, who extract from him a promise: to be a good man, whatever that may require. Beasts of the Earth deftly intertwines these stories, exploring themes of time, fate, and free will, to produce a revelatory conclusion that is both beautiful and heartbreaking.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/random-by-penn-jillette--65202065https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Random Author: Penn Jillette Narrator: Penn Jillette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Two weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he’s inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby’s prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the tower’s façade. The two weeks pass in the blink of a (snake) eye, but before Bobby’s luck runs out, he stumbles upon enough cash to pay Ruphart off and change his family’s fortune. More importantly, he finds himself with a new, for lack of a better word, faith. Bobby does not consign his big break to a “higher power'—what Penn Jillette hero ever could? Instead, he devises and devotes himself to Random, a philosophy where his life choices are based entirely on the roll of his “lucky” dice. What follows is a hilarious exploration into not so much what defines us as what divines us when we give over every decision—from what to eat to whom to marry to how or when to die—to the random fall of two numbered cubes. Combining the intellectual curiosity of Richard Dawkins with the humor and grit of an Elmore Leonard antihero, Jillette’s up-on-his-luck Ingersoll is the character we need to help us navigate the chaos of the post-truth era. Well, unless his roll runs cold.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622058Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Random Author: Penn Jillette Narrator: Penn Jillette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622058 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Random Author: Penn Jillette Narrator: Penn Jillette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Two weeks before his twenty-first birthday, Las Vegas native Bobby Ingersoll finds out he’s inherited a crushing gambling debt from his scumbag father. The debt is owed to an even scummier bag named Fraser Ruphart who oversees his bottom-rung criminal empire from the classy-adjacent Trump International Hotel. Bobby’s prospects of paying off the note, which comes due the day he turns twenty-one, are about as dim as the sign on the tower’s façade. The two weeks pass in the blink of a (snake) eye, but before Bobby’s luck runs out, he stumbles upon enough cash to pay Ruphart off and change his family’s fortune. More importantly, he finds himself with a new, for lack of a better word, faith. Bobby does not consign his big break to a “higher power'—what Penn Jillette hero ever could? Instead, he devises and devotes himself to Random, a philosophy where his life choices are based entirely on the roll of his “lucky” dice. What follows is a hilarious exploration into not so much what defines us as what divines us when we give over every decision—from what to eat to whom to marry to how or when to die—to the random fall of two numbered cubes. Combining the intellectual curiosity of Richard Dawkins with the humor and grit of an Elmore Leonard antihero, Jillette’s up-on-his-luck Ingersoll is the character we need to help us navigate the chaos of the post-truth era. Well, unless his roll runs cold.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/she-and-her-cat-for-fans-of-travelling-cat-chronicles-and-convenience-store-woman-by-naruki-nagakawa-makoto-shinkai--65202180https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She and her Cat: for fans of Travelling Cat Chronicles and Convenience Store Woman Author: Naruki Nagakawa, Makoto Shinkai Narrator: Winson Ting, Julia Strowski, Jacqui Bardelang, Nile Faure-Bryan, Hana Teraie-Wood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, translator of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN, a tender and mesmerizing story about kindness, community and the wonder of life On the outskirts of Tokyo, in a neighbourhood crossed by a commuter railway, local cats weave their way through the lives and homes of their owners as they navigate difficult times. A cat named Chobi sends silent messages of courage to a young woman, willing her to end a faltering relationship; a gifted artist fatally misunderstands her boss's enthusiasm for her paintings; a manga fan shuts herself away after the death of her friend, while her cat Cookie hatches a plan to persuade her outside; a woman who has dedicated her life to a distant husband learns a lesson in independence from her cat. Against the urban backdrop of humming trains and private woes, SHE AND HER CAT explores the gentle magic of the everyday. Populated by both the friendly and the feral, it reveals - with heartstopping clarity and warmth - how even in our darkest moments, community and connection may lead us to a happier place. © Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567219Thu, 06 Oct 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She and her Cat: for fans of Travelling Cat Chronicles and Convenience Store Woman Author: Naruki Nagakawa, Makoto Shinkai Narrator: Winson Ting,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567219 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She and her Cat: for fans of Travelling Cat Chronicles and Convenience Store Woman Author: Naruki Nagakawa, Makoto Shinkai Narrator: Winson Ting, Julia Strowski, Jacqui Bardelang, Nile Faure-Bryan, Hana Teraie-Wood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, translator of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN, a tender and mesmerizing story about kindness, community and the wonder of life On the outskirts of Tokyo, in a neighbourhood crossed by a commuter railway, local cats weave their way through the lives and homes of their owners as they navigate difficult times. A cat named Chobi sends silent messages of courage to a young woman, willing her to end a faltering relationship; a gifted artist fatally misunderstands her boss's enthusiasm for her paintings; a manga fan shuts herself away after the death of her friend, while her cat Cookie hatches a plan to persuade her outside; a woman who has dedicated her life to a distant husband learns a lesson in independence from her cat. Against the urban backdrop of humming trains and private woes, SHE AND HER CAT explores the gentle magic of the everyday. Populated by both the friendly and the feral, it reveals - with heartstopping clarity and warmth - how even in our darkest moments, community and connection may lead us to a happier place. © Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-road-to-enchantment-by-kaya-mclaren--65202068https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Road to Enchantment Author: Kaya McLaren Narrator: Amy Mcfadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 5, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: As a young girl, Willow watched her mother leave their home in Washington State in a literal blaze of glory: she set the mattress of her cheating husband on fire in her driveway, roasting marshmallow peeps and hot dogs before the fire department arrived.And with that, she and Willow set off to New Mexico, to a new life, to a world of arroyos and canyons bordering an Apache reservation. Willow was devastated. Her eccentric mother believed in this new life and set about starting a winery and goat ranch. But for Willow, it meant initially being bullied and feeling like an outsider. Today, as a grown woman, Willow much prefers Los Angeles and her job as a studio musician. But things tend to happen in threes: her mother dies, her boyfriend dumps her, and Willow discovers she is pregnant.The DeVine Winery and Goat Ranch is all she has left, even if it is in financial straits and unmanageable back taxes. There is something, though, about the call of “home.” She's surprised to find that her Apache best friend Darrel along with the rest of the community seems to think she belongs far more than she ever thought she did. Can Willow redefine what home means for her, and can she make a go of the legacy her mother left behind?Told with Kaya McLaren’s humor and heart, The Road to Enchantment is a story about discovering that the last thing you want is sometimes the one thing you need.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630103Wed, 05 Oct 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Road to Enchantment Author: Kaya McLaren Narrator: Amy Mcfadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Road to Enchantment Author: Kaya McLaren Narrator: Amy Mcfadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 5, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: As a young girl, Willow watched her mother leave their home in Washington State in a literal blaze of glory: she set the mattress of her cheating husband on fire in her driveway, roasting marshmallow peeps and hot dogs before the fire department arrived.And with that, she and Willow set off to New Mexico, to a new life, to a world of arroyos and canyons bordering an Apache reservation. Willow was devastated. Her eccentric mother believed in this new life and set about starting a winery and goat ranch. But for Willow, it meant initially being bullied and feeling like an outsider. Today, as a grown woman, Willow much prefers Los Angeles and her job as a studio musician. But things tend to happen in threes: her mother dies, her boyfriend dumps her, and Willow discovers she is pregnant.The DeVine Winery and Goat Ranch is all she has left, even if it is in financial straits and unmanageable back taxes. There is something, though, about the call of “home.” She's surprised to find that her Apache best friend Darrel along with the rest of the community seems to think she belongs far more than she ever thought she did. Can Willow redefine what home means for her, and can she make a go of the legacy her mother left behind?Told with Kaya McLaren’s humor and heart, The Road to Enchantment is a story about discovering that the last thing you want is sometimes the one thing you need.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tommy-and-the-order-of-cosmic-champions-by-anthony-d-grate-anthony-j-rapino--65202051https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tommy and the Order of Cosmic Champions Author: Anthony D. Grate, Anthony J. Rapino Narrator: Jon Vertullo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 3, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When life supplies eleven-year-old Tommy Grant with some unfavorable circumstances intruding on his otherwise tranquil life in 1980's Ohio, he retreats into the spell-binding Order of Cosmic Champions. When he discovers that the largely successful animated program and toy line is holding a nationwide 'Create-A-Character' contest where applicants submit their action figure designs, Tommy knows he has to enter as surely as he knows his own name. But when Tommy's character design fails to win the contest, he finds his world crumbling from all sides. And there is only one way he knows to fix it. What follows is a whirlwind coming-of-age adventure of righting wrongs, overcoming perilous obstacles, confronting our inner demons, and challenging the limits of reality. In this waxing nostalgic and imaginative fantasy, readers will discover what excitement lies waiting when you take risks and conquer your fears. Only one question remains: In the final hour when you heed the call, the courage to give your all, will you stand or fall?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630389Mon, 03 Oct 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tommy and the Order of Cosmic Champions Author: Anthony D. Grate, Anthony J. Rapino Narrator: Jon Vertullo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630389 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tommy and the Order of Cosmic Champions Author: Anthony D. Grate, Anthony J. Rapino Narrator: Jon Vertullo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 3, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When life supplies eleven-year-old Tommy Grant with some unfavorable circumstances intruding on his otherwise tranquil life in 1980's Ohio, he retreats into the spell-binding Order of Cosmic Champions. When he discovers that the largely successful animated program and toy line is holding a nationwide 'Create-A-Character' contest where applicants submit their action figure designs, Tommy knows he has to enter as surely as he knows his own name. But when Tommy's character design fails to win the contest, he finds his world crumbling from all sides. And there is only one way he knows to fix it. What follows is a whirlwind coming-of-age adventure of righting wrongs, overcoming perilous obstacles, confronting our inner demons, and challenging the limits of reality. In this waxing nostalgic and imaginative fantasy, readers will discover what excitement lies waiting when you take risks and conquer your fears. Only one question remains: In the final hour when you heed the call, the courage to give your all, will you stand or fall?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-portrait-of-the-artist-by-stephen-dedalus--65202064https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Portrait of the Artist Author: Stephen Dedalus Narrator: The Cliff, Cyril Taylor-Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 1, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man tells the story of Stephen Dedalus, a boy growing up in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, as he gradually decides to cast off all his social, familial, and religious constraints to live a life devoted to the art of writing. As a young boy, Stephen's Catholic faith and Irish nationality heavily influence him. He attends a strict religious boarding school called Clongowes Wood College. At first, Stephen is lonely and homesick at school, but as time passes he finds his place among the other boys. He enjoys his visits home, even though family tensions run high after the death of the Irish political leader Charles Stewart Parnell. This sensitive subject becomes the topic of a furious, politically charged argument over the family's Christmas dinner. This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to become an artist and a man. Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographic novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629781Sat, 01 Oct 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Portrait of the Artist Author: Stephen Dedalus Narrator: The Cliff, Cyril Taylor-Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629781 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Portrait of the Artist Author: Stephen Dedalus Narrator: The Cliff, Cyril Taylor-Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 8 minutes Release date: October 1, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man tells the story of Stephen Dedalus, a boy growing up in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, as he gradually decides to cast off all his social, familial, and religious constraints to live a life devoted to the art of writing. As a young boy, Stephen's Catholic faith and Irish nationality heavily influence him. He attends a strict religious boarding school called Clongowes Wood College. At first, Stephen is lonely and homesick at school, but as time passes he finds his place among the other boys. He enjoys his visits home, even though family tensions run high after the death of the Irish political leader Charles Stewart Parnell. This sensitive subject becomes the topic of a furious, politically charged argument over the family's Christmas dinner. This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to become an artist and a man. Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographic novel of artistic existence A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and an important character in Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-golden-enclaves-the-triumphant-conclusion-to-the-sunday-times-bestselling-dark-academia-fantasy-trilogy-by-naomi-novik--65202185https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Golden Enclaves: The triumphant conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling dark academia fantasy trilogy Author: Naomi Novik Narrator: Anisha Dadia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate. The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out - not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But that impossible dream has somehow come true for El and her classmates. And what's more, she didn't even have to become the monstrous dark witch she's prophesised to become to make it happen. Instead of killing enclavers, she saved them, and now the world is safe for all wizards. Peace and harmony have enveloped all the enclaves of the world. Just kidding. Instead, someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in El's stead, and everyone she saved is at risk again with a full-scale enclave war on the horizon. And so, the first thing El needs to do after miraculously escaping the Scholomance, is to turn straight around and find a way back in. © Naomi Novik 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567405Tue, 27 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Golden Enclaves: The triumphant conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling dark academia fantasy trilogy Author: Naomi Novik Narrator: Anisha Dadia...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/567405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Golden Enclaves: The triumphant conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling dark academia fantasy trilogy Author: Naomi Novik Narrator: Anisha Dadia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate. The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out - not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But that impossible dream has somehow come true for El and her classmates. And what's more, she didn't even have to become the monstrous dark witch she's prophesised to become to make it happen. Instead of killing enclavers, she saved them, and now the world is safe for all wizards. Peace and harmony have enveloped all the enclaves of the world. Just kidding. Instead, someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in El's stead, and everyone she saved is at risk again with a full-scale enclave war on the horizon. And so, the first thing El needs to do after miraculously escaping the Scholomance, is to turn straight around and find a way back in. © Naomi Novik 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/christmas-eve-cowboy-by-kate-pearce-delores-fossen-diana-palmer--65202161https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas Eve Cowboy Author: Kate Pearce, Delores Fossen, Diana Palmer Narrator: Graham Winton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Snow is falling, and when it comes to love, so are these rugged, gorgeous cowboys, in a romantic holiday collection from three bestselling authors …ONCE THERE WAS A LAWMAN Diana PalmerFBI agent Thomas Kincaid Jones has soured on love and Christmas, but Annalisa Davis could change all that. Except the lovely nurse isn’t looking to get involved with someone whose job requires a gun on his hip. And Tom has a case to solve that has nothing to do with love. Yet the spirit of the holidays just might spark a lifetime connection …CHRISTMAS CREEK COWBOY Delores FossenIn Christmas Creek, Texas, folks go all out for the holidays, but Sheriff Calen Jameson is too busy commiserating about cheating exes with his best friend, Emmy Kendrick. Calen always thought their bond was too precious to risk, yet maybe it’s time to start making some changes … by firing up the heat with Emmy.COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Kate PearceLucy Smith thinks Santa has outdone himself when Caleb Erickson shows up at her B&B. In high school, Caleb was oblivious to her crush. But while they wait out a snowstorm, he’s discovering she may be the gift he never knew he wanted …]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593708Tue, 27 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas Eve Cowboy Author: Kate Pearce, Delores Fossen, Diana Palmer Narrator: Graham Winton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593708 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas Eve Cowboy Author: Kate Pearce, Delores Fossen, Diana Palmer Narrator: Graham Winton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Snow is falling, and when it comes to love, so are these rugged, gorgeous cowboys, in a romantic holiday collection from three bestselling authors …ONCE THERE WAS A LAWMAN Diana PalmerFBI agent Thomas Kincaid Jones has soured on love and Christmas, but Annalisa Davis could change all that. Except the lovely nurse isn’t looking to get involved with someone whose job requires a gun on his hip. And Tom has a case to solve that has nothing to do with love. Yet the spirit of the holidays just might spark a lifetime connection …CHRISTMAS CREEK COWBOY Delores FossenIn Christmas Creek, Texas, folks go all out for the holidays, but Sheriff Calen Jameson is too busy commiserating about cheating exes with his best friend, Emmy Kendrick. Calen always thought their bond was too precious to risk, yet maybe it’s time to start making some changes … by firing up the heat with Emmy.COMING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Kate PearceLucy Smith thinks Santa has outdone himself when Caleb Erickson shows up at her B&B. In high school, Caleb was oblivious to her crush. But while they wait out a snowstorm, he’s discovering she may be the gift he never knew he wanted …]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-spectacular-miss-by-sonia-bahl--65202126https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602995 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spectacular Miss Author: Sonia Bahl Narrator: Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: I learned that I am, despite my early years spent as a swaggering boy, at heart just a middle-class, hardworking, risk-averse, uncreative, straitlaced, routine-obsessed conformist. In case I forgot to mention it, I’m also prudish to the point of being puritanical. But at eight, Nira had only one overpowering wish—to pee standing up like a boy. In fact, to be a boy. Join Nira as she steps into her brother’s clothes and becomes the self-appointed Al Capone-esque gang leader of the neighborhood boys. Her oddball yet madly loving family shapes her personality, and a poignant relationship with her brother’s best friend shapes her life. She uses uninhibited candor to detail her coming-of-age journey from Calcutta to London, from tomboy to reluctant woman-in-progress … always trying to fit in, but always failing. She’s a-laugh-a-minute, and yet she breaks your heart with her subconscious, percussive yearning for the one person who is always too old, too far, too married to be hers.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602995Tue, 27 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602995 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spectacular Miss Author: Sonia Bahl Narrator: Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 27,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602995 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Spectacular Miss Author: Sonia Bahl Narrator: Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: I learned that I am, despite my early years spent as a swaggering boy, at heart just a middle-class, hardworking, risk-averse, uncreative, straitlaced, routine-obsessed conformist. In case I forgot to mention it, I’m also prudish to the point of being puritanical. But at eight, Nira had only one overpowering wish—to pee standing up like a boy. In fact, to be a boy. Join Nira as she steps into her brother’s clothes and becomes the self-appointed Al Capone-esque gang leader of the neighborhood boys. Her oddball yet madly loving family shapes her personality, and a poignant relationship with her brother’s best friend shapes her life. She uses uninhibited candor to detail her coming-of-age journey from Calcutta to London, from tomboy to reluctant woman-in-progress … always trying to fit in, but always failing. She’s a-laugh-a-minute, and yet she breaks your heart with her subconscious, percussive yearning for the one person who is always too old, too far, too married to be hers.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-book-of-goose-by-yiyun-li--65202208https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Goose Author: Yiyun Li Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout – I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson ‘One of our finest living authors … propulsively entertaining’ New York Times ‘Wonderfully strange and alive’ Jon McGregor A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised – the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves – until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss. A dark, ravishing tale winding from the rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agnès can live without her past. The Book of Goose is a story of intimacy and obsession, friendship and rivalry perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante, Ottessa Moshfegh and Kamila Shamsie. ‘Beguiling … A shimmering, unsettling tale of exploitation and manipulation’ Daily Mail ‘Brilliant … A novel of deceptions and cruelty’ Spectator ‘For all its surface lushness, this is a novel of meticulous philosophical inquiry…resonant with echoes of… My Brilliant Friend, as well Elizabeth Strout… electrifying’ Observer]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558603Tue, 20 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Goose Author: Yiyun Li Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558603 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Goose Author: Yiyun Li Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'A dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout – I loved it' Charlotte Mendelson ‘One of our finest living authors … propulsively entertaining’ New York Times ‘Wonderfully strange and alive’ Jon McGregor A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised – the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves – until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss. A dark, ravishing tale winding from the rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agnès can live without her past. The Book of Goose is a story of intimacy and obsession, friendship and rivalry perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante, Ottessa Moshfegh and Kamila Shamsie. ‘Beguiling … A shimmering, unsettling tale of exploitation and manipulation’ Daily Mail ‘Brilliant … A novel of deceptions and cruelty’ Spectator ‘For all its surface lushness, this is a novel of meticulous philosophical inquiry…resonant with echoes of… My Brilliant Friend, as well Elizabeth Strout… electrifying’ Observer]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-cigarette-lit-backwards-a-novel-by-tea-hacic-vlahovic--65202130https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cigarette Lit Backwards: A Novel Author: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic Narrator: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Set in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices and deep longing, a needle-sharp portrait of a young woman and how far she’ll go to find acceptance Kat is dying to be accepted by the North Carolina punks; she is totally desperate to seem cool. At a punk show, she ends up backstage with a rock star and gets noticed by a photojournalist. And then—a dream come true for Kat—her reputation as a groupie icon skyrockets. But to maintain this notoriety, Kat makes a series of devastating choices, and soon enough, she becomes unrecognizable to herself and others. Tea Hacic-Vlahovic’s A Cigarette Lit Backwards is a sometimes funny, often brutally honest audiobook about ambition and self-discovery and how a world of glamour and cool exerts its bold and breathless pull. In prose that seduces, glitters, and exhilarates, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic has written a story that is both a wild party and a somber reckoning, consolidating her status as a thrilling and essential new voice for our time.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592706Tue, 20 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cigarette Lit Backwards: A Novel Author: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic Narrator: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cigarette Lit Backwards: A Novel Author: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic Narrator: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Set in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices and deep longing, a needle-sharp portrait of a young woman and how far she’ll go to find acceptance Kat is dying to be accepted by the North Carolina punks; she is totally desperate to seem cool. At a punk show, she ends up backstage with a rock star and gets noticed by a photojournalist. And then—a dream come true for Kat—her reputation as a groupie icon skyrockets. But to maintain this notoriety, Kat makes a series of devastating choices, and soon enough, she becomes unrecognizable to herself and others. Tea Hacic-Vlahovic’s A Cigarette Lit Backwards is a sometimes funny, often brutally honest audiobook about ambition and self-discovery and how a world of glamour and cool exerts its bold and breathless pull. In prose that seduces, glitters, and exhilarates, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic has written a story that is both a wild party and a somber reckoning, consolidating her status as a thrilling and essential new voice for our time.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-empress-a-novel-by-gigi-griffis--65202109https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Empress: A Novel Author: Gigi Griffis Narrator: Dominic Burgess, Ellie Rose Boswell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The year is 1853, and Princess Elisabeth “Sisi” of Bavaria has been very clear: She will wait for the head-over-heels love the poets speak of, or she will have no love at all. Just because her older sister, Helene, is eagerly heeding their mother’s advice and preparing to marry Emperor Franz of Austria does not mean Sisi must also subject herself to such a dutiful exis¬tence. Sisi knows there is more to life than luncheons and corsets—if only someone would let her experience it all firsthand. Meanwhile, in Austria, the emperor is recovering from an assassination attempt. In a bid to keep the peace, Franz has recommitted himself to his imperial duties—and promised to romance the pliant Helene of Bavaria at his upcoming birthday celebration. How better to unite the empire than with the announcement of a new empress? But when Sisi and Franz meet unexpectedly in the palace gardens, away from the prying eyes and relentless critique of the court, their connection cannot be denied. And as their illicit conversations turn into something more, they must soon choose between the expectations of their families and standing up for what they truly believe in . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616436Thu, 15 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Empress: A Novel Author: Gigi Griffis Narrator: Dominic Burgess, Ellie Rose Boswell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616436 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Empress: A Novel Author: Gigi Griffis Narrator: Dominic Burgess, Ellie Rose Boswell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The year is 1853, and Princess Elisabeth “Sisi” of Bavaria has been very clear: She will wait for the head-over-heels love the poets speak of, or she will have no love at all. Just because her older sister, Helene, is eagerly heeding their mother’s advice and preparing to marry Emperor Franz of Austria does not mean Sisi must also subject herself to such a dutiful exis¬tence. Sisi knows there is more to life than luncheons and corsets—if only someone would let her experience it all firsthand. Meanwhile, in Austria, the emperor is recovering from an assassination attempt. In a bid to keep the peace, Franz has recommitted himself to his imperial duties—and promised to romance the pliant Helene of Bavaria at his upcoming birthday celebration. How better to unite the empire than with the announcement of a new empress? But when Sisi and Franz meet unexpectedly in the palace gardens, away from the prying eyes and relentless critique of the court, their connection cannot be denied. And as their illicit conversations turn into something more, they must soon choose between the expectations of their families and standing up for what they truly believe in . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-house-party-a-novel-by-rita-cameron--65202224https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House Party: A Novel Author: Rita Cameron Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When a house party goes terribly wrong, a suburban town fractures, exposing disturbing truths about the community—perfect for fans of Little Fires Everywhere and Ask Again, Yes. “The House Party will keep readers on the edge of their seats.”—PopSugar It’s the party of the year. Afterward, nothing will ever be the same. Maja Jensen is smart, stylish, and careful, the type of woman who considers every detail when building her dream home in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The perfect house that would compensate for her failure to have a child, the house that was going to save her marriage. But when a group of reckless teenagers trash the newly built home just weeks before she moves in, her plans are shattered. Those teenagers, two months away from graduating high school, are the “good kids”—the ones on track to go to college and move on to the next stage of their privileged lives. They have grown up in a protected bubble and are accustomed to getting by with just a slap on the wrist. Did they think they could just destroy property without facing punishment? Or was there something deeper, darker, at play that night? As the police close in on a list of suspects, the tight-knit community begins to fray as families attempt to protect themselves. What should have been the party of the year will have repercussions that will put Maja’s marriage to the ultimate test, jeopardize the futures of those “good kids,” and divide the town over questions of privilege and responsibility. An absorbing novel told through shifting perspectives, The House Party explores how easily friendships, careers, communities, and marriages can upend when differences in wealth and power are forced to the surface.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563601Tue, 13 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House Party: A Novel Author: Rita Cameron Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House Party: A Novel Author: Rita Cameron Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When a house party goes terribly wrong, a suburban town fractures, exposing disturbing truths about the community—perfect for fans of Little Fires Everywhere and Ask Again, Yes. “The House Party will keep readers on the edge of their seats.”—PopSugar It’s the party of the year. Afterward, nothing will ever be the same. Maja Jensen is smart, stylish, and careful, the type of woman who considers every detail when building her dream home in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The perfect house that would compensate for her failure to have a child, the house that was going to save her marriage. But when a group of reckless teenagers trash the newly built home just weeks before she moves in, her plans are shattered. Those teenagers, two months away from graduating high school, are the “good kids”—the ones on track to go to college and move on to the next stage of their privileged lives. They have grown up in a protected bubble and are accustomed to getting by with just a slap on the wrist. Did they think they could just destroy property without facing punishment? Or was there something deeper, darker, at play that night? As the police close in on a list of suspects, the tight-knit community begins to fray as families attempt to protect themselves. What should have been the party of the year will have repercussions that will put Maja’s marriage to the ultimate test, jeopardize the futures of those “good kids,” and divide the town over questions of privilege and responsibility. An absorbing novel told through shifting perspectives, The House Party explores how easily friendships, careers, communities, and marriages can upend when differences in wealth and power are forced to the surface.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jimmy-bluefeather-by-kim-heacox--65202121https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jimmy Bluefeather Author: Kim Heacox Narrator: Kaipo Schwab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native ('with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in'), he's the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa that he has nothing left to live for, Old Keb comes alive and finishes his last canoe, with help from his grandson. Together (with a few friends and a crazy but likeable dog named Steve) they embark on a great canoe journey. Suddenly all of Old Keb's senses come into play, so clever and wise in how he reads the currents, tides, and storms. Nobody can find him. He and the others paddle deep into wild Alaska, but mostly into the human heart, in a story of adventure, love, and reconciliation. With its rogue's gallery of colorful, endearing, small-town characters, this book stands as a wonderful blend of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and John Nichols's The Milagro Beanfield War, with dashes of John Steinbeck thrown in.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610772Tue, 13 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jimmy Bluefeather Author: Kim Heacox Narrator: Kaipo Schwab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/610772 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jimmy Bluefeather Author: Kim Heacox Narrator: Kaipo Schwab Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count awhile ago) and in constant pain and thinks he wants to die. He also thinks he thinks too much. Part Norwegian and part Tlingit Native ('with some Filipino and Portuguese thrown in'), he's the last living canoe carver in the village of Jinkaat, in Southeast Alaska. When his grandson, James, a promising basketball player, ruins his leg in a logging accident and tells his grandpa that he has nothing left to live for, Old Keb comes alive and finishes his last canoe, with help from his grandson. Together (with a few friends and a crazy but likeable dog named Steve) they embark on a great canoe journey. Suddenly all of Old Keb's senses come into play, so clever and wise in how he reads the currents, tides, and storms. Nobody can find him. He and the others paddle deep into wild Alaska, but mostly into the human heart, in a story of adventure, love, and reconciliation. With its rogue's gallery of colorful, endearing, small-town characters, this book stands as a wonderful blend of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and John Nichols's The Milagro Beanfield War, with dashes of John Steinbeck thrown in.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-so-forsch-so-furchtlos-ungekurzte-lesung-by-andrea-abreu--65202054https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631432 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - So forsch, so furchtlos (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Andrea Abreu Narrator: Inka Löwendorf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Ein heißer Juni auf Teneriffa, hoch oben im Norden der Insel zwischen den Vulkanen, weit ab von den Touristen. Zwei junge Mädchen, beste Freundinnen, versuchen, die Langweile zu bekämpfen. Sie wollen dünn bleiben, indem sie Süßigkeiten erbrechen; sie träumen von glänzenden BMWs, die sie an den Strand bringen, wo sie endlich das Meer genießen könnten, genau wie die Touristen, deren Ferienhäuser ihre Mütter putzen. Aber als aus dem Juni der Juli wird und der Juli in den August übergeht, verwandelt sich die schwelende Liebe der Erzählerin zu ihrer Freundin Isora in ein schmerzhaftes sexuelles Erwachen. Sie versucht, mit Isora Schritt zu halten, muss aber einsehen, dass das Erwachsenwerden ein Weg ist, den man allein gehen muss. Eine sprachgewaltige Erzählung über eine innige Mädchenfreundschaft, die an den Wachstumsschmerzen der Pubertät, an zu viel Liebe und zu großer Lust zerschellt.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631432Tue, 13 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631432 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - So forsch, so furchtlos (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Andrea Abreu Narrator: Inka Löwendorf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 51...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/631432 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - So forsch, so furchtlos (Ungekürzte Lesung) Author: Andrea Abreu Narrator: Inka Löwendorf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 51 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Ein heißer Juni auf Teneriffa, hoch oben im Norden der Insel zwischen den Vulkanen, weit ab von den Touristen. Zwei junge Mädchen, beste Freundinnen, versuchen, die Langweile zu bekämpfen. Sie wollen dünn bleiben, indem sie Süßigkeiten erbrechen; sie träumen von glänzenden BMWs, die sie an den Strand bringen, wo sie endlich das Meer genießen könnten, genau wie die Touristen, deren Ferienhäuser ihre Mütter putzen. Aber als aus dem Juni der Juli wird und der Juli in den August übergeht, verwandelt sich die schwelende Liebe der Erzählerin zu ihrer Freundin Isora in ein schmerzhaftes sexuelles Erwachen. Sie versucht, mit Isora Schritt zu halten, muss aber einsehen, dass das Erwachsenwerden ein Weg ist, den man allein gehen muss. Eine sprachgewaltige Erzählung über eine innige Mädchenfreundschaft, die an den Wachstumsschmerzen der Pubertät, an zu viel Liebe und zu großer Lust zerschellt.]]>185rztecleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-miramar-by-gloria-peirano--65202075https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Miramar Author: Gloria Peirano Narrator: Mariana De Iraola Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 12, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Una nena de 10 años asiste a la enfermedad del padre y la asimila como hacen los niños: mediante el juego. Miramar es la nueva novela de Gloria Peirano, de quien Alfaguara publicó en 2019 la notable La ruta de los hospitales, que cosechó numerosos premios nacionales e internacionales. «Miré cantidad de veces una película que filmó mi padre en la playa de Miramar [...]. Yo sonreía a la cámara y jugaba con una pelota de goma. La mano de mi madre me acariciaba la espalda.» Engarzadas como pequeñas piedras preciosas, las escenas y los momentos de esta novela arman un delicado rompecabezas que va y viene en el tiempo; es 1972, es 1976, es el Mundial de Fútbol de 1978, es hoy. De fondo, la casa en Miramar, la casa en la playa de una familia que se desintegra. Los hijos, una nena de diez años y su hermano menor, asisten a los desencuentros y reconciliaciones de los padres, jóvenes, hermosos, llenos de furia y de amor. Pero también ocurre la tragedia. El padre enferma, y la niña asimila el dolor de la despedida a través de un juego privado entre ellos. Su libro favorito en ese momento, Mujercitas, se convierte en el escenario privilegiado donde juegan a cuidarse y a contenerse uno al otro. En Miramar, Gloria Peirano nos entrega una historia de amor filial y de duelo que no se olvida con el tiempo; al contrario, se agranda con el recuerdo. Una novela que emociona y nos vincula con las pérdidas inevitables de la vida. La crítica dijo... «Miramar es una excelente novela engañosa. Y es buena porque es engañosa [...]. También es una novela sobre la deuda. Sobrevivir -dicne el relato- es quedar en deuda; ser deuda incluso.» Juan Sasturain «En un año ordinario, salen pocos libros tan delicados como este -diez novelas a su altura serían consideradas cosecha récord-. La ruta de los hospitales, de Gloria Peirano, es una joyita del habla de los argentinos; seguramente contribuye que haya logrado crear un mundo propio.» Matilde Sánchez, Clarín «Peirano escribe como si inhalara poesía y exhalara versos que se configuran en frases pulidas con una notable perfección.» Silvina Friera, Página/12 «Para Peirano narrar la ausencia es uno de los modos de la supervivencia.» Daniel Gigena, La Nación «Es formidable cómo juega Peirano las idas y vueltas en el tiempo, la marcha de la pesquisa, las voces y los ritmos, la forma de su historia y la contrafigura como una sombra que crece para reformatear la novela.» Ángel Berlanga, Página/12, sobre Miramar]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620431Mon, 12 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Miramar Author: Gloria Peirano Narrator: Mariana De Iraola Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 34 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620431 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Miramar Author: Gloria Peirano Narrator: Mariana De Iraola Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 12, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Una nena de 10 años asiste a la enfermedad del padre y la asimila como hacen los niños: mediante el juego. Miramar es la nueva novela de Gloria Peirano, de quien Alfaguara publicó en 2019 la notable La ruta de los hospitales, que cosechó numerosos premios nacionales e internacionales. «Miré cantidad de veces una película que filmó mi padre en la playa de Miramar [...]. Yo sonreía a la cámara y jugaba con una pelota de goma. La mano de mi madre me acariciaba la espalda.» Engarzadas como pequeñas piedras preciosas, las escenas y los momentos de esta novela arman un delicado rompecabezas que va y viene en el tiempo; es 1972, es 1976, es el Mundial de Fútbol de 1978, es hoy. De fondo, la casa en Miramar, la casa en la playa de una familia que se desintegra. Los hijos, una nena de diez años y su hermano menor, asisten a los desencuentros y reconciliaciones de los padres, jóvenes, hermosos, llenos de furia y de amor. Pero también ocurre la tragedia. El padre enferma, y la niña asimila el dolor de la despedida a través de un juego privado entre ellos. Su libro favorito en ese momento, Mujercitas, se convierte en el escenario privilegiado donde juegan a cuidarse y a contenerse uno al otro. En Miramar, Gloria Peirano nos entrega una historia de amor filial y de duelo que no se olvida con el tiempo; al contrario, se agranda con el recuerdo. Una novela que emociona y nos vincula con las pérdidas inevitables de la vida. La crítica dijo... «Miramar es una excelente novela engañosa. Y es buena porque es engañosa [...]. También es una novela sobre la deuda. Sobrevivir -dicne el relato- es quedar en deuda; ser deuda incluso.» Juan Sasturain «En un año ordinario, salen pocos libros tan delicados como este -diez novelas a su altura serían consideradas cosecha récord-. La ruta de los hospitales, de Gloria Peirano, es una joyita del habla de los argentinos; seguramente contribuye que haya logrado crear un mundo propio.» Matilde Sánchez, Clarín «Peirano escribe como si inhalara poesía y exhalara versos que se configuran en frases pulidas con una notable perfección.» Silvina Friera, Página/12 «Para Peirano narrar la ausencia es uno de los modos de la supervivencia.» Daniel Gigena, La Nación «Es formidable cómo juega Peirano las idas y vueltas en el tiempo, la marcha de la pesquisa, las voces y los ritmos, la forma de su historia y la contrafigura como una sombra que crece para reformatear la novela.» Ángel Berlanga, Página/12, sobre Miramar]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-encomienda-by-margarita-garcia-robayo--65202105https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La encomienda Author: Margarita García Robayo Narrator: Carolina Gutiérrez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Una inquietante novela sobre la incertidumbre, los recuerdos, los miedos, la soledad, las relaciones familiares y los anhelos de futuro. La narradora de estas páginas vive a cinco mil kilómetros de su país natal, trabaja para una agencia de publicidad, quiere tramitar una beca para irse a escribir a Holanda y mantiene periódicas videoconferencias con su hermana. Esta le manda encomiendas, paquetes que incluyen comida, dibujos de sus sobrinos y de vez en cuando alguna sorpresa, como una vieja fotografía. A menudo la comida llega podrida. Una serie de figuras y acontecimientos irán dejando entrever las fisuras que se abren en la cotidianeidad de la protagonista: la recepción de una enorme caja difícil de abrir, una gata que se pasea por el edificio en el que vive, los vecinos que se ausentan y los que llaman a su puerta, el hijo de una vecina, las idas y venidas de su novio, un vagabundo... Y es que, como ella misma dice: «Con qué rapidez se hace pedazos la cáscara de una rutina. Cualquier rutina, por sólida que sea, es arrasada por lo imprevisto.» Con mano maestra y notable economía de medios, Margarita García Robayo conduce al lector por el laberinto de su protagonista y narradora en esta inquietante novela que habla de incertidumbre, recuerdos, miedos, soledad, relaciones familiares, perspectivas de maternidad y anhelos de futuro. Un libro de contenida intensidad, repleto de atisbos más que de certezas, que confirma a la autora como una de las voces de la actual narrativa latinoamericana. «García Robayo arremete con brillantez contra los mitos fundacionales de la persona, se llamen padre, madre, pareja, hogar o sexo» (Carlos Pardo, El País). «Narra lo excepcional desde lo pequeño y en un tono único, como si para mirar de frente a esas catástrofes hubiera que usar un aparato de baja definición» (Betina González, Revista Ñ). «Deslumbra con una prosa minuciosa que escribe premiosa y concienzudamente» (Vis Molina, El Mundo). «En sus historias las pequeñas pasiones estallan entre las letras, palabras y verbos y se quedan rondando por ahí, como si fueran reales, como si lo ordinario y cotidiano alcanzara el rango de arte» (Óscar Contardo, El Mercurio). «Una autora a la que le sobran recursos y astucias... Ha venido construyendo una de las obras más sólidas e interesantes de la literatura latinoamericana» (Juan Cárdenas). «Margarita García Robayo es un sofisticado sistema de capas... Tiene elegancia, tiene perfidia narrativa. Tiene un mundo dentro de la cabeza, y es un mundo complejo, lleno de aristas, de contrastes» (Leila Guerriero). «La voz de Margarita García Robayo es un escalpelo entrando con cortes finos y precisos en la carne de nuestra historia personal» (Gabriela Wiener). «Creo que es la escritora que mejor escribe sobre la intimidad» (Mariana Enriquez).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621292Wed, 07 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La encomienda Author: Margarita García Robayo Narrator: Carolina Gutiérrez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La encomienda Author: Margarita García Robayo Narrator: Carolina Gutiérrez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Una inquietante novela sobre la incertidumbre, los recuerdos, los miedos, la soledad, las relaciones familiares y los anhelos de futuro. La narradora de estas páginas vive a cinco mil kilómetros de su país natal, trabaja para una agencia de publicidad, quiere tramitar una beca para irse a escribir a Holanda y mantiene periódicas videoconferencias con su hermana. Esta le manda encomiendas, paquetes que incluyen comida, dibujos de sus sobrinos y de vez en cuando alguna sorpresa, como una vieja fotografía. A menudo la comida llega podrida. Una serie de figuras y acontecimientos irán dejando entrever las fisuras que se abren en la cotidianeidad de la protagonista: la recepción de una enorme caja difícil de abrir, una gata que se pasea por el edificio en el que vive, los vecinos que se ausentan y los que llaman a su puerta, el hijo de una vecina, las idas y venidas de su novio, un vagabundo... Y es que, como ella misma dice: «Con qué rapidez se hace pedazos la cáscara de una rutina. Cualquier rutina, por sólida que sea, es arrasada por lo imprevisto.» Con mano maestra y notable economía de medios, Margarita García Robayo conduce al lector por el laberinto de su protagonista y narradora en esta inquietante novela que habla de incertidumbre, recuerdos, miedos, soledad, relaciones familiares, perspectivas de maternidad y anhelos de futuro. Un libro de contenida intensidad, repleto de atisbos más que de certezas, que confirma a la autora como una de las voces de la actual narrativa latinoamericana. «García Robayo arremete con brillantez contra los mitos fundacionales de la persona, se llamen padre, madre, pareja, hogar o sexo» (Carlos Pardo, El País). «Narra lo excepcional desde lo pequeño y en un tono único, como si para mirar de frente a esas catástrofes hubiera que usar un aparato de baja definición» (Betina González, Revista Ñ). «Deslumbra con una prosa minuciosa que escribe premiosa y concienzudamente» (Vis Molina, El Mundo). «En sus historias las pequeñas pasiones estallan entre las letras, palabras y verbos y se quedan rondando por ahí, como si fueran reales, como si lo ordinario y cotidiano alcanzara el rango de arte» (Óscar Contardo, El Mercurio). «Una autora a la que le sobran recursos y astucias... Ha venido construyendo una de las obras más sólidas e interesantes de la literatura latinoamericana» (Juan Cárdenas). «Margarita García Robayo es un sofisticado sistema de capas... Tiene elegancia, tiene perfidia narrativa. Tiene un mundo dentro de la cabeza, y es un mundo complejo, lleno de aristas, de contrastes» (Leila Guerriero). «La voz de Margarita García Robayo es un escalpelo entrando con cortes finos y precisos en la carne de nuestra historia personal» (Gabriela Wiener). «Creo que es la escritora que mejor escribe sobre la intimidad» (Mariana Enriquez).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/come-down-somewhere-by-jennifer-l-wright--65202156https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Come Down Somewhere Author: Jennifer L. Wright Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: For fans of WWII fiction comes a powerful novel by Jennifer L. Wright about two young women coming of age during the Trinity nuclear bomb test in 1945. Sixteen-year-old Olive Alexander has lived on a ranch in the Jornada del Muerto region of southern New Mexico her entire life. But when World War II begins, the government seizes her family’s land for the construction of a new, top secret Army post. While her mother remains behind, Olive is forced to live in nearby Alamogordo with her grandmother and find a place in a new school. When Jo Hawthorne crosses her path, Olive sees a chance for friendship―until she learns that Jo’s father is the Army sergeant who now occupies her beloved ranch. Already angry about her new reality, Olive pushes Jo away. But as she struggles to make sense of her grandmother’s lapses into the past and increasingly unsettling hints about what’s happening at the ranch, she slowly warms to Jo’s winsome faith and steady attempts at friendship . . . until one devastating day when the sky explodes around them and their lives are torn apart. Seven years later, Jo returns to Alamogordo, still angry and wounded by the betrayals of that fateful day. Determined to put the past behind her once and for all, Jo hunts for answers and begins to realize the truth may be far more complicated than she believed, leading her on a desperate search to find her friend before it’s too late.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616416Tue, 06 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Come Down Somewhere Author: Jennifer L. Wright Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Come Down Somewhere Author: Jennifer L. Wright Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: For fans of WWII fiction comes a powerful novel by Jennifer L. Wright about two young women coming of age during the Trinity nuclear bomb test in 1945. Sixteen-year-old Olive Alexander has lived on a ranch in the Jornada del Muerto region of southern New Mexico her entire life. But when World War II begins, the government seizes her family’s land for the construction of a new, top secret Army post. While her mother remains behind, Olive is forced to live in nearby Alamogordo with her grandmother and find a place in a new school. When Jo Hawthorne crosses her path, Olive sees a chance for friendship―until she learns that Jo’s father is the Army sergeant who now occupies her beloved ranch. Already angry about her new reality, Olive pushes Jo away. But as she struggles to make sense of her grandmother’s lapses into the past and increasingly unsettling hints about what’s happening at the ranch, she slowly warms to Jo’s winsome faith and steady attempts at friendship . . . until one devastating day when the sky explodes around them and their lives are torn apart. Seven years later, Jo returns to Alamogordo, still angry and wounded by the betrayals of that fateful day. Determined to put the past behind her once and for all, Jo hunts for answers and begins to realize the truth may be far more complicated than she believed, leading her on a desperate search to find her friend before it’s too late.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hunter-school-by-sakinu-ahronglong--65202149https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600672 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hunter School Author: Sakinu Ahronglong Narrator: Pun Bandhu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Hunter School is a timely piece of fiction, drawing on the recollections, folklore, and autobiographical stories of an aboriginal Taiwanese man aiming to reconnect with his tribal Paiwan identity, lost in the name of development. It is impossible to be unaware of the effect of development, invariably at the hands of outsiders, upon the lands, inhabitants, and very nature of faraway climes. Hunter School shows us first-hand the immediate and long-reaching effects of such changes upon an indigenous people. The fabric of the community is changed, its balance and its self-sufficiency undermined, and confusion reigns. A common theme running throughout this charming but important audiobook is that of a young man learning about himself and his heritage from the past, elders, ancestors, and nature itself. This award-winning audiobook is a highly readable and touching work, and an insight into a unique and endangered society. It serves also as a clarion call for action and awareness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600672Tue, 06 Sep 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600672 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hunter School Author: Sakinu Ahronglong Narrator: Pun Bandhu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600672 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hunter School Author: Sakinu Ahronglong Narrator: Pun Bandhu Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Hunter School is a timely piece of fiction, drawing on the recollections, folklore, and autobiographical stories of an aboriginal Taiwanese man aiming to reconnect with his tribal Paiwan identity, lost in the name of development. It is impossible to be unaware of the effect of development, invariably at the hands of outsiders, upon the lands, inhabitants, and very nature of faraway climes. Hunter School shows us first-hand the immediate and long-reaching effects of such changes upon an indigenous people. The fabric of the community is changed, its balance and its self-sufficiency undermined, and confusion reigns. A common theme running throughout this charming but important audiobook is that of a young man learning about himself and his heritage from the past, elders, ancestors, and nature itself. This award-winning audiobook is a highly readable and touching work, and an insight into a unique and endangered society. It serves also as a clarion call for action and awareness.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lost-girls-of-willowbrook-by-ellen-marie-wiseman--65202231https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Girls of Willowbrook Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman Narrator: Morgan Hallett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 3.92 of Total 12 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In this powerful novel of survival and resilience, New York Times bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman takes readers on a gripping, emotional journey as one brave young woman’s search for the truth about her sister leads her to an infamous institution called Willowbrook …Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary—awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears—seemed to need more protection from the world.Six years after Rosemary’s death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sage’s stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened by a responsibility he never wanted. Yet despite living as near strangers in their Staten Island apartment, Sage is stunned to discover that Alan has kept a shocking secret: Rosemary didn’t die. She was committed to Willowbrook State School and has lingered there until just a few days ago, when she went missing.Sage knows little about Willowbrook. It’s always been a place shrouded by rumor and mystery. A place local parents threaten to send misbehaving kids. With no idea what to expect, Sage secretly sets out for Willowbrook, determined to find Rosemary. What she learns, once she steps through its doors and is mistakenly believed to be her sister, will change her life in ways she never could imagined …]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579940Tue, 30 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Girls of Willowbrook Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman Narrator: Morgan Hallett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579940 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost Girls of Willowbrook Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman Narrator: Morgan Hallett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 3.92 of Total 12 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In this powerful novel of survival and resilience, New York Times bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman takes readers on a gripping, emotional journey as one brave young woman’s search for the truth about her sister leads her to an infamous institution called Willowbrook …Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary—awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears—seemed to need more protection from the world.Six years after Rosemary’s death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sage’s stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened by a responsibility he never wanted. Yet despite living as near strangers in their Staten Island apartment, Sage is stunned to discover that Alan has kept a shocking secret: Rosemary didn’t die. She was committed to Willowbrook State School and has lingered there until just a few days ago, when she went missing.Sage knows little about Willowbrook. It’s always been a place shrouded by rumor and mystery. A place local parents threaten to send misbehaving kids. With no idea what to expect, Sage secretly sets out for Willowbrook, determined to find Rosemary. What she learns, once she steps through its doors and is mistakenly believed to be her sister, will change her life in ways she never could imagined …]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/not-without-laughter-by-langston-hughes--65202124https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Without Laughter Author: Langston Hughes Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Not Without Laughter is drawn in part from the author's own recollections of youth and early manhood. This stirring coming-of-age tale unfolds in 1930s rural Kansas. A poignant portrait of African-American family life in the early twentieth century, it follows the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a man. We meet Sandy's mother, Annjee, who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his strong-willed grandmother, Hager; Jimboy, Sandy's father, who travels the country looking for work; Aunt Tempy, the social climber; and Aunt Harriet, the blues singer who has turned away from her faith. A fascinating chronicle of a family's joys and hardships, Not Without Laughter is a vivid exploration of growing up and growing strong in a racially divided society. A rich and important work, it masterfully echoes the black American experience.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600238Tue, 30 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Without Laughter Author: Langston Hughes Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Without Laughter Author: Langston Hughes Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Not Without Laughter is drawn in part from the author's own recollections of youth and early manhood. This stirring coming-of-age tale unfolds in 1930s rural Kansas. A poignant portrait of African-American family life in the early twentieth century, it follows the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a man. We meet Sandy's mother, Annjee, who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his strong-willed grandmother, Hager; Jimboy, Sandy's father, who travels the country looking for work; Aunt Tempy, the social climber; and Aunt Harriet, the blues singer who has turned away from her faith. A fascinating chronicle of a family's joys and hardships, Not Without Laughter is a vivid exploration of growing up and growing strong in a racially divided society. A rich and important work, it masterfully echoes the black American experience.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-thousand-boy-kisses-the-unforgettable-love-story-and-tiktok-sensation-by-tillie-cole--65202100https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Boy Kisses: The unforgettable love story and TikTok sensation Author: Tillie Cole Narrator: P.J. Ochlan, Katie Schorr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: August 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.17 of Total 6 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. DISCOVER THE UNFORGETTABLE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT HAS CAPTURED MILLIONS OF HEARTS Two hearts. One love story. An ending you will never forget . . . Rune Kristiansen and Poppy Litchfield met as children and swore to be friends forever. As teenagers, their friendship grew into a love that promised to last a lifetime. But their worlds were shattered when Rune was sent home to his native Norway. Two years later, Rune is back, and Poppy is ready for their happy ever after to begin. But the boy who returns is not the Rune she remembers. What happened to turn her sweet, thoughtful Rune into this brooding stranger? And will the secret Poppy is carrying bring them closer together or separate them forever? Discover the story that will break your heart and make you believe true love really does last for eternity . . . 'This book is breathtakingly, heartbreakingly beautiful. You will cry ugly tears' 5***** READER REVIEW 'So moving that it left me sobbing but at the same time filled my heart. Beautiful, tragic, heartbreakingly wonderful' 5***** READER REVIEW 'It is without a doubt the biggest ugly cry I have ever had from a book' 5***** READER REVIEW 'I have read books that have had me ugly crying in the past but I honestly don't think I've read a book before this one where tears flowed in every single chapter' 5***** READER REVIEW 'The most heartbreaking, soul-shattering yet beautiful book I have ever read . . . I sobbed. I mean ugly crying' 5***** READER REVIEW 'One of the most beautiful and most heartbreaking books I have ever read' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Rune couldn't have been more perfect, nor Poppy more perfect for him' 5***** READER REVIEW © Tillie Cole 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612504Thu, 25 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Boy Kisses: The unforgettable love story and TikTok sensation Author: Tillie Cole Narrator: P.J. Ochlan, Katie Schorr Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612504 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Boy Kisses: The unforgettable love story and TikTok sensation Author: Tillie Cole Narrator: P.J. Ochlan, Katie Schorr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: August 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.17 of Total 6 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. DISCOVER THE UNFORGETTABLE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT HAS CAPTURED MILLIONS OF HEARTS Two hearts. One love story. An ending you will never forget . . . Rune Kristiansen and Poppy Litchfield met as children and swore to be friends forever. As teenagers, their friendship grew into a love that promised to last a lifetime. But their worlds were shattered when Rune was sent home to his native Norway. Two years later, Rune is back, and Poppy is ready for their happy ever after to begin. But the boy who returns is not the Rune she remembers. What happened to turn her sweet, thoughtful Rune into this brooding stranger? And will the secret Poppy is carrying bring them closer together or separate them forever? Discover the story that will break your heart and make you believe true love really does last for eternity . . . 'This book is breathtakingly, heartbreakingly beautiful. You will cry ugly tears' 5***** READER REVIEW 'So moving that it left me sobbing but at the same time filled my heart. Beautiful, tragic, heartbreakingly wonderful' 5***** READER REVIEW 'It is without a doubt the biggest ugly cry I have ever had from a book' 5***** READER REVIEW 'I have read books that have had me ugly crying in the past but I honestly don't think I've read a book before this one where tears flowed in every single chapter' 5***** READER REVIEW 'The most heartbreaking, soul-shattering yet beautiful book I have ever read . . . I sobbed. I mean ugly crying' 5***** READER REVIEW 'One of the most beautiful and most heartbreaking books I have ever read' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Rune couldn't have been more perfect, nor Poppy more perfect for him' 5***** READER REVIEW © Tillie Cole 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rules-at-the-school-by-the-sea-the-second-school-by-the-sea-novel-by-jenny-colgan--65202198https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rules at the School by the Sea: The Second School by the Sea Novel Series: #2 of School by the Sea Author: Jenny Colgan Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: It’s summer, but school is in session in the delightful second book of New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan’s utterly charming School by the Sea series, set at a girls’ boarding school in Cornwall. For the second year at Downey House, it's getting harder and harder to stick to the rules . . . Maggie Adair’s first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success. After making the leap from an inner-city school in Glasgow, she’s learned to appreciate the mellower pace of the girls’ boarding school by the sea. Now engaged to her longtime boyfriend, sweet and steady Stan, Maggie’s just got to stop thinking about David McDonald, her colleague at the boys’ school down the road. Well, hasn’t she? Can Maggie take a leaf out of the Well Behaved Teacher’s exercise book and stick to her plan for a small but elegant wedding and settled life of matrimony? Even as Maggie tries to stay within the lines, rules are being broken all around her. Maggie’s boss, headmistress Veronica Deveral, has more to lose than anyone. When Daniel Stapleton joins the faculty, Veronica finds herself forced to confront a scandalous secret she thought she’d carefully buried forever. How long will she be able to keep her past under wraps? What does a new year of classes, rules, and camaraderie hold for the students and faculty at Downey House?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559203Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rules at the School by the Sea: The Second School by the Sea Novel Series: #2 of School by the Sea Author: Jenny Colgan Narrator: Jilly Bond Format:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rules at the School by the Sea: The Second School by the Sea Novel Series: #2 of School by the Sea Author: Jenny Colgan Narrator: Jilly Bond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: It’s summer, but school is in session in the delightful second book of New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan’s utterly charming School by the Sea series, set at a girls’ boarding school in Cornwall. For the second year at Downey House, it's getting harder and harder to stick to the rules . . . Maggie Adair’s first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success. After making the leap from an inner-city school in Glasgow, she’s learned to appreciate the mellower pace of the girls’ boarding school by the sea. Now engaged to her longtime boyfriend, sweet and steady Stan, Maggie’s just got to stop thinking about David McDonald, her colleague at the boys’ school down the road. Well, hasn’t she? Can Maggie take a leaf out of the Well Behaved Teacher’s exercise book and stick to her plan for a small but elegant wedding and settled life of matrimony? Even as Maggie tries to stay within the lines, rules are being broken all around her. Maggie’s boss, headmistress Veronica Deveral, has more to lose than anyone. When Daniel Stapleton joins the faculty, Veronica finds herself forced to confront a scandalous secret she thought she’d carefully buried forever. How long will she be able to keep her past under wraps? What does a new year of classes, rules, and camaraderie hold for the students and faculty at Downey House?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/big-red-a-novel-starring-rita-hayworth-and-orson-welles-by-jerome-charyn--65202135https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Red: A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles Author: Jerome Charyn Narrator: Natalie Duke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Since he first appeared on the American literary scene, Jerome Charyn has dazzled readers with his 'blunt, brilliantly crafted prose' (Washington Post). Yet Charyn, a beloved comedic novelist, also possesses an extraordinary knowledge of Golden Age Hollywood, having taught film history both in the United States and France. With Big Red, Charyn reimagines the life of one of America's most enduring icons, 'Gilda' herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red tresses and hypnotic dancing graced the silver screen over sixty times in her nearly forty-year career. The quintessential movie star of the 1940s, Hayworth has long been objectified as a sex symbol, pin-up girl, and so-called Love Goddess. Here Charyn, channeling the ghosts of a buried past, finally lifts the veils that have long enshrouded Hayworth, evoking her emotional complexity—her passions, her pain, and her inner turmoil. Reanimating such classic films as Gilda and The Lady from Shanghai, Big Red is a bittersweet paean to Hollywood's Golden Age, a tender yet honest portrait of a time before blockbusters and film franchises—one that promises to consume both Hollywood cinephiles and neophytes alike. Lauded for his 'polymorphous imagination' (Jonathan Lethem), Charyn once again has created one of the most inventive novels in recent American literature.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602693Tue, 23 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Red: A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles Author: Jerome Charyn Narrator: Natalie Duke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602693 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Red: A Novel Starring Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles Author: Jerome Charyn Narrator: Natalie Duke Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Since he first appeared on the American literary scene, Jerome Charyn has dazzled readers with his 'blunt, brilliantly crafted prose' (Washington Post). Yet Charyn, a beloved comedic novelist, also possesses an extraordinary knowledge of Golden Age Hollywood, having taught film history both in the United States and France. With Big Red, Charyn reimagines the life of one of America's most enduring icons, 'Gilda' herself, Rita Hayworth, whose fiery red tresses and hypnotic dancing graced the silver screen over sixty times in her nearly forty-year career. The quintessential movie star of the 1940s, Hayworth has long been objectified as a sex symbol, pin-up girl, and so-called Love Goddess. Here Charyn, channeling the ghosts of a buried past, finally lifts the veils that have long enshrouded Hayworth, evoking her emotional complexity—her passions, her pain, and her inner turmoil. Reanimating such classic films as Gilda and The Lady from Shanghai, Big Red is a bittersweet paean to Hollywood's Golden Age, a tender yet honest portrait of a time before blockbusters and film franchises—one that promises to consume both Hollywood cinephiles and neophytes alike. Lauded for his 'polymorphous imagination' (Jonathan Lethem), Charyn once again has created one of the most inventive novels in recent American literature.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/henry-fielding-a-bbc-radio-drama-collection-full-cast-dramatisations-of-tom-jones-joseph-andrews-jonathan-wild-the-female-husband-by-h--65202154https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/582683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry Fielding: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Full-cast dramatisations of Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, Jonathan Wild & The Female Husband Author: Henry Fielding Narrator: Michael Legge, Christopher Fairbank, Lyndsey Marshal, Max Bennett, Sandi Toksvig, Simon Russell Beale, Crawford Logan, Full Cast, Timothy West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 18, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A collection of contemporary adaptations of the best-known works of Henry Fielding - plus bonus documentary programme Dubbed 'the father of the English novel' by Sir Walter Scott, Henry Fielding is well known for his ribald humour and ironic, satirical fiction. Collected here are four of his most famous works, including his comic masterpiece Tom Jones, as well as a fascinating documentary exploring the foundling motif in fiction. Tom Jones - Fielding's bawdy picaresque tale follows the amorous adventures of foundling Tom, one of the most sparkling heroes in English literature. Starring Simon Russell Beale as Henry Fielding and Michael Legge as Tom. Joseph Andrews - Sitting down to write about the misadventures of a handsome young footman on the road, Henry Fielding finds himself unexpectedly collaborating with his smart, witty wife, Charlotte. As they laugh and bicker about the plot, the story of their writing partnership interweaves with that of Joseph Andrews... Max Bennett and Lyndsey Marshal star in this 18th Century romp with an up-to-date twist. The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, The Great - Based on the real-life 'Thief-Taker General' and notorious underworld boss, Fielding's tongue-in-cheek tale draws sly parallels between the corrupt Jonathan Wild and Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole. Starring Timothy West, Christopher Fairbank and Crawford Logan. The Female Husband - Sandi Toksvig stars in this high-spirited dramatisation of the true story of Mary Hamilton, who was tried and flogged in 1746 for marrying as a man, and achieved notoriety in a sensational pamphlet published by Fielding. One of the Three Great Plots of All Literature - Why do foundlings appear so often in literature? Kate Adie discusses the theme underlying Henry Fielding's classic novel Tom Jones with Hugh Cunningham, Marina Warner, Jenny Uglow and contemporary foundling Andy McNab. First published 1742 (The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr Abraham Adams), 1743 (The Life and Death of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild, the Great), 1746 (The Female Husband), 1749 (The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling) © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/582683Thu, 18 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/582683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry Fielding: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Full-cast dramatisations of Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, Jonathan Wild & The Female Husband Author:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/582683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Henry Fielding: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Full-cast dramatisations of Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, Jonathan Wild & The Female Husband Author: Henry Fielding Narrator: Michael Legge, Christopher Fairbank, Lyndsey Marshal, Max Bennett, Sandi Toksvig, Simon Russell Beale, Crawford Logan, Full Cast, Timothy West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 18, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A collection of contemporary adaptations of the best-known works of Henry Fielding - plus bonus documentary programme Dubbed 'the father of the English novel' by Sir Walter Scott, Henry Fielding is well known for his ribald humour and ironic, satirical fiction. Collected here are four of his most famous works, including his comic masterpiece Tom Jones, as well as a fascinating documentary exploring the foundling motif in fiction. Tom Jones - Fielding's bawdy picaresque tale follows the amorous adventures of foundling Tom, one of the most sparkling heroes in English literature. Starring Simon Russell Beale as Henry Fielding and Michael Legge as Tom. Joseph Andrews - Sitting down to write about the misadventures of a handsome young footman on the road, Henry Fielding finds himself unexpectedly collaborating with his smart, witty wife, Charlotte. As they laugh and bicker about the plot, the story of their writing partnership interweaves with that of Joseph Andrews... Max Bennett and Lyndsey Marshal star in this 18th Century romp with an up-to-date twist. The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, The Great - Based on the real-life 'Thief-Taker General' and notorious underworld boss, Fielding's tongue-in-cheek tale draws sly parallels between the corrupt Jonathan Wild and Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole. Starring Timothy West, Christopher Fairbank and Crawford Logan. The Female Husband - Sandi Toksvig stars in this high-spirited dramatisation of the true story of Mary Hamilton, who was tried and flogged in 1746 for marrying as a man, and achieved notoriety in a sensational pamphlet published by Fielding. One of the Three Great Plots of All Literature - Why do foundlings appear so often in literature? Kate Adie discusses the theme underlying Henry Fielding's classic novel Tom Jones with Hugh Cunningham, Marina Warner, Jenny Uglow and contemporary foundling Andy McNab. First published 1742 (The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr Abraham Adams), 1743 (The Life and Death of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild, the Great), 1746 (The Female Husband), 1749 (The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling) © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-history-of-lgbtqia-writing-by-various-authors--65202077https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A History of LGBTQIA+ Writing Author: Various Authors Narrator: The Cliff, Cyril Taylor-Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Themes of love between people of the same gender are found in a variety of texts throughout the world. The Greeks explored the theme on different levels in works such as Plato's. Religious narratives include stories of sexuality between men or feature divine actions that result in changes in gender. These myths too are forms of LGBTQ expression and modern conceptions of sexuality and gender. Myths to have been used by to explain the 'cause' of transgender identity or homosexuality. Many early Gothic fiction authors, were homosexual and would sublimate these themes using transgressive genres like Gothic and horror fiction. Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla was the first lesbian vampire story and influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula. Stoker's novel has its own homoerotic aspects, as when Count Dracula warns off the female vampires and claims Jonathan Harker, saying 'This man belongs to me!' In the 21st century, much LGBTQ literature achieved a high level of sophistication and many works have earned mainstream acclaim. Notable authors include Sean Greer. Greer, an openly gay man, won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Less. Becky Albertalli's teen novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda was adapted into the feature film Love, Simon by 20th Century Fox, the first film by a major studio focused on a gay teenage romance. Here is the ultimate collection of LGTBQ fiction from some of our most heralded writers. A celebration of love, light, and freedom.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620124Thu, 18 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A History of LGBTQIA+ Writing Author: Various Authors Narrator: The Cliff, Cyril Taylor-Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 47 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620124 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A History of LGBTQIA+ Writing Author: Various Authors Narrator: The Cliff, Cyril Taylor-Carr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Themes of love between people of the same gender are found in a variety of texts throughout the world. The Greeks explored the theme on different levels in works such as Plato's. Religious narratives include stories of sexuality between men or feature divine actions that result in changes in gender. These myths too are forms of LGBTQ expression and modern conceptions of sexuality and gender. Myths to have been used by to explain the 'cause' of transgender identity or homosexuality. Many early Gothic fiction authors, were homosexual and would sublimate these themes using transgressive genres like Gothic and horror fiction. Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla was the first lesbian vampire story and influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula. Stoker's novel has its own homoerotic aspects, as when Count Dracula warns off the female vampires and claims Jonathan Harker, saying 'This man belongs to me!' In the 21st century, much LGBTQ literature achieved a high level of sophistication and many works have earned mainstream acclaim. Notable authors include Sean Greer. Greer, an openly gay man, won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Less. Becky Albertalli's teen novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda was adapted into the feature film Love, Simon by 20th Century Fox, the first film by a major studio focused on a gay teenage romance. Here is the ultimate collection of LGTBQ fiction from some of our most heralded writers. A celebration of love, light, and freedom.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/amy-lan-a-novel-by-sadie-jones--65202236https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amy & Lan: A Novel Author: Sadie Jones Narrator: Jaye Jacobs, Joe Jameson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The author of the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests returns with a captivating coming of age story told by Amy and Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families' attempt at the pastoral dream on a farm, deep in the English countryside. “The very first thing I remember is standing on the water-butt in the garden, with my Mum holding me to stop me falling, singing 'I'm On Top of the World' , and the smell of the new wood in the hot sun. And something do with Mum's silver necklace. Amy doesn't remember any of that. Her very first memory is our wolfhound Ivan knocking her over in a puddle. Or it might be eating a boiled egg, and looking at the daisies on her kitchen tablecloth.” Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood ever. They live on a 78-acre farm in the South West of England, with sisters and brothers, other kids, chickens, goats, three dogs, and even a calf, called Gabriella Christmas.  “Honeys in the Farmhouse, Connells in the Cowhouse, Hodges in the Carthouse . . .” The three sets of parents are best friends who came to Frith from the city, and are learning, year after year, how to farm the land. Free and unsupervised, Amy and Lan play with axes and climb on haystacks, but there is grownup danger at Frith they don't see. It's Gail, Lan's mother, and Adam, Amy's father who should be more careful. They should learn what kids know: never to play with fire.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557771Tue, 16 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amy & Lan: A Novel Author: Sadie Jones Narrator: Jaye Jacobs, Joe Jameson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/557771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amy & Lan: A Novel Author: Sadie Jones Narrator: Jaye Jacobs, Joe Jameson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 44 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The author of the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests returns with a captivating coming of age story told by Amy and Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families' attempt at the pastoral dream on a farm, deep in the English countryside. “The very first thing I remember is standing on the water-butt in the garden, with my Mum holding me to stop me falling, singing 'I'm On Top of the World' , and the smell of the new wood in the hot sun. And something do with Mum's silver necklace. Amy doesn't remember any of that. Her very first memory is our wolfhound Ivan knocking her over in a puddle. Or it might be eating a boiled egg, and looking at the daisies on her kitchen tablecloth.” Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood ever. They live on a 78-acre farm in the South West of England, with sisters and brothers, other kids, chickens, goats, three dogs, and even a calf, called Gabriella Christmas.  “Honeys in the Farmhouse, Connells in the Cowhouse, Hodges in the Carthouse . . .” The three sets of parents are best friends who came to Frith from the city, and are learning, year after year, how to farm the land. Free and unsupervised, Amy and Lan play with axes and climb on haystacks, but there is grownup danger at Frith they don't see. It's Gail, Lan's mother, and Adam, Amy's father who should be more careful. They should learn what kids know: never to play with fire.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mother-in-the-dark-a-novel-by-kayla-maiuri--65202221https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/560094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother In the Dark: A Novel Author: Kayla Maiuri Narrator: Thérèse Plummer, Holly Linneman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'Tender and unsparing, this is a novel to hold onto.' —Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me “A masterfully written novel, alive and lyrical, a hypnotic rendering of the mess and the tenderness of family life.” —Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had   A novel about family secrets and a volatile relationship between a mother and her daughters. When Anna’s sister calls with an urgent message, Anna doesn’t return the call. She knows it’s about their mother. Growing up in an Italian American family in working-class Boston, Anna lives a simple but comfortable childhood--filled with homemade meals and front-porch gatherings in a close-knit neighborhood. She and her sisters are devoted to their mother, orbiting her like the sun, trying to keep up with her loving but mercurial nature. When their father gets a new job outside the city, the family is tossed unceremoniously into a middle-class suburban existence. Anna's mother is suddenly adrift, and the darkness lurking inside her ignites. Her daughters, isolated and trapped with her in their new house, do everything they can to keep her from unraveling. Alternating between Anna's childhood and her twenties, when she receives a shattering call about her mother that threatens to blow up her precariously constructed life in New York, Mother in the Dark asks whether we can ever return home when the idea of home is fraught with instability. This story about sisterhood, the complications of class, and the chains of inheritance between mothers and daughters delivers an unvarnished portrayal of the fragile horrors of domestic life and a young woman consumed by her past.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/560094Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/560094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother In the Dark: A Novel Author: Kayla Maiuri Narrator: Thérèse Plummer, Holly Linneman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/560094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mother In the Dark: A Novel Author: Kayla Maiuri Narrator: Thérèse Plummer, Holly Linneman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 8 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'Tender and unsparing, this is a novel to hold onto.' —Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me “A masterfully written novel, alive and lyrical, a hypnotic rendering of the mess and the tenderness of family life.” —Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had   A novel about family secrets and a volatile relationship between a mother and her daughters. When Anna’s sister calls with an urgent message, Anna doesn’t return the call. She knows it’s about their mother. Growing up in an Italian American family in working-class Boston, Anna lives a simple but comfortable childhood--filled with homemade meals and front-porch gatherings in a close-knit neighborhood. She and her sisters are devoted to their mother, orbiting her like the sun, trying to keep up with her loving but mercurial nature. When their father gets a new job outside the city, the family is tossed unceremoniously into a middle-class suburban existence. Anna's mother is suddenly adrift, and the darkness lurking inside her ignites. Her daughters, isolated and trapped with her in their new house, do everything they can to keep her from unraveling. Alternating between Anna's childhood and her twenties, when she receives a shattering call about her mother that threatens to blow up her precariously constructed life in New York, Mother in the Dark asks whether we can ever return home when the idea of home is fraught with instability. This story about sisterhood, the complications of class, and the chains of inheritance between mothers and daughters delivers an unvarnished portrayal of the fragile horrors of domestic life and a young woman consumed by her past.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-hundred-other-girls-a-novel-by-iman-hariri-kia--65202140https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Hundred Other Girls: A Novel Author: Iman Hariri-Kia Narrator: Lameece Issaq Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: For fans of The Devil Wears Prada and The Bold Type comes a smart, modern story about the shifting media landscape and one Middle Eastern American writer finding her place in it. How far would you go to keep the job a hundred other girls are ready to take? Noora’s life is a little off track. She’s an aspiring writer and amateur blogger in New York―which is a nice way of saying that she tutors rich Upper East Side kids and is currently crashing on her sister’s couch. But that’s okay. Noora has Leila, who has always been her rock, and now she has another major influence to lean on: Vinyl magazine. The pages of Vinyl practically raised Noora, teaching her everything from how to properly insert a tampon to which political ideology she subscribes to. So when she lands a highly coveted job as assistant to Loretta James, Vinyl’s iconic editor-in-chief, Noora can’t believe her luck. Her only dream is to write for Vinyl, and now with her foot firmly in the door and the Loretta James as her mentor, Noora is finally on the right path … or so she thinks. Loretta is an unhinged nightmare, insecure and desperate to remain relevant in an evolving media landscape she doesn’t understand. Noora’s phone buzzes constantly with Loretta’s bizarre demands, particularly with tasks Loretta hopes will undermine the success of Vinyl’s wunderkind digital director Jade Aki. The reality of Noora’s job is nothing like she expected, and a misguided crush on the hot IT guy only threatens to complicate things even more. But as Loretta and the old-school print team enter into a turf war with Jade and the woke-for-the-wrong-reasons digital team, Noora soon finds herself caught in the middle. And with her dream job on the line, she’ll need to either choose a side or form her own. Clever, incisive, and thoroughly fun, A Hundred Other Girls is an insider’s take on the changing media industry, an ode to sisterhood, and a profound exploration of what it means to chase your dreams.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588011Tue, 09 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Hundred Other Girls: A Novel Author: Iman Hariri-Kia Narrator: Lameece Issaq Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Hundred Other Girls: A Novel Author: Iman Hariri-Kia Narrator: Lameece Issaq Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: For fans of The Devil Wears Prada and The Bold Type comes a smart, modern story about the shifting media landscape and one Middle Eastern American writer finding her place in it. How far would you go to keep the job a hundred other girls are ready to take? Noora’s life is a little off track. She’s an aspiring writer and amateur blogger in New York―which is a nice way of saying that she tutors rich Upper East Side kids and is currently crashing on her sister’s couch. But that’s okay. Noora has Leila, who has always been her rock, and now she has another major influence to lean on: Vinyl magazine. The pages of Vinyl practically raised Noora, teaching her everything from how to properly insert a tampon to which political ideology she subscribes to. So when she lands a highly coveted job as assistant to Loretta James, Vinyl’s iconic editor-in-chief, Noora can’t believe her luck. Her only dream is to write for Vinyl, and now with her foot firmly in the door and the Loretta James as her mentor, Noora is finally on the right path … or so she thinks. Loretta is an unhinged nightmare, insecure and desperate to remain relevant in an evolving media landscape she doesn’t understand. Noora’s phone buzzes constantly with Loretta’s bizarre demands, particularly with tasks Loretta hopes will undermine the success of Vinyl’s wunderkind digital director Jade Aki. The reality of Noora’s job is nothing like she expected, and a misguided crush on the hot IT guy only threatens to complicate things even more. But as Loretta and the old-school print team enter into a turf war with Jade and the woke-for-the-wrong-reasons digital team, Noora soon finds herself caught in the middle. And with her dream job on the line, she’ll need to either choose a side or form her own. Clever, incisive, and thoroughly fun, A Hundred Other Girls is an insider’s take on the changing media industry, an ode to sisterhood, and a profound exploration of what it means to chase your dreams.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shimmer-by-alex-pugsley--65202111https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shimmer Author: Alex Pugsley Narrator: Fiona Highet, Alex Pugsley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 8, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In ten vividly told stories, Shimmer follows characters through relationships, within social norms, and across boundaries of all kinds as they shimmer into and out of each other's lives. Outside a 7-Eleven, teen boys Veeper and Wendell try to decide what to do with their night, though the thought of the rest of their lives doesn't seem to have occurred to them. In Laurel Canyon, two movie stars try to decide if the affair they're having might mean they like each other. When Byron, trying to figure out the chords of a song he likes, posts a question on a guitar website, he ends up meeting Jessica as well, a woman with her own difficult music. And when the snide and sharp-tongued Twyla agrees to try therapy, not even she would have imagined the results.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614929Mon, 08 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shimmer Author: Alex Pugsley Narrator: Fiona Highet, Alex Pugsley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 8, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614929 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shimmer Author: Alex Pugsley Narrator: Fiona Highet, Alex Pugsley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: August 8, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In ten vividly told stories, Shimmer follows characters through relationships, within social norms, and across boundaries of all kinds as they shimmer into and out of each other's lives. Outside a 7-Eleven, teen boys Veeper and Wendell try to decide what to do with their night, though the thought of the rest of their lives doesn't seem to have occurred to them. In Laurel Canyon, two movie stars try to decide if the affair they're having might mean they like each other. When Byron, trying to figure out the chords of a song he likes, posts a question on a guitar website, he ends up meeting Jessica as well, a woman with her own difficult music. And when the snide and sharp-tongued Twyla agrees to try therapy, not even she would have imagined the results.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/megan-and-the-burglar-by-owen-jones--65202102https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Megan And The Burglar Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Robert Sebastian Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 44 minutes Release date: August 6, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In Megan and the Burglar, Megan's house is burgled while they are out enjoying a summer's picnic. Suzanne is devastated to discover that some of her jewellery was part of the stolen items, so Megan sets out to use her psychic powers to find out who the thief was, and recover her mother's things. However, she has no idea how to start such an investigation or what she will do if she is successful.The Psychic Megan Series consists of twenty-three novelettes about a young girl's growing realisation that she is able to do things that none of her family can. Megan is twelve years old in the first volume. She has two seemingly insurmountable problems. Her mother is frightened of her daughter's latent abilities and not only will not help her but actively discourages her; and she can't find a teacher to help her develop her supernatural, psychic powers. For she wants not only to know what it is possible to do and how to do it, but to what end she should put her special abilities. Megan is a good girl, so it would seem obvious that she would tend towards using her powers for good, but it is not always easy to do the right thing even if you know what that is. These stories about Megan will appeal to anyone who has an interest in psychic powers, the supernatural and the paranormal and is between the ages of ten and a hundred years old. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617604Sat, 06 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Megan And The Burglar Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Robert Sebastian Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 44 minutes Release date: August...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617604 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Megan And The Burglar Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Robert Sebastian Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 44 minutes Release date: August 6, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In Megan and the Burglar, Megan's house is burgled while they are out enjoying a summer's picnic. Suzanne is devastated to discover that some of her jewellery was part of the stolen items, so Megan sets out to use her psychic powers to find out who the thief was, and recover her mother's things. However, she has no idea how to start such an investigation or what she will do if she is successful.The Psychic Megan Series consists of twenty-three novelettes about a young girl's growing realisation that she is able to do things that none of her family can. Megan is twelve years old in the first volume. She has two seemingly insurmountable problems. Her mother is frightened of her daughter's latent abilities and not only will not help her but actively discourages her; and she can't find a teacher to help her develop her supernatural, psychic powers. For she wants not only to know what it is possible to do and how to do it, but to what end she should put her special abilities. Megan is a good girl, so it would seem obvious that she would tend towards using her powers for good, but it is not always easy to do the right thing even if you know what that is. These stories about Megan will appeal to anyone who has an interest in psychic powers, the supernatural and the paranormal and is between the ages of ten and a hundred years old. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girls-are-good-by-ilaria-bernardini--65202240https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girls Are Good Author: Ilaria Bernardini Narrator: Sarah Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: COMPETITION. PERFECTION. DESTRUCTION. ‘A tight, frightening story of friendship, rivalry and obsession, told in sparse and beautiful prose’ Abigail Dean, author of GIRL A ‘Brilliantly observed, beautifully written – it’s quite simply unforgettable’ Alex Michaelides, author of THE SILENT PATIENT and THE MAIDENS A DANGEROUS OBSESSION Martina wants to be the best gymnast in the world. But so does everyone around her. A TOURNAMENT WITH A DIFFERENCE During one week of intense competition, Martina and her teammates are tested to the limit, and any sign of weakness can quickly spell the end. A MURDER IN THE NIGHT By the end of the week, one of the gymnasts will be dead. Every girl will do anything to win…but at what cost? ‘Compelling, harrowing, and ultimately devastating – it’s quite simply unforgettable.’ ALEX MICHAELIDES, author of THE PATIENT ‘A tight, frightening story of friendship, rivalry and obsession.’ ABIGAIL DEAN, Sunday Times bestselling author of GIRL A ‘Brutal and brilliant – I read it in one sitting.’ HARRIET TYCE, author of BLOOD ORANGE ‘A glimpse into a wonderfully dangerous, screwed up world. I couldn’t put it down.’ CESCA MAJOR, author of THE OTHER GIRL]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555846Thu, 04 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girls Are Good Author: Ilaria Bernardini Narrator: Sarah Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 4,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555846 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girls Are Good Author: Ilaria Bernardini Narrator: Sarah Alexander Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: COMPETITION. PERFECTION. DESTRUCTION. ‘A tight, frightening story of friendship, rivalry and obsession, told in sparse and beautiful prose’ Abigail Dean, author of GIRL A ‘Brilliantly observed, beautifully written – it’s quite simply unforgettable’ Alex Michaelides, author of THE SILENT PATIENT and THE MAIDENS A DANGEROUS OBSESSION Martina wants to be the best gymnast in the world. But so does everyone around her. A TOURNAMENT WITH A DIFFERENCE During one week of intense competition, Martina and her teammates are tested to the limit, and any sign of weakness can quickly spell the end. A MURDER IN THE NIGHT By the end of the week, one of the gymnasts will be dead. Every girl will do anything to win…but at what cost? ‘Compelling, harrowing, and ultimately devastating – it’s quite simply unforgettable.’ ALEX MICHAELIDES, author of THE PATIENT ‘A tight, frightening story of friendship, rivalry and obsession.’ ABIGAIL DEAN, Sunday Times bestselling author of GIRL A ‘Brutal and brilliant – I read it in one sitting.’ HARRIET TYCE, author of BLOOD ORANGE ‘A glimpse into a wonderfully dangerous, screwed up world. I couldn’t put it down.’ CESCA MAJOR, author of THE OTHER GIRL]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/not-safe-for-work-author-of-the-viral-essay-my-boyfriend-a-writer-broke-up-with-me-because-i-am-a-writer-by-isabel-kaplan--65202226https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Safe For Work: Author of the viral essay 'My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I am a writer' Author: Isabel Kaplan Narrator: Stephanie Nemeth Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The compulsively readable debut novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul - perfect for fans of Sweetbitter, My Dark Vanessa and Exciting Times You are young, ambitious, college-educated and a feminist. Your new job is in television. To climb the ranks, you do whatever it takes: - Pull all-nighters - Lean on your powerful mother's contacts - Stay in shape at cult-like fitness classes - Secretly wear your boss's fitbit to improve his stepcount - and his temper You know the rules of this world. When someone senior tells you how pretty you look, you smile and thank him - and make a mental note never to wear that dress alone with him again. When whispers start to circle that your office might have 'a bit of a rape problem,' and your close friend confesses her own unsettling encounter, you know there is plenty to gain from staying silent, and all too much to lose through speaking out. And of course, you know your own boss is one of the good guys . . . don't you? With blisteringly sharp prose and a darkly humorous voice, Not Safe For Work is an unflinching exploration of the grey area between empowerment and complicity, and a searing, unforgettable portrait of what success costs in a patriarchal world. 'A frank study of the psychological, and at times literal, gymnastics that are required of striving women.' RAVEN LEILANI, bestselling author of Luster 'Frank, funny and unputdownable' CLAIRE MESSUD © Isabel Kaplan 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578559Thu, 04 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Safe For Work: Author of the viral essay 'My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I am a writer' Author: Isabel Kaplan Narrator: Stephanie...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not Safe For Work: Author of the viral essay 'My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I am a writer' Author: Isabel Kaplan Narrator: Stephanie Nemeth Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 59 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The compulsively readable debut novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul - perfect for fans of Sweetbitter, My Dark Vanessa and Exciting Times You are young, ambitious, college-educated and a feminist. Your new job is in television. To climb the ranks, you do whatever it takes: - Pull all-nighters - Lean on your powerful mother's contacts - Stay in shape at cult-like fitness classes - Secretly wear your boss's fitbit to improve his stepcount - and his temper You know the rules of this world. When someone senior tells you how pretty you look, you smile and thank him - and make a mental note never to wear that dress alone with him again. When whispers start to circle that your office might have 'a bit of a rape problem,' and your close friend confesses her own unsettling encounter, you know there is plenty to gain from staying silent, and all too much to lose through speaking out. And of course, you know your own boss is one of the good guys . . . don't you? With blisteringly sharp prose and a darkly humorous voice, Not Safe For Work is an unflinching exploration of the grey area between empowerment and complicity, and a searing, unforgettable portrait of what success costs in a patriarchal world. 'A frank study of the psychological, and at times literal, gymnastics that are required of striving women.' RAVEN LEILANI, bestselling author of Luster 'Frank, funny and unputdownable' CLAIRE MESSUD © Isabel Kaplan 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/calling-for-a-blanket-dance-by-oscar-hokeah--65202113https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603100 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Calling for a Blanket Dance Author: Oscar Hokeah Narrator: Oscar Hokeah, Rainy Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity.  Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement of the family, and the legacy of centuries of injustice all intensify Ever’s bottled-up rage. Meanwhile, all of Ever’s relatives have ideas about who he is and who he should be. His Cherokee grandmother urges the family to move across Oklahoma to find security; his grandfather hopes to reunite him with his heritage through traditional gourd dances; his Kiowa cousin reminds him that he’s connected to an ancestral past. And once an adult, Ever must take the strength given to him by his relatives to save not only himself but also the next generation of family. How will this young man visualize a place for himself when the world hasn’t given him a place to start with? Honest, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, Calling for a Blanket Dance is the story of how Ever Geimausaddle found his way to home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603100Tue, 02 Aug 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603100 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Calling for a Blanket Dance Author: Oscar Hokeah Narrator: Oscar Hokeah, Rainy Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603100 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Calling for a Blanket Dance Author: Oscar Hokeah Narrator: Oscar Hokeah, Rainy Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A moving and deeply engaging novel about a young Native American man as he learns to find strength in his familial identity.  Told in a series of voices, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they face myriad obstacles. His father’s injury at the hands of corrupt police, his mother's struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband, the constant resettlement of the family, and the legacy of centuries of injustice all intensify Ever’s bottled-up rage. Meanwhile, all of Ever’s relatives have ideas about who he is and who he should be. His Cherokee grandmother urges the family to move across Oklahoma to find security; his grandfather hopes to reunite him with his heritage through traditional gourd dances; his Kiowa cousin reminds him that he’s connected to an ancestral past. And once an adult, Ever must take the strength given to him by his relatives to save not only himself but also the next generation of family. How will this young man visualize a place for himself when the world hasn’t given him a place to start with? Honest, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting, Calling for a Blanket Dance is the story of how Ever Geimausaddle found his way to home.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-woman-by-louisa-may-alcott--65202112https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Woman Author: Louisa May Alcott Narrator: Cora Lewinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 28, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, with readers eager for more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (titled Good Wives in the United Kingdom, though the name originated with the publisher and not Alcott). It was also met with success. The two volumes were issued in 1880 as a single novel titled Little Women. Alcott subsequently wrote two sequels to her popular work, both also featuring the March sisters: Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). The novel has been said to address three major themes: 'domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine's individual identity.' According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from romantic children's fiction and combined it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new genre. Elbert argues that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the 'All-American girl' and that her various aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters. The book has been translated into numerous languages, and frequently adapted for stage and screen.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614570Thu, 28 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Woman Author: Louisa May Alcott Narrator: Cora Lewinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 28, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614570 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Woman Author: Louisa May Alcott Narrator: Cora Lewinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 28, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, with readers eager for more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (titled Good Wives in the United Kingdom, though the name originated with the publisher and not Alcott). It was also met with success. The two volumes were issued in 1880 as a single novel titled Little Women. Alcott subsequently wrote two sequels to her popular work, both also featuring the March sisters: Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). The novel has been said to address three major themes: 'domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine's individual identity.' According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from romantic children's fiction and combined it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new genre. Elbert argues that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the 'All-American girl' and that her various aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters. The book has been translated into numerous languages, and frequently adapted for stage and screen.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/big-girl-a-novel-by-mecca-jamilah-sullivan--65202165https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Girl: A Novel Author: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon. In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils—and undeniable beauty—of insatiable longing. Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malaya hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings; she'd rather paint alone in her bedroom or enjoy forbidden street foods with her father. For Malaya, the pressures of her predominantly white Upper East Side prep school are relentless, as are the expectations passed down from her painfully proper mother and sharp-tongued grandmother. As she comes of age in the 1990s, she finds solace in the music of Biggie Smalls and Aaliyah, but her weight continues to climb—until a family tragedy forces her to face the source of her hunger, ultimately shattering her inherited stigmas surrounding women's bodies, and embracing her own desire. Written with vibrant lyricism shot through with tenderness, Big Girl announces Sullivan as an urgent and vital voice in contemporary fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600162Tue, 26 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Girl: A Novel Author: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Girl: A Novel Author: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon. In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils—and undeniable beauty—of insatiable longing. Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malaya hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings; she'd rather paint alone in her bedroom or enjoy forbidden street foods with her father. For Malaya, the pressures of her predominantly white Upper East Side prep school are relentless, as are the expectations passed down from her painfully proper mother and sharp-tongued grandmother. As she comes of age in the 1990s, she finds solace in the music of Biggie Smalls and Aaliyah, but her weight continues to climb—until a family tragedy forces her to face the source of her hunger, ultimately shattering her inherited stigmas surrounding women's bodies, and embracing her own desire. Written with vibrant lyricism shot through with tenderness, Big Girl announces Sullivan as an urgent and vital voice in contemporary fiction.]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ginger-and-me-by-elissa-soave--65202200https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/570372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ginger and Me Author: Elissa Soave Narrator: Charlie Mudie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ‘Funny, touching and wise, I loved it’ Kit de Waal, bestselling author of My Name Is Leon Wendy is lonely but coping. All nineteen-year-old Wendy wants is to drive the 255 bus around Uddingston with her regulars on board, remember to buy milk when it runs out and just to be okay. After her mum died, there’s nobody to remind her to eat and what to do each day. And Wendy is ready to step out of her comfort zone. Each week she shows her social worker the progress she’s made, like the coasters she bought to spruce up the place, even if she forgets to make tea. And she even joins a writers’ group to share the stories she writes, like the one about a bullied boy who goes to Mars. But everything changes when Wendy meets Ginger. A teenager with flaming orange hair, Ginger’s so brave she’s wearing a coat that isn’t even waterproof. For the first time, Wendy has a real best friend. But as they begin the summer of their lives, Wendy wonders if things were simpler before. And that’s before she realizes just how much trouble Ginger is about to get them in… An unforgettable debut novel from the winner of the Primadonna Prize 2019 which will stay with you long after the last page. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Your favourite authors love Elissa Soave ‘Vivid, funny, sad, thought-provoking, acutely observed and full of compassion’ Helen Sedgwick ‘A debut novel to treasure, by turns funny, dark and heartbreaking and I didn’t want it to end!’ Louise Mumford ‘A fascinating and poignant take on friendship and obsession’ Caron McKinlay ‘Startling, sly and full of suspense. Not your ordinary coming of age novel’ Catherine Mayer ‘Full of charm, insight and wit – with the power to break your heart’ C. E. Riley]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/570372Thu, 21 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/570372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ginger and Me Author: Elissa Soave Narrator: Charlie Mudie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/570372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ginger and Me Author: Elissa Soave Narrator: Charlie Mudie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ‘Funny, touching and wise, I loved it’ Kit de Waal, bestselling author of My Name Is Leon Wendy is lonely but coping. All nineteen-year-old Wendy wants is to drive the 255 bus around Uddingston with her regulars on board, remember to buy milk when it runs out and just to be okay. After her mum died, there’s nobody to remind her to eat and what to do each day. And Wendy is ready to step out of her comfort zone. Each week she shows her social worker the progress she’s made, like the coasters she bought to spruce up the place, even if she forgets to make tea. And she even joins a writers’ group to share the stories she writes, like the one about a bullied boy who goes to Mars. But everything changes when Wendy meets Ginger. A teenager with flaming orange hair, Ginger’s so brave she’s wearing a coat that isn’t even waterproof. For the first time, Wendy has a real best friend. But as they begin the summer of their lives, Wendy wonders if things were simpler before. And that’s before she realizes just how much trouble Ginger is about to get them in… An unforgettable debut novel from the winner of the Primadonna Prize 2019 which will stay with you long after the last page. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Your favourite authors love Elissa Soave ‘Vivid, funny, sad, thought-provoking, acutely observed and full of compassion’ Helen Sedgwick ‘A debut novel to treasure, by turns funny, dark and heartbreaking and I didn’t want it to end!’ Louise Mumford ‘A fascinating and poignant take on friendship and obsession’ Caron McKinlay ‘Startling, sly and full of suspense. Not your ordinary coming of age novel’ Catherine Mayer ‘Full of charm, insight and wit – with the power to break your heart’ C. E. Riley]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/infamous-bridgerton-s-wild-little-sister-so-much-fun-sarra-manning-by-lex-croucher--65202168https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Infamous: 'Bridgerton's wild little sister. So much fun!' Sarra Manning Author: Lex Croucher Narrator: Ellie Kendrick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 22-year-old aspiring writer Edith 'Eddie' Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together-climbing trees, throwing grapes at boys, sneaking bottles of wine, practicing kissing . . . But following their debutante ball Rose is suddenly talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified. When Eddie meets charming, renowned poet Nash Nicholson, he invites her to his crumbling Gothic estate in the countryside. The entourage of eccentric artists indulging in pure hedonism is exactly what Eddie needs in order to forget Rose and finish her novel. But Eddie might discover the world of famous literary icons isn't all poems and pleasure . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576082Thu, 21 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Infamous: 'Bridgerton's wild little sister. So much fun!' Sarra Manning Author: Lex Croucher Narrator: Ellie Kendrick Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Infamous: 'Bridgerton's wild little sister. So much fun!' Sarra Manning Author: Lex Croucher Narrator: Ellie Kendrick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 22-year-old aspiring writer Edith 'Eddie' Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together-climbing trees, throwing grapes at boys, sneaking bottles of wine, practicing kissing . . . But following their debutante ball Rose is suddenly talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified. When Eddie meets charming, renowned poet Nash Nicholson, he invites her to his crumbling Gothic estate in the countryside. The entourage of eccentric artists indulging in pure hedonism is exactly what Eddie needs in order to forget Rose and finish her novel. But Eddie might discover the world of famous literary icons isn't all poems and pleasure . . .]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hawk-mountain-a-highly-suspenseful-and-unsettling-literary-thriller-by-conner-habib--65202163https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hawk Mountain: A highly suspenseful and unsettling literary thriller Author: Conner Habib Narrator: Conner Habib Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Thirty-three-year-old Todd is playing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of an approaching figure. Instantly, he recognizes Jack, his high school tormentor. Radiant, repentant, and overjoyed to have 'run into' Todd, Jack suggests a meal to catch up. And can he spend the night? What follows is a fast-paced story of obsession and suspense, as Jack gaslights his way back into Todd's life, pushing his old 'friend' to the brink. Conner Habib's disturbing and emotionally riveting debut is a horror novel about partners and friends, fathers and sons, bullies and scapegoats. 'Dripping with menace...brilliantly written...compelling, shocking and beautiful' Liz Nugent © Conner Habib 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578560Thu, 21 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hawk Mountain: A highly suspenseful and unsettling literary thriller Author: Conner Habib Narrator: Conner Habib Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578560 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hawk Mountain: A highly suspenseful and unsettling literary thriller Author: Conner Habib Narrator: Conner Habib Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 49 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Thirty-three-year-old Todd is playing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of an approaching figure. Instantly, he recognizes Jack, his high school tormentor. Radiant, repentant, and overjoyed to have 'run into' Todd, Jack suggests a meal to catch up. And can he spend the night? What follows is a fast-paced story of obsession and suspense, as Jack gaslights his way back into Todd's life, pushing his old 'friend' to the brink. Conner Habib's disturbing and emotionally riveting debut is a horror novel about partners and friends, fathers and sons, bullies and scapegoats. 'Dripping with menace...brilliantly written...compelling, shocking and beautiful' Liz Nugent © Conner Habib 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-beekeeper-s-war-by-deborah-carr--65202152https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592185 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beekeeper’s War Author: Deborah Carr Narrator: Kitty Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Two women Two wars A secret that threatens to tear them apart 1916 At the onset of war, Nurse Pru le Cuirot left her home in Jersey to care for injured soldiers at Ashbury Manor, Dorset. She wanted to do her bit but she never expected to meet American pilot, Jack Garland, so unlike any man she has ever met. When Jack is sent on a dangerous mission and vanishes, Pru is forced to make an agonising decision… one that will haunt them both forever. 1940 Another lifetime, but another war and Pru’s daughter Emma comes to Ashbury Manor. As Jersey falls to the Germans, Emma is fearful for her mother back home. And when she meets the mysterious beekeeper who lives in the grounds of the manor she finds herself caught up in a web of lies. As past and present collide, will the secrets of her mother’s life finally be resolved? Readers LOVE The Beekeeper’s War: ‘It’s almost impossible to convey how much I enjoyed this book…beautifully written’ Bev ‘I am writing this review in hopes that others will find the story as touching and wonderful as I did…I still can't stop thinking about everything that happened’ Trudy ‘Incredible. One of the best World War I novels I've read… a wonderful novel worth your time’ Debbie ‘I read this book in one day as I was enthralled with it…an endearing story of life back in the war years’ Sue ‘Realistic characters…the tears were streaming down my face by the end’ Patricia ‘A favorite author because her characters and settings seem very real and personal… She has the rare quality of giving a depth of details that makes her readers feel at home with the places and people’ Jane W ‘Great for a weekend read…Its appeal lies in the storytelling itself: the horrors of the war, dangerous circumstances and sacrifices, weak and strong people who either caved in and betrayed others or rose to all challenges feel authentic and real’ Sally ‘Gently paced with vivid characterisation and a balance of heartbreak and heartwarming’ Jane]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592185Thu, 21 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592185 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beekeeper’s War Author: Deborah Carr Narrator: Kitty Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592185 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Beekeeper’s War Author: Deborah Carr Narrator: Kitty Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 43 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Two women Two wars A secret that threatens to tear them apart 1916 At the onset of war, Nurse Pru le Cuirot left her home in Jersey to care for injured soldiers at Ashbury Manor, Dorset. She wanted to do her bit but she never expected to meet American pilot, Jack Garland, so unlike any man she has ever met. When Jack is sent on a dangerous mission and vanishes, Pru is forced to make an agonising decision… one that will haunt them both forever. 1940 Another lifetime, but another war and Pru’s daughter Emma comes to Ashbury Manor. As Jersey falls to the Germans, Emma is fearful for her mother back home. And when she meets the mysterious beekeeper who lives in the grounds of the manor she finds herself caught up in a web of lies. As past and present collide, will the secrets of her mother’s life finally be resolved? Readers LOVE The Beekeeper’s War: ‘It’s almost impossible to convey how much I enjoyed this book…beautifully written’ Bev ‘I am writing this review in hopes that others will find the story as touching and wonderful as I did…I still can't stop thinking about everything that happened’ Trudy ‘Incredible. One of the best World War I novels I've read… a wonderful novel worth your time’ Debbie ‘I read this book in one day as I was enthralled with it…an endearing story of life back in the war years’ Sue ‘Realistic characters…the tears were streaming down my face by the end’ Patricia ‘A favorite author because her characters and settings seem very real and personal… She has the rare quality of giving a depth of details that makes her readers feel at home with the places and people’ Jane W ‘Great for a weekend read…Its appeal lies in the storytelling itself: the horrors of the war, dangerous circumstances and sacrifices, weak and strong people who either caved in and betrayed others or rose to all challenges feel authentic and real’ Sally ‘Gently paced with vivid characterisation and a balance of heartbreak and heartwarming’ Jane]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/after-we-were-stolen-by-brooke-beyfuss--65202132https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After We Were Stolen Author: Brooke Beyfuss Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 170 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 70 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When nineteen-year-old Avery awakens to flames consuming her family's remote compound, she knows it's her only chance to escape her father's grueling survival training, bizarre rules, and gruesome punishments. She and her brother Cole flee the grounds for the first time in their lives, suddenly homeless in a world they know nothing about. After months of hiding out, they are arrested for shoplifting and a shocking discovery is made—Avery and Cole were kidnapped fifteen years earlier, stolen by cult leaders they knew as Mom and Dad. Cole is immediately returned to his birth family, leaving Avery alone and desperate. She is uncertain if her parents survived the fire and is terrified to find out. The loss of Cole and the trauma of her former life threaten to undo her, but when the police investigation reveals there may be more survivors, Avery must uncover the truth about the fire to truly be free. Suspenseful, emotionally charged, and deeply thought-provoking, After We Were Stolen delves into the idea of family—those we're born into and those we make—resilience, and the lengths a cult survivor will go to finally be free of her painful past. Brooke Beyfuss's powerful debut novel sparkles with heart, grit, and extraordinary characters who will stay with you long after the last page.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591422Tue, 19 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After We Were Stolen Author: Brooke Beyfuss Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: July 19,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After We Were Stolen Author: Brooke Beyfuss Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: July 19, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.29 of Total 170 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 70 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When nineteen-year-old Avery awakens to flames consuming her family's remote compound, she knows it's her only chance to escape her father's grueling survival training, bizarre rules, and gruesome punishments. She and her brother Cole flee the grounds for the first time in their lives, suddenly homeless in a world they know nothing about. After months of hiding out, they are arrested for shoplifting and a shocking discovery is made—Avery and Cole were kidnapped fifteen years earlier, stolen by cult leaders they knew as Mom and Dad. Cole is immediately returned to his birth family, leaving Avery alone and desperate. She is uncertain if her parents survived the fire and is terrified to find out. The loss of Cole and the trauma of her former life threaten to undo her, but when the police investigation reveals there may be more survivors, Avery must uncover the truth about the fire to truly be free. Suspenseful, emotionally charged, and deeply thought-provoking, After We Were Stolen delves into the idea of family—those we're born into and those we make—resilience, and the lengths a cult survivor will go to finally be free of her painful past. Brooke Beyfuss's powerful debut novel sparkles with heart, grit, and extraordinary characters who will stay with you long after the last page.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/japanese-wu-jie-by-owen-jones--65202117https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Japanese] - 誤解 Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Natsume Rika Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: July 9, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 「誤解」は、メーガンという名の少女が霊的に目覚めていく２３編に渡る小説シリーズの第１編です。メーガンには霊的な潜在能力があり、彼女もその力に興味を持っているのですが、周りの誰も彼女が何のことを言っているのか分かりません。 いや、もしかしたら分かっているのかもしれません。なぜなら、彼女の祖母も母もできるだけのことをして、メーガンがそれ以上その力について知るのを止めようとしているからです。物語の中では、メーガンの日々の葛藤が綴られています。そして、彼女に高次元から助けの手が差し伸べられた時、メーガンはそれにしがみつき、ゆっくりと霊的な能力を発展させていきます。「誤解」は、メーガンという名の少女が霊的に目覚めていく２３編に渡る小説シリーズの第１編です。メーガンには霊的な潜在能力があり、彼女もその力に興味を持っているのですが、周りの誰も彼女が何のことを言っているのか分かりません。 いや、もしかしたら分かっているのかもしれません。なぜなら、彼女の祖母も母もできるだけのことをして、メーガンがそれ以上その力について知るのを止めようとしているからです。物語の中では、メーガンの日々の葛藤が綴られています。そして、彼女に高次元から助けの手が差し伸べられた時、メーガンはそれにしがみつき、ゆっくりと霊的な能力を発展させていきます。 これはメーガンの覚醒の物語です。 「誤解」は、我々全員が持つ科学では説明できない力についてのお話です。もし人々が当たり前のように超自然を恐れることを止めれば、実はそれは決して不自然なものではなく極普通に存在する力なのです。 この本は、超自然や非科学や哲学について思い馳せる人々に向けられています。高次元の存在が、究極の避けられない運命に達するために、たとえどれだけの時間がかかろうとも経験することになる霊的な進化について書かれています。この物語は、様々な点から真実に基づいています。。 PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613028Sat, 09 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Japanese] - 誤解 Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Natsume Rika Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: July 9, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Japanese] - 誤解 Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Natsume Rika Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 28 minutes Release date: July 9, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 「誤解」は、メーガンという名の少女が霊的に目覚めていく２３編に渡る小説シリーズの第１編です。メーガンには霊的な潜在能力があり、彼女もその力に興味を持っているのですが、周りの誰も彼女が何のことを言っているのか分かりません。 いや、もしかしたら分かっているのかもしれません。なぜなら、彼女の祖母も母もできるだけのことをして、メーガンがそれ以上その力について知るのを止めようとしているからです。物語の中では、メーガンの日々の葛藤が綴られています。そして、彼女に高次元から助けの手が差し伸べられた時、メーガンはそれにしがみつき、ゆっくりと霊的な能力を発展させていきます。「誤解」は、メーガンという名の少女が霊的に目覚めていく２３編に渡る小説シリーズの第１編です。メーガンには霊的な潜在能力があり、彼女もその力に興味を持っているのですが、周りの誰も彼女が何のことを言っているのか分かりません。 いや、もしかしたら分かっているのかもしれません。なぜなら、彼女の祖母も母もできるだけのことをして、メーガンがそれ以上その力について知るのを止めようとしているからです。物語の中では、メーガンの日々の葛藤が綴られています。そして、彼女に高次元から助けの手が差し伸べられた時、メーガンはそれにしがみつき、ゆっくりと霊的な能力を発展させていきます。 これはメーガンの覚醒の物語です。 「誤解」は、我々全員が持つ科学では説明できない力についてのお話です。もし人々が当たり前のように超自然を恐れることを止めれば、実はそれは決して不自然なものではなく極普通に存在する力なのです。 この本は、超自然や非科学や哲学について思い馳せる人々に向けられています。高次元の存在が、究極の避けられない運命に達するために、たとえどれだけの時間がかかろうとも経験することになる霊的な進化について書かれています。この物語は、様々な点から真実に基づいています。。 PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-trio-by-johanna-hedman--65202230https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trio Author: Johanna Hedman Narrator: Maya Lindh, Sam Woolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Sophisticated, mature and richly atmospheric, a debut novel about three young people navigating the risks and possibilities of intimacy For fans of André Aciman, Deborah Levy and the Penguin European Writers series Thora, August and Hugo come from different worlds - one an art school dreamer, one a wealthy scion of the old elite, and one an ordinary boy from out of town. But over the course of two sky-blue summers in Stockholm, they are drawn together magnetically. The novel opens years later, when Hugo, long estranged from Thora and August, is visited by their daughter - who has questions about her parents which she believes Hugo can answer - and the memories of those luminous days come flooding back. Modern yet timeless, poignant and euphoric, The Trio is a novel about the path not taken, the people we might have become, and the relationships which shape and haunt us long after they come to a close. 'An international success before even being published, The Trio is a novel that stands well above the hype... Elegiac, bittersweet, [with] the golden shimmer of nostalgia' Gefle Dagblad 'Mature and confident, delicate and eloquent, a study in intimacy... The Trio creates a greedy sensation within the reader of constantly wanting to pick up a book and read just a few more pages... Timeless and universal' Kult Magasin 'Johanna Hedman should definitely expect to win prizes' Upsala Nya Tidning © Johanna Hedman 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556441Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trio Author: Johanna Hedman Narrator: Maya Lindh, Sam Woolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556441 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Trio Author: Johanna Hedman Narrator: Maya Lindh, Sam Woolf Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Sophisticated, mature and richly atmospheric, a debut novel about three young people navigating the risks and possibilities of intimacy For fans of André Aciman, Deborah Levy and the Penguin European Writers series Thora, August and Hugo come from different worlds - one an art school dreamer, one a wealthy scion of the old elite, and one an ordinary boy from out of town. But over the course of two sky-blue summers in Stockholm, they are drawn together magnetically. The novel opens years later, when Hugo, long estranged from Thora and August, is visited by their daughter - who has questions about her parents which she believes Hugo can answer - and the memories of those luminous days come flooding back. Modern yet timeless, poignant and euphoric, The Trio is a novel about the path not taken, the people we might have become, and the relationships which shape and haunt us long after they come to a close. 'An international success before even being published, The Trio is a novel that stands well above the hype... Elegiac, bittersweet, [with] the golden shimmer of nostalgia' Gefle Dagblad 'Mature and confident, delicate and eloquent, a study in intimacy... The Trio creates a greedy sensation within the reader of constantly wanting to pick up a book and read just a few more pages... Timeless and universal' Kult Magasin 'Johanna Hedman should definitely expect to win prizes' Upsala Nya Tidning © Johanna Hedman 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/berlin-the-dazzling-darkly-funny-debut-that-surprises-at-every-turn-by-bea-setton--65202189https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Berlin: The dazzling, darkly funny debut that surprises at every turn Author: Bea Setton Narrator: Daphne Kouma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Featuring an exclusive bonus interview between the author, Bea Setton, and her commissioning editor, Alice Youell. A fresh, wry, piercingly contemporary debut about a young woman who moves to Berlin to escape her demons - and what she finds there. For fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Exciting Times. In the grip of existential malaise, 25-year-old Daphne moves to Berlin for a fresh start. Far from resolving her quarter-life crisis, things take a turn for the worse. Because Daphne doesn't just have to navigate all the archetypal experiences of an outsider in the big city - acquiring friends and lovers, grappling with the language and a whole new way of life. A series of mysterious and troubling events are in motion - starting with a brick hurled through her bedroom window in the dead of night - and a further unravelling ensues. What is at the heart of these strange events and our troubled heroine? Who is Daphne, really, and what is she running from? © Bea Setton 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562574Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Berlin: The dazzling, darkly funny debut that surprises at every turn Author: Bea Setton Narrator: Daphne Kouma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562574 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Berlin: The dazzling, darkly funny debut that surprises at every turn Author: Bea Setton Narrator: Daphne Kouma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 19 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Featuring an exclusive bonus interview between the author, Bea Setton, and her commissioning editor, Alice Youell. A fresh, wry, piercingly contemporary debut about a young woman who moves to Berlin to escape her demons - and what she finds there. For fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Exciting Times. In the grip of existential malaise, 25-year-old Daphne moves to Berlin for a fresh start. Far from resolving her quarter-life crisis, things take a turn for the worse. Because Daphne doesn't just have to navigate all the archetypal experiences of an outsider in the big city - acquiring friends and lovers, grappling with the language and a whole new way of life. A series of mysterious and troubling events are in motion - starting with a brick hurled through her bedroom window in the dead of night - and a further unravelling ensues. What is at the heart of these strange events and our troubled heroine? Who is Daphne, really, and what is she running from? © Bea Setton 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/other-names-for-love-exceptional-sunjeev-sahota-by-taymour-soomro--65202182https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Other Names for Love: ‘Exceptional’ Sunjeev Sahota Author: Taymour Soomro Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. At age sixteen, Fahad hopes to spend the summer with his mother in London. His father, Rafik, has other plans: hauling his son to Abad, the family's feudal estate. Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family?to make him a man. He enlists Ali, a local teenager, in this project, hoping his presence will prove instructive. Instead, over the course of one hot, indolent season, attraction blooms between the two boys, and Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the land and its inhabitants: the people, who revere and revile his father in turn; cousin Mousey, who lives alone with a man he calls his manager; and most of all, Ali, who threatens to unearth all that is hidden. Decades later, Fahad is living abroad when he receives a call from his mother summoning him home. His return will force him to face the past. Taymour Soomro's Other Names for Love is a tale of masculinity, inheritance, and desire set against the backdrop of a country's troubled history, told with uncommon urgency and beauty. © Taymour Soomro 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573388Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Other Names for Love: ‘Exceptional’ Sunjeev Sahota Author: Taymour Soomro Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Other Names for Love: ‘Exceptional’ Sunjeev Sahota Author: Taymour Soomro Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. At age sixteen, Fahad hopes to spend the summer with his mother in London. His father, Rafik, has other plans: hauling his son to Abad, the family's feudal estate. Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family?to make him a man. He enlists Ali, a local teenager, in this project, hoping his presence will prove instructive. Instead, over the course of one hot, indolent season, attraction blooms between the two boys, and Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the land and its inhabitants: the people, who revere and revile his father in turn; cousin Mousey, who lives alone with a man he calls his manager; and most of all, Ali, who threatens to unearth all that is hidden. Decades later, Fahad is living abroad when he receives a call from his mother summoning him home. His return will force him to face the past. Taymour Soomro's Other Names for Love is a tale of masculinity, inheritance, and desire set against the backdrop of a country's troubled history, told with uncommon urgency and beauty. © Taymour Soomro 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/strangers-and-brothers-an-epic-bbc-radio-4-full-cast-dramatisation-by-c-p-snow--65202159https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strangers and Brothers: An epic BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Author: C.P. Snow Narrator: Anne-Marie Duff, Juliet Aubrey, David Haig, Danny Webb, Adam Godley, Stephen Moore, David Tennant, Full Cast, Bill Wallis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The full-cast BBC Radio adaptation of C. P. Snow's epic series about the English establishment across the twentieth century 'A vivid portrait of British academic, political and public life' Guardian 'A very considerable achievement... It brings into the novel themes and locales never seen before (except perhaps in Trollope)' Anthony Burgess In 1920s Leicester, Lewis Eliot must escape the drudgery of a council clerk's office and his provincial lower class background to begin his decades-long rise to power. As the years pass, and Lewis progresses to successful London lawyer, to Cambridge don, to wartime service in Whitehall, to senior civil servant and finally retirement, he faces in his own life and the lives of those around him collapsing marriages, terrible illness, the politics of academia, Nazism, nuclear weapons, the price of power, and the ever-present realities of war. The New York Times praised the book series, saying, 'through [them] as in no other work in our time we have explored the inner life of the new classless class that is the 20th century Establishment'. John Betjeman claimed the books were 'as full of life as life itself'. The Strangers and Brothers series captures perfectly the ever-present battle between political and personal integrity Lewis must face, as well as all the upheaval and social change of the two world wars and the decades that followed. This adaptation stars David Haig and Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot, Bill Wallis as George Passant, Juliet Aubrey as Margaret Davidson, Stephen Moore as Herbert Getliffe, and Danny Webb as Percy Hall, with a full cast including Jeremy Swift, David Tennant, Anne-Marie Duff, Iain Glen, Claire Skinner and Tim McInnerny. Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, January-June 2003 Full cast: Narrator/Lewis Eliot - David Haig Young Lewis Eliot - Adam Godley George Passant - Bill Wallis Marion - Laura Doddington Sheila Knight - Anastasia Hille Herbert Getliffe - Stephen Moore Percy Hall - Danny Webb Charles March - Jamie Glover Leonard March - John Standing Katherine March - Carla Simpson Ann Simon - Emma Woolliams Mrs Getliffe - Suzanna Hamilton Revd Knight - Brett Usher Young Francis Getliffe - Andy Taylor Winslow - Clive Merrison Young Brown - Philip Franks Roy Calvert - Adam Levy Young Jago - David Calder Nightingale - Jeremy Child Chrystal - Matthew Marsh Crawford - Hugh Quarshie Mrs Jago - Joanna Monroe Sir Horace Timberlake - Ian Hogg Young Hector Rose - Rupert Vansittart Houston Eggar - Peter Marinker Willy Romantovski - Kenneth Collard Gilbert Cooke - Anthony Calf Margaret Davidson/Margaret Eliot - Juliet Aubrey Rosalind - Anne-Marie Duff Betty Vane - Carla Simpson Martin Eliot - Tim McInnerny Walter Luke - Jeremy Swift Irene - Claire Skinner David Rubin - Rolf Saxon Sawbridge - Adrian Scarborough Edgar - Andrew Wincott Captain Smith - Sean Baker Sir Hector Rose - John Carlisle Sir Thomas Beville - Robert Laing Austin Davidson - David Collings Jago - Sean Barrett Dawson Hill - Peter Blythe Skeffington - David Acton Francis Getliffe - Geoffrey Whitehead Brown - Jonathan Coy Donald Howard - David Tennant Roger Quaife - Iain Glen Lord Collingwood - Ronald Pickup Caro Quaife - Julia Watson Lord Gilbey - John Woodvine Diana Skidmore - Avril Clark Phillips - Richard Firth Osbaldiston - David Leonard Brodzinski - Christopher Rozycki Ellen Smith - Emma Bown Monteith - Paul Venables Trafford - Stephen Critchlow © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583315Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strangers and Brothers: An epic BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Author: C.P. Snow Narrator: Anne-Marie Duff, Juliet Aubrey, David Haig, Danny Webb,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583315 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strangers and Brothers: An epic BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Author: C.P. Snow Narrator: Anne-Marie Duff, Juliet Aubrey, David Haig, Danny Webb, Adam Godley, Stephen Moore, David Tennant, Full Cast, Bill Wallis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The full-cast BBC Radio adaptation of C. P. Snow's epic series about the English establishment across the twentieth century 'A vivid portrait of British academic, political and public life' Guardian 'A very considerable achievement... It brings into the novel themes and locales never seen before (except perhaps in Trollope)' Anthony Burgess In 1920s Leicester, Lewis Eliot must escape the drudgery of a council clerk's office and his provincial lower class background to begin his decades-long rise to power. As the years pass, and Lewis progresses to successful London lawyer, to Cambridge don, to wartime service in Whitehall, to senior civil servant and finally retirement, he faces in his own life and the lives of those around him collapsing marriages, terrible illness, the politics of academia, Nazism, nuclear weapons, the price of power, and the ever-present realities of war. The New York Times praised the book series, saying, 'through [them] as in no other work in our time we have explored the inner life of the new classless class that is the 20th century Establishment'. John Betjeman claimed the books were 'as full of life as life itself'. The Strangers and Brothers series captures perfectly the ever-present battle between political and personal integrity Lewis must face, as well as all the upheaval and social change of the two world wars and the decades that followed. This adaptation stars David Haig and Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot, Bill Wallis as George Passant, Juliet Aubrey as Margaret Davidson, Stephen Moore as Herbert Getliffe, and Danny Webb as Percy Hall, with a full cast including Jeremy Swift, David Tennant, Anne-Marie Duff, Iain Glen, Claire Skinner and Tim McInnerny. Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, January-June 2003 Full cast: Narrator/Lewis Eliot - David Haig Young Lewis Eliot - Adam Godley George Passant - Bill Wallis Marion - Laura Doddington Sheila Knight - Anastasia Hille Herbert Getliffe - Stephen Moore Percy Hall - Danny Webb Charles March - Jamie Glover Leonard March - John Standing Katherine March - Carla Simpson Ann Simon - Emma Woolliams Mrs Getliffe - Suzanna Hamilton Revd Knight - Brett Usher Young Francis Getliffe - Andy Taylor Winslow - Clive Merrison Young Brown - Philip Franks Roy Calvert - Adam Levy Young Jago - David Calder Nightingale - Jeremy Child Chrystal - Matthew Marsh Crawford - Hugh Quarshie Mrs Jago - Joanna Monroe Sir Horace Timberlake - Ian Hogg Young Hector Rose - Rupert Vansittart Houston Eggar - Peter Marinker Willy Romantovski - Kenneth Collard Gilbert Cooke - Anthony Calf Margaret Davidson/Margaret Eliot - Juliet Aubrey Rosalind - Anne-Marie Duff Betty Vane - Carla Simpson Martin Eliot - Tim McInnerny Walter Luke - Jeremy Swift Irene - Claire Skinner David Rubin - Rolf Saxon Sawbridge - Adrian Scarborough Edgar - Andrew Wincott Captain Smith - Sean Baker Sir Hector Rose - John Carlisle Sir Thomas Beville - Robert Laing Austin Davidson - David Collings Jago - Sean Barrett Dawson Hill - Peter Blythe Skeffington - David Acton Francis Getliffe - Geoffrey Whitehead Brown - Jonathan Coy Donald Howard - David Tennant Roger Quaife - Iain Glen Lord Collingwood - Ronald Pickup Caro Quaife - Julia Watson Lord Gilbey - John Woodvine Diana Skidmore - Avril Clark Phillips - Richard Firth Osbaldiston - David Leonard Brodzinski - Christopher Rozycki Ellen Smith - Emma Bown...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-cicatriz-by-sara-mesa--65202088https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cicatriz Author: Sara Mesa Narrator: Marta Martín Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 6, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Una inquietante historia de amor y una reflexión sobre la sociedad de consumo. Sonia conoce a Knut en un foro literario de internet y, a pesar de los setecientos kilómetros que los separan, establece con él una particular relación marcada por la obsesión y la extrañeza. Entre la atracción y la repulsión, no puede evitar sentirse fascinada por este personaje insólito y perfeccionista, que vive fuera de toda norma social y que la corteja a través de suntuosos regalos robados. «Le gustaba ir siempre bien vestido, incluso para ir a robar una simple lata de conservas. Tan joven y hablando de escritores del XIX. Filosofando. Cuestionándolo todo. Teorizando sobre el individuo y el grupo, y la hipocresía social, y los chivos expiatorios, y Dios y el destino, la virginidad y el sexo. Solía decir que no hay placer comparable a pensar. Y no, no era petulante ni vanidoso. Era simplemente... exhaustivo.» Su necesidad de poner distancia cuando Knut se vuelve demasiado absorbente, pero también su irrefrenable curiosidad y el ansia de vivir experiencias más allá de una existencia excesivamente reglada, llevarán a Sonia a una doble vida secreta en la que quedará atrapada durante años sin posibilidad de exculparse. En esta inusitada historia, Sara Mesa recupera temas que ya aparecieron en sus primeras obras narrativas, dándoles forma a través de un estilo conciso y eléctrico en un mundo –frío, escasamente comunicativo– cuyas reglas establecen únicamente los propios personajes que lo habitan. Cicatriz no es sólo una inquietante historia de amor descompensado protagonizada por dos seres muy distintos pero a la vez complementarios, es también una reflexión sobre la sociedad de consumo y los robos a gran escala en grandes almacenes, la sumisión y el poder, la anulación del deseo y la carnalidad, el refugio de la infancia, la fantasía como alternativa, la culpa y la expiación, la escritura y la vocación literaria. La autora de la celebrada Cuatro por cuatro (que fue finalista del Premio Herralde de Novela) se confirma con Cicatriz como una de las voces más singulares e imprescindibles de su generación. «Desde una inquietante visión de la contemporaneidad, tanto en Cicatriz como en su anterior novela Cuatro por cuatro, Sara Mesa levanta una literatura de alto voltaje trabajada con precisión de orfebre» (Rafael Chirbes). «En una atmósfera que evoca los laberintos carcelarios de Piranessi y la asfixia del subsuelo dostoievskiano, Sara Mesa nos asoma a un mundo donde anidan la impostura, el acoso que nace del desdén y el desprecio, la provocación implacable, la turbiedad que acabará concretándose en dinero -transacciones-, la sumisión ante el poder, la culpa y su obligada expiación... un mundo que el lector reconoce de inmediato, porque es el nuestro, el de la sociedad de consumo... y del espectáculo» (Ana Rodríguez Fischer, Babelia, El País).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602371Wed, 06 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cicatriz Author: Sara Mesa Narrator: Marta Martín Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 6, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602371 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Cicatriz Author: Sara Mesa Narrator: Marta Martín Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 23 minutes Release date: July 6, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Una inquietante historia de amor y una reflexión sobre la sociedad de consumo. Sonia conoce a Knut en un foro literario de internet y, a pesar de los setecientos kilómetros que los separan, establece con él una particular relación marcada por la obsesión y la extrañeza. Entre la atracción y la repulsión, no puede evitar sentirse fascinada por este personaje insólito y perfeccionista, que vive fuera de toda norma social y que la corteja a través de suntuosos regalos robados. «Le gustaba ir siempre bien vestido, incluso para ir a robar una simple lata de conservas. Tan joven y hablando de escritores del XIX. Filosofando. Cuestionándolo todo. Teorizando sobre el individuo y el grupo, y la hipocresía social, y los chivos expiatorios, y Dios y el destino, la virginidad y el sexo. Solía decir que no hay placer comparable a pensar. Y no, no era petulante ni vanidoso. Era simplemente... exhaustivo.» Su necesidad de poner distancia cuando Knut se vuelve demasiado absorbente, pero también su irrefrenable curiosidad y el ansia de vivir experiencias más allá de una existencia excesivamente reglada, llevarán a Sonia a una doble vida secreta en la que quedará atrapada durante años sin posibilidad de exculparse. En esta inusitada historia, Sara Mesa recupera temas que ya aparecieron en sus primeras obras narrativas, dándoles forma a través de un estilo conciso y eléctrico en un mundo –frío, escasamente comunicativo– cuyas reglas establecen únicamente los propios personajes que lo habitan. Cicatriz no es sólo una inquietante historia de amor descompensado protagonizada por dos seres muy distintos pero a la vez complementarios, es también una reflexión sobre la sociedad de consumo y los robos a gran escala en grandes almacenes, la sumisión y el poder, la anulación del deseo y la carnalidad, el refugio de la infancia, la fantasía como alternativa, la culpa y la expiación, la escritura y la vocación literaria. La autora de la celebrada Cuatro por cuatro (que fue finalista del Premio Herralde de Novela) se confirma con Cicatriz como una de las voces más singulares e imprescindibles de su generación. «Desde una inquietante visión de la contemporaneidad, tanto en Cicatriz como en su anterior novela Cuatro por cuatro, Sara Mesa levanta una literatura de alto voltaje trabajada con precisión de orfebre» (Rafael Chirbes). «En una atmósfera que evoca los laberintos carcelarios de Piranessi y la asfixia del subsuelo dostoievskiano, Sara Mesa nos asoma a un mundo donde anidan la impostura, el acoso que nace del desdén y el desprecio, la provocación implacable, la turbiedad que acabará concretándose en dinero -transacciones-, la sumisión ante el poder, la culpa y su obligada expiación... un mundo que el lector reconoce de inmediato, porque es el nuestro, el de la sociedad de consumo... y del espectáculo» (Ana Rodríguez Fischer, Babelia, El País).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/some-maintenance-required-by-marie-renee-lavoie--65202229https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Some Maintenance Required Author: Marie-Renée Lavoie Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: It is 1993, the last year of school and Laurie’s final spring before adulthood. She works part time at a restaurant and looks after Cindy, her neglected potty-mouthed little neighbor. Like her mother, Laurie devours books and dreams big. Her father works at a garage, where she constantly struggles to keep her car running. It is here that a budding romance intensifies her understanding of class differences and opens her eyes to a more complicated world. With her big heart, she takes Cindy globe-trotting without even leaving town and learns how to come to terms with circumstances beyond her control.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591437Tue, 05 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Some Maintenance Required Author: Marie-Renée Lavoie Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Some Maintenance Required Author: Marie-Renée Lavoie Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: It is 1993, the last year of school and Laurie’s final spring before adulthood. She works part time at a restaurant and looks after Cindy, her neglected potty-mouthed little neighbor. Like her mother, Laurie devours books and dreams big. Her father works at a garage, where she constantly struggles to keep her car running. It is here that a budding romance intensifies her understanding of class differences and opens her eyes to a more complicated world. With her big heart, she takes Cindy globe-trotting without even leaving town and learns how to come to terms with circumstances beyond her control.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/french-le-voyage-scolaire-de-megan-by-owen-jones--65202215https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Le Voyage Scolaire De Megan Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Etienne Beney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 5 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Dans cet épisode de la vie de Megan, elle et le reste des élèves de son année scolaire sont emmenés en sortie scolaire. Ces événements devraient être annuels, mais l'école n'a pas toujours l'argent pour les financer. Celui-ci se révèle être exceptionnel pour Megan car elle entrevoit la vie de personnes qui ont vécu à une époque révolue. Suivez Megan alors qu'elle essaie d'en apprendre davantage sur sa sortie d'école dans le passé et lisez les conseils que son guide spirituel lui donne sur la meilleure façon de le faire.Megan est une adolescente de 13 ans, qui se rend compte qu'elle a des pouvoirs psychiques que les autres n'ont pas. Au début, elle a essayé d'en parler à sa mère, mais avec des conséquences désastreuses, elle a donc appris à se taire à leur sujet. Cependant, certaines personnes ont offert leur aide et un animal a montré une amitié particulière, mais ils n'étaient pas «vivants» au sens normal du terme. Ils étaient décédés. Megan a trois de ces amis: Wacinhinsha, son guide spirituel, qui avait été Sioux dans sa dernière vie sur Terre; son grand-père maternel, Gramps et un énorme tigre de Sibérie appelé Grrr. Wacinhinsha est extrêmement compétent en toutes choses spirituelles, psychiques et paranormales; son grand-père est un «mort» novice et Grrr ne peut parler que le tigre, comme on pourrait l'imaginer et la plupart de cela, bien sûr, est inintelligible pour les humains. Dans cet épisode de la vie de Megan, elle et le reste des élèves de son année scolaire sont emmenés en sortie scolaire. Ces événements devraient être annuels, mais l'école n'a pas toujours l'argent pour les financer. Celui-ci se révèle être exceptionnel pour Megan car elle entrevoit la vie de personnes qui ont vécu à une époque révolue. Suivez Megan alors qu'elle essaie d'en apprendre davantage sur sa sortie d'école dans le passé et lisez les conseils que son guide spirituel lui donne sur la meilleure façon de le faire. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605808Tue, 05 Jul 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Le Voyage Scolaire De Megan Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Etienne Beney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 5 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605808 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Le Voyage Scolaire De Megan Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Etienne Beney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 5 minutes Release date: July 5, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Dans cet épisode de la vie de Megan, elle et le reste des élèves de son année scolaire sont emmenés en sortie scolaire. Ces événements devraient être annuels, mais l'école n'a pas toujours l'argent pour les financer. Celui-ci se révèle être exceptionnel pour Megan car elle entrevoit la vie de personnes qui ont vécu à une époque révolue. Suivez Megan alors qu'elle essaie d'en apprendre davantage sur sa sortie d'école dans le passé et lisez les conseils que son guide spirituel lui donne sur la meilleure façon de le faire.Megan est une adolescente de 13 ans, qui se rend compte qu'elle a des pouvoirs psychiques que les autres n'ont pas. Au début, elle a essayé d'en parler à sa mère, mais avec des conséquences désastreuses, elle a donc appris à se taire à leur sujet. Cependant, certaines personnes ont offert leur aide et un animal a montré une amitié particulière, mais ils n'étaient pas «vivants» au sens normal du terme. Ils étaient décédés. Megan a trois de ces amis: Wacinhinsha, son guide spirituel, qui avait été Sioux dans sa dernière vie sur Terre; son grand-père maternel, Gramps et un énorme tigre de Sibérie appelé Grrr. Wacinhinsha est extrêmement compétent en toutes choses spirituelles, psychiques et paranormales; son grand-père est un «mort» novice et Grrr ne peut parler que le tigre, comme on pourrait l'imaginer et la plupart de cela, bien sûr, est inintelligible pour les humains. Dans cet épisode de la vie de Megan, elle et le reste des élèves de son année scolaire sont emmenés en sortie scolaire. Ces événements devraient être annuels, mais l'école n'a pas toujours l'argent pour les financer. Celui-ci se révèle être exceptionnel pour Megan car elle entrevoit la vie de personnes qui ont vécu à une époque révolue. Suivez Megan alors qu'elle essaie d'en apprendre davantage sur sa sortie d'école dans le passé et lisez les conseils que son guide spirituel lui donne sur la meilleure façon de le faire. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-family-string-by-denise-picton--65202114https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Family String Author: Denise Picton Narrator: Maddy Withington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A darkly funny and poignant coming of age story by an extraordinary new voice Meet Dorcas, a spirited 12-year-old struggling to contain her irrepressible humour and naughty streak in a family of Christadelphians in 1960s Adelaide. She is her mother's least favourite child and always at the bottom of the order on the family's string of beads that she and her younger siblings Ruthy and Caleb reorder according to their mother's ever-changing moods. Dorcas, an aspiring vet, dreams of having a dog, or failing that, a guinea pig named Thruppence. Ruthy wants to attend writing school, and Caleb wants to play footy with the local team. But Christadelphians aren't allowed to be ‘of the world' and when their older brother Daniel is exiled to door knock and spread the good word in New South Wales after being caught making out with Esther Dawlish at youth camp, each try their hardest to suppress their dreams for a bigger life. But for a girl like Dorcas, dreams have a habit of surfacing at the most inopportune moments, and as she strives to be the daughter her mother desires, a chain of mishaps lead to a tragedy no one could have foreseen. This is a superb coming of age story that explores a fraught mother-daughter dynamic, and the secrets adults keep from their children. It is about resilience, and the loves that sustain us when our most essential bonds are tested, and how to find the way back through hope and forgiveness.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603674Thu, 30 Jun 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Family String Author: Denise Picton Narrator: Maddy Withington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603674 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Family String Author: Denise Picton Narrator: Maddy Withington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A darkly funny and poignant coming of age story by an extraordinary new voice Meet Dorcas, a spirited 12-year-old struggling to contain her irrepressible humour and naughty streak in a family of Christadelphians in 1960s Adelaide. She is her mother's least favourite child and always at the bottom of the order on the family's string of beads that she and her younger siblings Ruthy and Caleb reorder according to their mother's ever-changing moods. Dorcas, an aspiring vet, dreams of having a dog, or failing that, a guinea pig named Thruppence. Ruthy wants to attend writing school, and Caleb wants to play footy with the local team. But Christadelphians aren't allowed to be ‘of the world' and when their older brother Daniel is exiled to door knock and spread the good word in New South Wales after being caught making out with Esther Dawlish at youth camp, each try their hardest to suppress their dreams for a bigger life. But for a girl like Dorcas, dreams have a habit of surfacing at the most inopportune moments, and as she strives to be the daughter her mother desires, a chain of mishaps lead to a tragedy no one could have foreseen. This is a superb coming of age story that explores a fraught mother-daughter dynamic, and the secrets adults keep from their children. It is about resilience, and the loves that sustain us when our most essential bonds are tested, and how to find the way back through hope and forgiveness.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/megan-faces-derision-by-owen-jones--65202095https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604100 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Megan Faces Derision Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Robert Sebastian Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 29, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Megan Faces Derision (volume 8): In this episode, Megan receives mild, but irritating bullying at school because of the mistakes she makes at reading. Her parents are not sure of the cause of the problem, but it could be dyslexia. She finds the whole affair rather embarrassing, but she eventually discusses the matter with her parents. Megan overcomes the bullying in her own unique way with a little amusing help from her father.The Psychic Megan Series consists of twenty-three novelettes about a young girl's growing realisation that she is able to do things that none of her family can. Megan is twelve years old in the first volume. She has two seemingly insurmountable problems. Her mother is frightened of her daughter's latent abilities and not only will not help her but actively discourages her; and she can't find a teacher to help her develop her supernatural, psychic powers. For she wants not only to know what it is possible to do and how to do it, but to what end she should put her special abilities. Megan is a good girl, so it would seem obvious that she would tend towards using her powers for good, but it is not always easy to do the right thing even if you know what that is. These stories about Megan will appeal to anyone who has an interest in psychic powers, the supernatural and the paranormal and is between the ages of ten and a hundred years old. Megan Faces Derision (volume 8): In this episode, Megan receives mild, but irritating bullying at school because of the mistakes she makes at reading. Her parents are not sure of the cause of the problem, but it could be dyslexia. She finds the whole affair rather embarrassing, but she eventually discusses the matter with her parents. Megan overcomes the bullying in her own unique way with a little amusing help from her father. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604100Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604100 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Megan Faces Derision Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Robert Sebastian Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 29,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604100 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Megan Faces Derision Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Robert Sebastian Cooper Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 29, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Megan Faces Derision (volume 8): In this episode, Megan receives mild, but irritating bullying at school because of the mistakes she makes at reading. Her parents are not sure of the cause of the problem, but it could be dyslexia. She finds the whole affair rather embarrassing, but she eventually discusses the matter with her parents. Megan overcomes the bullying in her own unique way with a little amusing help from her father.The Psychic Megan Series consists of twenty-three novelettes about a young girl's growing realisation that she is able to do things that none of her family can. Megan is twelve years old in the first volume. She has two seemingly insurmountable problems. Her mother is frightened of her daughter's latent abilities and not only will not help her but actively discourages her; and she can't find a teacher to help her develop her supernatural, psychic powers. For she wants not only to know what it is possible to do and how to do it, but to what end she should put her special abilities. Megan is a good girl, so it would seem obvious that she would tend towards using her powers for good, but it is not always easy to do the right thing even if you know what that is. These stories about Megan will appeal to anyone who has an interest in psychic powers, the supernatural and the paranormal and is between the ages of ten and a hundred years old. Megan Faces Derision (volume 8): In this episode, Megan receives mild, but irritating bullying at school because of the mistakes she makes at reading. Her parents are not sure of the cause of the problem, but it could be dyslexia. She finds the whole affair rather embarrassing, but she eventually discusses the matter with her parents. Megan overcomes the bullying in her own unique way with a little amusing help from her father. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/megan-s-school-trip-by-owen-jones--65202216https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Megan's School Trip Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Kim Somers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Megan's School Trip (volume 3): The staff are organising a school trip, and the pupils can vote on where they want to go. Megan is confused about her first vote, but gets to go where she wants to go. She loves the trip, and explores the prehistoric cave site with Grrr, her ghost tiger friend. She seems to be transported back into those ancient times, but doesn't find it scary, because her friend is with her. She later discusses her experience with her Spirit Guide, Wacinhinsha.The Psychic Megan Series consists of twenty-three novelettes about a young girl's growing realisation that she is able to do things that none of her family can. Megan is twelve years old in the first volume. She has two seemingly insurmountable problems. Her mother is frightened of her daughter's latent abilities and not only will not help her but actively discourages her; and she can't find a teacher to help her develop her supernatural, psychic powers. For she wants not only to know what it is possible to do and how to do it, but to what end she should put her special abilities. Megan is a good girl, so it would seem obvious that she would tend towards using her powers for good, but it is not always easy to do the right thing even if you know what that is. These stories about Megan will appeal to anyone who has an interest in psychic powers, the supernatural and the paranormal and is between the ages of ten and a hundred years old. Megan's School Trip (volume 3): The staff are organising a school trip, and the pupils can vote on where they want to go. Megan is confused about her first vote, but gets to go where she wants to go. She loves the trip, and explores the prehistoric cave site with Grrr, her ghost tiger friend. She seems to be transported back into those ancient times, but doesn't find it scary, because her friend is with her. She later discusses her experience with her Spirit Guide, Wacinhinsha. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604098Tue, 28 Jun 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Megan's School Trip Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Kim Somers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Megan's School Trip Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Kim Somers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 1 minute Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Megan's School Trip (volume 3): The staff are organising a school trip, and the pupils can vote on where they want to go. Megan is confused about her first vote, but gets to go where she wants to go. She loves the trip, and explores the prehistoric cave site with Grrr, her ghost tiger friend. She seems to be transported back into those ancient times, but doesn't find it scary, because her friend is with her. She later discusses her experience with her Spirit Guide, Wacinhinsha.The Psychic Megan Series consists of twenty-three novelettes about a young girl's growing realisation that she is able to do things that none of her family can. Megan is twelve years old in the first volume. She has two seemingly insurmountable problems. Her mother is frightened of her daughter's latent abilities and not only will not help her but actively discourages her; and she can't find a teacher to help her develop her supernatural, psychic powers. For she wants not only to know what it is possible to do and how to do it, but to what end she should put her special abilities. Megan is a good girl, so it would seem obvious that she would tend towards using her powers for good, but it is not always easy to do the right thing even if you know what that is. These stories about Megan will appeal to anyone who has an interest in psychic powers, the supernatural and the paranormal and is between the ages of ten and a hundred years old. Megan's School Trip (volume 3): The staff are organising a school trip, and the pupils can vote on where they want to go. Megan is confused about her first vote, but gets to go where she wants to go. She loves the trip, and explores the prehistoric cave site with Grrr, her ghost tiger friend. She seems to be transported back into those ancient times, but doesn't find it scary, because her friend is with her. She later discusses her experience with her Spirit Guide, Wacinhinsha. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-heart-of-the-deal-by-lindsay-macmillan--65202228https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart of the Deal Author: Lindsay Macmillan Narrator: Rachel L. Jacobs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Rae is in a romantic recession. The Wall Street banker is single in New York City and overwhelmed by the pressure to scramble up the corporate and romantic ladders. Feeling her biological clock ticking, she analyzes her love life like a business deal and vows to lock in a husband before her 30th birthday. The Manhattan dating-app scene has as many ups and downs as the stock market, and outsourcing dates to an algorithm isn’t exactly Rae’s idea of romance. She considers cutting her losses, but her friends help her stay invested, boosting her spirits with ice cream and cheap wine that they share in their sixth-floor walk-up while recapping cringe-worthy dates. And then Rae meets Dustin, a poetic soul trapped in a business suit, just like her. She starts to hear wedding bells, but Dustin’s story is a complicated one, and no amount of financial modeling can project what their future will look like. Can Rae free herself from the idea she had of what thirty was supposed to look like and let love breathe on its own timeline? Or is she too conditioned to stay on the “right track” to follow her unpaved intuition? Moving, funny, and timely, The Heart of the Deal is the story of one woman’s reckoning with what success really is in a city, an industry, and a relationship whose low lows continually challenge the enchantment of the high highs.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575957Tue, 07 Jun 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart of the Deal Author: Lindsay Macmillan Narrator: Rachel L. Jacobs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: June...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575957 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart of the Deal Author: Lindsay Macmillan Narrator: Rachel L. Jacobs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 1 minute Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Rae is in a romantic recession. The Wall Street banker is single in New York City and overwhelmed by the pressure to scramble up the corporate and romantic ladders. Feeling her biological clock ticking, she analyzes her love life like a business deal and vows to lock in a husband before her 30th birthday. The Manhattan dating-app scene has as many ups and downs as the stock market, and outsourcing dates to an algorithm isn’t exactly Rae’s idea of romance. She considers cutting her losses, but her friends help her stay invested, boosting her spirits with ice cream and cheap wine that they share in their sixth-floor walk-up while recapping cringe-worthy dates. And then Rae meets Dustin, a poetic soul trapped in a business suit, just like her. She starts to hear wedding bells, but Dustin’s story is a complicated one, and no amount of financial modeling can project what their future will look like. Can Rae free herself from the idea she had of what thirty was supposed to look like and let love breathe on its own timeline? Or is she too conditioned to stay on the “right track” to follow her unpaved intuition? Moving, funny, and timely, The Heart of the Deal is the story of one woman’s reckoning with what success really is in a city, an industry, and a relationship whose low lows continually challenge the enchantment of the high highs.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-malentendido-by-owen-jones--65202138https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El Malentendido Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Vanesa Gomez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: El Malentendido es el primer relato de una serie de veintitrés novelas cortas sobre el desarrollo espiritual de una niña llamada Megan. Tiene poderes supernaturales que hacen que sienta curiosidad por ellos, pero nadie más parece tener idea de sobre qué está hablando Megan. ...¿o sí lo saben? Porque tanto su abuela como su madre hacen todo lo que está a su alcance para impedirle que averigüe más. El relato muestra la frustración de Megan con los vivos, así que cuando le llega ayuda del Más Allá, la aferra con los brazos abiertos y lentamente desarrolla sus poderes sobrenaturales. Trata sobre el Despertar de Megan. El Malentendido es sobre los poderes paranormales que se encuentran en todos nosotros, lo que los volvería no tanto paranormales como completamente normales, si la gente no tuviera tanto miedo de lo sobrenatural, lo que también es bastante normal. Éste es un libro para quienquiera que se hubiera preguntado alguna vez sobre lo sobrenatural, paranormal o metafísico.El Malentendido es el primer relato de una serie de veintitrés novelas cortas sobre el desarrollo espiritual de una niña llamada Megan. Tiene poderes supernaturales que hacen que sienta curiosidad por ellos, pero nadie más parece tener idea de sobre qué está hablando Megan. ...¿o sí lo saben? Porque tanto su abuela como su madre hacen todo lo que está a su alcance para impedirle que averigüe más. El relato muestra la frustración de Megan con los vivos, así que cuando le llega ayuda del Más Allá, la aferra con los brazos abiertos y lentamente desarrolla sus poderes sobrenaturales. Trata sobre el Despertar de Megan. El Malentendido es sobre los poderes paranormales que se encuentran en todos nosotros, lo que los volvería no tanto paranormales como completamente normales, si la gente no tuviera tanto miedo de lo sobrenatural, lo que también es bastante normal. Éste es un libro para quienquiera que se hubiera preguntado alguna vez sobre lo sobrenatural, paranormal o metafísico. Trata sobre el desarrollo espiritual, normal por el que deben pasar todas las formas superiores de vida con el objeto de alcanzar su destino último e inevitable, no importa cuánto tiempo les tome hacerlo. Estos relatos se basan en más de un sentido sobre hechos reales. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600022Tue, 07 Jun 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El Malentendido Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Vanesa Gomez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 7,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El Malentendido Author: Owen Jones Narrator: Vanesa Gomez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: El Malentendido es el primer relato de una serie de veintitrés novelas cortas sobre el desarrollo espiritual de una niña llamada Megan. Tiene poderes supernaturales que hacen que sienta curiosidad por ellos, pero nadie más parece tener idea de sobre qué está hablando Megan. ...¿o sí lo saben? Porque tanto su abuela como su madre hacen todo lo que está a su alcance para impedirle que averigüe más. El relato muestra la frustración de Megan con los vivos, así que cuando le llega ayuda del Más Allá, la aferra con los brazos abiertos y lentamente desarrolla sus poderes sobrenaturales. Trata sobre el Despertar de Megan. El Malentendido es sobre los poderes paranormales que se encuentran en todos nosotros, lo que los volvería no tanto paranormales como completamente normales, si la gente no tuviera tanto miedo de lo sobrenatural, lo que también es bastante normal. Éste es un libro para quienquiera que se hubiera preguntado alguna vez sobre lo sobrenatural, paranormal o metafísico.El Malentendido es el primer relato de una serie de veintitrés novelas cortas sobre el desarrollo espiritual de una niña llamada Megan. Tiene poderes supernaturales que hacen que sienta curiosidad por ellos, pero nadie más parece tener idea de sobre qué está hablando Megan. ...¿o sí lo saben? Porque tanto su abuela como su madre hacen todo lo que está a su alcance para impedirle que averigüe más. El relato muestra la frustración de Megan con los vivos, así que cuando le llega ayuda del Más Allá, la aferra con los brazos abiertos y lentamente desarrolla sus poderes sobrenaturales. Trata sobre el Despertar de Megan. El Malentendido es sobre los poderes paranormales que se encuentran en todos nosotros, lo que los volvería no tanto paranormales como completamente normales, si la gente no tuviera tanto miedo de lo sobrenatural, lo que también es bastante normal. Éste es un libro para quienquiera que se hubiera preguntado alguna vez sobre lo sobrenatural, paranormal o metafísico. Trata sobre el desarrollo espiritual, normal por el que deben pasar todas las formas superiores de vida con el objeto de alcanzar su destino último e inevitable, no importa cuánto tiempo les tome hacerlo. Estos relatos se basan en más de un sentido sobre hechos reales. PUBLISHER: TEKTIME]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-barrens-a-novel-of-love-and-death-in-the-canadian-arctic-by-ellie-johnson-kurt-johnson--65202101https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Barrens: A Novel of Love and Death in the Canadian Arctic Author: Ellie Johnson, Kurt Johnson Narrator: Erica Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: This riveting debut is at once a white-water adventure, coming-of-age novel, and tale of tragic love—and an extraordinary father-daughter collaboration. Two young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a group of skilled paddlers she trained with at camp, and she wants to share that experience with her friend and lover, Lee, believing it will draw them closer. But a week in, Holly, the risk-taker, falls while taking a selfie near the edge of a cliff. She is left injured and comatose, and soon dies. Their locator beacon for summoning rescue was smashed in Holly’s fall. It remains to Lee, the inexperienced paddler, to continue the grueling and dangerous trip alone, to save herself and return her lover’s body to civilization and Holly’s family. In their relationship, Holly and Lee had always told each other stories; Lee had called Holly a “storyist.” Storytelling helps Lee endure the rigors of her journey and engage her grief as she explores her relationship with Holly while chronicling her own coming-of-age off the grid in Nebraska with her estranged eco-anarchist father, who is now serving time in prison.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622409Tue, 07 Jun 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Barrens: A Novel of Love and Death in the Canadian Arctic Author: Ellie Johnson, Kurt Johnson Narrator: Erica Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622409 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Barrens: A Novel of Love and Death in the Canadian Arctic Author: Ellie Johnson, Kurt Johnson Narrator: Erica Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: June 7, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: This riveting debut is at once a white-water adventure, coming-of-age novel, and tale of tragic love—and an extraordinary father-daughter collaboration. Two young women attending college decide to have a summer adventure canoeing the rapids-strewn Thelon River that runs 450 miles through the uninhabited Barren Lands of subarctic Canada. Holly made the trip once before with a group of skilled paddlers she trained with at camp, and she wants to share that experience with her friend and lover, Lee, believing it will draw them closer. But a week in, Holly, the risk-taker, falls while taking a selfie near the edge of a cliff. She is left injured and comatose, and soon dies. Their locator beacon for summoning rescue was smashed in Holly’s fall. It remains to Lee, the inexperienced paddler, to continue the grueling and dangerous trip alone, to save herself and return her lover’s body to civilization and Holly’s family. In their relationship, Holly and Lee had always told each other stories; Lee had called Holly a “storyist.” Storytelling helps Lee endure the rigors of her journey and engage her grief as she explores her relationship with Holly while chronicling her own coming-of-age off the grid in Nebraska with her estranged eco-anarchist father, who is now serving time in prison.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-los-optimistas-by-rebecca-makkai--65202177https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los optimistas Author: Rebecca Makkai Narrator: Ana C. Doñoro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Yale Tishman es uno de los muchos amigos de Nico que se han reunido para honrar su memoria en una pequeña fiesta. A la misma hora, no muy lejos de allí, se celebra en una iglesia el funeral oficial, organizado por la familia, que ha dejado bien claro que sus amigos no son bienvenidos. Es Chicago, es 1985, y esos amigos son homosexuales. En otros tiempos, tal vez, Yale lo habría tenido todo para ser feliz: una relación estable, un grupo de amigos muy unido y una carrera prometedora. Sin embargo, es Chicago, es 1985, y el SIDA causa verdaderos estragos: uno a uno, sus amigos enferman, y cada día que pasa el virus estrecha más su cerco alrededor de Yale. Pronto, solo podrá apoyarse en la hermana pequeña de Nico, Fiona. Tres décadas después, Fiona está en París, tratando de localizar a su hija, que hace años le dio la espalda y desapareció. Hospedada en la casa de un amigo de los viejos tiempos, Fiona aún lidia con las devastadoras secuelas que aquella época terrible tuvo para su vida y la relación con su hija. Entrelazando las historias de Yale y Fiona, Rebecca Makkai nos ofrece una formidable novela que reflexiona sobre la enfermedad y la muerte, pero ante todo sobre el poder de la vida, el amor y la amistad. Los optimistas recrea con fidelidad el día a día de la comunidad gay en los ochenta, la paradójica atmósfera de vitalidad y esperanza por las libertades ganadas, y de incertidumbre y miedo en una época en la que un test positivo equivalía a una sentencia de muerte. Brutal y emotiva, esta novela retrata con gran humanidad a unos seres optimistas que incluso en medio del más pavoroso desastre continúan creyendo en la bondad.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593569Tue, 31 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los optimistas Author: Rebecca Makkai Narrator: Ana C. Doñoro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 31,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Los optimistas Author: Rebecca Makkai Narrator: Ana C. Doñoro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Yale Tishman es uno de los muchos amigos de Nico que se han reunido para honrar su memoria en una pequeña fiesta. A la misma hora, no muy lejos de allí, se celebra en una iglesia el funeral oficial, organizado por la familia, que ha dejado bien claro que sus amigos no son bienvenidos. Es Chicago, es 1985, y esos amigos son homosexuales. En otros tiempos, tal vez, Yale lo habría tenido todo para ser feliz: una relación estable, un grupo de amigos muy unido y una carrera prometedora. Sin embargo, es Chicago, es 1985, y el SIDA causa verdaderos estragos: uno a uno, sus amigos enferman, y cada día que pasa el virus estrecha más su cerco alrededor de Yale. Pronto, solo podrá apoyarse en la hermana pequeña de Nico, Fiona. Tres décadas después, Fiona está en París, tratando de localizar a su hija, que hace años le dio la espalda y desapareció. Hospedada en la casa de un amigo de los viejos tiempos, Fiona aún lidia con las devastadoras secuelas que aquella época terrible tuvo para su vida y la relación con su hija. Entrelazando las historias de Yale y Fiona, Rebecca Makkai nos ofrece una formidable novela que reflexiona sobre la enfermedad y la muerte, pero ante todo sobre el poder de la vida, el amor y la amistad. Los optimistas recrea con fidelidad el día a día de la comunidad gay en los ochenta, la paradójica atmósfera de vitalidad y esperanza por las libertades ganadas, y de incertidumbre y miedo en una época en la que un test positivo equivalía a una sentencia de muerte. Brutal y emotiva, esta novela retrata con gran humanidad a unos seres optimistas que incluso en medio del más pavoroso desastre continúan creyendo en la bondad.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-seamstress-of-new-orleans-by-diane-c-mcphail--65202171https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seamstress of New Orleans Author: Diane C. Mcphail Narrator: Jessica Marchbank Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The year 1900 ushers in a new century and the promise of social change, and women rise together toward equality. Yet rules and restrictions remain, especially for women like Alice Butterworth, whose husband has abruptly disappeared. Desperate to make a living for herself and the child she carries, Alice leaves Chicago far behind, offering sewing lessons at a New Orleans orphanage. Constance Halstead, a young widow, has thrown herself into charitable work. Meeting Alice at the orphanage, she offers lodging in exchange for Alice's help creating a gown for the Leap Year ball of Les Mysterieuses, the first all female krewe of Mardi Gras. During Leap Years, women have the rare opportunity to take control in their interactions with men, and upend social convention. Piece by piece, the breathtaking gown takes shape, becoming a symbol of strength for both women. But Constance carries a burden that makes it impossible to feel truly free. Her husband, Benton, whose death remains a dangerous mystery, was deep in debt to the Black Hand, the vicious gangsters who controlled New Orleans's notorious Storyville district. Benton's death has not satisfied them. And as the Mardi Gras festivities reach their fruition, a secret emerges that will cement the bond between Alice and Constance even as it threatens the lives they're building . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578174Tue, 31 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seamstress of New Orleans Author: Diane C. Mcphail Narrator: Jessica Marchbank Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Seamstress of New Orleans Author: Diane C. Mcphail Narrator: Jessica Marchbank Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The year 1900 ushers in a new century and the promise of social change, and women rise together toward equality. Yet rules and restrictions remain, especially for women like Alice Butterworth, whose husband has abruptly disappeared. Desperate to make a living for herself and the child she carries, Alice leaves Chicago far behind, offering sewing lessons at a New Orleans orphanage. Constance Halstead, a young widow, has thrown herself into charitable work. Meeting Alice at the orphanage, she offers lodging in exchange for Alice's help creating a gown for the Leap Year ball of Les Mysterieuses, the first all female krewe of Mardi Gras. During Leap Years, women have the rare opportunity to take control in their interactions with men, and upend social convention. Piece by piece, the breathtaking gown takes shape, becoming a symbol of strength for both women. But Constance carries a burden that makes it impossible to feel truly free. Her husband, Benton, whose death remains a dangerous mystery, was deep in debt to the Black Hand, the vicious gangsters who controlled New Orleans's notorious Storyville district. Benton's death has not satisfied them. And as the Mardi Gras festivities reach their fruition, a secret emerges that will cement the bond between Alice and Constance even as it threatens the lives they're building . . .]]>1805cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/things-i-wanted-to-say-but-never-did-by-monica-murphy--65202104https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621459 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Things I Wanted to Say (But Never Did) Author: Monica Murphy Narrator: Allie Piper, Joe Arden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy comes a brand new dark and twisted bully romance full of secrets and lies … Whit Lancaster burst into my life like a storm. Dark and thunderous, furious and fierce. Cold, heartless, and devastatingly beautiful, like the statues in our prep school gardens. The school with his family name on the sign. He can do no wrong here. This is his domain. He’s a menace on campus. Adored and feared. Hated and respected. His taunting words carve into my skin, shredding me to ribbons. Yet his intense gaze scorches my blood, fills me with a longing I don’t understand. When he comes to my rescue one night, he ends up broken. Bleeding. My instincts scream to leave and let him suffer, but I can’t. I sneak him into my room. Clean him up. Fall for his lies. Let him possess every single part of me until I’m the one left a gasping, broken mess. Then he leaves me alone in the dead of night, taking my journal with him. Now he knows all my secrets. My hate. My truth. And he promises to use my words against me. I’ll be ruined if my darkest secret gets out. That’s when I strike a bargain with the devil. I’ll let Whit Lancaster ruin me behind closed doors instead. Things I Wanted to Say (but never did) is a complete standalone. This edgy bully romance contains dark scenes some listeners may find uncomfortable to hear. Listener discretion is advised.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621459Tue, 31 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621459 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Things I Wanted to Say (But Never Did) Author: Monica Murphy Narrator: Allie Piper, Joe Arden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 25 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/621459 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Things I Wanted to Say (But Never Did) Author: Monica Murphy Narrator: Allie Piper, Joe Arden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 25 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy comes a brand new dark and twisted bully romance full of secrets and lies … Whit Lancaster burst into my life like a storm. Dark and thunderous, furious and fierce. Cold, heartless, and devastatingly beautiful, like the statues in our prep school gardens. The school with his family name on the sign. He can do no wrong here. This is his domain. He’s a menace on campus. Adored and feared. Hated and respected. His taunting words carve into my skin, shredding me to ribbons. Yet his intense gaze scorches my blood, fills me with a longing I don’t understand. When he comes to my rescue one night, he ends up broken. Bleeding. My instincts scream to leave and let him suffer, but I can’t. I sneak him into my room. Clean him up. Fall for his lies. Let him possess every single part of me until I’m the one left a gasping, broken mess. Then he leaves me alone in the dead of night, taking my journal with him. Now he knows all my secrets. My hate. My truth. And he promises to use my words against me. I’ll be ruined if my darkest secret gets out. That’s when I strike a bargain with the devil. I’ll let Whit Lancaster ruin me behind closed doors instead. Things I Wanted to Say (but never did) is a complete standalone. This edgy bully romance contains dark scenes some listeners may find uncomfortable to hear. Listener discretion is advised.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-island-of-forgetting-by-jasmine-sealy--65202237https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Island of Forgetting Author: Jasmine Sealy Narrator: Varia Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 26, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ‘Inventive, excellent … a pure pleasure to read’ THE TIMES In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados. In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados. There is Iapetus, a lonely soul haunted by the memory of his father; his son Atlas, dreaming of a life far removed from his reality; Atlas’s daughter Calypso, struggling to find her place in an unforgiving society; and her son Nautilus, grappling with various parts of a complex identity. Each longs to escape their circumstances but find themselves trapped by a history found only in whispers and half-remembered fragments. And with every passing decade, another generation must contend with the same question: how can the things we don’t know define our futures? Spanning fifty years, The Island of Forgetting is a powerful saga of family and hope that marks the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction. THE TIMES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555963Thu, 26 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Island of Forgetting Author: Jasmine Sealy Narrator: Varia Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 26,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555963 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Island of Forgetting Author: Jasmine Sealy Narrator: Varia Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: May 26, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ‘Inventive, excellent … a pure pleasure to read’ THE TIMES In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados. In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados. There is Iapetus, a lonely soul haunted by the memory of his father; his son Atlas, dreaming of a life far removed from his reality; Atlas’s daughter Calypso, struggling to find her place in an unforgiving society; and her son Nautilus, grappling with various parts of a complex identity. Each longs to escape their circumstances but find themselves trapped by a history found only in whispers and half-remembered fragments. And with every passing decade, another generation must contend with the same question: how can the things we don’t know define our futures? Spanning fifty years, The Island of Forgetting is a powerful saga of family and hope that marks the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction. THE TIMES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-en-cada-latido-by-alejandro-ordonez--65202153https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - En cada latido Author: Alejandro Ordóñez Narrator: Montse Meraz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 26, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Atrévete a mirar al amor a los ojos en las páginas de En cada latido,la novela debut de Alejandro Ordóñez, autor de Ojalá te enamores, entre otros éxitos de prosa poética. A pesar de ser una romántica empedernida, la vida amorosa de Eva deja mucho que desear: la relación con su novio está desgastada y sabe que solo es cuestión de tiempo para que la bomba estalle… y quién sabe qué quede de pie cuando el humo se disipe. Cuando inevitablemente llega el punto de quiebre, Eva decide dejarlo todo atrás, incluido ese trabajo que tanto odia, lanzándose al vacío en la búsqueda de su propósito verdadero, aquello que la hace realmente feliz: escribir las historias de amor de personas desconocidas. Así es como un día llega a ella el caso de un amor que ha perseverado a través de los años y la distancia. Tratando de llegar al fondo de esta historia, Eva logrará sanarse a sí misma y, quizá, encontrará aquello que tanto ha estado buscando.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594460Thu, 26 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - En cada latido Author: Alejandro Ordóñez Narrator: Montse Meraz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/594460 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - En cada latido Author: Alejandro Ordóñez Narrator: Montse Meraz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: May 26, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Atrévete a mirar al amor a los ojos en las páginas de En cada latido,la novela debut de Alejandro Ordóñez, autor de Ojalá te enamores, entre otros éxitos de prosa poética. A pesar de ser una romántica empedernida, la vida amorosa de Eva deja mucho que desear: la relación con su novio está desgastada y sabe que solo es cuestión de tiempo para que la bomba estalle… y quién sabe qué quede de pie cuando el humo se disipe. Cuando inevitablemente llega el punto de quiebre, Eva decide dejarlo todo atrás, incluido ese trabajo que tanto odia, lanzándose al vacío en la búsqueda de su propósito verdadero, aquello que la hace realmente feliz: escribir las historias de amor de personas desconocidas. Así es como un día llega a ella el caso de un amor que ha perseverado a través de los años y la distancia. Tratando de llegar al fondo de esta historia, Eva logrará sanarse a sí misma y, quizá, encontrará aquello que tanto ha estado buscando.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-vida-verdadera-by-adeline-dieudonne--65202148https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La vida verdadera Author: Adeline Dieudonné Narrator: Cristal álvarez Lázare Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 26, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Un fenómeno literario en Francia. Ácida, implacable y divertida, La vida verdadera atrapará a los lectores desde la primera línea por el impacto emocional de la historia y la sorprendente madurez de su protagonista, una niña obligada a crecer en un entorno del que es imposible salir indemne. Distinguida en Francia y Bélgica con los galardones más prestigiosos, La vida verdadera ha conquistado a los lectores europeos gracias a su poderosa voz narrativa, la frescura de su estilo y una historia palpitante con las dosis precisas de ternura, desasosiego y humor. Una primera novela que para las generaciones más jóvenes se ha convertido en un manual de supervivencia en un ambiente hostil. En la década de los noventa, una niña de once años reside con su familia en la Demo, una lóbrega urbanización de «una cincuentena de chalets grises alineados como lápidas». En su casa hay cuatro habitaciones: la suya, la de su hermanito Gilles, la de sus progenitores y «la de los cadáveres», ocupada por los trofeos de caza de un padre cuyos imprevisibles ataques de ira han convertido a la madre, a los ojos de la niña, en una «ameba». El único apoyo afectivo de esta muchacha de imaginación desbordante, dotada de un talento innato para las matemáticas y la física, es el pequeño Gilles, de seis años. Juntos esperan cada día la llegada de la camioneta de los helados mientras juegan entre coches abandonados o visitan a Monica, una excéntrica cuentacuentos del vecino bosque de los Colgaditos. Un día cualquiera, sin embargo, un brutal accidente destruye su mundo y ya nada volverá a ser lo mismo. La crítica ha dicho... «Una voz nueva con una energía formidable. Impresionante». Pierre Assouline, La République des Livres «Un estreno implacable y arrollador». Jérôme Garcin, Le Nouvel Observateur «Una heroína que es un prodigio de libertad e inteligencia». Bruno Corty, Le Figaro «La mejor primera novela de la rentrée literaria». François Busnel, La Grande Librairie «Un espectáculo de magia». Amélie Nothomb «La inocencia de los cuentos de hadas con el terror de un thriller de Stephen King.» Bernard Lehut, RTL «Una novela ingeniosa, alentadora y exitosa.» Corriere della Sera «Un sorprendente debut que aborda asuntos sombríos con sinceridad, chispa y humor. Una primera novela profundamente inquietante, furiosamente tierna y sombríamente cómica.» Kirkus Reviews]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587546Thu, 26 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La vida verdadera Author: Adeline Dieudonné Narrator: Cristal álvarez Lázare Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 26 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/587546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La vida verdadera Author: Adeline Dieudonné Narrator: Cristal álvarez Lázare Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 26 minutes Release date: May 26, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Un fenómeno literario en Francia. Ácida, implacable y divertida, La vida verdadera atrapará a los lectores desde la primera línea por el impacto emocional de la historia y la sorprendente madurez de su protagonista, una niña obligada a crecer en un entorno del que es imposible salir indemne. Distinguida en Francia y Bélgica con los galardones más prestigiosos, La vida verdadera ha conquistado a los lectores europeos gracias a su poderosa voz narrativa, la frescura de su estilo y una historia palpitante con las dosis precisas de ternura, desasosiego y humor. Una primera novela que para las generaciones más jóvenes se ha convertido en un manual de supervivencia en un ambiente hostil. En la década de los noventa, una niña de once años reside con su familia en la Demo, una lóbrega urbanización de «una cincuentena de chalets grises alineados como lápidas». En su casa hay cuatro habitaciones: la suya, la de su hermanito Gilles, la de sus progenitores y «la de los cadáveres», ocupada por los trofeos de caza de un padre cuyos imprevisibles ataques de ira han convertido a la madre, a los ojos de la niña, en una «ameba». El único apoyo afectivo de esta muchacha de imaginación desbordante, dotada de un talento innato para las matemáticas y la física, es el pequeño Gilles, de seis años. Juntos esperan cada día la llegada de la camioneta de los helados mientras juegan entre coches abandonados o visitan a Monica, una excéntrica cuentacuentos del vecino bosque de los Colgaditos. Un día cualquiera, sin embargo, un brutal accidente destruye su mundo y ya nada volverá a ser lo mismo. La crítica ha dicho... «Una voz nueva con una energía formidable. Impresionante». Pierre Assouline, La République des Livres «Un estreno implacable y arrollador». Jérôme Garcin, Le Nouvel Observateur «Una heroína que es un prodigio de libertad e inteligencia». Bruno Corty, Le Figaro «La mejor primera novela de la rentrée literaria». François Busnel, La Grande Librairie «Un espectáculo de magia». Amélie Nothomb «La inocencia de los cuentos de hadas con el terror de un thriller de Stephen King.» Bernard Lehut, RTL «Una novela ingeniosa, alentadora y exitosa.» Corriere della Sera «Un sorprendente debut que aborda asuntos sombríos con sinceridad, chispa y humor. Una primera novela profundamente inquietante, furiosamente tierna y sombríamente cómica.» Kirkus Reviews]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-sirenas-que-nos-une-que-nos-separa-by-lorena-amkie--65202125https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sirenas: ¿Qué nos une, Qué nos separa? Author: Lorena Amkie Narrator: Yuliana Díaz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 26, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ¿Cuál es la esencia de la amistad? ¿Se puede luchar contra viento y marea y conservar la visión pura de la infancia? ¿En qué momento se pierde la inocencia? ¿Por qué hay mares que no se pueden cruzar? Camila es una niña perteneciente a una familia de clase media alta. Se siente muy sola, hasta que conoce a Paola, la hija de la sirvienta de su casa. De inmediato percibe una conexión muy especial: sabe que ha encontrado a su mejor amiga, y todo fluye como el agua cimentando una camaradería única entre ellas. Los gustos compartidos y el amor por las historias termina por unirlas aún más. Pero al paso de la adolescencia algo llamado el mundo y sus convenciones se va imponiendo entre las dos sin saber realmente en qué consiste, aunque con un efecto devastador. Ante ello, Paola deberá hallar respuestas a dolorosas preguntas: ¿cuál es la esencia de la amistad? ¿Se puede luchar contra viento y marea y conservar la visión pura de la infancia? ¿En qué momento se pierde la inocencia? ¿Por qué hay mares que no se pueden cruzar? Sin lugar a dudas, Sirenas refleja lo difícil y cruel que es crecer y volverse un adulto, con todos los quebrantos que esto conlleva.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596077Thu, 26 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sirenas: ¿Qué nos une, Qué nos separa? Author: Lorena Amkie Narrator: Yuliana Díaz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 22 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596077 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Sirenas: ¿Qué nos une, Qué nos separa? Author: Lorena Amkie Narrator: Yuliana Díaz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 22 minutes Release date: May 26, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ¿Cuál es la esencia de la amistad? ¿Se puede luchar contra viento y marea y conservar la visión pura de la infancia? ¿En qué momento se pierde la inocencia? ¿Por qué hay mares que no se pueden cruzar? Camila es una niña perteneciente a una familia de clase media alta. Se siente muy sola, hasta que conoce a Paola, la hija de la sirvienta de su casa. De inmediato percibe una conexión muy especial: sabe que ha encontrado a su mejor amiga, y todo fluye como el agua cimentando una camaradería única entre ellas. Los gustos compartidos y el amor por las historias termina por unirlas aún más. Pero al paso de la adolescencia algo llamado el mundo y sus convenciones se va imponiendo entre las dos sin saber realmente en qué consiste, aunque con un efecto devastador. Ante ello, Paola deberá hallar respuestas a dolorosas preguntas: ¿cuál es la esencia de la amistad? ¿Se puede luchar contra viento y marea y conservar la visión pura de la infancia? ¿En qué momento se pierde la inocencia? ¿Por qué hay mares que no se pueden cruzar? Sin lugar a dudas, Sirenas refleja lo difícil y cruel que es crecer y volverse un adulto, con todos los quebrantos que esto conlleva.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-secret-garden-by-frances-hodgson-burnett--65202122https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Garden Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Narrator: Michael Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: One of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature, the Secret Garden is a story of regrowth and regeneration. This classic tale centers around Mary Lennox, an orphan who is sent to her strange Uncle and his mansion in Yorkshire. The mansion is a mysterious place, with a hundred rooms nobody ever uses, and whispered tales of a Secret Garden, that her uncle locked and buried the key to, over a decade ago. With the help other characters Mary finds her way to this garden, and begins to cultivate it, but the house holds further secrets still...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595280Thu, 19 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Garden Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Narrator: Michael Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 19,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595280 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Garden Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Narrator: Michael Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: One of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature, the Secret Garden is a story of regrowth and regeneration. This classic tale centers around Mary Lennox, an orphan who is sent to her strange Uncle and his mansion in Yorkshire. The mansion is a mysterious place, with a hundred rooms nobody ever uses, and whispered tales of a Secret Garden, that her uncle locked and buried the key to, over a decade ago. With the help other characters Mary finds her way to this garden, and begins to cultivate it, but the house holds further secrets still...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/such-big-dreams-a-novel-by-reema-patel--65202241https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Such Big Dreams: A Novel Author: Reema Patel Narrator: Lavanya Gandhi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A savvy former street child working at a law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this “smart, haunting, and compulsively readable” (Amy Jones, author of We’re All in This Together) debut novel about fortune and survival.   “A heartbreaking yet hopeful story about the resilience of the human spirit in the face of insurmountable odds.”—Etaf Rum, New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man With a sharp wit and sharper tongue, twenty-three-year old Rakhi Kumar is nobody’s fool. Sure, she lives alone in a slum and works as a lowly office assistant for the renowned lawyer, Gauri Verma, who gave her a fresh start. But she’s come a long way from her childhood on the streets of Mumbai. Most important, she’s busy enough to distract herself from the nightmares of a grisly childhood incident that led to the disappearance of her best friend.   Fiercely intelligent, Rakhi could be doing so much more than making chai, but she allows herself to be underestimated by her colleagues at Justice For All, Gauri’s cash-strapped rights law office. These days, it’s becoming harder for Rakhi to keep her head down as Gauri desperately tries to save her organization by recruiting former Bollywood actress and infamous nineties “thong girl,” Rubina Mansoor, to be their celebrity ambassador. But not all money is good money. Convincing Gauri to make increasingly brash moves, Rubina demands an internship for a young family friend, Harvard-bound graduate student, Alex Lalwani-Diamond. An ambitious, naïve rich kid with a savior complex, Alex persuades Rakhi to show him “the real India.” In exchange, he’ll do something to further Rakhi’s dreams, in a transaction that seems harmless, at first.   As old guilt and new aspirations collide, everything Rakhi once knew to be true is set ablaze. And as the stakes mount, she will come face-to-face with the difficult choices and moral compromises one must make in pursuit of self-preservation, and ultimately, survival. Such Big Dreams is a moving, smart, and arrestingly clever look at the cost of reclaiming one’s story.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555800Tue, 17 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Such Big Dreams: A Novel Author: Reema Patel Narrator: Lavanya Gandhi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 17,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/555800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Such Big Dreams: A Novel Author: Reema Patel Narrator: Lavanya Gandhi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A savvy former street child working at a law office in Mumbai fights for redemption and a chance to live life on her own terms in this “smart, haunting, and compulsively readable” (Amy Jones, author of We’re All in This Together) debut novel about fortune and survival.   “A heartbreaking yet hopeful story about the resilience of the human spirit in the face of insurmountable odds.”—Etaf Rum, New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man With a sharp wit and sharper tongue, twenty-three-year old Rakhi Kumar is nobody’s fool. Sure, she lives alone in a slum and works as a lowly office assistant for the renowned lawyer, Gauri Verma, who gave her a fresh start. But she’s come a long way from her childhood on the streets of Mumbai. Most important, she’s busy enough to distract herself from the nightmares of a grisly childhood incident that led to the disappearance of her best friend.   Fiercely intelligent, Rakhi could be doing so much more than making chai, but she allows herself to be underestimated by her colleagues at Justice For All, Gauri’s cash-strapped rights law office. These days, it’s becoming harder for Rakhi to keep her head down as Gauri desperately tries to save her organization by recruiting former Bollywood actress and infamous nineties “thong girl,” Rubina Mansoor, to be their celebrity ambassador. But not all money is good money. Convincing Gauri to make increasingly brash moves, Rubina demands an internship for a young family friend, Harvard-bound graduate student, Alex Lalwani-Diamond. An ambitious, naïve rich kid with a savior complex, Alex persuades Rakhi to show him “the real India.” In exchange, he’ll do something to further Rakhi’s dreams, in a transaction that seems harmless, at first.   As old guilt and new aspirations collide, everything Rakhi once knew to be true is set ablaze. And as the stakes mount, she will come face-to-face with the difficult choices and moral compromises one must make in pursuit of self-preservation, and ultimately, survival. Such Big Dreams is a moving, smart, and arrestingly clever look at the cost of reclaiming one’s story.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-stone-world-a-novel-by-joel-agee--65202093https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone World: A Novel Author: Joel Agee Narrator: Armando Durán Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the son of acclaimed author James Agee comes a haunting novel depicting an American boy’s childhood in Mexico, ensconced in a world comprised of communist European exiles, local union activists, street children, and avant-garde artists like Frida Kahlo. Joel Agee’s hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town in the late 1940s, where six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist. His world is still new, not yet papered over with received knowledge. And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigrés who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe, rubbing shoulders with Mexican labor activists and leftists such as Frida Kahlo. But the emigrés long for home—including Peter’s stepfather, who wants to return to his native Germany. Going back to Europe may not be safe for any of them yet, however, which gives rise to anguished arguments among Peter’s parents and their tight group of friends. And slowly, Peter begins to comprehend that his world may be turned upside down—that he might be forced to take leave of everyone he knows: his best friend, Arón; his father’s friend Sándor, who talks about revolution and performs magic tricks; and Zita, the family’s live-in-maid, who has taught him the consoling mysteries of prayer … Steeped in the magic and myths of childhood—yet haunted by a harsh adult world bedeviled by instability and political turmoil—Joel Agee’s The Stone World is an unforgettable portrait of a family that will inevitably invite comparison with another classic family story, that of his father James Agee’s A Death in the Family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618502Tue, 17 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone World: A Novel Author: Joel Agee Narrator: Armando Durán Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/618502 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone World: A Novel Author: Joel Agee Narrator: Armando Durán Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 17, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the son of acclaimed author James Agee comes a haunting novel depicting an American boy’s childhood in Mexico, ensconced in a world comprised of communist European exiles, local union activists, street children, and avant-garde artists like Frida Kahlo. Joel Agee’s hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town in the late 1940s, where six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist. His world is still new, not yet papered over with received knowledge. And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigrés who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe, rubbing shoulders with Mexican labor activists and leftists such as Frida Kahlo. But the emigrés long for home—including Peter’s stepfather, who wants to return to his native Germany. Going back to Europe may not be safe for any of them yet, however, which gives rise to anguished arguments among Peter’s parents and their tight group of friends. And slowly, Peter begins to comprehend that his world may be turned upside down—that he might be forced to take leave of everyone he knows: his best friend, Arón; his father’s friend Sándor, who talks about revolution and performs magic tricks; and Zita, the family’s live-in-maid, who has taught him the consoling mysteries of prayer … Steeped in the magic and myths of childhood—yet haunted by a harsh adult world bedeviled by instability and political turmoil—Joel Agee’s The Stone World is an unforgettable portrait of a family that will inevitably invite comparison with another classic family story, that of his father James Agee’s A Death in the Family.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-bag-by-thorn-osgood--65202223https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bag Author: Thorn Osgood Narrator: Stacey Glemboski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 14, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Glo has been out of high school for three years but has remained friends with some of the high schoolers. Living in dysfunctional families—as she had while in high school—she has allowed them to spend time at her place, hoping they will miss some of the pitfalls that could prevent them from graduating high school. When their prospects for summer jobs crash, she takes them on an exploration hike through the woods that changes everything.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595275Sat, 14 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bag Author: Thorn Osgood Narrator: Stacey Glemboski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 14, 2022 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Bag Author: Thorn Osgood Narrator: Stacey Glemboski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 14, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Glo has been out of high school for three years but has remained friends with some of the high schoolers. Living in dysfunctional families—as she had while in high school—she has allowed them to spend time at her place, hoping they will miss some of the pitfalls that could prevent them from graduating high school. When their prospects for summer jobs crash, she takes them on an exploration hike through the woods that changes everything.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-italian-prisoner-by-elisa-m-speranza--65202133https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Italian Prisoner Author: Elisa M. Speranza Narrator: Debi Tinsley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 11, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In the Sicilian neighborhood of the French Quarter, life had a predictable rhythm. Then came World War II and everything changed. 1943. New Orleans. Rose Marino lives with her Sicilian immigrant parents and helps in the family grocery store. Her older brother and sister both joined the Army, and Rose prays for their safety as World War II rages overseas. Her parents expect Rose to marry a local boy and start a family. But she secretly dreams of being more like her fiercely independent widowed godmother. Behind her parents’ back, Rose lands a job at the shipyard, where she feels free and important for the first time in her life. When the parish priest organizes a goodwill mission to visit Italian prisoners of war at a nearby military base, Rose and her vivacious best friend, Marie, join the group. There, Rose falls for Sal, a handsome and intelligent POW. Italy has switched sides in the war, so the POWs are allowed out to socialize, giving Rose and Sal a chance to grow closer. When Rose gets a promotion at work, she must make an agonizing choice: follow a traditional path like Marie or keep working after the war and live on her own terms. Inspired by little-known historical events and set to a swing-era soundtrack, The Italian Prisoner is an engrossing story of wartime love, family secrets, and a young woman’s struggle to chart her own course at an inflection point in American history.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595223Wed, 11 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Italian Prisoner Author: Elisa M. Speranza Narrator: Debi Tinsley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 11,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595223 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Italian Prisoner Author: Elisa M. Speranza Narrator: Debi Tinsley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 13 minutes Release date: May 11, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In the Sicilian neighborhood of the French Quarter, life had a predictable rhythm. Then came World War II and everything changed. 1943. New Orleans. Rose Marino lives with her Sicilian immigrant parents and helps in the family grocery store. Her older brother and sister both joined the Army, and Rose prays for their safety as World War II rages overseas. Her parents expect Rose to marry a local boy and start a family. But she secretly dreams of being more like her fiercely independent widowed godmother. Behind her parents’ back, Rose lands a job at the shipyard, where she feels free and important for the first time in her life. When the parish priest organizes a goodwill mission to visit Italian prisoners of war at a nearby military base, Rose and her vivacious best friend, Marie, join the group. There, Rose falls for Sal, a handsome and intelligent POW. Italy has switched sides in the war, so the POWs are allowed out to socialize, giving Rose and Sal a chance to grow closer. When Rose gets a promotion at work, she must make an agonizing choice: follow a traditional path like Marie or keep working after the war and live on her own terms. Inspired by little-known historical events and set to a swing-era soundtrack, The Italian Prisoner is an engrossing story of wartime love, family secrets, and a young woman’s struggle to chart her own course at an inflection point in American history.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ravaged-by-norman-reedus--65202197https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/561955 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ravaged Author: Norman Reedus Narrator: Norman Reedus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 53 Ratings of Narrator: 4.39 of Total 23 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestseller Los Angeles Times bestseller USA Today bestseller The highly anticipated debut novel from Norman Reedus, acclaimed star of The Walking Dead “This country wasn’t built on good—only fought for with good intentions.” Jack’s dying mother told him, “Run and never look back.” He spent his life amassing wealth, but after losing his family, he has no one to share it with. Alone with his demons and a backpack, he heads to South America, where people with nothing teach him what matters. After thrashing his dog-abusing boss, Hunter learns of his father’s death in a mysterious fire. Biker buddies Nugget and Itch ride with him from North Carolina to California. Stories from his father’s life help ease the struggles of small-town Americans. Hunter discovers a secret past. Seventeen-year-old Anne flees Tennessee after her older brother attacks her. She whacks him with a skillet and hops a freight to Alabama with her best friend. Living hand to mouth, they build friendships, uncovering something they never had: family. The Ravaged is a fast-paced, up-in-your-face novel of gritty realism, exploring three different personal quests with eerily parallel outcomes.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/561955Tue, 10 May 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/561955 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ravaged Author: Norman Reedus Narrator: Norman Reedus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/561955 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ravaged Author: Norman Reedus Narrator: Norman Reedus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 53 Ratings of Narrator: 4.39 of Total 23 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestseller Los Angeles Times bestseller USA Today bestseller The highly anticipated debut novel from Norman Reedus, acclaimed star of The Walking Dead “This country wasn’t built on good—only fought for with good intentions.” Jack’s dying mother told him, “Run and never look back.” He spent his life amassing wealth, but after losing his family, he has no one to share it with. Alone with his demons and a backpack, he heads to South America, where people with nothing teach him what matters. After thrashing his dog-abusing boss, Hunter learns of his father’s death in a mysterious fire. Biker buddies Nugget and Itch ride with him from North Carolina to California. Stories from his father’s life help ease the struggles of small-town Americans. Hunter discovers a secret past. Seventeen-year-old Anne flees Tennessee after her older brother attacks her. She whacks him with a skillet and hops a freight to Alabama with her best friend. Living hand to mouth, they build friendships, uncovering something they never had: family. The Ravaged is a fast-paced, up-in-your-face novel of gritty realism, exploring three different personal quests with eerily parallel outcomes.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/no-hard-feelings-by-genevieve-novak--65202173https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Hard Feelings Author: Genevieve Novak Narrator: Meg Dunn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: April 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late twenties. A sharp, smart and witty look at adulting - Fleabag meets Sorrow and Bliss with a splash of Dolly Alderton. 'No Hard Feelings is clever, funny and surprisingly sweet, and Penny captured my heart' Toni Jordan I exist on validation from emotionally unavailable men, biscuits, and cheap wine, and it's easier to get off with Max than a Tiny Teddy. Penny can't help but compare herself to her friends. Annie is about to become a senior associate at her law firm, Bec has just got engaged, Leo is dating everyone this side of the Yarra, and Penny is just ... waiting. Waiting for Max, her on-again, off-again boyfriend, to allow her to spend the night, waiting for the promotion she was promised, waiting for her Valium to kick in. Waiting for her real life to start. Out of excuses and sick of falling behind, Penny is determined to turn things around. She's going to make it work with Max, impress her tyrannical boss, quit seeing her useless therapist, remember to water her plants, and stop having panic attacks in the work toilets. But soon she's back to doomscrolling on Instagram, necking bottles of Aldi's finest sauvignon blanc, and criticising herself with renewed vigour and loathing. As her goals seem further away than ever, she has to wonder: when bad habits feel so good, how do you trust what's right for you? Praise for No Hard Feelings: 'Genevieve Novak will inevitably be compared to other authors, but the truth is, she is herself and herself alone - and that's a good thing. Funny, biting, vulnerable and unflinching, Novak's novel is like an ocean dip: a bit salty, very refreshing.' Lauren Sams 'Scaldingly funny and bitingly real, No Hard Feelings deserves a warning label: danger, may induce binge reading. With her sly wit, Genevieve Novak's debut demonstrates a brilliant eye for observing the little things in life, which together can be the biggest things of all.' Tori Haschka, author of Grace Under Pressure 'No Hard Feelings is a gratifying, warm and funny debut' Books+Publishing 'Novak has perfectly captured the self-doubt and total horror of having to be happy and functional in your twenties. It would have you crying into your chipped manicure if it wasn't so darn funny.' Kimberley Allsopp, author of Love and Other Puzzles]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568056Sat, 30 Apr 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Hard Feelings Author: Genevieve Novak Narrator: Meg Dunn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: April 30, 2022 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/568056 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Hard Feelings Author: Genevieve Novak Narrator: Meg Dunn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 1 minute Release date: April 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late twenties. A sharp, smart and witty look at adulting - Fleabag meets Sorrow and Bliss with a splash of Dolly Alderton. 'No Hard Feelings is clever, funny and surprisingly sweet, and Penny captured my heart' Toni Jordan I exist on validation from emotionally unavailable men, biscuits, and cheap wine, and it's easier to get off with Max than a Tiny Teddy. Penny can't help but compare herself to her friends. Annie is about to become a senior associate at her law firm, Bec has just got engaged, Leo is dating everyone this side of the Yarra, and Penny is just ... waiting. Waiting for Max, her on-again, off-again boyfriend, to allow her to spend the night, waiting for the promotion she was promised, waiting for her Valium to kick in. Waiting for her real life to start. Out of excuses and sick of falling behind, Penny is determined to turn things around. She's going to make it work with Max, impress her tyrannical boss, quit seeing her useless therapist, remember to water her plants, and stop having panic attacks in the work toilets. But soon she's back to doomscrolling on Instagram, necking bottles of Aldi's finest sauvignon blanc, and criticising herself with renewed vigour and loathing. As her goals seem further away than ever, she has to wonder: when bad habits feel so good, how do you trust what's right for you? Praise for No Hard Feelings: 'Genevieve Novak will inevitably be compared to other authors, but the truth is, she is herself and herself alone - and that's a good thing. Funny, biting, vulnerable and unflinching, Novak's novel is like an ocean dip: a bit salty, very refreshing.' Lauren Sams 'Scaldingly funny and bitingly real, No Hard Feelings deserves a warning label: danger, may induce binge reading. With her sly wit, Genevieve Novak's debut demonstrates a brilliant eye for observing the little things in life, which together can be the biggest things of all.' Tori Haschka, author of Grace Under Pressure 'No Hard Feelings is a gratifying, warm and funny debut' Books+Publishing 'Novak has perfectly captured the self-doubt and total horror of having to be happy and functional in your twenties. It would have you crying into your chipped manicure if it wasn't so darn funny.' Kimberley Allsopp, author of Love and Other Puzzles]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-miedo-nos-hizo-fuertes-by-alexis-valdes--65202150https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El miedo nos hizo fuertes Author: Alexis Valdés Narrator: Alexis Valdés Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: La conmovedora historia de un niño que, a pesar de afrontar el abuso físico en casa, en su barrio y en su país, jamás perdió la alegría de vivir. Alexis Valdés narra con profunda ternura sobre el niño que fue y logra reflejar no solo los años más duros de su vida, sino transportar al lector a la Cuba de su infancia y adolescencia, con sus problemas, sus carencias, su dolor, pero también con una alegría de vivir y la esperanza de que algún día todo será mejor. El pequeño Alexis es un niño sensible y tímido, que vive con su madre, su hermano y su padrastro que le odia porque se parece mucho a su padre. El machista padrastro no soporta esa imagen dentro de la casa: La imagen del otro hombre de su mujer. El autor describe su vida en un país donde el abuso y el bullying flota en el ambiente: en casa, donde soportaba las palizas del innombrable, porque se rehusa a escribir su nombre; en el barrio, donde otros padres golpean a sus hijos, los fuertes abusan de los débiles y los homosexuales son masacrados, y en el país donde el gobierno abusa de todos. Alexis y su familia viven en un barrio de La Habana donde los guapos —los tipos duros de la calle— imponen su ley. Es un ambiente salvaje donde son comunes las peleas de boxeo clandestinas. Solo hay un hombre bueno al que todos temen en el barrio, fuerte como una roca, el padrastro de Renecito, el niño estrella del barrio, y uno de los defensores denuestro protagonista. Los otros defensores que salvan al niño son su abuela América, una viejita mágica que le da esperanza y fuerza; su hermano asmático y delgaducho, pero muy valiente, y su padre,que es un hombre de éxito, alegre y cariñoso, pero al que no permiten ver a menudo. El escape del niño es su sueño de viajar a Praga, una ciudad llena de castillos y niños con gorritos y las mejillas rosadas. Todo comienza cuando participa en un concurso de Radio Praga Internacional, que tiene una emisión especial para América Latina. El niño les manda una carta cada semana para participar en el concurso que, de ganarlo, le llevaría ala hermosa ciudad checa, y más que eso, le sacaría por un tiempo del infierno en que vive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583505Tue, 26 Apr 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El miedo nos hizo fuertes Author: Alexis Valdés Narrator: Alexis Valdés Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 5 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583505 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El miedo nos hizo fuertes Author: Alexis Valdés Narrator: Alexis Valdés Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: La conmovedora historia de un niño que, a pesar de afrontar el abuso físico en casa, en su barrio y en su país, jamás perdió la alegría de vivir. Alexis Valdés narra con profunda ternura sobre el niño que fue y logra reflejar no solo los años más duros de su vida, sino transportar al lector a la Cuba de su infancia y adolescencia, con sus problemas, sus carencias, su dolor, pero también con una alegría de vivir y la esperanza de que algún día todo será mejor. El pequeño Alexis es un niño sensible y tímido, que vive con su madre, su hermano y su padrastro que le odia porque se parece mucho a su padre. El machista padrastro no soporta esa imagen dentro de la casa: La imagen del otro hombre de su mujer. El autor describe su vida en un país donde el abuso y el bullying flota en el ambiente: en casa, donde soportaba las palizas del innombrable, porque se rehusa a escribir su nombre; en el barrio, donde otros padres golpean a sus hijos, los fuertes abusan de los débiles y los homosexuales son masacrados, y en el país donde el gobierno abusa de todos. Alexis y su familia viven en un barrio de La Habana donde los guapos —los tipos duros de la calle— imponen su ley. Es un ambiente salvaje donde son comunes las peleas de boxeo clandestinas. Solo hay un hombre bueno al que todos temen en el barrio, fuerte como una roca, el padrastro de Renecito, el niño estrella del barrio, y uno de los defensores denuestro protagonista. Los otros defensores que salvan al niño son su abuela América, una viejita mágica que le da esperanza y fuerza; su hermano asmático y delgaducho, pero muy valiente, y su padre,que es un hombre de éxito, alegre y cariñoso, pero al que no permiten ver a menudo. El escape del niño es su sueño de viajar a Praga, una ciudad llena de castillos y niños con gorritos y las mejillas rosadas. Todo comienza cuando participa en un concurso de Radio Praga Internacional, que tiene una emisión especial para América Latina. El niño les manda una carta cada semana para participar en el concurso que, de ganarlo, le llevaría ala hermosa ciudad checa, y más que eso, le sacaría por un tiempo del infierno en que vive.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/benefit-by-siobhan-phillips--65202097https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Benefit Author: Siobhan Phillips Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A young woman discovers what lurks beneath the system that anointed her among the best and brightest of her generation. Laura, a student from a modest background, escapes her small town to join the ranks of the academic elite on a Weatherfield fellowship to study at Oxford University. She enthusiastically throws herself into her coursework, yet she is never able to escape a feeling of unease and dislocation among her fellow chosen “students of promise and ambition.” Years later, back in the United States with a PhD and dissertation on Henry James, she loses her job as an adjunct professor and reconnects with the Weatherfield Foundation. Commissioned to write a history for its centennial, she becomes obsessed by the Gilded Age origins of the Weatherfield fortune, rooted in the exploitation and misery of sugar production. As she is lured back into abandoned friendships within the glimmering group, she discovers hidden aspects of herself and others that point the way to a terrifying freedom. Benefit is a vivid story of personal awakening that offers a withering critique of toxic philanthropy and the American meritocracy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614517Tue, 26 Apr 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Benefit Author: Siobhan Phillips Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Benefit Author: Siobhan Phillips Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A young woman discovers what lurks beneath the system that anointed her among the best and brightest of her generation. Laura, a student from a modest background, escapes her small town to join the ranks of the academic elite on a Weatherfield fellowship to study at Oxford University. She enthusiastically throws herself into her coursework, yet she is never able to escape a feeling of unease and dislocation among her fellow chosen “students of promise and ambition.” Years later, back in the United States with a PhD and dissertation on Henry James, she loses her job as an adjunct professor and reconnects with the Weatherfield Foundation. Commissioned to write a history for its centennial, she becomes obsessed by the Gilded Age origins of the Weatherfield fortune, rooted in the exploitation and misery of sugar production. As she is lured back into abandoned friendships within the glimmering group, she discovers hidden aspects of herself and others that point the way to a terrifying freedom. Benefit is a vivid story of personal awakening that offers a withering critique of toxic philanthropy and the American meritocracy.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/zebra-friends-by-fate-enemies-by-destiny-by-jill-wallace--65202090https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zebra: Friends by Fate. Enemies by Destiny. Author: Jill Wallace Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A young white boy and a Zulu teen grow up together, building an extraordinary friendship as they explore the rugged Drakensberg mountains around a remote South African hotel during the apartheid era. Jock and Papin forge an indelible bond while learning to love and appreciate each other’s cultures. Despite whispers from intolerant guests, the boys are oblivious to the consequences of their friendship. “There goes the zebra,” guests remark, claiming they can’t tell where the white boy ends and the black boy begins. But the boys’ friendship is strong enough to conquer all—until society’s impossible expectations wrench them apart, leaving bitter disappointment and soul-deep wounds that will not heal. A decade later, these long-lost friends converge on opposite sides of a harrowing battlefield, one a reluctant soldier, the other a passionate freedom fighter. Their intimate knowledge of the other’s way of life could be the very tools that save them … or destroy them. And an unimaginable choice will put Jock and Papin’s once-unbreakable bond to the ultimate test. Jill Wallace, author of the multi-award-winning World War II novel War Serenade, brings together a fascinating coming-of-age story with a compelling tale of human connection in Zebra. Inspired by the life of Athol Wallace]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614526Tue, 26 Apr 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zebra: Friends by Fate. Enemies by Destiny. Author: Jill Wallace Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 28 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614526 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Zebra: Friends by Fate. Enemies by Destiny. Author: Jill Wallace Narrator: Peter Noble Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 26, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A young white boy and a Zulu teen grow up together, building an extraordinary friendship as they explore the rugged Drakensberg mountains around a remote South African hotel during the apartheid era. Jock and Papin forge an indelible bond while learning to love and appreciate each other’s cultures. Despite whispers from intolerant guests, the boys are oblivious to the consequences of their friendship. “There goes the zebra,” guests remark, claiming they can’t tell where the white boy ends and the black boy begins. But the boys’ friendship is strong enough to conquer all—until society’s impossible expectations wrench them apart, leaving bitter disappointment and soul-deep wounds that will not heal. A decade later, these long-lost friends converge on opposite sides of a harrowing battlefield, one a reluctant soldier, the other a passionate freedom fighter. Their intimate knowledge of the other’s way of life could be the very tools that save them … or destroy them. And an unimaginable choice will put Jock and Papin’s once-unbreakable bond to the ultimate test. Jill Wallace, author of the multi-award-winning World War II novel War Serenade, brings together a fascinating coming-of-age story with a compelling tale of human connection in Zebra. Inspired by the life of Athol Wallace]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-improbable-life-of-ricky-bird-by-diane-connell--65202219https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird Author: Diane Connell Narrator: Hannah Monson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: If you were charmed by The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, laughed with Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and cried over A Man Called Ove, you will love Ricky Bird. No one loved making forts more than Ricky. A fort was a place of safety and possibility. It shut out the world and enclosed her and Ollie within any story she wanted to tell ... Ricky Bird loves making up stories for her brother Ollie almost as much as she loves him. The imaginary worlds she creates are wild and whimsical places full of unlimited possibilities. Real life is another story. Ricky’s father has abandoned them and the family has moved to a bleak new neighbourhood. Worse still, her mother’s new boyfriend, Dan, has come with the furniture. But Ricky Bird is a force to be reckoned with. As the mastermind of so many outlandish adventures, her imagination is her best weapon. As her father used to say, if you can spin a good yarn you can get on in life. The trouble is that in the best stories characters sometimes take on a life of their own and no one, not even Ricky, is able to imagine the consequences. Beautifully written, heartbreakingly funny and deeply moving, this book has already been compared to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Lost and Found, Shuggie Bain, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and A Monster Calls. But Ricky’s story is all her own – and it will stay with you long after the last page. ‘Fierce and wonderful and utterly singular, Ricky embodies the sheer joy and transformative power of storytelling.’ Kate Mildenhall, author of The Mother Fault and Skylarking ‘A wise, tender but unflinching portrait of an ordinary family and the unordinary girl at its heart. Ricky – fragile, tough, endearing and funny – is a fabulous creation. She'll walk around in my world all year, and more.’ Kristina Olsson, award-winning author of Shell and Boy, Lost]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563822Mon, 25 Apr 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird Author: Diane Connell Narrator: Hannah Monson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird Author: Diane Connell Narrator: Hannah Monson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: April 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: If you were charmed by The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, laughed with Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and cried over A Man Called Ove, you will love Ricky Bird. No one loved making forts more than Ricky. A fort was a place of safety and possibility. It shut out the world and enclosed her and Ollie within any story she wanted to tell ... Ricky Bird loves making up stories for her brother Ollie almost as much as she loves him. The imaginary worlds she creates are wild and whimsical places full of unlimited possibilities. Real life is another story. Ricky’s father has abandoned them and the family has moved to a bleak new neighbourhood. Worse still, her mother’s new boyfriend, Dan, has come with the furniture. But Ricky Bird is a force to be reckoned with. As the mastermind of so many outlandish adventures, her imagination is her best weapon. As her father used to say, if you can spin a good yarn you can get on in life. The trouble is that in the best stories characters sometimes take on a life of their own and no one, not even Ricky, is able to imagine the consequences. Beautifully written, heartbreakingly funny and deeply moving, this book has already been compared to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Lost and Found, Shuggie Bain, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and A Monster Calls. But Ricky’s story is all her own – and it will stay with you long after the last page. ‘Fierce and wonderful and utterly singular, Ricky embodies the sheer joy and transformative power of storytelling.’ Kate Mildenhall, author of The Mother Fault and Skylarking ‘A wise, tender but unflinching portrait of an ordinary family and the unordinary girl at its heart. Ricky – fragile, tough, endearing and funny – is a fabulous creation. She'll walk around in my world all year, and more.’ Kristina Olsson, award-winning author of Shell and Boy, Lost]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-zwischeneinander-ungekurzt-by-catherine-strefford--65202137https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zwischeneinander (ungekürzt) Author: Catherine Strefford Narrator: Marvin Kopp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 22, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Was, wenn die Liebe vor einem steht, aber man nicht bereit dafür ist? Richie setzt alles daran, seinem eigenen Glück im Weg zu stehen. Doch muss er wirklich erst sich selbst lieben, um von anderen geliebt werden zu können? Die Beziehung mit Maxi kann Richie nur anfangs genießen, denn unentwegt wartet er auf das Ende, von dem Richie sicher ist, dass es früher oder später kommen wird. Keine Liebe ist wie die andere und nichts Neues kann wachsen, so lange das Herz und die Seele noch mit dem Unkraut der Vergangenheit bewuchert sind. Aber erkennt auch Richie das früh genug? Der zweite Roman mit Richie, bekannt aus 'Nur kurz leben', ausgezeichnet mit dem 1. Platz des tolino media Newcomerpreis 2020.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592376Fri, 22 Apr 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zwischeneinander (ungekürzt) Author: Catherine Strefford Narrator: Marvin Kopp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Zwischeneinander (ungekürzt) Author: Catherine Strefford Narrator: Marvin Kopp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 22, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Was, wenn die Liebe vor einem steht, aber man nicht bereit dafür ist? Richie setzt alles daran, seinem eigenen Glück im Weg zu stehen. Doch muss er wirklich erst sich selbst lieben, um von anderen geliebt werden zu können? Die Beziehung mit Maxi kann Richie nur anfangs genießen, denn unentwegt wartet er auf das Ende, von dem Richie sicher ist, dass es früher oder später kommen wird. Keine Liebe ist wie die andere und nichts Neues kann wachsen, so lange das Herz und die Seele noch mit dem Unkraut der Vergangenheit bewuchert sind. Aber erkennt auch Richie das früh genug? Der zweite Roman mit Richie, bekannt aus 'Nur kurz leben', ausgezeichnet mit dem 1. Platz des tolino media Newcomerpreis 2020.]]>185rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-paraiso-premio-nobel-de-literatura-2021-by-abdulrazak-gurnah--65202151https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Paraíso. Premio Nobel de literatura 2021 Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah Narrator: Rafael King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Una historia de iniciación que ilumina la crudeza y la belleza de la África precolonial, por el premio Nobel de literatura 2021. Cuando los padres de Yusuf, de doce años, le dicen que vivirá con su tío Aziz durante una temporada, el chico se muestra entusiasmado. Pero lo que Yusuf no sabe es que su padre lo ha empeñado para saldar una deuda imposible de pagar, ni tampoco que Aziz no es pariente suyo, sino un rico y acaudalado comerciante con el que viajará por África central y las riberas del Congo en vísperas de la primera guerra mundial. A través de los ojos de ese chiquillo descubriremos una naturaleza exuberante y hostil, poblada de tribus despiadadas e invasores desalmados, en la que una vida humana vale tanto como unas cuantas gotas de agua. La crítica ha dicho... «Paraíso nos ayuda a comprender el espanto de la colonización. No se trata de un acontecimiento superado, sino de un drama que sigue marcando nuestro presente. [...] Abdulrazak Gurnah es un excelente narrador, con la capacidad de seducción de una moderna Sherezade. [...] Los gobiernos que levantan muros deberían leer Paraíso, una obra que no levanta barreras, sino puentes.» El Cultural «El gran descubrimiento del texto es la propia escritura de Gurnah, que es uno de esos autores capaces de combinar la precisión formal con grandes niveles de lirismo, misterio y evocación. Es a través de esa escritura intensamente sensitiva como el autor consigue que sobre el descubrimiento se cierna cada vez más poderosa la sombra de la destrucción.» El Correo «La prosa de Gurnah se despliega con una riqueza extraordinaria sobre un tapiz sensorial africano, en contraposición al británico. Es un mundo de aromas [...], de noches al aire libre, de jardines rumorosos, de serpientes, mosquitos y calor tropical. [...] Y de historias que saltan y se entrelazan sin fin, evocando a veces el imán narrativo de Las mil y una noches, componiendo un friso que no busca desenlaces sino vidas y caminos.» El Norte de Castilla «Gurnah evoca su mundo con una prosa poética que resulta pura y lúcida: un pequeño paraíso en sí misma.» The Guardian «Un libro que cobra vida con lo inesperado y donde se rescata de manera fascinante un mundo ya extinguido.» The Sunday Times «Un retrato evocador de un continente africano al borde del cambio. Una meditación conmovedora sobre la naturaleza de la libertad y la pérdida de la inocencia, válida tanto para un único niño sensible como para todo un continente.» The New York Times Book Review]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583273Thu, 14 Apr 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Paraíso. Premio Nobel de literatura 2021 Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah Narrator: Rafael King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583273 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Paraíso. Premio Nobel de literatura 2021 Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah Narrator: Rafael King Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: April 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Una historia de iniciación que ilumina la crudeza y la belleza de la África precolonial, por el premio Nobel de literatura 2021. Cuando los padres de Yusuf, de doce años, le dicen que vivirá con su tío Aziz durante una temporada, el chico se muestra entusiasmado. Pero lo que Yusuf no sabe es que su padre lo ha empeñado para saldar una deuda imposible de pagar, ni tampoco que Aziz no es pariente suyo, sino un rico y acaudalado comerciante con el que viajará por África central y las riberas del Congo en vísperas de la primera guerra mundial. A través de los ojos de ese chiquillo descubriremos una naturaleza exuberante y hostil, poblada de tribus despiadadas e invasores desalmados, en la que una vida humana vale tanto como unas cuantas gotas de agua. La crítica ha dicho... «Paraíso nos ayuda a comprender el espanto de la colonización. No se trata de un acontecimiento superado, sino de un drama que sigue marcando nuestro presente. [...] Abdulrazak Gurnah es un excelente narrador, con la capacidad de seducción de una moderna Sherezade. [...] Los gobiernos que levantan muros deberían leer Paraíso, una obra que no levanta barreras, sino puentes.» El Cultural «El gran descubrimiento del texto es la propia escritura de Gurnah, que es uno de esos autores capaces de combinar la precisión formal con grandes niveles de lirismo, misterio y evocación. Es a través de esa escritura intensamente sensitiva como el autor consigue que sobre el descubrimiento se cierna cada vez más poderosa la sombra de la destrucción.» El Correo «La prosa de Gurnah se despliega con una riqueza extraordinaria sobre un tapiz sensorial africano, en contraposición al británico. Es un mundo de aromas [...], de noches al aire libre, de jardines rumorosos, de serpientes, mosquitos y calor tropical. [...] Y de historias que saltan y se entrelazan sin fin, evocando a veces el imán narrativo de Las mil y una noches, componiendo un friso que no busca desenlaces sino vidas y caminos.» El Norte de Castilla «Gurnah evoca su mundo con una prosa poética que resulta pura y lúcida: un pequeño paraíso en sí misma.» The Guardian «Un libro que cobra vida con lo inesperado y donde se rescata de manera fascinante un mundo ya extinguido.» The Sunday Times «Un retrato evocador de un continente africano al borde del cambio. Una meditación conmovedora sobre la naturaleza de la libertad y la pérdida de la inocencia, válida tanto para un único niño sensible como para todo un continente.» The New York Times Book Review]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/school-days-a-novel-by-jonathan-galassi--65202119https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605537 to listen full audiobooks. Title: School Days: A Novel Author: Jonathan Galassi Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The new novel from the acclaimed poet and publisher asks fundamental questions about love and sex, friendship and rivalry, desire and power, and the age-old dance of benevolence and attraction between teacher and student.Sam Brandt is a long-term denizen of Connecticut’s renowned Leverett School. As an English teacher he has dedicated his life to providing his students with the same challenges, encouragement, and sense of possibility that helped him and his friends become themselves here half a lifetime ago. Then Leverett’s headmaster asks Sam to help investigate a charge brought by one of his classmates that he was abused by a teacher. Sam is flooded with memories, above all of his overwhelming love for his friend Eddie and the support and friendship of his most inspiring mentor, Theodore Gibson. Sam’s search for the truth becomes a quest to get at the heart of Leverett, then and now. The school has changed enormously over the years, but at its core lie assumptions about privilege and responsibility untested for more than a century. And Sam’s assumptions about his own life are shaken, too, as he struggles to understand what really happened all those years ago.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605537Tue, 05 Apr 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605537 to listen full audiobooks. Title: School Days: A Novel Author: Jonathan Galassi Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605537 to listen full audiobooks. Title: School Days: A Novel Author: Jonathan Galassi Narrator: Robert Fass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 51 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The new novel from the acclaimed poet and publisher asks fundamental questions about love and sex, friendship and rivalry, desire and power, and the age-old dance of benevolence and attraction between teacher and student.Sam Brandt is a long-term denizen of Connecticut’s renowned Leverett School. As an English teacher he has dedicated his life to providing his students with the same challenges, encouragement, and sense of possibility that helped him and his friends become themselves here half a lifetime ago. Then Leverett’s headmaster asks Sam to help investigate a charge brought by one of his classmates that he was abused by a teacher. Sam is flooded with memories, above all of his overwhelming love for his friend Eddie and the support and friendship of his most inspiring mentor, Theodore Gibson. Sam’s search for the truth becomes a quest to get at the heart of Leverett, then and now. The school has changed enormously over the years, but at its core lie assumptions about privilege and responsibility untested for more than a century. And Sam’s assumptions about his own life are shaken, too, as he struggles to understand what really happened all those years ago.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ninth-circle-by-brendan-deneen--65202107https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ninth Circle Author: Brendan Deneen Narrator: Curt Bonnem Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The story of a teenager who runs away with a traveling circus in hopes of finding a better life after becoming enraptured by the bewitching blue eyes of a bearded lady, only to discover that nothing is ever quite what it seems When Dan, sixteen, runs away from a terrible home life to join a circus, he has no idea what he’s getting himself into. Based on Dante’s Inferno, The Ninth Circle follows a young man’s coming-of-age as he travels with the circus through nine states. With the Ringmaster as his guide, Dan finds himself falling in love with the Bearded Lady but hated by almost everyone else, including the Strong Man, the Lion Tamers, and the Sword Swallower. Meanwhile, he discovers that the performers have uncanny abilities and dark secrets, especially the person who’s looking to destroy the circus from within.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605549Tue, 05 Apr 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ninth Circle Author: Brendan Deneen Narrator: Curt Bonnem Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/605549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ninth Circle Author: Brendan Deneen Narrator: Curt Bonnem Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The story of a teenager who runs away with a traveling circus in hopes of finding a better life after becoming enraptured by the bewitching blue eyes of a bearded lady, only to discover that nothing is ever quite what it seems When Dan, sixteen, runs away from a terrible home life to join a circus, he has no idea what he’s getting himself into. Based on Dante’s Inferno, The Ninth Circle follows a young man’s coming-of-age as he travels with the circus through nine states. With the Ringmaster as his guide, Dan finds himself falling in love with the Bearded Lady but hated by almost everyone else, including the Strong Man, the Lion Tamers, and the Sword Swallower. Meanwhile, he discovers that the performers have uncanny abilities and dark secrets, especially the person who’s looking to destroy the circus from within.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-granja-by-john-grisham--65202157https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La granja Author: John Grisham Narrator: Carlos Canales Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 10 minutes Release date: March 17, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: La tierra es tan implacable como su gente... Una conmovedora historia del viaje de un chico de la inocencia a la experiencia. Septiembre de 1952. El algodón está casi a punto en los campos de Arkansas. La cosecha empezará pronto. Luke Chandler es un niño de siete años que vive con su familia en una granja sin pintar. En seis semanas, los Chandler y un grupo de jornaleros llegados de la sierra y de México tendrán que recoger todo el algodón, que es su sustento y el garante de su supervivencia en el campo. Pero pronto el calor, la lluvia, el cansancio, un asesinato y el descubrimiento de un secreto familiar amenazarán con destruir las esperanzas de los Chandler. Y sacarán a Luke, de un solo golpe, de su inocencia infantil para llevarlo a la vida adulta. La crítica ha dicho... «Su mejor obra... una novela lírica, valiente y personal.» The Times «John Grisham es un narrador tan bueno como el mejor de los que tenemos.» The New York Times Book Review]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577774Thu, 17 Mar 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La granja Author: John Grisham Narrator: Carlos Canales Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 10 minutes Release date: March 17,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La granja Author: John Grisham Narrator: Carlos Canales Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 10 minutes Release date: March 17, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: La tierra es tan implacable como su gente... Una conmovedora historia del viaje de un chico de la inocencia a la experiencia. Septiembre de 1952. El algodón está casi a punto en los campos de Arkansas. La cosecha empezará pronto. Luke Chandler es un niño de siete años que vive con su familia en una granja sin pintar. En seis semanas, los Chandler y un grupo de jornaleros llegados de la sierra y de México tendrán que recoger todo el algodón, que es su sustento y el garante de su supervivencia en el campo. Pero pronto el calor, la lluvia, el cansancio, un asesinato y el descubrimiento de un secreto familiar amenazarán con destruir las esperanzas de los Chandler. Y sacarán a Luke, de un solo golpe, de su inocencia infantil para llevarlo a la vida adulta. La crítica ha dicho... «Su mejor obra... una novela lírica, valiente y personal.» The Times «John Grisham es un narrador tan bueno como el mejor de los que tenemos.» The New York Times Book Review]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ocean-state-by-stewart-o-nan--65202238https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ocean State Author: Stewart O'nan Narrator: Sara Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high-school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. The murderer Angel, her mother Carol, and the victim Birdy, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are compelled by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O’Nan’s expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island. Propulsive, moving, and deeply rendered, Ocean State is a masterful novel by one of our greatest storytellers]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556587Tue, 15 Mar 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ocean State Author: Stewart O'nan Narrator: Sara Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ocean State Author: Stewart O'nan Narrator: Sara Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high-school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. The murderer Angel, her mother Carol, and the victim Birdy, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are compelled by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O’Nan’s expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island. Propulsive, moving, and deeply rendered, Ocean State is a masterful novel by one of our greatest storytellers]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/yeah-yes-a-novel-by-daniel-cottier--65202155https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Yeah / Yes: A Novel Author: Daniel Cottier Narrator: Daniel Cottier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 9, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Banjo 'Jo' Mitchell has a lot to drink about: he's 25, his boyfriend walked out, he's not paid the rent and Australia is voting on his right to marry. Overwhelmed by shame, every passing bus is a tempting opportunity for Jo to leave this life behind. The only thing stopping him isa last glimmer of hope that things may get better, but is a glimmer enough? A hilarious and touching new novel written and read by Daniel Cottier exploring mental health, community and queerness. If the themes of this book are triggering for you, please call Lifeline on 13 11 114. Composer, editor and sound engineering by Nathan Baraclough.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583405Wed, 09 Mar 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Yeah / Yes: A Novel Author: Daniel Cottier Narrator: Daniel Cottier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 9,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Yeah / Yes: A Novel Author: Daniel Cottier Narrator: Daniel Cottier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 9, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Banjo 'Jo' Mitchell has a lot to drink about: he's 25, his boyfriend walked out, he's not paid the rent and Australia is voting on his right to marry. Overwhelmed by shame, every passing bus is a tempting opportunity for Jo to leave this life behind. The only thing stopping him isa last glimmer of hope that things may get better, but is a glimmer enough? A hilarious and touching new novel written and read by Daniel Cottier exploring mental health, community and queerness. If the themes of this book are triggering for you, please call Lifeline on 13 11 114. Composer, editor and sound engineering by Nathan Baraclough.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-hija-del-sepulturero-by-joyce-carol-oates--65202167https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La hija del sepulturero Author: Joyce Carol Oates Narrator: Jane Santos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 24, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: La epopeya de una mujer que debe reinventarse a sí misma. Una odisea erótica y turbulenta, intensamente provocadora y emotiva. En 1936, los Schwart, una familia de inmigrantes desesperada por escapar de la Alemania nazi, se instala en una pequeña ciudad de Estados Unidos. El padre, un profesor de instituto, es rebajado al único trabajo al que tiene acceso: sepulturero y vigilante de cementerio. Los prejuicios locales y la debilidad emocional de los Schwart suscitan una terrible tragedia familiar. Rebecca, la hija del sepulturero, comienza entonces su sorprendente peregrinación por la «América profunda», una odisea de riesgo erótico e intrépida imaginación que la obligará a reinventarse a sí misma. Joyce Carol Oates ha creado una pieza magistral de realismo mítico y doméstico, excepcionalmente emotiva y provocadora: un testimonio íntimo de la resistencia del individuo. En esta novela prodigiosa la violencia actúa como un faro iluminando una cultura y una época. ** Premio Ja! Bilbao por el «modernísimo humor negro» de su obra. La crítica ha dicho: «Novelistas como John Updike, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe y Norman Mailer compiten por el título de Gran Novelista Americano. Pero quizás ellos se equivocan. Tal vez la Gran Novelista Americana es una mujer.» The Herald «Una escritora de una extraordinaria fuerza... Ha tratado con una admirable consistencia el gran tema americano: la búsqueda de la propia identidad.» The Guardian «Oates evoluciona sin descanso como artista, explorando continuamente nuevos aspectos de la vida americana... La literatura es para ella un único género en el que trabaja con total inventiva, adaptando temas clásicos, homenajeando a grandes maestros, escribiendo en diversos estilos y formas, siempre fiel a su propia e intensa imaginación. Sólo nos queda rendirnos ante la todopoderosa fuerza de las virtudes de Joyce Carol Oates.» The New York Review of Books «Su incomparable prosa y su habilidad para mover a la reflexión a medida que va reinventando nuevos géneros son únicas... Pocos escritores son capaces de contar una historia con tanta convicción y entretenimiento.» Scotland on Sunday «Leer a Oates es como transitar por un campo de minas emocional, para volver a la tranquilidad y sacudir la cabeza ante tamañas lucidez y revelación.» The Washington Post Book World]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576193Thu, 24 Feb 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La hija del sepulturero Author: Joyce Carol Oates Narrator: Jane Santos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 53 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La hija del sepulturero Author: Joyce Carol Oates Narrator: Jane Santos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 24, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: La epopeya de una mujer que debe reinventarse a sí misma. Una odisea erótica y turbulenta, intensamente provocadora y emotiva. En 1936, los Schwart, una familia de inmigrantes desesperada por escapar de la Alemania nazi, se instala en una pequeña ciudad de Estados Unidos. El padre, un profesor de instituto, es rebajado al único trabajo al que tiene acceso: sepulturero y vigilante de cementerio. Los prejuicios locales y la debilidad emocional de los Schwart suscitan una terrible tragedia familiar. Rebecca, la hija del sepulturero, comienza entonces su sorprendente peregrinación por la «América profunda», una odisea de riesgo erótico e intrépida imaginación que la obligará a reinventarse a sí misma. Joyce Carol Oates ha creado una pieza magistral de realismo mítico y doméstico, excepcionalmente emotiva y provocadora: un testimonio íntimo de la resistencia del individuo. En esta novela prodigiosa la violencia actúa como un faro iluminando una cultura y una época. ** Premio Ja! Bilbao por el «modernísimo humor negro» de su obra. La crítica ha dicho: «Novelistas como John Updike, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe y Norman Mailer compiten por el título de Gran Novelista Americano. Pero quizás ellos se equivocan. Tal vez la Gran Novelista Americana es una mujer.» The Herald «Una escritora de una extraordinaria fuerza... Ha tratado con una admirable consistencia el gran tema americano: la búsqueda de la propia identidad.» The Guardian «Oates evoluciona sin descanso como artista, explorando continuamente nuevos aspectos de la vida americana... La literatura es para ella un único género en el que trabaja con total inventiva, adaptando temas clásicos, homenajeando a grandes maestros, escribiendo en diversos estilos y formas, siempre fiel a su propia e intensa imaginación. Sólo nos queda rendirnos ante la todopoderosa fuerza de las virtudes de Joyce Carol Oates.» The New York Review of Books «Su incomparable prosa y su habilidad para mover a la reflexión a medida que va reinventando nuevos géneros son únicas... Pocos escritores son capaces de contar una historia con tanta convicción y entretenimiento.» Scotland on Sunday «Leer a Oates es como transitar por un campo de minas emocional, para volver a la tranquilidad y sacudir la cabeza ante tamañas lucidez y revelación.» The Washington Post Book World]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-house-of-rust-by-khadija-abdalla-bajaber--65202188https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House of Rust Author: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber Narrator: Waceke Wambaa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father.The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar’s cat (and soon crows, goats, and other animals all have their say, too). On this journey Aisha meets three terrifying sea monsters. After she survives a final confrontation with Baba wa Papa, the father of all sharks, she rescues her own father and hopes that life will return to normal. But at home, things only grow stranger. Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s debut is a magical realist coming-of-age tale told through the lens of the Swahili and diasporic Hadrami culture in Mombasa, Kenya. Richly descriptive and written with an imaginative hand and sharp eye for unusual detail, The House of Rust is a memorable novel by a thrilling new voice.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563201Tue, 22 Feb 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House of Rust Author: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber Narrator: Waceke Wambaa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House of Rust Author: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber Narrator: Waceke Wambaa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father.The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar’s cat (and soon crows, goats, and other animals all have their say, too). On this journey Aisha meets three terrifying sea monsters. After she survives a final confrontation with Baba wa Papa, the father of all sharks, she rescues her own father and hopes that life will return to normal. But at home, things only grow stranger. Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s debut is a magical realist coming-of-age tale told through the lens of the Swahili and diasporic Hadrami culture in Mombasa, Kenya. Richly descriptive and written with an imaginative hand and sharp eye for unusual detail, The House of Rust is a memorable novel by a thrilling new voice.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/however-long-the-day-by-justin-reed--65202235https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: However Long the Day Author: Justin Reed Narrator: George Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: However Long the Day is the tale of two strangers—Niall Donovan, a poor immigrant from Ireland, and Frederick Philips, a rich ne'er-do-well from New York's Upper East Side—who discover they look so similar they could be twins. Frederick, desperate to avoid a lecture from his father, bribes Niall to switch places for the evening. Niall finds there's more to the story than Frederick let on, and is dragged through the turbulence created by World War I, the Spanish Flu, and social upheaval, and into the corrupt belly of Manhattan on the cusp of Prohibition. As Niall and Frederick hurtle through the next twenty-four hours, will either get what they bargained for?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562381Tue, 15 Feb 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: However Long the Day Author: Justin Reed Narrator: George Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 15,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562381 to listen full audiobooks. Title: However Long the Day Author: Justin Reed Narrator: George Allen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 47 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: However Long the Day is the tale of two strangers—Niall Donovan, a poor immigrant from Ireland, and Frederick Philips, a rich ne'er-do-well from New York's Upper East Side—who discover they look so similar they could be twins. Frederick, desperate to avoid a lecture from his father, bribes Niall to switch places for the evening. Niall finds there's more to the story than Frederick let on, and is dragged through the turbulence created by World War I, the Spanish Flu, and social upheaval, and into the corrupt belly of Manhattan on the cusp of Prohibition. As Niall and Frederick hurtle through the next twenty-four hours, will either get what they bargained for?]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-complete-oz-collection-by-l-frank-baum--65202217https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/565605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Complete Oz Collection Series: Part of Oz Author: L. Frank Baum Narrator: Marietta Deprima, Erin Yuen, John Pruden, George Newbern, Tara Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 70 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Noted as one of the most popular series in American literature, the works of L. Frank Baum have been brought together in this singular collection that ensures the fun never stops! Embark on the journey that has capitated audiences for over a century. This collection contains the following: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Marvelous Land of Oz Ozma of Oz Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz The Road to Oz The Emerald City of Oz The Patchwork Girl of Oz Tik-Tok of Oz The Scarecrow of Oz Rinkitink of Oz The Lost Princess of Oz The Tin Woodman of Oz The Magic of Oz Glinda of Oz]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/565605Tue, 01 Feb 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/565605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Complete Oz Collection Series: Part of Oz Author: L. Frank Baum Narrator: Marietta Deprima, Erin Yuen, John Pruden, George Newbern, Tara Sands...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/565605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Complete Oz Collection Series: Part of Oz Author: L. Frank Baum Narrator: Marietta Deprima, Erin Yuen, John Pruden, George Newbern, Tara Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 70 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Noted as one of the most popular series in American literature, the works of L. Frank Baum have been brought together in this singular collection that ensures the fun never stops! Embark on the journey that has capitated audiences for over a century. This collection contains the following: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Marvelous Land of Oz Ozma of Oz Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz The Road to Oz The Emerald City of Oz The Patchwork Girl of Oz Tik-Tok of Oz The Scarecrow of Oz Rinkitink of Oz The Lost Princess of Oz The Tin Woodman of Oz The Magic of Oz Glinda of Oz]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-bilder-meiner-besten-freundin-by-silvia-avallone--65202174https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Bilder meiner besten Freundin Author: Silvia Avallone Narrator: Irina Salkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Der große italienische Roman über eine unvergessliche FreundschaftElisa und Beatrice begegnen sich in einer Sommernacht am Strand. Sie werden beste Freundinnen und doch könnten sie kaum unterschiedlicher sein: Eli lebt versunken in einer Welt von Büchern, während Bea es genießt, sich öffentlich zu inszenieren und tägliche neue Bilder von sich ins Internet zu stellen. Sie wird zum Star, der davon träumt, über die sozialen Netzwerke mit tausenden von Bildern von Italien aus die Welt zu erobern. Bis sie eines Tages spurlos verschwindet und Eli vor der Frage steht, wer ihre Freundin, die jeder auf der Welt zu kennen glaubt, wirklich ist.Der Bestseller aus Italien erzählt die turbulente Geschichte einer Freundschaft im Zeitalter der sozialen Medien.'Eine Geschichte, die uns alle etwas angeht.' ― La Reppubblica-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581816Tue, 01 Feb 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Bilder meiner besten Freundin Author: Silvia Avallone Narrator: Irina Salkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 33 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581816 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Bilder meiner besten Freundin Author: Silvia Avallone Narrator: Irina Salkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Der große italienische Roman über eine unvergessliche FreundschaftElisa und Beatrice begegnen sich in einer Sommernacht am Strand. Sie werden beste Freundinnen und doch könnten sie kaum unterschiedlicher sein: Eli lebt versunken in einer Welt von Büchern, während Bea es genießt, sich öffentlich zu inszenieren und tägliche neue Bilder von sich ins Internet zu stellen. Sie wird zum Star, der davon träumt, über die sozialen Netzwerke mit tausenden von Bildern von Italien aus die Welt zu erobern. Bis sie eines Tages spurlos verschwindet und Eli vor der Frage steht, wer ihre Freundin, die jeder auf der Welt zu kennen glaubt, wirklich ist.Der Bestseller aus Italien erzählt die turbulente Geschichte einer Freundschaft im Zeitalter der sozialen Medien.'Eine Geschichte, die uns alle etwas angeht.' ― La Reppubblica-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-our-time-by-ernest-hemingway--65202136https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Our Time Author: Ernest Hemingway Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 40 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time provides listeners a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story following lead character Nick Adams through a series of short stories around the time of World War I. It was praised by fellow authors John Dos Passos and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its precision and simplicity in its messaging. With gruff prose and blunt dialogue that would become standards of his career, it established Hemingway as one of the most promising young American writers of his era.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589322Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Our Time Author: Ernest Hemingway Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 40 minutes Release date: January 25,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/589322 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Our Time Author: Ernest Hemingway Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 40 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time provides listeners a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story following lead character Nick Adams through a series of short stories around the time of World War I. It was praised by fellow authors John Dos Passos and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its precision and simplicity in its messaging. With gruff prose and blunt dialogue that would become standards of his career, it established Hemingway as one of the most promising young American writers of his era.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-eine-redliche-luge-ungekurzt-by-husch-josten--65202183https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/570487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Eine redliche Lüge (ungekürzt) Author: Husch Josten Narrator: Elisabeth Günther Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Was wir sehen - und lieber nicht sehen wollen Einen Sommer lang arbeitet Elise für das gesellige Paar Margaux und Philippe in deren Ferienhaus in der Normandie. Fasziniert von den vielen illustren Gästen in der Domaine de Tourgéville, vom Leben, Wesen und der Ehe der Leclercs, wird die junge Frau zur eindringlichen Beobachterin von Sein und Schein. Sie erlebt ein Panoptikum der menschlichen Täuschungen, begreift, dass das Streben nach Glück und die Bereitschaft zum Betrug zwei Seiten derselben Medaille sind. Eines Abends jedoch wird die Gelassenheit dieses Sommers jäh und derart umfassend erschüttert, dass es auch Elises Leben für immer prägt. Ein hochaktueller Gesellschaftsroman, der im Erzählen Antworten sucht auf so viele offene Fragen unserer Zeit - klug, charmant und unwiderstehlich.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/570487Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/570487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Eine redliche Lüge (ungekürzt) Author: Husch Josten Narrator: Elisabeth Günther Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/570487 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Eine redliche Lüge (ungekürzt) Author: Husch Josten Narrator: Elisabeth Günther Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Was wir sehen - und lieber nicht sehen wollen Einen Sommer lang arbeitet Elise für das gesellige Paar Margaux und Philippe in deren Ferienhaus in der Normandie. Fasziniert von den vielen illustren Gästen in der Domaine de Tourgéville, vom Leben, Wesen und der Ehe der Leclercs, wird die junge Frau zur eindringlichen Beobachterin von Sein und Schein. Sie erlebt ein Panoptikum der menschlichen Täuschungen, begreift, dass das Streben nach Glück und die Bereitschaft zum Betrug zwei Seiten derselben Medaille sind. Eines Abends jedoch wird die Gelassenheit dieses Sommers jäh und derart umfassend erschüttert, dass es auch Elises Leben für immer prägt. Ein hochaktueller Gesellschaftsroman, der im Erzählen Antworten sucht auf so viele offene Fragen unserer Zeit - klug, charmant und unwiderstehlich.]]>185ge,rztcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spencer-s-mountain-by-earl-hamner--65202145https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585298 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spencer’s Mountain Series: #1 of The Spencer's Mountain Series Author: Earl Hamner Narrator: Milton Bagby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: High up on a mountain, young Clay-Boy Spencer joins his father and eight uncles to hunt the mythical white deer. What he finds on the mountainside changes his life—and marks him for a special destiny. Years later, Clay-Boy is the first in his family to get the chance to go to college; but success as an adult is much more complicated and bittersweet than the legendary success of Clay-Boy’s childhood quest. A heartwarming novel of love, family, and hope, Spencer’s Mountain inspired the popular television show The Waltons, which starred Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, and Michael Learned, and ran for nine years between 1972 and 1981. More than fifty years after its publication, this novel still has the power to inspire and move readers all over the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585298Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585298 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spencer’s Mountain Series: #1 of The Spencer's Mountain Series Author: Earl Hamner Narrator: Milton Bagby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/585298 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spencer’s Mountain Series: #1 of The Spencer's Mountain Series Author: Earl Hamner Narrator: Milton Bagby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: High up on a mountain, young Clay-Boy Spencer joins his father and eight uncles to hunt the mythical white deer. What he finds on the mountainside changes his life—and marks him for a special destiny. Years later, Clay-Boy is the first in his family to get the chance to go to college; but success as an adult is much more complicated and bittersweet than the legendary success of Clay-Boy’s childhood quest. A heartwarming novel of love, family, and hope, Spencer’s Mountain inspired the popular television show The Waltons, which starred Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, and Michael Learned, and ran for nine years between 1972 and 1981. More than fifty years after its publication, this novel still has the power to inspire and move readers all over the world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cracked-pots-a-novel-by-heather-tucker--65202220https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cracked Pots: A Novel Series: #2 of An Ari Appleton Novel Author: Heather Tucker Narrator: Laura Kyswaty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: "It is the voice of the characters, the kindness of strangers, and the ingenuity and determination of our protagonist against terrible forces that make this story sing." - San Francisco Chronicle on Tucker's debut, The Clay Girl From the author of the Indie Next List pick The Clay Girl comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of a remarkable young woman unraveling the mystery of a missing friend while struggling to grow past the trauma of her calamitous upbringing. From the waning flower-power '60s in Toronto through her East Coast university years, Ari fights to discover who she is and what it means to be the child of an addicted mother and depraved father. When her friend Natasha, the perfect girl from the nicest family, suddenly vanishes, Ari sets out to find out what has happened to her - are her troubled parents to blame? With wit, tenacity, and the incessant meddling of Jasper - the seahorse in her head - Ari rides turbulent waves of devilry and discovery, calamity and creation, abandonment and atonement on a journey to find her true self, and to find Natasha. Cracked Pots is a story about a girl broken by both cruelty and truth. It is a revelation that destiny is shaped in clay, not stone. It is also a celebration of rising after the blows, gathering the fragments, and piecing together a remarkable life through creativity, kindness, and belonging.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563811Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cracked Pots: A Novel Series: #2 of An Ari Appleton Novel Author: Heather Tucker Narrator: Laura Kyswaty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563811 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cracked Pots: A Novel Series: #2 of An Ari Appleton Novel Author: Heather Tucker Narrator: Laura Kyswaty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: "It is the voice of the characters, the kindness of strangers, and the ingenuity and determination of our protagonist against terrible forces that make this story sing." - San Francisco Chronicle on Tucker's debut, The Clay Girl From the author of the Indie Next List pick The Clay Girl comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of a remarkable young woman unraveling the mystery of a missing friend while struggling to grow past the trauma of her calamitous upbringing. From the waning flower-power '60s in Toronto through her East Coast university years, Ari fights to discover who she is and what it means to be the child of an addicted mother and depraved father. When her friend Natasha, the perfect girl from the nicest family, suddenly vanishes, Ari sets out to find out what has happened to her - are her troubled parents to blame? With wit, tenacity, and the incessant meddling of Jasper - the seahorse in her head - Ari rides turbulent waves of devilry and discovery, calamity and creation, abandonment and atonement on a journey to find her true self, and to find Natasha. Cracked Pots is a story about a girl broken by both cruelty and truth. It is a revelation that destiny is shaped in clay, not stone. It is also a celebration of rising after the blows, gathering the fragments, and piecing together a remarkable life through creativity, kindness, and belonging.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-el-aliento-de-los-dioses-by-brandon-sanderson--65202192https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El aliento de los dioses Author: Brandon Sanderson Narrator: Adriana Sananes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 14 minutes Release date: December 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.4 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Después de irrumpir en la escena de la fantasía con su aclamada novela debut, Elantris, y seguir con su exitosa trilogía Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson demuestra una vez más que es el principal maestro de lo que Tolkien llamó 'creación secundaria', la invención de mundos enteros, con magias y mitos propios. Warbreaker es la historia de dos hermanas, que resultan ser princesas, el Dios Rey con una de ellas tiene que casarse, el dios menor al que no le gusta su trabajo y el inmortal que todavía está tratando de deshacer los errores que cometió durante cientos de años. hace. Su mundo es uno en el que aquellos que mueren en la gloria regresan como dioses para vivir confinados a un panteón en la ciudad capital de Hallandren y donde un poder conocido como magia biocromática se basa en una esencia conocida como aliento que solo se puede recolectar una unidad a la vez. de personas individuales. Utilizando la respiración y dibujando sobre el color en los objetos cotidianos, se pueden lograr toda clase de milagros y travesuras. Se necesitarán cantidades considerables de cada uno para resolver todos los desafíos que enfrentan Vivenna y Siri, princesas de Idris; Susebron el Dios Rey; Sondeluz, dios reacio de la valentía, y el misterioso Vasher, el Rompe guerras.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562640Wed, 15 Dec 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El aliento de los dioses Author: Brandon Sanderson Narrator: Adriana Sananes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 14 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El aliento de los dioses Author: Brandon Sanderson Narrator: Adriana Sananes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 27 hours 14 minutes Release date: December 15, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3.4 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Después de irrumpir en la escena de la fantasía con su aclamada novela debut, Elantris, y seguir con su exitosa trilogía Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson demuestra una vez más que es el principal maestro de lo que Tolkien llamó 'creación secundaria', la invención de mundos enteros, con magias y mitos propios. Warbreaker es la historia de dos hermanas, que resultan ser princesas, el Dios Rey con una de ellas tiene que casarse, el dios menor al que no le gusta su trabajo y el inmortal que todavía está tratando de deshacer los errores que cometió durante cientos de años. hace. Su mundo es uno en el que aquellos que mueren en la gloria regresan como dioses para vivir confinados a un panteón en la ciudad capital de Hallandren y donde un poder conocido como magia biocromática se basa en una esencia conocida como aliento que solo se puede recolectar una unidad a la vez. de personas individuales. Utilizando la respiración y dibujando sobre el color en los objetos cotidianos, se pueden lograr toda clase de milagros y travesuras. Se necesitarán cantidades considerables de cada uno para resolver todos los desafíos que enfrentan Vivenna y Siri, princesas de Idris; Susebron el Dios Rey; Sondeluz, dios reacio de la valentía, y el misterioso Vasher, el Rompe guerras.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-estirpe-by-carla-maliandi--65202193https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La estirpe Author: Carla Maliandi Narrator: Carla Maliandi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 23 minutes Release date: December 9, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Golpeada por accidente, Ana pierde la memoria. El proceso de recuperación es lento y desquicia a quienes la rodean. Mientras trata de entender qué la ata a su marido, su hijo y sus rutinas, la vida completa parece carecer de cualquier lógica y la pregunta por el ser puede tener muchas e inesperadas respuestas. «La escritura de Maliandi es precisa y preciosa al mismo tiempo. Una escritura que conmueve como pocas y que deja sin palabras: eso es lo que pasa con los libros que son capaces de atravesar la mente y el corazón de los lectores de una manera tan honda.» Selva Almada Entre fragmentos de recuerdos y de olvidos que parecen dominados por el azar, Ana intenta recobrar la memoria perdida por un accidente menor. Aun a escala personal, el pasado configura para ella un campo de batalla y la Historia del país se manifiesta en los hitos, símbolos y tabúes que instauraron su propio linaje. El conflicto doméstico aparece así enmarcado por otro más crudo: la pelea por la lengua y el territorio propios. En esta novela deslumbrante y sutil, donde lo íntimo se proyecta implacable sobre lo político, Carla Maliandi varía sobre el motivo kafkiano de la metamorfosis, que aquí existe como punto de llegada. Es muy posible, para cualquiera, amanecer transformado en un monstruoso insecto. La crítica ha dicho... «A veces, cuando leés un libro que es una genialidad querés recomendarlo corriendo pero no sabés bien qué decir: te parece que cualquier cosa va a ser una huevada que no le va a hacer justicia a la novela. Este es el caso: no sé bien cómo explicarles la música dura, a la Kraftwerk, el magnetismo que te secuestra la cabeza, la magia que se arma entre lo dicho y lo no dicho, la abducción que genera esta novela. Así como la protagonista se vuelve otra, la otra, cuando la leés vos también te volvés otra, otro. Les mega recomiendo La Estirpe: Carla Maliandi se zarpó.» Gabriela Cabezón Cámara «Por accidente una mujer pierde su memoria y al hacerlo recupera la memoria perdida de un país. En la delicada nitidez de su escritura La Estirpe parece sugerir que los sueños y reclamos colectivos solo son posibles con la extinción del individuo empecinado en su diferencia. La segunda novela de Carla Maliandi susurra ideas y emociones de fulgor hipnótico.» Roque Larraquy «Narrar por quien ya no puede, recuperarle el lenguaje y lo que le ha sido cercenado. La estirpe, el nuevo libro de Carla Maliandi, es una estructura galopante de corazón sereno. Sus diálogos y omisiones celebran el oficio dramatúrgico, la recuperación de la habitación propia física y mental, trenzando el pasado con el presente con suma sensibilidad, con profunda destreza. Carla hace que parezca fácilmente escrito y -lo sabemos-, ese es uno de los más complejos logros.» Katya Adaui «La estirpe de Carla Maliandi es una novela extraordinaria, sutil e inteligente, hermosamente escrita. Con una trama de apariencia sencilla que sin embargo guarda capas y capas de sentido que va atrapando a quien la lea, al mismo tiempo que conmueve y asombra.» Vera Giaconi «Extraordinaria.» Silvina Friera, Página 12 «Con una prosa exquisita y sin caer en obviedades, la escritora relata la borrosa cotidianeidad de la protagonista para referirse, en definitiva, a los sombríos orígenes de nuestra nación.» Franco Allinovi, Infonews «El realismo cede al fantástico, la memoria irrumpe y arrasa con todo: cuerpo, familia, idioma.» Carolina Esses, La Nación «La estirpe es una novela sobre los rincones opacos de la historia familiar, que también son huecos en la memoria histórica. El libro de Maliandi, bello y sutil, tiene reservado un destino mucho más extraño para sus criaturas del que uno espera al comenzarlo.» Ana Prieto, Otra Parte]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562517Thu, 09 Dec 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La estirpe Author: Carla Maliandi Narrator: Carla Maliandi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 23 minutes Release date: December...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562517 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La estirpe Author: Carla Maliandi Narrator: Carla Maliandi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 23 minutes Release date: December 9, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Golpeada por accidente, Ana pierde la memoria. El proceso de recuperación es lento y desquicia a quienes la rodean. Mientras trata de entender qué la ata a su marido, su hijo y sus rutinas, la vida completa parece carecer de cualquier lógica y la pregunta por el ser puede tener muchas e inesperadas respuestas. «La escritura de Maliandi es precisa y preciosa al mismo tiempo. Una escritura que conmueve como pocas y que deja sin palabras: eso es lo que pasa con los libros que son capaces de atravesar la mente y el corazón de los lectores de una manera tan honda.» Selva Almada Entre fragmentos de recuerdos y de olvidos que parecen dominados por el azar, Ana intenta recobrar la memoria perdida por un accidente menor. Aun a escala personal, el pasado configura para ella un campo de batalla y la Historia del país se manifiesta en los hitos, símbolos y tabúes que instauraron su propio linaje. El conflicto doméstico aparece así enmarcado por otro más crudo: la pelea por la lengua y el territorio propios. En esta novela deslumbrante y sutil, donde lo íntimo se proyecta implacable sobre lo político, Carla Maliandi varía sobre el motivo kafkiano de la metamorfosis, que aquí existe como punto de llegada. Es muy posible, para cualquiera, amanecer transformado en un monstruoso insecto. La crítica ha dicho... «A veces, cuando leés un libro que es una genialidad querés recomendarlo corriendo pero no sabés bien qué decir: te parece que cualquier cosa va a ser una huevada que no le va a hacer justicia a la novela. Este es el caso: no sé bien cómo explicarles la música dura, a la Kraftwerk, el magnetismo que te secuestra la cabeza, la magia que se arma entre lo dicho y lo no dicho, la abducción que genera esta novela. Así como la protagonista se vuelve otra, la otra, cuando la leés vos también te volvés otra, otro. Les mega recomiendo La Estirpe: Carla Maliandi se zarpó.» Gabriela Cabezón Cámara «Por accidente una mujer pierde su memoria y al hacerlo recupera la memoria perdida de un país. En la delicada nitidez de su escritura La Estirpe parece sugerir que los sueños y reclamos colectivos solo son posibles con la extinción del individuo empecinado en su diferencia. La segunda novela de Carla Maliandi susurra ideas y emociones de fulgor hipnótico.» Roque Larraquy «Narrar por quien ya no puede, recuperarle el lenguaje y lo que le ha sido cercenado. La estirpe, el nuevo libro de Carla Maliandi, es una estructura galopante de corazón sereno. Sus diálogos y omisiones celebran el oficio dramatúrgico, la recuperación de la habitación propia física y mental, trenzando el pasado con el presente con suma sensibilidad, con profunda destreza. Carla hace que parezca fácilmente escrito y -lo sabemos-, ese es uno de los más complejos logros.» Katya Adaui «La estirpe de Carla Maliandi es una novela extraordinaria, sutil e inteligente, hermosamente escrita. Con una trama de apariencia sencilla que sin embargo guarda capas y capas de sentido que va atrapando a quien la lea, al mismo tiempo que conmueve y asombra.» Vera Giaconi «Extraordinaria.» Silvina Friera, Página 12 «Con una prosa exquisita y sin caer en obviedades, la escritora relata la borrosa cotidianeidad de la protagonista para referirse, en definitiva, a los sombríos orígenes de nuestra nación.» Franco Allinovi, Infonews «El realismo cede al fantástico, la memoria irrumpe y arrasa con todo: cuerpo, familia, idioma.» Carolina Esses, La Nación «La estirpe es una novela sobre los rincones opacos de la historia familiar, que también son huecos en...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-homecoming-by-earl-hamner--65202195https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Homecoming Series: #2 of The Spencer's Mountain Series Author: Earl Hamner Narrator: Milton Bagby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 51 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When Clay-Boy’s father fails to return home on Christmas Eve, Clay-Boy takes to the snowy Virginia hills in search of him, leaving his worried family to keep watch at the homestead. Along the way, he meets an irate deer, a threatening county sheriff, a congregation of African-American churchgoers, and two elderly women who happen to be bootleggers. The story of Clay-Boy’s search for his father is told with warmth and intensity. Along with its prequel, Spencer’s Mountain, The Homecoming was the inspiration for the popular television show The Waltons, which starred Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, and Michael Learned, and ran for nine years between 1972 and 1981. Over fifty years after its publication, this novel still has the power to move and inspire.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577616Tue, 07 Dec 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Homecoming Series: #2 of The Spencer's Mountain Series Author: Earl Hamner Narrator: Milton Bagby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 51...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/577616 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Homecoming Series: #2 of The Spencer's Mountain Series Author: Earl Hamner Narrator: Milton Bagby Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 51 minutes Release date: December 7, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When Clay-Boy’s father fails to return home on Christmas Eve, Clay-Boy takes to the snowy Virginia hills in search of him, leaving his worried family to keep watch at the homestead. Along the way, he meets an irate deer, a threatening county sheriff, a congregation of African-American churchgoers, and two elderly women who happen to be bootleggers. The story of Clay-Boy’s search for his father is told with warmth and intensity. Along with its prequel, Spencer’s Mountain, The Homecoming was the inspiration for the popular television show The Waltons, which starred Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, and Michael Learned, and ran for nine years between 1972 and 1981. Over fifty years after its publication, this novel still has the power to move and inspire.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/spanish-la-chica-by-edna-o-brien--65202211https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La chica Author: Edna O'Brien Narrator: Sol De La Barreda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 18, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: UN ACONTECIMIENTO LITERARIO La última novela de la autora de Las chicas de campo, ganadora del premio Especial Femina Extranjero 2019 y el premio David Cohen 2019 por el conjunto de su obra: su novela más ambiciosa, comprometida y estremecedora. «Un libro valiente sobre un espíritu valiente.» J. M. Coetzee «La escritora de lengua inglesa con más talento de nuestros días.» Philip Roth «Tiempo atrás fui una niña, pero ya no». Así empieza la nueva y sorprendente novela de Edna O'Brien, quien con más de ochenta años ha encontrado la fuerza y la valentía para viajar a Nigeria y entrevistar a varias de las niñas que fueron víctimas de Boko Haram. Su estremecedor testimonio ha inspirado esta novela al tiempo desgarradora y luminosa: la historia de Maryam, que es secuestrada junto con sus compañeras del colegio, encarcelada, violada y obligada a casarse con un desconocido; que debe huir con su bebé y su amiga hasta llegar fi nalmente a reencontrarse con su madre en la aldea, donde la esperan nuevas desventuras aún más sinuosas. O'Brien nos lleva sin aliento por cada página: ansiamos, sufrimos y nos conmovemos con su heroína, y la prosa es deslumbrante e hipnótica como esa luna que mira Maryam desde su celda, símbolo de la esperanza y la redención a pesar de todo. Pues esta es una historia de superación, de amor, amistad y solidaridad, en la que de un modo u otro podemos ver refl ejadas nuestras propias luchas. La crítica ha dicho: «Una novela dura, escrita casi a latigazos y [...] difícil que conviene leer.» Lourdes Pérez (directora El Diario Vasco) «La mayoría de los buenos escritores prefieren ser considerados no por lo que son sino por lo que escriben. La chica, el asombroso tour de force que O'Brien escribió con ochenta y tantos años, es un salto audaz e imaginativo [...] y una experiencia que te transporta lejos, profundamente empática e iluminadora. ¡Léanla! [...] Es una pura maravilla.» Richard Ford «Sería una ofensa para O'Brien reducir la literatura a un mensaje. La chica es un ejemplo perfecto de lo que debería ser la ficción: un acto de imaginación empática.» Charles Taylor, LA Review of Books «Una nueva novela tan sólida como la carrera dorada de esta enorme autora irlandesa. [...] Con su pluma madura, precisa, hondamente literaria, limpia de sobras y adornos, O'Brien logra introducirnos en el infierno moral con un, sin embargo, suave cartel de bienvenida.» Berna González Harbour, Zenda «Una novela con grandes dosis de dureza, pero imprescindible y, sobre todo, con una mirada repleta de esperanza.» Harper's Bazaar «O'Brien logra inyectar suaves dosis de humanidad con una calidad literaria a prueba de terrorismo.» Berna González Harbour, El País «Un relato estremecedor. [...] Una aventura de amor y solidaridad, de una lucha permanente que busca otorgarle un sentido a la experiencia que les toca vivir.» Diego Gándara, La Razón «La habilidad de O'Brien para habitar mentes de sus personajes y elaborar frases virtuosas hace de esta una lectura inmensamente dolorosa. [...] Es la persona ideal para contarnos esta verdad desgarradora.» Francine Prose, The New York Times «No hay autocompasión en la escritura de O'Brien, solo la secuencia de hechos. Así, sus historias tienen el poder universal propio del mito». Florence Noiville, Le Monde]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556461Thu, 18 Nov 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La chica Author: Edna O'Brien Narrator: Sol De La Barreda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: November...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556461 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La chica Author: Edna O'Brien Narrator: Sol De La Barreda Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 57 minutes Release date: November 18, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: UN ACONTECIMIENTO LITERARIO La última novela de la autora de Las chicas de campo, ganadora del premio Especial Femina Extranjero 2019 y el premio David Cohen 2019 por el conjunto de su obra: su novela más ambiciosa, comprometida y estremecedora. «Un libro valiente sobre un espíritu valiente.» J. M. Coetzee «La escritora de lengua inglesa con más talento de nuestros días.» Philip Roth «Tiempo atrás fui una niña, pero ya no». Así empieza la nueva y sorprendente novela de Edna O'Brien, quien con más de ochenta años ha encontrado la fuerza y la valentía para viajar a Nigeria y entrevistar a varias de las niñas que fueron víctimas de Boko Haram. Su estremecedor testimonio ha inspirado esta novela al tiempo desgarradora y luminosa: la historia de Maryam, que es secuestrada junto con sus compañeras del colegio, encarcelada, violada y obligada a casarse con un desconocido; que debe huir con su bebé y su amiga hasta llegar fi nalmente a reencontrarse con su madre en la aldea, donde la esperan nuevas desventuras aún más sinuosas. O'Brien nos lleva sin aliento por cada página: ansiamos, sufrimos y nos conmovemos con su heroína, y la prosa es deslumbrante e hipnótica como esa luna que mira Maryam desde su celda, símbolo de la esperanza y la redención a pesar de todo. Pues esta es una historia de superación, de amor, amistad y solidaridad, en la que de un modo u otro podemos ver refl ejadas nuestras propias luchas. La crítica ha dicho: «Una novela dura, escrita casi a latigazos y [...] difícil que conviene leer.» Lourdes Pérez (directora El Diario Vasco) «La mayoría de los buenos escritores prefieren ser considerados no por lo que son sino por lo que escriben. La chica, el asombroso tour de force que O'Brien escribió con ochenta y tantos años, es un salto audaz e imaginativo [...] y una experiencia que te transporta lejos, profundamente empática e iluminadora. ¡Léanla! [...] Es una pura maravilla.» Richard Ford «Sería una ofensa para O'Brien reducir la literatura a un mensaje. La chica es un ejemplo perfecto de lo que debería ser la ficción: un acto de imaginación empática.» Charles Taylor, LA Review of Books «Una nueva novela tan sólida como la carrera dorada de esta enorme autora irlandesa. [...] Con su pluma madura, precisa, hondamente literaria, limpia de sobras y adornos, O'Brien logra introducirnos en el infierno moral con un, sin embargo, suave cartel de bienvenida.» Berna González Harbour, Zenda «Una novela con grandes dosis de dureza, pero imprescindible y, sobre todo, con una mirada repleta de esperanza.» Harper's Bazaar «O'Brien logra inyectar suaves dosis de humanidad con una calidad literaria a prueba de terrorismo.» Berna González Harbour, El País «Un relato estremecedor. [...] Una aventura de amor y solidaridad, de una lucha permanente que busca otorgarle un sentido a la experiencia que les toca vivir.» Diego Gándara, La Razón «La habilidad de O'Brien para habitar mentes de sus personajes y elaborar frases virtuosas hace de esta una lectura inmensamente dolorosa. [...] Es la persona ideal para contarnos esta verdad desgarradora.» Francine Prose, The New York Times «No hay autocompasión en la escritura de O'Brien, solo la secuencia de hechos. Así, sus historias tienen el poder universal propio del mito». Florence Noiville, Le Monde]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-imperial-wildest-dreams-1-by-maddie-sage--65202158https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - IMPERIAL - Wildest Dreams 1 Author: Maddie Sage Narrator: Lisa J. Rauen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 10, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: *Wem sollen wir in einer Welt voller Intrigen und Machtspielchen noch vertrauen? Lassen wir unsere Gefühle zu, stürzen wir alle um uns herum ins Verderben.*​Nach einer durchzechten Nacht reist Lauren gemeinsam mit ihrer feierwütigen Freundin Jane für ein Jahrespraktikum ins Schloss des Königs von Wittles Cay Island. Und das, obwohl ihr der Abschied von ihrer Familie alles andere als leichtfällt, denn diese ist ihr größter Halt, nachdem ihr Vater vor fast vier Jahren spurlos verschwunden ist.Am Hof sieht Lauren sich jedoch mit zahlreichen Problemen konfrontiert, allen voran mit Prinz Alexander, dessen Charme sie wider Willen in den Bann zieht. Dabei ist der Königssohn bereits der belvarischen Prinzessin versprochen worden, die vor nichts zurückschreckt, um ihren Anspruch auf Alexander und den Thron zu sichern. Dennoch kommen sich Lauren und der Prinz immer näher, ohne zu ahnen, in welche Gefahr sie einander dadurch bringen. Bis plötzlich Laurens verschollener Vater auftaucht und sie feststellen muss, dass die Folgen seines Verschwindens weiter reichen, als sie je für möglich gehalten hätte.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579521Wed, 10 Nov 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - IMPERIAL - Wildest Dreams 1 Author: Maddie Sage Narrator: Lisa J. Rauen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579521 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - IMPERIAL - Wildest Dreams 1 Author: Maddie Sage Narrator: Lisa J. Rauen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 10, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: *Wem sollen wir in einer Welt voller Intrigen und Machtspielchen noch vertrauen? Lassen wir unsere Gefühle zu, stürzen wir alle um uns herum ins Verderben.*​Nach einer durchzechten Nacht reist Lauren gemeinsam mit ihrer feierwütigen Freundin Jane für ein Jahrespraktikum ins Schloss des Königs von Wittles Cay Island. Und das, obwohl ihr der Abschied von ihrer Familie alles andere als leichtfällt, denn diese ist ihr größter Halt, nachdem ihr Vater vor fast vier Jahren spurlos verschwunden ist.Am Hof sieht Lauren sich jedoch mit zahlreichen Problemen konfrontiert, allen voran mit Prinz Alexander, dessen Charme sie wider Willen in den Bann zieht. Dabei ist der Königssohn bereits der belvarischen Prinzessin versprochen worden, die vor nichts zurückschreckt, um ihren Anspruch auf Alexander und den Thron zu sichern. Dennoch kommen sich Lauren und der Prinz immer näher, ohne zu ahnen, in welche Gefahr sie einander dadurch bringen. Bis plötzlich Laurens verschollener Vater auftaucht und sie feststellen muss, dass die Folgen seines Verschwindens weiter reichen, als sie je für möglich gehalten hätte.-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/win-me-something-by-kyle-lucia-wu--65202190https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Win Me Something Author: Kyle Lucia Wu Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging―of a young woman determined to be seen. Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too. For years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet the unease inside her. But when she begins working for the Adriens―a wealthy white family in Tribeca―as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had. As she draws closer to the family and eventually moves in with them, Willa finds herself questioning who she is, and revisiting a childhood where she never felt fully at home. Self-examining and fraught with the emotions of a family who fails and loves in equal measure, Win Me Something is a nuanced coming-of-age debut about the irreparable fissures between people, and a young woman who asks what it really means to belong, and how she might begin to define her own life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571590Tue, 02 Nov 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Win Me Something Author: Kyle Lucia Wu Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/571590 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Win Me Something Author: Kyle Lucia Wu Narrator: Natalie Naudus Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging―of a young woman determined to be seen. Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too. For years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet the unease inside her. But when she begins working for the Adriens―a wealthy white family in Tribeca―as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had. As she draws closer to the family and eventually moves in with them, Willa finds herself questioning who she is, and revisiting a childhood where she never felt fully at home. Self-examining and fraught with the emotions of a family who fails and loves in equal measure, Win Me Something is a nuanced coming-of-age debut about the irreparable fissures between people, and a young woman who asks what it really means to belong, and how she might begin to define her own life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-diese-einsamkeit-ohne-uberfluss-by-sigrid-damm--65202204https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Diese Einsamkeit ohne Überfluss Author: Sigrid Damm Narrator: Sigrid Damm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 28, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Die Ich-Erzählerin begibt sich auf eine Reise nach Schottland und nimmt den Leser mit in ihre tiefste Gedankenwelt. Die Dozentin und Schriftstellerin lässt uns an ihrem Alltag teilhaben, doch immer wieder schweifen die Gedanken in vergangene Jahre zurück. Beschreibungen ihrer Kindheit und von verflossenen Liebschaften stellen die Frage, warum ein einziges Leben so viel Zeit braucht, um falsche Anfänge hinter sich zu lassen...-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579833Thu, 28 Oct 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Diese Einsamkeit ohne Überfluss Author: Sigrid Damm Narrator: Sigrid Damm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 25 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579833 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Diese Einsamkeit ohne Überfluss Author: Sigrid Damm Narrator: Sigrid Damm Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 28, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Die Ich-Erzählerin begibt sich auf eine Reise nach Schottland und nimmt den Leser mit in ihre tiefste Gedankenwelt. Die Dozentin und Schriftstellerin lässt uns an ihrem Alltag teilhaben, doch immer wieder schweifen die Gedanken in vergangene Jahre zurück. Beschreibungen ihrer Kindheit und von verflossenen Liebschaften stellen die Frage, warum ein einziges Leben so viel Zeit braucht, um falsche Anfänge hinter sich zu lassen...-]]>305berflusscleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stitched-by-emma-mildon--65202234https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stitched Author: Emma Mildon Narrator: Skye Ally Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 17, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ★★★★★ 'Eat, Pray, Love, meets 13 Reasons Why. I’m officially hooked on this book.' Sophie is desperate to stitch her life back together. Quirky. De-railed. Unhinged. Untamed. Awkward. And ultimately hanging on by a thread, after a life changing car crash changes the direction of her life as she knew it. Navigating loosing love, death, and finding her place in the world she sets out on a journey to fall back in love, with life. Between sewing sarcastic cross-stitches, threads of sexual tension, and a rift of spiritual revelations Sophie finds herself new friendships, traveling new lands, and living in limbo between worlds. Foreign worlds. Haunted by her past. And stuck in her present. Ugh, life? What a dick sometimes, am I right? Enter Chris, the seductive Australian backpacker who just might help her come back to the reality of now. After a string of fateful meetings Sophie if forced to confront the fabric of her life. Stay tangled by the past? Or cut herself free for a future. Guilt. Lust. Grief. Longing. Welcome to Sophie’s awkward world, and how it unravelled. Aka one big fat knotted mess.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556559Sun, 17 Oct 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stitched Author: Emma Mildon Narrator: Skye Ally Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 17, 2021 Genres: Coming...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/556559 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stitched Author: Emma Mildon Narrator: Skye Ally Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 17, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ★★★★★ 'Eat, Pray, Love, meets 13 Reasons Why. I’m officially hooked on this book.' Sophie is desperate to stitch her life back together. Quirky. De-railed. Unhinged. Untamed. Awkward. And ultimately hanging on by a thread, after a life changing car crash changes the direction of her life as she knew it. Navigating loosing love, death, and finding her place in the world she sets out on a journey to fall back in love, with life. Between sewing sarcastic cross-stitches, threads of sexual tension, and a rift of spiritual revelations Sophie finds herself new friendships, traveling new lands, and living in limbo between worlds. Foreign worlds. Haunted by her past. And stuck in her present. Ugh, life? What a dick sometimes, am I right? Enter Chris, the seductive Australian backpacker who just might help her come back to the reality of now. After a string of fateful meetings Sophie if forced to confront the fabric of her life. Stay tangled by the past? Or cut herself free for a future. Guilt. Lust. Grief. Longing. Welcome to Sophie’s awkward world, and how it unravelled. Aka one big fat knotted mess.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shadows-of-olive-trees-by-susanne-gervay--65202194https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shadows of Olive Trees Author: Susanne Gervay Narrator: Erin Marie White, Andrew Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Before the #MeToo movement, there was the 1970s and three girls - Tessa, Athena, Jenny – looking for love, friendship and meaningful futures. In desiring to break traditional roles in gender and sexuality, they face challenges from family, church and society. With new freedoms, there are also dangers. This is a story of women's empowerment that has relevance today for women and men. For listeners aged 15+]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559303Tue, 05 Oct 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shadows of Olive Trees Author: Susanne Gervay Narrator: Erin Marie White, Andrew Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shadows of Olive Trees Author: Susanne Gervay Narrator: Erin Marie White, Andrew Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 58 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Before the #MeToo movement, there was the 1970s and three girls - Tessa, Athena, Jenny – looking for love, friendship and meaningful futures. In desiring to break traditional roles in gender and sexuality, they face challenges from family, church and society. With new freedoms, there are also dangers. This is a story of women's empowerment that has relevance today for women and men. For listeners aged 15+]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/crown-of-cinders-by-emily-r-king--65202052https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crown of Cinders Series: #2 of Wings of Fury Author: Emily R. King Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Going to battle against a Titan in the war of all wars, one woman is making history in an epic novel of ancient Greece by Emily R. King, author of the Hundredth Queen series. May Gaea be with you… Althea Lambros is growing into her power, wrestling with a burdensome heritage, and unwilling to concede to Cronus, the redoubtable God of Gods. For that, Cronus is making good on his promise. Calling upon the elder Titans, he’s bringing down his wrath on the world. Suffering quakes, tempests, fire, and hail, mortals are paying in blood for the war of the gods. With the help of her friend Theo, Althea takes cover with her sisters, Bronte and Cleora. But they can’t hide forever. To mastermind the downfall of the evil king, Althea must recruit allies of her own before the aggrieved mortals surrender the sisters to Cronus in exchange for peace. Is Althea formidable enough to win? It’ll take the help of her sisters and those willing to fight for the cause of the just. As the gods pick sides, Althea must divide heaven and earth to defeat the enemy and write the true history of the war to end all wars.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627106Tue, 05 Oct 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crown of Cinders Series: #2 of Wings of Fury Author: Emily R. King Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/627106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Crown of Cinders Series: #2 of Wings of Fury Author: Emily R. King Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 5, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Going to battle against a Titan in the war of all wars, one woman is making history in an epic novel of ancient Greece by Emily R. King, author of the Hundredth Queen series. May Gaea be with you… Althea Lambros is growing into her power, wrestling with a burdensome heritage, and unwilling to concede to Cronus, the redoubtable God of Gods. For that, Cronus is making good on his promise. Calling upon the elder Titans, he’s bringing down his wrath on the world. Suffering quakes, tempests, fire, and hail, mortals are paying in blood for the war of the gods. With the help of her friend Theo, Althea takes cover with her sisters, Bronte and Cleora. But they can’t hide forever. To mastermind the downfall of the evil king, Althea must recruit allies of her own before the aggrieved mortals surrender the sisters to Cronus in exchange for peace. Is Althea formidable enough to win? It’ll take the help of her sisters and those willing to fight for the cause of the just. As the gods pick sides, Althea must divide heaven and earth to defeat the enemy and write the true history of the war to end all wars.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-historian-s-daughter-by-rashida-murphy--65202210https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Historian's Daughter Author: Rashida Murphy Narrator: Sarah Bacaller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 17, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In an old house with 'too many windows and women', high in the Indian hills, young Hannah lives with her older sister Gloria; her two older brothers; her mother - the Magician; a colourful assortment of aunts, blow-ins and misfits; and her father - the Historian. It is a world of secrets, jealousies and lies, ruled by the Historian but smoothed over by the Magician, whose kindnesses and wisdom bring homely comfort and all-enveloping love to a ramshackle building that seems destined for chaos. And then one day the Magician is gone, Gloria is gone, and the Historian has spirited Hannah and her brothers away to a new and at first bewildering life in Perth. As Hannah grows and makes her own way through Australian life, an education and friendships, she begins to penetrate to the heart of one of the old house's greatest secrets - and to the meaning of her own existence.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554168Fri, 17 Sep 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Historian's Daughter Author: Rashida Murphy Narrator: Sarah Bacaller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: September...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554168 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Historian's Daughter Author: Rashida Murphy Narrator: Sarah Bacaller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 17, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In an old house with 'too many windows and women', high in the Indian hills, young Hannah lives with her older sister Gloria; her two older brothers; her mother - the Magician; a colourful assortment of aunts, blow-ins and misfits; and her father - the Historian. It is a world of secrets, jealousies and lies, ruled by the Historian but smoothed over by the Magician, whose kindnesses and wisdom bring homely comfort and all-enveloping love to a ramshackle building that seems destined for chaos. And then one day the Magician is gone, Gloria is gone, and the Historian has spirited Hannah and her brothers away to a new and at first bewildering life in Perth. As Hannah grows and makes her own way through Australian life, an education and friendships, she begins to penetrate to the heart of one of the old house's greatest secrets - and to the meaning of her own existence.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-world-played-chess-a-novel-by-robert-dugoni--65202110https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World Played Chess: A Novel Author: Robert Dugoni Narrator: Todd Haberkorn, Robert Dugoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.73 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “A fearless and sensitive coming-of-age story. I loved it.” —Mark Sullivan, bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley. Bestselling author Robert Dugoni returns with an emotionally arresting follow-up to The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell. In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer—Vincent’s last taste of innocence and first taste of real life—dramatically unfold in a novel about breaking away, shaping a life, and seeking one’s own destiny.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619423Tue, 14 Sep 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World Played Chess: A Novel Author: Robert Dugoni Narrator: Todd Haberkorn, Robert Dugoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619423 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The World Played Chess: A Novel Author: Robert Dugoni Narrator: Todd Haberkorn, Robert Dugoni Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 14, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.73 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “A fearless and sensitive coming-of-age story. I loved it.” —Mark Sullivan, bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley. Bestselling author Robert Dugoni returns with an emotionally arresting follow-up to The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell. In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer—Vincent’s last taste of innocence and first taste of real life—dramatically unfold in a novel about breaking away, shaping a life, and seeking one’s own destiny.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-house-on-the-water-s-edge-a-gripping-thriller-packed-with-suspense-by-ce-rose--65202170https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on the Water's Edge: A gripping thriller packed with suspense Author: Ce Rose Narrator: Sarah Ovens Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 11, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'What an emotional, twisty, rollercoaster of a novel! It kept me guessing all the way through.' Alice Hunter, author of The Serial Killer's Wife Sometimes the past is best left buried Since the birth of baby Joe five weeks ago, Ali Baker has been struggling to cope. Starved of sleep and haunted by painful memories from the past, she's a million miles away from the polished, professional barrister she has worked so hard to become. Then her mother tragically and unexpectedly dies, leaving Ali an orphan. Haunted by her loss, Ali can't forget her mother's last words to her: There is something I really need to tell you… Heading back to the Norfolk Broads to sort her mother's things, Ali is plunged into memories of her family's picture-perfect summers on the river. But as she starts to uncover secrets hidden within the isolated house, Ali is drawn into a dark web that threatens to destroy everything she believed about her childhood – and her very sanity. Ali may finally discover her mother's secrets… but at what cost? A gripping, captivating psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Samantha Hayes and S.E. Lynes. Perfect for book group reading - includes discussion questions. Readers are loving The House on the Water's Edge: 'A novel that gradually creeps under your skin… suffocatingly claustrophobic with an 'oh my goodness' finale!' Carla Kovach, author of The Next Girl 'Absorbing from start to finish. The climax is incendiary. It set my day on fire.' Amanda Robson, author of Obsession 'The creeping sense of doom reached its crescendo and did not disappoint. The twists and revelations left me reeling!' Ruby Speechley, author of The Face at the Window 'As I finished the last page, I nearly dropped my eReader! WHAT?!?! Definitely a book you'll want to pick up!' ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review 'This gripping, twisty tale of family secrets and ancient lies coming home to roost is a real rollercoaster of emotion. I couldn't put it down… What a fantastic read!' Judi Daykin, author of Under Violent Skies 'A sharp, twisty thriller filled with secrets… fantastic.' Chris George, author of Guess Who 'A completely engrossing story, full of intrigue and mystery, and with a dash of romance too. Brilliant!' C.J. Cooper, author of The Book Club 'Loved how the secrets started to unfold…With one final unexpected revelation at the end, this left me open mouthed.' ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review 'Loved this one!… Lots of twists and turns along the way. Definitely one I recommend.' ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review 'This psychological thriller was a never-ending journey of twists and turns… the author had you hanging onto her every word.' 'A really exciting and thrilling read… with lots of twists and turns.' ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review 'I wasn't expecting the twist… I didn't see it coming at all.' ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review 'Hard to put down… filled with secrets, childhood drama, and a lot of tragedy.' Reader Review 'I am definitely going to be looking for more from this author, highly recommend.' Reader Review 'I loved it. Well-written, fun to read, quick to finish.' Reader Review 'This was such a fast paced read! The plot was fabulous and I had no idea what to expect next… Which kept me on my toes.' Reader Review 'Isolation, lonely and creepy! It really opened up the more I read.' Reader Review]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583380Wed, 11 Aug 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on the Water's Edge: A gripping thriller packed with suspense Author: Ce Rose Narrator: Sarah Ovens Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583380 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on the Water's Edge: A gripping thriller packed with suspense Author: Ce Rose Narrator: Sarah Ovens Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 11, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'What an emotional, twisty, rollercoaster of a novel! It kept me guessing all the way through.' Alice Hunter, author of The Serial Killer's Wife Sometimes the past is best left buried Since the birth of baby Joe five weeks ago, Ali Baker has been struggling to cope. Starved of sleep and haunted by painful memories from the past, she's a million miles away from the polished, professional barrister she has worked so hard to become. Then her mother tragically and unexpectedly dies, leaving Ali an orphan. Haunted by her loss, Ali can't forget her mother's last words to her: There is something I really need to tell you… Heading back to the Norfolk Broads to sort her mother's things, Ali is plunged into memories of her family's picture-perfect summers on the river. But as she starts to uncover secrets hidden within the isolated house, Ali is drawn into a dark web that threatens to destroy everything she believed about her childhood – and her very sanity. Ali may finally discover her mother's secrets… but at what cost? A gripping, captivating psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Samantha Hayes and S.E. Lynes. Perfect for book group reading - includes discussion questions. Readers are loving The House on the Water's Edge: 'A novel that gradually creeps under your skin… suffocatingly claustrophobic with an 'oh my goodness' finale!' Carla Kovach, author of The Next Girl 'Absorbing from start to finish. The climax is incendiary. It set my day on fire.' Amanda Robson, author of Obsession 'The creeping sense of doom reached its crescendo and did not disappoint. The twists and revelations left me reeling!' Ruby Speechley, author of The Face at the Window 'As I finished the last page, I nearly dropped my eReader! WHAT?!?! Definitely a book you'll want to pick up!' ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review 'This gripping, twisty tale of family secrets and ancient lies coming home to roost is a real rollercoaster of emotion. I couldn't put it down… What a fantastic read!' Judi Daykin, author of Under Violent Skies 'A sharp, twisty thriller filled with secrets… fantastic.' Chris George, author of Guess Who 'A completely engrossing story, full of intrigue and mystery, and with a dash of romance too. Brilliant!' C.J. Cooper, author of The Book Club 'Loved how the secrets started to unfold…With one final unexpected revelation at the end, this left me open mouthed.' ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review 'Loved this one!… Lots of twists and turns along the way. Definitely one I recommend.' ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review 'This psychological thriller was a never-ending journey of twists and turns… the author had you hanging onto her every word.' 'A really exciting and thrilling read… with lots of twists and turns.' ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review 'I wasn't expecting the twist… I didn't see it coming at all.' ☆☆☆☆☆ Reader Review 'Hard to put down… filled with secrets, childhood drama, and a lot of tragedy.' Reader Review 'I am definitely going to be looking for more from this author, highly recommend.' Reader Review 'I loved it. Well-written, fun to read, quick to finish.' Reader Review 'This was such a fast paced read! The plot was fabulous and I had no idea what to expect next… Which kept me on my toes.' Reader Review 'Isolation, lonely and creepy! It really opened up the more I read.' Reader Review]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/everyman-a-novel-by-m-shelly-conner--65202239https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: everyman: a novel Author: M Shelly Conner Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Eve Mann arrives in Ideal, Georgia, in 1972 looking for answers about the mother who died giving her life. A mother named Mercy. A mother who for all of Eve’s twenty-two years has been a mystery and a quest. Eve’s search for her mother, and the father she never knew, is a mission to discover her identity, her name, her people, and her home. Eve’s questions and longing launch a multigenerational story that sprawls back to the turn of the twentieth century, settles into the soil of the South, the blood and souls of Black folk making love and life and fleeing in a Great Migration into the savage embrace of the North. Eve is a young woman coming of age in Chicago against the backdrop of the twin fires and fury of the civil rights and Black Power movements—a time when everything and everyone, it seems, longs to be made anew. At the core of this story are the various meanings of love—how we love and, most of all, whom we love. everyman is peopled by rebellious Black women straining against the yoke of convention and designated identities, explorers announcing their determination to be and to be free. There is Nelle, Eve’s best friend and heart, who claims her right both to love women and to always love Eve as a sister and friend. Brother Lee Roy, professor and mentor, gives Eve the tools for her genealogical search while turning away from his own bitter harvest of family secrets. Mama Ann, the aunt who has raised Eve and knows everything about Mercy, offers Eve a silence that she defines as protection and care. But it is James and Geneva, two strangers whom Eve meets in Ideal, who plumb the depths of their own hurt and reconciliations to finally give Eve the gift of her past, a reimagined present, and finally, her name.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553386Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: everyman: a novel Author: M Shelly Conner Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553386 to listen full audiobooks. Title: everyman: a novel Author: M Shelly Conner Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Eve Mann arrives in Ideal, Georgia, in 1972 looking for answers about the mother who died giving her life. A mother named Mercy. A mother who for all of Eve’s twenty-two years has been a mystery and a quest. Eve’s search for her mother, and the father she never knew, is a mission to discover her identity, her name, her people, and her home. Eve’s questions and longing launch a multigenerational story that sprawls back to the turn of the twentieth century, settles into the soil of the South, the blood and souls of Black folk making love and life and fleeing in a Great Migration into the savage embrace of the North. Eve is a young woman coming of age in Chicago against the backdrop of the twin fires and fury of the civil rights and Black Power movements—a time when everything and everyone, it seems, longs to be made anew. At the core of this story are the various meanings of love—how we love and, most of all, whom we love. everyman is peopled by rebellious Black women straining against the yoke of convention and designated identities, explorers announcing their determination to be and to be free. There is Nelle, Eve’s best friend and heart, who claims her right both to love women and to always love Eve as a sister and friend. Brother Lee Roy, professor and mentor, gives Eve the tools for her genealogical search while turning away from his own bitter harvest of family secrets. Mama Ann, the aunt who has raised Eve and knows everything about Mercy, offers Eve a silence that she defines as protection and care. But it is James and Geneva, two strangers whom Eve meets in Ideal, who plumb the depths of their own hurt and reconciliations to finally give Eve the gift of her past, a reimagined present, and finally, her name.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-das-haus-meiner-vater-by-jorn-riel--65202172https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Haus meiner Väter Author: Jørn Riel Narrator: Samy Andersen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 15, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Ein eindrucksvoller Roman über das Leben in der unberührten Wildnis der Arktis! Der Inuit-Junge Agorajaq lebt mit seiner Adoptivfamilie – zwei Vätern und drei Onkeln – im eisigen Norden und verbringt dort eine unbeschwerte Kindheit. Aus seiner Sicht wird eine bunte Sammlung von Geschichten erzählt: über das Leben und die Kultur der Inuit, die Lebenswege seiner Familie, über Zusammenhalt und Gemeinschaft, und über Agorajaqs eigenen Weg zum Erwachsenwerden. 'Riel erzählt in süchtig machender Manier von Kindheit und Jugend in der Arktis, von raufenden, saufenden, herzerwärmenden Helden und Heldinnen. 'Das Haus meiner Väter' ist drastisch, witzig, lehrreich und voiller Poesie.' - Brigitte-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579266Thu, 15 Jul 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Haus meiner Väter Author: Jørn Riel Narrator: Samy Andersen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 4 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/579266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Haus meiner Väter Author: Jørn Riel Narrator: Samy Andersen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 15, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Ein eindrucksvoller Roman über das Leben in der unberührten Wildnis der Arktis! Der Inuit-Junge Agorajaq lebt mit seiner Adoptivfamilie – zwei Vätern und drei Onkeln – im eisigen Norden und verbringt dort eine unbeschwerte Kindheit. Aus seiner Sicht wird eine bunte Sammlung von Geschichten erzählt: über das Leben und die Kultur der Inuit, die Lebenswege seiner Familie, über Zusammenhalt und Gemeinschaft, und über Agorajaqs eigenen Weg zum Erwachsenwerden. 'Riel erzählt in süchtig machender Manier von Kindheit und Jugend in der Arktis, von raufenden, saufenden, herzerwärmenden Helden und Heldinnen. 'Das Haus meiner Väter' ist drastisch, witzig, lehrreich und voiller Poesie.' - Brigitte-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-aufregende-zeiten-by-naoise-dolan--65202207https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Aufregende Zeiten Author: Naoise Dolan Narrator: Franziska Grün Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 24, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Eine beißend komische, zeitgenössische Beziehungsgeschichte, zärtlich und einfühlsam erzählt.Ava ist 22 und hat keine Ahnung, was sie mit ihrem Leben anstellen soll. Doch dann trifft sie Julian. Einen Banker. Einen Banker, der gerne Geld für sie ausgibt. Und plötzlich findet sie sich im Gästezimmer seiner Wohnung wieder und trinkt Clos Vougeot, spricht über schwankende Kurse und hat Sex. Ihre Einkommensunterschiede sind groß, und sie bewahren die selbsternannte Linke und Feministin Ava vor unangenehmen Fragen. Oder macht es sie vielleicht zu einer schlechten Feministin, dass er für alles zahlt?Das wird sie herausfinden, sobald es vorbei ist. Julian verreist für längere Zeit – und Edith tritt auf den Plan. Edith, die ihr zuhört, wenn sie spricht, und ihr Freesien und Tulpen schenkt. Aber dann kehrt Julian doch unerwartet nach Hongkong zurück ...'Lustig, klug und unerschrocken – ein triumphales Debüt' – Hilary Mantel-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578705Thu, 24 Jun 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Aufregende Zeiten Author: Naoise Dolan Narrator: Franziska Grün Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: June...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Aufregende Zeiten Author: Naoise Dolan Narrator: Franziska Grün Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 24, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Eine beißend komische, zeitgenössische Beziehungsgeschichte, zärtlich und einfühlsam erzählt.Ava ist 22 und hat keine Ahnung, was sie mit ihrem Leben anstellen soll. Doch dann trifft sie Julian. Einen Banker. Einen Banker, der gerne Geld für sie ausgibt. Und plötzlich findet sie sich im Gästezimmer seiner Wohnung wieder und trinkt Clos Vougeot, spricht über schwankende Kurse und hat Sex. Ihre Einkommensunterschiede sind groß, und sie bewahren die selbsternannte Linke und Feministin Ava vor unangenehmen Fragen. Oder macht es sie vielleicht zu einer schlechten Feministin, dass er für alles zahlt?Das wird sie herausfinden, sobald es vorbei ist. Julian verreist für längere Zeit – und Edith tritt auf den Plan. Edith, die ihr zuhört, wenn sie spricht, und ihr Freesien und Tulpen schenkt. Aber dann kehrt Julian doch unerwartet nach Hongkong zurück ...'Lustig, klug und unerschrocken – ein triumphales Debüt' – Hilary Mantel-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ice-lion-by-kathleen-o-neal-gear--65202160https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ice Lion Series: #1 of The Rewilding Reports Author: Kathleen O'neal Gear Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Sisi Aisha Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: This cli-fi novel from a notable archaeologist and anthropologist explores a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an apocalyptic Ice Age One thousand years in the future, the zyme, a thick blanket of luminous green slime, covers the oceans. Glaciers three-miles-high rise over the continents. The old stories say that when the Jemen, godlike beings from the past, realized their efforts to halt global warming had gone terribly wrong, they made a desperate gamble to save life on earth and recreated species that had survived the worst of the earth's Ice Ages. Sixteen-summers-old Lynx and his best friend Quiller are members of the Sealion People—archaic humans known as Denisovans. They live in a world growing colder, a world filled with monstrous predators that hunt them for food. When they flee to a new land, they meet a strange old man who impossibly seems to be the last of the Jemen. He tells Lynx the only way he can save his world is by sacrificing himself to the last true god, a quantum computer named Quancee.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596407Tue, 15 Jun 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ice Lion Series: #1 of The Rewilding Reports Author: Kathleen O'neal Gear Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Sisi Aisha Johnson Format: Unabridged...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596407 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ice Lion Series: #1 of The Rewilding Reports Author: Kathleen O'neal Gear Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Sisi Aisha Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: This cli-fi novel from a notable archaeologist and anthropologist explores a frozen future where archaic species struggle to survive an apocalyptic Ice Age One thousand years in the future, the zyme, a thick blanket of luminous green slime, covers the oceans. Glaciers three-miles-high rise over the continents. The old stories say that when the Jemen, godlike beings from the past, realized their efforts to halt global warming had gone terribly wrong, they made a desperate gamble to save life on earth and recreated species that had survived the worst of the earth's Ice Ages. Sixteen-summers-old Lynx and his best friend Quiller are members of the Sealion People—archaic humans known as Denisovans. They live in a world growing colder, a world filled with monstrous predators that hunt them for food. When they flee to a new land, they meet a strange old man who impossibly seems to be the last of the Jemen. He tells Lynx the only way he can save his world is by sacrificing himself to the last true god, a quantum computer named Quancee.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-im-wasser-sind-wir-schwerelos-by-thomas-jedrowski--65202199https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581080 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Im Wasser sind wir schwerelos Author: Thomas Jedrowski Narrator: Emil Schwarz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 3, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Anfang der 1980er Jahre, Polen: Vor dem Hintergrund des gewaltsamen Niedergangs des Kommunismus entwickelt sich eine zarte und leidenschaftliche Liebesgeschichte zwischen zwei jungen Männern, die sich schließlich auf entgegengesetzten Seiten der politischen Kluft wiederfinden - ein erstaunlich poetisches und herzergreifendes literarisches Debüt!Als der Universitätsstudent Ludwik in einem landwirtschaftlichen Sommercamp auf den gutaussehenden Janusz trifft, ist er fasziniert von diesem unbekümmerten Fremden. Eine zufällige Begegnung am Fluss wird bald zu einer intensiven, aufregenden und alles verzehrenden Liebesaffäre. Nachdem ihre Pflichten im Camp erfüllt sind, verbringen die beiden ein paar traumhafte Wochen auf dem Land, weit weg von den gesellschaftlichen Zwängen des repressiven Kommunismus und des katholischen Glaubens und verlieben sich zutiefst ineinander.-]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581080Thu, 03 Jun 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581080 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Im Wasser sind wir schwerelos Author: Thomas Jedrowski Narrator: Emil Schwarz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581080 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Im Wasser sind wir schwerelos Author: Thomas Jedrowski Narrator: Emil Schwarz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 33 minutes Release date: June 3, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Anfang der 1980er Jahre, Polen: Vor dem Hintergrund des gewaltsamen Niedergangs des Kommunismus entwickelt sich eine zarte und leidenschaftliche Liebesgeschichte zwischen zwei jungen Männern, die sich schließlich auf entgegengesetzten Seiten der politischen Kluft wiederfinden - ein erstaunlich poetisches und herzergreifendes literarisches Debüt!Als der Universitätsstudent Ludwik in einem landwirtschaftlichen Sommercamp auf den gutaussehenden Janusz trifft, ist er fasziniert von diesem unbekümmerten Fremden. Eine zufällige Begegnung am Fluss wird bald zu einer intensiven, aufregenden und alles verzehrenden Liebesaffäre. Nachdem ihre Pflichten im Camp erfüllt sind, verbringen die beiden ein paar traumhafte Wochen auf dem Land, weit weg von den gesellschaftlichen Zwängen des repressiven Kommunismus und des katholischen Glaubens und verlieben sich zutiefst ineinander.-]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-light-through-the-leaves-a-novel-by-glendy-vanderah--65202191https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light Through the Leaves: A Novel Author: Glendy Vanderah Narrator: Susannah Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Go on a powerful journey of forgiveness and healing with The Light Through the Leaves, a transcendent novel of love, loss, and self-discovery by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars. One unbearable mistake at the edge of the forest. In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended—for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola’s abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well—into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain wildernesses she treks alone. In a remote area of Washington, a young girl named Raven keeps secrets inside, too. She must never speak to outsiders about how her mother makes miracles spring from the earth, or about her father, whose mysterious presence sometimes frightens her. Raven spends her days learning how to use her rare gifts—and more important, how to hide them. With each lesson comes a warning of what dangers lie in the world beyond her isolated haven. But despite her mother’s cautions, Raven finds herself longing for something more. As Ellis and Raven each confront their powerful longings, their journeys will converge in unexpected and hopeful ways, pulled together by the forces of nature, love, and family.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580920Thu, 01 Apr 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light Through the Leaves: A Novel Author: Glendy Vanderah Narrator: Susannah Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 14 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/580920 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light Through the Leaves: A Novel Author: Glendy Vanderah Narrator: Susannah Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Go on a powerful journey of forgiveness and healing with The Light Through the Leaves, a transcendent novel of love, loss, and self-discovery by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars. One unbearable mistake at the edge of the forest. In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended—for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola’s abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well—into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain wildernesses she treks alone. In a remote area of Washington, a young girl named Raven keeps secrets inside, too. She must never speak to outsiders about how her mother makes miracles spring from the earth, or about her father, whose mysterious presence sometimes frightens her. Raven spends her days learning how to use her rare gifts—and more important, how to hide them. With each lesson comes a warning of what dangers lie in the world beyond her isolated haven. But despite her mother’s cautions, Raven finds herself longing for something more. As Ellis and Raven each confront their powerful longings, their journeys will converge in unexpected and hopeful ways, pulled together by the forces of nature, love, and family.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/requiem-moon-by-c-t-rwizi--65202205https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Requiem Moon Series: #2 of Scarlet Odyssey Author: C. T. Rwizi Narrator: Susan Dalian, Kimberly Woods, Marcus Stewart, James Shippy, Janina Edwards, Korey Jackson, Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 23, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Salo must journey into the heart of darkness to find his way back home in the next epic book of C. T. Rwizi’s debut series. Salo’s queen has finally accepted his desire to be a mystic despite taboos concerning men’s use of magic. But her acceptance is not support; it is strategy. Under a disguise of the queen’s making, Salo enters Jungle City as a pilgrim to the Red Temple, only to find a magical barrier barring his entrance. Left at the mercy of the warring political factions that run the city, Salo faces a series of obstacles wrought by an unseen hand, knowing he cannot return home without completing his pilgrimage. But Isa, King of the Saire clan, has her own plans for Salo. She needs his help to extract the Covenant Diamond from the Red Temple’s inner sanctum—an artifact with the power to end her tribe’s divisions, prevent a genocide, and even save herself from her fate. His new task in hand, Salo navigates a cursed maze of invisible authority—and when he encounters shocking revelations about the power residing in the depths of the undercity, he must wield his magic to finally bring the truth about his world’s history to light.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576483Tue, 23 Mar 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Requiem Moon Series: #2 of Scarlet Odyssey Author: C. T. Rwizi Narrator: Susan Dalian, Kimberly Woods, Marcus Stewart, James Shippy, Janina Edwards,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576483 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Requiem Moon Series: #2 of Scarlet Odyssey Author: C. T. Rwizi Narrator: Susan Dalian, Kimberly Woods, Marcus Stewart, James Shippy, Janina Edwards, Korey Jackson, Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 23, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Salo must journey into the heart of darkness to find his way back home in the next epic book of C. T. Rwizi’s debut series. Salo’s queen has finally accepted his desire to be a mystic despite taboos concerning men’s use of magic. But her acceptance is not support; it is strategy. Under a disguise of the queen’s making, Salo enters Jungle City as a pilgrim to the Red Temple, only to find a magical barrier barring his entrance. Left at the mercy of the warring political factions that run the city, Salo faces a series of obstacles wrought by an unseen hand, knowing he cannot return home without completing his pilgrimage. But Isa, King of the Saire clan, has her own plans for Salo. She needs his help to extract the Covenant Diamond from the Red Temple’s inner sanctum—an artifact with the power to end her tribe’s divisions, prevent a genocide, and even save herself from her fate. His new task in hand, Salo navigates a cursed maze of invisible authority—and when he encounters shocking revelations about the power residing in the depths of the undercity, he must wield his magic to finally bring the truth about his world’s history to light.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wings-of-fury-by-emily-r-king--65202196https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wings of Fury Series: #1 of Wings of Fury Author: Emily R. King Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 1, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From Emily R. King, author of the Hundredth Queen series, comes an epic novel of ancient Greece, Titans and treachery, and the women who dare to rise up against the tyranny of the Golden Age. My mother told me that men would speak about the Golden Age as a time of peace and happiness for all… However, the women of our age would tell a very different story… Cronus, God of Gods, whose inheritance is the world. Among his possessions: women, imprisoned and fated to serve. The strong-minded Althea Lambros controls her own fate and lives to honor her dying mother’s plea to protect her two sisters at all costs. Althea’s journey toward crushing the tyranny has begun. It is a destiny foretold by the Fates. And she is following their visions. On the southern isle of Crete, hidden among mortal women who have fled the Titans, is the Boy God, son of Cronus and believed dead. He shares Althea’s destiny to vanquish the Almighty—fate willing. Because Cronus has caught wind of the plot. He’s amassing his own forces against Althea’s righteous rebellion and all those who will no longer surrender or run. There will be war. If she’s to survive to write their history, the indomitable Althea must soar higher than any god.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576482Mon, 01 Mar 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wings of Fury Series: #1 of Wings of Fury Author: Emily R. King Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wings of Fury Series: #1 of Wings of Fury Author: Emily R. King Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 1, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From Emily R. King, author of the Hundredth Queen series, comes an epic novel of ancient Greece, Titans and treachery, and the women who dare to rise up against the tyranny of the Golden Age. My mother told me that men would speak about the Golden Age as a time of peace and happiness for all… However, the women of our age would tell a very different story… Cronus, God of Gods, whose inheritance is the world. Among his possessions: women, imprisoned and fated to serve. The strong-minded Althea Lambros controls her own fate and lives to honor her dying mother’s plea to protect her two sisters at all costs. Althea’s journey toward crushing the tyranny has begun. It is a destiny foretold by the Fates. And she is following their visions. On the southern isle of Crete, hidden among mortal women who have fled the Titans, is the Boy God, son of Cronus and believed dead. He shares Althea’s destiny to vanquish the Almighty—fate willing. Because Cronus has caught wind of the plot. He’s amassing his own forces against Althea’s righteous rebellion and all those who will no longer surrender or run. There will be war. If she’s to survive to write their history, the indomitable Althea must soar higher than any god.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-family-ship-a-novel-by-sonja-yoerg--65202203https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Family Ship: A Novel Author: Sonja Yoerg Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 23, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of True Places comes a disarming and emotional novel about a family in distress and a daughter’s mission to keep it from going under. Chesapeake Bay, 1980. Eighteen-year-old Verity Vergennes is the captain of the USS Nepenthe, and her seven younger siblings are her crew. The ship—an oyster boat transformed into a make-believe destroyer—is the heart of the Vergennes family, a place both to play and to learn responsibility. But Verity’s had it with being tied to the ship and secretly applies to a distant college. If only her parents could bear to let her go. Maeve and Arthur Vergennes already suffered one loss when, five years earlier, their eldest son, Jude, stormed out and never returned. Now Maeve is pregnant again and something’s amiss. Verity yearns to follow her dreams, but how can she jump ship now? The problem, and perhaps the answer, lies with Jude. When disaster strikes and the family unravels, Verity must rally her sibling crew to keep the Nepenthe and all it symbolizes afloat. Sailing away from home, she discovers, is never easy—not if you ever hope to find your way back.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572933Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Family Ship: A Novel Author: Sonja Yoerg Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572933 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Family Ship: A Novel Author: Sonja Yoerg Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 23, 2021 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of True Places comes a disarming and emotional novel about a family in distress and a daughter’s mission to keep it from going under. Chesapeake Bay, 1980. Eighteen-year-old Verity Vergennes is the captain of the USS Nepenthe, and her seven younger siblings are her crew. The ship—an oyster boat transformed into a make-believe destroyer—is the heart of the Vergennes family, a place both to play and to learn responsibility. But Verity’s had it with being tied to the ship and secretly applies to a distant college. If only her parents could bear to let her go. Maeve and Arthur Vergennes already suffered one loss when, five years earlier, their eldest son, Jude, stormed out and never returned. Now Maeve is pregnant again and something’s amiss. Verity yearns to follow her dreams, but how can she jump ship now? The problem, and perhaps the answer, lies with Jude. When disaster strikes and the family unravels, Verity must rally her sibling crew to keep the Nepenthe and all it symbolizes afloat. Sailing away from home, she discovers, is never easy—not if you ever hope to find your way back.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/west-with-giraffes-a-novel-by-lynda-rutledge--65202178https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: West with Giraffes: A Novel Author: Lynda Rutledge Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: February 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 107 Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 32 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America. “Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes…” Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world’s first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes. Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it’s too late.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572928Mon, 01 Feb 2021 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: West with Giraffes: A Novel Author: Lynda Rutledge Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/572928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: West with Giraffes: A Novel Author: Lynda Rutledge Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 28 minutes Release date: February 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 107 Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 32 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America. “Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes…” Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world’s first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes. Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it’s too late.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-name-is-anton-a-novel-by-catherine-ryan-hyde--65202222https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name is Anton: A Novel Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde returns with a hopeful novel of sacrifice, two lost souls, and enduring love. It’s 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. Nearly a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded—physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she’s in danger. Anton is determined to help Edith leave her abusive marriage. Frightened and fifteen years Anton’s senior, Edith is slow to trust. But when she needs a safe place to stay, she lets down her guard, and over the course of ten days an unlikely friendship grows. As Anton falls hopelessly and selflessly in love, Edith fears both her husband finding her and Anton getting hurt. She must disappear without telling anyone where she’s going—even Anton. If keeping Edith safe means letting her go, Anton will say goodbye forever. Or so he believes. What would happen, though, if one day their paths should cross again?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559244Tue, 01 Dec 2020 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name is Anton: A Novel Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Name is Anton: A Novel Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Narrator: Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde returns with a hopeful novel of sacrifice, two lost souls, and enduring love. It’s 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. Nearly a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded—physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she’s in danger. Anton is determined to help Edith leave her abusive marriage. Frightened and fifteen years Anton’s senior, Edith is slow to trust. But when she needs a safe place to stay, she lets down her guard, and over the course of ten days an unlikely friendship grows. As Anton falls hopelessly and selflessly in love, Edith fears both her husband finding her and Anton getting hurt. She must disappear without telling anyone where she’s going—even Anton. If keeping Edith safe means letting her go, Anton will say goodbye forever. Or so he believes. What would happen, though, if one day their paths should cross again?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-frenzy-of-sparks-a-novel-by-kristin-fields--65202225https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Frenzy of Sparks: A Novel Author: Kristin Fields Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 3, 2020 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the author of A Lily in the Light comes a poignant story of innocence lost and what it means to grow up too fast. It’s 1965, and thirteen-year-old Gia, along with her older brother and cousins, are desperate to escape their sleepy, tree-lined neighborhood where nothing ever happens. The only thing Gia would miss is the surrounding marsh, where she feels at home among sea birds and salt water. But when one of Gia’s cousins brings drugs into their neighborhood, it sets off a chain of events that quickly turn dangerous. Everyone will be caught in the ripples, and some may be swept away entirely. Gia is determined to keep herself and her family afloat while the world is turned upside down around her. Can she find a way to hold on to the life she was so eager to leave behind, or will she have to watch it all disappear beneath the marsh forever? At turns heart-wrenching and hopeful, A Frenzy of Sparks explores a world where survival is the attempt to move forward while leaving pieces of your heart behind.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554895Tue, 03 Nov 2020 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Frenzy of Sparks: A Novel Author: Kristin Fields Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Frenzy of Sparks: A Novel Author: Kristin Fields Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 3, 2020 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the author of A Lily in the Light comes a poignant story of innocence lost and what it means to grow up too fast. It’s 1965, and thirteen-year-old Gia, along with her older brother and cousins, are desperate to escape their sleepy, tree-lined neighborhood where nothing ever happens. The only thing Gia would miss is the surrounding marsh, where she feels at home among sea birds and salt water. But when one of Gia’s cousins brings drugs into their neighborhood, it sets off a chain of events that quickly turn dangerous. Everyone will be caught in the ripples, and some may be swept away entirely. Gia is determined to keep herself and her family afloat while the world is turned upside down around her. Can she find a way to hold on to the life she was so eager to leave behind, or will she have to watch it all disappear beneath the marsh forever? At turns heart-wrenching and hopeful, A Frenzy of Sparks explores a world where survival is the attempt to move forward while leaving pieces of your heart behind.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-kaltenburg-by-marcel-beyer--65202187https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Kaltenburg Author: Marcel Beyer Narrator: Bernd Geiling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Der Wandel der Zeit zwischen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs und DDR-Zeit, betrachtet anhand zweier Charaktere: Der 1903 geborene Ludwig Kaltenburg ist Biologe in Posen. In den 1930ern begegnet er dem Ich-Erzähler zum ersten Mal, der zu der Zeit noch ein Kind ist. Später, nach dem Zusammenbruch des 'Dritten Reiches', treffen sich beide wieder in Dresden. Der Ich-Erzähler hat seine Eltern während der Bombardierung Dresdens verloren und studiert inzwischen Ornithologie. Die beiden Forscher verbindet schon bald internationale Anerkennung. -]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578734Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Kaltenburg Author: Marcel Beyer Narrator: Bernd Geiling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/578734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Kaltenburg Author: Marcel Beyer Narrator: Bernd Geiling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 1, 2020 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Der Wandel der Zeit zwischen Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs und DDR-Zeit, betrachtet anhand zweier Charaktere: Der 1903 geborene Ludwig Kaltenburg ist Biologe in Posen. In den 1930ern begegnet er dem Ich-Erzähler zum ersten Mal, der zu der Zeit noch ein Kind ist. Später, nach dem Zusammenbruch des 'Dritten Reiches', treffen sich beide wieder in Dresden. Der Ich-Erzähler hat seine Eltern während der Bombardierung Dresdens verloren und studiert inzwischen Ornithologie. Die beiden Forscher verbindet schon bald internationale Anerkennung. -]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/german-queenie-by-candice-carty-williams--65202227https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Queenie Author: Candice Carty-Williams Narrator: Patricia Coridun Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 18, 2020 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Britisch, zeitgeistig und bittersüß.Queenie Jenkins, 25, lebt in London und fühlt sich weder Großbritannien noch der Heimat ihrer Familie, Jamaika, so richtig zugehörig. Sie arbeitet in einer Zeitungsredaktion, wo der Konkurrenzkampf die Hölle ist. Dann endet die Langzeitbeziehung mit ihrem braven Freund auf katastrophale Weise - und Queenie sucht Trost in all den düsteren Ecken, die die Datinghölle des dritten Jahrtausends zu bieten hat.Nach circa eintausend falschen Entscheidungen, stellt sie sich endlich den Fragen, denen sich jede Frau in einer Welt stellen muss, die ganz genau glaubt, die Antworten darauf ohnehin besser zu kennen als sie selbst: Was tust du hier eigentlich? Warum tust du es? Und: wer will ich eigentlich sein?Ausgezeichnet als Buch des Jahres und Debüt des Jahres - British Book Awards 2020]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581874Tue, 18 Aug 2020 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Queenie Author: Candice Carty-Williams Narrator: Patricia Coridun Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/581874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Queenie Author: Candice Carty-Williams Narrator: Patricia Coridun Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 18, 2020 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Britisch, zeitgeistig und bittersüß.Queenie Jenkins, 25, lebt in London und fühlt sich weder Großbritannien noch der Heimat ihrer Familie, Jamaika, so richtig zugehörig. Sie arbeitet in einer Zeitungsredaktion, wo der Konkurrenzkampf die Hölle ist. Dann endet die Langzeitbeziehung mit ihrem braven Freund auf katastrophale Weise - und Queenie sucht Trost in all den düsteren Ecken, die die Datinghölle des dritten Jahrtausends zu bieten hat.Nach circa eintausend falschen Entscheidungen, stellt sie sich endlich den Fragen, denen sich jede Frau in einer Welt stellen muss, die ganz genau glaubt, die Antworten darauf ohnehin besser zu kennen als sie selbst: Was tust du hier eigentlich? Warum tust du es? Und: wer will ich eigentlich sein?Ausgezeichnet als Buch des Jahres und Debüt des Jahres - British Book Awards 2020]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fell-by-robert-jenkins--65202070https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fell Author: Robert Jenkins Narrator: Toby Webster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: December 1, 2019 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In an unspecified time and location, an unnamed boy is living what he feels to be an idyllic life in the faded and peeling lido where his father is a lifeguard. He idolises his father – never more so than when he saves the life of a suicidal man. The arrest of his sister Lilly later that summer brings the halcyon days to an abrupt end, however, and his family is torn apart, with Lilly sent to jail and the boy set to a boarding house for dysfunctional boys: The Fell. He is young and afraid, but he and his new friends band together against their enemies – until anger spills over when he hears the girl he loves referred to as a twenty-dollar whore, and his actions lead him to run from The Fell. And keep running…]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626832Sun, 01 Dec 2019 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fell Author: Robert Jenkins Narrator: Toby Webster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: December 1, 2019 Genres:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/626832 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fell Author: Robert Jenkins Narrator: Toby Webster Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: December 1, 2019 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In an unspecified time and location, an unnamed boy is living what he feels to be an idyllic life in the faded and peeling lido where his father is a lifeguard. He idolises his father – never more so than when he saves the life of a suicidal man. The arrest of his sister Lilly later that summer brings the halcyon days to an abrupt end, however, and his family is torn apart, with Lilly sent to jail and the boy set to a boarding house for dysfunctional boys: The Fell. He is young and afraid, but he and his new friends band together against their enemies – until anger spills over when he hears the girl he loves referred to as a twenty-dollar whore, and his actions lead him to run from The Fell. And keep running…]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/adam-by-ariel-schrag--65202206https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569019 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adam Author: Ariel Schrag Narrator: Ariel Schrag Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 19, 2019 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. A sweet and subversive coming-of-age novel by award-winning memoirist and screenwriter Ariel Schrag. When Adam Freedman—a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager from Piedmont, California—goes to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change. And it sure does. It is the summer of 2006. Gay marriage and transgender rights are in the air, and Casey has thrust herself into a wild lesbian subculture. Soon Adam is tagging along to underground clubs, where there are hot older women everywhere he turns. It takes some time for him to realize that many in this new crowd assume he is trans—a boy who was born a girl. Why else would this baby-faced guy always be around? Then Adam meets Gillian, the girl of his dreams—but she couldn’t possibly be interested in him. Unless passing as a trans guy might actually work in his favor . . . Ariel Schrag’s scathingly funny and poignant debut novel puts a fresh spin on questions of love, attraction, self-definition, and what it takes to be at home in your own skin. “An insightful, funny, and unexpected love story.”—Aimee Mann ''[An] audacious coming-of-age novel.”—Miami Herald ''Compulsively readable.''—Bookforum ''Hilarious...Schrag's riotous, poignant debut novel will leave you reeling.''—SF Weekly]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569019Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569019 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adam Author: Ariel Schrag Narrator: Ariel Schrag Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 19, 2019 Genres: Coming...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569019 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adam Author: Ariel Schrag Narrator: Ariel Schrag Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 19, 2019 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. A sweet and subversive coming-of-age novel by award-winning memoirist and screenwriter Ariel Schrag. When Adam Freedman—a skinny, awkward, inexperienced teenager from Piedmont, California—goes to stay with his older sister Casey in New York City, he is hopeful that his life is about to change. And it sure does. It is the summer of 2006. Gay marriage and transgender rights are in the air, and Casey has thrust herself into a wild lesbian subculture. Soon Adam is tagging along to underground clubs, where there are hot older women everywhere he turns. It takes some time for him to realize that many in this new crowd assume he is trans—a boy who was born a girl. Why else would this baby-faced guy always be around? Then Adam meets Gillian, the girl of his dreams—but she couldn’t possibly be interested in him. Unless passing as a trans guy might actually work in his favor . . . Ariel Schrag’s scathingly funny and poignant debut novel puts a fresh spin on questions of love, attraction, self-definition, and what it takes to be at home in your own skin. “An insightful, funny, and unexpected love story.”—Aimee Mann ''[An] audacious coming-of-age novel.”—Miami Herald ''Compulsively readable.''—Bookforum ''Hilarious...Schrag's riotous, poignant debut novel will leave you reeling.''—SF Weekly]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/big-girl-small-by-kim-liggett-rachel-dewoskin--65202053https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Girl Small Author: Kim Liggett, Rachel DeWoskin Narrator: Tai Sammons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 11, 2011 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old: sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Arts Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town? The fact that the national media is on her trail after a controversy that might bring down the whole school could have something to do with it. And that scandal has something—but not everything—to do with the fact that Judy is three feet nine inches tall. Rachel DeWoskin remembers everything about high school: the auditions (painful), the parents (hovering), the dissection projects (compelling), the friends (outcasts), the boys (crushable), and the girls (complicated), and she lays it all out with a wit and wistfulness that is half Holden Caulfield, half Lee Fiora, Prep’s ironic heroine. Big Girl Small is a scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624213Wed, 11 May 2011 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Girl Small Author: Kim Liggett, Rachel DeWoskin Narrator: Tai Sammons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 11,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Girl Small Author: Kim Liggett, Rachel DeWoskin Narrator: Tai Sammons Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Release date: May 11, 2011 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old: sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Arts Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town? The fact that the national media is on her trail after a controversy that might bring down the whole school could have something to do with it. And that scandal has something—but not everything—to do with the fact that Judy is three feet nine inches tall. Rachel DeWoskin remembers everything about high school: the auditions (painful), the parents (hovering), the dissection projects (compelling), the friends (outcasts), the boys (crushable), and the girls (complicated), and she lays it all out with a wit and wistfulness that is half Holden Caulfield, half Lee Fiora, Prep’s ironic heroine. Big Girl Small is a scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and unwaveringly serious.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-katy-did-by-susan-coolidge--65202106https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Katy Did Author: Susan Coolidge Narrator: Susan O’malley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Twelve-year-old Katy Carr was always dreaming of the time when something would happen to make her famous. But when it does happen, it’s not at all what she wants. This is the moving story of how Katy Carr overcomes her tragic accident and learns to be as loving and as patient as the beautiful invalid, Helen. Susan Coolidge’s famous story, set in the small nineteenth-century American town of Burnet, has charmed generations of children all around the world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623882Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Katy Did Author: Susan Coolidge Narrator: Susan O’malley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Katy Did Author: Susan Coolidge Narrator: Susan O’malley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 18 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Twelve-year-old Katy Carr was always dreaming of the time when something would happen to make her famous. But when it does happen, it’s not at all what she wants. This is the moving story of how Katy Carr overcomes her tragic accident and learns to be as loving and as patient as the beautiful invalid, Helen. Susan Coolidge’s famous story, set in the small nineteenth-century American town of Burnet, has charmed generations of children all around the world.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shadow-line-a-confession-by-joseph-conrad--65202085https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow-Line: A Confession Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: William Sutherland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, this masterpiece relates the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the sense of isolation that his position imposes, the captain crosses the 'shadow-line' between youth and adulthood. The qualities needed to confront the ship's crisis symbolize the very qualities needed by humanity, not only to face evil and destruction, but also to come to terms with life.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623889Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow-Line: A Confession Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: William Sutherland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/623889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow-Line: A Confession Author: Joseph Conrad Narrator: William Sutherland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, this masterpiece relates the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the sense of isolation that his position imposes, the captain crosses the 'shadow-line' between youth and adulthood. The qualities needed to confront the ship's crisis symbolize the very qualities needed by humanity, not only to face evil and destruction, but also to come to terms with life.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/little-women-by-louisa-may-alcott--65202055https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Women Series: #1 of The Little Women Series Author: Louisa May Alcott Narrator: C. M. Hébert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: This favorite book for children, based on the author’s own youthful experiences, describes the life of the March family in a small New England community in the 1800s. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother while their father serves as chaplain during the American Civil War. Jo at fifteen is ungainly, unconventional, and enterprising, with an ambition to be an author. Meg, a year older, is pretty and wishes to be a lady. Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music. Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story explores their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family’s small income, their friendship with the neighboring Laurence family, and their later love affairs and destinies as women.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624035Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:32:34 +0000Jimmy GleichnerPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Women Series: #1 of The Little Women Series Author: Louisa May Alcott Narrator: C. M. Hébert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/624035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Little Women Series: #1 of The Little Women Series Author: Louisa May Alcott Narrator: C. M. Hébert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 1, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: This favorite book for children, based on the author’s own youthful experiences, describes the life of the March family in a small New England community in the 1800s. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother while their father serves as chaplain during the American Civil War. Jo at fifteen is ungainly, unconventional, and enterprising, with an ambition to be an author. Meg, a year older, is pretty and wishes to be a lady. Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music. Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story explores their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family’s small income, their friendship with the neighboring Laurence family, and their later love affairs and destinies as women.]]>185cleanfull