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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 Elyse Flatleyhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/773394f3026efa89e5174b19d0a72d13.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/get-new-full-audiobooks-in-fiction-coming-of-age--6575900Sat, 29 Mar 2025 03:01:21 +0000Elyse FlatleyElyse Flatleyfeeds@spreaker.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/400/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Discover the world of audiobooks with over 500,000+ captivating titles, ranging from Action & Adventure, Science...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/user/400/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Discover the world of audiobooks with over 500,000+ captivating titles, ranging from Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, to Mystery and Romance. You'll get 3 free audiobooks to start your journey. Whether you use an iPhone, iPad, Android, or any other device, you can conveniently enjoy audiobooks. Let captivating stories accompany you every moment! 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-mark-of-the-golden-dragon-by-l-a-meyer--65203269https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mark of the Golden Dragon Series: #9 of Bloody Jack Author: L.A. Meyer Narrator: Katherine Kellgren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The irrepressible Jacky Faber, condemned for life to the English penal colony in Australia for crimes against the Crown, has once again wriggled out of the grasp of British authorities. Back on her flagship, the Lorelei Lee, she eagerly heads back to England in the company of friends and her beloved Jaimy Fletcher. But when the voyage is waylaid by pirates, storms, and her own impetuous nature, Jacky is cast into a world of danger that extends from the South China Sea to the equally treacherous waters of London politics. With the help of her loyal friends, Jacky meets her enemies head on in this tale of love, courage, and redemption.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116351Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mark of the Golden Dragon Series: #9 of Bloody Jack Author: L.A. Meyer Narrator: Katherine Kellgren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116351 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mark of the Golden Dragon Series: #9 of Bloody Jack Author: L.A. Meyer Narrator: Katherine Kellgren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The irrepressible Jacky Faber, condemned for life to the English penal colony in Australia for crimes against the Crown, has once again wriggled out of the grasp of British authorities. Back on her flagship, the Lorelei Lee, she eagerly heads back to England in the company of friends and her beloved Jaimy Fletcher. But when the voyage is waylaid by pirates, storms, and her own impetuous nature, Jacky is cast into a world of danger that extends from the South China Sea to the equally treacherous waters of London politics. With the help of her loyal friends, Jacky meets her enemies head on in this tale of love, courage, and redemption.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/boy-s-life-by-robert-mccammon--65203311https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boy's Life Author: Robert McCammon Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.72 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 14 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling award winning author Robert McCammon, a novel that Publishers Weekly calls “both a mystery that will satisfy the most finicky aficionado and a boisterous travelogue.” Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson—a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake—and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible vision of death that will haunt him forever. As Cory struggles to understand his father’s pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that are manifested in Zephyr. From an ancient, mystical woman who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown—for his father’s sanity and his own life hang in the balance.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220822Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boy's Life Author: Robert McCammon Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/220822 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Boy's Life Author: Robert McCammon Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 7, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.72 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.57 of Total 14 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling award winning author Robert McCammon, a novel that Publishers Weekly calls “both a mystery that will satisfy the most finicky aficionado and a boisterous travelogue.” Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson—a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake—and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible vision of death that will haunt him forever. As Cory struggles to understand his father’s pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that are manifested in Zephyr. From an ancient, mystical woman who can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown—for his father’s sanity and his own life hang in the balance.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/durable-goods-a-novel-by-elizabeth-berg--65203254https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Durable Goods: A Novel Series: #1 of Katie Nash Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 7, 2014 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “Radiant...startling and delicate.” —The Boston Globe On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled to understand their increasingly distant, often violent father. While Diane escapes into the arms of her boyfriend, Katie hides in her room or escapes to her best friend’s house—until Katie’s admiration for her strong-willed sister leads her on an adventure that transforms her life. Written with an unerring ability to capture the sadness of growth, the pain of change, the nearly visible vibrations that connect people, this beautiful novel by the bestselling author of Open House reminds us how wonderful—and wounding—a deeper understanding of life can be. “Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love, and hope. And the transcendence that redeems.' —Andre Dubus “This quietly told tale will find a place in your soul, and will stay there.' —Christopher Tilghman]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200208Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Durable Goods: A Novel Series: #1 of Katie Nash Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 16 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Durable Goods: A Novel Series: #1 of Katie Nash Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Natalie Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 16 minutes Release date: January 7, 2014 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “Radiant...startling and delicate.” —The Boston Globe On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled to understand their increasingly distant, often violent father. While Diane escapes into the arms of her boyfriend, Katie hides in her room or escapes to her best friend’s house—until Katie’s admiration for her strong-willed sister leads her on an adventure that transforms her life. Written with an unerring ability to capture the sadness of growth, the pain of change, the nearly visible vibrations that connect people, this beautiful novel by the bestselling author of Open House reminds us how wonderful—and wounding—a deeper understanding of life can be. “Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love, and hope. And the transcendence that redeems.' —Andre Dubus “This quietly told tale will find a place in your soul, and will stay there.' —Christopher Tilghman]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-final-piece-by-maggi-myers--65203270https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Piece Author: Maggi Myers Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 3, 2013 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Life shouldn’t be about picking up the pieces. Beth Bradshaw has spent her life hiding from her tragic past. From the moment a trusted family friend steals her innocence until the moment another rescues her, she struggles to just survive. Surrounded by the comfort and protection of her extended family, Beth embarks on a journey of healing far from the horrors of her home. In her darkest moments, she meets a boy named Ryan. For one incredible summer, Ryan shows Beth what it’s like to act her own age. To feel free and let go. If only for a while. Years later, another tragedy threatens to shatter the life Beth has carefully crafted. When faced, yet again, with more pieces to pick up, Beth begins to question what her choices have cost her. Leaving her old life behind, she sets forth on a pilgrimage that will bring her back to the boy she could never forget. He wants to help her pick up the pieces of her life, but is she willing to do what it takes to become whole again? Can she trust him with a piece of herself?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202688Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Piece Author: Maggi Myers Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 3, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Piece Author: Maggi Myers Narrator: Amy McFadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 3, 2013 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Life shouldn’t be about picking up the pieces. Beth Bradshaw has spent her life hiding from her tragic past. From the moment a trusted family friend steals her innocence until the moment another rescues her, she struggles to just survive. Surrounded by the comfort and protection of her extended family, Beth embarks on a journey of healing far from the horrors of her home. In her darkest moments, she meets a boy named Ryan. For one incredible summer, Ryan shows Beth what it’s like to act her own age. To feel free and let go. If only for a while. Years later, another tragedy threatens to shatter the life Beth has carefully crafted. When faced, yet again, with more pieces to pick up, Beth begins to question what her choices have cost her. Leaving her old life behind, she sets forth on a pilgrimage that will bring her back to the boy she could never forget. He wants to help her pick up the pieces of her life, but is she willing to do what it takes to become whole again? Can she trust him with a piece of herself?]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/jet-a-marked-men-novel-by-jay-crownover--65203259https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jet: A Marked Men Novel Series: #2 of Marked Men Author: Jay Crownover Narrator: Callie Dalton, Cal Wembly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: With his tight leather pants and a sharp edge that makes him dangerous, Jet Keller is every girl's rock and roll fantasy. But Ayden Cross is done walking on the wild side with bad boys. She doesn't want to give in to the heat she sees in Jet's dark, haunted eyes. She's afraid of getting burned from the sparks of their spontaneous combustion, even as his touch sets her on fire. Jet can't resist the Southern Belle with mile-long legs in cowboy boots who defies his every expectation. Yet the closer he feels to Ayden, the less he seems to know her. While he's tempted to get under her skin and undo her in every way, he knows firsthand what happens to two people with very different ideas about relationships. Will the blaze burn into an enduring love. . . or will it consume their dreams and turn them to ashes? Don't miss the latest bad boy in Jay Crownover's unforgettable New Adult series.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200918Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jet: A Marked Men Novel Series: #2 of Marked Men Author: Jay Crownover Narrator: Callie Dalton, Cal Wembly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200918 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jet: A Marked Men Novel Series: #2 of Marked Men Author: Jay Crownover Narrator: Callie Dalton, Cal Wembly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 19, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: With his tight leather pants and a sharp edge that makes him dangerous, Jet Keller is every girl's rock and roll fantasy. But Ayden Cross is done walking on the wild side with bad boys. She doesn't want to give in to the heat she sees in Jet's dark, haunted eyes. She's afraid of getting burned from the sparks of their spontaneous combustion, even as his touch sets her on fire. Jet can't resist the Southern Belle with mile-long legs in cowboy boots who defies his every expectation. Yet the closer he feels to Ayden, the less he seems to know her. While he's tempted to get under her skin and undo her in every way, he knows firsthand what happens to two people with very different ideas about relationships. Will the blaze burn into an enduring love. . . or will it consume their dreams and turn them to ashes? Don't miss the latest bad boy in Jay Crownover's unforgettable New Adult series.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/foreplay-the-ivy-chronicles-book-1-by-sophie-jordan--65203285https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foreplay: The Ivy Chronicles Book 1 Series: #1 of The Ivy Chronicles Author: Sophie Jordan Narrator: Kim Mckean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Pepper has been hopelessly in love with her best friend's brother, Hunter, for, like, ever. He's the key to everything she's always craved: security, stability, family. But she needs Hunter to notice her as more than just a friend. Even though she's kissed exactly one guy, she has the perfect plan to go from novice to rock star in the bedroom: take a few pointers from someone who knows what he's doing. Her college roommates have the perfect teacher in mind. But bartender Reece is nothing like the player Pepper expects. Yes, he's beyond gorgeous, but he's also dangerous and deep—with a troubled past. Soon what started as a lesson in attraction is turning both their worlds upside down, and showing them just what can happen when you go past foreplay and get to what's real. . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200901Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foreplay: The Ivy Chronicles Book 1 Series: #1 of The Ivy Chronicles Author: Sophie Jordan Narrator: Kim Mckean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200901 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Foreplay: The Ivy Chronicles Book 1 Series: #1 of The Ivy Chronicles Author: Sophie Jordan Narrator: Kim Mckean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Pepper has been hopelessly in love with her best friend's brother, Hunter, for, like, ever. He's the key to everything she's always craved: security, stability, family. But she needs Hunter to notice her as more than just a friend. Even though she's kissed exactly one guy, she has the perfect plan to go from novice to rock star in the bedroom: take a few pointers from someone who knows what he's doing. Her college roommates have the perfect teacher in mind. But bartender Reece is nothing like the player Pepper expects. Yes, he's beyond gorgeous, but he's also dangerous and deep—with a troubled past. Soon what started as a lesson in attraction is turning both their worlds upside down, and showing them just what can happen when you go past foreplay and get to what's real. . . .]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/four-seconds-to-lose-a-novel-by-k-a-tucker--65203282https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Four Seconds to Lose: A Novel Author: K.A. Tucker Narrator: Sebastian York, Elizabeth Louise Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.15 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When a gorgeous young dancer walks through his door, a strip club owner must decide whether to follow his rules or his heart in the third novel by the author of One Tiny Lie and Ten Tiny Breaths. Owning a strip club isn’t the fantasy most guys expect it to be. With long hours, a staff with enough issues to keep a psych ward in business, and the police regularly on his case, twenty-nine-year-old Cain is starting to second-guess his unspoken mission to save the women he employs. And then blond, brown-eyed Charlie Rourke walks through his door, and things get really complicated. Cain abides by a strict “no sleeping with his staff” rule. But being around Charlie challenges Cain’s self-control...and it’s been a long time since any woman has done that. Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Rourke needs a lot of money, really fast, in order to vanish before it’s too late. Taking her clothes off for men makes her stomach curl, but Charlie tells herself that at least she’s putting her acting and dancing skills to good use. And though her fellow dancers seem eager to nab their sexy, sophisticated, and genuinely caring boss, she’s not interested. After all, Charlie Rourke doesn’t really exist—and the girl pretending to be her can’t get distracted by romance. Unfortunately, Charlie soon discovers that developing feelings for Cain is inevitable, and that those feelings may not be unrequited—but losing him when he finds out what she’s involved with will be more painful than any other sentence awaiting her.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201127Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Four Seconds to Lose: A Novel Author: K.A. Tucker Narrator: Sebastian York, Elizabeth Louise Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201127 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Four Seconds to Lose: A Novel Author: K.A. Tucker Narrator: Sebastian York, Elizabeth Louise Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.15 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 7 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When a gorgeous young dancer walks through his door, a strip club owner must decide whether to follow his rules or his heart in the third novel by the author of One Tiny Lie and Ten Tiny Breaths. Owning a strip club isn’t the fantasy most guys expect it to be. With long hours, a staff with enough issues to keep a psych ward in business, and the police regularly on his case, twenty-nine-year-old Cain is starting to second-guess his unspoken mission to save the women he employs. And then blond, brown-eyed Charlie Rourke walks through his door, and things get really complicated. Cain abides by a strict “no sleeping with his staff” rule. But being around Charlie challenges Cain’s self-control...and it’s been a long time since any woman has done that. Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Rourke needs a lot of money, really fast, in order to vanish before it’s too late. Taking her clothes off for men makes her stomach curl, but Charlie tells herself that at least she’s putting her acting and dancing skills to good use. And though her fellow dancers seem eager to nab their sexy, sophisticated, and genuinely caring boss, she’s not interested. After all, Charlie Rourke doesn’t really exist—and the girl pretending to be her can’t get distracted by romance. Unfortunately, Charlie soon discovers that developing feelings for Cain is inevitable, and that those feelings may not be unrequited—but losing him when he finds out what she’s involved with will be more painful than any other sentence awaiting her.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/i-hear-them-cry-by-shiho-kishimoto--65203274https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Hear Them Cry Author: Shiho Kishimoto Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Toyo Shuppan Literary Award. Within the peaceful walls of an old French church, Mayu, a young Japanese artist, finds inspiration. She befriends the local priest and gets involved with community outreach, discovering a rough world of drugs, prostitution, and marginalized youth. Through this work, she learns the value of human life. Even young Pierre, who gets arrested for attacking his mother with a knife, deserves compassion. This delinquent has a seven-year-old sister named Anna and, as Mayu gets to know the family, she uncovers a disturbing history of abuse. Her wild attempt to save the girl from her twisted mother calls upon a brutal courage she didn’t know she had.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200207Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Hear Them Cry Author: Shiho Kishimoto Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Hear Them Cry Author: Shiho Kishimoto Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 5, 2013 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Toyo Shuppan Literary Award. Within the peaceful walls of an old French church, Mayu, a young Japanese artist, finds inspiration. She befriends the local priest and gets involved with community outreach, discovering a rough world of drugs, prostitution, and marginalized youth. Through this work, she learns the value of human life. Even young Pierre, who gets arrested for attacking his mother with a knife, deserves compassion. This delinquent has a seven-year-old sister named Anna and, as Mayu gets to know the family, she uncovers a disturbing history of abuse. Her wild attempt to save the girl from her twisted mother calls upon a brutal courage she didn’t know she had.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/someone-to-love-by-addison-moore--65203272https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Someone to Love Series: #1 of Someone to Love Author: Addison Moore Narrator: Will Damron, Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller “If you don’t give your heart away, you can’t get it broken.” When twenty-year-old Kendall Jordan transfers across the country to Garrison University, the last thing she’s looking for is a one-night stand. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what gorgeous Cruise Elton offers. Kendall has long since come to realize that love is an illusion, and Cruise couldn’t agree more—but something deep inside her wants him all for herself. So Kendall devises a plan to “play the player” and proposes that Cruise tutor her in becoming a female version of himself—Garrison University’s own playboy. But as real feelings emerge, the game gets complicated, and Kendall and Cruise will find themselves questioning everything they thought they knew about love. This book is intended for mature audiences due to strong language and sexual content.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200348Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Someone to Love Series: #1 of Someone to Love Author: Addison Moore Narrator: Will Damron, Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200348 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Someone to Love Series: #1 of Someone to Love Author: Addison Moore Narrator: Will Damron, Amy Rubinate Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 31 minutes Release date: October 29, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller “If you don’t give your heart away, you can’t get it broken.” When twenty-year-old Kendall Jordan transfers across the country to Garrison University, the last thing she’s looking for is a one-night stand. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what gorgeous Cruise Elton offers. Kendall has long since come to realize that love is an illusion, and Cruise couldn’t agree more—but something deep inside her wants him all for herself. So Kendall devises a plan to “play the player” and proposes that Cruise tutor her in becoming a female version of himself—Garrison University’s own playboy. But as real feelings emerge, the game gets complicated, and Kendall and Cruise will find themselves questioning everything they thought they knew about love. This book is intended for mature audiences due to strong language and sexual content.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rule-a-marked-men-novel-by-jay-crownover--65203258https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199195 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rule: A Marked Men Novel Series: #1 of Marked Men Author: Jay Crownover Narrator: Michael Rahhal, Sophie Eastlake Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.54 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.36 of Total 25 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Opposites in every way . . . except the one that matters　 Shaw Landon loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule is everything a straight--A pre-med student like Shaw shouldn't want--and the only person she's never tried to please. She isn't afraid of his scary piercings and tattoos or his wild attitude. Though she knows that Rule is wrong for her, her heart just won't listen. To a rebel like Rule Archer, Shaw Landon is a stuck-up, perfect princess-and his dead twin brother's girl. She lives by other people's rules; he makes his own. He doesn't have time for a good girl like Shaw-even if she's the only one who can see the person he truly is. But a short skirt, too many birthday cocktails, and spilled secrets lead to a night neither can forget. Now, Shaw and Rule have to figure out how a girl like her and a guy like him are supposed to be together without destroying their love . . . or each other. The first Marked Men novel in Jay Crownover's combustible New Adult series.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199195Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199195 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rule: A Marked Men Novel Series: #1 of Marked Men Author: Jay Crownover Narrator: Michael Rahhal, Sophie Eastlake Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199195 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rule: A Marked Men Novel Series: #1 of Marked Men Author: Jay Crownover Narrator: Michael Rahhal, Sophie Eastlake Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: October 22, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.54 of Total 39 Ratings of Narrator: 4.36 of Total 25 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Opposites in every way . . . except the one that matters　 Shaw Landon loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule is everything a straight--A pre-med student like Shaw shouldn't want--and the only person she's never tried to please. She isn't afraid of his scary piercings and tattoos or his wild attitude. Though she knows that Rule is wrong for her, her heart just won't listen. To a rebel like Rule Archer, Shaw Landon is a stuck-up, perfect princess-and his dead twin brother's girl. She lives by other people's rules; he makes his own. He doesn't have time for a good girl like Shaw-even if she's the only one who can see the person he truly is. But a short skirt, too many birthday cocktails, and spilled secrets lead to a night neither can forget. Now, Shaw and Rule have to figure out how a girl like her and a guy like him are supposed to be together without destroying their love . . . or each other. The first Marked Men novel in Jay Crownover's combustible New Adult series.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/finding-it-by-cora-carmack--65203247https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding It Series: #3 of Losing It Author: Cora Carmack Narrator: Simone Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find where you truly belong . . . Most girls would kill to spend months traveling around Europe after college graduation with no responsibility, no parents, and no-limit credit cards. Kelsey Summers is no exception. She's having the time of her life . . . or that's what she keeps telling herself. It's a lonely business trying to find out who you are, especially when you're afraid you won't like what you discover. No amount of drinking or dancing can chase away Kelsey's loneliness, but maybe Jackson Hunt can. After a few chance meetings, he convinces her to take a journey of adventure instead of alcohol. With each new city and experience, Kelsey's mind becomes a little clearer and her heart a little less hers. Jackson helps her unravel her own dreams and desires. But the more she learns about herself, the more Kelsey realizes how little she knows about Jackson.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198682Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding It Series: #3 of Losing It Author: Cora Carmack Narrator: Simone Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198682 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Finding It Series: #3 of Losing It Author: Cora Carmack Narrator: Simone Lewis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: October 15, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find where you truly belong . . . Most girls would kill to spend months traveling around Europe after college graduation with no responsibility, no parents, and no-limit credit cards. Kelsey Summers is no exception. She's having the time of her life . . . or that's what she keeps telling herself. It's a lonely business trying to find out who you are, especially when you're afraid you won't like what you discover. No amount of drinking or dancing can chase away Kelsey's loneliness, but maybe Jackson Hunt can. After a few chance meetings, he convinces her to take a journey of adventure instead of alcohol. With each new city and experience, Kelsey's mind becomes a little clearer and her heart a little less hers. Jackson helps her unravel her own dreams and desires. But the more she learns about herself, the more Kelsey realizes how little she knows about Jackson.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/loss-of-innocence-by-richard-north-patterson--65203262https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loss of Innocence Series: #2 of The Blaine Trilogy Author: Richard North Patterson Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From acclaimed author Richard North Patterson comes a sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous summer of 1968. America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane—spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha's Vineyard—life could not be safer nor the future more certain. Educated at Wheaton, soon to be married, and the youngest daughter of the all-American Dane family, Whitney has everything she has ever wanted and is everything her all-powerful and doting father, Charles Dane, wants her to be. But the Vineyard's still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine. An underprivileged yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic figure, he is a force of nature neither Whitney nor her family could have prepared for. As Ben's presence begins to awaken independence within Whitney, it also brings deep-rooted family tensions to a dangerous head. And soon Whitney's set-in-stone future becomes far from satisfactory and her picture-perfect family far from pretty.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198051Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loss of Innocence Series: #2 of The Blaine Trilogy Author: Richard North Patterson Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loss of Innocence Series: #2 of The Blaine Trilogy Author: Richard North Patterson Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: October 1, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From acclaimed author Richard North Patterson comes a sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous summer of 1968. America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane—spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha's Vineyard—life could not be safer nor the future more certain. Educated at Wheaton, soon to be married, and the youngest daughter of the all-American Dane family, Whitney has everything she has ever wanted and is everything her all-powerful and doting father, Charles Dane, wants her to be. But the Vineyard's still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine. An underprivileged yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic figure, he is a force of nature neither Whitney nor her family could have prepared for. As Ben's presence begins to awaken independence within Whitney, it also brings deep-rooted family tensions to a dangerous head. And soon Whitney's set-in-stone future becomes far from satisfactory and her picture-perfect family far from pretty.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/help-for-the-haunted-a-novel-by-john-searles--65203297https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Help for the Haunted: A Novel Author: John Searles Narrator: Emma Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: John Searles’s Help for the Haunted is an unforgettable story of a most unusual family, their deep secrets, their harrowing tragedy, and ultimately, a daughter’s discovery of a dark and unexpected mystery. Sylvie Mason’s parents have an unusual occupation—helping “haunted souls” find peace. After receiving a strange phone call one winter’s night, they leave the house and are later murdered in an old church in a horrifying act of violence. A year later, Sylvie is living in the care of her older sister, who may be to blame for what happened to their parents. Now, the inquisitive teenager pursues the mystery, moving closer to the knowledge of what occurred that night—and to the truth about her family’s past and the secrets that have haunted them for years. Capturing the vivid eeriness of Stephen King’s works with the compelling quirkiness of John Irving’s beloved novels, Help for the Haunted is that rare story that brings to life a richly imagined and wholly original world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196827Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Help for the Haunted: A Novel Author: John Searles Narrator: Emma Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 37 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Help for the Haunted: A Novel Author: John Searles Narrator: Emma Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 37 minutes Release date: September 17, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: John Searles’s Help for the Haunted is an unforgettable story of a most unusual family, their deep secrets, their harrowing tragedy, and ultimately, a daughter’s discovery of a dark and unexpected mystery. Sylvie Mason’s parents have an unusual occupation—helping “haunted souls” find peace. After receiving a strange phone call one winter’s night, they leave the house and are later murdered in an old church in a horrifying act of violence. A year later, Sylvie is living in the care of her older sister, who may be to blame for what happened to their parents. Now, the inquisitive teenager pursues the mystery, moving closer to the knowledge of what occurred that night—and to the truth about her family’s past and the secrets that have haunted them for years. Capturing the vivid eeriness of Stephen King’s works with the compelling quirkiness of John Irving’s beloved novels, Help for the Haunted is that rare story that brings to life a richly imagined and wholly original world.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wait-for-you-by-j-lynn-jennifer-l-armentrout--65203264https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wait for You Series: #1 of Wait for You Author: J. Lynn, Jennifer L. Armentrout Narrator: Sophie Eastlake Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 16 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling phenomenon Some things are worth waiting for . . . Traveling thousands of miles from home to enter college is the only way nineteen-year-old Avery Morgansten can escape what happened at that fateful Halloween party five years ago—an event that forever changed her life. What she never planned on was capturing the attention of the one guy who could shatter the precarious future she's building for herself. Some things are worth experiencing . . . Cameron Hamilton is six feet, three inches of swoon-worthy hotness, com-plete with a pair of striking blue eyes and a remarkable ability to make Avery want things she believed had been irrevocably stolen from her. Getting involved with him is dangerous. Yet ignoring the simmering tension that sparks between them—and brings out a side of her she never knew existed—is impossible. Some things shouldn't be kept quiet . . . But when Avery starts receiving threatening e-mails and phone calls, she's forced to face a past she wants to keep buried and acknowledge that someone is refusing to allow her to let go of that night when everything changed. If the devastating truth comes out, will she resurface with one less scar? And will Cam be there to help her? And some things are worth fighting for . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196791Tue, 03 Sep 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wait for You Series: #1 of Wait for You Author: J. Lynn, Jennifer L. Armentrout Narrator: Sophie Eastlake Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wait for You Series: #1 of Wait for You Author: J. Lynn, Jennifer L. Armentrout Narrator: Sophie Eastlake Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 16 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling phenomenon Some things are worth waiting for . . . Traveling thousands of miles from home to enter college is the only way nineteen-year-old Avery Morgansten can escape what happened at that fateful Halloween party five years ago—an event that forever changed her life. What she never planned on was capturing the attention of the one guy who could shatter the precarious future she's building for herself. Some things are worth experiencing . . . Cameron Hamilton is six feet, three inches of swoon-worthy hotness, com-plete with a pair of striking blue eyes and a remarkable ability to make Avery want things she believed had been irrevocably stolen from her. Getting involved with him is dangerous. Yet ignoring the simmering tension that sparks between them—and brings out a side of her she never knew existed—is impossible. Some things shouldn't be kept quiet . . . But when Avery starts receiving threatening e-mails and phone calls, she's forced to face a past she wants to keep buried and acknowledge that someone is refusing to allow her to let go of that night when everything changed. If the devastating truth comes out, will she resurface with one less scar? And will Cam be there to help her? And some things are worth fighting for . . .]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gods-of-the-steppe-by-andrei-gelasimov--65203248https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/187661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gods of the Steppe Author: Andrei Gelasimov Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: It is the summer of 1945. Germany has been defeated, Hitler has disappeared, and tensions are mounting ever higher along the Russian-Chinese border…where the threat of Japanese invasion haunts. For Petka, no life could be more thrilling and glorious than marching into battle alongside the Red Army. But he is only twelve, the bastard child of a fractured family, trapped in a village too tiny for his bursting spirit. So he must make his own adventure wherever he can find it. And if that means passing off a wolf cub as a puppy under the nose of his ferocious grandma, stealing bootleg alcohol for the bivouacked troops he worships, smuggling himself in a barrel across the border and into the line of fire, fighting for his life when his own aimless peers turn inexplicably vicious, or befriending an enigmatic Japanese POW who transcends Petka’s provincial world, then so be it. By turns comical, harrowing, poignant, and exhilarating, Petka reveals the soul of a boy who knows only to take from life all that he can—not merely what his circumstances allow. Nominated for the 2014 Rossica Translation Prize.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/187661Tue, 03 Sep 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/187661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gods of the Steppe Author: Andrei Gelasimov Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 3,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/187661 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gods of the Steppe Author: Andrei Gelasimov Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: September 3, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: It is the summer of 1945. Germany has been defeated, Hitler has disappeared, and tensions are mounting ever higher along the Russian-Chinese border…where the threat of Japanese invasion haunts. For Petka, no life could be more thrilling and glorious than marching into battle alongside the Red Army. But he is only twelve, the bastard child of a fractured family, trapped in a village too tiny for his bursting spirit. So he must make his own adventure wherever he can find it. And if that means passing off a wolf cub as a puppy under the nose of his ferocious grandma, stealing bootleg alcohol for the bivouacked troops he worships, smuggling himself in a barrel across the border and into the line of fire, fighting for his life when his own aimless peers turn inexplicably vicious, or befriending an enigmatic Japanese POW who transcends Petka’s provincial world, then so be it. By turns comical, harrowing, poignant, and exhilarating, Petka reveals the soul of a boy who knows only to take from life all that he can—not merely what his circumstances allow. Nominated for the 2014 Rossica Translation Prize.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/early-decision-based-on-a-true-frenzy-by-lacy-crawford--65203278https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Early Decision: Based on a True Frenzy Author: Lacy Crawford Narrator: Erin Moon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 27, 2013 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A delightful and salacious debut novel about the frightful world of high school, SATs, the college essay, and the Common Application—and how getting in is getting in the way of growing up. Tiger mothers, eat your hearts out. Anne the ''application whisperer'' is the golden ticket to success. Working one-on-one with burned-out, helicopter-parented kids, she can make Harvard a reality. Her phone number is a national secret. Her students end up at the best of the best. But sometimes acceptance comes at an enormous cost. In a world of cheating scandals, huge alumni donations, and lots of inside pull, some parents know no bounds when it comes to ensuring that their children get in. It's Anne's job to guide students to their own destinies, beginning with their essays. Early Decision follows five students—four privileged, one without a penny to her name—as they make their applications and wrestle with fate. To write the perfect personal statement, they must tell the truth. And the stories they tell are of greed, excess, jealousy, deceit, money, ego, and pressure, as well as of endurance, tenacity, victory, and the hope of surviving their parents' wildest dreams so they can begin to live their own lives. Early Decision captures the most ferocious season in a modern family's life. Parents only want the best for their children, and students are fighting for college seats that will give them a head start into work and adulthood. Is it possible to face the fall semester of senior year without losing your mind? Told in part through the students' essays, unsparingly revealing the secrets of college advisors at the highest levels, Early Decision is an explosive insider's guide to college admissions in our day. It's also a sharp commentary on modern parenting. The truth is, the kids are all right. Their essays are fabulous. But the system is broken. With humor and hard-earned wisdom, Early Decision illuminates the madness of the college race.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195082Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Early Decision: Based on a True Frenzy Author: Lacy Crawford Narrator: Erin Moon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/195082 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Early Decision: Based on a True Frenzy Author: Lacy Crawford Narrator: Erin Moon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes Release date: August 27, 2013 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A delightful and salacious debut novel about the frightful world of high school, SATs, the college essay, and the Common Application—and how getting in is getting in the way of growing up. Tiger mothers, eat your hearts out. Anne the ''application whisperer'' is the golden ticket to success. Working one-on-one with burned-out, helicopter-parented kids, she can make Harvard a reality. Her phone number is a national secret. Her students end up at the best of the best. But sometimes acceptance comes at an enormous cost. In a world of cheating scandals, huge alumni donations, and lots of inside pull, some parents know no bounds when it comes to ensuring that their children get in. It's Anne's job to guide students to their own destinies, beginning with their essays. Early Decision follows five students—four privileged, one without a penny to her name—as they make their applications and wrestle with fate. To write the perfect personal statement, they must tell the truth. And the stories they tell are of greed, excess, jealousy, deceit, money, ego, and pressure, as well as of endurance, tenacity, victory, and the hope of surviving their parents' wildest dreams so they can begin to live their own lives. Early Decision captures the most ferocious season in a modern family's life. Parents only want the best for their children, and students are fighting for college seats that will give them a head start into work and adulthood. Is it possible to face the fall semester of senior year without losing your mind? Told in part through the students' essays, unsparingly revealing the secrets of college advisors at the highest levels, Early Decision is an explosive insider's guide to college admissions in our day. It's also a sharp commentary on modern parenting. The truth is, the kids are all right. Their essays are fabulous. But the system is broken. With humor and hard-earned wisdom, Early Decision illuminates the madness of the college race.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-car-thief-by-theodore-weesner--65203246https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194855 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Car Thief Author: Theodore Weesner Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 15, 2013 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Described as 'one of the best coming-of-age novels of the twentieth century,' Theodore Weesner's modern American classic is now on audio! It's 1959. Sixteen-year-old Alex Housman has just stolen his fourteenth car and frankly doesn't know why. His divorced, working-class father grinds out the night shift at the local Chevy plant in Detroit and looks forward to the flask in his glove compartment and the open bottles of booze in his Flint, Michigan, home. Broke and fighting to survive, Alex and his father face the realities of estrangement, incarceration, and even violence as their lives unfold toward the climactic episode that a New York Times reviewer called 'one of the most profoundly powerful in American fiction.' In this rich, beautifully crafted story, Weesner has written a transcendent piece of literature in deceptively simple language, painting a powerful portrait of a father and a son otherwise invisible among the mundane, everyday details of life in blue-collar America. It is a true and enduring American classic.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194855Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194855 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Car Thief Author: Theodore Weesner Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 15, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194855 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Car Thief Author: Theodore Weesner Narrator: Richard Powers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 32 minutes Release date: August 15, 2013 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Described as 'one of the best coming-of-age novels of the twentieth century,' Theodore Weesner's modern American classic is now on audio! It's 1959. Sixteen-year-old Alex Housman has just stolen his fourteenth car and frankly doesn't know why. His divorced, working-class father grinds out the night shift at the local Chevy plant in Detroit and looks forward to the flask in his glove compartment and the open bottles of booze in his Flint, Michigan, home. Broke and fighting to survive, Alex and his father face the realities of estrangement, incarceration, and even violence as their lives unfold toward the climactic episode that a New York Times reviewer called 'one of the most profoundly powerful in American fiction.' In this rich, beautifully crafted story, Weesner has written a transcendent piece of literature in deceptively simple language, painting a powerful portrait of a father and a son otherwise invisible among the mundane, everyday details of life in blue-collar America. It is a true and enduring American classic.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/loteria-a-novel-by-mario-alberto-zambrano--65203293https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180121 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loteria: A Novel Author: Mario Alberto Zambrano Narrator: Maria Cabezas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Prepare to be enthralled by this lyrical, achingly human debut novel about a young girl's remarkable resilience in the face of loss. Struggling to cope as her family falls apart, eleven-year-old Luz María Castillo retreats into her beloved set of Lotería cards—a Mexican game featuring riddles and vibrant images. Each card represents a different memory, and as Luz shuffles through the deck, she weaves her recollections into a compelling story of love, loyalty, tragedy, and hope. By turns affecting and inspiring, Lotería is a powerful novel that heralds the arrival of an outstanding new writer, one who reminds us of the importance of remembering, even when we are trying to forget.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180121Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180121 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loteria: A Novel Author: Mario Alberto Zambrano Narrator: Maria Cabezas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 2,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/180121 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loteria: A Novel Author: Mario Alberto Zambrano Narrator: Maria Cabezas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 25 minutes Release date: July 2, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Prepare to be enthralled by this lyrical, achingly human debut novel about a young girl's remarkable resilience in the face of loss. Struggling to cope as her family falls apart, eleven-year-old Luz María Castillo retreats into her beloved set of Lotería cards—a Mexican game featuring riddles and vibrant images. Each card represents a different memory, and as Luz shuffles through the deck, she weaves her recollections into a compelling story of love, loyalty, tragedy, and hope. By turns affecting and inspiring, Lotería is a powerful novel that heralds the arrival of an outstanding new writer, one who reminds us of the importance of remembering, even when we are trying to forget.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rose-daughter-by-robin-mckinley--65203253https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rose Daughter Author: Robin McKinley Narrator: Bianca Amato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 28, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of Sunshine and The Hero and the Crown presents a beautiful retelling of Beauty and the Beast.When their father’s business fails, a young woman named Beauty and her two sisters leave their fine house in the city and move to a tiny cottage far away from everything they’ve ever known. The neglected cottage is engulfed by the long thorny stems of some unknown plant. Beauty patiently tends to them, and when, the following summer, the mysterious flowers are the most beautiful things the sisters have ever seen, an old woman tells Beauty: “Roses are for love. Not silly sweethearts’ love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole … There’s an old folk-tale that there aren’t many roses around any more because they need more love than people have to give them to make them flower …” When Beauty takes her father’s place in the terrifying beast’s palace, she discovers that his beloved rose garden is dying; and because she needs something to do to distract her from missing her family, because she loves roses—and because she pities the Beast—she determines to bring it back to life …“[A] heady mix of fairy tale, magic, and romance … dazzling … has the power to exhilarate.”—Publishers Weekly]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178506Fri, 28 Jun 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rose Daughter Author: Robin McKinley Narrator: Bianca Amato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 28, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/178506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rose Daughter Author: Robin McKinley Narrator: Bianca Amato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 49 minutes Release date: June 28, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.13 of Total 23 Ratings of Narrator: 4.2 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestselling author of Sunshine and The Hero and the Crown presents a beautiful retelling of Beauty and the Beast.When their father’s business fails, a young woman named Beauty and her two sisters leave their fine house in the city and move to a tiny cottage far away from everything they’ve ever known. The neglected cottage is engulfed by the long thorny stems of some unknown plant. Beauty patiently tends to them, and when, the following summer, the mysterious flowers are the most beautiful things the sisters have ever seen, an old woman tells Beauty: “Roses are for love. Not silly sweethearts’ love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole … There’s an old folk-tale that there aren’t many roses around any more because they need more love than people have to give them to make them flower …” When Beauty takes her father’s place in the terrifying beast’s palace, she discovers that his beloved rose garden is dying; and because she needs something to do to distract her from missing her family, because she loves roses—and because she pities the Beast—she determines to bring it back to life …“[A] heady mix of fairy tale, magic, and romance … dazzling … has the power to exhilarate.”—Publishers Weekly]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/own-the-wind-a-chaos-novel-by-kristen-ashley--65203271https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/181736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Own the Wind: A Chaos Novel Series: #1 of Chaos Author: Kristen Ashley Narrator: Angela Starling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 25, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 50 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 17 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Too hot to handle . . . Tabitha Allen grew up in the thick of Chaos-the Chaos Motorcycle Club, that is. Her father is Chaos' leader, and the club has always had her back. But one rider was different from the start. When Tabby was running wild, Shy Cage was there. When tragedy tore her life apart, he helped her piece it back together. And now, Tabby's thinking about much more than friendship . . . Tabby is everything Shy's ever wanted, but everything he thinks he can't have. She's beautiful, smart, and as his friend's daughter, untouchable. Shy never expected more than friendship, so when Tabby indicates she wants more- much more-he feels like the luckiest man alive. But even lucky men can crash and burn . . .]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/181736Tue, 25 Jun 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/181736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Own the Wind: A Chaos Novel Series: #1 of Chaos Author: Kristen Ashley Narrator: Angela Starling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/181736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Own the Wind: A Chaos Novel Series: #1 of Chaos Author: Kristen Ashley Narrator: Angela Starling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 25, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 50 Ratings of Narrator: 4.71 of Total 17 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Too hot to handle . . . Tabitha Allen grew up in the thick of Chaos-the Chaos Motorcycle Club, that is. Her father is Chaos' leader, and the club has always had her back. But one rider was different from the start. When Tabby was running wild, Shy Cage was there. When tragedy tore her life apart, he helped her piece it back together. And now, Tabby's thinking about much more than friendship . . . Tabby is everything Shy's ever wanted, but everything he thinks he can't have. She's beautiful, smart, and as his friend's daughter, untouchable. Shy never expected more than friendship, so when Tabby indicates she wants more- much more-he feels like the luckiest man alive. But even lucky men can crash and burn . . .]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/one-tiny-lie-a-novel-by-k-a-tucker--65203298https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Tiny Lie: A Novel Author: K.A. Tucker Narrator: Elizabeth Louise Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 11, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In this follow-up novel to the bestselling Ten Tiny Breaths, Livie Cleary faces a new set of challenges as she navigates freshman year at Princeton, wild parties, and the gorgeous rowing team captain who is everything she doesn’t want in a guy—or so she thinks… “Make me proud.” These were the last words Livie’s father ever spoke to her. In the seven years since her parents’ tragic death, Livie has done her best to live up to this standard through her every choice, word, and action, while looking after her sister with strength and maturity. But with college right around the corner, unexpected challenges will test her resilience—and her heart. Livie walks into Princeton with a solid plan, and she’s dead set on delivering on it: Rock her classes; set herself up for medical school; and meet a good, respectable guy to someday marry. Her plan definitely does not include Jell-O shots; a lovable, party animal roommate she can’t say “no” to; or Ashton, the arrogant—and extremely attractive—captain of the men’s rowing team who makes Livie’s usually nonexistent temper flare. Worse, he’s best friends and roommates with Connor, who happens to fit Livie’s criteria perfectly. So why does she keep thinking about Ashton? As Livie finds herself facing mediocre grades, career aspirations she no longer thinks she can handle, and feelings for Ashton that she shouldn’t have, she’s forced to let go of her last promise to her father, and, with it, the only identity she’s ever known.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177882Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Tiny Lie: A Novel Author: K.A. Tucker Narrator: Elizabeth Louise Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 11,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177882 to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Tiny Lie: A Novel Author: K.A. Tucker Narrator: Elizabeth Louise Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 11, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 7 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In this follow-up novel to the bestselling Ten Tiny Breaths, Livie Cleary faces a new set of challenges as she navigates freshman year at Princeton, wild parties, and the gorgeous rowing team captain who is everything she doesn’t want in a guy—or so she thinks… “Make me proud.” These were the last words Livie’s father ever spoke to her. In the seven years since her parents’ tragic death, Livie has done her best to live up to this standard through her every choice, word, and action, while looking after her sister with strength and maturity. But with college right around the corner, unexpected challenges will test her resilience—and her heart. Livie walks into Princeton with a solid plan, and she’s dead set on delivering on it: Rock her classes; set herself up for medical school; and meet a good, respectable guy to someday marry. Her plan definitely does not include Jell-O shots; a lovable, party animal roommate she can’t say “no” to; or Ashton, the arrogant—and extremely attractive—captain of the men’s rowing team who makes Livie’s usually nonexistent temper flare. Worse, he’s best friends and roommates with Connor, who happens to fit Livie’s criteria perfectly. So why does she keep thinking about Ashton? As Livie finds herself facing mediocre grades, career aspirations she no longer thinks she can handle, and feelings for Ashton that she shouldn’t have, she’s forced to let go of her last promise to her father, and, with it, the only identity she’s ever known.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/faking-it-by-cora-carmack--65203292https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Faking It Series: #2 of Losing It Author: Cora Carmack Narrator: Dan Bittner, Emma Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Mackenzie "Max" Miller has a problem. Her parents have arrived in town for a surprise visit, and if they see her dyed hair, tattoos, and piercings, they just might disown her. Even worse, they’re expecting to meet a nice wholesome boyfriend, not a guy named Mace who has a neck tattoo and plays in a band. All her lies are about to come crashing down around her, but then she meets Cade. Cade moved to Philadelphia to act and to leave his problems behind in Texas. So far though, he’s kept the problems and had very little opportunity to take the stage. When Max approaches him in a coffee shop with a crazy request to pretend to be her boyfriend, he agrees to play the part. But when Cade plays the role a little too well, they’re forced to keep the ruse going. And the more they fake the relationship, the more real it begins to feel. The hot new, New Adult title from New York Times bestselling author of Losing It, Cora Carmack.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177889Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Faking It Series: #2 of Losing It Author: Cora Carmack Narrator: Dan Bittner, Emma Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177889 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Faking It Series: #2 of Losing It Author: Cora Carmack Narrator: Dan Bittner, Emma Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 34 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Mackenzie "Max" Miller has a problem. Her parents have arrived in town for a surprise visit, and if they see her dyed hair, tattoos, and piercings, they just might disown her. Even worse, they’re expecting to meet a nice wholesome boyfriend, not a guy named Mace who has a neck tattoo and plays in a band. All her lies are about to come crashing down around her, but then she meets Cade. Cade moved to Philadelphia to act and to leave his problems behind in Texas. So far though, he’s kept the problems and had very little opportunity to take the stage. When Max approaches him in a coffee shop with a crazy request to pretend to be her boyfriend, he agrees to play the part. But when Cade plays the role a little too well, they’re forced to keep the ruse going. And the more they fake the relationship, the more real it begins to feel. The hot new, New Adult title from New York Times bestselling author of Losing It, Cora Carmack.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sea-of-tranquility-a-novel-by-katja-millay--65203255https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177760 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sea of Tranquility: A Novel Author: Katja Millay Narrator: Candace Thaxton, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.54 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 3.86 of Total 7 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Gone Girl meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower in this critically-acclaimed novel about resilience, forgiveness, love, and second chances. I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. Two and a half years after an unspeakable tragedy left her a shadow of the girl she once was, Nastya Kashnikov moves to a new town determined to keep her dark past hidden and hold everyone at a distance. But her plans only last so long before she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the one person as isolated as herself: Josh Bennett. Josh’s story is no secret. Every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. When your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space. Everyone except Nastya who won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But as the undeniable pull between them intensifies, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding—or if he even wants to. The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the mira­cle of second chances.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177760Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177760 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sea of Tranquility: A Novel Author: Katja Millay Narrator: Candace Thaxton, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 10 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177760 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sea of Tranquility: A Novel Author: Katja Millay Narrator: Candace Thaxton, Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 10 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.54 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 3.86 of Total 7 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Gone Girl meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower in this critically-acclaimed novel about resilience, forgiveness, love, and second chances. I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. Two and a half years after an unspeakable tragedy left her a shadow of the girl she once was, Nastya Kashnikov moves to a new town determined to keep her dark past hidden and hold everyone at a distance. But her plans only last so long before she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the one person as isolated as herself: Josh Bennett. Josh’s story is no secret. Every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. When your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space. Everyone except Nastya who won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But as the undeniable pull between them intensifies, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding—or if he even wants to. The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the mira­cle of second chances.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/flat-water-tuesday-a-novel-by-ron-irwin--65203252https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flat Water Tuesday: A Novel Author: Ron Irwin Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Rob Carrey, the son of a working-class cabinet maker, arrives at the Fenton School with a scholarship to row and a chip on his shoulder. Generations of austere Fenton men have led the rowing team, known as the God Four, to countless victories—but none are as important or renowned as the annual Tuesday-afternoon race against their rival, Warwick. But first Rob must complete months of preparation driven by their captain, Connor Payne's vicious competitive nature. As the race nears, the stakes rise, tempers and lusts are fueled, and no one can prevent the horrible tragedy that befalls one of them. Fifteen years later, Rob returns home from a film shoot in Africa to end a heartbreaking relationship with his girlfriend, Carolyn. But when a phone call from one of the God Four compels him to attend the reunion at Fenton, no part of Rob's past remains sequestered for long and nothing about his future is certain. As much about the sport of rowing as it is a novel of finding oneself, not once, but again in mid-life; Ron Irwin's Flat Water Tuesday is a testament to the pride and passion of youth, and an ode to the journey of forgiveness. A stunning novel of boarding school, family secrets, deep and passionate love, and the brutal pain of sports training]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177632Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flat Water Tuesday: A Novel Author: Ron Irwin Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 4,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177632 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flat Water Tuesday: A Novel Author: Ron Irwin Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 4, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Rob Carrey, the son of a working-class cabinet maker, arrives at the Fenton School with a scholarship to row and a chip on his shoulder. Generations of austere Fenton men have led the rowing team, known as the God Four, to countless victories—but none are as important or renowned as the annual Tuesday-afternoon race against their rival, Warwick. But first Rob must complete months of preparation driven by their captain, Connor Payne's vicious competitive nature. As the race nears, the stakes rise, tempers and lusts are fueled, and no one can prevent the horrible tragedy that befalls one of them. Fifteen years later, Rob returns home from a film shoot in Africa to end a heartbreaking relationship with his girlfriend, Carolyn. But when a phone call from one of the God Four compels him to attend the reunion at Fenton, no part of Rob's past remains sequestered for long and nothing about his future is certain. As much about the sport of rowing as it is a novel of finding oneself, not once, but again in mid-life; Ron Irwin's Flat Water Tuesday is a testament to the pride and passion of youth, and an ode to the journey of forgiveness. A stunning novel of boarding school, family secrets, deep and passionate love, and the brutal pain of sports training]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/looking-for-me-by-beth-hoffman--65203303https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking for Me Author: Beth Hoffman Narrator: Jenna Lamia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 28, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.11 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2014 Ohioana Book Award for fiction.  The latest New York Times bestseller by the beloved author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt Beth Hoffman’s bestselling debut, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, won admirers and acclaim with its heartwarming story and cast of unforgettably quirky characters. Now her flair for evocative settings and richly drawn Southern personalities shines again in her compelling second novel, Looking for Me. Teddi Overman found her life’s passion in turning other people’s castoffs into beautifully restored antiques. Leaving her hardscrabble Kentucky childhood behind, Teddi opens her own store in Charleston. She builds a life as unexpected and quirky as her many customers, but nothing alleviates the haunting uncertainty she’s felt since her brother Josh mysteriously disappeared. When signs emerge that Josh might still be alive, Teddi returns to Kentucky, embarking on a journey that could help her come to terms with her shattered family—and find herself.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196377Tue, 28 May 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking for Me Author: Beth Hoffman Narrator: Jenna Lamia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 28, 2013 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking for Me Author: Beth Hoffman Narrator: Jenna Lamia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 28, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.11 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2014 Ohioana Book Award for fiction.  The latest New York Times bestseller by the beloved author of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt Beth Hoffman’s bestselling debut, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, won admirers and acclaim with its heartwarming story and cast of unforgettably quirky characters. Now her flair for evocative settings and richly drawn Southern personalities shines again in her compelling second novel, Looking for Me. Teddi Overman found her life’s passion in turning other people’s castoffs into beautifully restored antiques. Leaving her hardscrabble Kentucky childhood behind, Teddi opens her own store in Charleston. She builds a life as unexpected and quirky as her many customers, but nothing alleviates the haunting uncertainty she’s felt since her brother Josh mysteriously disappeared. When signs emerge that Josh might still be alive, Teddi returns to Kentucky, embarking on a journey that could help her come to terms with her shattered family—and find herself.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-conditions-of-love-by-dale-m-kushner--65203318https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Conditions of Love Author: Dale M. Kushner Narrator: Tara Ochs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Dale M. Kushner's novel The Conditions of Love traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's limitations, and her overwhelming desire for spiritual and erotic love. In 1953, ten-year-old Eunice lives in the backwaters of Wisconsin with her outrageously narcissistic mother, a manicureeste and movie star worshipper. Abandoned by her father as an infant, Eunice worries that she will become a misfit like her mother. When her mother's lover, the devoted Sam, moves in, Eunice imagines her life will finally become normal. But her hope dissolves when Sam gets kicked out, and she is again alone with her mother. A freak storm sends Eunice away from all things familiar. Rescued by the shaman-like Rose, Eunice's odyssey continues with a stay in a hermit's shack and ends with a passionate love affair with an older man. Through her capacity to redefine herself, reject bitterness and keep her heart open, she survives and flourishes. In this, she is both ordinary and heroic. At once fable and realistic story, The Conditions of Love is a book about emotional and physical survival. Through sheer force of will, Eunice saves herself from a doomed life. This engaging examination of a mother and daughter's relationship will appeal to the same audience that embraced Mona Simpson's acclaimed classic Anywhere But Here and Elizabeth Strout's bestselling Amy and Isabelle.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177491Tue, 14 May 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Conditions of Love Author: Dale M. Kushner Narrator: Tara Ochs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/177491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Conditions of Love Author: Dale M. Kushner Narrator: Tara Ochs Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 29 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Dale M. Kushner's novel The Conditions of Love traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's limitations, and her overwhelming desire for spiritual and erotic love. In 1953, ten-year-old Eunice lives in the backwaters of Wisconsin with her outrageously narcissistic mother, a manicureeste and movie star worshipper. Abandoned by her father as an infant, Eunice worries that she will become a misfit like her mother. When her mother's lover, the devoted Sam, moves in, Eunice imagines her life will finally become normal. But her hope dissolves when Sam gets kicked out, and she is again alone with her mother. A freak storm sends Eunice away from all things familiar. Rescued by the shaman-like Rose, Eunice's odyssey continues with a stay in a hermit's shack and ends with a passionate love affair with an older man. Through her capacity to redefine herself, reject bitterness and keep her heart open, she survives and flourishes. In this, she is both ordinary and heroic. At once fable and realistic story, The Conditions of Love is a book about emotional and physical survival. Through sheer force of will, Eunice saves herself from a doomed life. This engaging examination of a mother and daughter's relationship will appeal to the same audience that embraced Mona Simpson's acclaimed classic Anywhere But Here and Elizabeth Strout's bestselling Amy and Isabelle.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ten-tiny-breaths-a-novel-by-k-a-tucker--65203256https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/176050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Tiny Breaths: A Novel Author: K.A. Tucker Narrator: Elizabeth Louise Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 7 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: After a terrible car accident destroys her life as she knew it, twenty-year-old Kacey escapes to Florida, where she encounters an irresistible man determined to capture her wounded heart. Just breathe, Kacey. Ten tiny breaths. Seize them. Feel them. Love them. Four years ago, Kacey Cleary’s life imploded when her car was hit by a drunk driver, killing her parents, boyfriend, and best friend. Still haunted by memories of being trapped inside, listening to her mother take her last breath, Kacey wants to leave her past behind. Armed with two bus tickets, Kacey and her fifteen-year-old sister, Livie, escape Grand Rapids, Michigan, to start over in Miami. They’re struggling to make ends meet at first, but Kacey’s not worried. She can handle anything—anything but her mysterious neighbor in apartment 1D. Trent Emerson has smoldering blue eyes and deep dimples, and perfectly skates that irresistible line between nice guy and bad boy. Hardened by her tragic past, Kacey is determined to keep everyone at a distance, but their mutual attraction is undeniable, and Trent is desperate to find a way into Kacey’s guarded heart—even if it means revealing an explosive secret that could shatter both their worlds.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/176050Tue, 14 May 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/176050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Tiny Breaths: A Novel Author: K.A. Tucker Narrator: Elizabeth Louise Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 14,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/176050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Tiny Breaths: A Novel Author: K.A. Tucker Narrator: Elizabeth Louise Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: May 14, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.27 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 7 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: After a terrible car accident destroys her life as she knew it, twenty-year-old Kacey escapes to Florida, where she encounters an irresistible man determined to capture her wounded heart. Just breathe, Kacey. Ten tiny breaths. Seize them. Feel them. Love them. Four years ago, Kacey Cleary’s life imploded when her car was hit by a drunk driver, killing her parents, boyfriend, and best friend. Still haunted by memories of being trapped inside, listening to her mother take her last breath, Kacey wants to leave her past behind. Armed with two bus tickets, Kacey and her fifteen-year-old sister, Livie, escape Grand Rapids, Michigan, to start over in Miami. They’re struggling to make ends meet at first, but Kacey’s not worried. She can handle anything—anything but her mysterious neighbor in apartment 1D. Trent Emerson has smoldering blue eyes and deep dimples, and perfectly skates that irresistible line between nice guy and bad boy. Hardened by her tragic past, Kacey is determined to keep everyone at a distance, but their mutual attraction is undeniable, and Trent is desperate to find a way into Kacey’s guarded heart—even if it means revealing an explosive secret that could shatter both their worlds.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nos4a2-a-novel-by-joe-hill--65203312https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: NOS4A2: A Novel Author: Joe Hill Narrator: Kate Mulgrew Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.34 of Total 125 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 56 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The spine-tingling, bone-chilling　novel of supernatural suspense from the #1　New York Times　bestselling author of　The Fireman　and　Horns—now an AMC original series starring Zachary Quinto, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ashleigh Cummings. ''A masterwork of horror.''—　Time Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world and onto hidden roads that lead to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. The journey across the highway of Charlie's twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor. Then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble...and finds her way to Charlie. That was a lifetime ago. Now, the only kid ever to escape Charlie's evil is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx hasn't stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. On the road again, he won't slow down until he's taken his revenge. He's after something very special—something Vic can never replace. As a life-and-death battle of wills builds, Vic McQueen prepares to destroy Charlie once and for all—or die trying.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175216Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: NOS4A2: A Novel Author: Joe Hill Narrator: Kate Mulgrew Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/175216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: NOS4A2: A Novel Author: Joe Hill Narrator: Kate Mulgrew Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 30, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.34 of Total 125 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 56 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The spine-tingling, bone-chilling　novel of supernatural suspense from the #1　New York Times　bestselling author of　The Fireman　and　Horns—now an AMC original series starring Zachary Quinto, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Ashleigh Cummings. ''A masterwork of horror.''—　Time Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world and onto hidden roads that lead to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. The journey across the highway of Charlie's twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor. Then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble...and finds her way to Charlie. That was a lifetime ago. Now, the only kid ever to escape Charlie's evil is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx hasn't stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. On the road again, he won't slow down until he's taken his revenge. He's after something very special—something Vic can never replace. As a life-and-death battle of wills builds, Vic McQueen prepares to destroy Charlie once and for all—or die trying.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ordinary-grace-by-william-kent-krueger--65203250https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ordinary Grace Author: William Kent Krueger Narrator: Rich Orlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 503 Ratings of Narrator: 4.84 of Total 146 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From 'New York Times 'bestselling author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961. New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Halderson's Drug Store soda counter, and 'Hot Stuff 'comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a summer in which death assumed many forms. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, which includes his Methodist minister father, his passionate, artistic mother, Juilliard-bound older sister, and wise-beyond-his years kid brother, Frank finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal. On the surface, 'Ordinary Grace' is the story of the murder of a beautiful young woman, a beloved daughter and sister. At heart, it's the story of what that tragedy does to a boy, his family, and ultimately the fabric of the small town in which he lives. Told from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer, it is a moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168697Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ordinary Grace Author: William Kent Krueger Narrator: Rich Orlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 26, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168697 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ordinary Grace Author: William Kent Krueger Narrator: Rich Orlow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes Release date: March 26, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.53 of Total 503 Ratings of Narrator: 4.84 of Total 146 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From 'New York Times 'bestselling author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961. New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Halderson's Drug Store soda counter, and 'Hot Stuff 'comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a summer in which death assumed many forms. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, which includes his Methodist minister father, his passionate, artistic mother, Juilliard-bound older sister, and wise-beyond-his years kid brother, Frank finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal. On the surface, 'Ordinary Grace' is the story of the murder of a beautiful young woman, a beloved daughter and sister. At heart, it's the story of what that tragedy does to a boy, his family, and ultimately the fabric of the small town in which he lives. Told from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer, it is a moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/we-live-in-water-stories-by-jess-walter--65203314https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Live in Water: Stories Author: Jess Walter Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Jess Walter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite These twelve stories—published over the last five years in Harper’s, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, Playboy, and other publications—veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing. We Live in Water is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories from a “ridiculously talented writer” (New York Times), “one of the freshest voices in American literature” (Dallas Morning News).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166251Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Live in Water: Stories Author: Jess Walter Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Jess Walter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/166251 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Live in Water: Stories Author: Jess Walter Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Jess Walter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 12, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite These twelve stories—published over the last five years in Harper’s, The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, Playboy, and other publications—veer from comic tales of love to social satire to suspenseful crime fiction, from hip Portland to once-hip Seattle to never-hip Spokane, from a condemned casino in Las Vegas to a bottomless lake in the dark woods of Idaho. This is a world of lost fathers and redemptive conmen, of meth tweakers on desperate odysseys and men committing suicide by fishing. We Live in Water is a darkly comic, heartfelt collection of stories from a “ridiculously talented writer” (New York Times), “one of the freshest voices in American literature” (Dallas Morning News).]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/turtle-boy-by-kealan-patrick-burke--65203249https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Turtle Boy Author: Kealan Patrick Burke Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 5, 2013 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure and discovery. But on the day they encounter a strange young boy sitting on the bank of Myers Pond a pond playground rumor says may hide turtles the size of Buicks everything changes. For it soon becomes apparent that dark secrets abound in the little community, secrets which come cupped in the hands of the dead, and in a heartbeat, Timmy and Pete's summer of wonder becomes a season of terror, betrayal and murder.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174890Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Turtle Boy Author: Kealan Patrick Burke Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 5, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/174890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Turtle Boy Author: Kealan Patrick Burke Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 5, 2013 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure and discovery. But on the day they encounter a strange young boy sitting on the bank of Myers Pond a pond playground rumor says may hide turtles the size of Buicks everything changes. For it soon becomes apparent that dark secrets abound in the little community, secrets which come cupped in the hands of the dead, and in a heartbeat, Timmy and Pete's summer of wonder becomes a season of terror, betrayal and murder.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/good-kids-by-benjamin-nugent--65203325https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Kids Author: Benjamin Nugent Narrator: Charlie Thurston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The critically acclaimed author of American Nerd makes his fiction debut with this romantic tragicomedy about a teenage boy and girl who discover his dad is having an affair with her mom. At fifteen, Josh Paquette and Khadijah Silverglate-Dunn catch Josh's father and Khadijah's mother kissing in a natural foods store. They make a pact never to cheat on anyone, ever. They have no problem keeping the vow—until they meet again at twenty-eight, both struggling with career and identity, and both engaged to other people. Part interethnic romance, part intergenerational conflict, Good Kids is a hilarious, sad, handsomely plotted story of love and class in the era of the redefined household. Stylistically adventurous but always accessible, Nugent trains a keen ear on the vernaculars of generation Y and the baby boomers, as young and middle-aged alike try to decide what parenting, background, and loyalty mean in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159207Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Kids Author: Benjamin Nugent Narrator: Charlie Thurston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159207 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Good Kids Author: Benjamin Nugent Narrator: Charlie Thurston Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 2 minutes Release date: January 29, 2013 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The critically acclaimed author of American Nerd makes his fiction debut with this romantic tragicomedy about a teenage boy and girl who discover his dad is having an affair with her mom. At fifteen, Josh Paquette and Khadijah Silverglate-Dunn catch Josh's father and Khadijah's mother kissing in a natural foods store. They make a pact never to cheat on anyone, ever. They have no problem keeping the vow—until they meet again at twenty-eight, both struggling with career and identity, and both engaged to other people. Part interethnic romance, part intergenerational conflict, Good Kids is a hilarious, sad, handsomely plotted story of love and class in the era of the redefined household. Stylistically adventurous but always accessible, Nugent trains a keen ear on the vernaculars of generation Y and the baby boomers, as young and middle-aged alike try to decide what parenting, background, and loyalty mean in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/greyhound-by-steffan-piper--65203299https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Greyhound Author: Steffan Piper Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: November 27, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Ushered out from his Stockton, California home by his emotionally detached mother and her latest boyfriend, twelve-year-old Sebastien Ranes must fend for himself and travel two thousand miles across the country. He is on his way to live with his grandmother and sister in Pennsylvania. Along the way, he will learn that sometimes caring, guidance and understanding can come from some unlikely people. Marcus, a fellow bus passenger, is a man who has been neglected more by society than his family. As a young black ex-con, he is not the epitome of the person most would pick as a chaperone for their child’s cross-country trip. Yet rather than be held apart by their differences, Marcus and Sebastien are drawn together by the things that make us all alike. Along the way, he acts as both guide and protector, as Virgil was to Dante and Jim to Huck Finn. Imparting his own style of wisdom, he shows Sebastien that, despite the darker parts of the human condition, people can and do care for one another. This is a modern-day journey not just from one house to another. This is a journey taken by a young boy into manhood, and by the reader into his world. Like every trip, there are many stops along the way. But this journey differs in the way young Sebastien arrives at his destination. Greyhound is the story of this journey.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154329Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Greyhound Author: Steffan Piper Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: November 27, 2012 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154329 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Greyhound Author: Steffan Piper Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 58 minutes Release date: November 27, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Ushered out from his Stockton, California home by his emotionally detached mother and her latest boyfriend, twelve-year-old Sebastien Ranes must fend for himself and travel two thousand miles across the country. He is on his way to live with his grandmother and sister in Pennsylvania. Along the way, he will learn that sometimes caring, guidance and understanding can come from some unlikely people. Marcus, a fellow bus passenger, is a man who has been neglected more by society than his family. As a young black ex-con, he is not the epitome of the person most would pick as a chaperone for their child’s cross-country trip. Yet rather than be held apart by their differences, Marcus and Sebastien are drawn together by the things that make us all alike. Along the way, he acts as both guide and protector, as Virgil was to Dante and Jim to Huck Finn. Imparting his own style of wisdom, he shows Sebastien that, despite the darker parts of the human condition, people can and do care for one another. This is a modern-day journey not just from one house to another. This is a journey taken by a young boy into manhood, and by the reader into his world. Like every trip, there are many stops along the way. But this journey differs in the way young Sebastien arrives at his destination. Greyhound is the story of this journey.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/catcher-caught-by-sarah-collins-honenberger--65203300https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catcher, Caught Author: Sarah Collins Honenberger Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 20, 2012 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: After an earth-shattering diagnosis of leukemia, 15-year-old Daniel Landon sees a reflection of himself in the words of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Inspired by Holden Caulfield, Daniel begins to question the intentions and authority of those around him in his own search for identity as he faces death. Tired of his cramped surroundings and hippie parents’ alternative approaches to his treatment, he follows the footsteps of Caulfield to New York City in search of the same eternal truths, only to discover the importance of home when death looms. A coming of age story, a love story, and a new classic, Catcher, Caught will engage the imagination of more than one generation, searching for lasting values.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148297Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catcher, Caught Author: Sarah Collins Honenberger Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: November...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/148297 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Catcher, Caught Author: Sarah Collins Honenberger Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: November 20, 2012 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: After an earth-shattering diagnosis of leukemia, 15-year-old Daniel Landon sees a reflection of himself in the words of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Inspired by Holden Caulfield, Daniel begins to question the intentions and authority of those around him in his own search for identity as he faces death. Tired of his cramped surroundings and hippie parents’ alternative approaches to his treatment, he follows the footsteps of Caulfield to New York City in search of the same eternal truths, only to discover the importance of home when death looms. A coming of age story, a love story, and a new classic, Catcher, Caught will engage the imagination of more than one generation, searching for lasting values.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/that-s-not-a-feeling-by-dan-josefson--65203281https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That’s Not a Feeling Author: Dan Josefson Narrator: Charles Carroll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Benjamin arrives with his parents for a tour of Roaring Orchards, a therapeutic boarding school tucked away in upstate New York. Suddenly, his parents are gone and Benjamin learns that he is there to stay. Sixteen-years-old and with two failed suicides to his name, Benjamin must navigate his way through a new world of 'popped privileges,' 'candor meetings,' 'morning meds,' and 'cartoon brunches'—all run by adults who have yet to really come of age themselves. The only person who comprehends the school's many rules and rituals is Aubrey, the founder and headmaster. Fragile, brilliant, and prone to rage, he is as likely to use his authority to reward students as to punish them. But when Aubrey falls ill, life at the school begins to unravel. Benjamin has no one to rely on but the other students, especially Tidbit, an intriguing but untrustworthy girl with a 'self-afflicting personality.' More and more, Benjamin thinks about running away from Roaring Orchards—but he feels an equal need to know just what it is he would be leaving behind.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194262Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That’s Not a Feeling Author: Dan Josefson Narrator: Charles Carroll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: That’s Not a Feeling Author: Dan Josefson Narrator: Charles Carroll Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Benjamin arrives with his parents for a tour of Roaring Orchards, a therapeutic boarding school tucked away in upstate New York. Suddenly, his parents are gone and Benjamin learns that he is there to stay. Sixteen-years-old and with two failed suicides to his name, Benjamin must navigate his way through a new world of 'popped privileges,' 'candor meetings,' 'morning meds,' and 'cartoon brunches'—all run by adults who have yet to really come of age themselves. The only person who comprehends the school's many rules and rituals is Aubrey, the founder and headmaster. Fragile, brilliant, and prone to rage, he is as likely to use his authority to reward students as to punish them. But when Aubrey falls ill, life at the school begins to unravel. Benjamin has no one to rely on but the other students, especially Tidbit, an intriguing but untrustworthy girl with a 'self-afflicting personality.' More and more, Benjamin thinks about running away from Roaring Orchards—but he feels an equal need to know just what it is he would be leaving behind.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/eat-the-document-by-dana-spiotta--65203260https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/152543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eat the Document Author: Dana Spiotta Narrator: Rachael Warren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In the heyday of the 1970s underground, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Whittaker—passionate, idealistic, and in love—design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes wrong, the course of their lives is forever changed. The two must erase their past, forge new identities, and never see each other again. Now it is the 1990s. Mary lives in the suburbs with her fifteen-year-old son, who spends hours immersed in the music of his mother’s generation. She has no idea where Bobby is, whether he is alive or dead. Shifting between the protests in the 1970s and the consequences of those choices in the 1990s, Dana Spiotta deftly explores the connection between the two eras—their language, technology, music, and activism. Character-driven and brilliant, this is an important and revelatory novel about the culture of rebellion, with particular resonance now.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/152543Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/152543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eat the Document Author: Dana Spiotta Narrator: Rachael Warren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/152543 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Eat the Document Author: Dana Spiotta Narrator: Rachael Warren Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 1, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: In the heyday of the 1970s underground, Bobby DeSoto and Mary Whittaker—passionate, idealistic, and in love—design a series of radical protests against the Vietnam War. When one action goes wrong, the course of their lives is forever changed. The two must erase their past, forge new identities, and never see each other again. Now it is the 1990s. Mary lives in the suburbs with her fifteen-year-old son, who spends hours immersed in the music of his mother’s generation. She has no idea where Bobby is, whether he is alive or dead. Shifting between the protests in the 1970s and the consequences of those choices in the 1990s, Dana Spiotta deftly explores the connection between the two eras—their language, technology, music, and activism. Character-driven and brilliant, this is an important and revelatory novel about the culture of rebellion, with particular resonance now.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/glaciers-by-alexis-m-smith--65203322https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glaciers Author: Alexis M. Smith Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 28, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as a young girl in Alaska. Glaciers unfolds internally, the action shaped by Isabel’s sense of history, memory, and place, recalling the work of writers such as Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Virginia Woolf. For Isabel, the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life. While she contemplates loss and the intricate fissures it creates in our lives, she accumulates the stories—the remnants—of those around her and she begins to tell her own story. Show More Show Less]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136736Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glaciers Author: Alexis M. Smith Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 28, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/136736 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Glaciers Author: Alexis M. Smith Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 28, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as a young girl in Alaska. Glaciers unfolds internally, the action shaped by Isabel’s sense of history, memory, and place, recalling the work of writers such as Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Virginia Woolf. For Isabel, the fleeting moments of one day can reveal an entire life. While she contemplates loss and the intricate fissures it creates in our lives, she accumulates the stories—the remnants—of those around her and she begins to tell her own story. Show More Show Less]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/swimming-to-elba-a-novel-by-silvia-avallone--65203263https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swimming to Elba: A Novel Author: Silvia Avallone Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 14, 2012 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A sensually charged novel about two girls growing up fast in a failing industrial town on the coast of Italy Anna and Francesca are on the brink of everything: high school, adulthood, and the edge of ambition in their provincial town. It’s summer in Piombino, Italy, and in their skimpy bathing suits, flaunting their newly acquired curves, the girls suddenly have everyone in their thrall. This power opens their imagination to a destiny beyond Piombino; the resort town of Elba is just a ferry ride away and yet they’ve never dared to go. Maybe the future is waiting for them there, or somewhere beyond. When their friendship suffers a blow, the girls set off on their own only to discover that their budding sexuality takes them further than they expect, though not as far as their dreams. As their choices take them to a painful crossroads, the girls must reconnect if they have any hope of escaping their small town destinies. In this poetic, prizewinning debut, Silvia Avallone captures the lost innocence of a generation. Harrowing yet ultimately redemptive, Swimming to Elba is a story about the power of friendship, and the way that family, friendship, and economics shape our world.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200938Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swimming to Elba: A Novel Author: Silvia Avallone Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 57 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/200938 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Swimming to Elba: A Novel Author: Silvia Avallone Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 14, 2012 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A sensually charged novel about two girls growing up fast in a failing industrial town on the coast of Italy Anna and Francesca are on the brink of everything: high school, adulthood, and the edge of ambition in their provincial town. It’s summer in Piombino, Italy, and in their skimpy bathing suits, flaunting their newly acquired curves, the girls suddenly have everyone in their thrall. This power opens their imagination to a destiny beyond Piombino; the resort town of Elba is just a ferry ride away and yet they’ve never dared to go. Maybe the future is waiting for them there, or somewhere beyond. When their friendship suffers a blow, the girls set off on their own only to discover that their budding sexuality takes them further than they expect, though not as far as their dreams. As their choices take them to a painful crossroads, the girls must reconnect if they have any hope of escaping their small town destinies. In this poetic, prizewinning debut, Silvia Avallone captures the lost innocence of a generation. Harrowing yet ultimately redemptive, Swimming to Elba is a story about the power of friendship, and the way that family, friendship, and economics shape our world.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/canada-by-richard-ford--65203251https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Canada Author: Richard Ford Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 22, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ''First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.” So begins Canada, the unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel.    This is the story of Dell Parsons, whose parents rob a bank and fracture his life into a before and an after, crossing the threshold that cannot be uncrossed.  After his parents’ arrest and imprisonment, Del and Berner, his twin sister, face a blank future of foster care and social services visits. Berner, willful and burning with anger, runs away – orphaning Del completely. In the midst of his abandonment, a family friend intervenes, spiriting Del across the Montana/Saskatchewan border. There, in a dilapidated town floating in the sea of the Canadian prairie, he’s taken in by Arthur Remlinger – an enigmatic, charismatic man whose own past exists on the other side of a similarly uncrossable border.  Undone by the calamity of his parents’ robbery, Del struggles under the vastness of the prairie sky and the stark, unforgiving landscape to realign his sense of self and his perception of the parents he thought he knew, even as he moves on an inexorable collision course with the slow-simmering violence trembling just beneath Arthur Remlinger’s cool reserve. A resonant and luminous masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision, CANADA is an elemental novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost, and of the mysterious and powerful bonds of family. Told in spare, elegant prose but rich with emotional clarity, lyrical precision, and an acute sense of the grandeur of living, it is a masterpiece from one of the greatest American writers alive.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127557Tue, 22 May 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Canada Author: Richard Ford Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 22, 2012 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127557 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Canada Author: Richard Ford Narrator: Holter Graham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 22, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ''First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.” So begins Canada, the unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel.    This is the story of Dell Parsons, whose parents rob a bank and fracture his life into a before and an after, crossing the threshold that cannot be uncrossed.  After his parents’ arrest and imprisonment, Del and Berner, his twin sister, face a blank future of foster care and social services visits. Berner, willful and burning with anger, runs away – orphaning Del completely. In the midst of his abandonment, a family friend intervenes, spiriting Del across the Montana/Saskatchewan border. There, in a dilapidated town floating in the sea of the Canadian prairie, he’s taken in by Arthur Remlinger – an enigmatic, charismatic man whose own past exists on the other side of a similarly uncrossable border.  Undone by the calamity of his parents’ robbery, Del struggles under the vastness of the prairie sky and the stark, unforgiving landscape to realign his sense of self and his perception of the parents he thought he knew, even as he moves on an inexorable collision course with the slow-simmering violence trembling just beneath Arthur Remlinger’s cool reserve. A resonant and luminous masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision, CANADA is an elemental novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost, and of the mysterious and powerful bonds of family. Told in spare, elegant prose but rich with emotional clarity, lyrical precision, and an acute sense of the grandeur of living, it is a masterpiece from one of the greatest American writers alive.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fall-by-ryan-quinn--65203280https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fall Author: Ryan Quinn Narrator: Benjamin L. Darcie, Kate Rudd, Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 1, 2012 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Award Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Gay & Lesbian category of the International Book Awards The new school year at Florence University, nestled in the Pennsylvania countryside, dawns bright with the possibilities that only a fresh start can bring. For three students in particular, it will be a year unlike any other, one that will alter the courses of their lives forever. There is Ian, the film buff trying to figure out his life—and how to catch the eye of the football player he can’t stop fantasizing about; Casey, the local football star whose future off the field is frustratingly uncertain; and Haile, the classical-music prodigy seeking refuge from a past life so that she may start anew as a singer-songwriter. Together the trio will form a fateful friendship, recounted through alternating first-person narratives. Sexy, fast-paced, and layered with intimate insight about life’s most formative years, The Fall is a compelling and contemporary coming-of-age story about what happens when we are forced for the first time to really confront who we are and who we want to become.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127429Tue, 01 May 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fall Author: Ryan Quinn Narrator: Benjamin L. Darcie, Kate Rudd, Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127429 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fall Author: Ryan Quinn Narrator: Benjamin L. Darcie, Kate Rudd, Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 1, 2012 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Award Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Gay & Lesbian category of the International Book Awards The new school year at Florence University, nestled in the Pennsylvania countryside, dawns bright with the possibilities that only a fresh start can bring. For three students in particular, it will be a year unlike any other, one that will alter the courses of their lives forever. There is Ian, the film buff trying to figure out his life—and how to catch the eye of the football player he can’t stop fantasizing about; Casey, the local football star whose future off the field is frustratingly uncertain; and Haile, the classical-music prodigy seeking refuge from a past life so that she may start anew as a singer-songwriter. Together the trio will form a fateful friendship, recounted through alternating first-person narratives. Sexy, fast-paced, and layered with intimate insight about life’s most formative years, The Fall is a compelling and contemporary coming-of-age story about what happens when we are forced for the first time to really confront who we are and who we want to become.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ali-and-ramazan-by-perihan-magden--65203302https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ali and Ramazan Author: Perihan Magden Narrator: Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 24, 2012 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Based on a true story, this novel follows Ali and Ramazan, two boys from very different backgrounds who land in the same Istanbul orphanage. They quickly see eye to eye and fall into a loving relationship as children, bringing light to one another and to the other orphans in their dreary adopted home. Ramazan is a charmer, the school master’s unfortunate favorite, the clown among the boys, and the only one with access to the world outside the orphanage’s walls. He takes naïve, sweet, and quietly intelligent Ali under his wing, and together they blossom in a world all their own. However, at age 18 they are released into the streets of Istanbul to find their own way without the support of the state. Faced with an unaccepting world in which they have no one but each other, Ali and Ramazan each make choices that cannot be reversed, with tragic consequences.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127587Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ali and Ramazan Author: Perihan Magden Narrator: Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 24, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127587 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ali and Ramazan Author: Perihan Magden Narrator: Christopher Lane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 24, 2012 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Based on a true story, this novel follows Ali and Ramazan, two boys from very different backgrounds who land in the same Istanbul orphanage. They quickly see eye to eye and fall into a loving relationship as children, bringing light to one another and to the other orphans in their dreary adopted home. Ramazan is a charmer, the school master’s unfortunate favorite, the clown among the boys, and the only one with access to the world outside the orphanage’s walls. He takes naïve, sweet, and quietly intelligent Ali under his wing, and together they blossom in a world all their own. However, at age 18 they are released into the streets of Istanbul to find their own way without the support of the state. Faced with an unaccepting world in which they have no one but each other, Ali and Ramazan each make choices that cannot be reversed, with tragic consequences.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/perla-by-carolina-de-robertis--65203327https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Perla Author: Carolina De Robertis Narrator: Carolina De Robertis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 27, 2012 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.   Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced naval officer father, whose profession she learned early on not to disclose in a country still reeling from the abuses perpetrated by the deposed military dictatorship. Perla understands that her parents were on the wrong side of the conflict, but her love for her papá is unconditional. But when Perla is startled by an uninvited visitor, she begins a journey that will force her to confront the unease she has suppressed all her life, and to make a wrenching decision about who she is, and who she will become.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124137Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Perla Author: Carolina De Robertis Narrator: Carolina De Robertis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 27, 2012...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/124137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Perla Author: Carolina De Robertis Narrator: Carolina De Robertis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 19 minutes Release date: March 27, 2012 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.   Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced naval officer father, whose profession she learned early on not to disclose in a country still reeling from the abuses perpetrated by the deposed military dictatorship. Perla understands that her parents were on the wrong side of the conflict, but her love for her papá is unconditional. But when Perla is startled by an uninvited visitor, she begins a journey that will force her to confront the unease she has suppressed all her life, and to make a wrenching decision about who she is, and who she will become.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/edge-of-dark-water-by-joe-r-lansdale--65203296https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Edge of Dark Water Author: Joe R. Lansdale Narrator: Angèle Masters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 27, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Mark Twain meets classic Stephen King -- a bold new direction for widely acclaimed Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale. May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River. Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. If May Lynn can't become a star, then at least her ashes will end up in the land of her dreams. Along with her friends Terry and Jinx and her alcoholic mother, Sue Ellen steals a raft and heads downriver to carry May Lynn's remains to Hollywood. Only problem is, Sue Ellen has some stolen money that her enemies will do anything to get back. And what looks like a prime opportunity to escape from a worthless life will instead lead to disastrous consequences. In the end, Sue Ellen will learn a harsh lesson on just how hard growing up can really be.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122667Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Edge of Dark Water Author: Joe R. Lansdale Narrator: Angèle Masters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 27,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122667 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Edge of Dark Water Author: Joe R. Lansdale Narrator: Angèle Masters Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 27, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Mark Twain meets classic Stephen King -- a bold new direction for widely acclaimed Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale. May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River. Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. If May Lynn can't become a star, then at least her ashes will end up in the land of her dreams. Along with her friends Terry and Jinx and her alcoholic mother, Sue Ellen steals a raft and heads downriver to carry May Lynn's remains to Hollywood. Only problem is, Sue Ellen has some stolen money that her enemies will do anything to get back. And what looks like a prime opportunity to escape from a worthless life will instead lead to disastrous consequences. In the end, Sue Ellen will learn a harsh lesson on just how hard growing up can really be.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/smarty-girl-dublin-savage-by-honor-molloy--65203310https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123115 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage Author: Honor Molloy Narrator: Susan Mckeown, Kevin Holohan, Aedin Moloney, Honor Molloy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123115Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123115 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage Author: Honor Molloy Narrator: Susan Mckeown, Kevin Holohan, Aedin Moloney, Honor Molloy Format: Unabridged Audiobook...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/123115 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage Author: Honor Molloy Narrator: Susan Mckeown, Kevin Holohan, Aedin Moloney, Honor Molloy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 20, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.]]>125cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/arcadia-by-lauren-groff--65203304https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arcadia Author: Lauren Groff Narrator: Andrew Garman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 13, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Lauren Groff's acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways. 'Richly peopled and ambitious . is one of the most moving and satisfying novels I've read in a long time.'-Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122884Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arcadia Author: Lauren Groff Narrator: Andrew Garman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 13, 2012 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/122884 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arcadia Author: Lauren Groff Narrator: Andrew Garman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date: March 13, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Lauren Groff's acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways. 'Richly peopled and ambitious . is one of the most moving and satisfying novels I've read in a long time.'-Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/green-rider-by-kristen-britain--65203244https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Green Rider Series: #1 of Green Rider Author: Kristen Britain Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 3 minutes Release date: February 16, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 14 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Karigan G’ladheon, running away from school, is traveling through a deep forest when a galloping horse pounds up to her, its rider impaled by two black-shafted arrows. With his dying breath, he tells her he is a Green Rider, one of the magical messengers of the King. Before he dies, he makes Karigan swear to deliver the message he’s carrying, and gives her his green coat, with the symbolic brooch of his office. Pursued by unknown assassins, following a path only her horse seems to know, Karigan becomes a legendary Green Rider—for when given to the right person, a Rider’s brooch awakens the magic inside….]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201194Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Green Rider Series: #1 of Green Rider Author: Kristen Britain Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 3 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Green Rider Series: #1 of Green Rider Author: Kristen Britain Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 3 minutes Release date: February 16, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.86 of Total 14 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Karigan G’ladheon, running away from school, is traveling through a deep forest when a galloping horse pounds up to her, its rider impaled by two black-shafted arrows. With his dying breath, he tells her he is a Green Rider, one of the magical messengers of the King. Before he dies, he makes Karigan swear to deliver the message he’s carrying, and gives her his green coat, with the symbolic brooch of his office. Pursued by unknown assassins, following a path only her horse seems to know, Karigan becomes a legendary Green Rider—for when given to the right person, a Rider’s brooch awakens the magic inside….]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/lamb-a-novel-by-bonnie-nadzam--65203305https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lamb: A Novel Author: Bonnie Nadzam Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 13, 2011 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Lamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle-aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness and even comes to believe that his devotion to Tommie is in her best interest. But when he decides to abduct a willing Tommie for a road trip from Chicago to the Rockies, planning to initiate her to the beauty of the mountain wilderness, they are both shaken in ways neither of them expects. Lamb is a masterful exploration of the dynamics of love and dependency that challenges the boundaries between adolescence and adulthood, confronts preconceived notions about conventional morality, and exposes mankind's eroded relationship with nature.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101070Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lamb: A Novel Author: Bonnie Nadzam Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 13, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101070 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lamb: A Novel Author: Bonnie Nadzam Narrator: Tavia Gilbert Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 13, 2011 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Lamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle-aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness and even comes to believe that his devotion to Tommie is in her best interest. But when he decides to abduct a willing Tommie for a road trip from Chicago to the Rockies, planning to initiate her to the beauty of the mountain wilderness, they are both shaken in ways neither of them expects. Lamb is a masterful exploration of the dynamics of love and dependency that challenges the boundaries between adolescence and adulthood, confronts preconceived notions about conventional morality, and exposes mankind's eroded relationship with nature.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-most-dangerous-thing-by-laura-lippman--65203336https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/100094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Most Dangerous Thing Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 23, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “One of the best novelists around, period.” —Washington Post “Lippman has enriched literature as a whole. —Chicago Sun-Times One of the most acclaimed novelists in America today, Laura Lippman has greatly expanded the boundaries of mystery fiction and psychological suspense with her Tess Monaghan p.i. series and her New York Times bestselling standalone novels (What the Dead Know, Life Sentences, I’d Know You Anywhere, etc.). With The Most Dangerous Thing, the multiple award winning author—recipient of the Anthony, Edgar®, Shamus, and Agatha Awards, to name but a few—once again demonstrates how storytelling is done to perfection. Set once again in the well-wrought environs of Lippman’s beloved Baltimore, it is the shadowy tale of a group of onetime friends forced to confront a dark past they’ve each tried to bury following the death of one of their number. Rich in the compassion and insight into flawed human nature that has become a Lippman trademark while telling an absolutely gripping story, The Most Dangerous Thing will not be confined by genre restrictions, reaching out instead to captive a wide, diverse audience, from Harlan Coben and Kate Atkinson fans to readers of Jodi Picoult and Kathryn Stockett.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/100094Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/100094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Most Dangerous Thing Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 23,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/100094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Most Dangerous Thing Author: Laura Lippman Narrator: Linda Emond Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: August 23, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “One of the best novelists around, period.” —Washington Post “Lippman has enriched literature as a whole. —Chicago Sun-Times One of the most acclaimed novelists in America today, Laura Lippman has greatly expanded the boundaries of mystery fiction and psychological suspense with her Tess Monaghan p.i. series and her New York Times bestselling standalone novels (What the Dead Know, Life Sentences, I’d Know You Anywhere, etc.). With The Most Dangerous Thing, the multiple award winning author—recipient of the Anthony, Edgar®, Shamus, and Agatha Awards, to name but a few—once again demonstrates how storytelling is done to perfection. Set once again in the well-wrought environs of Lippman’s beloved Baltimore, it is the shadowy tale of a group of onetime friends forced to confront a dark past they’ve each tried to bury following the death of one of their number. Rich in the compassion and insight into flawed human nature that has become a Lippman trademark while telling an absolutely gripping story, The Most Dangerous Thing will not be confined by genre restrictions, reaching out instead to captive a wide, diverse audience, from Harlan Coben and Kate Atkinson fans to readers of Jodi Picoult and Kathryn Stockett.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/remember-tuesday-morning-by-karen-kingsbury--65203268https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember Tuesday Morning Series: #3 of 9/11 Series Author: Karen Kingsbury Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Hillary Huber, Stefan Rudnicki, Don Leslie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 23, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A wall went up around Alex Brady’s heart when his father, a New York firefighter, died in the Twin Towers. Turning his back on the only woman he ever loved, Alex shut out all the people who cared about him to concentrate on fighting crime. He and his trusty K9 partner, Bo, are determined to eliminate evil in the world and prevent tragedies like 9-11. Then the worst fire season in California’s history erupts, and Alex faces the ultimate challenge to protect the community he serves. An environmental terrorist group is targeting the plush Oak Canyon Estates. At the risk of losing his job, and his soul, Alex is determined to infiltrate the group and put an end to their corruption. Only the friendship of Clay and Jamie Michaels—and the love of a dedicated young woman—can help Alex drop the walls around his heart and move forward into the future God has for him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159291Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember Tuesday Morning Series: #3 of 9/11 Series Author: Karen Kingsbury Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Hillary Huber, Stefan Rudnicki, Don Leslie...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159291 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Remember Tuesday Morning Series: #3 of 9/11 Series Author: Karen Kingsbury Narrator: Cassandra Campbell, Hillary Huber, Stefan Rudnicki, Don Leslie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: August 23, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A wall went up around Alex Brady’s heart when his father, a New York firefighter, died in the Twin Towers. Turning his back on the only woman he ever loved, Alex shut out all the people who cared about him to concentrate on fighting crime. He and his trusty K9 partner, Bo, are determined to eliminate evil in the world and prevent tragedies like 9-11. Then the worst fire season in California’s history erupts, and Alex faces the ultimate challenge to protect the community he serves. An environmental terrorist group is targeting the plush Oak Canyon Estates. At the risk of losing his job, and his soul, Alex is determined to infiltrate the group and put an end to their corruption. Only the friendship of Clay and Jamie Michaels—and the love of a dedicated young woman—can help Alex drop the walls around his heart and move forward into the future God has for him.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-muir-house-by-mary-e-demuth--65203291https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Muir House Author: Mary E Demuth Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 5, 2011 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Willa Muir can’t remember her fourth year of life. An early, undefined childhood trauma blacks her memory behind what feels like an impenetrable wall. And with her parents in the hereafter, she can’t ask them to clarify what happened. She can’t see the invisible, so she researches to obsession, aching to know the truth. Leaving the burnt-to-the-ground house that held all her notes, she ventures back to her hometown of Rockwall, Texas, haunted by a simple sentence spoken over her and a gold ring that promises love. Can she uncover the mystery of her early tragedy within the four walls of her childhood home and find the courage she needs to embrace the man who loves her]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157194Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Muir House Author: Mary E Demuth Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 5, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157194 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Muir House Author: Mary E Demuth Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: July 5, 2011 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Willa Muir can’t remember her fourth year of life. An early, undefined childhood trauma blacks her memory behind what feels like an impenetrable wall. And with her parents in the hereafter, she can’t ask them to clarify what happened. She can’t see the invisible, so she researches to obsession, aching to know the truth. Leaving the burnt-to-the-ground house that held all her notes, she ventures back to her hometown of Rockwall, Texas, haunted by a simple sentence spoken over her and a gold ring that promises love. Can she uncover the mystery of her early tragedy within the four walls of her childhood home and find the courage she needs to embrace the man who loves her]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-red-pony-by-john-steinbeck--65203287https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Pony Author: John Steinbeck Narrator: Frank Muller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: John Steinbeck's masterpiece celebrates the spirit and courage of adolescence. Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence. Unlike most coming-of-age stories, the cycle does not end with a hero 'matured' by circumstances. Reversing common interpretations, The Red Pony is imbued with a sense of loss. Jody's encounters with birth and death express a common theme in Steinbeck's fiction: They are parts of the ongoing process of life, resolving nothing.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199542Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Pony Author: John Steinbeck Narrator: Frank Muller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 15, 2011 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199542 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Red Pony Author: John Steinbeck Narrator: Frank Muller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 54 minutes Release date: June 15, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 19 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: John Steinbeck's masterpiece celebrates the spirit and courage of adolescence. Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence. Unlike most coming-of-age stories, the cycle does not end with a hero 'matured' by circumstances. Reversing common interpretations, The Red Pony is imbued with a sense of loss. Jody's encounters with birth and death express a common theme in Steinbeck's fiction: They are parts of the ongoing process of life, resolving nothing.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ten-thousand-saints-by-eleanor-henderson--65203276https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97006 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Thousand Saints Author: Eleanor Henderson Narrator: Steven Kaplan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 7, 2011 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination.  The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing I’ve read in a long time.” —Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson  makes a truly stunning debut with a novel that is part coming of age, part coming to terms, immediately joining the ranks of The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude. Adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97006Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97006 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Thousand Saints Author: Eleanor Henderson Narrator: Steven Kaplan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 7,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/97006 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ten Thousand Saints Author: Eleanor Henderson Narrator: Steven Kaplan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 7, 2011 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination.  The resulting novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is the best thing I’ve read in a long time.” —Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson  makes a truly stunning debut with a novel that is part coming of age, part coming to terms, immediately joining the ranks of The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude. Adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/patterns-of-love-by-robin-lee-hatcher--65203289https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patterns of Love Series: #2 of Coming to America Author: Robin Lee Hatcher Narrator: Pam Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 19, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: My dear Beth,Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a city in my native Sweden, life here is different from what I have known. With my parents’ blessing, I have taken employment in the home of Mr. Bridger, a dairy farmer, caring for his ill mother and two young, orphaned nieces. It is most unlike me to leave home, even in a temporary manner. But the need is great and Hattie Bridger and the children are so endearing.As for Dirk Bridger, he is an unhappy man, but also loyal, hardworking, and honorable. And, I should add, quite handsome. My younger sisters were smitten the instant they saw him. Young flirts! And with beauty to match. I, on the other hand, am considered to have common sense to attend my common looks. But, friend Beth, I am afraid my heart betrays my wisdom—for I, too, long to be seen as beautiful.Not just by anyone. By Dirk Bridger.Your friend,Inga LinbergIn rural Iowa, life is both the planter and uprooter of dreams. As love, long delayed, springs to life in the heart of a young Swedish immigrant, one man struggles with his withered ambitions—and new blessings that could take their place if he would but allow them room.Patterns of Love is Book Two in the Coming to America series about women who come to America to start new lives. Set in the late 1800s and early 1900s, these novels by best-selling author Robin Lee Hatcher craft intense chemistry and conflict between the characters, lit by a glowing faith and humanity that will win your heart. Look for other books in the series at your favorite Christian bookstore.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154490Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patterns of Love Series: #2 of Coming to America Author: Robin Lee Hatcher Narrator: Pam Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/154490 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Patterns of Love Series: #2 of Coming to America Author: Robin Lee Hatcher Narrator: Pam Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 19, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: My dear Beth,Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a city in my native Sweden, life here is different from what I have known. With my parents’ blessing, I have taken employment in the home of Mr. Bridger, a dairy farmer, caring for his ill mother and two young, orphaned nieces. It is most unlike me to leave home, even in a temporary manner. But the need is great and Hattie Bridger and the children are so endearing.As for Dirk Bridger, he is an unhappy man, but also loyal, hardworking, and honorable. And, I should add, quite handsome. My younger sisters were smitten the instant they saw him. Young flirts! And with beauty to match. I, on the other hand, am considered to have common sense to attend my common looks. But, friend Beth, I am afraid my heart betrays my wisdom—for I, too, long to be seen as beautiful.Not just by anyone. By Dirk Bridger.Your friend,Inga LinbergIn rural Iowa, life is both the planter and uprooter of dreams. As love, long delayed, springs to life in the heart of a young Swedish immigrant, one man struggles with his withered ambitions—and new blessings that could take their place if he would but allow them room.Patterns of Love is Book Two in the Coming to America series about women who come to America to start new lives. Set in the late 1800s and early 1900s, these novels by best-selling author Robin Lee Hatcher craft intense chemistry and conflict between the characters, lit by a glowing faith and humanity that will win your heart. Look for other books in the series at your favorite Christian bookstore.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/peony-a-novel-of-china-by-pearl-s-buck--65203273https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194942 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peony: A Novel of China Author: Pearl S. Buck Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: February 22, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid - an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only son. However, tradition forbids them to wed. How she resolves her love for him and her devotion to her adoptive family unfolds in this profound tale, based on true events in China over a century ago.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194942Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194942 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peony: A Novel of China Author: Pearl S. Buck Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/194942 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Peony: A Novel of China Author: Pearl S. Buck Narrator: Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 31 minutes Release date: February 22, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid - an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only son. However, tradition forbids them to wed. How she resolves her love for him and her devotion to her adoptive family unfolds in this profound tale, based on true events in China over a century ago.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/kidnapped-by-robert-louis-stevenson--65203333https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kidnapped Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Narrator: Jim Weiss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90800Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kidnapped Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Narrator: Jim Weiss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 8, 2011...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90800 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kidnapped Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Narrator: Jim Weiss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: February 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-book-of-tomorrow-a-novel-by-cecelia-ahern--65203295https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Tomorrow: A Novel Author: Cecelia Ahern Narrator: Ali Coffey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 25, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “A sweet, life-affirming tale . . . with a liberal sprinkling of magic.” —Marie Claire (UK) “Filled with family secrets, intrigue, and magic aplenty.” —Booklist Bestselling author Cecelia Ahern follows The Gift and P.S. I Love You with the mesmerizing story of a teenaged girl coming face-to-face with grief, growth, and magic in the Irish countryside, after a mysterious book begins to reveal her own memories from one day in the future. Perfect for long-time fans of Ahern, as well as for younger readers coming to her for the first time, The Book of Tomorrow’s strong voice and sophisticated storytelling mark an instant new classic from this already beloved author.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90627Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Tomorrow: A Novel Author: Cecelia Ahern Narrator: Ali Coffey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/90627 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Tomorrow: A Novel Author: Cecelia Ahern Narrator: Ali Coffey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 25, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “A sweet, life-affirming tale . . . with a liberal sprinkling of magic.” —Marie Claire (UK) “Filled with family secrets, intrigue, and magic aplenty.” —Booklist Bestselling author Cecelia Ahern follows The Gift and P.S. I Love You with the mesmerizing story of a teenaged girl coming face-to-face with grief, growth, and magic in the Irish countryside, after a mysterious book begins to reveal her own memories from one day in the future. Perfect for long-time fans of Ahern, as well as for younger readers coming to her for the first time, The Book of Tomorrow’s strong voice and sophisticated storytelling mark an instant new classic from this already beloved author.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-voyage-out-by-virginia-woolf--65203317https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Voyage Out Author: Virginia Woolf Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Rachel Vinrace, Virginia Woolf's first heroine, is a motherless young woman who, at twenty-four, embarks on a sea voyage with a party of other English folk to South America. Guileless, and with only a smattering of education, Rachel is taken under the wing of her aunt Helen, who wishes to teach Rachel 'how to live.' Arriving in Santa Marina, a village on the South American coast, Rachel and Helen are introduced to a group of English expatriates. Among them is the young, sensitive Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer, with whom Rachel falls in love. But theirs is ultimately a tale of doomed love, set against a chorus of other stories and other points of view, as the narrative shifts focus between its central and peripheral characters. Less formally experimental than her later novels, The Voyage Out nonetheless clearly lays bare the poetic style and innovative technique—with its multiple figures of consciousness, its detailed portraits of characters' inner lives, and its constant shifting between the quotidian and the profound—that are the signature of Woolf's fiction.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101458Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Voyage Out Author: Virginia Woolf Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 20, 2010...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101458 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Voyage Out Author: Virginia Woolf Narrator: Wanda McCaddon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: December 20, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Rachel Vinrace, Virginia Woolf's first heroine, is a motherless young woman who, at twenty-four, embarks on a sea voyage with a party of other English folk to South America. Guileless, and with only a smattering of education, Rachel is taken under the wing of her aunt Helen, who wishes to teach Rachel 'how to live.' Arriving in Santa Marina, a village on the South American coast, Rachel and Helen are introduced to a group of English expatriates. Among them is the young, sensitive Terence Hewet, an aspiring writer, with whom Rachel falls in love. But theirs is ultimately a tale of doomed love, set against a chorus of other stories and other points of view, as the narrative shifts focus between its central and peripheral characters. Less formally experimental than her later novels, The Voyage Out nonetheless clearly lays bare the poetic style and innovative technique—with its multiple figures of consciousness, its detailed portraits of characters' inner lives, and its constant shifting between the quotidian and the profound—that are the signature of Woolf's fiction.]]>184cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unlocked-a-love-story-by-karen-kingsbury--65203306https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unlocked: A Love Story Author: Karen Kingsbury Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 26, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury reminds us that before you take a stand, you’ve got to take a chance. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden Harris is very happy and socially engaged—on the inside, in a private world all his own. But Holden is an eighteen-year-old with autism. Every day he is bullied at school by kids who only see that he is very different. Ella Reynolds is part of the in-crowd. A cheerleader and star of the high school drama production, her life seems perfect. When she catches Holden listening to her rehearse for the school play, she is drawn to him . . . the way he is drawn to the music. Then Ella makes a dramatic discovery—she and Holden were best friends as children. Frustrated by the way Holden is bullied and horrified at the indifference of her peers, Ella decides to take a stand against the most privileged and popular kids at school. Including her boyfriend, Jake. Ella believes miracles can happen in the most unlikely places and that just maybe an entire community might celebrate from the sidelines. But will Holden’s praying mother, Ella, and a cast of theater kids be enough to unlock the prison that contains Holden? This time friendship, faith, and the power of a song must be strong enough to open the doors to the miracle Holden needs. This contemporary, inspirational read is a standalone novel. Book length: approximately 80,000 words. Includes a reading group guide and a letter to readers from the author.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157658Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unlocked: A Love Story Author: Karen Kingsbury Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/157658 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unlocked: A Love Story Author: Karen Kingsbury Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 26, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury reminds us that before you take a stand, you’ve got to take a chance. Despite his quiet ways and quirky behaviors, Holden Harris is very happy and socially engaged—on the inside, in a private world all his own. But Holden is an eighteen-year-old with autism. Every day he is bullied at school by kids who only see that he is very different. Ella Reynolds is part of the in-crowd. A cheerleader and star of the high school drama production, her life seems perfect. When she catches Holden listening to her rehearse for the school play, she is drawn to him . . . the way he is drawn to the music. Then Ella makes a dramatic discovery—she and Holden were best friends as children. Frustrated by the way Holden is bullied and horrified at the indifference of her peers, Ella decides to take a stand against the most privileged and popular kids at school. Including her boyfriend, Jake. Ella believes miracles can happen in the most unlikely places and that just maybe an entire community might celebrate from the sidelines. But will Holden’s praying mother, Ella, and a cast of theater kids be enough to unlock the prison that contains Holden? This time friendship, faith, and the power of a song must be strong enough to open the doors to the miracle Holden needs. This contemporary, inspirational read is a standalone novel. Book length: approximately 80,000 words. Includes a reading group guide and a letter to readers from the author.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-good-daughters-a-novel-by-joyce-maynard--65203290https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Daughters: A Novel Author: Joyce Maynard Narrator: Rebecca Tuttle, Joyce Maynard, Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “A story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and it will leave readers transformed” —Luanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners “Joyce Maynard has outdone herself in this beautifully written story you’ll find hard to put down and impossible to forget.” — Elizabeth Berg, author of The Last Time I Saw You   Bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Labor Day, Joyce Maynard now brings us The Good Daughters, a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange, unexpected twists of fate that shape our lives. The story of two women born the same day in the same hospital, but raised in vastly different emotional environments, The Good Daughters is another high note in Maynard’s already distinguished writing career.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83556Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Daughters: A Novel Author: Joyce Maynard Narrator: Rebecca Tuttle, Joyce Maynard, Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/83556 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Daughters: A Novel Author: Joyce Maynard Narrator: Rebecca Tuttle, Joyce Maynard, Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 12, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “A story of choices and events so intimate I felt I was part of it. The novel is wrenching, the emotions radiant, and it will leave readers transformed” —Luanne Rice, author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners “Joyce Maynard has outdone herself in this beautifully written story you’ll find hard to put down and impossible to forget.” — Elizabeth Berg, author of The Last Time I Saw You   Bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Labor Day, Joyce Maynard now brings us The Good Daughters, a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange, unexpected twists of fate that shape our lives. The story of two women born the same day in the same hospital, but raised in vastly different emotional environments, The Good Daughters is another high note in Maynard’s already distinguished writing career.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/anthropology-of-an-american-girl-a-novel-by-hilary-thayer-hamann--65203332https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel Author: Hilary Thayer Hamann Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 25, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Anthropology of an American Girl is a semi-autobiographical novel. It is the story of a young woman and her culture that strives for a measure of narrative depth, detail, and objectivity. It follows its protagonist, Eveline Auerbach, as she moves through a pre-digital American landscape during the 1970s and 1980s. In the most basic respect, it is a coming of age story that prescribes a return to simplicity as the most rational and ethical response to the chaos and confusion of upward mobility.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61956Tue, 25 May 2010 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel Author: Hilary Thayer Hamann Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 54 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61956 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel Author: Hilary Thayer Hamann Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 25, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Anthropology of an American Girl is a semi-autobiographical novel. It is the story of a young woman and her culture that strives for a measure of narrative depth, detail, and objectivity. It follows its protagonist, Eveline Auerbach, as she moves through a pre-digital American landscape during the 1970s and 1980s. In the most basic respect, it is a coming of age story that prescribes a return to simplicity as the most rational and ethical response to the chaos and confusion of upward mobility.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/girl-in-translation-by-jean-kwok--65203267https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girl in Translation Author: Jean Kwok Narrator: Grayce Wey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 29, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.72 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the author of Searching for Sylvie Lee, the iconic, New York Times-bestselling debut novel that introduced an important Chinese-American voice with an inspiring story of an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.  When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life—like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition—Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles. Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202000Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girl in Translation Author: Jean Kwok Narrator: Grayce Wey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 29, 2010 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Girl in Translation Author: Jean Kwok Narrator: Grayce Wey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 29, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.72 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the author of Searching for Sylvie Lee, the iconic, New York Times-bestselling debut novel that introduced an important Chinese-American voice with an inspiring story of an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.  When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life—like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition—Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles. Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/imperfect-birds-a-novel-by-anne-lamott--65203265https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202618 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Imperfect Birds: A Novel Author: Anne Lamott Narrator: Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything, and Bird by Bird, a powerful and redemptive novel of love and family Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. She's intelligent-she aced AP physics; athletic-a former state-ranked tennis doubles champion; and beautiful. She is, in short, everything her mother, Elizabeth, hoped she could be. The family's move to Landsdale, with stepfather James in tow, hadn't been as bumpy as Elizabeth feared. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that Elizabeth's hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the pull of the darker impulses of drugs and alcohol are dashed. Slowly and against their will, Elizabeth and James are forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to them-and that her deceptions will have profound consequences. This is Anne Lamott's most honest and heartrending novel yet, exploring our human quest for connection and salvation as it reveals the traps that can befall all of us.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202618Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202618 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Imperfect Birds: A Novel Author: Anne Lamott Narrator: Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 6,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/202618 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Imperfect Birds: A Novel Author: Anne Lamott Narrator: Susan Denaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 6, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything, and Bird by Bird, a powerful and redemptive novel of love and family Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. She's intelligent-she aced AP physics; athletic-a former state-ranked tennis doubles champion; and beautiful. She is, in short, everything her mother, Elizabeth, hoped she could be. The family's move to Landsdale, with stepfather James in tow, hadn't been as bumpy as Elizabeth feared. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that Elizabeth's hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the pull of the darker impulses of drugs and alcohol are dashed. Slowly and against their will, Elizabeth and James are forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to them-and that her deceptions will have profound consequences. This is Anne Lamott's most honest and heartrending novel yet, exploring our human quest for connection and salvation as it reveals the traps that can befall all of us.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/in-my-sister-s-house-a-novel-by-donald-welch--65203316https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My Sister's House: A Novel Author: Donald Welch Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 2, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Skylar and Storm Morrison may be gorgeous twin sisters, but they are as different as night and day. Skylar is savvy and book-smart; Storm is shrewd and street-smart. But a twist of fate lands Storm in jail, where she must trade her Fendi bags and Prada boots for an orange jumpsuit and laceless white sneakers. Meanwhile Skylar makes a name for herself by transforming the restaurant that once belonged to the twins’ late father, Dutch, into Legends, Philadelphia’s hottest new nightclub.     Now, newly released from prison, Storm has some serious living to do. And she’s ready to take control of what’s rightfully hers—a share of Legends—with the help of some of Philly’s most notorious thugs. But moving back into the real world will prove much harder than Storm ever imagined. And as Skylar and Storm negotiate their new relationship, both women will feel the pull of Dutch, a figure so powerful he can keep his girls in line years after his death. In the end, the sisters will have to face their shared, tumultuous past—and a future that’s both uncertain and wide open.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60650Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My Sister's House: A Novel Author: Donald Welch Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: February...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60650 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In My Sister's House: A Novel Author: Donald Welch Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 2, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Skylar and Storm Morrison may be gorgeous twin sisters, but they are as different as night and day. Skylar is savvy and book-smart; Storm is shrewd and street-smart. But a twist of fate lands Storm in jail, where she must trade her Fendi bags and Prada boots for an orange jumpsuit and laceless white sneakers. Meanwhile Skylar makes a name for herself by transforming the restaurant that once belonged to the twins’ late father, Dutch, into Legends, Philadelphia’s hottest new nightclub.     Now, newly released from prison, Storm has some serious living to do. And she’s ready to take control of what’s rightfully hers—a share of Legends—with the help of some of Philly’s most notorious thugs. But moving back into the real world will prove much harder than Storm ever imagined. And as Skylar and Storm negotiate their new relationship, both women will feel the pull of Dutch, a figure so powerful he can keep his girls in line years after his death. In the end, the sisters will have to face their shared, tumultuous past—and a future that’s both uncertain and wide open.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/unfinished-desires-a-novel-by-gail-godwin--65203284https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60317 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unfinished Desires: A Novel Author: Gail Godwin Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory. It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the untimely and mysterious death of her mother. Their friendship fills a void for both girls but also sets in motion a chain of events that will profoundly affect the course of many lives, including the girls’ young teacher and the school’s matriarch, Mother Suzanne Ravenel. Fifty years on, the headmistress relives one pivotal night, trying to reconcile past and present, reaching back even further to her own senior year at the school, where the roots of a tragedy are buried. In Unfinished Desires, a beloved author delivers a gorgeous new novel in which thwarted desires are passed on for generations–and captures the rare moment when a soul breaks free.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60317Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60317 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unfinished Desires: A Novel Author: Gail Godwin Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 35 minutes Release date: January...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/60317 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unfinished Desires: A Novel Author: Gail Godwin Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 5, 2010 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory. It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the untimely and mysterious death of her mother. Their friendship fills a void for both girls but also sets in motion a chain of events that will profoundly affect the course of many lives, including the girls’ young teacher and the school’s matriarch, Mother Suzanne Ravenel. Fifty years on, the headmistress relives one pivotal night, trying to reconcile past and present, reaching back even further to her own senior year at the school, where the roots of a tragedy are buried. In Unfinished Desires, a beloved author delivers a gorgeous new novel in which thwarted desires are passed on for generations–and captures the rare moment when a soul breaks free.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/becca-by-the-book-by-laura-jensen-walker--65203257https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becca by the Book Series: #3 of Getaway Girls Author: Laura Jensen Walker Narrator: Laura Derocher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: December 22, 2009 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Adventurous and fun-loving Becca Daniels loves the rush of new experiences and is constantly pushing the envelope—trying everything from extreme sports, to wild hair colors, to skydiving. So when a broken leg grounds her temporarily, Becca doesn’t take the interruption well. Grumpy, restless, and at loose ends, Becca bristles one day when some of her Getaway Girls Book Club friends tease her about being commitment-phobic. To prove them wrong, Becca impulsively promises to accept a date with the next guy who asks her out; and to date him for three months or twenty-five dates—whichever comes first. Unfortunately, the first invitation comes from Ben—too “churchy” and definitely not Becca’s type. Determined to win the bet, however, the two embark on a hilarious series of dates that plunge the outspoken, purple-haired Becca into a sea of church potlucks and prayer meetings. Ultimately, the dating experiment opens Becca’s eyes to a new perspective on her life’s purpose and a new understanding of who’s directing her path—an epiphany that could lead to her biggest adventure yet.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155549Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becca by the Book Series: #3 of Getaway Girls Author: Laura Jensen Walker Narrator: Laura Derocher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becca by the Book Series: #3 of Getaway Girls Author: Laura Jensen Walker Narrator: Laura Derocher Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: December 22, 2009 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Adventurous and fun-loving Becca Daniels loves the rush of new experiences and is constantly pushing the envelope—trying everything from extreme sports, to wild hair colors, to skydiving. So when a broken leg grounds her temporarily, Becca doesn’t take the interruption well. Grumpy, restless, and at loose ends, Becca bristles one day when some of her Getaway Girls Book Club friends tease her about being commitment-phobic. To prove them wrong, Becca impulsively promises to accept a date with the next guy who asks her out; and to date him for three months or twenty-five dates—whichever comes first. Unfortunately, the first invitation comes from Ben—too “churchy” and definitely not Becca’s type. Determined to win the bet, however, the two embark on a hilarious series of dates that plunge the outspoken, purple-haired Becca into a sea of church potlucks and prayer meetings. Ultimately, the dating experiment opens Becca’s eyes to a new perspective on her life’s purpose and a new understanding of who’s directing her path—an epiphany that could lead to her biggest adventure yet.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wishin-and-hopin-by-wally-lamb--65203323https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wishin' and Hopin' Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: Wally Lamb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 10, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “This book is a bonbon for any baby boomer. . . . Lamb gets Felix’s voice just right, and he does a spot-on job of evoking the special joys and trials of parochial school in the ‘60’s…Put a bow on this book and warm somebody’s heart.” — St. Petersburg Times Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin’ and Hopin’—an unforgettable novella that captures the warmth and joy of the holiday season. It's 1964. LBJ and Lady Bird are in the White House, Meet the Beatles is on everyone’s turntable, and ten-year-old Felix Funicello (distant cousin of the iconic Annette!) is doing his best to navigate fifth grade—easier said than done when scary movies still give you nightmares and you bear a striking resemblance to a certain adorable cartoon boy. But there are several things young Felix can depend on: the birds and bees are puzzling, television is magical, and this is one Christmas he’s never going to forget. Poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story and David Sedaris’s The Santaland Diaries, Lamb’s Christmas tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello—a distant cousin of the iconic Annette!]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61829Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wishin' and Hopin' Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: Wally Lamb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 10, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61829 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wishin' and Hopin' Author: Wally Lamb Narrator: Wally Lamb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 10, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.08 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “This book is a bonbon for any baby boomer. . . . Lamb gets Felix’s voice just right, and he does a spot-on job of evoking the special joys and trials of parochial school in the ‘60’s…Put a bow on this book and warm somebody’s heart.” — St. Petersburg Times Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin’ and Hopin’—an unforgettable novella that captures the warmth and joy of the holiday season. It's 1964. LBJ and Lady Bird are in the White House, Meet the Beatles is on everyone’s turntable, and ten-year-old Felix Funicello (distant cousin of the iconic Annette!) is doing his best to navigate fifth grade—easier said than done when scary movies still give you nightmares and you bear a striking resemblance to a certain adorable cartoon boy. But there are several things young Felix can depend on: the birds and bees are puzzling, television is magical, and this is one Christmas he’s never going to forget. Poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story and David Sedaris’s The Santaland Diaries, Lamb’s Christmas tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello—a distant cousin of the iconic Annette!]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-slow-burn-a-novel-by-mary-e-demuth--65203266https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Slow Burn: A Novel Series: #2 of Defiance Texas Trilogy Author: Mary E Demuth Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 27, 2009 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Burying her grief, Emory Chance is determined to find her daughter Daisy’s murderer—a man she saw in a flicker of a vision. But when the investigation hits every dead end, her despair escalates. Not even the kindness of her persistent suitor Hixon can soften her heart towards the community of friends that long for her healing. And as the questions surrounding Daisy continue to mount, and Emory’s safety is shattered by the tattooed man’s dark pursuit, she can’t shake the sickening fear that her own choices contributed to Daisy’s disappearance. Will she ever experience the peace her heart longs for? A gripping suspense novel, A Slow Burn is about courageous love, the burden of regret, and the bonds that never break. It is about the beauty and pain of telling the truth and letting God take over. Most of all, it is about the strength of forgiveness and what remains when shame no longer has power. Mary DeMuth’s distinctive new voice in Christian fiction will keep readers enthralled as they ask soul-searching questions in this second book of the Defiance, Texas Trilogy.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155546Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Slow Burn: A Novel Series: #2 of Defiance Texas Trilogy Author: Mary E Demuth Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/155546 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Slow Burn: A Novel Series: #2 of Defiance Texas Trilogy Author: Mary E Demuth Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 27, 2009 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Burying her grief, Emory Chance is determined to find her daughter Daisy’s murderer—a man she saw in a flicker of a vision. But when the investigation hits every dead end, her despair escalates. Not even the kindness of her persistent suitor Hixon can soften her heart towards the community of friends that long for her healing. And as the questions surrounding Daisy continue to mount, and Emory’s safety is shattered by the tattooed man’s dark pursuit, she can’t shake the sickening fear that her own choices contributed to Daisy’s disappearance. Will she ever experience the peace her heart longs for? A gripping suspense novel, A Slow Burn is about courageous love, the burden of regret, and the bonds that never break. It is about the beauty and pain of telling the truth and letting God take over. Most of all, it is about the strength of forgiveness and what remains when shame no longer has power. Mary DeMuth’s distinctive new voice in Christian fiction will keep readers enthralled as they ask soul-searching questions in this second book of the Defiance, Texas Trilogy.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/huge-a-novel-by-james-w-fuerst--65203321https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Huge: A Novel Author: James W. Fuerst Narrator: Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 21, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: For precocious twelve-year-old Eugene Smalls, growing up isn’t easy. His bad reputation precedes him, public school considers him a lost cause, and his own family seems out to get him. He’s got a temper, so don’t dare call him “Genie!” He insists on being called “Huge,” and though small, he is tough and hard-boiled, just like his heroes, pulp detectives Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, who taught him everything he knows about crime solving. When the nursing home where his grandmother stays is vandalized, she hires him to solve the case. But he misreads clues, misinterprets motives, and mistakes mundane incidents for diabolical schemes, as only an inexperienced adolescent with a restless imagination can. His search for “whodunit” turns into a search for self in this coming-of-age story set in 1980s suburban New Jersey.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59803Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Huge: A Novel Author: James W. Fuerst Narrator: Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 21, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59803 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Huge: A Novel Author: James W. Fuerst Narrator: Jeff Woodman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 21, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: For precocious twelve-year-old Eugene Smalls, growing up isn’t easy. His bad reputation precedes him, public school considers him a lost cause, and his own family seems out to get him. He’s got a temper, so don’t dare call him “Genie!” He insists on being called “Huge,” and though small, he is tough and hard-boiled, just like his heroes, pulp detectives Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, who taught him everything he knows about crime solving. When the nursing home where his grandmother stays is vandalized, she hires him to solve the case. But he misreads clues, misinterprets motives, and mistakes mundane incidents for diabolical schemes, as only an inexperienced adolescent with a restless imagination can. His search for “whodunit” turns into a search for self in this coming-of-age story set in 1980s suburban New Jersey.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bright-lights-big-city-by-jay-mcinerney--65203301https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Lights, Big City Author: Jay McInerney Narrator: Daniel Passer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 12 minutes Release date: August 25, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill, controlled substances, and wit to sustain him in this anti-quest, he runs until he reaches his reckoning point, where he is forced to acknowledge loss and, possibly, to rediscover his better instincts. This remarkable novel of youth and New York remains one of the most beloved, imitated, and iconic novels in America.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59216Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Lights, Big City Author: Jay McInerney Narrator: Daniel Passer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 12 minutes Release date: August 25,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59216 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bright Lights, Big City Author: Jay McInerney Narrator: Daniel Passer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 12 minutes Release date: August 25, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of dawn. With nothing but goodwill, controlled substances, and wit to sustain him in this anti-quest, he runs until he reaches his reckoning point, where he is forced to acknowledge loss and, possibly, to rediscover his better instincts. This remarkable novel of youth and New York remains one of the most beloved, imitated, and iconic novels in America.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-law-of-nines-by-terry-goodkind--65203275https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Law of Nines Author: Terry Goodkind Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 18, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the Midwest, it is cataclysmic. Something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he has just saved has suddenly made him-and everyone he loves-a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence...]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198895Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Law of Nines Author: Terry Goodkind Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 18, 2009...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198895 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Law of Nines Author: Terry Goodkind Narrator: Mark Deakins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 22 minutes Release date: August 18, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the Midwest, it is cataclysmic. Something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he has just saved has suddenly made him-and everyone he loves-a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence...]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/invisible-life-a-novel-by-e-lynn-harris--65203308https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Invisible Life: A Novel Series: #1 of Invisible Life Trilogy Author: E. Lynn Harris Narrator: Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 11, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.85 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The remarkable first novel by a young, gay, black author who fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming-of-age story out of the controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS Law school, girlfriends, and career choices were all part of Raymond Tyler's life, but there were other, more terrifying issues for him to confront. Being black was tough enough, but Raymond was becoming more and more conscious of sexual feelings that he knew weren't 'right.' He was completely committed to Sela, his longtime girlfriend, but his attraction to Kelvin, whom he had met during his last year in law school, had become more than just a friendship.  Fleeing to New York to escape both Sela and Kelvin, Raymond finds himself more confused than ever before. New relationships--both male and female--give him enormous pleasure but keep him from finding the inner peace and lasting love he so desperately desires. The horrible illness and death of a friend eventually force Raymond, at last, to face the truth.  Invisible Life has been hailed as 'one of the most thought-provoking books--since James Baldwin's Another Country' (Richmond Voice), and Harris's 'stories have become the toast of bookstores, reading groups, men, women, and gay and straight people' (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58983Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Invisible Life: A Novel Series: #1 of Invisible Life Trilogy Author: E. Lynn Harris Narrator: Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58983 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Invisible Life: A Novel Series: #1 of Invisible Life Trilogy Author: E. Lynn Harris Narrator: Mirron Willis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: August 11, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.85 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The remarkable first novel by a young, gay, black author who fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming-of-age story out of the controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS Law school, girlfriends, and career choices were all part of Raymond Tyler's life, but there were other, more terrifying issues for him to confront. Being black was tough enough, but Raymond was becoming more and more conscious of sexual feelings that he knew weren't 'right.' He was completely committed to Sela, his longtime girlfriend, but his attraction to Kelvin, whom he had met during his last year in law school, had become more than just a friendship.  Fleeing to New York to escape both Sela and Kelvin, Raymond finds himself more confused than ever before. New relationships--both male and female--give him enormous pleasure but keep him from finding the inner peace and lasting love he so desperately desires. The horrible illness and death of a friend eventually force Raymond, at last, to face the truth.  Invisible Life has been hailed as 'one of the most thought-provoking books--since James Baldwin's Another Country' (Richmond Voice), and Harris's 'stories have become the toast of bookstores, reading groups, men, women, and gay and straight people' (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/labor-day-by-joyce-maynard--65203324https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Labor Day Author: Joyce Maynard Narrator: Wilson Bethel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 28, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Keeping Faith “Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks.” —St. Petersburg Times Joyce Maynard, acclaimed author of At Home in the World, is back with Labor Day. The  unforgettable story of a mother and son forever changed during a long summer weekend when a mysterious man comes into their lives. Labor Day is “a sexy, page turning, poignant story” (Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World) that “affirms Maynard’s reputation as a master storyteller and shows her to be a passionate humanist with a gifted ear and heart” (People)]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58623Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Labor Day Author: Joyce Maynard Narrator: Wilson Bethel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 28, 2009 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/58623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Labor Day Author: Joyce Maynard Narrator: Wilson Bethel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: July 28, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.9 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: “Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss.” —Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Keeping Faith “Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks.” —St. Petersburg Times Joyce Maynard, acclaimed author of At Home in the World, is back with Labor Day. The  unforgettable story of a mother and son forever changed during a long summer weekend when a mysterious man comes into their lives. Labor Day is “a sexy, page turning, poignant story” (Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World) that “affirms Maynard’s reputation as a master storyteller and shows her to be a passionate humanist with a gifted ear and heart” (People)]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/though-none-go-with-me-a-novel-by-jerry-b-jenkins--65203307https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Though None Go with Me: A Novel Author: Jerry B. Jenkins Narrator: Ssandy Burr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 13, 2009 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: One woman’s costly decision will touch a lifetime of hearts.Born at the turn of the century, Elisabeth Grace LeRoy longs for something more in her life. Something only an eternal love can offer. It is a love she encounters at last—one that promises to fill her passionate heart completely and that calls forth her utmost in return. In response, Elisabeth makes the commitment that will shape her entire life: a decision to follow Christ always, no matter the cost. So begins a remarkable love story—a legacy of faith that weaves together two world wars, the Great Depression, and deep personal sorrows as the dramatic background for displaying the courage, grace, joy, and far-reaching impact of a life lived truly and fully for God.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159411Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Though None Go with Me: A Novel Author: Jerry B. Jenkins Narrator: Ssandy Burr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159411 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Though None Go with Me: A Novel Author: Jerry B. Jenkins Narrator: Ssandy Burr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: July 13, 2009 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: One woman’s costly decision will touch a lifetime of hearts.Born at the turn of the century, Elisabeth Grace LeRoy longs for something more in her life. Something only an eternal love can offer. It is a love she encounters at last—one that promises to fill her passionate heart completely and that calls forth her utmost in return. In response, Elisabeth makes the commitment that will shape her entire life: a decision to follow Christ always, no matter the cost. So begins a remarkable love story—a legacy of faith that weaves together two world wars, the Great Depression, and deep personal sorrows as the dramatic background for displaying the courage, grace, joy, and far-reaching impact of a life lived truly and fully for God.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/rooftops-of-tehran-by-mahbod-seraji--65203294https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rooftops of Tehran Author: Mahbod Seraji Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 5, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: With Rooftops of Tehran, Mahbod Seraji delivers a debut novel that has won immediate acclaim for its affecting portrait of life in Iran's capital city. A 17-year-old boy finds his rooftop the perfect escape for taking in the night sky, smoking cigarettes and catching occasional glimpses of his beautiful neighbor. But when his lofty perch allows him to witness the brutality of the regime under which he lives, everything changes for the boy and those close to him.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59388Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rooftops of Tehran Author: Mahbod Seraji Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 5,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/59388 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rooftops of Tehran Author: Mahbod Seraji Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 29 minutes Release date: June 5, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: With Rooftops of Tehran, Mahbod Seraji delivers a debut novel that has won immediate acclaim for its affecting portrait of life in Iran's capital city. A 17-year-old boy finds his rooftop the perfect escape for taking in the night sky, smoking cigarettes and catching occasional glimpses of his beautiful neighbor. But when his lofty perch allows him to witness the brutality of the regime under which he lives, everything changes for the boy and those close to him.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-homeplace-by-gilbert-morris--65203320https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Homeplace Series: #1 of Singing River Series Author: Gilbert Morris Narrator: Judith West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 10, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Lanie took out her journal and dated it April 12, 1928. She started the habit of writing down everything that happened to her when she was no more than eight years old, and now she had six journals completely full. She thought about the prize at school, almost prayed to win, but somehow she could not. “God,” she finally said, “I’ll do my best, and if you’ll help me, that’s all I ask.”Fourteen-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has high hopes for her future. Happy on the five-acre family homeplace, she dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. And with her father launching a new business and her mother expecting the fifth baby, the bright days of an early Southern spring seem to herald expansive new beginnings for the Freeman family.But her mother isn’t as strong as she should be, and it’s going to take time for the business to pay back the mortgage. When unexpected tragedy strikes, it is left to Lanie to keep the family together and hold on to their home. In a world shaken by the Great Depression, it is faith in God and love in a tightly knit family that will help Lanie and her siblings overcome the odds and create a future that promises the fulfillment of love.The Homeplace offers a warmhearted and inspiring saga of a courageous young woman who holds her family together through the Depression era.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159421Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Homeplace Series: #1 of Singing River Series Author: Gilbert Morris Narrator: Judith West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 48 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Homeplace Series: #1 of Singing River Series Author: Gilbert Morris Narrator: Judith West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 10, 2009 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Lanie took out her journal and dated it April 12, 1928. She started the habit of writing down everything that happened to her when she was no more than eight years old, and now she had six journals completely full. She thought about the prize at school, almost prayed to win, but somehow she could not. “God,” she finally said, “I’ll do my best, and if you’ll help me, that’s all I ask.”Fourteen-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has high hopes for her future. Happy on the five-acre family homeplace, she dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. And with her father launching a new business and her mother expecting the fifth baby, the bright days of an early Southern spring seem to herald expansive new beginnings for the Freeman family.But her mother isn’t as strong as she should be, and it’s going to take time for the business to pay back the mortgage. When unexpected tragedy strikes, it is left to Lanie to keep the family together and hold on to their home. In a world shaken by the Great Depression, it is faith in God and love in a tightly knit family that will help Lanie and her siblings overcome the odds and create a future that promises the fulfillment of love.The Homeplace offers a warmhearted and inspiring saga of a courageous young woman who holds her family together through the Depression era.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/daisy-chain-a-novel-by-mary-e-demuth--65203313https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daisy Chain: A Novel Series: #1 of Defiance Texas Trilogy Author: Mary E Demuth Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 10, 2009 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The abrupt disappearance of young Daisy Chance from a small Texas town in 1973 spins three lives out of control—Jed, whose guilt over not protecting his friend Daisy strangles him; Emory Chance, who blames her own choices for her daughter’s demise; and Ouisie Pepper, who is haunted by dreams of Daisy while pierced by the shattered pieces of a family in crisis.In this first book in the Defiance, Texas Trilogy, fourteen-year-old Jed Pepper has a sickening secret: He’s convinced it’s his fault his best friend Daisy went missing. Jed’s pain sends him on a quest for answers to mysteries woven through the fabric of his own life and the lives of the families of Defiance, Texas. When he finally confronts the terrible truths he’s been denying all his life, Jed must choose between rebellion and love, anger and freedom. Daisy Chain is an achingly beautiful southern coming-of-age story crafted by a bright new literary talent. It offers a haunting yet hopeful backdrop for human depravity and beauty, for terrible secrets and God’s surprising redemption.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162392Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daisy Chain: A Novel Series: #1 of Defiance Texas Trilogy Author: Mary E Demuth Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/162392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daisy Chain: A Novel Series: #1 of Defiance Texas Trilogy Author: Mary E Demuth Narrator: Renee Raudman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 48 minutes Release date: March 10, 2009 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The abrupt disappearance of young Daisy Chance from a small Texas town in 1973 spins three lives out of control—Jed, whose guilt over not protecting his friend Daisy strangles him; Emory Chance, who blames her own choices for her daughter’s demise; and Ouisie Pepper, who is haunted by dreams of Daisy while pierced by the shattered pieces of a family in crisis.In this first book in the Defiance, Texas Trilogy, fourteen-year-old Jed Pepper has a sickening secret: He’s convinced it’s his fault his best friend Daisy went missing. Jed’s pain sends him on a quest for answers to mysteries woven through the fabric of his own life and the lives of the families of Defiance, Texas. When he finally confronts the terrible truths he’s been denying all his life, Jed must choose between rebellion and love, anger and freedom. Daisy Chain is an achingly beautiful southern coming-of-age story crafted by a bright new literary talent. It offers a haunting yet hopeful backdrop for human depravity and beauty, for terrible secrets and God’s surprising redemption.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/somebody-else-s-daughter-by-elizabeth-brundage--65203245https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Somebody Else's Daughter Author: Elizabeth Brundage Narrator: Bernadette Dunne, Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 3, 2008 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A taut, complex psychological thriller from the author of The Doctor's Wife Like The Doctor's Wife - which The Boston Globe called 'a compelling read'-Somebody Else's Daughter is a literary page-turner peopled with fascinating and disturbing characters. In the idyllic Berkshires, at the prestigious Pioneer School, there are dark secrets that threaten to come to light. Willa Golding, a student, has been brought up by her adoptive parents in elegant prosperity, but they have fled a mysterious and shameful past. Her biological father, a failing writer and former drug addict, needs to see the daughter he abandoned, and so he gains a teaching position at the school. A feminist sculptor initiates a reckless affair, the Pioneer students live in a world to which adults turn a blind eye, and the headmaster's wife is busy keeping her husband's current indiscretions well hidden. Building to a breathtaking collision between two fathers-biological and adoptive, past and present- Somebody Else's Daughter is both a suspenseful thriller and a probing study of richly conflicted characters in emotional turmoil.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201213Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Somebody Else's Daughter Author: Elizabeth Brundage Narrator: Bernadette Dunne, Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Somebody Else's Daughter Author: Elizabeth Brundage Narrator: Bernadette Dunne, Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 0 minutes Release date: July 3, 2008 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A taut, complex psychological thriller from the author of The Doctor's Wife Like The Doctor's Wife - which The Boston Globe called 'a compelling read'-Somebody Else's Daughter is a literary page-turner peopled with fascinating and disturbing characters. In the idyllic Berkshires, at the prestigious Pioneer School, there are dark secrets that threaten to come to light. Willa Golding, a student, has been brought up by her adoptive parents in elegant prosperity, but they have fled a mysterious and shameful past. Her biological father, a failing writer and former drug addict, needs to see the daughter he abandoned, and so he gains a teaching position at the school. A feminist sculptor initiates a reckless affair, the Pioneer students live in a world to which adults turn a blind eye, and the headmaster's wife is busy keeping her husband's current indiscretions well hidden. Building to a breathtaking collision between two fathers-biological and adoptive, past and present- Somebody Else's Daughter is both a suspenseful thriller and a probing study of richly conflicted characters in emotional turmoil.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/made-in-the-u-s-a-by-billie-letts--65203329https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Made in the U.S.A. Author: Billie Letts Narrator: Cassandra Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 19, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Where the Heart Is returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home. Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind. Made in the U.S.A. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52136Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Made in the U.S.A. Author: Billie Letts Narrator: Cassandra Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 19, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/52136 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Made in the U.S.A. Author: Billie Letts Narrator: Cassandra Morris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 19, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The bestselling author of Where the Heart Is returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home. Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind. Made in the U.S.A. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/nicholas-nickleby-by-charles-dickens--65203328https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53183 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nicholas Nickleby Author: Charles Dickens Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 31 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 4, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens’ novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman’s son fallen upon hard times, must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable eccentrics in Dickens’ pantheon. From the dungeon-like Yorkshire boys’ boarding school run by the cruel Wackford Squeers to the high-spirited stage of Vincent Crummles’ extraordinary acting troupe, Nicholas Nickleby is a triumph of the imagination, bursting with color, humor, and poignant social commentary.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53183Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53183 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nicholas Nickleby Author: Charles Dickens Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 31 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 4, 2008...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/53183 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nicholas Nickleby Author: Charles Dickens Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 31 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 4, 2008 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 11 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The most gorgeously theatrical of all Dickens’ novels, Nicholas Nickleby follows the delightful adventures of a hearty young hero in nineteenth-century England. Nicholas, a gentleman’s son fallen upon hard times, must set out to make his way in the world. His journey is accompanied by some of the most swaggering scoundrels and unforgettable eccentrics in Dickens’ pantheon. From the dungeon-like Yorkshire boys’ boarding school run by the cruel Wackford Squeers to the high-spirited stage of Vincent Crummles’ extraordinary acting troupe, Nicholas Nickleby is a triumph of the imagination, bursting with color, humor, and poignant social commentary.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao-by-junot-diaz--65203315https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Author: Junot Díaz Narrator: Jonathan Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 6, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.76 of Total 45 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201370Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Author: Junot Díaz Narrator: Jonathan Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/201370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Author: Junot Díaz Narrator: Jonathan Davis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 6, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.76 of Total 45 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read and named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sula-by-toni-morrison--65203319https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sula Author: Toni Morrison Narrator: Toni Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 14, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 79 Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 18 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetime—until, decades later, as the girls become women, Sula’s anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyond forgiveness.  One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Masterful, richly textured, bittersweet, and vital, Sula is a modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women. Most of all, they ask: When can we let go? What must we hold back? And just how much can be shared in a friendship?]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47112Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sula Author: Toni Morrison Narrator: Toni Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 14, 2007 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47112 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sula Author: Toni Morrison Narrator: Toni Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: August 14, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 79 Ratings of Narrator: 4.44 of Total 18 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetime—until, decades later, as the girls become women, Sula’s anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyond forgiveness.  One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Masterful, richly textured, bittersweet, and vital, Sula is a modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women. Most of all, they ask: When can we let go? What must we hold back? And just how much can be shared in a friendship?]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-penny-a-novel-by-joyce-meyer-deborah-bedford--65203330https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Penny: A Novel Author: Joyce Meyer, Deborah Bedford Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 12, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Jenny Blake has a theory about life: big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer of 1955, when 14-year-old Jenny makes the decision to pick up a penny imbedded in asphalt, and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting a friend who changes her life forever. Jenny and Miss Shaw form a friendship that dares both of them to confront secrets in their pasts--secrets that threaten to destroy them. Jenny helps Miss Shaw open up to the community around her, while Miss Shaw teaches Jenny to meet even life's most painful challenges with confidence and faith. This unexpected relationship transforms both characters in ways neither could have anticipated, and the ripple effect that begins in the summer of the penny goes on to bring new life to the people around them, showing how God works in the smallest details. Even in something as small as a penny.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46703Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Penny: A Novel Author: Joyce Meyer, Deborah Bedford Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/46703 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Penny: A Novel Author: Joyce Meyer, Deborah Bedford Narrator: Ellen Archer Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 12, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Jenny Blake has a theory about life: big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer of 1955, when 14-year-old Jenny makes the decision to pick up a penny imbedded in asphalt, and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting a friend who changes her life forever. Jenny and Miss Shaw form a friendship that dares both of them to confront secrets in their pasts--secrets that threaten to destroy them. Jenny helps Miss Shaw open up to the community around her, while Miss Shaw teaches Jenny to meet even life's most painful challenges with confidence and faith. This unexpected relationship transforms both characters in ways neither could have anticipated, and the ripple effect that begins in the summer of the penny goes on to bring new life to the people around them, showing how God works in the smallest details. Even in something as small as a penny.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/white-oleander-by-janet-fitch--65203334https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White Oleander Author: Janet Fitch Narrator: Oprah Winfrey Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 18, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 188 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 30 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption. Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life in prison. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances. Each home is its own universe, with a new set of laws and lessons to be learned. With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become. Oprah Winfrey enjoyed this gripping first novel so much that she not only made it her book club pick, she asked if she could narrate the audio release.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143096Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White Oleander Author: Janet Fitch Narrator: Oprah Winfrey Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 18, 2006...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/143096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: White Oleander Author: Janet Fitch Narrator: Oprah Winfrey Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 18, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.07 of Total 188 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 30 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption. Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life in prison. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances. Each home is its own universe, with a new set of laws and lessons to be learned. With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become. Oprah Winfrey enjoyed this gripping first novel so much that she not only made it her book club pick, she asked if she could narrate the audio release.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/veronica-by-mary-gaitskill--65203326https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Veronica Author: Mary Gaitskill Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 18, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately glittering 1980s, it has the timeless depth and moral power of a fairy tale. As a teenager on the streets of San Francisco, Alison is discovered by a photographer and swept into the world of fashion-modeling in Paris and Rome. When her career crashes and a love affair ends disastrously, she moves to New York City to build a new life. There she meets Veronica—an older wisecracking eccentric with her own ideas about style, a proofreader who comes to work with a personal “office kit” and a plaque that reads “Still Anal After All These Years.” Improbably, the two women become friends. Their friendship will survive not only Alison’s reentry into the seductive nocturnal realm of fashion, but also Veronica’s terrible descent into the then-uncharted realm of AIDS. The memory of their friendship will continue to haunt Alison years later, when she, too, is aging and ill and is questioning the meaning of what she experienced and who she became during that time. Masterfully layering time and space, thought and sensation, Mary Gaitskill dazzles the reader with psychological insight and a mystical sense of the soul’s hurtling passage through the world. A novel unlike any other, Veronica is a tour de force about the fragility and mystery of human relationships, the failure of love, and love’s abiding power. It shines on every page with depth of feeling and formal beauty.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159549Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Veronica Author: Mary Gaitskill Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 18, 2006 Ratings:...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Veronica Author: Mary Gaitskill Narrator: Kathe Mazur Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 30 minutes Release date: July 18, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately glittering 1980s, it has the timeless depth and moral power of a fairy tale. As a teenager on the streets of San Francisco, Alison is discovered by a photographer and swept into the world of fashion-modeling in Paris and Rome. When her career crashes and a love affair ends disastrously, she moves to New York City to build a new life. There she meets Veronica—an older wisecracking eccentric with her own ideas about style, a proofreader who comes to work with a personal “office kit” and a plaque that reads “Still Anal After All These Years.” Improbably, the two women become friends. Their friendship will survive not only Alison’s reentry into the seductive nocturnal realm of fashion, but also Veronica’s terrible descent into the then-uncharted realm of AIDS. The memory of their friendship will continue to haunt Alison years later, when she, too, is aging and ill and is questioning the meaning of what she experienced and who she became during that time. Masterfully layering time and space, thought and sensation, Mary Gaitskill dazzles the reader with psychological insight and a mystical sense of the soul’s hurtling passage through the world. A novel unlike any other, Veronica is a tour de force about the fragility and mystery of human relationships, the failure of love, and love’s abiding power. It shines on every page with depth of feeling and formal beauty.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beloved-pulitzer-prize-winner-by-toni-morrison--65203279https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner Author: Toni Morrison Narrator: Toni Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 16, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 388 Ratings of Narrator: 4.12 of Total 52 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.  This 'brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.  “A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159774Tue, 16 May 2006 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner Author: Toni Morrison Narrator: Toni Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: May...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159774 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner Author: Toni Morrison Narrator: Toni Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: May 16, 2006 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 388 Ratings of Narrator: 4.12 of Total 52 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.  This 'brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.  “A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/queen-of-the-underworld-a-novel-by-gail-godwin--65203288https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen of the Underworld: A Novel Author: Gail Godwin Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 10, 2006 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers. In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Her fierce ambition and belief in herself are set against the stories swirling around her, both at the newspaper office and in her downtown Miami hotel, which is filling up with refugees. Emma’s avid curiosity about life thrives amid the tropical charms and intrigues of Miami. While toiling at the news desk, she plans the fictional stories she will write in her spare time. She spends her nights getting to know the Cuban families in her hotel–and rendezvousing with her married lover, Paul Nightingale, owner of a private Miami Beach club. As Emma experiences the historical events enveloping the city, she trains her perceptive eye on the people surrounding her: a newfound Cuban friend who joins the covert anti-Castro training brigade, a gambling racketeer who poses a grave threat to Paul, and a former madam, still in her twenties, who becomes both Emma’s obsession and her alter ego. Emma’s life, like a complicated dance that keeps sweeping her off her balance, is suddenly filled with divided loyalties, shady dealings, romantic and professional setbacks, and, throughout, her adamant determination to avoid “usurpation” by others and remain the protagonist of her own quest.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160212Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen of the Underworld: A Novel Author: Gail Godwin Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/160212 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen of the Underworld: A Novel Author: Gail Godwin Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 10, 2006 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers. In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Her fierce ambition and belief in herself are set against the stories swirling around her, both at the newspaper office and in her downtown Miami hotel, which is filling up with refugees. Emma’s avid curiosity about life thrives amid the tropical charms and intrigues of Miami. While toiling at the news desk, she plans the fictional stories she will write in her spare time. She spends her nights getting to know the Cuban families in her hotel–and rendezvousing with her married lover, Paul Nightingale, owner of a private Miami Beach club. As Emma experiences the historical events enveloping the city, she trains her perceptive eye on the people surrounding her: a newfound Cuban friend who joins the covert anti-Castro training brigade, a gambling racketeer who poses a grave threat to Paul, and a former madam, still in her twenties, who becomes both Emma’s obsession and her alter ego. Emma’s life, like a complicated dance that keeps sweeping her off her balance, is suddenly filled with divided loyalties, shady dealings, romantic and professional setbacks, and, throughout, her adamant determination to avoid “usurpation” by others and remain the protagonist of her own quest.]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-highest-tide-a-novel-by-jim-lynch--65203283https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Highest Tide: A Novel Author: Jim Lynch Narrator: Fisher Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 8, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A spellbinding first novel about a young boy's fascination with the wonders of the seashore during a summer that will change his life. One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. But what begins as an ordinary hunt for starfish, snails, and clams is soon transformed by an astonishing sight: a beached giant squid. As the first person to ever see a giant squid alive, the speed-reading Rachel Carson-obsessed insomniac instantly becomes a local curiosity. When he later finds a rare deepwater fish in the tidal waters near his home, and saves a dog from drowning, he is hailed as a prophet. The media hovers and everyone wants to hear what Miles has to say. But Miles is really just a teenager on the verge of growing up, infatuated with the girl next door, worried that his bickering parents will divorce, and fearful that everything, even the bay he loves, is shifting from him. While the sea continues to offer up discoveries from its mysterious depths, Miles struggles to deal with the difficulties that attend the equally mysterious process of growing up. In this unforgettable, beguiling novel, we witness the dramatic sea change for both Miles and the coastline that he adores over the course of a summer—one that will culminate with the highest tide in fifty years.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191637Thu, 08 Sep 2005 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Highest Tide: A Novel Author: Jim Lynch Narrator: Fisher Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 8,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/191637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Highest Tide: A Novel Author: Jim Lynch Narrator: Fisher Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 3 minutes Release date: September 8, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A spellbinding first novel about a young boy's fascination with the wonders of the seashore during a summer that will change his life. One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. But what begins as an ordinary hunt for starfish, snails, and clams is soon transformed by an astonishing sight: a beached giant squid. As the first person to ever see a giant squid alive, the speed-reading Rachel Carson-obsessed insomniac instantly becomes a local curiosity. When he later finds a rare deepwater fish in the tidal waters near his home, and saves a dog from drowning, he is hailed as a prophet. The media hovers and everyone wants to hear what Miles has to say. But Miles is really just a teenager on the verge of growing up, infatuated with the girl next door, worried that his bickering parents will divorce, and fearful that everything, even the bay he loves, is shifting from him. While the sea continues to offer up discoveries from its mysterious depths, Miles struggles to deal with the difficulties that attend the equally mysterious process of growing up. In this unforgettable, beguiling novel, we witness the dramatic sea change for both Miles and the coastline that he adores over the course of a summer—one that will culminate with the highest tide in fifty years.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-thread-of-grace-a-novel-by-mary-doria-russell--65203277https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159615 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thread of Grace: A Novel Author: Mary Doria Russell Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 15, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerfully imagined novel . . . [a] profoundly moving book that engages the heights and depths of human experience.”—Los Angeles Times It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find safety now that the Italians have broken from Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it quickly becomes an open battleground for the Nazis, the Allies, Resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive. Tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters—a charismatic Italian Resistance leader, a priest, an Italian rabbi’s family, a disillusioned German doctor—Mary Doria Russell tells the little-known story of the vast underground effort by Italian citizens who saved the lives of 43,000 Jews during the final phase of World War II. A Thread of Grace puts a human face on history. Praise for A Thread of Grace “An addictive page-turner . . . [Mary Doria] Russell has an astonishing story to tell—full of action, paced like a rapid-fire thriller, in tense, vivid scenes that move with cinematic verve.”—The Washington Post Book World “Hauntingly beautiful, utterly unforgettable.”—San Francisco Chronicle  “Rich . . . Based on the heroism of ordinary people, [A Thread of Grace] packs an emotional punch.”—People  “[A] deeply felt and compellingly written book . . . The progress of each character’s life is marked or measured by acts of grace. . . . Russell is a smart, passionate and imaginative writer.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer  “A feat of storytelling . . . an important book [that] needs to be widely read.”—Portland Oregonian “Mary Doria Russell’s fans (and aren’t we all?) will rejoice to see her new novel on the shelves. A Thread of Grace is as ambitious, beautiful, tense, and transforming as any of us could have hoped.”—Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club “A story of love and war, A Thread of Grace speaks to the resilience and beauty of the human spirit in the midst of unimaginable horror. It is, unquestionably, a literary triumph.”—David Morrell, author of The Brotherhood of the Rose and First Blood]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159615Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159615 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thread of Grace: A Novel Author: Mary Doria Russell Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 0 minutes Release...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/159615 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thread of Grace: A Novel Author: Mary Doria Russell Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 0 minutes Release date: February 15, 2005 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerfully imagined novel . . . [a] profoundly moving book that engages the heights and depths of human experience.”—Los Angeles Times It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find safety now that the Italians have broken from Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it quickly becomes an open battleground for the Nazis, the Allies, Resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive. Tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters—a charismatic Italian Resistance leader, a priest, an Italian rabbi’s family, a disillusioned German doctor—Mary Doria Russell tells the little-known story of the vast underground effort by Italian citizens who saved the lives of 43,000 Jews during the final phase of World War II. A Thread of Grace puts a human face on history. Praise for A Thread of Grace “An addictive page-turner . . . [Mary Doria] Russell has an astonishing story to tell—full of action, paced like a rapid-fire thriller, in tense, vivid scenes that move with cinematic verve.”—The Washington Post Book World “Hauntingly beautiful, utterly unforgettable.”—San Francisco Chronicle  “Rich . . . Based on the heroism of ordinary people, [A Thread of Grace] packs an emotional punch.”—People  “[A] deeply felt and compellingly written book . . . The progress of each character’s life is marked or measured by acts of grace. . . . Russell is a smart, passionate and imaginative writer.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer  “A feat of storytelling . . . an important book [that] needs to be widely read.”—Portland Oregonian “Mary Doria Russell’s fans (and aren’t we all?) will rejoice to see her new novel on the shelves. A Thread of Grace is as ambitious, beautiful, tense, and transforming as any of us could have hoped.”—Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club “A story of love and war, A Thread of Grace speaks to the resilience and beauty of the human spirit in the midst of unimaginable horror. It is, unquestionably, a literary triumph.”—David Morrell, author of The Brotherhood of the Rose and First Blood]]>605cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter-by-carson-mccullers--65203335https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Author: Carson McCullers Narrator: Cherry Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 6, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.08 of Total 126 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century. “A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the reader.” In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic John Singer, draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a doctor, a widowed café owner, and a young girl. Each yearns for escape from small town life, but the young girl, Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music. Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated—and, through Mick, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33047Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Author: Carson McCullers Narrator: Cherry Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 29 minutes Release date: July...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/33047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Author: Carson McCullers Narrator: Cherry Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 29 minutes Release date: July 6, 2004 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.08 of Total 126 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 4 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century. “A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the reader.” In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic John Singer, draws out the haunted confessions of an itinerant worker, a doctor, a widowed café owner, and a young girl. Each yearns for escape from small town life, but the young girl, Mick Kelly, the book's heroine (loosely based on McCullers), finds solace in her music. Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated—and, through Mick, gives voice to the quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.]]>305cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-kite-runner-by-khaled-hosseini--65203286https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kite Runner Author: Khaled Hosseini Narrator: Khaled Hosseini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 813 Ratings of Narrator: 4.56 of Total 108 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara -- a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him. The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons -- their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows us for redemption.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151457Sun, 01 Jun 2003 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kite Runner Author: Khaled Hosseini Narrator: Khaled Hosseini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 2003...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151457 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Kite Runner Author: Khaled Hosseini Narrator: Khaled Hosseini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 1, 2003 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.47 of Total 813 Ratings of Narrator: 4.56 of Total 108 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara -- a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him. The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship and betrayal, and about the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of fathers over sons -- their love, their sacrifices, and their lies. Written against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But through the devastation, Khaled Hosseini offers hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows us for redemption.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-by-mark-twain--65203331https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Jack Lemmon Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 1, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.46 of Total 13 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows Tom Sawyer’s best friend on his wildly entertaining exploits with runaway slave, Jim, recounted in vernacular English and vibrant descriptions of life along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society, which had ceased to exist at the time of its publication, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often regarded as a scathing satire on the institution of racism and the attitudes that supported it. However, it is also a playful story about the joys and evils of childhood as well as the limitless possibilities it allows. Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research. Read with confidence.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44930Thu, 01 Jun 2000 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Jack Lemmon Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 1,...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/44930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Author: Mark Twain Narrator: Jack Lemmon Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 1, 2000 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.46 of Total 13 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows Tom Sawyer’s best friend on his wildly entertaining exploits with runaway slave, Jim, recounted in vernacular English and vibrant descriptions of life along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society, which had ceased to exist at the time of its publication, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often regarded as a scathing satire on the institution of racism and the attitudes that supported it. However, it is also a playful story about the joys and evils of childhood as well as the limitless possibilities it allows. Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research. Read with confidence.]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/shadow-song-by-terry-kay--65203309https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shadow Song Author: Terry Kay Narrator: Terry Kay Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 1, 1994 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: It was a wonderful summer, a great memory, the kind of love everybody ought to have. It changed my life -- or almost did -- and I think about it more than I should, but that was a long time ago. In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee 'Bobo' Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine hill inn, where the eccentric Avrum Feldman became his unlikely friend. A rural Southerner on his exciting first journey north, Bobo learned from Avrum that each life is marked by one grand, undeniable moment of change that never stops mattering. It came for Bobo in his first meeting with Amy Lourie, the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. But for a wealthy Jewish girl and a Georgia farm boy, the summer had to end, leaving Bobo to learn another painful lesson. Now thirty-eight years later, Avrum's death beckons Bobo to the Catskills once more. When Amy unexpectedly appears, they discover that two lifetimes and a thousand Catskills sunsets stand between who they were and who they have become -- until mysteriously, miraculously, Bobo hears the dreams of his youth, of the young man who went forth and became part of a love larger than himself....]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151657Sat, 01 Oct 1994 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shadow Song Author: Terry Kay Narrator: Terry Kay Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 1, 1994 Genres: Coming of...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/151657 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shadow Song Author: Terry Kay Narrator: Terry Kay Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 1, 1994 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: It was a wonderful summer, a great memory, the kind of love everybody ought to have. It changed my life -- or almost did -- and I think about it more than I should, but that was a long time ago. In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee 'Bobo' Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine hill inn, where the eccentric Avrum Feldman became his unlikely friend. A rural Southerner on his exciting first journey north, Bobo learned from Avrum that each life is marked by one grand, undeniable moment of change that never stops mattering. It came for Bobo in his first meeting with Amy Lourie, the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. But for a wealthy Jewish girl and a Georgia farm boy, the summer had to end, leaving Bobo to learn another painful lesson. Now thirty-eight years later, Avrum's death beckons Bobo to the Catskills once more. When Amy unexpectedly appears, they discover that two lifetimes and a thousand Catskills sunsets stand between who they were and who they have become -- until mysteriously, miraculously, Bobo hears the dreams of his youth, of the young man who went forth and became part of a love larger than himself....]]>185cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-butcher-boy-by-patrick-mccabe--65203261https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Butcher Boy Author: Patrick McCabe Narrator: Patrick McCabe Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 1, 1994 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When I was a lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent. Welcome to the mind of Francie Brady. Just what Francie did to Mrs. Nugent is the final, terrifying act of a young boy at the end of a relentless descent into a world of scorn and fear, brought to unforgettably vivid life in this tour-de-force performance by author Patrick McCabe. Francie Brady, the 'pig boy,' is growing up in a poor small Irish town in the early sixties, fueled on an adolescent's comic books, Flash Bars, and John Wayne movies. He is determined to win the Francie Brady Not a Bad Bastard Anymore Diploma. But how do you do that when your mother is sent to the madhouse, your father is an alcoholic, and everyone turns their back on you? Now a major motion picture from Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game), and read with the bravura performance style that has earned McCabe raves on both sides of the Atlantic, The Butcher Boy is a stunning audio thriller.]]>https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153554Thu, 01 Sep 1994 23:32:39 +0000Elyse FlatleyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Butcher Boy Author: Patrick McCabe Narrator: Patrick McCabe Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 1, 1994...https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/153554 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Butcher Boy Author: Patrick McCabe Narrator: Patrick McCabe Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 1, 1994 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: When I was a lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent. Welcome to the mind of Francie Brady. Just what Francie did to Mrs. Nugent is the final, terrifying act of a young boy at the end of a relentless descent into a world of scorn and fear, brought to unforgettably vivid life in this tour-de-force performance by author Patrick McCabe. Francie Brady, the 'pig boy,' is growing up in a poor small Irish town in the early sixties, fueled on an adolescent's comic books, Flash Bars, and John Wayne movies. He is determined to win the Francie Brady Not a Bad Bastard Anymore Diploma. But how do you do that when your mother is sent to the madhouse, your father is an alcoholic, and everyone turns their back on you? Now a major motion picture from Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game), and read with the bravura performance style that has earned McCabe raves on both sides of the Atlantic, The Butcher Boy is a stunning audio thriller.]]>185cleanfull