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The Secret Keeper by Genevieve Graham

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Keeper Author: Genevieve Graham Narrator: Ferdelle Capistrano, Carlotta Brentan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 54 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War II novel about two sisters who join the war effort—one as a codebreaker and the other as a pilot—and the secrets that threaten to tear them apart. Perfect for fans of The Rose Code and The Nightingale. Twin sisters Dot and Dash Wilson share many things, and while they are practically inseparable, they are nothing alike. Dot is fascinated by books, puzzles, and Morse code, a language taught to both girls by their father, a WWI veteran. Dash’s days are filled with fixing engines, dancing with friends, and dreaming of flying airplanes. Almost always at their side is their best friend Gus—until war breaks out and he enlists in the army, deploying to an unknown front. Determined to do their duty, both girls join the WRENS, Dash as a mechanic and Dot as a typist. Before long, Dot’s fixation on patterns and numbers takes her from HMCS Coverdale, a covert listening and codebreaking station working with Bletchley Park in England, to Camp X, a top-secret spy school. But when personal tragedy strikes the family, Dot’s oath of secrecy causes a rift between the sisters. Eager to leave her pain behind, Dash jumps at the opportunity to train as a pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary, where she risks her life to ferry aircraft and troops across the battlefields of Europe. Meanwhile Dot is drawn into the Allies’ preparations for D-Day. But Dot’s loyalties are put to the test once more when someone close to her goes missing in Nazi-occupied territory. With everyone’s eyes on Operation Overlord, Dot must use every skill at her disposal to save those she loves before it’s too late. Inspired by the real-life stories of women in World War II, The Secret Keeper is an extraordinary novel about the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood and the light of courage during the darkest of nights.

Murder Most Royal: A Novel by Sj Bennett

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602177 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Murder Most Royal: A Novel Series: #3 of Her Majesty the Queen Investigates Author: Sj Bennett Narrator: Jane Copland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: September 26, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Evidence that an aristocrat has gone missing—and was possibly murdered—near Sandringham House sets Queen Elizabeth II on the path to discover unsavory family secrets and much more in this new installment of the series the New York Times Book Review calls “sheer entertainment.” Queen Elizabeth II is looking forward to a traditional Christmas gathering with her family in Sandringham when a shocking discovery interrupts holiday plans. A severed hand has been found—but even more unsettling, she recognizes the signet ring still attached to a finger. It belongs to a scion of the St Cyr family, her old friends from nearby Ladybridge Hall. Despite the personal connection, the Queen wants to leave the investigation to the police—that is, until newspapers drag her name into the matter. As reporters speculate about the proximity of the crime to the Crown and the police fail to investigate a suspicious accident on her doorstep, Elizabeth quietly begins to mull over the mystery herself. With help from her Assistant Private Secretary, Rozie Oshodi, she delves into the interlocking layers of fact and fiction surrounding the high-profile case. Someone in the quiet county of Norfolk seems to have a secret worth killing for, and the Queen is determined to find out who and what that is—even if that means discovering that someone in her close circle is a murderer. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

The All Her Secrets by Jane Shemilt

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The All Her Secrets Author: Jane Shemilt Narrator: Amalia Vitale Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: August 17, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Patient comes another powerful novel about betrayal, family and the secrets of the past. ‘Jane Shemilt is a mistress at skilfully weaving seemingly perfect family lives with deadly secrets from the past in stunning locations.’ Jane Corry PAXOS, GREECE A young girl meets two boys on the beach one hot summer night. Her life will never be the same again. LONDON, ENGLAND Julia is the perfect spouse, mother, cook, cleaner and speech writer to her husband, James. But behind it all is a stifled woman trapped in a gilded cage. When she meets Laurel, a therapist who promises fulfilment, Julia opens herself up to the hope of a different future. BOUND BY THE PAST But what happened in Greece all those years ago that binds these two women together? And will uncovering the truth destroy everything… or set them free? THE QUEEN OF THE WHAT-IF NOVEL IS BACK WITH A TENSE, EMOTIONAL READ THAT WILL MAKE YOU QUESTION EVERYTHING… Netgalley readers LOVE All Her Secrets: ‘Jane is one of my favourite authors and this book is another masterpiece’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘10/10 ALL HER SECRETS is a triumph!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Gripping, riveting and hard to put down’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A must read!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A NAME TO WATCH. Don't think twice. Order your copy today’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Ideal summer read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An amazing rollercoaster ride of a story … Brilliantly done’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A thoughtful and often hard-hitting book’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘What a great story. I loved it’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ PRAISE FOR ALL HER SECRETS: ‘A persuasive and fast- paced thriller with a deeply satisfying conclusion’ CHARLOTTE PHILBY ‘An unforgettable, tense, emotionally charged an beautifully written tale . . . The perfect summer read’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS ‘An all-consuming thriller rich with dread, tension and twists’ ABIGAIL DEAN ‘Jane Shemilt is a mistress at skilfully weaving seemingly perfect family lives with deadly secrets from the past in stunning locations’ JANE CORRY ‘What a beautiful, fantastic book. I absolutely loved it and did not want to let the characters go. Gorgeous and thrilling. What more could you want?’ EMMA CURTIS ‘Vividly drawn locations curl at the edges as Shemilt unpicks privilege to reveal desperation, dishonesty and darkness’ GILLY MACMILLAN ‘Combines devastating mystery with a beautifully evoked Greek setting . . . I could not put this superb thriller down’ CHRIS EWAN ‘All Her Secrets hooked me in from the first page’ PHILLIPA EAST ‘Excellent . . . A classy thriller that’s dark and gripping but ultimately redemptive and oh so satisfying’ EMYLIA HALL ‘A sunlit story pierced with shadows. Haunting and brilliant’ FREYA BERRY

The Summer of Songbirds by Kristy Woodson Harvey

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601091 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summer of Songbirds Author: Kristy Woodson Harvey Narrator: Reena Dutt, Jackie Sanders, Jennifer Jill Araya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.71 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 4 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this instant New York Times bestselling novel by “Southern sensation Kristy Woodson Harvey” (Good Morning America), four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in the process. Nearly thirty years ago, June Moore bought Camp Holly Springs and turned it into a thriving summer haven for girls. But now, June is in danger of losing the place she has sacrificed everything for and begins to realize how much she has used the camp to avoid facing difficulties in her life. June’s niece, Daphne, met her two best friends, Lanier and Mary Stuart, during a fateful summer at camp. They’ve all helped each other through hard times and the three are inseparable even in their thirties. But when attorney Daphne is confronted with a relationship from her past—and a confidential issue at work becomes personal—she is faced with an impossible choice. Lanier, meanwhile, is struggling with tough decisions of her own. After a run-in with an old flame, she is torn between the commitment she made to her fiancé and the one she made to her first love. And when a big secret comes to light, she finds herself at odds with her best friend…and risks losing the person she loves most. But in spite of their personal problems, nothing is more important than Camp Holly Springs. When the women learn their childhood oasis is in danger of closing, they band together to save it, sending them on a journey that promises to open the next chapters in their lives. Lyrical and unforgettable, “The Summer of Songbirds is a warm, hopeful story of friendship, love, and second chances” (Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

Her, Too: A Novel by Bonnie Kistler

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593039 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Her, Too: A Novel Author: Bonnie Kistler Narrator: Susan Dalian, Elisabeth Rodgers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Defending an accused rapist, a high-powered lawyer learns firsthand the terrible truth about her client . . . a discovery that propels her on a quest for justice and revenge in this addictively readable thriller from the author of The Cage. Kelly McCann is a fighter. She’s fought to build a successful legal career, fought for the special needs of her family, and tirelessly fought for her clients. Her specialty is defending men accused of sex crimes––falsely accused, she always maintains. Her detractors call her a traitor to her gender, but she doesn't care. Badass and brilliant, Kelly simply loves to win, and as the story opens, she's done it again, securing an acquittal for a renowned scientist accused of sexually assaulting his female employees. But the thrill of her victory is short-lived. That very night she, too, falls victim of a brutal sexual assault. And almost as horrific as the attack is the fact that she can't tell anyone it happened—not without destroying her career in the process. Kelly has never backed down from a fight and she’s not about to start pulling her punches now. Joining forces with her rapist's other victims, the shrewd lawyer plans to turn the tables on him. It’s not only about justice—these wronged women are out for revenge. But someone, it seems, is out for them, and one by one, they find themselves facing even greater danger. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

The Break-Up Clause by Niamh Hargan

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603626 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Break-Up Clause Author: Niamh Hargan Narrator: Róisín Rankin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 57 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: What if your work rival was the ex that you’d never actually broken up with? ‘Sizzling’ SOPHIE IRWIN ‘Witty’ BETH REEKLES ‘Excellent’ JANE CASEY ‘Pitch-perfect’ EMMA HUGHES How do you get rid of an ex . . . When you’ve never actually broken up? When arrogant new colleague Benjamin swans into Fia’s small office at her New York law firm, it’s no secret they dislike – no, hate – each other. But there is one secret no one knows. The last time Fia and Benjamin saw each other was one summer night nearly ten years ago, at a little chapel – in Vegas. Benjamin isn’t just Fia’s co-worker, he’s also her long-lost husband. They made a promise – they even signed a pact – that they’d divorce after one year. But they never did. Now, if anyone discovers they’re husband and wife, both their jobs are on the line. And as their marriage starts to finally heat up, it’s a secret that’s getting harder to keep . . . EVERYONE LOVES THE BREAK-UP CLAUSE ‘I REALLY loved . . . so clever, so good, really excellent characters’ JANE CASEY ‘Electric right from the off…a witty, wonderful book with such a wholesome take on friendships and a sizzling romance’ BETH REEKLES ’Hargan has a light touch and a winning sense of humour’ THE TIMES ‘Reminds me of Katherine Heiny . . . her crisp scene-setting wit, her pitch-perfect ear for dialogue and her wonderful, wry eye . . . make every page a pleasure to read’ EMMA HUGHES ‘An absolute first class rom-com: smart, funny and sizzling with chemistry’ SOPHIE IRWIN ‘Joyous, funny and very sweet, this is one to savour’ STYLIST ‘One of the very best romcom writers around. It is sublime . . . chemistry/sizzle/snark is off the charts’ CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLIN

An Italian Island Summer by Sue Moorcroft

Thu, 25 May 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593068 to listen full audiobooks. Title: An Italian Island Summer Author: Sue Moorcroft Narrator: Antonia Whillans Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ‘Sue Moorcroft delivers great stories time after time.’ – MILLY JOHNSON ‘I love all of Sue Moorcroft’s books!’ – KATIE FFORDE Will one summer in Sicily change her life for ever? After her marriage falls apart, Ursula Quinn is offered the chance to spend the summer working at a hotel on a beautiful island off the coast of Sicily, Italy. Excited by a new adventure, she sets off at once. At Residenza dei Tringali, Ursula receives a warm welcome from everyone except Alfio, son of the Tringali family. He gave up his life in Barcelona to help his mother Agata with the ailing business, and is frustrated with Ursula’s interference – and she in turn is less than impressed with his attitude. As they spend more time together, though, they begin to see each other in a different light. But what with Ursula’s ex-husband on her tail, family secrets surfacing and an unexpected offer that makes Alfio question his whole life, there’s plenty to distract them from one another. Can she face her past and he his future, and together make the most of their Sicilian summer? Readers LOVE Sue Moorcroft’s gorgeous summer novels! ‘Unputdownable… A perfect summer holiday read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review ‘I was transported and I couldn’t put it down.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Perfect summer escapism…love, laughter, friendship, relationships, gorgeous food and heavenly summer days!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A great, uplifting romance!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I felt like I was sat reading this in the glorious sunshine’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Uplifting and light-hearted…I read it in one sitting.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The perfect escapism between the pages of a book.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Glorious! Escape from your armchair to sunny climes.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The House in the Olive Grove by Emma Cowell

Thu, 25 May 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603634 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House in the Olive Grove Author: Emma Cowell Narrator: Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ‘A glorious story that celebrates the power of love’ – Bestselling author ADRIANA TRIGIANI ‘I adored The House in the Olive Grove. It is a hymn to friendship and love, and is utterly perfect’ – Bestselling author LIZ FENWICK Will one week in Greece change their lives for ever? Chef Maria is running a successful cookery school in her home village of Petalidi, Greece – but she is also running from the secrets of her past. Food journalist Kayla thought this was going to be just another work trip. But right before she leaves for Greece, she discovers that her whole life is built on a lie. Jewellery-maker Alessandra has always lived according to her own rules – despite what it has cost her to do so. But she has just had some devastating news. As these three very different women come together at the house in the olive grove, unlikely friendships blossom and a season of self-discovery begins. Will the sumptuous flavours, sapphire waters and golden sands of Greece give each of them the answers they so desperately seek? The breathtaking, escapist second novel from Emma Cowell, perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop, Carol Kirkwood and Karen Swan. Readers love The House in the Olive Grove: ‘Emma Cowell creates worlds of warmth, laughter, healing and hope in her delicious novels. The House in the Olive Grove is a glorious story that celebrates the power of love.’ – Adriana Trigiani ‘Light your favourite candle, pour yourself a glass of ouzo, play Leonard Cohen’s ‘Bird on a Wire,’ and let author Emma Cowell transport you to Petalidi, Greece.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I adored The House in the Olive Grove. It is a hymn to friendship and love, and is utterly perfect.’ – Liz Fenwick ‘A homage to Greek cooking, bee keeping and to the closeness of small communities … The book has an exceptionally strong emotional pulse.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A culinary twist, female solidarity, friendship and romance, what more does one need for a perfect summer read?’ – Nadia Marks ‘This book is food for the soul.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Evocative, compelling, moving. A glorious story.’ – Kate Frost ‘I loved how beautifully Greece and the food were described – it makes you wish you were there yourself.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Sunshine and friendship, broken hearts and secrets. Cowell’s exquisite writing is as delicious as the food she describes.’ – Jennie Keer ‘Eloquent prose brings to life the feel of the breeze off the ocean, the enticing aroma drifting from Maria’s kitchen and the sweetness of the bees’ honey.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A sweeping novel about sisterhood, courage and new beginnings that will inspire and delight.’ – Tessa Harris ‘Cowell has written a lovely atmospheric novel that will engage and entertain you.’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The glorious setting will instantly transport you to sunnier climes!’ – My Weekly ‘A gorgeous read and a real nod to the friendships women can form.’ – Best

All the Pretty Places: A Novel of the Gilded Age by Joy Callaway

Tue, 09 May 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604403 to listen full audiobooks. Title: All the Pretty Places: A Novel of the Gilded Age Author: Joy Callaway Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “A timeless and powerful novel of a daring woman who must decide if she will risk everything to follow her passion and find her voice.” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author From the moment she was born, the transforming beauty of her family’s nurseries has arrested her heart. From the moment she knew love, her heart belonged with his. Now she’s at risk of losing them both. Rye, New York, 1893. Sadie Fremd’s dreams hinge on her family’s nursery, which has been the supplier of choice for respected landscape architects on the East Coast for decades. Now her small town is in a panic as the economy plummets into a depression, and Sadie’s father is pressuring her to secure her future by marrying a wealthy man among her peerage—but Sadie has never been one to play it safe. Besides, her heart is already spoken for. Rather than seek potential suitors, Sadie pursues new business from her father’s most reliable and wealthy clients of the Gilded Age in an attempt to bolster the floundering nursery. But the more time Sadie spends in the secluded gardens of the elite, the more she notices the hopelessness in the eyes of those outside the mansions. The poor, the grieving, the weary. The people with no access to the restorative beauty of nature. Sadie has always wanted her father to pass his business to her instead of to one of her brothers, but he seems oblivious to her desire and talent—and now to her passion for providing natural beauty to those who can’t afford it. When former employee, Sam, shows up unexpectedly, Sadie wonders if their love can be rekindled or if his presence will simply be another reminder of a life she longs for and cannot have. Joy Callaway illuminates the life of her great-great-grandmother in this captivating story about a daring woman following her passion and finding her voice, while exploring natural beauty and its effect in the lives of those who need it most. - Historical Gilded Age novel about an early American landscape nursery - Stand-alone novel - Also by Joy Callaway: The Grand Design, The Fifth Avenue Artists Society, and Secret Sisters

The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601069 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Thick and the Lean Author: Chana Porter Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar Young, Kamali Minter, Deepti Gupta Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In Lambda Award finalist Chana Porter’s “decadent and richly imagined” (Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine) novel, an aspiring chef, a cyberthief, and a kitchen maid each break free of a society that wants to constrain them. In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatirc Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flambé, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice: give up her passion for cooking or leave the only community she has known. Elsewhere, Reiko Rimando has left her modest roots for a college tech scholarship in the big city. A flawless student, she is set up for success…until her school pulls her funding, leaving her to face either a mountain of debt or a humiliating return home. But Reiko is done being at the mercy of the system. She forges a third path—outside the law. With the guidance of a mysterious cookbook written by a kitchen maid centuries ago, Beatrice and Reiko each grasp for a life of freedom—something more easily imagined than achieved in a world dominated by catastrophic corporate greed. A startling fable of the entwined perils of capitalism, body politics, and the stigmas women face for appetites of every kind, Chana Porter’s profound new novel explores the reclamation of pleasure as a revolutionary act.

Silver Alert by Lee Smith

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603129 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Silver Alert Author: Lee Smith Narrator: Caitlin Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 29 minutes Release date: April 18, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off on a joyride with a new young friend—who may have some secrets of her own. A driving force in literature, the one and only Lee Smith returns with a road trip novel, a story full of hope and humor about not going away quietly—at any age. Aging Herb’s charmed life with his dear wife, Susan, in their Key West house is coming undone. Susan now needs constant care, and Herb is in denial about his own ailing health. The one bright spot is the arrival of an endlessly optimistic manicurist calling herself Renee. She sings to Susan during manicures, gets her to paint, and brings her a sense of contentment. But then Herb and Susan’s adult children arrive to stage an intervention on their stubborn, independent father, and as a consequence, Renee’s gig with Susan—and her grand plans for her own life—start to unravel as well. So much had seemed as if it could change for Renee, who is not the happy, uncomplicated young girl she pretends to be. She is actually named Dee Dee, and she’s fleeing a dark past. And Herb can’t just let go of all that he has ever had. So, he suggests one last joy ride in his Porsche. And the two take off north out of Key West, soon setting off a Silver Alert. As the unlikely friendship between Herb and Dee Dee deepens, we see how as one life is closing down, another opens up. In this buoyant novel, the masterful Smith asks: What do we deserve? And how do we make it our own? Sometimes, you just have to seize the wheel. Fans of Smith’s many books in her storied, bestselling career won’t want to miss her newest novel. And readers of novels like Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes will adore Silver Alert.

Old Flame by Molly Prentiss

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Old Flame Author: Molly Prentiss Narrator: Soneela Nankani Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 5 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: This “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) and “introspective, energetic novel” (Booklist) explores what it means to be a woman in her many forms—daughter, friend, partner, lover, and mother—from the acclaimed author of Tuesday Nights in 1980. Emily writes for women’s catalogs for a living, but she’d rather be writing books. She has a handsome photographer boyfriend, but she actively wonders how and when they will eventually hurt each other. Her best work friend was abruptly laid off. When her world is further upended by an unplanned pregnancy, Emily is forced to make tough decisions that will change her life forever. What will she sacrifice from her old life to make room for a new one? What fires will she be forced to extinguish, and which will keep burning? Old Flame is an essential, “warmhearted, and luminous page-turner about desire, time, love, parenthood, work, and art in women’s lives” (Sophie McManus, author of The Unfortunates).

The Half of It: A Novel by Juliette Fay

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593031 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Half of It: A Novel Author: Juliette Fay Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ''Witty, tender, beautifully written, I loved being immersed in this powerful story of loss and forgiveness.'' —Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author One perfect night. Forty years of buried hurt. One chance to make it right. Can the past ever be fixed? With humor, heart, and grace, USA Today bestselling author Juliette Fay delivers a poignant, propulsive novel about settling the past, rekindling lost friendships, and discovering love when you least expect it. “I’m wondering if we can be friends again.” When 58-year-old Helen Spencer reviews her life, what she sees are the mistakes. Over the years, things seemed to go sideways incrementally, one little wrong decision at a time. She can even pinpoint where it all started to go awry: a wonderous, romantic night in the woods her senior year of high school with a boy named Cal Crosby. A night she would soon work hard to forget. Forty years, one marriage, three children, and one grandbaby later, suddenly there he is—Cal Crosby!—right in front of her with grandchildren of his own in tow. The chance to finally get some answers and sort out what happened is within reach. But Helen would much prefer to keep that night and all the fury, hurt, and sorrow that followed tightly locked away where she doesn’t have to face it. Cal Crosby, however, is ready to talk. He has no idea of the can of worms he’s about to open. In fact, he doesn’t know the half of it.

The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601106 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Only Survivors Author: Megan Miranda Narrator: Andre Bellido, Alex Allwine, Inés Del Castillo, Greg Chun, Michael Crouch, Priya Ayyar, Erin Moon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: April 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.6 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Bestseller A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick They were nine survivors. Now, a decade later, only seven remain...how long can they keep the promise made that night? Don’t miss this “gripping thriller” (CrimeReads) from the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selected and New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda. A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine—a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who managed to escape the river that night were irrevocably changed. A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide on the anniversary of the crash, the rest of them make a pact: to come together each year to commemorate that terrible night. To keep one another safe. To hold one another accountable. Or both. Their annual meeting place, a house on the Outer Banks, has long been a refuge. But by the tenth anniversary, Cassidy Bent has worked to distance herself from the tragedy and from the other survivors. She’s changed her mobile number. She’s blocked the others’ email addresses. This year, she is determined to finally break ties once and for all. But on the day of the reunion, she receives a text with an obituary attached: another survivor is gone. Now they are seven—and Cassidy finds herself hurling back toward the group, wild with grief—and suspicion. Almost immediately, something feels off this year. Cassidy is the first to notice when Amaya, the annual organizer, slips away, overwhelmed. This wouldn’t raise alarm except for the impending storm. Suddenly, they’re facing the threat of closed roads and surging waters…again. Then Amaya stops responding to her phone. After all they’ve been through, she wouldn’t willfully make them worry. Would she? And—as they promised long ago—each survivor will do whatever he or she can do to save one another. Won’t they? A propulsive and chilling locked-box mystery filled with the dazzling hairpin twists that are the author’s signature, The Only Survivors is New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda’s best novel yet.

The House Is on Fire by Rachel Beanland

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House Is on Fire Author: Rachel Beanland Narrator: Ruffin Prentiss Iii, Rachel Beanland, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Michael Crouch, Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.11 of Total 9 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A “wildly entertaining” (NPR), “gripping” (The Washington Post) work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night, from the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever. Richmond, Virginia 1811. It’s the height of the winter social season, the General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia’s gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city’s only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the demand of a populace that’s done looking for enlightenment at the front of a church. On the night after Christmas, the theater is packed with more than six hundred holiday revelers. In the third-floor boxes sits newly widowed Sally Henry Campbell, who is glad for any opportunity to relive the happy times she shared with her husband. One floor away, in the colored gallery, Cecily Patterson doesn’t give a whit about the play but is grateful for a four-hour reprieve from a life that has recently gone from bad to worse. Backstage, young stagehand Jack Gibson hopes that, if he can impress the theater’s managers, he’ll be offered a permanent job with the company. And on the other side of town, blacksmith Gilbert Hunt dreams of one day being able to bring his wife to the theater, but he’ll have to buy her freedom first. When the theater goes up in flames in the middle of the performance, Sally, Cecily, Jack, and Gilbert make a series of split-second decisions that will not only affect their own lives but those of countless others. And in the days following the fire, as news of the disaster spreads across the United States, the paths of these four people will become forever intertwined. Based on the true story of Richmond’s theater fire, The House Is on Fire is a “stunning” (Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle), “all-consuming exploration” (E! News) that offers proof that sometimes, in the midst of great tragedy, we are offered our most precious—and fleeting—chances at redemption.

Pride by Victoria Christopher Murray

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601096 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pride Series: #5 of Seven Deadly Sins Author: Victoria Christopher Murray Narrator: Lacy Laurel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 20 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The 7 Deadly Sins series that inspired four Lifetime original movies continues with this unputdownable novel following mortgage broker Journee Alexander as she tries to escape the secrets of her past without losing all she has worked to build in the present. Journee Alexander grew up believing that the only person she could depend on was herself. After being abandoned by her mother, burning bridges with friends, and narrowly escaping bad business dealings with her first mentor, her trust is hard to earn and harder to keep. But she has overcome all of that and now, as a successful mortgage broker at the top of her game in Houston’s booming real estate market, she has every reason to be proud of her accomplishments. She achieved this massive success on her own—there’s no need to put her trust in anyone else. But when Journee starts receiving cryptic text messages from an unknown number threatening to destroy everything she has worked to build, she is out of her depth for the first time. Forced to consider accepting help from someone, Journee turns to the first man she loved, the one who got away. But old habits are hard to break and after trusting only her own instincts for so long, can she put her pride aside and accept advice from an old flame? Or should she put her trust in a brand-new love who is in sync with all that she wants to do? Journee is forced to confront the secrets of her past, the old hurts that never seem to heal, and the fact that sometimes a meteoric rise is just the first step in a devastating fall that will change her life forever.

Dirty Laundry: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel by Disha Bose

Tue, 04 Apr 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604330 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dirty Laundry: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel Author: Disha Bose Narrator: Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: April 4, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • “A twisty tale of murder and love gone wrong, rife with bone-chilling revelations . . . This is a riveting debut, and Disha Bose is a writer to watch.”—Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Mother May I A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, CrimeReads She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it. Ciara Dunphy has it all—a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about mothering, style, and influencer success—a picture-perfect life is easy money on Instagram. But behind the filters, reality is less polished. Enter Mishti Guha: Ciara’s best friend. Ciara welcomed Mishti into her inner circle for being . . . unlike the other mothers in the group. Discontent in a marriage arranged for her by her parents back in Calcutta, Mishti now raises her young daughter in a country that is too cold, among children who look nothing like her. She wants what Ciara has—the ease with which she moves through the world—and, in that sense, Mishti might be exactly like the other mothers. And there’s earth mother Lauren Doyle: born, bred, and the butt of jokes in their village. With her disheveled partner and children who run naked in the yard, they’re mostly a happy lot, though ostracized for being the singular dysfunction in Ciara’s immaculate world. When Lauren finds an unlikely ally in Mishti, she decides that her days of ridicule are over. Then Ciara is found murdered in her own pristine home, and the house of cards she’d worked so hard to build comes crumbling down. Everyone seems to have something to gain from Ciara’s death, so if they don’t want the blame, it may be the perfect time to air their enemies’ dirty laundry. In this dazzling debut novel, Disha Bose revolutionizes age-old ideas of love and deceit. What ensues is the delicious unspooling of a group of women desperate to preserve themselves.

Well Behaved Women by Caroline Lamond

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Well Behaved Women Author: Caroline Lamond Narrator: Romy Nordlinger Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ‘An engaging portrait of an indomitable woman at the heart of Golden Age Hollywood’ Gill Paul, bestselling author of The Manhattan Girls ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I was hooked from the first page… it had what I was looking for in the Golden Age of Hollywood’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Really reminded me of City of Girls, the lifestyle, the glamour but also the tenderness… Wonderful!’ NetGalley reviewer For fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and City of Girls. ‘You’re young and beautiful. The world is your oyster – it’s up to you to find your pearl’ When Maybelle Crabtree, a God-fearing farm girl from Kentucky, has a chance encounter with a charismatic stranger, her life changes forever. With an invitation to join the infamous Alla Nazimova and her Sewing Circle, Maybelle’s eyes are opened to a life of decadence and glamour. Able to freely discover her own sexuality, Maybelle embraces all that Hollywood has to offer in the hedonist roaring twenties. But both Maybelle and Alla have secrets that threaten to bring their gilded lives crashing down. Hearts will be broken, careers destroyed and friendships shattered because what happens behind closed doors, doesn’t stay hidden forever… TW: This book contains scenes of a sexual nature, violence, domestic abuse and abortion. Readers have been swept away by Well Behaved Women: ‘An enticing parallel portrait, of women endeavouring to be heard in a glittering but masculine era’ Mandy Robotham, international bestselling author ‘An extraordinary story’ Georgia Kaufmann, author of The Dressmaker of Paris ‘Emotional and poignant… beautifully written and so evocative. A truly fantastic read!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Excellent… I was totally involved in the story, the characters and their lives’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Eye-opening… a trip back in time’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A thoroughly engaging read with fascinating queer women against the backdrop of the Hollywood age. Bravo!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I was not fully prepared to completely fall in love with this book’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Beautifully crafted, richly detailed with captivating characters’ ’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Girl from Donegal by Carmel Harrington, Aoife Mcmahon

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl from Donegal Author: Carmel Harrington, Aoife Mcmahon Narrator: Amy Mcallister, Emma Lowe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 1 minute Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: I LOVED The Girl from Donegal. The storylines are so captivating and the sense of the secret that travels around the world is magical . . . unputdownable’ CATHY KELLY Can you ever forget your first love? Donegal, Ireland, 1939 As the world teeters on the brink of WWII, Eliza Lavery is alone in the world after her fiancé, Davey, was lost following the Irish War of Independence. But a fateful meeting on the wild beauty of Ballymastocker Bay could change everything. Hamilton, Bermuda, 2022 Eight decades later, troubled by her future, Saoirse O’Donnell walks on the pink sands of Bermuda’s Horseshoe Bay. When she uncovers a connection to Eliza, all those years before, she hears a story that promises to influence her own heart and her own choice – but that also reveals a long-buried secret. Two women must each make a choice between their past and their present in this sweeping, epic love story spanning two continents, three generations, and joy and tragedy over nearly a century. Praise for The Girl from Donegal ‘A timeless love story, beautifully told across eighty years and two continents . . . Carmel takes us on an emotional rollercoaster’ HAZEL GAYNOR ‘[The] characters are unforgettable and drawn with real heart – you’re rooting for them from the get-go and with them all the way’ CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD ‘A terrific read with fabulous historical detail and great characters. Thoroughly engrossing’ SHEILA O’FLANAGAN ‘A beautifully told international saga encompassing war and tragedy, life-changing decisions and love in its many facets’ ROISIN MEANEY ‘One of the best books of the year . . . it’s Carmel’s best book yet . . . I lost whole days of my life to this beautiful, sweeping story and I can confidently predict that readers everywhere will too’ CLAUDIA CARROLL ‘An atmospheric story, sweeping across 80 years, of two women who get a second bite at the cherry’ Sunday Independent

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604085 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hungry Tide Author: Amitav Ghosh Narrator: Ranjit Madgavkar Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 1 minute Release date: March 30, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A profound and absorbing saga from the Internationally Bestselling and Man Booker Prize shortlisted author 'Amitav Ghosh is such a fascinating and seductive writer… I cannot think of another contemporary writer with whom it would be this thrilling to go so far, so fast' The Times January 2001: A small ship, led by wealthy Scotsman Daniel Hamilton, arrives in the Sundarbans, a vast archipelago of islands in the mythical river Ganges, a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea. In the Sundarbans the tides reach more than 100 miles inland, and every day thousands of hectares of forest disappear only to re-emerge hours later. Dense as the mangrove forests are, from Hamilton’s point of view, it is only a little less barren than a desert. The eccentric Scotsman and the scientists on board the ship disembark to study this little-known environment, and to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society. Their goal? To create a utopian society, of all races and religions, and conquer the might of the Sundarbans.

A Kiss in the Moonlight: A Gambler’s Daughters Novel by Cathy Maxwell

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597928 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Kiss in the Moonlight: A Gambler’s Daughters Novel Series: #1 of The Gambler’s Daughters Author: Cathy Maxwell Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell begins a spectacular new series, the Gambler’s Daughters. Three aristocratic sisters must use their wits and wiles to make their ways in Regency London...only to learn the path to making a brilliant society marriage isn’t easy—especially when Love gets in the way! To Marry a Duke… Once there were three Irish sisters—Gwendolyn, Dara, and Elise—who had to fend for themselves when their gambler of a father disappeared, leaving them with an unscrupulous cousin. Dara hatches a daring plan: they gamble what little they own to finance a London season. Her goal: to use their looks and their wits to find a duke to marry for each sister! It seems her crazy plot might work when the sisters are declared the “Incomparables” of the Season. Dukes and lords line up at their door, but bold women and scandal always go hand in hand. Particularly when Dara’s plans are challenged by the likes of Michael Brogan, who provokes Dara as much as he tempts her. The handsome, clever, and rising politician is definitely not a duke, but he’s determined to teach her about ambition, men, and, above all, love, making Dara wonder if her plans are about to change.

The Perfumist of Paris by Alka Joshi

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593510 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Perfumist of Paris Series: #3 of The Jaipur Trilogy Author: Alka Joshi Narrator: Sneha Mathan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.62 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.91 of Total 11 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: "A stunning portrait of a woman blossoming into her full power…this is Alka Joshi's best book yet!” —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye From the author of Reese's Book Club Pick The Henna Artist, the final chapter in Alka Joshi’s New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha’s budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of her family and the secrets of her past. Paris, 1974. Radha is now living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two daughters. She still grieves for the baby boy she gave up years ago, when she was only a child herself, but she loves being a mother to her daughters, and she’s finally found her passion—the treasure trove of scents. She has an exciting and challenging position working for a master perfumer, helping to design completely new fragrances for clients and building her career one scent at a time. She only wishes Pierre could understand her need to work. She feels his frustration, but she can’t give up this thing that drives her. Tasked with her first major project, Radha travels to India, where she enlists the help of her sister, Lakshmi, and the courtesans of Agra—women who use the power of fragrance to seduce, tease and entice. She’s on the cusp of a breakthrough when she finds out the son she never told her husband about is heading to Paris to find her—upending her carefully managed world and threatening to destroy a vulnerable marriage. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. The Jaipur Trilogy Book 1: The Henna Artist Book 2: The Secret Keeper of Jaipur Book 3: The Perfumist of Paris

The Scandalous Ladies of London: The Countess by Sophie Jordan

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603565 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Scandalous Ladies of London: The Countess Series: #1 of The Scandalous Ladies of London Author: Sophie Jordan Narrator: Justine Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan kicks off her amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying for position in the hierarchy of the ton. They are the young wives, widows, and daughters of London’s wealthiest families. The drama is big, the money runs deep, and the shade is real. Life is different in the ton. “My husband is a good man… just ask all the women he has bedded.” Wealthy society maven Lady Gertrude knows how the world works. If her husband is less than faithful, it’s an acceptable price to pay for her coveted position at the apex of London’s most fashionable set. No exclusive soirée or lavish ball is complete without her and her group of decadent, well-connected friends. And this Season promises more excitement than usual: Tru is launching her daughter into Society, helping her navigate the cutthroat Marriage Mart, complete with fortune hunters, jealous debutantes, and malicious gossips. As skilled as Tru is at playing the high-stakes games of the ton, she never expects to meet her match—until Jasper Thorne begins to court her daughter. Jasper needs a titled bride, but when he meets Tru, all his carefully laid plans go up in smoke. The attraction between Tru and Jasper is undeniable…and unacceptable. To indulge in an affair with her daughter’s suitor would be ruinous. If it becomes public, she’ll never survive the scandal. Especially as it becomes clear that he wants more than one night…he wants the impossible. He wants forever. A sizzling story of scandalous ladies, irresistible temptation, and the dangers—and joys—of being true to yourself.

Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Stephanie Marie Thornton

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604277 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley Author: Stephanie Marie Thornton Narrator: Grace Gray, Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein, a tale of two literary legends—a mother and daughter—discovering each other and finding themselves along the way, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton. 1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father’s violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she dares to propose that women are equal to men. From conservative England to the blood-drenched streets of revolutionary France, Mary refuses to bow to society’s conventions and instead supports herself with her pen until an illicit love affair challenges her every belief about romance and marriage. When she gives birth to a daughter and is stricken with childbed fever, Mary fears it will be her many critics who recount her life’s extraordinary odyssey… 1818. The daughter of infamous political philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, passionate Mary Shelley learned to read by tracing the letters of her mother’s tombstone. As a young woman, she desperately misses her mother’s guidance, especially following her scandalous elopement with dashing poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary struggles to balance an ever-complicated marriage with motherhood while nursing twin hopes that she might write something of her own one day and also discover the truth of her mother’s unconventional life. Mary’s journey will unlock her mother’s secrets, all while leading to her own destiny as the groundbreaking author of Frankenstein. A riveting and inspiring novel about a firebrand feminist, her visionary daughter, and the many ways their words transformed our world.

Ada's Room: A Novel by Sharon Dodua Otoo

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ada's Room: A Novel Author: Sharon Dodua Otoo Narrator: Debbie Korley, Cyril Nri Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a mathematical genius and computer programming pioneer, tries to hide her affair with Charles Dickens from her husband. A woman named Ada, imprisoned in a concentration camp at Mittelbau-Dora in 1945, will survive one more day in enforced prostitution. Connected by an unknown but sentient spirit, and a bracelet of fertility beads that each Ada encounters at a pivotal moment in her life, these women share a name and a purpose. As their interwoven narratives converge on a modern day Ada, a young Ghanaian woman who finds herself pregnant, alone, in Berlin, searching for a home before her baby arrives, their shared spirit will find a way to help her break the vicious cycle of injustice. This novel is a feat of imagination and breaks down simplistic notions of history as a straight line; one woman’s experience matters to another’s 400 years later, on a different continent. In this deeply moving, at times mordantly funny, ultimately hopeful book, there is a connection between all those fighting for love, for family, for justice, for a home.

Loyalty by Lisa Scottoline

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604276 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Loyalty Author: Lisa Scottoline Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Lisa Scottoline Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.28 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. Loyalty can save a soul—or destroy one. Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life—and even the history of Sicily—forever. Gaetano Catalano is an idealistic young lawyer whose devotion to justice is tantamount to a calling. He’s a member of the Beati Paoli, a real-life secret society of aristocrats who investigate crime in Palermo, a city riddled with graft. Gaetano sets out to find the boy and punish the kidnapper, but his mission leads him to a darker place than he had ever imagined. Meanwhile, Mafalda Pancari is a new mother rejoicing at the birth of her daughter, Lucia, when disaster strikes. And Alfredo D’Antonio is a reclusive goatherd under constant threat of being discovered as a Jew. How the lives of these unforgettable characters collide makes Loyalty an epic tale of good versus evil, as the story twists and turns to its monumental showdown. Readers will be transported to the dramatic and ruggedly beautiful island of Sicily, the jewel of the Mediterranean, where lush lemon groves and mouth-watering cuisine contrast with a turbulent history of colonization and corruption. Scottoline brings her decades of thriller writing to historical fiction, creating in Loyalty a singular novel that no reader will be able to put down.

The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise by Colleen Oakley

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise Author: Colleen Oakley Narrator: Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 13 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 7 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A Good Morning America Buzz Pick * A Marie Claire Book Club Pick for April * A Reader's Digest Book Club Pick for April * A LibraryReads Pick * One of Southern Living's Most Anticipated 2023 Releases * One of Today's Most Anticipated 2023 Releases An unforgettable pairing of a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman on the run from the law in this story full of tremendous heart, humor, and wit from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island. Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit or money to speak of, her options are limited, so when an opportunity to work as a live-in caregiver for an elderly woman falls into her lap, she takes it. One slip on the rug. That’s all it took for Louise Wilt’s daughter to demand that Louise have a full-time nanny living with her. Never mind that she can still walk fine, finish her daily crossword puzzle, and pour the two fingers of vodka she drinks every afternoon. Bottom line: Louise wants a caretaker even less than Tanner wants to be one. The two start off their living arrangement happily ignoring each other until Tanner starts to notice things—weird things. Like, why does Louise keep her garden shed locked up tighter than a prison? And why is the local news fixated on the suspect of one of the biggest jewelry heists in American history who looks eerily like Louise? And why does Louise suddenly appear in her room, with a packed bag at 1 a.m. insisting that they leave town immediately? Thus begins the story of a not-to-be-underestimated elderly woman and an aimless young woman who—if they can outrun the mistakes of their past—might just have the greatest adventure of their lives.

The Fake: A Novel by Zoe Whittall

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604341 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fake: A Novel Author: Zoe Whittall Narrator: Reena Dutt, Steve Campbell, Emma Galvin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 59 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A scammer as alluring as she is elusive irrevocably upends the lives of two strangers in this gripping novel from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People. “The genius of Zoe Whittall’s writing is her clear-eyed understanding of human nature, which she lays on the page in beautiful, startling, frank detail. I inhaled The Fake as fast as I could—and haven’t stopped thinking about it since.”—Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky AN AUTOSTRADDLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR After the death of her wife, Shelby is suffering from prolonged grief. She’s increasingly isolated, irritated by her family’s stoicism and her friends’ reliance on the toxic positivity of self-help culture. Then, in a grief support group, she meets Cammie, who gives her permission to express her most hopeless, hideous feelings. Cammie is charismatic and unlike anyone Shelby has ever met. She’s also recovering from cancer and going through several other calamities. Shelby puts all her energy into helping Cammie thrive—until her intuition tells her that something isn’t right. Gibson is fresh from divorce, almost forty, and deeply depressed. Then he falls in love with Cammie. Not only is he having the best sex of his life with a woman so attractive he’s stunned she even glanced his way, but he feels truly known for the first time in his life. But Gibson’s friends are wary of Cammie, and eventually he, too, has to admit that all the drama in Cammie’s life can feel a bit over the top. When Gibson and Shelby meet, they realize Cammie’s stories don’t always add up. In fact, they’re far from the truth. But what kind of a person would lie about having cancer? And what does it say about Shelby and Gibson that they fell for it? From the author of The Best Kind of People and The Spectacular comes a sharp, emotional novel about lies, liars, and the people who love them.

The Wedding at Moonglow Bay: A Novel by Lori Wilde

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wedding at Moonglow Bay: A Novel Series: #4 of Moonglow Cove Author: Lori Wilde Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A wedding brings a shocking surprise in New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde’s newest Moonglow Cove novel. Perfect for fans of Susan Wiggs, Jill Shalvis, and Robyn Carr. It wasn’t the wedding night she’d expected! When Samantha said “I do” to Luca Ginelli, she knew she’d found a reliable soulmate—a strong, sexy man who’d stand beside her through thick and thin. And so she’d started her wedding day filled with joyful expectation, only to have her dreams shattered when the man she married years before shocking, unexpectedly, reappears, insisting she was still his wife! Seven years before, Luca’s brother, Nick, had stubbornly set off in a sailing adventure, ignoring the pleas of his young bride and all common sense. He’d disappeared without a trace; everyone thought he was dead—but now he’s expecting to pick up where they’d left off. He’d once been Samantha’s “lightning strike,”—the person you know is the one from the moment you first see them. But seven years is a long time and so much has changed. Now Samantha is faced with an impossible choice and no matter which decision she makes, it threatens to shred the very fabric of the one thing she holds most dear—family.

Earth's the Right Place for Love: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604349 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Earth's the Right Place for Love: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Berg Narrator: Elizabeth Berg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: This beautiful novel by the beloved author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep tells the story of two young people growing up in Mason, Missouri, and how Arthur Moses, a shy young man, becomes the wise and compassionate person readers loved in The Story of Arthur Truluv. “A poignant tale of love, grief, and the resiliency of the human spirit.”—Kirkus Reviews A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Nola McCollum is the most desirable girl in Arthur Moses’s class, and he is thrilled when they become friends. But Arthur wants far more than friendship. Unfortunately, Nola has a crush on the wrong Moses—Arthur’s older brother, Frank, who is busy pursuing his own love interest and avoiding the boys’ father, a war veteran with a drinking problem and a penchant for starting fights. When a sudden tragedy rocks the family’s world, Arthur struggles to come to terms with his grief. In the end, it is nature that helps him to understand how to go beyond loss and create a life of forgiveness and empathy. But what can he do about Nola, who seems confused about what she wants in life and only half aware of the one who loves her most? Full of unforgettable characters and written with Elizabeth Berg’s characteristic warmth, humor, and insight into people, Earth’s the Right Place for Love is about the power of kindness, character, and family, and how love can grow when you least expect it.

Jane & Edward: A Modern Reimagining of Jane Eyre by Melodie Edwards

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604272 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jane & Edward: A Modern Reimagining of Jane Eyre Author: Melodie Edwards Narrator: Cherlanda Estrada Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: This powerful reimagining of Jane Eyre, set in a modern-day law firm, is full of romance and hope as it follows the echoing heartbeats of the classic story. A former foster kid, Jane has led a solitary life as a waitress in the suburbs, working hard to get by. Tired of years of barely scraping together a living, Jane takes classes to become a legal assistant and shortly after graduating accepts a job offer at a distinguished law firm in downtown Toronto. Everyone at the firm thinks she is destined for failure because her boss is the notoriously difficult Edward Rosen, the majority stakeholder of Rosen, Haythe & Thornfield LLP. But Jane has known far worse trials and refuses to back down when economic freedom is so close at hand. Edward has never been able to keep an assistant—he’s too loud, too messy, too ill-tempered. There’s something about the quietly competent, delightfully sharp-witted Jane that intrigues him though. As their orbits overlap, their feelings begin to develop—first comes fondness and then something more. But when Edward’s secrets put Jane’s independence in jeopardy, she must face long-ignored ghosts from her past and decide if opening her heart is a risk worth taking.

How I'll Kill You by Ren Destefano

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604270 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How I'll Kill You Author: Ren Destefano Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Your next stay-up-all-night thriller, about identical triplets who have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark. Make him want you. Make him love you. Make him dead. Sissy has an...interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, she has handled the cleanup while her serial killer sisters have carved a path of carnage across the U.S. Now, as they arrive in the Arizona heat, Sissy must step up and embrace the family pastime of making a man fall in love and then murdering him. Her first target? A young widower named Edison—and their mutual attraction is instant. While their relationship progresses, and most couples would be thinking about picking out china patterns and moving in together, Sissy’s family is reminding her to think about picking out burial sites and moving on. Then something happens that Sissy never anticipated: She begins to feel protective of Edison, and before she can help it, she’s fallen in love. But the clock is ticking, and her sisters are growing restless. It becomes clear that the gravesite she chooses will hide a body no matter what happens; but if she betrays her family, will it be hers?

The Nursery: A Novel by Szilvia Molnar

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604340 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Nursery: A Novel Author: Szilvia Molnar Narrator: Malin Barr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 21, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A 'brilliant...essential and surprisingly thrilling book about motherhood' (The New York Times) and the early postpartum days, following a woman struggling with maternal fear and its looming madness and showing how difficult and fragile those days can be—and how vital love is to pull anyone out from the dark “A radical novel...I’m obsessed with this book.” —Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good Mothers There is the before and the after. Withering in the maternal prison of her apartment, a new mother finds herself spiraling into a state of complete disaffection. As a translator, she is usually happy to spend her days as the invisible interpreter. But now home alone with her newborn, she is ill at ease with this state of perpetual giving, carrying, feeding. The instinct to keep her baby safe conflicts with the intrusive thoughts of causing the baby harm, and she struggles to reclaim her identity just as it seems to dissolve from underneath her. Feeling isolated from her supportive but ineffectual husband, she strikes up a tentative friendship with her ailing upstairs neighbour, Peter, who hushes the baby with his oxygen tank in tow. But they are both running out of time; something is soon to crack. Joyful early days of her pregnancy mingle with the anxious arrival of the baby, and culminate in a painful confrontation – mostly, between our narrator and herself. Striking and emotive, The Nursery documents the slow process of staggering back towards the simple pleasures of life and reentering the world after post-partum depression.

American Mermaid: A Novel by Julia Langbein

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604347 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Mermaid: A Novel Author: Julia Langbein Narrator: Tara Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: March 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR • 'Sublime.' —New York Times Book Review 'Brilliantly sharp, funny, and thought-provoking, the gripping story of a woman trying to find her way in our chaotic world.' —Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist, eco-warrior novel American Mermaid becomes a best-seller. But when Hollywood insists she convert her fierce, androgynous protagonist into to a teen sex object in a clamshell bra, strange things start to happen. Is Penelope losing her mind, or has her fictional mermaid come to life, enacting revenge against society’s limited view of what a woman can and should be? American Mermaid follows a young woman braving the casual slights and cruel calculations of a winner-take-all society and discovering a beating heart in her own fiction: a new kind of hero who fights to keep her voice and choose her place. A hilarious story about deep things, American Mermaid asks how far we’ll go to protect the parts of ourselves that are not for sale.

The Sisterhood: Big Brother is watching. But they won't see her coming. by Katherine Bradley

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601008 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sisterhood: Big Brother is watching. But they won't see her coming. Author: Katherine Bradley Narrator: Beth Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 16, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: PRE-ORDER THE INSTITUTE, THE NEW HIGH-CONCEPT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER BY KATHERINE BRADLEY, OUT SPRING 2026. ‘Frightening and timely, Bradley’s The Sisterhood is the book everyone should read this year. If you thought it ended with Orwell, think again . . .' CHRISTINA DALCHER Vox meets The Handmaid’s Tale in this feminist reimagining of 1984 In Oceania, whoever you are, Big Brother is always watching you and trust is a luxury that no one has. Julia is the seemingly perfect example of what women in Oceania should be: dutiful, useful, subservient, meek. But Julia hides a secret. A secret that would lead to her death if it is discovered. For Julia is part of the underground movement called The Sisterhood, whose main goal is to find members of The Brotherhood, the anti-Party vigilante group, and help them to overthrow Big Brother. Only then can everyone be truly free. When Julia thinks she’s found a potential member of The Brotherhood, it seems like their goal might finally be in their grasp. But as she gets closer to Winston Smith, Julia’s past starts to catch up with her and we soon realise that she has many more secrets than we’d first imagined – and that overthrowing Big Brother might cost her everything – but if you have nothing left to lose then you don’t mind playing the game . . . This is a story about love, about family, about being a woman, a mother, a sister, a friend and ultimately about what you would sacrifice for the greater good. 'Fast-paced and suspenseful . . . The Sisterhood's greatest gift, however, may be in its message of hope, capable of surmounting even the most formidable of odds and the most uncertain of futures' KATHERINE J. CHEN, author of Joan 'A gut-wrenching, heart-breaking journey through the looking glass of 1984. Compulsively written, Julia’s is a story begging to be told' FREYA BERRY, author of The Dictator's Wife 'A shockingly relevant take on a classic' CLAIRE MCGOWAN, author of This Could Be Us 'A dazzling retelling of the classic dystopian novel, which raises profound questions about how society works, and whether or not woman have political agency. I found it memorable, deeply moving, and at times, terrifying' KATE RHODES, author of the Ben Kitto series 'Katherine Bradley has delivered a worthy counterpart to George Orwell's 1984 in this chilling, taut book. It's as claustrophobic as it needs to be; particularly frightening as one looks around and sees that we are voluntarily moving towards Orwell's nightmare. It is nothing short of a triumph' MARA TIMON, author of City of Spies ‘In this highly original take on Orwell’s 1984– the Big Brother of all dystopian classics – Bradley weaves a complex and engaging plot around the idea of a female resistance to oppressive overlords. Oppressive and creepy, but with real heart’ A. K. TURNER, author of Body Language

Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597820 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Rootless Author: Krystle Zara Appiah Narrator: Diana Yekinni, Clifford Samuel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: March 16, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: There are two sides to every love story… One of ‘the best books to look forward to in 2023’ COSMOPOLITAN ‘A poignant debut which marks Krystle Zara Appiah out as one of Britain’s best new young writers’ HARPER’S BAZAAR Efe and Sam have been best friends since before they were married. To an outside eye, they have a relationship most can only dream of. But behind closed doors, Sam wants to start a family, while Efe longs for a life free of responsibility. When an unplanned pregnancy forces Efe into a stark choice, she has to decide which is more important – her love for her family, or the life she wanted for herself. ‘An open and honest exploration of the rediscovery of love, motherhood, and the choices we make and sacrifice’ GAL-DEM ‘Highly relatable… your heart will miss a beat’ HUFFPOST UK

Daughters of Nantucket: A Novel by Julie Gerstenblatt

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593512 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughters of Nantucket: A Novel Author: Julie Gerstenblatt Narrator: Keylor Leigh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Gerstenblatt's distinctive tale, a triumph in storytelling, celebrates the courage and tenacity of women.” —Booklist, starred review Set against Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three courageous women battling to save everything they hold dear… Nantucket in 1846 is an island set apart not just by its geography but by its unique circumstances. With their menfolk away at sea, often for years at a time, women here know a rare independence—and the challenges that go with it. Eliza Macy is struggling to conceal her financial trouble as she waits for her whaling captain husband to return from a voyage. In desperation, she turns against her progressive ideals and targets Meg Wright, a pregnant free Black woman trying to relocate her store to Main Street. Meanwhile, astronomer Maria Mitchell loves running Nantucket’s Atheneum and spending her nights observing the stars, yet she fears revealing the secret wishes of her heart. On a sweltering July night, a massive fire breaks out in town, quickly kindled by the densely packed wooden buildings. With everything they possess now threatened, these three very different women are forced to reevaluate their priorities and decide what to save, what to let go and what kind of life to rebuild from the ashes of the past. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. "A memorable story of friendship and courage." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris

The Fun Widow's Book Tour: A Novel by Zoe Fishman

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601137 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Fun Widow's Book Tour: A Novel Author: Zoe Fishman Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the author of Inheriting Edith comes a brave new novel about the intersection of art and grief after the tragic loss of her own husband in 2017. Mia used to be fun. She was the class clown; a member of the mile high club; the mom who made her sons giggle with her bad British accent and well-placed tickles. But three years after the death of her husband, there’s no time for that. She’s the only parent they have. Now, her memoir is out and she has to promote it. But how to sell herself when her heart is still broken? And so her three best friends—Chelsea, Rachel and George—organize her book tour in their respective hometowns. With her father Ira on deck for the boys, Mia sets off on a week-long journey to San Francisco, Chicago, and Atlanta: her hometown. Although, Mia’s not just going for herself. Armed with her trademark agenda, she plans to fix her friends’ lives as a means of repayment for all they’ve done. And reluctantly visit Judy, her new stepmother, because she has to—not because she wants to. But even the best agenda is often rendered useless by reality, and Mia realizes that the stories she’s been telling herself are just that. Stories. If she can rewrite who she is now by revisiting who she was then, maybe she can reignite the flame in all of them.

Our Best Intentions: A Novel by Vibhuti Jain

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601135 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Best Intentions: A Novel Author: Vibhuti Jain Narrator: Ulka Simone Mohanty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A Good Morning America Buzz Pick * NPR 1A Inaugural Book Club Pick * A 'Must-Read' by USA Today * Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize * Booklist Editor's Choice * CrimeReads' Best of the Year A suspenseful drama about an immigrant family caught in a criminal investigation, perfect for readers of Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You. “Our Best Intentions is a thoughtful, gripping suspense that shakes up definitions of family and identity in a beautiful and refreshing way!” —Kal Penn, actor and national bestselling author During summer break one day, Angie, the teenage daughter of Indian immigrant Babur Singh, is walking home after swimming at the high school pool when she finds Henry McCleary, a white classmate from a wealthy family, stabbed and bleeding on the football field. The police immediately focus their investigation on Chiara Thompkins, a runaway Black girl who disappears after the stabbing and—it’s later discovered—wasn’t properly enrolled in the public high school. The incident sends shock waves through the community and reveals jarring truths about the lengths to which families will go to protect themselves. Alternating between multiple perspectives, Our Best Intentions is a gripping story about a father and daughter re-examining their familial bonds and place in the community that explores how easily friendships, careers, communities, and individual lives can unravel when the toxicity of privilege and racial bias are exposed.

The Dog of the North: A Novel by Elizabeth Mckenzie

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604263 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dog of the North: A Novel Author: Elizabeth Mckenzie Narrator: Katherine Littrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction * “I’m in love with a grieving misfit driving around with a donkey-shaped piñata in an old van held together by duct tape…the great miracle of McKenzie’s writing… is how she manages to transform misery into gentle humor…darkly hilarious.” —The Washington Post “An addictive read with an ultimately hopeful core that recalls Haruki Murakami, Sayaka Murata, Richard Brautigan, and Miranda July” – Sanjena Sathian, author of Gold Diggers Penny Rush has problems. Her marriage is over; she’s quit her job. Her mother and stepfather went missing in the Australian outback five years ago; her mentally unbalanced father provokes her; her grandmother Dr. Pincer keeps experiments in the refrigerator and something worse in the woodshed. But Penny is a virtuoso at what’s possible when all else fails. Elizabeth McKenzie, the National Book Award–nominated author of The Portable Veblen, follows Penny on her quest for a fresh start. There will be a road trip in the Dog of the North, an old van with gingham curtains, a piñata, and stiff brakes. There will be injury and peril. There will be a dog named Kweecoats and two brothers who may share a toupee. There will be questions: Why is a detective investigating her grandmother. What is “the Scintillator”? And can Penny recognize a good thing when it finally comes her way? This slyly humorous, thoroughly winsome novel finds the purpose in life’s curveballs, insisting that even when we are painfully warped by those we love most, we can be brought closer to our truest selves.

The Dance Tree: A Novel by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601126 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dance Tree: A Novel Author: Kiran Millwood Hargrave Narrator: Ruta Gedmintas Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ''If some prose sings, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s truly dances. Although set in the early sixteenth century, The Dance Tree addresses issues of the utmost importance today—the subjection of women, class inequality, the dangers of religious fundamentalism. Ultimately, however, the book’s wisdom, compassion, and beauty transcend historical boundaries: this is a timeless novel.''—Hernan Diaz, author of In the Distance and Trust “An intriguing, haunting novel pulsing with raw, beautiful emotion. Kiran Millwood-Hargrave effortlessly intertwines the stories of women tenderly and sympathetically, creating a novel in which female courage and resilience shines brightly against a brilliantly evoked backdrop of claustrophobic horror.”—Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a spellbinding tale of fear, transformation, courage, and love in sixteenth-century France. Strasbourg, 1518. In the midst of a blisteringly hot summer, a lone woman begins to dance in the city square. She dances for days without pause or rest, and when hundreds of other women join her, the men running the city declare a state of emergency and hire musicians to play the Devil out of the mob. Outside the city, pregnant Lisbet lives with her husband and mother-in-law, tending the bees that are the family’s livelihood. Though Lisbet is removed from the frenzy of the dancing plague afflicting the city’s women, her own quiet life is upended by the arrival of her sister-in-law. Nethe has been away for seven years, serving a penance in the mountains for a crime no one will name. It is a secret Lisbet is determined to uncover. As the city buckles under the beat of a thousand feet, Lisbet becomes caught in a dangerous web of deceit and clandestine passion. Like the women of Strasbourg, she too, is dancing to a dangerous tune. . . . Set in an era of superstition, hysteria, and extraordinary change, and inspired by true events, The Dance Tree is an impassioned story of family secrets, forbidden love, and women pushed to the edge.

The Love Wager by Lynn Painter

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604266 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love Wager Author: Lynn Painter Narrator: Kristen Dimercurio, Zachary Webber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 1 minute Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4.8 of Total 5 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Two people make a wager on who can find love first, not realizing what they should be betting on is each other, in this new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Wrong Number. Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it’s time to become a full-on adult. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs onto the dating app that she has determined will find her new love, she sees none other than Jack, the guy whose room she snuck out of. After agreeing they are absolutely not interested in each other, Jack and Hallie realize they’re each other’s perfect wing-person in their searches for The One. They text each other about their dates, often scheduling them at the same restaurant so that if things don’t go well, the two of them can get tacos afterward. Spoiler: they get a lot of tacos together. Discouraged by the lack of prospects, Jack and Hallie make a wager to see who can find true love first, but when they agree to be fake dates for a weekend wedding, all bets are off. As they pretend to be a couple, lines become blurred and they both struggle to remember why the other was a bad idea to begin with.

Take What You Need: A Novel by Idra Novey

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604264 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Take What You Need: A Novel Author: Idra Novey Narrator: Idra Novey, Christina Delaine Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, NPR, The Guardian Author Pick, and Today Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize “A heart-rending book, but also a beautiful celebration of ‘the glorious pleasure of erecting something new,’ be it a work of art or a human connection.”—The Wall Street Journal From “one of the finest and bravest novelists at work today,” (Vulture) award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of “astonishing and singular” honesty (Rumaan Alam) with two determined, unforgettable female voices. Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Appalachia, Take What You Need traces the parallel lives of Jean and her beloved but estranged stepdaughter, Leah, who’s sought a clean break from her rural childhood. In Leah’s urban life with her young family, she’s revealed little about Jean, how much she misses her stepmother’s hard-won insights and joyful lack of inhibition. But with Jean’s death, Leah must return to sort through what’s been left behind. What Leah discovers is staggering: Jean has filled her ramshackle house with giant sculptures she’s welded from scraps of the area’s industrial history. There’s also a young man now living in the house who played an unknown role in Jean’s last years and in her art. With great verve and humor, Idra Novey zeros in on the joys and difficulty of family, the ease with which we let distance mute conflict, and the power we can draw from creative pursuits. Take What You Need explores the continuing mystery of the people we love most with passionate and resonance, this novel illuminating can be built from what others have discarded—art, unexpected friendship, a new contentment of self. This is Idra Novey at her very best.

When in Rome: A Novel by Liam Callanan

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604262 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When in Rome: A Novel Author: Liam Callanan Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 22 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From nationally bestselling, award-winning author Liam Callanan, the story of an opportunity to start over at midlife, a chance to save a struggling convent in the Eternal City, and the dramatic re-emergence of an old flame . . . Claire, fifty-two, desperately desires a fresh start. After decades as a real estate broker specializing in old religious properties, she’s looking for something new. And then, on the eve of her thirtieth college reunion, a call comes from Rome. It’s from a struggling convent facing a precipitous end, and Claire isn’t so sure she can help out. But once in Rome, she finds a group of funny, fearless nuns in a gorgeous, if crumbling, villa, a city whose colors deepen as she spends miles running its streets, and above all, a chance to reflect. It leads her unexpectedly to wonder: maybe she should stay in Rome. In the convent. Forever. Her college roommate and business partner has thoughts. So does Claire’s daughter. And so does Marcus, a once-buzzy actor, who’s still as devastatingly handsome as he was when he first fell for Claire at eighteen. He’s come and gone from Claire’s life since college but reappears in Rome just as she’s about to decide what’s next. A look at faith, in oneself as much as a higher power, and love, romantic and familial, lost and found, this is the thoroughly charming story of one woman who sets out to rewrite her past and future, only to be surprised by the plot twists life takes . . . when in Rome.

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604268 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers Author: Jesse Q. Sutanto Narrator: Eunice Wong Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 41 minutes Release date: March 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 33 Ratings of Narrator: 4.93 of Total 15 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A USA Today bestseller Edgar Award Winner for Best Original Paperback Audie Award Winner for Mystery Libby Award Winner for Best Mystery A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties. Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady—ah, lady of a certain age—who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing—a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. In his outstretched hand, a flash drive. Vera doesn’t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of . . . swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive; all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer. What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police?

Lessons at the School by the Sea: The Third School by the Sea Novel by Jenny Colgan

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons at the School by the Sea: The Third School by the Sea Novel Series: #3 of School by the Sea Author: Jenny Colgan Narrator: Alex Tregear Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 6 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The summer holiday brings new passion and new challenges in the enchanting third book of Jenny Colgan’s utterly delightful School by the Sea series, set at a girls’ boarding school in Cornwall. School is out, following a bit of saucy scandal at Downey House... Beloved high school teacher Maggie Adair had been comfortably, if somewhat ambivalently, engaged to her dependable long-distance boyfriend Stan. But in the heat of summer, Maggie’s attraction to her colleague David McDonald has caught fire. Now both are facing an uncertain future as they try to figure out how to stay committed to their careers—and each other. Meanwhile, the girls of Downey House—mercurial Fliss, glamorous Alice, and shy, hard-working Simone—have had long summers at home, which weren’t quite the respite they had been hoping for. But the new school year is thankfully here, and it will bring new pupils and lots of fresh challenges for students and teachers alike at the school by the sea.

Now You See Us: A Novel by Balli Kaur Jaswal

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600970 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Now You See Us: A Novel Author: Balli Kaur Jaswal Narrator: Angela Lin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help! From Reese’s Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes a wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own. “Tender and heartfelt, Now You See us also manages to be laugh-out-loud funny. An uplifting story of courage and hope that will keep you enthralled until the very last page.”—Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee ''A truly irresistible read. Intricately plotted, propulsive, and provocative, NOW YOU SEE US showcases an author at the peak of her talents.''--Kirstin Chen, New York Times bestselling author of Counterfeit Corazon, Donita, and Angel are Filipina domestic workers—part of the wave of women sent to Singapore to be cleaners, maids, and caregivers. Corazon: A veteran domestic worker, Cora had retired back to the Philippines for good, but she has returned to Singapore under mysterious circumstances. Now she’s keeping a secret from her wealthy employer, who is planning an extravagant wedding for her socialite daughter. Donita: Barely out of her teens, this is Donita’s first time in Singapore, and she’s had the bad luck to be hired by the notoriously fussy Mrs. Fann. Brazen and exuberant, Donita’s thrown herself into a love affair with an Indian migrant worker. Angel: Working as an in-home caregiver for an elderly employer, Angel is feeling blue after a recent breakup with the woman she loves. She’s alarmed when her employer’s son suddenly brings in a new nurse who may be a valuable ally...or meant to replace her. Then an explosive news story shatters Singapore’s famous tranquility—and sends a chill down the spine of every domestic worker. Flordeliza Martinez, a Filipina maid, has been arrested for murdering her female employer. The three women don’t know the accused well, but she could be any of them; every worker knows stories of women who were scapegoated or even executed for crimes they didn’t commit. Shocked into action, Donita, Corazon, and Angel will use their considerable moxie and insight to piece together the mystery of what really happened on the day Flordeliza’s employer was murdered. After all, no one knows the secrets of Singapore’s families like the women who work in their homes…

The Portrait of a Duchess by Scarlett Peckham

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600949 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Portrait of a Duchess Series: #2 of Society of Sirens Author: Scarlett Peckham Narrator: Simone Mcintyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 31 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The scandalous women of the SOCIETY OF SIRENS are back with an explosive secret…their ranks include a duchess in disguise Once upon a time she married in secret… An activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom. But when an inheritance gives her the chance to fund the cause of women’s rights—on the condition she must wed—she is forced to reveal a secret: she’s already married. To a man she hasn’t seen for twenty years. Oh…and her husband is a duke. A horse breeder with a clandestine taste for revolution, Rafe Goodwood never expected to become a duke. But now that the title is his, he is plotting to shock the ruling class with ambitions of reform—and reveal the infamous Cornelia is his duchess. That just presents one problem: he must not fall in love with her—again. Now they must resist the temptation to rekindle an affair... Although determined not to sacrifice her principles for passion, Cornelia is still drawn to the man whose very being threatens her independence. Hurt too many times, Rafe can’t risk love again—especially with the woman who once shattered his heart. But a conspiracy to upend the inequalities of the aristocracy bring Cornelia and Rafe closer, forcing them to finally decide what—and who—they hold dear.

The Lost English Girl by Julia Kelly

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601067 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lost English Girl Author: Julia Kelly Narrator: Danielle Cohen, Raphael Corkhill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Combining “fast-paced historical fiction with a hint of suspense” (Booklist), this epic saga from Julia Kelly explores love, motherhood, and betrayal set against World War II. Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what’s expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother’s scrutiny. But when Joshua makes a life-changing choice on their wedding day, Viv is forced once again into the arms of her disapproving family. Five years later and on the eve of World War II, Viv is faced with the impossible choice to evacuate her young daughter, Maggie, to the countryside. In New York City, Joshua gives up his failing musical career to serve in the Royal Air Force and try to piece together his feelings about the family he left behind. However, tragedy strikes when Viv learns that the countryside safe haven she sent her daughter to wasn’t immune from the horrors of war. It is only years later, with Joshua’s help, that Viv learns the secrets of their shared past and what it will take to put a family back together again. Telling the harrowing story of England’s many evacuated children, Kelly’s The Lost English Girl “will hook readers from the first page” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Maybe Next Time: A Novel by Cesca Major

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600975 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe Next Time: A Novel Author: Cesca Major Narrator: Clare Corbett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 38 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK A heartwarming and emotionally poignant time-loop novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate. It is an ordinary Monday and harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the door as usual. Preoccupied with work and her ever growing to-do list, she fails to notice her lovely husband Dan seems bereft, her son can barely meet her eye, and her daughter won’t go near her. Even the dog seems sad. She is far too busy, buried deep in her phone; social media alerts pinging; clients messaging with “emergencies”; keeping track of a dozen WhatsApp groups about the kids’ sports, school, playdates, all of it. Her whole day is frantic—what else is new—and as she rushes back through the door for dinner, Dan is still upset. They fight, and he walks out, desolate, dragging their poor dog around the block. Just as she realizes it is their anniversary and she has forgotten, again, she hears the screech of brakes. Dan is dead. The next day Emma wakes up… and Dan is alive. And it’s Monday again. And again. And again. Emma tries desperately to change the course of fate by doing different things each time she wakes up: leaving WhatsApp, telling her boss where to get off, writing to Dan, listening to her kids, reaching out to forgotten friends, getting drunk and buying out Prada. But will Emma have the chance to find herself again, remember what she likes about her job, reconnect with her children, love her husband? Will this be enough to change the fate they seem destined for? A moving “What if” story of what it is to be a woman in the modern world—never feeling we’re getting it quite right—about learning to slow down and appreciate life that is sure to resonate with women’s fiction readers.

Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) by Jenny Jackson

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604248 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pineapple Street: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) Author: Jenny Jackson Narrator: Marin Ireland Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: March 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.89 of Total 84 Ratings of Narrator: 4.38 of Total 37 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick Chosen as a best book of the year by The New York Times | Time | NPR | USA Today | Elle | Harper’s Bazaar | Town & Country | Vogue | BBC | POPSUGAR | Goodreads | theSkimm “The season’s first beach read, a delicious romp of a debut featuring family crises galore.”— The New York Times “A delicious new Gilded Age family drama… a guilty pleasure that also feels like a sociological text.” —Vogue A deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family, and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider; and Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t have, and must decide what kind of person she wants to be. Rife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters, Pineapple Street is a smart, escapist novel that sparkles with wit. Full of recognizable, loveable—if fallible—characters, it’s about the peculiar unknowability of someone else’s family, the miles between the haves and have-nots, and the insanity of first love—all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight.

The Sharing Economy by Sophie Berrebi

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sharing Economy Author: Sophie Berrebi Narrator: Julie Teal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 2, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Three Women meets Crudo: a frank and fresh literary debut about the dawn of dating apps in Amsterdam. ‘Sexual infidelity is unavoidable, for whatever reasons, in long monogamous relationships, so why not give the other sexual freedom, as a gesture of love, of communication maybe?’ Amsterdam in 2014 is an historic city situated at the heart of the future. One of the biggest hubs for internet traffic in the world, it has become a favourite testing-ground for the new internet platforms that form the vanguard of what has been coined ‘the sharing economy’. Gabrielle Bloom is a woman in her mid-40s, working as an exhibition curator. She is happily married to Anton and loves her son Victor. They have a circle of sophisticated friends and enjoy the life of two successful and respectable professionals living in one of the world’s most beautiful and culturally rich cities. There is, though, one crucial difference between their relationship and those of their friends. Gabrielle and Anton enjoy an open marriage. When Gabrielle is introduced, during a visit to a feminist art collective, to a new dating app that has recently launched in the city, fresh horizons open up. With an almost unlimited number of potential partners suddenly available to her, she quickly develops a taste for the thrill of a brief sexual encounter. Moving from one assignation to the next, things at first seem exhilarating and uncomplicated. But the human heart has not evolved at the same rate as the silicon chip and when attachments start to form things rapidly become less simple. Set during one intense and transformative year, and suffused with art, sex and philosophy, The Sharing Economy is at once a uniquely radical reappraisal of the way we view relationships and a tender and moving depiction of the many ways in which the human heart is capable of love.

Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fire Rush Author: Jacqueline Crooks Narrator: Leonie Elliott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Release date: March 2, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. London, 1978. Yamaye, a woman in her 20s unsure of who she is, but with dreams of being a DJ and MC. Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the industrial town on the outskirts of London where she was born and raised. Everything changes when she falls deeply in love with Moose: he offers the chance of freedom and change. When their relationship is cut brutally short, Yamaye goes on a dramatic journey of transformation that takes her first to Bristol, where she gets caught up in a criminal gang, and then to Jamaica, where past and present collide with devastating consequences. © Jacqueline Crooks 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

If I Let You Go: The Heartbreaking, Shocking Richard and Judy Book Club Pick by Charlotte Levin

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If I Let You Go: The Heartbreaking, Shocking Richard and Judy Book Club Pick Author: Charlotte Levin Narrator: Maxine Peake Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 24 minutes Release date: March 2, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A Richard and Judy Book Club pick, If I Let You Go is a darkly comic tale of searing loss, coercive control and the consequences of taking the wrong path. 'Simultaneously tragic and uplifting . . . Charlotte Levin is SUCH a clever writer' - Ruth Jones, author of Love Untold Every morning, Janet Brown goes to work cleaning offices. It calms her – cleanliness, neatness. All the things she’s unable to do with her soul can be achieved with a damp cloth and a splash of bleach. However the guilt she still carries, about a devastating loss that happened eleven years ago, cannot be erased. When Janet finds herself involved in a train crash, she recognizes her chance to do what she couldn’t all those years ago. And she makes a decision. As news spreads of Janet’s actions, her story inspires everyone around her and, for the first time, her life has purpose. Her future is filled with hope. But Janet's story isn't quite what it seems. And, as events spiral out of control, she soon discovers that coming clean isn't an option. Because if Janet washes away the lies, what long-buried truths will she finally have to face? If I Let You Go by Charlotte Levin is a deeply moving and compelling portrayal of a woman coming to terms with loss.

The Woman Who Climbed Trees: A Novel by Smriti Ravindra

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601131 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Woman Who Climbed Trees: A Novel Author: Smriti Ravindra Narrator: Deepa Samuel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 10 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman’s coming-of-age... This is electrifying.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review “Is this a ghost story?” Meena asked the barber’s wife who told the tale. “I don’t want to hear scary stories one night before I marry.” “Not all ghost stories are scary,” said the barber’s wife, laughing at Meena. “Besides, we have a long time before us, and stories are little baskets to carry time away in.” Exquisitely written, a blend of ghost stories, myths, and song, The Woman Who Climbed Trees is a haunting, deeply felt multi-generational story that illuminates the transitional nature of women’s lives and the feeling of loss they experience, as they give up one home and family to become part of another. When she marries a man from Nepal, Meena must leave behind her family and home in India and forge a new identity in a strange place. The Woman Who Climbed Trees follows her, the women who surround her, and the daughter she eventually raises, as they carefully navigate the uncertain tides of their diasporic lives.

Stars in an Italian Sky by Jill Santopolo

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601869 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stars in an Italian Sky Author: Jill Santopolo Narrator: Gabrielle De Cuir Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost comes a sweeping story of two star-crossed lovers in post-World War II Italy, and a blossoming relationship generations later that will reveal a long-buried family secret. Genoa, Italy, 1946. Vincenzo and Giovanna fall in love at twenty-one the moment they set eyes on each other. The son of a count and the daughter of a tailor, they belong to opposing worlds. Despite this, the undeniable spark between them quickly burns into a deep and passionate relationship spent exploring each other’s minds, bodies and their city, as well as Vincenzo’s family’s sprawling vineyard, Villa Della Rosa—until shifts in political power force them each to choose a side and commit what the other believes is a betrayal, shattering the bright future they dreamed of together. New York, 2017. Cassandra and Luca are in love. Although neither quite fits with the other's family, Cass and Luca have always felt like a perfect match for each other. But when Luca, an artist, convinces his grandfather and Cass’s grandmother to pose for a painting, past and present collide and reveal a secret that changes everything.

The Queen of Dirt Island: A Novel by Donal Ryan

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Queen of Dirt Island: A Novel Author: Donal Ryan Narrator: Emma Lowe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: February 28, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “From its opening pages, this book exerts a quiet, propulsive hold over its reader. The three generations of Aylward women will break your heart and then put it back together again.” –Maggie O'Farrell 'This is a generous mosaic of a novel about the staying power of love and pride and history and family.' –Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon and Let The Great World Spin From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn’t always think it. You’d have to know them to know that—in spite of what the neighbors might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes—their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world. Their story begins at an end and ends at a beginning. It involves wives and widows, gunrunners and gougers, sinners and saints. It’s a story of terrible betrayals and fierce loyalties, of isolation and togetherness, of transgression, forgiveness, desire, and love. Of all the things family can be and all the things it sometimes isn’t. The Queen of Dirt Island is an uplifting celebration of fierce, loyal love and the powerful stories that bind generations together.

The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599878 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Wartime Library Author: Kate Thompson Narrator: Sarah Durham Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: An uplifting and inspiring novel based on the true story of a librarian who created an underground shelter during World War II, perfect for readers of The Paris Library or The Last Bookshop in London. London, 1944: Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While war ravages the city above her, Clara has risked everything she holds dear to turn the Bethnal Green tube station into the country’s only underground library. Down here, a secret community thrives with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a café, and a theater—offering shelter, solace, and escape from the bombs that fall upon their city. Along with her glamorous best friend and assistant Ruby Munroe, Clara ensures the library is the beating heart of life underground. But as the war drags on, the women's determination to remain strong in the face of adversity is tested to the limits when it may come at the price of keeping those closest to them alive.

The Porcelain Moon: A Novel of France, the Great War, and Forbidden Love by Janie Chang

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595316 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Porcelain Moon: A Novel of France, the Great War, and Forbidden Love Author: Janie Chang Narrator: Katharine Chin, Saskia Maarleveld, James Chen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 1 minute Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the critically acclaimed author of The Library of Legends comes a vividly rendered novel set in WWI France about two young women—one Chinese, one French—whose lives intersect with unexpected, potentially dangerous consequences. “East meets West in World War I France. In The Porcelain Moon, Janie Chang exhibits her signature trademarks—lyrical prose, deftly drawn characters, and skillful excavation of little-known history—to give us a rare jewel in a sea of wartime fiction!” — Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs away from her uncle’s home in Paris to evade a marriage being arranged for her in Shanghai. To prevent the union, she needs the help of her cousin Theo, who is working as a translator for the Chinese Labour Corps in the French countryside. In the town of Noyelles-sur-Mer, Camille Roussel is planning her escape from an abusive marriage, and to end a love affair that can no longer continue. When Camille offers Pauline a room for her stay, the two women become friends. But it’s not long before Pauline uncovers a perilous secret that Camille has been hiding from her. As their dangerous situation escalates, the two women are forced to make a terrible decision that will bind them together for the rest of their lives. Set against the little-known history of the 140,000 Chinese workers brought to Europe as non-combatant labor during WWI, The Porcelain Moon is a tale of forbidden love, identity and belonging, and what we are willing to risk for freedom. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

The Counterfeit Scoundrel: A Novel by Lorraine Heath

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597927 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Counterfeit Scoundrel: A Novel Series: #1 of The Chessmen: Masters of Seduction Author: Lorraine Heath Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath begins a compelling new spin-off series, The Chessmen: Masters of Seduction, centering around three heroes—Knight, Bishop, and Rook—who play to win at any cost. Born into an aristocratic family, yearning for a life beyond Society’s strictures, Marguerite “Daisy” Townsend is an enterprising sleuth. Hired to obtain proof of a wife’s infidelity, she secures a position in the household of the woman’s lover, never expecting to be lured into the seductive blackguard’s arms herself. Devilishly handsome, David Blackwood, known widely as Bishop, quickly realizes the enticing maid is interested in far more than dusting. She aims to uncover his sins. Although tempted by the dangerous beauty, he can’t risk her learning the truth: his affairs are chaste. As a boy who witnessed his mother’s abusive relationship, Bishop now helps desperate wives escape unhappy marriages. Yet when he is accused of murdering the husband of a “paramour,” he is forced to seek Daisy’s assistance in proving his innocence. As their perilous search draws them into a web of deceits, they can no longer deny their simmering desire. Once secrets are revealed, will Daisy’s counterfeit scoundrel give up the scandalous games he plays and surrender his heart into her keeping?

The Shadow of Perseus: A Novel by Claire Heywood

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604238 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Shadow of Perseus: A Novel Author: Claire Heywood Narrator: Olivia Darnley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Nationally bestselling author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version—his mother, Danae; his trophy, Medusa; and his wife, Andromeda—but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all. Danae: Banished from her homeland thanks to a prophecy foretelling that her unborn child will one day cause the death of her father, the king of Argos, Danae finds herself stranded, pregnant, and alone in a remote fishing village. It’s a harsh new world for a young woman who grew up as a coddled princess, and forging a new life for herself and for her young son Perseus will be the hardest thing she’s ever done. Medusa: As a member of a reclusive band of women who live deep in the woods, known as the Gorgons, Medusa has eschewed all contact with the outside world. That is, until the day she finds an injured boy named Perseus in the forest. Andromeda: When a harsh sandstorm threatens to destroy her nomadic desert tribe’s way of life, Andromeda knows that a sacrifice will be required to appease the gods and end the storm. But when a forceful young Perseus interferes, Andromeda’s life is set on an entirely new path. As Perseus becomes increasingly obsessed with the promise of his own destiny, his heroic journey casts a shadow of violence and destruction across all three women’s lives. But even as he tries to silence them, the women may find that reclaiming their voices is their only hope for lifting themselves into a better future.

The Writing Retreat: A Novel by Julia Bartz

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Writing Retreat: A Novel Author: Julia Bartz Narrator: Gail Shalan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this instant New York Times bestselling and “utterly addictive thriller” (Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author), a young author is invited to an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descends into a pulse-pounding nightmare. Alex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo. Even the knowledge that Wren, her former best friend and current rival, is attending doesn’t dampen her excitement. But when the attendees arrive, Roza drops a bombshell—they must all complete an entire novel from scratch during the next month, and the author of the best one will receive a life-changing seven-figure publishing deal. Determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, Alex buckles down and tries to ignore the strange happenings at the estate, including Roza’s erratic behavior, Wren’s cruel mind games, and the alleged haunting of the mansion itself. But when one of the writers vanishes during a snowstorm, Alex realizes that something very sinister is afoot. With the clock running out, she must discover the truth—or suffer the same fate. A claustrophobic and “audacious psychological thriller debut” (Publishers Weekly), The Writing Retreat expertly explores the dark side of female relationships, fame, and the desire to have our stories told.

Best Served Hot by Amanda Elliot

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601109 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Best Served Hot Author: Amanda Elliot Narrator: Anna Caputo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Two restaurant critics learn their opposing tastes might make for a five-star relationship in the next foodie romantic comedy from the author of Sadie on a Plate. By day, Julie Zimmerman works as an executive assistant. After hours, she’s @JulieZeeEatsNYC, a social media restaurant reviewer with over fifty thousand followers. As much as she loves her self-employed side gig, what Julie really wants is to be a critic at a major newspaper, like the New York Scroll. The only thing worse than the Scroll’s rejection of her application is the fact that smarmy, social-media-averse society boy Bennett Richard Macalester Wright snagged her dream job. While at the Central Park Food Festival, Julie confronts the annoyingly handsome Bennett about his outdated opinions on social media and posts the resulting video footage. Julie's follower count soars—and so does the Scroll’s. Julie and Bennett grudgingly agree to partner up for a few reviews to further their buzz. Online buzz, obviously. Over tapas, burgers, and more, Julie and Bennett connect over their shared love of food. But when the competitive fire between them turns extra spicy, they'll have to decide how much heat their relationship can take.

When the Moon Turns Blue: A Novel by Pamela Terry

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604303 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When the Moon Turns Blue: A Novel Author: Pamela Terry Narrator: Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: One woman fights to hold on to her friends, her family, and all that she holds dear as a brewing conflict divides her small-town Georgia community in this powerful novel from the author of The Sweet Taste of Muscadines. “This book is a treasure. Pamela Terry writes with a poet’s ear and a wicked sense of comic timing.”—Nationally bestselling author Barbara O’Neal On the morning after Harry Cline’s funeral, a rare ice storm hits the town of Wesleyan, Georgia. The community wakes up to find its controversial statue of Confederate general Henry Benning destroyed—and not by the weather. Half the town had wanted to remove the statue; the other half had wanted to preserve it. Now that the matter has been taken out of their hands, the town’s long-simmering tensions are laid bare. Without Harry beside her, Marietta is left to question many of her preconceived ideas about her friends and family. Her childhood friend, Butter, has come to her aid in ways Marietta never expected or asked for. Her sister-in-law, Glinda, is behaving completely out of character, and her brother, Macon, the top defense attorney in the Southeast, is determined to find those responsible for the damage to the statue and protect the legacy of Old Man Griffin, the owner of the park where it once stood. Marietta longs to salvage these connections, but the world is changing and the divides can no longer be ignored. With a cast of compassionate, relatable characters, When the Moon Turns Blue is a poignant and timely novel about family, friendship, and what can happen when we discover that we don’t particularly like the people we love.

I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel by Rebecca Makkai

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604237 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel Author: Rebecca Makkai Narrator: Jd Jackson, Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 4 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 62 Ratings of Narrator: 4.69 of Total 26 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, People, USA Today, NPR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, The Boston Globe, CrimeReads and more “A twisty, immersive whodunit perfect for fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.” —People 'Spellbinding.' —The New York Times Book Review '[An] irresistible literary page-turner.' —The Boston Globe The riveting new novel — 'part true-crime page-turner, part campus coming-of-age' (San Francisco Chronicle) — from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie. But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent ﬂaws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn’t as much of an outsider at Granby as she’d thought—if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case. In I Have Some Questions for You, award-winning author Rebecca Makkai has crafted her most irresistible novel yet: a stirring investigation into collective memory and a deeply felt examination of one woman’s reckoning with her past, with a transﬁxing mystery at its heart. Timely, hypnotic, and populated with a cast of unforgettable characters, I Have Some Questions for You is at once a compulsive page-turner and a literary triumph.

Must Love Books by Shauna Robinson

Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Must Love Books Author: Shauna Robinson Narrator: Tyra Kennedy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 13 minutes Release date: February 16, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ‘A heartfelt and exciting debut . . . a wise and honest story of how it feels to be a young woman in search of yourself’ Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Meet Nora Hughes – the overworked, underpaid, last bookish assistant standing. At least for now. When Nora landed an editorial assistant role at Parsons Press she thought it would be The Dream Job. But after five years of admin and taking lunch orders, Nora has come to the conclusion: Dream Jobs do not exist. With her life spiralling and unable to afford her rent, Nora does the only thing she can think of and starts freelancing for a rival publisher. But when Andrew Santos, a bestselling author (who also happens to be quite attractive), is thrown into Nora’s life, she must decide where her loyalties lie, and whether she’s ready to choose herself and her future over her job… Your next book club read touching on mental health, happiness and the ups and downs of being a young woman trying to figure it all out. Praise for Must Love Books: ‘It was really nice to be able to identify with the character’ NetGalley Reviewer ‘A good storyline and entertaining’ NetGalley Reviewer ‘An enjoyable read’ NetGalley Reviewer ‘An easy and relatable read’ NetGalley Reviewer ‘A book for book lovers . . . it’s impossible not to root for Nora! Jesse Q. Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties ‘It’s refreshing to read a book about publishing with a half-Black heroine who’s wryly aware of the way she stands out in a very White field’ Kirkus Reviews ‘With emotional honesty and a surprising wit that I found addictive, Robinson’s debut is everything a book-about-books fan wants’ Kelly Harms, bestselling author of The Overdue Life of Amy Byler ‘Get comfy because you won’t be able to put this book down’ Sajni Patel, award-winning author of The Trouble with Hating You *An Amazon Editors’ pick in Best Romance*

The Hayley Aldridge Is Still Here: A Novel by Elissa R. Sloan

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593030 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hayley Aldridge Is Still Here: A Novel Author: Elissa R. Sloan Narrator: Jacob Patalive, Caitlin Kelly Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes comes yet another sharp, page-turning novel about a forgotten child star and former Hollywood “It” Girl who is now fighting back against the conservatorship that has controlled her life for the past decade. It’s been years since anyone really thought about Hayley Aldridge. A child star turned television royalty, Hayley spent years in Hollywood partying and being plastered across the front page of all the tabloids before quietly disappearing after a whirlwind marriage and divorce and very public breakdown. Once the tabloids wrung every last drop out of the drama, they moved on to the next It Girl. But Hayley is still here. For over a decade, she’s been trapped in a conservatorship and had every aspect of her life controlled by her parents. She goes nowhere, does nothing without their approval, which is rarely granted. Her visits with her kids are monitored, her fan mail is censored, and she’s a prisoner in her own home. She thought things might change once she was well enough to work, but the restrictions got even tighter as she continued to bring money in—the only thing her parents ever really cared about. Hayley is beginning to realize that this nightmare is her actual life. And she’s sick of it. When the hashtag #helphayley starts to emerge on social media, and the public starts thinking critically about what happened to her all those years ago, there’s finally some momentum on her side. With an upcoming court date to review the status of the conservatorship, Hayley might finally have a chance to break free. But how can she go up against her parents when they’re aware of her every move? It’s time for Hayley Aldridge to remind the world who she is, this time on her own terms.

Black Wolf: A Novel by Kathleen Kent

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599876 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Wolf: A Novel Author: Kathleen Kent Narrator: Eva Kaminsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A dazzling spy thriller about a female CIA agent whose extraordinary facial recognition powers lead her into the dangerous heart of the Soviet Union—and the path of a killer who shouldn’t exist. It is 1990 when Melvina Donleavy arrives in Soviet Belarus on her first undercover mission with the CIA, alongside three fellow agents—none of whom know she is playing two roles. To the prying eyes of the KGB, she is merely a secretary; to her CIA minders, she is the only one who can stop the flow of nuclear weapons from the crumbling Soviet Union into the Middle East. For Mel has a secret; she is a “super recognizer,” someone who never forgets a face. But no training could prepare her for the reality of life undercover, and for the streets of Minsk, where women have been disappearing. Soviet law enforcement is firm: murder is a capitalist disease. But could a serial killer be at work? Especially if he knew no one was watching? As Mel searches for answers, she catches the eye of an entirely different kind of threat: the elusive and petrifying “Black Wolf,” head of the KGB. Filled with insider details from the author’s own time working under the direction of the U.S. Department of Defense, Black Wolf is a riveting new spy thriller from an Edgar-nominated crime writer, and a biting exploration of the divide between two nations, two masterminds, and two roles played by a woman pushed to her breaking point, where she’ll learn that you can only ever trust one person: yourself.

Ruby Spencer's Whisky Year by Rochelle Bilow

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604228 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ruby Spencer's Whisky Year Author: Rochelle Bilow Narrator: Nikki Massoud Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 52 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: One of... Buzzfeed's Romance Books To Look Out For In 2023 Paste Magazine's Most Anticipated Contemporary Romance Books of 2023 When a thirty-something American food writer moves to a Scottish village for one year to fulfill her dream of writing a cookbook she finds more than inspiration—she meets a handsome Scotsman she can’t resist. Ruby Spencer is spending one year living in a small cottage in a tiny town in the Scottish Highlands for three reasons: to write a bestselling cookbook, to drink a barrelful of whisky, and to figure out what comes next. It’s hard to know what to expect after an impulse decision based on a map of Scotland in her Manhattan apartment—but she knows it’s high time she had an adventure. The moment she sets foot in Thistlecross, the verdant scenery, cozy cottages, and struggling local pub steal her heart. Between designing pop-up suppers and conversing with the colorful locals, Ruby starts to see a future that stretches beyond her year of adventure. It doesn’t hurt that Brochan, the ruggedly handsome local handyman, keeps coming around to repair things at her cottage. Though Ruby swore off men, she can’t help fantasizing what a roll in the barley might be like with the bearded Scot. As Ruby grows closer to Brochan and the tightly held traditions of the charming village, she discovers secret plans to turn her beloved pub into an American chain restaurant. Faced with an impossible choice, Ruby must decide between love, loyalty, and the Highlands way of life.

Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stone Cold Fox Author: Rachel Koller Croft Narrator: Carlotta Brentan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A perfectly wicked debut thriller about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mother, wants to leave her dark past behind and marry the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families. *now including a special bonus chapter! Like any enterprising woman, Bea knows what she’s worth and is determined to get all she deserves—it just so happens that what she deserves is to marry rich. Filthy rich. After years of forced instruction by her mother in the art of swindling men, a now-solo Bea wants nothing more than to close and lock the door on their sordid partnership so she can disappear safely into old-money domesticity, sealing the final phase of her escape. When Bea chooses her ultimate target in the fully loaded, thoroughly dull and blue-blooded Collin Case, she’s ready to deploy all of her tricks one last time. The challenge isn’t getting the ring, but rather the approval of Collin’s family and everyone else in their 1 percent tax bracket, particularly his childhood best friend, Gale Wallace-Leicester. Going toe-to-toe with Gale isn’t a threat to an expert like Bea, but what begins as an amusing cat-and-mouse game quickly develops into a dangerous pursuit of the grisly truth. Finding herself at a literal life-and-death crossroads with everything on the line, Bea must finally decide who she really wants to be. Like mother, like daughter?

Isha, Unscripted by Sajni Patel

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604229 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Isha, Unscripted Author: Sajni Patel Narrator: Mehr Dudeja Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Unwilling to yield to familial expectations, an aspiring screenwriter attempts to pursue her dreams during an unforgettable night of chaos in this hilarious and heartfelt novel by Sajni Patel. Isha Patel is the black sheep of the family. She doesn’t have a “prestigious” degree or a “real” career, and her parents never fail to remind her. But that’s okay because she commiserates with her cousin, best friend, and fellow outcast, Rohan. When Isha has a breakthrough getting her script in front of producers, it doesn’t go according to plan. Instead of letting her dreams fall through the cracks, Rohan convinces her to snag a pitch session with an Austinite high-profile celeb: the one and only Matthew McConaughey, who also happened to be her professor at the University of Texas years ago—he has to remember her, right? Chasing Matthew McConaughey isn’t easy. Isha needs a drink or two to muster up courage, and she gets a little help from the cutest bartender she’s ever encountered. But when the search for the esteemed actor turns into a night of hijinks and unexpected—albeit fun—chaos, everything falls apart. Isha’s dreams seem farther than ever, but she soon realizes who she really needs to face and that her future may just be alright, alright, alright.

The Baker's Man by Jennifer Moorman

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604395 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Baker's Man Author: Jennifer Moorman Narrator: Kathleen Mcinerney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'This scrumptious tale has all the magical ingredients: best friend banter, small-town drama, and the mysterious arrival of the perfect man!' —Amy E. Reichert, author of Once Upon a December In the Southern town of Mystic Water, magic is always in the wind—and in the ovens Anna O'Brien inherited several gifts from her late Grandma Bea: culinary superpowers, a bakery in a charming Southern town, and a mysterious box with a note: Open the box only when you need to. You’ll know exactly when you do, and you’ll know what to do with it. I love you. The night her presumed fiancé crushes her dreams, Anna opens the box and finds “magic sugar” inside, along with a recipe to bake “the perfect man.” Encouraged by her best friend Lily (and maybe a wee bit too much rum), a heartbroken Anna sets out to do what she always does when she’s feeling blue: bake. She hardly believes her eyes the next morning when a man—a breathing and rather handsome man—is in her bakery and seems to know all her likes and dislikes, her quirks and preferences. Elijah is everything Anna dreamed and nothing she expected. Where did he come from? Is he real? And when he fashions his own ideas about what makes a good life, can she let him go? Escape into this whimsical and enchanting tale of magical realism and the spellbinding power of following your dreams as Anna discovers the sweetest side of life.

The Love Scribe by Amy Meyerson

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593519 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Love Scribe Author: Amy Meyerson Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays comes a charming novel about a woman with a special gift—her stories help people fall in love. When Alice’s best friend, Gabby, is reeling from a breakup, Alice writes her a heartfelt story to cheer her up. While reading it in a café, Gabby, as if by magic, meets the man of her dreams. Thinking the story might have some special power to it, Gabby shares it with her sister and other friends, who all find instant love. Word of mouth spreads, and Alice stumbles upon a new calling—to be a love scribe. But not all the love stories she writes unfold as expected. And while Alice tries to harness her extraordinary gift, she is summoned to a mansion in the woods where she encounters the reclusive Madeline Alger and her mysterious library. As Alice struggles to write a story for Madeline, her most challenging assignment yet, she’s forced to confront her own guarded heart. Because maybe—just maybe—there’s a love story waiting to be written for her, too. Emotional, deeply imaginative and brimming with valuable life lessons, The Love Scribe explores love, fate and the power of stories when we choose to believe in them.

Secretly Yours: A Novel by Tessa Bailey

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secretly Yours: A Novel Series: #1 of Vine Mess Author: Tessa Bailey Narrator: Callie Dalton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.91 of Total 176 Ratings of Narrator: 4.29 of Total 21 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Tessa Bailey—#1 New York Times bestselling author, TikTok favorite, and ''the Michelangelo of dirty talk'' (Entertainment Weekly)—comes a spicy small town rom-com about a grumpy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn... Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family’s winery. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to Napa Valley, and when Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if she'll finally get that smooch. But the starchy professor isn’t the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly. One wine-fueled girls’ night later, Hallie can’t shake the sense that she did something reckless—and then she remembers the drunken secret admirer letter she left for Julian. Oh shit. On sabbatical from his ivy league job, Julian plans to write a novel. But having Hallie gardening right outside his window is the ultimate distraction. She’s eccentric, chronically late, often literally covered in dirt—and so unbelievably beautiful, he can’t focus on anything else. Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past. Even as Julian wonders about this admirer, he’s sucked further into Hallie’s orbit. Like the flowers she plants all over town, Hallie is a burst of color in Julian’s grayscale life. For a man who irons his socks and runs on tight schedules, her sunny chaotic energy makes zero sense. But there’s something so familiar about her... and her very presence is turning his world upside down. ''Tessa Bailey is the queen of rom-coms. Long may she reign!'' — Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Merry Little Meet Cute

Dream Lake: A Novel by Lisa Kleypas

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599079 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dream Lake: A Novel Series: #4 of Friday Harbor Series Author: Lisa Kleypas Narrator: Emma Wilder Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas returns to Friday Harbor with this story of two broken hearts who come together—with a little help—to make each other whole… The youngest of the Nolan brothers, Alex still bears the scars of being raised by alcoholic parents, and when his own marriage fails—as he knew it would—he sinks deeper into a whiskey bottle. His brother Sam hopes to pull him out with a project to remodel a house for a friend of his girlfriend Lucy. And Alex has another ally—the ghost of a World War II pilot, who may be a booze-induced hallucination or may be exactly the spirit he needs to guide him. Zoë Hoffman is no stranger to heartache—after her own parents abandoned her, the only family member who showed her love was her grandmother. Even after her husband’s betrayal, Zoe hasn’t given up on love. A chef at a local B&B, her dream is to give her grandmother, who’s suffering from dementia, the gift of restoring her beautiful home by the lake. When she meets a handsome but brooding carpenter named Alex, she sees beneath his wounded exterior to the man he could be. As for Alex, he may be seeing a ghost, but in Zoë’s kind eyes, he’s also starting to get a vision of a future in which love might have a place after all…

Looking for Jane: A Novel by Heather Marshall

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601060 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking for Jane: A Novel Author: Heather Marshall Narrator: Sarah Borges Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 16 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.65 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: This “clever and satisfying” (Associated Press) #1 international bestseller for fans of Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Chiaverini follows three women who are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to choose—inspired by true stories. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code name: Jane. 1971: As a teenager, Dr. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for “fallen” women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoption—a trauma she has never recovered from. Despite the constant threat of arrest, she joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had. 1980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she feels like she has no one to turn to for help. Grappling with her decision, she locates “Jane” and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. Taylor within the network’s ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her. Looking for Jane is “a searing, important, beautifully written novel about the choices we all make and where they lead us—as well as a wise and timely reminder of the difficult road women had to walk not so long ago” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author).

The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House of Eve Author: Sadeqa Johnson Narrator: Ariel Blake, Nicole Lewis, Sadeqa Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 37 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.44 of Total 187 Ratings of Narrator: 4.82 of Total 67 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Amazing…I was completely surprised by the ending of this beautifully told and written book.” —Reese Witherspoon “A triumph of historical fiction” (The Washington Post), an instant New York Times bestseller, and a Reese’s Book Club pick, set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. 1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of DC’s elite wealthy Black families, and his parents don’t let just anyone into their fold. Eleanor hopes that a baby will make her finally feel at home in William’s family and grant her the life she’s been searching for. But having a baby—and fitting in—is easier said than done. With their stories colliding in the most unexpected of ways, Ruby and Eleanor will both make decisions that shape the trajectory of their lives.

For Twice In My Life by Annette Christie

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599874 to listen full audiobooks. Title: For Twice In My Life Author: Annette Christie Narrator: Melissa Moran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 21 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A second try at love becomes more than one woman bargained for in this delightfully funny and romantic new novel from the author of The Rehearsals. Can one little lie lead to a big second chance? Layla’s chaotic life transformed when she met Ian Barnett. Ambitious, committed, and thoughtful, Ian has been everything she'd dreamed of, and she knows he'd say the same of her. So when he breaks up with her out of the blue, Layla is stunned. What went wrong? But then, Layla gets a call from the local hospital. Ian's had a biking accident. He's okay, but he needs someone—his someone—to get him home safely. As it becomes clear Ian doesn't remember he ended things, it also becomes clear that the accident has given him a new outlook on life . . . and Layla a second chance to get things right. That is, until Ian’s younger brother comes to town. Matt is restless, unpredictable, and threatens to upset the careful balance Layla and Ian have rebuilt. As things get more complicated both at home and at work, Layla realizes she might lose her chance at real love—and real happiness—if she doesn’t come clean about the stories she's been telling: to Ian, to Matt, to her family, and most importantly, to herself.

Just My Type by Falon Ballard

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604224 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Just My Type Author: Falon Ballard Narrator: Tegan Ashton Cohan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: To win the job of her dreams, a relationship-prone journalist needs to learn how to stay single in this heartwarming and hilarious new romantic comedy from the beloved author of Lease on Love. Lana Parker is an expert girlfriend. After a disastrous breakup with her high school boyfriend, she's bounced from long-term relationship to long-term relationhip and even works as the dating and relationships columnist for one of Los Angeles's trendiest websites. But when Lana suddenly finds herself single, she's ready to take a break, both personally and professionally. That is, until her high school ex, Seth Carson, takes an assignment at Lana's site. Having spent years traveling the world as a freelance journalist, Seth's finally ready to put down roots. Seth and Lana's chemistry is just as combative—and undeniable—as ever and quickly leads to a competition that could shape both of their careers. Pitted against each other by Lana's boss, they are each tasked with writing an article series that goes against their usual dating type: Lana needs to write about being single and staying single, while Seth must learn to settle down and become boyfriend material. Whoever's series is most popular wins a highly coveted dream job. But when the two square off, it's not only their careers on the line—it’s also their hearts.

A Spell of Good Things: A novel by Ayobami Adebayo

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604288 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Spell of Good Things: A novel Author: Ayobami Adebayo Narrator: Ore Apampa, Babajide Oyekunle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • A NEW YORKER AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • GMA BUZZ PICK • A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and political corruption from the celebrated author of Stay with Me, 'in the lineage of great works by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie' (The New York Times). Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. Because his father has lost his job, Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers, begging when he must, dreaming of a big future. Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of an ascendant politician. When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a family party, Wuraola's and Eniola’s lives become intertwined. In her breathtaking second novel, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ shines her light on Nigeria, on the gaping divide between the haves and the have-nots, and the shared humanity that lives in between.

Maureen: A Harold Fry Novel by Rachel Joyce

Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604294 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maureen: A Harold Fry Novel Author: Rachel Joyce Narrator: Penelope Wilton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 35 minutes Release date: February 7, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “A touching tale about heartbreak and healing . . . If you loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fryand The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, make time to read this finale to the trilogy.”—Good Housekeeping Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to save a friend. But the story doesn’t end there. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make. Only she can finish the journey her husband started. Maureen and Harold Fry have settled into a quiet life, but when an unexpected message from the North disturbs their peaceful equilibrium, Maureen realizes that it’s now her turn to make a journey. But she is not like her affable, easygoing husband. By turns outspoken, then vulnerable, she struggles to form bonds with the people she meets—and the landscape she crosses has radically changed. Maureen has no sense of what she will find at the end of the road. All she knows is that she has to get there. A deeply felt, lyrical, and powerful novel, Maureen explores love, loss, and how we come to terms with the past in order to understand ourselves a little better. While this book stands alone, it is also the extraordinarily moving finale to a trilogy that began with the phenomenal bestseller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and continued in The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. Like those beloved books, Maureen has all the power and weight of a classic.

Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sorry, Bro Author: Taleen Voskuni Narrator: Christine Mirzayan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this vibrant and heartfelt queer rom-com by debut author Taleen Voskuni. When Nareh Bedrossian’s non-Armenian boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes to her in front of a room full of drunk San Francisco tech boys, she realizes it’s time to find someone who shares her idea of romance. Enter her mother: armed with plenty of mom-guilt and a spreadsheet of Facebook-stalked Armenian men, she convinces Nar to attend Explore Armenia, a month-long series of events in the city. But it’s not the mom-approved playboy doctor or the wealthy engineer who catch Nar’s eye—it’s Erebuni, a woman as immersed in the witchy arts as she is in preserving Armenian identity. Suddenly, with Erebuni as her wingwoman, the events feel like far less of a chore, and much more of an adventure. Who knew cooking up kuftes together could be so . . . sexy? Erebuni helps Nar see the beauty of their shared culture and makes her feel understood in a way she never has before. But there’s one teeny problem: Nar’s not exactly out as bisexual. The clock is ticking on her double life—the Explore Armenia closing banquet is coming up, and her entire extended family will be there, along with Erebuni. Her worlds will inevitably collide, but Nar is determined to be brave and to claim her happiness: proudly Armenian, proudly bisexual, and proudly herself for the first time in her life.

The Sweet Spot: A Novel by Amy Poeppel

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601033 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sweet Spot: A Novel Author: Amy Poeppel Narrator: Erin Ruth Walker, Jackie Sanders, Daniel Henning, Aden Hakimi, Stephen Graybill, Billie Fulford-Brown, Carly Robins, Nancy Linari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 12 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.6 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Amy Poeppel brings her signature “big-hearted, charming” (The Washington Post) style to this wise and joyful novel that celebrates love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between. In the heart of Greenwich Village, three women form an accidental sorority when a baby—belonging to exactly none of them—lands on their collective doorstep. Lauren and her family—lucky bastards—have been granted the use of a spectacular brownstone, teeming with history and dizzyingly unattractive 70s wallpaper. Adding to the home’s bohemian, grungy splendor is the bar occupying the basement, a (mostly) beloved dive called The Sweet Spot. Within days of moving in, Lauren discovers that she has already made an enemy in the neighborhood by inadvertently sparking the divorce of a couple she has never actually met. Melinda’s husband of thirty years has dumped her for a young celebrity entrepreneur named Felicity, and, to Melinda’s horror, the lovebirds are soon to become parents. In her incandescent rage, Melinda wreaks havoc wherever she can, including in Felicity’s Soho boutique, where she has a fit of epic proportions, which happens to be caught on film. Olivia—the industrious twenty-something behind the counter, who has big dreams and bigger debt—gets caught in the crossfire. In an effort to diffuse Melinda’s temper, Olivia has a tantrum of her own and gets unceremoniously canned, thanks to TikTok. When Melinda’s ex follows his lover across the country, leaving their squalling baby behind, the three women rise to the occasion in order to forgive, to forget, to Ferberize, and to track down the wayward parents. But can their little village find a way toward the happily ever afters they all desire? Welcome to The Sweet Spot.

Daughter in Exile: A Novel by Bisi Adjapon

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600951 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Daughter in Exile: A Novel Author: Bisi Adjapon Narrator: Anniwaa Buachie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome. Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn’t be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a nice apartment, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand, an American Marine stationed at the U.S. Embassy. Her mother, a high court judge in Ghana, disapproves of her choice, but nothing will stop Lola from boarding a plane for Armand and America. That fateful flight is only the beginning of an extraordinary journey; she has traded her carefree existence in Senegal for the perilous position of an undocumented immigrant in 1990s America. Lola encounters adversity that would crush a less-determined woman. Her fate hangs on whether or not she’ll grow in courage to forge a different life from one she’d imagined, whether she’ll succeed in putting herself and family together again. Daughter in Exile is a hope-filled story about mother love, resilience, and unyielding strength.

Twelve Months and a Day by Louisa Young

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604214 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twelve Months and a Day Author: Louisa Young Narrator: Isabel Adomakoh Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A poignant, modern love story about a young widow and widower and the two ghosts that bring them together because although love changes form, it never dies. “Heart-stoppingly romantic.”—The Express (UK) Two couples. Four unfinished lives. A love that transcends space and time. Rasmus and Jay, Róisín and Nico: two couples, strangers to each other. Two beautiful, ordinary love stories, cut short. Both in their thirties and too young to be widowed, Róisín swears she still feels Nico beside her in bed and Rasmus hears Jay as he writes songs at the piano. Jay and Nico don’t even believe in ghosts, yet here they still are. Still in love with Rasmus and Róisín. And maddeningly powerless. Until Jay has an idea that Nico wants no part of—bringing Róisín and Rasmus together. It’s crazy enough that it just might work, but playing matchmaker to the living is no easy feat and one that will require all four of them to discover the meaning of love after loss, and the importance of fighting for happiness against all odds. Moving and thought-provoking, playful and bittersweet, Twelve Months and a Day asks what is love? And what are we to do with it?

River Sing Me Home: A GMA Book Club Pick by Eleanor Shearer

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604231 to listen full audiobooks. Title: River Sing Me Home: A GMA Book Club Pick Author: Eleanor Shearer Narrator: Eleanor Shearer, Debra Michaels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children and piece her family back together is a “celebration of motherhood and female resilience” (The Observer). Named One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 • A Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist “A powerful novel that explores how freedom and family are truly defined”—Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian Her search begins with an ending.… The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come into effect. The cries of joy fall silent when he announces that they are no longer his slaves; they are now his apprentices. No one can leave. They must work for him for another six years. Freedom is just another name for the life they have always lived. So Rachel runs. Away from Providence, she begins a desperate search to find her children—the five who survived birth and were sold. Are any of them still alive? Rachel has to know. The grueling, dangerous journey takes her from Barbados then, by river, deep into the forest of British Guiana and finally across the sea to Trinidad. She is driven on by the certainty that a mother cannot be truly free without knowing what has become of her children, even if the answer is more than she can bear. These are the stories of Mary Grace, Micah, Thomas Augustus, Cherry Jane and Mercy. But above all this is the story of Rachel and the extraordinary lengths to which a mother will go to find her children...and her freedom.

A Thousand Miles to Graceland by Kristen Mei Chase

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593119 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Thousand Miles to Graceland Author: Kristen Mei Chase Narrator: Kim Mai Guest Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: January 24, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The journey of a thousand miles begins with sequins and a beehive wig in this sharply funny and achingly tender debut novel about mothers, daughters, and the surprising power of Elvis. Grace Johnson can’t escape the feeling that her life is on autopilot—until her husband announces he’s done with their marriage. Grace has a choice: wallow in humiliation . . . or reluctantly grant her outlandish mother’s seventieth birthday wish with a road trip Graceland. Buckle up, Elvis. We’re on our way. Now the two are hightailing it from El Paso to Memphis, leaving a trail of sequins, false eyelashes, and difficult memories in their wake. Between spontaneous roadside stops to psychics, wig mishaps, and familiar passive-aggressive zingers, Grace is starting to better understand her Elvis-obsessed mama and their own fragile connection. She may even have another shot at love. Apparently the King really does work in mysterious ways. But after all these years, will it ever be possible for Grace and her mom to heal the hurts of the past?

Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592228 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Amazing Grace Adams Author: Fran Littlewood Narrator: Claire Skinner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 52 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Sometimes I have so much rage it scares me . . .' Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life . . . One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps. She doesn't scream or break something or cry or curl into a ball. She simply abandons her car in traffic and walks away. But not from her life - towards it. To the daughter who won't live with her anymore and has banned her from the party. To the husband divorcing her. Towards the terrible thing that has blown their family apart . . . Today she'll show her daughter that no matter how far we fall we can always get back up again. Because Grace Adams was amazing. Her husband and daughter once thought so. They and the world might have forgotten. But Grace is about to remind them ... Amazing Grace Adams tells the story of a life, a marriage, a family, set against a single north-London day. A rollercoaster ride of redemption and discovery, it's a powerful celebration of womanhood. 'I just adored this ... an unforgettable read' Liane Moriarty © Fran Littlewood 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

The House That Made Us by Alice Cavanagh

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601003 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House That Made Us Author: Alice Cavanagh Narrator: Simon Mattacks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 19, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: One Day meets Up: The House That Made Us is a love story – and a life story – told through a series of photographs and based on a true story When Mac and Marie marry and find a home of their own, Mac takes a snap of themselves outside their newbuild bungalow, the garden bare and the paint on the front door still wet. It becomes a tradition, this snap, and slowly the photographs build into an album of a fifty-year partnership. Every year they take a photo and though things change around them – the garden matures, the fashions change, they grow older – the one constant is their love. Every year, come rain, come shine, from the Seventies through the decades, every photo tells the story of their love. Until the last photo, where the couple becomes one, and their story comes to an end…

The Reunion: A Novel by Kayla Olson

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Reunion: A Novel Author: Kayla Olson Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When two former teen stars reconnect at the reunion for their hit TV show, they discover their feelings for one another were not merely scripted in this charming and heartwarming novel perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne. Liv Latimer grew up on TV. As the star of the popular teen drama Girl on the Verge, Liv spent her adolescence on the screen trying to be as picture perfect as her character in real life. But after the death of her father and the betrayal of her on-screen love interest and off-screen best friend Ransom Joel, Liv wanted nothing more than to retreat, living a mostly normal life aside from a few indie film roles. But now, twenty years after the show’s premiere, the cast is invited back for a reunion special, financed by a major streaming service. Liv is happy to be back on set, especially once she discovers Ransom has only improved with age. And their chemistry is certainly still intact. They quickly fall into their old rhythms, rediscovering what had drawn them together decades before. But with new rivalries among the cast emerging and the specter of a reboot shadowing their shoot, Liv questions whether returning to the past is what she needs to finally get her own happy ending.

Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595057 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liar, Dreamer, Thief Author: Maria Dong Narrator: Hannah Choi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A young woman’s carefully constructed fantasy world implodes in this brilliantly conceived novel that blurs distinctions between right and wrong, comedy and tragedy, imagination and reality: "Surreal . . . leaves you with the creeping certainty that there is a different world lurking just under the surface of our own, filled with technicolor lies and terrible truths" (Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling and Hugo‑award winning author). Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanisms—like her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children’s book bleed into her vision whenever she feels anxious or stressed. But when Katrina finds a cryptic message from Kurt that implies he’s aware of her surveillance, her tenuous hold on a normal life crumbles. Driven by compulsion, she enacts the most powerful ritual she has to reclaim control—a midnight visit to the Cayatoga Bridge—and arrives just in time to witness Kurt’s suicide. Before he jumps, he slams her with a devastating accusation: his death is all her fault. Horrified, Katrina combs through the clues she’s collected about Kurt over the last three years, but each revelation uncovers a menacing truth: for every moment she was watching him, he was watching her. And the past she thought she’d left behind? It’s been following her more closely than she ever could have imagined. A gripping page-turner, as well as a sensitive exploration of mental health, Liar, Dreamer, Thief is an intimate portrayal of life in all its complexities—and the dangers inherent in unveiling people’s most closely guarded secrets.

The Night Traveler: A Novel by Armando Lucas Correa

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601023 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Night Traveler: A Novel Author: Armando Lucas Correa Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 10, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl. Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler’s deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep Lilith hidden so Ally sets in motion a dangerous and desperate plan to send her daughter across the ocean to safety. Havana, 1958: Now an adult, Lilith has few memories of her mother or her childhood in Germany. Besides, she’s too excited for her future with her beloved Martin, a Cuban pilot with strong ties to the Batista government. But as the flames of revolution ignite, Lilith and her newborn daughter, Nadine, find themselves at a terrifying crossroads. Berlin, 1988: As a scientist in Berlin, Nadine is dedicated to ensuring the dignity of the remains of all those who were murdered by the Nazis. Yet she has spent her entire lifetime avoiding the truth about her own family’s history. It takes her daughter, Luna, to encourage Nadine to uncover the truth about the choices her mother and grandmother made to ensure the survival of their children. And it will fall to Luna to come to terms with a shocking betrayal that changes everything she thought she knew about her family’s past. “A stunning multigenerational story” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), The Night Traveler reveals the power of self-discovery and motherly love.

My (extra)Ordinary Life by Rebecca Ryan

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My (extra)Ordinary Life Author: Rebecca Ryan Narrator: Heather Long Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 41 minutes Release date: January 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ‘I absolutely loved this book! Charming, funny – I laughed out loud several times' SARAH TURNER (The Unmumsy Mum), author of Stepping Up Have you ever wondered how normal you are? What if you were perfectly average? More than anyone else. For Emily – it's true. When she watches a documentary on the average human she sees her life. Her job, her hair, her favourite food. All of her – plainly, horrifically average. Even her blood group. Right there and then, she decides she wants more. She'll travel the world (i.e. venture out of her hometown) She'll become a vegan (it's interesting to hate cheese, right?) She'll do something daring (As long as it's safety tested) Nothing will stand in the way of Emily living her best life. Not even Josh and his dimples. Because she absolutely can't fall in love . . . that would be too ordinary. And from now on, Emily is going to be extraordinary. Praise for My (extra)Ordinary Life 'Snortingly funny and painfully perceptive' LAUREN BRAVO 'I LOVED this sparkling debut . . . Brilliant, immersive & unputdownable' TRACY REES ‘This charming debut is a heart-warming read’ MY WEEKLY ‘Funny, heartfelt, and tackling the complexity of grief in an original way, this debut is far from average’ HEAT ‘Funny and heartwarming’ CLOSER ‘This is a top read’ FABULOUS MAGAZINE ‘A sparkling novel with a relatable protagonist’ WOMAN'S OWN ‘The top of the class with this debut that will take you from all-out laughter to tears’ SUNDAY POST

The Social Climber by Amanda Pellegrino

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593514 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Social Climber Author: Amanda Pellegrino Narrator: Kristen Sieh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: January 3, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When you’re on top, you can get away with anything... It’s the week before her wedding, and all of Eliza’s meticulous planning is about to pay off. She’s become the exact type of woman who would marry into the prominent, blue-blood Walker family – Ivy League credentials, a high-powered PR job, and a designer label wardrobe. But as the big day approaches, secrets from Eliza’s past attending an Evangelical college start to throw her true motives into question. Who exactly is Eliza Bennett and what does she really want? Written in a breakneck pace, capturing the glittering, privileged world of the one-percenters, THE SOCIAL CLIMBER is a gripping novel of one woman’s determination to seek justice at any cost.

Ms. Demeanor: A Novel by Elinor Lipman

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592440 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ms. Demeanor: A Novel Author: Elinor Lipman Narrator: Piper Goodeve Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: December 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor “Ms. Demeanor is a complete and utter delight. Of course it is. What Elinor Lipman novel isn’t?”—Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are . . . “Who knew house arrest could be sexy and fun? Not me, at least not until I read Ms. Demeanor. Written with Elinor Lipman’s signature wit and charm, this breezy, engrossing novel tells the story of two people who make the most of their shared confinement.”—Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of Tracy Flick Can’t Win “When a neighbor’s complaint about consensual al fresco sex turns into house arrest and a suspended legal license, Jane’s recipe for survival involves cooking for another home-arrested tenant (could this be a match made in confinement?) while trying to figure out the whys and hows of her mysterious accuser. Filled with food, family, romance and intrigue, Lipman’s novel cooks up a bounty of delights as sparkling as prosecco and as deeply satisfying and delicious as a five-star meal.”—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of With or Without You From one of America’s most beloved contemporary novelists, a delicious and witty story about love under house arrest Jane Morgan is a valued member of her law firm—or was, until a prudish neighbor, binoculars poised, observes her having sex on the roof of her NYC apartment building. Police are summoned, and a punishing judge sentences her to six months of home confinement. With Jane now jobless and rootless, trapped at home, life looks bleak. Yes, her twin sister provides support and advice, but mostly of the unwelcome kind. When a doorman lets slip that Jane isn't the only resident wearing an ankle monitor, she strikes up a friendship with fellow white-collar felon Perry Salisbury. As she tries to adapt to life within her apartment walls, she discovers she hasn’t heard the end of that tattletale neighbor—whose past isn’t as decorous as her 9-1-1 snitching would suggest. Why are police knocking on Jane’s door again? Can her house arrest have a silver lining? Can two wrongs make a right? In the hands of ''an inspired alchemist who converts serious subject into humor” (New York Times Book Review)—yes, delightfully.

No Forever Like Nantucket by Grace Palmer

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599678 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Forever Like Nantucket Series: #6 of The Sweet Island Inn Series Author: Grace Palmer Narrator: Susan Boyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: If Mae loses the Inn, she’ll lose everything. Mae Benson was born to run the Sweet Island Inn. She cooks, she cleans, she laughs, she makes a mean pot of coffee, and she always knows which beach to recommend to her guests. But suddenly, that way of life looks very much in danger. On what was supposed to be a happy day—the day her boyfriend Dominic gets down on one knee and asks her to marry him—Mae discovers that a collective of out-of-towners with bad motives intends to usurp her business by building a competing hotel right down the street. And she’s not the only one floundering. Other mysterious out-of-towners are bringing troubles of their own for the Benson clan—including an anonymous offer to buy out Sara’s ownership of Little Bull restaurant—with some very strange strings attached. Holly’s childhood friends arrive back on Nantucket for a tumultuous high school reunion with plenty of baggage in tow. And Eliza, meanwhile, is doing her best to keep her head above water—even as the anxieties she thought she had left behind threaten to drag her beneath the stormy waves. Catch up with the Benson family in this sweet women’s-fiction novel.

A Web of Secrets by Roberta Kagan

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Web of Secrets Series: #3 of Jews, The Third Reich, and a Web of Secrets Author: Roberta Kagan Narrator: Alice Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 29, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: As Hitler's murderous reign inches steadily towards a disastrous end, the intricate web of secrets woven by each character begins to unravel. Oskar, handsome but terrifying, is on the verge of madness. What torments him so? What dark secrets are buried deep within Kara's loving heart? Anka's affection for her husband Ludwig is all but gone. Will he turn to the ever-open arms of a secret life? And . . . What about Abram? Will he find a way to keep his vow to God? Will he ever be with his family again?

She and Her Cat: Stories by Naruki Nagakawa, Makoto Shinkai

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592897 to listen full audiobooks. Title: She and Her Cat: Stories Author: Naruki Nagakawa, Makoto Shinkai Narrator: Winson Ting, Julia Strowski, Jacqui Bardelang, Nile Faure-Bryan, Hana Teraie-Wood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 8 minutes Release date: November 22, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection. Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Just as he fears that the end is near, a young woman peers down at him, this fateful encounter changing their lives forever. So begins the first story in She and Her Cat, a collection of four interrelated, stream-of-conscious short stories in which four women and their feline companions explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication. With clever narration alternating between the cats and their owners, She and Her Cat offers a unique and sly commentary on human foibles and our desire for connection. A whimsical short story anthology unlike any other, it effortlessly demonstrates that even in our darkest, most lonesome moments, we are still united to this wonderous world—often in ways we could never have expected.

When The Dust Settled: Book Three in a Jewish Family Saga by Roberta Kagan

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602755 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When The Dust Settled: Book Three in a Jewish Family Saga Series: #3 of Jewish Family Saga Author: Roberta Kagan Narrator: Kelli Tager Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In New York, prohibition has ended, and Sam's world is turned upside down. The mob boss realizes he must expand his illegal interests if he is going to continue to live his lavish lifestyle. Some of the jobs Sam is offered go against his moral character. Transporting alcohol was one thing, but threatening lives is another. For the first time since that horrible incident in Medina, Alma is finally happy and has fallen in love with a kind and generous Italian doctor who already has a job awaiting him in Rome; however, he is not Jewish. In Berlin, the Nazis are rising to power. Adolf Hitler disposed of his enemies, and the SA has been replaced by the even more terrifying SS. After the horrors they witnessed during Kristallnacht, Goldie's mother is ready to abandon all she knows to escape the country. She begs her husband to leave Germany. But he refuses to leave everything that he spent his entire life working for. The Nazis have taken the country by the throat. The period of artistic tolerance and debauchery has been replaced by a strict and cruel regime that seeks to destroy all who do not fit its ideal. Goldie's path of depravity is catching up with her, and her secrets are threatened.

The Single Dad by Marni Mann

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Single Dad Series: #3 of The Dalton Brothers Author: Marni Mann Narrator: Tor Thom, Summer Morton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 27 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Most college-aged girls go to Europe to experience their sexual awakening. All I had to do was go home. Ford Dalton isn’t the kind of man I’d look at twice—because I can’t stop looking at him at all. We can’t take our hands off each other in the bar. Back at his house, it’s our lips. And in his bed? There isn’t a single part of us that’s not on fire. One night would never be long enough for Ford to show me every delicious thing he can do to my body. But there’s something he’s keeping from me: he’s already met the love of his life, his daughter Everly. And there’s something I’m keeping from him: I just applied for the job of my dreams, being Everly’s new nanny.

Dawn by Sevgi Soysal

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602788 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dawn Author: Sevgi Soysal Narrator: Vaneh Assadourian Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 15, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A searing autobiographical novel about a single night in prison suggests how broken spirits can be mended and dreams rebuilt through imagination and human kindness In Dawn, translated into English for the first time, legendary Turkish feminist Sevgi Soysal brings together dark humor, witty observations, and trenchant criticism of social injustice, militarism, and gender inequality. As night falls in Adana, köftes and cups of cloudy raki are passed to the dinner guests in the home of Ali—a former laborer who gives tight bear hugs, speaks with a southeastern lilt, and radiates the spirit of a child. Among the guests are a journalist named Oya, who has recently been released from prison and is living in exile on charges of leftist sympathizing, and her new acquaintance, Mustafa. A swift kick knocks down the front door and bumbling policemen converge on the guests, carting them off to holding cells, where they’ll be interrogated and tortured throughout the night. Fear spools into the anxious, claustrophobic thoughts of a return to prison, just after tasting freedom. Bristling snatches of Oya’s time in prison rush back—the wild curses and wilder laughter of inmates, their vicious quarrels and rapturous belly-dancing, or the quiet boon of a cup of tea. Her former inmates created fury and joy out of nothing. Their brimming resilience wills Oya to fight through the night and is fused with every word of this blazing, lucid novel.

Hush, Delilah by Angie Gallion

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hush, Delilah Author: Angie Gallion Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 11, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: On the surface, Delilah Reddick’s life looks perfect. Her husband is a pillar of the community, and with her as his quietly supportive wife, they appear to be the picture of success and happiness. But there are deep cracks in the foundation, dark secrets Delilah has never shared with anyone. Delilah knows what her husband is capable of when the evil inside him finds its way to the surface, but running would only delay the inevitable. Chase would hunt her to the ends of the earth before allowing her to take his only son from him. Delilah would rather die than leave her fourteen-year-old behind, but when her son begins displaying his father’s violent tendencies, she knows she must act. In her quest to save her son, Delilah sets off a chain of events that could rock the community and reveal the darkest secret of them all. After years of staying quiet, Delilah must find her voice before her husband silences her forever.

Someone Like You by Rachel Dove

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Someone Like You Author: Rachel Dove Narrator: Laura Brydon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ‘I absolutely devoured every single word.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One broken marriage. One broken heart. One chance to meet someone new. Hannah leaves her unhappy marriage with her daughter Ava and moves to the village of Leadsham to start afresh. She plans to keep a low profile, focusing on Ava and making a new life for them, far away from her violent ex-husband. What she hadn’t counted on was Andrew Brody. A police officer with a strict moral code, he knows something’s wrong as soon as he meets Hannah, and he wants to help. But Hannah has been let down by the police – and men – before, and pushes him away. But the more Hannah tries to ignore Brody, the more she’s drawn to him. Caring, kind and patient, he’s nothing like the man she’s running from. Can Hannah finally put her past behind her, and open her heart to someone new? Readers LOVE Someone Like You! ‘Really loved it!’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Left me begging for more!… Fun and enjoyable read. Highly recommend!’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I loved this romantic book!’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Read in one sitting. Really enjoyable read. Totally recommend.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This book had me gripped from the start… A great page turner that has you guessing and waiting to see just what happens.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I expected a cute summer type rom-com, but what Rachel Dove gave us is a thousand times better… A book that touched on those very real and heavy emotions, without rushing through them to get to the happily ever after.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A heartwarming single-parent romance book… Andrew Brody is the perfect gentle giant… Had me smiling throughout the whole read.’ NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Sh!te Before Christmas by Serena Terry

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604192 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sh!te Before Christmas Series: #2 of Mammy Banter Author: Serena Terry Narrator: Serena Terry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 23 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From Sunday Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation @MammyBanter One month to go. One stressed mum. Can she pull off the perfect family Christmas? It’s the most wonderful time of the year… Like every mum, Tara wants a perfect Christmas for her family – but no-one else is lifting a finger and she’s losing her elf-ing mind. From a vaping teen, explosive potty training and a disastrous Nativity, to a distracted husband acting very out of character, the final straw is Tara’s glamorous, feckless mother moving herself back in for the holidays. Can Tara pull off the holly jolly Christmas of her dreams? Will she deck the halls and not her family? Or is this a Christmas catastrophe waiting to happen… Hilarious, heartwarming and festive as f*ck – the new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Mammy Banter: The Secret Life of an Uncool Mum. Mammy Banter was a Sunday Times #4 hardback fiction bestseller on 5 March 2022.

The Stolen Child by Roberta Kagan

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603410 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stolen Child Series: #2 of Jews, The Third Reich, and a Web of Secrets Author: Roberta Kagan Narrator: Alice Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Hide Karl in plain sight. That was the idea. It was meant to be foolproof. Who would think of finding an Aryan-looking Jewish child in the household of a high-ranking Nazi officer? What could possibly go wrong? When four-year-old Karl, Kara's son, suddenly disappears, Kara's worst fear becomes her painful reality. Has someone seen through her cover? An increasingly frustrating search for the missing boy ensues. Kara is succored by Oskar, an SS officer who would do anything to have Kara's love. His compassion is in stark contrast to his office's macabre nature. As her world is turned upside down, the grim nature of the Third Reich becomes much more apparent to Kara. The rot has eaten deep into many German hearts, even that of her beloved sister Anka. As a fog of fear and evil envelops Kara's life, the hope of a love she had always ached for stirs ever so slightly. How far would one go to get a hold of what they so desperately want? Will Kara see her son ever again?

We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593501 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We All Want Impossible Things Author: Catherine Newman Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The uplifting and moving Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Edi and Ash have been best friends for over forty years, a bond formed by a lifetime of memories. Since childhood they have seen each other through life's milestones: stealing vodka from their parents, REM concerts, unexpected Scottish wakes, marriages, infertility, children. As Ash notes, 'Edi's memory is like the back-up hard drive for mine.' When Edi is diagnosed with the final stages of terminal ovarian cancer, she makes the painstaking decision to leave behind her husband and son to move to a hospice down the road from Ash. Fierce and loving, Ash's world reshapes around the rhythms of Edi's palliative care, from chipped ice and watermelon cubes to music therapy; from inadvisable Pringle-consumption to impromptu excursions out into the frozen Massachusetts winter night. As the novel winds to its powerful conclusion, We All Want Impossible Things' unforgettable characters and the forcefields of love between them will touch readers to the core, throwing the full panorama - the humour, compassion and absurdity - of not only dying, but also of living, into bold relief. 'Devastatingly humorous and humorously devastating...an unbelievably brilliant and funny book about friendship, family, food, sex, and death. Catherine Newman serves up a masterclass in narrative - you'll stay up late devouring every word.' KATHERINE HEINY 'Nora-Ephron-style wit...comforting, so funny, moving but never mawkish and packed with all kinds of love. It's one of my favourite books ever' MARIAN KEYES 'Dazzling, heart-wrenching, snorty-hilarious...a masterclass on friendship, family love, memory, and the messiness of life, love and dying. An utter joy to read.' RACHEL JOYCE © Catherine Newman 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Kiss the Girl by Samantha Chase

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Kiss the Girl Series: #11 of Magnolia Sound Author: Samantha Chase Narrator: Carly Robins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 6 minutes Release date: November 8, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'Savannah James is no stranger to heartache and loss. It wasn’t enough to lose two sets of parents: now she’s losing the only person she has left, Cash Coleman. Escorting him back to Magnolia Sound so he can say goodbye to his family is a no-brainer if it means she gets to spend whatever time he has left with him. Once he’s gone, it’s back to her lonely life in Seattle. At least, that’s what she thought would happen, until she met Cash’s family—and his youngest son. When it comes to his father, Jackson Coleman isn’t short on anger. So when the old man comes back to Magnolia Sound to say goodbye, he’s determined not to care. But with Cash comes Savannah, and Jackson starts to question everything he’s ever thought about his father—like why was he able to be a parent to a friend’s daughter, when he couldn’t even be there for his own sons? As much as Savannah represents everything he resents about Cash, he also can’t deny the intense attraction he feels for her. If Savannah wants a chance at a happily ever after with Jackson, she’ll have to fight every instinct she has to not get attached.'

The Christmas Postcards: Cosy Up With This Uplifting, Festive Romance From the Sunday Times Bestseller by Karen Swan

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592908 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Christmas Postcards: Cosy Up With This Uplifting, Festive Romance From the Sunday Times Bestseller Author: Karen Swan Narrator: Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'Feel good stories to curl up with over Christmas . . . Escapist romance at its best' – Heat Magazine Set in a snow-covered Cotswolds village, The Christmas Postcards is a cosy, escapist festive delight about distant connections from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Stolen Hours, Karen Swan. 'A romance you won’t be able to put down' – Metro The right words can change everything . . . It had been a make-or-break winter holiday for their marriage, but Natasha and Rob’s rekindled romance is short-lived when their daughter’s beloved soft toy disappears on the journey home. As Natasha comforts her distraught child, she turns to social media for help. Miraculously, the toy is found, but it has become the lucky mascot of a man named Duffy, who is thousands of miles away trekking in Nepal. When Duffy promises to keep Natasha updated with pictures, a correspondence begins that soon becomes more meaningful. Sometimes, Natasha feels this stranger half way across the world understands her more than the man lying next to her. But as the weeks pass and Duffy heads deeper into the mountains, Natasha notices a change in him. Then, one day, the messages stop. Too late, Natasha wonders why he had ever needed a lucky mascot at all . . . 'The queen of destination fiction' – Woman & Home Readers are falling in love with The Christmas Postcards . . . 'I was enthralled from the first pages' – 5* reader review 'Definitely my favourite Karen Swan book so far' – 5* reader review 'The story gripped me right from the start and still hasn't let me go' – 5* reader review 'I read this in two sittings, I literally didn't want to put the book down' – 5* reader review 'Addictive reading' – 5* reader review

Unfollowers by Leigh Ann Ruggiero

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592000 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unfollowers Author: Leigh Ann Ruggiero Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 18 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction Barb Matheson doesn't fit in: not on the Standing Rock Reservation where her mother was born; not at the mission in rural Ethiopia where she grew up; and certainly not at the Pennsylvania church where her husband preaches. Expansive and lyrical, Unfollowers is a tale of religious angst, unrequited love, and the upheaval of racial and economic privilege. Equally adrift on both sides of the Atlantic, Barb must negotiate the distance between white America and Africa, between the spirituality of her ancestors and the straight tones of evangelicalism, and between rules and grace. When a former lover crashes her daughter's third birthday party, she's offered the chance to find her way home to Ethiopia, leaving her to choose between a rote life in America and an improvised life abroad.

The Children's Dream by Roberta Kagan

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Children's Dream Series: #1 of Auschwitz Twins Author: Roberta Kagan Narrator: Shaina Summerville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Sometimes Dreams Come True . . . And so do nightmares. When Naomi's daughter, Perle, starts to have nightmares about smokestacks and creepy doctors, Naomi is struck with terror—the terror of a mother who fears her daughter is in mortal danger. Naomi believes dreams are glimpses into the future. She, too, has had dreams of foreign soldiers with a strange flag invading her tiny village. She knows in her heart that evil is brewing. Real-life has already been a living hell for Naomi. She must navigate the treacherous path of her unhappy arranged marriage with Hershel while keeping a scandalous love affair secret. And now something is coming. Her dreams—the dreams Hershel laughs at—tell her so. And the thing that is coming will make the hell she has been living seem ordinary and almost peaceful. The noose is tightening, and not even her nightmares can prepare Naomi, or her sleepy little village, from the sweeping scythe of the Nazi death machine.

They Never Saw It Coming: Book Two in A Jewish Family Saga by Roberta Kagan

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: They Never Saw It Coming: Book Two in A Jewish Family Saga Series: #2 of Jewish Family Saga Author: Roberta Kagan Narrator: Kelli Tager Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Since her return home to Berlin, Goldie Schatzman has reconnected with her childhood friend, Leni, a free spirit who has swept Goldie into the Weimar lifestyle that is overflowing with artists and writers, but also with debauchery. Goldie had spent the last nineteen years living a dull life with a spiritless husband. And now she has been set free. As Goldie's daughter, Alma, is coming of marriageable age, her grandparents are determined to find her a suitable match. Will Goldie's life of depravity hurt Alma's chances to find a Jewish husband? All the while the SA, a preclude to the Nazi SS, is gaining strength. Leaving a nightclub one night, Goldie finds herself caught in the middle of a demonstration that has turned violent. She is rescued by Felix, a member of the SA, who is immediately charmed by her blonde hair and Aryan appearance. Goldie is living a lie, and her secrets are bound to catch up with her. A girl, who she'd scorned in the past, is now a proud member of the Nazi Party and still carries a deep-seated vendetta against Goldie. When Goldie's son, Sam, receives word that something has happened in Germany, he must accompany his father on a journey across the ocean.

My Dearest Duke by Kristin Vayden

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603211 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Dearest Duke Series: #2 of Cambridge Brotherhood Author: Kristin Vayden Narrator: Lillian Rachel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 25, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'Lord Rowles Haywind has always shied away from the spotlight of the dukedom, worried it would bring too much attention to the family secret. Now that he is the new Duke, he has more responsibility than he ever dreamed of. He needs help, but he's not sure he can trust anyone enough. But then he reconnects with Lady Joan Morgan... Lady Joan's penetrating insights reassure Rowles as no one ever has. But she has a secret of her own that would cause a terrible scandal. She longs to tell Rowles the truth about her work for the war office, but she's afraid it'll ruin the connection they've rekindled. But the longer she waits to tell him, the worse the outcome could be for them both once the truth is out.'

Sylvia Townsend Warner: A BBC Radio Collection: Including Lolly Willowes & The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603535 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sylvia Townsend Warner: A BBC Radio Collection: Including Lolly Willowes & The True Heart Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner Narrator: Helen O'hara, Joanne Mitchell, Joanna Mccallum, Tilly Vosburgh, Mick Ford, Louise Brealey, Penelope Wilton, Irene Sutcliffe, Margaret Tyzack, Full Cast, Edward Petherbridge Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 20, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: BBC radio productions of the works of Sylvia Townsend Warner - plus bonus programmes about the author herself Sylvia Townsend Warner was a prolific author of novels, short stories and poetry, who also wrote a biography of T. H. White, translated Proust and was an authority on Tudor church music. A sharp, insightful storyteller, she was one of the 20th Century's most acute observers of English mores, and her work is infused with subversive themes reflecting her feminist and Marxist views. This comprehensive anthology includes dramatisations of her two best-known novels, beginning with her 1926 debut, Lolly Willowes, which was shortlisted for the Prix Femina and launched her literary career. Louise Brealey stars in this joyously comic tale of a respectable, middle-class spinster who finally finds fulfilment in life by taking up witchcraft. Next up is The True Heart, an imaginative retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth. Set in 1873, it tells the story of orphaned maidservant Sukey, who falls in love, but is cruelly parted from her beloved. Believing that only Queen Victoria can help, she sets off on a heroic journey to see her... Tilly Vosburgh stars, with Mick Ford and Theresa Streatfeild. These are followed by three short stories: 'The Proper Circumstances' (read by Joanna McCallum), 'One Thing Leading to Another' (read by Margaret Tyzack) and 'Oxenhope' (read by Edward Petherbridge). Also featured is the Radio 4 series Stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner, comprising five short tales - 'Flora', 'A Scent of Roses', 'English Mosaic', 'Furnivall's Hoopoe' and 'The Listening Woman' - all read by Penelope Wilton. Concluding our collection are two bonus programmes: Comrade Ackland and I, Frances Bingham's original drama based on the true story of Sylvia Townsend Warner and her partner, poet Valentine Ackland; and The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner, in which Irene Sutcliffe reads five extracts from the journal kept by the novelist from 1927 to her death in 1978. Contents Lolly Willowes The True Heart 'The Proper Circumstances' 'One Thing Leading to Another' 'Oxenhope' 'Flora' 'A Scent of Roses' 'English Mosaic' 'Furnivall's Hoopoe' 'The Listening Woman' Comrade Ackland and I The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner First published 1926 (Lolly Willowes), 1929 (The True Heart), 1944 ('The Proper Circumstances'), 1962 ('One Thing Leading to Another'), 1964 ('English Mosaic'), 1966 ('Oxenhope'), 1969 ('Furnivall's Hoopoe), 1972 ('A Scent of Roses', 'The Listening Woman'), 1977 ('Flora') © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

My Son's Secret by Roberta Kagan

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603401 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Son's Secret Series: #1 of Jews, The Third Reich, and a Web of Secrets Author: Roberta Kagan Narrator: Alice Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: My beautiful boy . . . Created in love . . . born into hatred. There were so many terrifying stories about the Jews. People called them useless vermin, filthy, dangerous. Before I met Abram, I was afraid of them too. But I am about to tell you a very different story—a forbidden story. My love for Abram defied all reason . . . as well as German law. Tonight our son giggles with excitement as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake. But our safety is nothing but an illusion. As his candles burn out, a window shatters outside. The room shudders as the synagogue down the street is engulfed in flames. Kristallnacht has begun. When my hidden paradise crumbles like a stack of cards, I must do everything in my power to protect that which is most precious to me. My son's secret must remain hidden. Before we lose everything.

Touch & Go by Mira Lyn Kelly

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603249 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Touch & Go Series: #2 of Dare to Love Author: Mira Lyn Kelly Narrator: Rachel Leblang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 18, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'Vivacious and successful, Ava Meyers is living her dream life, except for one thing: ever since childhood, she’s been in love with her best friend...and she’s never admitted it. Back then, Sam Farrow was a damaged young man with a tough past. Now he’s supremely confident, super sexy, and totally untouchable—until the night when he pretends to be her boyfriend to save her from some unwanted attention. In a moment of weakness, she finds out that a decades-long friendship is no match for blistering sexual chemistry. After years of denying his own feelings, Sam finds that one amazing night with Ava isn’t enough to chase away all the pent-up fantasies. So he proposes they spend a few weeks driving each other wild, exhausting their every desire, and then return to their perfect platonic relationship like nothing ever happened. But his plan has one fatal flaw: the part where they give each other up. Because the more they let go of their inhibitions, the more they’re tempted to never go back.'

Cradles of the Reich: A Novel by Jennifer Coburn

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600761 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cradles of the Reich: A Novel Author: Jennifer Coburn Narrator: Natasha Soudek Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Three women, a nation seduced by a madman, and the Nazi breeding program to create a so-called master race At Heim Hochland, a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria, three women’s fates are irrevocably intertwined. Gundi is a pregnant university student from Berlin. An Aryan beauty, she’s secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde, only eighteen, is a true believer in the cause and is thrilled to carry a Nazi official’s child. And Irma, a forty-four-year-old nurse, is desperate to build a new life for herself after personal devastation. All three have everything to lose. Based on untold historical events, this novel brings us intimately inside the Lebensborn Society maternity homes that actually existed in several countries during World War II, where thousands of “racially fit” babies were bred and taken from their mothers to be raised as part of the new Germany. But it proves that in a dark period of history, the connections women forge can carry us through, even driving us to heroism we didn’t know we had within us.

New and Selected Stories by Cristina Rivera Garza

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597288 to listen full audiobooks. Title: New and Selected Stories Author: Cristina Rivera Garza Narrator: Stacey Glemboski, Jane Oppenheimer, Natasha Soudek, Frankie Corzo, Thom Rivera, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Kirsten Potter Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur “genius” Cristina Rivera Garza. “One of Mexico’s greatest living writers,” wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018, “we are just barely beginning to catch up to what she has to offer.” In the years since, Rivera Garza’s work has received widespread recognition: she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant for fiction that “interrogates culturally constructed notions of language, memory, and gender from a transnational perspective,” and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Yet we have still only started to discover the full range of a writer who is at once an incisive voice on migration, borders, and violence against women, as well as a high stylist in the manner of Lispector or Duras. New and Selected Stories now brings together in English translation stories from across Rivera Garza’s career, drawing from three collections spanning over thirty years and including new writing not yet published in Spanish. It is a unique and remarkable body of work, and a window into the ever-evolving stylistic and thematic development of one of the boldest, most original, and affecting writers in the world today.

Closer to Okay by Amy Watson

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603241 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Closer to Okay Author: Amy Watson Narrator: Katherine Littrell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'Kyle Davies is doing fine. She has her routine, after all, ingrained in her from years of working as a baker: wake up, make breakfast, prep the dough, make lunch, work the dough, make dinner, bake dessert, and go to bed. It's a good routine, and it's almost enough to help her forget the scars on her wrist, that she lost her job at the bakery when she checked herself in as an inpatient at Hope House, then signed away all decisions about her life, medical care, and wellbeing to Dr. Booth. Now a new item's been added to her daily to-do list: stare out her window at the coffee shop across the street and its hot owner, Jackson. It's healthy to have eye candy when you're locked in the psych ward, right? So when Dr. Booth allows Kyle to leave the facility, she decides to up the stakes a little more. Why not see what Jackson's like in person? Turns out that Jackson's a jerk with a heart of gold, a deadly combination that Kyle finds herself drawn to more than she should be. At a time when Dr. Booth delivers near-constant warnings about the dangers of romantic entanglements, Kyle is pulled further and further into Jackson's orbit. Is Jackson too much for her to handle? Does love come at the cost of sanity?'

As Little as Nothing by Pamela Mulloy

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603250 to listen full audiobooks. Title: As Little as Nothing Author: Pamela Mulloy Narrator: Lillian Rachel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: October 11, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'In the tumultuous year before war breaks out, a plane crashes on a country lane, and four people are brought together in the aftermath. Miriam is recovering from another miscarriage and learns to fly as an escape from the disappointments in her life. Audrey is a middle-aged upper-class activist who has shunned her society, travels the UK lecturing on reproductive rights, and lives in a Gypsy caravan—and whose daily ritual includes a swim in a nearby river. It is Audrey’s nephew, Frank, who teaches Miriam to fly. A club foot and his suppressed homosexuality have made him reluctant to engage with anyone other than his aunt. But as he succumbs to his attraction to the crashed pilot and convinces Miriam to co-pilot an air race from London to Manchester, and as Audrey confronts her past, ghosts must be laid to rest. With the war looming, As Little as Nothing beautifully explores resilience, the strength of new bonds, and the various ways we reinvent ourselves.'

A Place to Land by Lauren K. Denton

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599597 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Place to Land Author: Lauren K. Denton Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'A delightful Southern story extolling the deep bond of sisters, Lauren Denton’s?A Place to?Land?has a heartwarming tone as it unravels a 40-year-old mystery coming back to haunt a cast of small-town characters whose lives are entwined in Sugar Bend, Alabama.' --New York Journal of Books Violet Figg and her sister Trudy have lived a quiet life in Sugar Bend, Alabama, since a night forty years ago that stole Trudy's voice and cemented Violet's role as her sister's fierce and loyal protector. Now Trudy spends her days making sculptures from found objects and speaking through notes written on scraps of paper, while Violet runs their art shop, monitors bird activity up and down the water, and tries not to think of the one great love she gave up to keep her sister safe. Eighteen-year-old Maya knows where everyone else belongs, but she's been searching for her own place since her grandmother died seven years ago. Moving in and out of strangers' houses has left her exhausted. After seeing a flyer on a gas station window for a place called Sugar Bend, Maya chooses to follow the strange pull she feels and finds herself on the doorstep of an art shop called Two Sisters. When a boat rises to the surface of Little River in the middle of the night, the present and no-longer-buried past collide, and the future becomes uncertain for Maya, Violet, and Trudy. As history creeps continuously closer to the present and old secrets come to light, the sisters must decide to face the truth of what happened that night forty years ago, or risk losing each other and those they've come to love. 'A touching tribute to sisterhood, first loves, and promises kept.' --Susan Meissner, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Nature of Fragile Things

The Storyteller's Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602161 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storyteller's Death Author: Ann Dávila Cardinal Narrator: Marisol Ramirez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.1 of Total 21 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: There was always an old woman dying in the back room of her family’s house when Isla was a child.Isla Larsen Sanchez’s life begins to unravel when her father passes away. Instead of being comforted at home in New Jersey, her mother starts leaving her in Puerto Rico with her grandmother and great-aunt each summer like a piece of forgotten luggage.When Isla turns eighteen, her grandmother, a great storyteller, dies. It is then that Isla discovers she has a gift passed down through her family’s cuentistas. The tales of dead family storytellers are brought back to life, replaying themselves over and over in front of her.At first, Isla is enchanted by this connection to the Sanchez cuentistas. But when Isla has a vision of an old murder mystery, she realizes that if she can’t solve it to make the loop end, these seemingly harmless stories could cost Isla her life.

Songs of Home by Valerie M. Bodden

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603190 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Songs of Home Series: #2 of River Falls Author: Valerie M. Bodden Narrator: Amanda Stribling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 56 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'In the wake of a very public—and very scandalous—breakup, country music star Lydia St. Peter finds herself in need of a place of refuge. She doesn’t know why she thinks she’ll find it with the family she never knew she had in River Falls, Tennessee, but at least the small town will offer her the privacy she so desperately craves. She never expected it to offer more—in the form of her new landlord, Liam, and his troubled teenage daughter. When single dad Liam returns to his hometown of River Falls, it’s with the intention of taking care of his mother and protecting his daughter. He knows his own happiest years are behind him. They died with his wife. What he doesn’t see coming is the instant connection with the new tenant staying in his mother’s carriage house. As Lydia feels the pull of family and Liam allows himself to open to the possibility of love again, a new relationship starts to blossom. But when Lydia is presented with an opportunity that could rocket her to household-name status, she has to decide whether she’s willing to give up everything she’s gained in River Falls to chase her dreams—or if her heart has finally found its home.'

The Next Worst Thing by Sara Jane Woodley

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603187 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Next Worst Thing Series: #1 of Love in Mirror Valley Author: Sara Jane Woodley Narrator: Oliver Hunt, Justis Bolding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 16 minutes Release date: October 4, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'I didn’t ask to organize this wedding, and I certainly didn’t ask for the world’s worst best man as an assistant. But my brother is marrying the love of his life, and I’ll stop at nothing to give him a perfect wedding day—and get our family’s Inn some much-needed publicity in the process. And that means playing nice with James Weston. My brother’s best friend and I have been feuding for as long as I can remember. We don’t like each other, plain and simple—or is it? Is it possible that James isn’t the monster I’ve always thought him to be? And why does he keep showing up to save me right when I need him? (Not that I’d EVER admit it) Falling for James is not on my carefully color-coordinated agenda. Too bad nothing seems to go according to plan when James Weston is around... The Next Worst Thing is a sweet rom-com with all the swoony kisses and chemistry, but no explicit content. Enjoy ridiculous mishaps, a hilarious cast of quirky small-town characters, and a heartwarming HEA that’s sure to give you all the feels.'

Not In America: Book One in a Jewish Family Saga by Roberta Kagan

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602753 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Not In America: Book One in a Jewish Family Saga Series: #1 of Jewish Family Saga Author: Roberta Kagan Narrator: Kelli Tager Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'Jews drink the blood of Christian babies. They use it for their rituals. They are evil and they consort with the devil.' The belief is called the Blood Libel. In a small town in upstate New York in 1928, four-year-old Evelyn Wilson goes missing. Instantly, old prejudices claw to the surface. As a frenzy of panic and bloodlust overwhelms all reason, the community turns on the Schatzman family. A terrible witch hunt follows. The Schatzmans' young son is accused of horrifying crimes. As their life in America falls apart, leaving nothing but anguish and devastation, some of the Schatzmans decide to return home to Berlin. But Germany in the 1930s is no safe harbor. Based on actual events, Not in America explores hidden hatreds, simmering resentments, and the short path separating civilization from horrific violence.

Falling Stars by Fern Michaels

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Falling Stars Author: Fern Michaels Narrator: Susan Bennett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: September 27, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: It’s not just Santa Claus who’s coming to town this Christmas … one of Hollywood’s sexiest stars is too, in this sparkling holiday romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels …Emily Ammerman has always felt at home amid the ski runs and slopes of Snowdrift Summit, the Colorado resort her family has operated for decades. Snow is her element, and she doesn’t hesitate when a new client asks her to train him to ski The Plunge, one of Colorado’s most treacherous runs.But Zach Ryder is no regular client. On screen, he’s famous for starring as a daring CIA officer who always saves the day. In real life, he’s just as handsome and charming as his alter ego, though not everyone is impressed. Some are concerned about what kind of impact these slick, showbiz types will have on their town.As for Emily—she’s got a secret, and it’s one she can’t reveal to anyone, especially not to Zach: she’s his biggest fan. But she’s also a professional. She’ll train him till he’s ready to tackle any slope, but she won’t fall in love with him, the way so many others have.Still, not everything in life can be planned, and sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you just can’t help but fall …

A Cigarette Lit Backwards: A Novel by Tea Hacic-Vlahovic

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592706 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Cigarette Lit Backwards: A Novel Author: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic Narrator: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Set in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices and deep longing, a needle-sharp portrait of a young woman and how far she’ll go to find acceptance Kat is dying to be accepted by the North Carolina punks; she is totally desperate to seem cool. At a punk show, she ends up backstage with a rock star and gets noticed by a photojournalist. And then—a dream come true for Kat—her reputation as a groupie icon skyrockets. But to maintain this notoriety, Kat makes a series of devastating choices, and soon enough, she becomes unrecognizable to herself and others. Tea Hacic-Vlahovic’s A Cigarette Lit Backwards is a sometimes funny, often brutally honest audiobook about ambition and self-discovery and how a world of glamour and cool exerts its bold and breathless pull. In prose that seduces, glitters, and exhilarates, Tea Hacic-Vlahovic has written a story that is both a wild party and a somber reckoning, consolidating her status as a thrilling and essential new voice for our time.

A Merry Little Meet Cute by Sierra Simone, Julie Murphy

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593533 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Merry Little Meet Cute Series: #1 of Christmas Notch Author: Sierra Simone, Julie Murphy Narrator: Sebastian York, Joy Nash Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 5 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ‘The audacity of this magical author duo to sneak in and steal Christmas in the sexiest way possible . . . the charming holiday romp you absolutely need in your life!’ TESSA BAILEY ‘The holiday romcom of my dreams! Sexy, progressive, hilarious, and full of good cheer’ HELEN HOANG When Bee Hobbes takes the lead in a squeaky-clean romantic Christmas movie, there are only three rules: 1. Don’t get involved with anyone on set. 2. Don’t tell anyone what you do for a living. 3. Definitely don’t get involved with anyone on set. 3b. Seriously. Now, she’s filming in Christmas Notch, a small town with Christmas trees and festive tunes all year round. But Bee’s got a secret identity to hide, and it’s not family-friendly. And her co-star, Nolan Shaw, an ex-boyband member infamous for his own x-rated antics, not only knows it, but is secretly her biggest fan. When things start to heat up on set, Bee and Nolan must keep this steamy affair under wraps, or risk ruining everything . . . ’Funny and saucy, this certainly puts the X-rated into Xmas’ Heat ’A merry little masterpiece . . . this is a read for those who want a winter romcom but with some X-rated antics’ Metro ‘The holiday rom-com of your dreams!’ Cosmopolitan ‘Looking for a little bit of spice from your Christmas romance? . . . A refreshingly entertaining and sexy read, which also features some great plus-size representation’ Popsugar ‘For something a little spicy this Christmas, try this holiday romcom’ Yours ‘With plenty of cheeky charm and a cast of superbly nuanced characters, this brilliantly executed rom-com both cleverly skewers and unabashedly celebrates the appeal of squeaky-clean holiday romances, while also championing body positivity in life and love’ Booklist

Truth or Dare by Mira Lyn Kelly

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603225 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Truth or Dare Series: #1 of Dare to Love Author: Mira Lyn Kelly Narrator: Rachel Leblang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'After her one attempt at commitment ends in the worst kind of betrayal, Maggie Lawson vows that the only people she’ll love ’til death do they part will be her friends. Unfortunately, that means Maggie letting her bestie rope her into a year-long dating dare: score a new date each month or pay a penalty. It seems doable—until Maggie’s date stands her up, leaving only one option: the sexy stud who just moved in upstairs. The problem? He and Maggie can’t stop fighting—and that’s just the beginning. His name is Tyler Wells, and the last thing he needs is his neighbor distracting him with her girl-next-door smile and sharp tongue. Tyler’s in Chicago for one reason: to woo back his selfish ex in order to reclaim the child he once thought was his—and that means keeping Maggie out of his bed. And that's a tall order since Maggie has become a bigger temptation than he ever expected to face. But before they can even consider leaving the past behind, Maggie and Tyler must accept a brand-new dare: real, forever love.'

The Complicities by Stacey D'erasmo

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603119 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Complicities Author: Stacey D'erasmo Narrator: Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 39 minutes Release date: September 20, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Award-winning author Stacey D’Erasmo tells a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman trying to rebuild her life after her husband’s arrest, and what she knew—or pretended not to know— about where their family’s money came from. After her husband Alan’s decades of financial fraud are exposed, Suzanne’s wealthy, comfortable life shatters. Alan goes to prison. Suzanne files for divorce, decamps to a barely middle-class Massachusetts beach town, and begins to create a new life and identity. Ignoring a steady stream of calls from Norfolk State Prison, she tries to cleanse herself of all connections to her ex-husband. She tells herself that he, not she, committed the crimes. Then Alan is released early, and the many people whose lives he ruined demand restitution. But when Suzanne finds herself awestruck at a major whale stranding, she makes an apparently high-minded decision that ripples with devastating effect not only through Alan’s life as he tries to rebuild but also through the lives of Suzanne and Alan’s son, Alan’s new wife, his estranged mother, and, ultimately, Suzanne herself. When damage is done, who pays? Who loses? Who is responsible? With biting wisdom, The Complicities examines the ways in which the stories we tell ourselves—that we didn’t know, that we weren’t there, that it wasn’t our fault—are also finally stories of our own deep complicity.

A Very Typical Family: A Novel by Sierra Godfrey

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592577 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Very Typical Family: A Novel Author: Sierra Godfrey Narrator: Gail Shalan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A propulsive contemporary women’s fiction debut with dark humor and messy yet warm-hearted family dynamics, perfect for fans of Claire Lombardo’s The Most Fun We Ever Had and Emma Straub’s All Adults Here All families are messy. Some are disasters. Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and sister went to prison over fifteen years ago. She fled California shortly after that fateful night and hasn’t spoken to anyone in her family since. Now, on the same day her boyfriend steals her dream job out from under her, Natalie receives a letter from a lawyer saying her estranged mother has died and left the family’s historic Santa Cruz house to her. Sort of. The only way for Natalie and her siblings to inherit is for all three adult children to come back and claim it―together. Natalie drives cross-country to Santa Cruz with her willful cat in tow expecting to sign some papers, see siblings Lynn and Jake briefly, and get back to sorting out her life in Boston. But Jake, now an award-winning ornithologist, is missing. And Lynn, working as an undertaker in New York City, shows up with a teenage son. While Natalie and her nephew look for Jake―meeting a very handsome marine biologist who immediately captures her heart―she unpacks the guilt she has held onto for so many years, wondering how (or if) she can salvage a relationship with her siblings after all this time. A Very Typical Family navigates the messy yet warm-hearted journey of a family struggling to find each other again. Written with delightfully dark humor and characters you can’t help but cheer for, this debut from Sierra Godfrey will have you reveling in the power of family and second chances. No one can change the past, but every day is an opportunity to choose your future.

Stone Cold by Winter Renshaw

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603201 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stone Cold Author: Winter Renshaw Narrator: Wayne Mitchell, Samantha Brentmoor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'The most humiliating moment of my life begins with an early morning message from my ex’s notoriously heartless best friend. Jovie— In no way does this mean my opinion of you has changed. I’m reaching out because sometime in the middle of last night you tagged yourself in Jude and Stassi’s engagement photo. I don’t care if you were drunk or it was unintentional. I suggest you remove it immediately since the wedding is in two months (which I’m sure you know since you were clearly FB stalking them). The damage is done, but there's no reason to make things more awkward. You’re welcome. Stone I waste no time removing my accidental tag before the sharp-tongued novelist in me fires off a response to the man who harbored extreme and inexplicable hatred of me during the three years I dated his best friend in college. But I didn’t expect him to respond. And nothing could have prepared me for what he would say…or for all the ways this gorgeous villain with cruel icy blues would become the biggest plot twist my life had ever known.'

His Other Woman by Sarah Edghill

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603189 to listen full audiobooks. Title: His Other Woman Author: Sarah Edghill Narrator: Jodie Harris Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'Lucy’s husband has been missing for days while she tries to pretend to those around her, including her distracted teenagers, that everything is normal. In desperation, she uses a phone app to track him—and discovers he’s with another woman. As her life falls apart, Lucy realizes nothing is as it seems. There's another woman in her husband’s life, but it’s someone she has known—and hated—for twenty years. As the story unfolds, including in the national press, her family must pull together before lives are destroyed.'

Reality in Chaos by Monique Kelley

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/595020 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reality in Chaos Author: Monique Kelley Narrator: Ja'air Bush Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Meet Simone Monroe. Months ago Simone had a fairytale wedding only to realize the actual marriage didn't fit what she had in mind. As she learns the truth behind her marriage, she is faced with realizing not all fairytales have happy endings. Meet Taylor Ross. Taylor has made a life for herself as one of the most talented artists of her generation. When Taylor tries to take on mental illness she is faced with the reality that some things in life cannot be fixed with a paint brush. Meet Jacqueline 'Jackie' McKinley. After years of waiting for her big Hollywood break, Jackie gets an opportunity of a lifetime that changes her life forever. But was the price of fame worth it? What happens when the life you thought you were going to have is hit with the reality in chaos? Through life's unexpected twist and turns, one thing is consistent for these women; their friendship and sisterhood.

Until Tomorrow by Kari Lee Harmon

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Until Tomorrow Author: Kari Lee Harmon Narrator: Maeve Winlock Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Emma Hendricks is a strong, independent journalist known for getting at the truth. Needing to get away, she heads to Beacon Bay—a small coastal town in Maine—for the summer. After finding an antique bottle wedged between two rocks in the ocean, she frees it only to discover there's something inside. Kathleen Connor is living in Beacon Bay during the 1940s in a time of war. Her husband runs the local store, but soon after their wedding, he begins to abuse her, turning her dreams into a nightmare. Meanwhile, present day emergency room doctor and widower Logan Mayfield stitches Emmas hand. She shows him a faded, yellowed map with a coded message written at the bottom and signed, Until Tomorrow. In a place far away and decades ago, Joseph Henry Rutherford III is serving his country the best that he can. Needing to connect with someone, he writes a long, heartfelt letter but it's mistakenly sent down the coast to Kathleen's address. The connection they form through letters creates a love they never imagined possible. When he returns from the war, they form a system of coded letters to secretly meet. When Emma's past catches up with her, will she fight for what she really wants?

The Opera Sisters by Marianne Monson

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599723 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Opera Sisters Author: Marianne Monson Narrator: Anne Flosnik Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Based on the true story of the Cook sisters, who smuggled valuables out of 1930s Nazi Germany to finance a daring, secret operation to help Jews find hope for a new life in England British sisters Ida and Louise Cook enjoy their quiet, unassuming lives in south London. Ida writes romance novels, and Louise works as a secretary. In the evenings, the sisters indulge in their shared love for opera, saving their money to buy records and attend performances throughout England and Europe, becoming well-known by both performers and fellow opera lovers. But when Hitler seizes power in 1933, he begins targeting and persecuting German Jews, passing laws that restrict their rights and their lives. The sisters continue their trips to the German opera houses, but soon, Jewish members of the opera community covertly approach the sisters, worried that they will be stripped of their wealth and forced to leave their homes and the country. Danger looms on the horizon, threatening to spill across all of Europe’s borders. Ida and Louise vow to help, but how can two ordinary working-class women with limited means make a difference? Together with their beloved opera community, the sisters devise a plan to personally escort Jewish refugees from Germany to England. The success of the plan hinges on Ida and Louise’s ability to smuggle contraband jewelry and furs beneath the watchful eyes of the SS soldiers guarding various checkpoints. But how many trips can they make before someone blows a whistle? Or before the final curtain falls on Germany’s borders? The Opera Sisters is a riveting and inspiring novel of two unlikely heroines whose courage and compassion gave hope to many Jews desperate to escape Nazi persecution.

Pieces of Forever by Valerie M. Bodden

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603258 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Pieces of Forever Series: #1 of River Falls Author: Valerie M. Bodden Narrator: Amanda Stribling Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'Eight years ago, Ava and Joseph had the perfect future planned—he would go to veterinary school, she would embark on a career with an exclusive modeling agency, and they’d eventually get married and have three dogs and four children. But then a terrible accident changed everything. Unwilling to believe they could still have a future, she made Joseph promise to leave and live out their dreams without her. Joseph has never broken a promise to Ava...until now. Before he made that stupid promise to leave, they’d made each other another promise—one of forever. Now that he’s done with veterinary school, he’s determined to return to River Falls and show her that his promise still stands, that he loves her just the way she is. But first, he’ll have to find a way to crack the safe she’s erected around her heart. Fortunately, he has help: three lovable dogs, a special group of sick kids, and more than a few slices of pie. But will it be enough to convince Ava that their forever is worth fighting for? Or will he be left picking up the pieces alone?'

The House by the Creek by Elizabeth Bromke

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House by the Creek Series: #1 of Brambleberry Creek Author: Elizabeth Bromke Narrator: Emily Pike Stewart Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: September 6, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'Morgan Jo Coyle hasn’t been back to the small town of Brambleberry Creek or seen any of her family for years. But when she receives the heartbreaking news that her Memaw Essie is on her deathbed, Morgan knows she has to go home to face Essie—and her complicated past—before it’s too late. Stepping through the door of her family’s charming old farmhouse, Morgan is reminded of all the happy times she spent baking and talking with Essie. And it’s not long before her childhood sweetheart, Emmett Dawson, with his sparkling blue eyes and teasing smile, comes to find her. Soon, Morgan and Emmett are spending long summer evenings together in the pretty orchards and eating fruit by the water. It almost feels like old times, but being in the sprawling Kentucky countryside also brings memories of the fateful day that changed Morgan’s life and drove her away from the people she loved. The day she’s trying hard to forgive Essie for… With Essie in hospital, Morgan tries to heal past hurts. But it’s only when she discovers an ink-stained letter written in her memaw’s distinctive hand that she finally starts to understand the truth behind the moment that tore the two women apart. Will the unraveling of a shocking family secret help Morgan find a future with Emmett in Brambleberry Creek? Or will she leave the rolling hills of Kentucky for good?'

Spare Brides by Adele Parks

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602193 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Spare Brides Author: Adele Parks Narrator: Tor Leijten Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Hope. Glamour. Independence. A new era has begun… ‘A wonderfully absorbing tale of friendship, rich in period detail’ Stylist With the Great War behind them, four friends are ready to live again. Lydia, a society beauty, has everything – wealth, status and a husband who survived the War. All she has to do now is provide an heir. Widowed Sarah cares for her wounded brother, certain that no one will ever replace her brave husband. Younger sister Beatrice finds it hard to shine, especially when there are so few men left to shine for… And independent Ava – who can light any room – is determined to seize the freedom of being a single woman. But when these four meet the irresistible war hero Sergeant Major Edgar Trent, everything changes… Spare Brides is a glorious novel about love, loss, change and chances from the Number One bestselling author Adele Parks. Praise for Spare Brides: ‘A resounding success … a triumph’ Daily Mail ‘A touching novel’ Daily Express ‘You’ll love the drama, the gorgeous dresses, grand houses and in particular, the handsome but damaged love interest’ Good Housekeeping ‘This is the first historical novel from bestselling author Adele Parks and it’s a powerful read’ Closer ‘The great author’s first historical novel and it’s a total smash’ Heat ‘A wonderful novel about a group of women struggling to deal with life after World War One… a heady cocktail of love, class and beaded frocks. Her most accomplished novel yet’ Daisy Goodwin ‘A wonderfully absorbing tale of friendship, rich in period detail’ Stylist ‘A fantastic read’ Fabulous

Vanished: Stories by Karin Lin-Greenberg

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vanished: Stories Author: Karin Lin-Greenberg Narrator: Stacey Glemboski, Emily Lawrence, Jane Oppenheimer, Erica Sullivan, Kyla Garcia, Taylor Meskimen, Erin Bennett, Xe Sands, Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 2 minutes Release date: September 1, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them. The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the victim of a cruel prank in a swimming pool, to a television producer who regrets allowing her coworkers into her mother’s bird-filled house to film a show about animal hoarding because it will reveal too much about her family and past. Humorous and empathetic, the collection exposes the adversity in each character’s life; each deals with something or someone who has vanished—a person close to her, a friendship, a relationship—as she seeks to make sense of the world around her in the wake of that loss.

Mansfield Park: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Jane Austen

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592717 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mansfield Park: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation Author: Jane Austen Narrator: Tala Gouveia, Tom Mothersdale, Janice Acquah, Bryan Dick, Lydia Wilson, Full Cast Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 53 minutes Release date: August 25, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A captivating BBC radio dramatisation of Jane Austen's most overlooked novel Sent away from her poverty-stricken parents in Portsmouth to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, nine-year-old Fanny Price is abruptly transplanted to a new, luxurious home: Mansfield Park. Overwhelmed by the grandeur of her surroundings, she feels out of place - and as she grows up, her spoiled cousins, Tom, Maria and Julia, never let her forget her humble beginnings. Only her cousin Edmund treats her with kindness, and the two become close companions. But their lives are turned upside down when Sir Thomas goes away to visit his sugar plantation in the West Indies - and the charismatic Crawfords, Henry and Mary, arrive on the scene. Glamorous, attractive and flirtatious, they shake up the entire Bertram family - and leave Fanny grappling with emotions she's never felt before... In Mansfield Park, Jane Austen gives us her subtlest and most unusual heroine: a displaced child, shaped by family and adversity, who becomes a quietly resolute young woman with an unshakeable moral code. This enthralling dramatisation focusses on the precariousness of Fanny's life - as a poor relation, unmarried, and living on an estate funded by sugar and slavery - and follows her as she navigates this high-stakes world with courage and conviction. Production credits Written by Jane Austen Adapted by Clara Glynn Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane Directed by Bruce Young Fanny Price - Lydia Wilson Edmund Bertram - Bryan Dick Mary Crawford - Tala Gouveia Henry Crawford - Tom Mothersdale Mrs Norris/Mrs Grant - Janice Acquah Lady Bertram - Madeleine Worrall Tom Bertram/William Price - Joshua Riley Sir Thomas - John Hollingworth Mr Rushworth- Samuel Valentine Maria Bertram - Faith Alabi Julia Bertram - Hollie Burgess First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 10-17 July 2022 © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

The Irish Nanny by Sandy Taylor

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Irish Nanny Author: Sandy Taylor Narrator: Evelyn Dillon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 24 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: London 1940. As the war rages in Europe, Rose Brown steps on board a ship bound for America, hoping to escape the danger. She's frightened, but her widowed mammy and three sisters in Ireland need the money she earns as nanny to the rich Townsend family. But while Rose plays with baby Sarah in the salty spray on deck, disaster strikes, and the ocean liner begins to sink. In the chaos, Rose and the baby are separated from the family. Pulled from the sea with the child still in her arms, Rose is afraid as never before. And when she arrives in Brooklyn to search for Sarah's family she feels completely adrift in this unfamiliar land where looming Brownstones line the streets, and workmen in flat caps jostle her on the sidewalks. But just when Sarah's father is within reach, the howling air-raid sirens and deafening bombs she thought she'd left behind shatter her plans once again as tragic news arrives from Pearl Harbor. As fear and panic grips America, what heartbreaking sacrifices will Rose have to make to protect her precious charge? And can she reunite the family before it is too late?

Lucy Checks In: A Novel by Dee Ernst

Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602225 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucy Checks In: A Novel Author: Dee Ernst Narrator: Gillian Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 37 minutes Release date: August 16, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Dee Ernst's Lucy Checks In is a delightful work of romantic comedy about a disgraced hotel manager who travels to Rennes to rebuild a hotel and her own life in the process.Lucia Giannetti needs a fresh start. Once the hotel manager of a glamorous NYC hotel and intimately involved with the hotel’s owner, Lucy had her entire future planned out. But when the owner disappears, taking millions of dollars with him, Lucy's life as she knows it falls apart.Two years later, forty-nine years old and unemployed, Lucy takes a job in Rennes, France to manage the Hotel Paradis. She pictures fur quilts and extravagant chandeliers, but what she finds is wildly different. Lucy is now in charge of turning the run-down, but charming hotel into a bustling tourist attraction. Between painting rooms, building a website, and getting to know Bing, the irritatingly attractive artist, Lucy finds an unexpected home. But can she succeed in bringing the Hotel Paradis to its former glory?Witty and heartfelt, Lucy Checks In is an inspiring and feel-good novel about reclaiming your life, finding love, and creating a home in places you never thought possible.

Midlife Mulligan Collection: Books 1 – 3 by Eve Langlais

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Midlife Mulligan Collection: Books 1 – 3 Author: Eve Langlais Narrator: Nicole Poole Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 39 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: If you thought adventure and magic stopped at forty, guess again, it's just the beginning. Get ready for a journey of discovery as a forty-something heroine slams into a midlife crisis. After her husband leaves her, Naomi moves into her late grandmother's cottage and discovers a world of magic. Life becomes unpredictable—and exciting—especially with a supernatural mystery that only she can solve—if she survives. Midlife Mulligan is a three book collection featuring previously published titles: ● Halfway There: Ever wish life had a do over button? ● On My Way: I think my midlife crisis is trying to kill me. ● Don't Stop Believing: The weirdest thing about my life isn't the fact my cat started talking to me. Contains mature themes.

The Orphans of Mersea House by Marty Wingate

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597868 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Orphans of Mersea House Author: Marty Wingate Narrator: Henrietta Meire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 34 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: England, 1957. Olive Kersey’s only love never returned from World War II, and now she’s alone and penniless. Then the last person she ever expected to see again returns to Southwold. Olive’s childhood friend, Margery Paxton, arrives to claim her inheritance: Mersea House, a stately old home she plans to turn into the town’s only lodging. Olive’s life takes a sunny turn when Margery hires her to run the establishment. But Mersea House holds its own mysteries—and its own dangers. First, rumors begin to fly when two enigmatic lodgers move in: Hugh Hodson, manager of the town cinema, and Mrs. Abigail Claypool, a recluse and war widow. And then the completely unexpected happens: Margery is informed she has a new ward, eleven-year-old Juniper Wyckes, the orphaned daughter of Margery’s first love. Mrs. Lucie Pagett, Children’s Officer at the local authority, informs Margery that Juniper was severely stricken with polio as a child and makes clear that she could be taken away if her welfare is in jeopardy. The past is never far behind for the inhabitants of Mersea House, and looming secrets may destroy the friendships they've created.

The Neapolitan Sisters by Margo Candela

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597849 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Neapolitan Sisters Author: Margo Candela Narrator: Ana Daniela Osorio, Carolina Hoyos, Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Growing up with a kind but alcoholic father and a suspicious, passive-aggressive mother, the Bernal sisters each developed their own way of coping: Dulcina had her art and drugs and alcohol, Claudia plunged into her studies and fled to Princeton, and Maritza watched one Disney movie after another in between devouring romance novels. Now all grown up, the sisters are reunited at last for Maritza’s dream wedding. But they are no less different than they were growing up: Maritza is a princess bridezilla, Claudia is the family “fixer,” and Dulcina “Dooley” is finally sober. With all three Bernal sisters back in their East L.A. home, each begins to take steps to come to terms with each other, their parents, and secrets from their shared past. While their lives may have taken different paths, they are still sisters at heart. Told in alternating points of view, The Neapolitan Sisters is a humorous yet moving look at what it means to be a sister, a daughter, and, ultimately, your own self, despite the pressures that come with being part of a family.

Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603098 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Archer's Voice Series: #1 of Where Love Meets Destiny Author: Mia Sheridan Narrator: Kris Koscheski, Emily Durante Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 51 minutes Release date: August 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.24 of Total 109 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 15 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Fall in love with this emotional New York Times bestselling romance between two tortured souls who find their chance at happiness in the most unexpected way. I wanted to lose myself in the small town of Pelion, Maine. To forget everything I had left behind. The sound of rain. The blood. The coldness of a gun against my skin. For six months, each breath has been a reminder that I survived -- and my dad didn't. I'm almost safe again. But the moment I meet Archer Hale, my entire world tilts on its axis . . . and never rights itself again. Until I trespass into his strange, silent, and isolated world, Archer communicates with no one. Yet in his whiskey-colored eyes, something intangible happens between us. There's so much more to him than just his beauty, his presence, or the ways his hands communicate with me. On me. But this town is mired in secrets and betrayals, and Archer is the explosive center of it all. So much passion. And so much hurt. But it's only in Archer's silence that we might just find what we need to heal . . . and live. Includes an exclusive extended epilogue from Archer's POV! Named one of the 'Top Romance Novels of All Time' by Goodreads! A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller!

Big Girl: A Novel by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600162 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Big Girl: A Novel Author: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon. In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils—and undeniable beauty—of insatiable longing. Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem, eight-year-old Malaya hates when her mother drags her to Weight Watchers meetings; she'd rather paint alone in her bedroom or enjoy forbidden street foods with her father. For Malaya, the pressures of her predominantly white Upper East Side prep school are relentless, as are the expectations passed down from her painfully proper mother and sharp-tongued grandmother. As she comes of age in the 1990s, she finds solace in the music of Biggie Smalls and Aaliyah, but her weight continues to climb—until a family tragedy forces her to face the source of her hunger, ultimately shattering her inherited stigmas surrounding women's bodies, and embracing her own desire. Written with vibrant lyricism shot through with tenderness, Big Girl announces Sullivan as an urgent and vital voice in contemporary fiction.

The Women in Black: A Novel by Madeleine St John

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604107 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Women in Black: A Novel Author: Madeleine St John Narrator: Deidre Rubenstein Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 53 minutes Release date: July 26, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “The book I most often give as a gift to cheer people up.” —Hilary Mantel “Tart, beguiling, witty and compassionate, Madeleine St. John’s novel is a literary boost for the spirits.” —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air “A deceptively smart comic gem.” –The New York Times Book Review “Witty and delicious.” –People The women in black, so named for the black frocks they wear while working at Goode’s department store, are busy selling ladies’ dresses during the holiday rush. But they somehow find time to pursue other goals… Patty, in her mid-thirties, has been working at Goode’s for years. Her husband, Frank, eats a steak for dinner every night, watches a few minutes of TV, and then turns in. Patty yearns for a baby, but Frank is always too tired for that kind of thing. Sweet, unlucky Fay wants to settle down with a nice man, but somehow nice men don’t see her as marriage material. Glamorous Magda runs the high-end gowns department. A Slovenian émigré, Magda is cultured and continental and hopes to open her own boutique one day. Lisa, a clever and shy teenager, takes a job at Goode’s during her school break. Lisa wants to go to university and dreams of becoming a poet, but her father objects to both notions. By the time the last marked-down dress is sold, all of their lives will be forever changed. A pitch-perfect comedy of manners set during a pivotal era, and perfect for fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Women in Black conjures the energy of a city on the cusp of change and is a testament to the timeless importance of female friendship.

[German] - Glückskekse: Roman by Anne Hertz

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603599 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Glückskekse: Roman Author: Anne Hertz Narrator: Steffen Groth, Katrin Fröhlich Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Das Glück hat eine neue Nummer Statt »Happy Birthday!« sagt Janas Freund an ihrem Geburtstag »Ich mach Schluss!« – irgendwie läuft ihr Leben seit Jahren nicht so richtig rund. Und Jana weiß einfach nicht, warum das so ist. Da schlagen ihre Freundinnen vor, einfach mal das Universum zu befragen: Jana soll an eine ausgedachte Handynummer schreiben. Kurzerhand schickt sie die Nachricht »Was kann ich tun, um endlich glücklich zu werden? SIE« ab – und erhält eine Antwort von einem fremden ER. Aus einer Nachricht werden zwei, dann drei, und bald schreiben die beiden sich täglich. Aber wer ist dieser Mann, der sie so versteht wie kein anderer? Könnte er der Richtige sein, mit dem sie das gesuchte Glück findet?

[German] - Das Geheimnis des Kameliengartens: Liebesroman by Evelyn Kühne

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603064 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Das Geheimnis des Kameliengartens: Liebesroman Author: Evelyn Kühne Narrator: Antje Härle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Release date: July 20, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Ein Roman über die Reise zu sich selbst, eine wundersame Begegnung und eine zweite Chance für die Liebe. Seit dem Tod ihres Mannes befindet sich Simones Leben im Stillstand, doch das soll sich nun ändern! Sie beschließt, endlich wieder aus sich herauszugehen und ihrem Leben neuen Schwung zu geben. Kurzerhand macht Simone sich auf die Suche nach Gleichgesinnten und stößt auf das Inserat eines Frauentrios, das ein »viertes Kleeblatt« für gemeinsame Reisen sucht. Doch Simones Zurück-ins-Leben-Urlaub auf der traumhaften Azoreninsel São Miguel entpuppt sich als weit mehr als der kleine Schritt, den sie bereit war zu gehen. Denn da ist nicht nur Christoph, der ihr als Reiseführer die Schönheiten der Insel zeigt und ganz nebenbei ihr trauerndes Herz heilt. Simone wird auch von der wundersamen alten Dame in den Bann gezogen, die in einem verwunschenen Kameliengarten lebt, über dem mehr als nur ein Geheimnis zu schweben scheint. Der neue Liebesroman von Bestseller-Autorin Evelyn Kühne entführt auf die atemberaubende Azoreninsel São Miguel – für alle, die sich in die Ferne träumen wollen!

Someone Else's Child: A gripping and heartbreaking novel about family secrets by Alison Ragsdale

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600290 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Someone Else's Child: A gripping and heartbreaking novel about family secrets Author: Alison Ragsdale Narrator: Diane Brooks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The first time I saw you, I knew you were meant to be ours. I took you in my arms, your little hands in tight fists, and I knew I was going to do everything in my power to be the mother you needed and deserved… When Catriona loses her baby girl at birth, it shatters her. But like a light in the darkness, Catriona is given the chance to adopt beautiful baby April, and now she cannot imagine life without her. The family's picture-perfect home is filled every day with April's warm giggles and joyful games. But when her daughter is just eight years old, Catriona gets the call that she has been silently dreading. April's birth mother, Lauren, would like to meet her. Lauren breezes into their home and April just sparkles around her. Their matching turquoise eyes and chestnut hair feels like a knife to Catriona's heart. Lauren appears to have her life back on track, with a good job and a new house in an upscale neighbourhood. Pushing to spend more and more time with April, one day Lauren says the unthinkable: April belongs with me. Who can truly give the little girl the love and family she deserves? Catriona is sure Lauren is keeping secrets. Catriona only wants what is best for her darling daughter, but does that really mean she has to let her go forever? A totally unforgettable, emotional, and beautiful novel that will break your heart into a million pieces and put it back together again. Powerful and ultimately uplifting, fans of Kate Hewitt, Jodi Picoult and Diane Chamberlain will be captivated.

[Spanish] - El verano que volvimos a Alegranza by María Fernández-Miranda

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604406 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El verano que volvimos a Alegranza Author: María Fernández-Miranda Narrator: Laura Piñero Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 36 minutes Release date: July 14, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Atravesada por la memoria olfativa y bañada por la luz de Asturias, El verano que volvimos a Alegranza es una novela evocadora que nos recuerda que las buenas historias, igual que los buenos perfumes, siempre son necesarias. Leandra es editora en una revista de moda con sede en Madrid. A sus treinta y cinco años se ha alejado de su marido, ha perdido la ilusión por su trabajo y ha presenciado la muerte de su tía Valentina en circunstancias dramáticas. En busca de respuestas a la crisis existencial en la que se halla inmersa, decide pasar un verano en Alegranza -la casa de indianos que construyó su abuelo Tomás en el pueblo asturiano de Colunga- y aceptar el reto de Jean-Luc Peltier, un prestigioso perfumista al que ha entrevistado: elaborar un perfume que la ayude a definirse a sí misma. Mientras bucea en sus recuerdos de infancia, impregnados de rosa silvestre, hortensia o madreselva, Leandra irá desvelando las distintas capas de secretos que, como los ingredientes de una fragancia, componen la historia de su familia. «Después de la última curva, esa que tantas veces había surfeado de pequeña a lomos de mi bicicleta BH con el cesto de mimbre sujeto entre los manillares, apareció ante mí la silueta de Alegranza, la casa familiar que no pisaba desde hacía por lo menos diez años. Aunque había algunas grietas en el muro y el jardín se había vuelto indómito, con la maleza avanzando a su antojo por la escalera de piedra de la entrada, por lo demás se mantenía más o menos como yo la recordaba, imponente y señorial. La misma fachada soberbia, con los balcones en las tres ventanas principales desde los cuales podía verse el mar en los días despejados, y la misma palmera enorme a la derecha, un poco inclinada, en permanente amenaza de precipitarse sobre el tejado. Detrás de la casa se avistaba la sierra del Sueve, en cuyos picos de tonalidades ocres se quedaban prendidas las nubes. No dejaba de ser una ironía que el abuelo Tomás hubiera bautizado esa casona insertada en un paisaje tan asturiano con el nombre de un islote canario. Según me contó una vez tía Valentina, su padre había viajado en cierta ocasión a Lanzarote y, al contemplar desde lo lejos aquel trozo de apenas diez kilómetros cuadrados de tierra salvaje rodeada de mar, comentó que así se había sentido él al poner rumbo a América: solo y con todo por hacer. Alegranza era su isla conquistada». Reseñas: «María Fernández Miranda se estrena con esta delicia de novela que solo tiene un defecto... la lees en dos días, cuando lo que quisieras es no salir de ese universo único.» Maribel Verdú «Uno de los imprescindibles del verano, que te acompañará de la playa a casa.» ¡Hola! «Mezcla lujo, amor, perfumes, historias familiares y una crítica a los caminos establecidos, a lo que se supone que hay que hacer.» Elle «Un bonito relato con pasajes propios del realismo mágico, ideal para lectura estival.» El Mundo «Con su libro apetece viajar, tener tías y una casa de indianos.» La Nueva España «Un libro que te engancha desde la primera página y con el que podrás 'viajar' a una decadente casa de indianos en Asturias, a los campos de flores de Grasse, a los cafés más sibaritas de París, a playas perdidas en Filipinas… Una novela perfecta para devorar este verano.» Cosmopolitan «La novela que propone el viaje olfativo que te enganchará.» Harpers Bazaar

The Poet's House by Jean Thompson

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603099 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Poet's House Author: Jean Thompson Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: July 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In this warm and witty story, a young woman gets swept up in the rivalries and love affairs of a dramatic group of writers. Carla is stuck. In her twenties and working for a landscaper, she’s been told she’s on the wrong path by everyone—from her mom, who wants her to work at the hospital, to her boyfriend, who is dropping not-so-subtle hints that she should be doing something that matters. Then she is hired for a job at the home of Viridian, a lauded and lovely aging poet who introduces Carla to an eccentric circle of writers. At first she is perplexed by their predilection for reciting lines in conversation, the stories of their many liaisons, their endless wine-soaked nights. Soon, though, she becomes enamored with this entire world: with Viridian, whose reputation has been defined by her infamous affair with a male poet, Mathias; with Viridian’s circle; and especially with the power of words, the “ache and hunger that can both be awakened and soothed by a poem,” a hunger that Carla feels sharply. When a fight emerges over a vital cache of poems that Mathias wrote about Viridian, Carla gets drawn in. But how much will she sacrifice for a group that may or may not see her as one of their own? A delightfully funny look at the art world—sometimes petty, sometimes transactional, sometimes transformative— The Poet’s House is also a refreshingly candid story of finding one’s way, with words as our lantern in the dark.

Grace by Victoria Scott

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/600372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grace Author: Victoria Scott Narrator: Bronwen Price Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 52 minutes Release date: July 7, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The gripping and heartbreaking second novel by the author of BA Book of the Month and LoveReading Debut of the Month Patience. She gave you her baby. Now she wants her back. Nineteen-year-old Michelle has had a tough life, to say the least. Then she gets pregnant. She is convinced she would be a terrible mother but having grown up in care, she cannot bring herself to subject her child to the same fate. Amelia and her husband have dreamed of having a family for years, but have lost all hope after the worst kind of tragedy. Then they are offered the chance to adopt baby Grace, and it feels like they finally have everything they've ever wanted. But then Michelle decides she wants her daughter back, and it's up to the courts to decide. What is best for Grace – a mother's love, or a stable home? Whatever the ruling, one thing is certain: neither woman's life will ever be the same again... Praise for Victoria Scott: 'An extraordinary novel about love and hope and family and what happens in the space between the words. I adored it' Kirsten Hesketh 'An eye-opening, sincere and beautiful debut. A really special novel that I suspect will have a tangible effect on readers' NB Magazine 'An absorbing, poignant story of a family's emotional rollercoaster in the aftermath of participating in a risky medical trial' LoveReading

The New Neighbour by Miranda Rijks

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591447 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New Neighbour Author: Miranda Rijks Narrator: Chris Devon, Danielle Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 30, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Until recently, Isobel has always loved The Close. A quiet road of large houses tucked away in the beautiful English countryside, it seemed like the perfect place to live. Then, six months ago, a young man was killed in a mysterious hit-and-run incident. The police investigated, but no one was charged, which left a bad feeling in this little community, a feeling that someone knows more than they are saying. So when new neighbor Linette arrives, Isobel thinks it’s the perfect chance to make a fresh start, to repair relationships, and rebuild her community. But someone else has a very different plan, and bad things start to happen. When there’s another death, Isobel realizes her home, her marriage, and her family are all in terrible danger. She is certain that what’s happening is connected to the hit-and-run. But how? What really happened on the night of the fatal accident? And above all, who is Linette, and what does she really want?

Escape Girl: Tech-nically Love, Book Three by Michelle Dayton

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597818 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escape Girl: Tech-nically Love, Book Three Series: #3 of Tech-nically Love Author: Michelle Dayton Narrator: Gail Shalan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 31 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: You can’t divorce yourself from love…Emily Saturn’s world is spinning out of control. An intellectual property lawyer, she’s gone rogue from her firm, dealing with a major lawsuit against a predatory software company’s CEO pro bono. When she isn’t looking for elusive evidence she can use—legally, of course—she’s trying to avoid her soon-to-be ex-husband, Bobby March.After their whirlwind courtship and wedding, Bobby can’t pinpoint what went wrong between them. He’s been working for months on his new career and personal growth, determined to be the man his wife deserves. Desperate to get her attention, Bobby invites Emily to a series of individually designed virtual escape rooms, each one a moment from their love story. Hopefully, the sexy, romantic trip down memory lane will rekindle their intense connection—and clue him in as to how to fix this.Emily has never been able to resist a puzzle. Or, frankly, Bobby. The more she interacts with her husband online, the more she wants to see him again in person. Which is beyond stupid because Emily knows he’s wrong for her. Right?

[German] - Die Hennakünstlerin (ungekürzt) by Alka Joshi

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603063 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Die Hennakünstlerin (ungekürzt) Series: #1 of Die Jaipur-Trilogie Author: Alka Joshi Narrator: Lena Tiemann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 28, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: »Ich war von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite gebannt.« Reese Witherspoon Die junge Lakshmi entflieht einer gewaltsamen Ehe und schlägt sich bis in die pulsierende Großstadt Jaipur durch. Dort steigt sie durch Talent und unbeugsamen Willen zu einer der hochangesehensten Hennakünstlerinnen des Landes auf. Während sie wohlhabende Frauen mit meisterhaften Hennaverzierungen schmückt, erfährt sie so manches gut gehütete Geheimnis der indischen Elite. Dabei ist sie selbst stets dazu gezwungen, über ihre Herkunft zu schweigen. Als Lakshmi mit ihrer Vergangenheit konfrontiert wird, steht ihre hart erarbeitete Freiheit auf dem Spiel. Doch sie ist nicht bereit, kampflos aufzugeben.

[German] - Himmel über dem Salzgarten - Salzgarten-Saga, Teil 2 (Ungekürzt) by Tabea Bach

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604034 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Himmel über dem Salzgarten - Salzgarten-Saga, Teil 2 (Ungekürzt) Author: Tabea Bach Narrator: Elena Wilms Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: June 24, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Julia und Álvaro sind glücklich miteinander. Der traditionelle Salzgarten mit seinem erlesenen Meersalz ist erfolgreich. Julias kleines Restaurant wird immer beliebter. Alles könnte so schön sein, wenn nicht ausgerechnet Jens, Julias Bruder und Vater ihres geliebten Patensohns Emil, in der Nähe eine Tauchstation für Touristen eröffnen wollte. Denn zu Jens' Plan gehört, dass einige Unterwasserfelsen gesprengt werden. Doch diese Sprengungen würden das gesamte Ökosystem an diesem Küstenabschnitt gefährden - und natürlich auch den Salzgarten. Kann Julia den Salzgarten und die einzigartige Unterwasserwelt retten? Muss sie sich entscheiden zwischen dem Mann, den sie liebt, und ihrer Familie?

[Spanish] - El Club de las Amazonas by Fernando Riquelme Lidón

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603045 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El Club de las Amazonas Author: Fernando Riquelme Lidón Narrator: Vintalis Síntesis Del Habla Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 22, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: El narrador, directivo financiero en una entidad bancaria, superados los cincuenta años y tras un divorcio, nos relata su vida en el ámbito profesional y personal en un tiempo futuro próximo en el que, alcanzada la igualdad de oportunidades entre hombres y mujeres, el cambio de paradigma en las relaciones entre sexos no elimina, sin embargo, el conflicto de género. Una serie de personajes, hombres y mujeres, más o menos machistas ellos o feministas ellas, indicen en la vida del narrador que se enfrenta a situaciones conflictivas inesperadas. Fernando Riquelme aborda en su novela 'El club de las amazonas' el apasionante universo de las relaciones hombre/mujer en estos nuevos tiempos, que tan bien sabe captar. – Vicente Molina Foix

[Russian] - Моя гениальная подруга by элена ферранте

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602364 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Моя гениальная подруга Series: #1 of Неаполитанский квартет Author: элена ферранте Narrator: светлана кузнецова Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 20, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Первый из четырех романов уже ставшего культовым во всем мире 'неаполитанского цикла' Элены Ферранте — это история двух подруг, Лену и Лилы, живущих в 50-е годы в одном из бедных кварталов Неаполя. Их детство и юность проходят на суровых улицах, где девочки учатся во всех обстоятельствах полагаться только друг на друга. Идут годы. Пути Лену и Лилы то расходятся, то сходятся вновь, но они остаются лучшими подругами — такими, когда жизнь одной отражается и преломляется в судьбе другой. Через историю Лилы и Лену Ферранте рассказывает о драматических изменениях в жизни квартала, города, страны — от фашизма и господства мафии до расцвета коммунистического движения, и о том, как эти изменения сказываются на отношениях между героинями, незабываемыми Лену и Лилой.

[Spanish] - Novia que te vea by Rosa Nissán

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601152 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Novia que te vea Author: Rosa Nissán Narrator: Adriana Galindo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: June 16, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary:

El relato íntimo de una joven y su lucha por descubrir quién es más allá de las expectativas de su familia, encontramos un retrato compasivo y perspicaz de las mujeres en un periodo de transición de la tradición a la modernidad, y de la complejidad étnica en el México urbano moderno.

Oshinica, una joven perteneciente a la comunidad sefaradí en el México de los años cincuenta, comparte, a través de lo escrito en su diario, sus anhelos, temores e inquietudes mientras crece y es preparada para algún día convertirse en esposa. Pero, mientras ese momento llega, descubre el mundo académico y comienza a preguntarse si otra forma de vida es posible para ella y para las mujeres que la rodean. ¿Y si se atreviera a cambiar el rumbo de su vida? Mientras el lector se vuelve el confidente de Oshinica y es partícipe de su miedo a ser sorprendida en el acto de escritura, en Novia que te vea -llevada al cine, gracias a la recomendación de Elena Poniatowska, por Guita Schyfter, con guion de Hugo Hiriart- se nos revela ese México conformado por minorías que luchan por integrarse a una sociedad plural y en proceso de transformación, sin renunciar a sus costumbres, creencias y forma de expresarse.

[German] - Küss keinen Frosch, denn es könnte ein Prinz sein: Ü40-Liebesroman by Corinna Kohfink

Sat, 04 Jun 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/599105 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Küss keinen Frosch, denn es könnte ein Prinz sein: Ü40-Liebesroman Author: Corinna Kohfink Narrator: Andrea Husak Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: June 4, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Eva, 46, führt erfolgreich eine psychotherapeutische Praxis. Beruflich läuft alles rund, doch dem privaten Glück weicht sie aus. Ein Zufall spült ihr den geheimnisvollen Musiker und Kinderbuchautor Klaus Frosch über den Weg, der ihr nach einem denkwürdigen Abend einen ganz und gar nicht alltäglichen Vorschlag unterbreitet. Was als verlockender Deal beginnt, wirbelt Evas sorgfältig kontrollierte Welt zunehmend durcheinander. Ihre Beziehung zu ihm, die eigentlich überhaupt keine sein will, konfrontiert sie mit den Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit, über die sie seit dreißig Jahren nicht zu springen wagt. Bei einer gemeinsamen Reise mit Freunden nach Korfu werden die Karten neu gemischt. Während sich die sechs Menschen unter dem griechischen Nachthimmel ihre Lebensgeschichten erzählen, muss sich Eva nicht nur zwischen zwei Männern entscheiden, sondern auch zwischen sicherer Unverbindlichkeit und dem Abenteuer Liebe ...

[Spanish] - La frontera lleva su nombre by Elena Moreno Scheredre

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597265 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La frontera lleva su nombre Author: Elena Moreno Scheredre Narrator: Olivia Vives Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 44 minutes Release date: June 2, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: La frontera lleva su nombre es el relato de cuatro generaciones de mujeres valientes acostumbradas a sentir en silencio, a través del tiempo, los confines, el amor y la guerra. La gran novela de las «golondrinas». Un relato emocionante tejido con los hilos de una historia real silenciada. Desde finales del siglo XIX y hasta los años cincuenta del siglo pasado, las jóvenes más humildes de los valles del Pirineo navarro y aragonés cruzaban a pie las montañas para trabajar en las fábricas de alpargatas del lado francés. Como las golondrinas, marchaban en octubre y regresaban en primavera, llenas de ilusión y cargadas de telas y enseres para el ajuar que constituiría su aportación a un futuro matrimonio. Esperanza Ayerra es biznieta de Esperanza, una golondrina que cruzó los Pirineos en 1913 y a la que la mayor contienda mundial robó su porvenir. Es nieta de Esperanza, conocida como Perla, que no tuvo padre, ni marido, por el cruel destino de una España dividida. Es hija de Espe, una mujer que se tragó sus penas y a la que la historia dejó sin aire. Es el fruto de la frontera entre dos países que se alejan y se acercan cuando sus pobladores se enamoran. «Mi bisabuela, como la mayoría de las roncalesas de su generación, era una golondrina. Con las mujeres de otros valles cercanos, se iban a Francia a trabajar, donde fabricaban alpargatas por siete o diez céntimos de franco la hora... Las llamaban «las golondrinas», hirondelles en francés, porque su emigración coincidía con la de estas aves. Se iban en octubre y volvían en mayo o junio, y nunca supieron si las raíces de sus vidas estaban a un lado o al otro de los Pirineos».

The Summer Daughter by Colleen French

Tue, 31 May 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592600 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summer Daughter Author: Colleen French Narrator: Erin Ruth Walker, Melissa Kay Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Summer fiction at its page-turning best for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Holly Chamberlin, and Nancy Thayer! Colleen French, acclaimed author of The Summer I Found Myself, brings readers to Albany Beach, Delaware, where one woman must decide whether to seek out the daughter she gave up for adoption.Each year, the start of summer brings bustle and much-needed tourist dollars to the little town of Albany Beach, Delaware. For Natalie Sullivan, this season is proving more stressful than others. It’s make-or-break time for the Irish pub her husband, Conor, recently bought with his brothers. Their two children are thriving, but she’s experiencing pangs of loss at the end of her childbearing years. When sixteen-year-old McKenzie starts gushing about Bella, the new coworker at her summer job, Natalie suddenly finds her past and present in conflict. Bella, two years older than McKenzie, looks so similar that a customer remarks that they could be sisters. And when Natalie learns that Bella was adopted, she is propelled back into a heartbreaking decision. As a college student, Natalie became pregnant and put her baby up for adoption. Now, the more McKenzie talks about Bella, the more Natalie wonders: could Bella be her daughter? Conor insists it’s a mistake to pursue the matter. Natalie’s child belongs to another family now; that was the agreement in the closed adoption. Still, Natalie can’t resist spending time with Bella. As their bond deepens, McKenzie accuses her mother of caring more for a stranger than for her, and Natalie begins imagining what it would be like to have Bella as a second daughter. What will the impact be if Bella really is her biological child? And if she isn’t, can Natalie embrace the joy and potential in her own family, without always wondering about what could have been?

[Spanish] - Lo que no he dicho by Beatriz Rivas

Thu, 19 May 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591654 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Lo que no he dicho Author: Beatriz Rivas Narrator: Gaby Torres Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: «¿Pesara más un edificio sobre mi cuerpo... o una muerte sobre mi conciencia?» ¡Esta temblando! Un romance a escondidas. Un departamento en la colonia Roma. Los objetos se desploman, las paredes se agrietan. « Moriremos?» La escala de Richter es alta y la fatalidad, tambien. Gritos. El pavor crece y se quiebra; de las fisuras manan los recuerdos de ella que, aterrorizada, espera la caida. Como destellos de vida, se dispara el recuento final de una historia hecha de tantas otras. Se desprenden los mosaicos de sus vivencias, amorios, viajes, infancia feliz... o remendada? Matrimonios, divorcios, una hija sabia, genial y entrafiable . Existen los recuerdos o son visiones desesperadas de un aqui que se derrumba? El pecado de omisión y la culpa taladran la memoria de esta enamoradiza agnóstica, mientras crujen las entrafias de la tierra. El desafio que tiene por delante consistira en contarlo todo a riesgo de que solo las piedras y el polvo la escuchen. En esta intima y emotiva novela, Beatriz Rivas compone un collage de confesiones, pensamientos, desahogos, manias, banalidades y fantasmas que se entrelazan entre hondos cuestionamientos. Un rompecabezas para los voyeuristas del alma donde se unen placeres y heridas; un caleidoscopio de voces que gira concéntrico y revelador. Loque no he dicho es una expiación a la velocidad del miedo...

[Spanish] - Amor armado by Jennifer Clement

Thu, 19 May 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/591630 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Amor armado Author: Jennifer Clement Narrator: Gabriela Guraieb Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 42 minutes Release date: May 19, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: «Pearl, fue un amor armado. Eso es lo que el hombre sentía por tu madre. Compró la pistola sin siquiera saber que era para ella hasta que vio a tu madre. Así que debes tomarlo como un sacrificio. La vida está siempre a orillas de la muerte.» Pearl es una niña que vive en un coche estacionado en un parque para caravanas en Florida junto a su madre, una joven dulce, frágil y soñadoraque huyó de una vida acomodada cuando a los diecisiete años dio a luz en secreto a su hija. Atrapadas en la América blanca más miserable, madre e hija viven rodeadas por una comunidad compuesta por veteranos de guerra, reverendos que trafican armas, fugitivos y traficantes de heroína. En el reducido espacio del coche, Pearl crece arropada por las canciones de amor quecanta su madre, por terrones de azúcar y las frases tiernas que intentan acallar el ruido de los revólveres que las rodean y cada noche disparan. Pero cuando Pearl tiene doce años, la llegada de Eli, un texano metido en el tráfico de armas, parte su infancia en dos. Su madre se enamora del chico malo, y las drogas y las armas llegan a su pequeño mundo y tuercen por completo su vida.

[Spanish] - El último hombre blanco by Nuria Labari

Thu, 12 May 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - El último hombre blanco Author: Nuria Labari Narrator: Isabel Torrevejano Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 41 minutes Release date: May 12, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: «La escritura de Nuria Labari es precisa como una aleación de hierro y carbono. Resiste temperaturas de lectura altísimas sin deformarse y soporta edificios narrativos de la densidad del hormigón prensado. [...] Lo he leído al borde del jadeo. Hacia la mitad me hice una prueba de antígenos. Di negativo porque era la prosa de Labari la que me quitaba la respiración. ¿Que de qué va? De eso mismo, de la respiración. De su precio». Juan José Millás «El libro que necesitaba leer este año. Un viaje de pesadilla a las entrañas de un sistema ante el que ya no somos cuerpo, solo fuerza de trabajo. Una lectura que nos da las palabras precisas para nombrar lo que nos enferma y concita la rabia que necesitamos para, de una vez, romperlo todo». Aixa de la Cruz «Un relato clarividente, inteligentísimo, vivisección de lo que es ser hoy mujer y hombre, por separado y simultáneamente». Agustín Fernández Mallo A sus cuarenta y cuatro años, la mujer que protagoniza esta novela se ha convertido en un auténtico «hombre» de negocios: gana doscientos mil euros al año y ha modelado su cuerpo, su tiempo, su lenguaje y hasta sus relaciones sexuales para conseguir tener tanto poder como un hombre, ser aceptada en sus círculos, ganarse su total confianza y convertirse, por fin, en uno de ellos. En la cima de su carrera profesional, cuando lleva años viviendo, pensando y ganando exactamente lo mismo que sus colegas masculinos, echa la vista atrás y observa su metamorfosis, desde la primera vez que pensó que había nacido en el bando equivocado hasta el momento en que comprende que su éxito profesional es también el resultado de una monstruosa transformación personal. El último hombre blanco puede leerse como la crónica de una infiltrada en las costuras del mercado laboral o como el testimonio de un hombre poderoso y opaco que por primera vez toma la palabra dispuesto a decir la verdad. La prosa incisiva y lúcida de Nuria Labari sirve para contar la historia de una mujer que creyó que necesitaba escalar una montaña y de cómo, una vez que consiguió llegar a la cumbre, deseó hacerla estallar. Reseñas: «Esclarecedora novela sobre el poder. No sobre cómo alcanzarlo, o detentarlo, que también, sino por qué destruirlo y cambiarlo de una puta vez. [...] Hay lucidez en cada frase, en los resquicios, en las pausas. Es un libro importante, que intenta gritar: Hasta aquí llegamos. Se acabó». Juan Tallón «Una novela que aguza la inteligencia porque obliga a preguntarse y a preguntarse, una distopía íntima sobre la distorsión del sentido». Belén Gopegui «Con una inteligencia deslumbrante y una escritura afilada y hermosa, la autora va destruyendo a martillazos verbales la fiabilidad de ese mundo que te parecía tan conocido». Rosa Montero, Babelia, El País «Es fascinante zambullirse en esta novela, saborear su descaro y su capacidad de análisis. Un texto irreverente sobre la ambición, la fragilidad, la asfixia, los cuidados, el amor y las ganas de sentirnos vivos». Irene Vallejo Sobre La mejor madre del mundo: «Prepárate para leer un libro como nunca has leído antes, que rompe las convenciones de lo narrativo y lo biográfico, de los valores no sólo tradicionales, sino también de los alternativos. Un libro de humor, de amor y de dolor, tan embriagante como un vino fuerte y tan tumultuoso como la vida. A decir verdad, no concibo que pueda haber alguien a quien no le guste». Rosa Montero

[German] - Tausend kleine Träume (ungekürzt) by Beth Morrey

Mon, 02 May 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/592331 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Tausend kleine Träume (ungekürzt) Author: Beth Morrey Narrator: Rebecca Veil Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: May 2, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Vor einer Ewigkeit hatte auch Delphine Jones einmal Träume: Sie wollte studieren, die Welt bereisen, sich einen Namen machen. Stattdessen fischt die alleinerziehende Mutter jetzt Münzen aus den Sofaritzen, weil ihr Job als Kellnerin einfach nicht reicht, um sie und die kleine Em über die Runden zu bringen. Delphines Leben steckt in einer Sackgasse und nichts, was sie tut, macht einen Unterschied. Erst die Begegnung mit der rechthaberischen Lehrerin Roz, der sarkastischen Letty und dem manchmal etwas schroffen Musiker Dylan stößt die Tür zu Delphines kleiner Welt wieder weit auf. Aber hat sie auch den Mut, noch einmal zu träumen? Regie: Anna-Lena Kühner

[German] - Butter (Ungekürzt) by Asako Yuzuki

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593807 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Butter (Ungekürzt) Author: Asako Yuzuki Narrator: Madiha Kelling Bergner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 35 minutes Release date: April 29, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Ein universeller Roman über Genuss, Lebenskunst und die Geschichte einer weiblichen Befreiung Für alle LeserInnen von Han Kangs 'Vegetarierin', Sayaka Muratas 'Ladenhüterin' und Mieko Kawakamis 'Brüste und Eier' Rika, eine junge Journalistin in Tokio, recherchiert über die Serienmöderin Manako Kajii, die Männer mit ihren Kochkünsten verführt und anschließend umgebracht haben soll. Manako behauptet, sie verabscheut nichts mehr als 'Margarine und Feministinnen' und hat eine ausgeprägte Leidenschaft für hemmungslosen Genuss und insbesondere Butter. Jetzt, wo sie im Gefängnis sitzt, empfängt sie Rika, unter der Bedingung, nur über ihre Kochkünste zu reden. Für Rika werden die Begegnungen mit Manako zu einer Meisterklasse der Lebenskunst. Ein Roman, der Genuss, Essen und Trinken feiert, vor allem aber die unmöglichen Erwartungen thematisiert, die an Frauen in patriarchalen Gesellschaften heute gestellt werden. 'Ein Buch, das einen sofort in seinen Bann zieht. Mann kann nicht anders, als es zu verschlingen.' Yomiuri Shinbun 'Ein sinnlicher Roman über Verlangen, Freundschaft und die Geschichte einer Befreiung.' Booklog Japan

Empire of Iron: A Novel of the Vestal Virgins by Debra May Macleod

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603784 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empire of Iron: A Novel of the Vestal Virgins Series: #3 of The Vesta Shadows Trilogy Author: Debra May Macleod Narrator: Esther Wane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: For the heroes of Rome, and its enemies, it is a time of reckoning. There is a saying in Rome: the Tarpeian Rock is near the Capitoline—meaning that even at the height of power, one is never far from a fall. As the Vestalis Maxima, Pomponia has guided her order through the collapse of Rome’s Republic and the rise of the Empire. Her wit and piety have elevated the Vestals to a position of unprecedented prestige—and her friendship with Caesar Augustus has personally afforded her a life of political influence and privilege. She has been adored and untouchable. Yet that illusion of safety has been shattered by a ruthless enemy who continues to menace her from the shadows, his vengeful nature escalating to terrifying new heights that threaten not just Pomponia, but all those she cares for—including the emperor himself. Worse, it seems that the gods are also turning against her when the Vestal order suffers an unparalleled crisis that Pomponia must answer for. Struggling to maintain her position, Pomponia looks to her slaves and a renegade charioteer for support as her complex relationship with her protégé, Quintina, brings painful secrets to light. Faced with threats from all directions, Pomponia must be willing to sacrifice everything—even her own morality—to protect her status, the Vestal order, and the lives of those around her. In Empire of Iron, the unflinching conclusion to the Vesta Shadows trilogy, Pomponia realizes that, like Rome itself, she must become even more ruthless than her enemies if she is to survive. The Vesta Shadows trilogy spans decades, from 45 BCE to 14 CE. It follows the life of the Vestal priestess Pomponia Occia, who is inspired by the real Vestal Occia who lived during this time, serving in the Temple of Vesta for more than fifty years. Set during the tumultuous years that saw the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire under Augustus—and beyond—it dramatizes some of the major historical events that occurred during her lifetime while simultaneously bringing ancient Rome to life with fast-paced, engrossing, and visceral storylines played out by a striking cast of characters.

Behind the Lens by Jeannée Sacken

Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/602507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Behind the Lens Series: #1 of The Annie Hawkins Series Author: Jeannée Sacken Narrator: Nicole Swanson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Eight years ago, seasoned photojournalist Annie Hawkins Green barely survived a Taliban ambush that left her military escort dead and a young Afghan girl dying in her arms. Since then, she has managed to suppress her memories of that brutal day—until she returns to Afghanistan to teach a photography workshop at the girls’ school run by her expat best friend, Darya Faludi. As the Taliban gain prominence in the once peaceful region, Annie’s nightmares from her last time in-country come roaring back with a vengeance. But are they just dreams? The unshakeable feeling of a grim, watchful presence makes Annie think otherwise. As Annie struggles with her nightmares, more trouble brews with the suspicion that Darya’s teenage daughter is sneaking away at night to meet her shadowy boyfriend. Meanwhile, Annie’s own daughter wages war with her father and stepmother back home, feeding Annie’s all-consuming mom-guilt. Her only comfort, the poetry-writing U.S. Naval officer who saved her life all those years ago, is now at the other end of a satellite phone 7,000 miles away. How can he possibly keep her safe? How can anyone?

Outer Diverse by Nina Munteanu

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598573 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Outer Diverse Series: #1 of The Splintered Universe Trilogy Author: Nina Munteanu Narrator: Dawn Harvey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 27 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: When Galactic Guardian Rhea Hawke investigates the genocide of an entire spiritual sect, she collides not only with dark intrigue but with her own tarnished past. Her quest for justice catapults Rhea into the heart of a universal struggle across alien landscapes of cruel beauty and toward an unbearable truth she’s hidden from herself since she murdered an innocent man. Outer Diverse is the first of the Splintered Universe Trilogy.

Inner Diverse by Nina Munteanu

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598575 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Inner Diverse Series: #2 of The Splintered Universe Trilogy Author: Nina Munteanu Narrator: Dawn Harvey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 34 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In Book Two of this metaphysical space thriller trilogy, detective Rhea Hawke continues her quest for truth and justice in a world that is not what it seems. Rhea’s search takes her to the far reaches of the known universe from the Weeping Mountains of Horus to the blistering deserts of Upsilon 3. Amidst the turmoil of an imminent extra-galactic war, Rhea holds the key even as those she trusts betray her. No one is what they seem.

Fear of Fear: A Psychological Thriller by Patricia Nakfoor

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/598741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fear of Fear: A Psychological Thriller Author: Patricia Nakfoor Narrator: Linda Dow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 21, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Thirty-eight-year-old Vivian Long, has suffered from agoraphobia (fear of public places, fear of leaving home) for all her adult life. She experiences a severe panic attack while driving home from the store and runs a red light, nearly crashing into a truck with her 14-year-old daughter, Faith, in the car. This is the catalyst to get long-needed help. She meets with Dr. Buhari, a psychiatrist who, via video sessions leads her through a 10-step Cognitive Behavioral Therapy program, which progressively pushes Vivian to be exposed to situations which frighten her. As a child, little Vivi was abducted from a county fair after being separated from her family, and as a teen, she survived two sexual assaults. These traumas haunt her for years, culminating in her becoming paralyzed with anxiety and agoraphobia. Vivi and her brother, Shane, are raised by their grandparents after their parents died in a snowmobile crash. As the two become adults, Shane’s life is propelled forward but Vivi’s stagnates. Vivian makes good progress in her therapy, and the final step involves she and her husband, Carl, taking a day-long canoe trip down a remote Michigan river. The first part of the trip is spectacular. Vivian has never felt so free and serene—until Carl suddenly slumps over in the canoe. Vivian drags him to the riverbank to attempt CPR, but she is unable to revive him. In the process, the canoe, bottled water, food, and cell phones float away downriver. Vivian is left alone in the remote backwoods with her husband’s body—her greatest fear. She encounters many dangers during an effort to find her way back to civilization (thunderstorms, snakes, bear, biting insects, mushroom poisoning, a broken ankle, dehydration, and hunger). Vivian draws on every survival skill she can muster and is eventually rescued, tattered but alive. Vivian celebrates her new life by visiting Italy with Faith, Shane and his partner, Luis, a trip she has dreamed about someday taking. She realizes that her strength and growth would not have been possible without her multiple challenges—the death of her parents, her abduction, her sexual assaults, the deaths of her grandparents, and finally, losing Carl and becoming stranded in the wilderness, forcing her to use every bit of fortitude to survive, and even thrive.

Carolina Mist by Mariah Stewart

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593244 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Carolina Mist Author: Mariah Stewart Narrator: Erica Sullivan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 4 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart weaves the enthralling tale of two kindred spirits reunited after years apart. On the fast track at a Philadelphia consulting firm, Abigail McKenna has put her personal life on hold, content to focus on her professional success. But when she’s suddenly laid off, Abby finds herself with a dwindling savings account and no promising job prospects. So when a letter arrives holding the solution to all her financial problems, Abby is relieved but saddened: her dear Aunt Leila has passed away, naming Abby the sole beneficiary of her majestic Victorian estate in North Carolina. But Abby is in for a few surprises. When she travels to claim her inheritance, instead of finding the elegant mansion of her childhood memories, she discovers her aunt’s home in shambles, and her Aunt’s best friend, Belle, who appears to be staying as a permanent guest. Although everything about Primrose may have changed, Abby still has her memories—especially those lazy summer days and warm summer nights spent with Alex Kane—a past love she can’t forget …

[German] - Neues Glück im kleinen Strickladen in den Highlands (ungekürzt) by Susanne Oswald

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603741 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Neues Glück im kleinen Strickladen in den Highlands (ungekürzt) Series: #3 of Der kleine Strickladen Author: Susanne Oswald Narrator: Inka Lioba Bretschneider Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 21, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Romantische Gefühle, Freundschaft und ganz viel Wolle Im beschaulichen Callwell ist Ruhe eingekehrt. Maighreads kleiner Strickladen findet immer mehr Zulauf. Und auch Chloe ist glücklich mit ihrer Entscheidung für den Loch Lomond. Doch zu viel Beschaulichkeit ist auch nicht das Wahre, und so planen die Freundinnen ein Handarbeitsfestival am Ufer des Sees. Wollhändler, Handfärber, Spinner und Designer werden eingeladen, Wettbewerbe und Handarbeitskurse geplant. Doch als Maighreads Freund Joshua bei einem Sturm in Not gerät, scheinen sich dunkle Wolken vor das Glück zu schieben.

Love Next Door by Helena Hunting

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Love Next Door Series: #1 of Lakeside Author: Helena Hunting Narrator: Teddy Hamilton, Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Helena Hunting comes an evocative small-town romance about family loyalty, finding oneself, and falling in love. When Dillion Stitch left her hometown, she had no intention of going back. But when her brother gets into trouble, Dillion reluctantly agrees to return home to take her place at the family business. Being back in Pearl Lake after all these years feels familiar but also brings a few surprises. She’s quick to notice that someone new has shown up at the cottage next door. Dillion gets more than an eyeful when she goes to check out the newcomer and meets Donovan “Van” Firestone—her beloved neighbor’s grandson—in all his unclothed glory. Having gotten off to a rocky start, it’s not long before they begin bickering with each other all over town. All that back-and-forth inevitably sparks an undeniable attraction. But Dillion’s family has issues, Van’s family resents him, and neither Dillion nor Van feels truly at ease in the small town. For these Pearl Lake exiles, home isn’t just where the heart is—it’s where things get complicated.

The Words We Whisper by Mary Ellen Taylor

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603649 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Words We Whisper Author: Mary Ellen Taylor Narrator: Shannon Mcmanus, Carlotta Brentan, Tim Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 8 minutes Release date: July 20, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes a sweeping saga that interweaves the past and present in an epic tapestry of love, war, and loss. As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees—despite strained family relationships. Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind. She’s fixated on finding something long forgotten, and she immediately puts Zara to work cleaning out the attic. Unexpectedly, amid the tedium of sifting through knickknacks and heirlooms, Zara also reconnects with a man she’s attracted to but whose complicated past makes romance seem impossible. But then Zara finds what Nonna was looking for: a wooden chest, an emerald broach, a leather-bound journal. As she immerses herself in stories of heroism and loss set against the backdrop of war-torn Italy in 1943, Zara finds answers to questions she didn’t know she had. And they change everything she thinks she knows about love, regret, and seizing the day.

Have We Met?: A Novel by Camille Baker

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603664 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Have We Met?: A Novel Author: Camille Baker Narrator: Sisi Aisha Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: July 1, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: What if you already met the soul mate you were destined to be with? And you didn’t even know it? After losing her best friend to cancer, Corinne’s life is in flux. She has moved back to Chicago, is considering her next career move (or temp job), and has absolutely no time to look for love—until a mysterious dating app called Met suddenly appears on her phone, and with it, an invitation for Corinne to reconnect with four missed connections from her past. One of them, Met says, is her soul mate… Corinne doesn’t believe the app for a second, but when she very quickly finds herself with back-to-back blasts from the past, she’ll have to consider if maybe she’s wrong about it. The thing is, Corinne’s also been introduced to a really great guy outside the app’s influence. As their feelings for each other grow, Corinne has to wonder: With her apparent true love still out there, should she tap yes to the next match? With help from a new group of friends, her loving if annoying family, and maybe a touch of fate, can Corinne come to terms with the loss she’s still reeling from, take control of her career, and find love along the way?

Between You and Me by Carol Mason

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596435 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Between You and Me Author: Carol Mason Narrator: Moira Quirk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 39 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Is her new husband really who she thinks he is? When young doctor Lauren Matheson meets Joe, an older divorced businessman, at a glittering poolside in California, it’s a chance encounter that seems life-changing for them both. Back home in London, their feelings only strengthen. But Lauren soon discovers that building a happy future with Joe is going to be an uphill struggle… She’s determined to be a good stepmother to his children, four-year-old Toby and complicated teen Grace. But under the watchful eye of Meredith, Joe’s intimidating ex-wife, Lauren can’t seem to do a thing right. Why won’t Joe ever take her side against Grace? And what really happened between him and Meredith? As her husband retreats into a cold, secretive version of the dashing man she met in California, Lauren starts to wonder if she’s made a costly mistake. Was Joe ever the man she thought she married?

The Hope Chest by Carolyn Brown

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596437 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hope Chest Author: Carolyn Brown Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 24 minutes Release date: June 22, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A grandmother’s loving bequest changes three lives forever in a heartwarming novel about finding love, hope, and family by New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown. An inheritance has reunited three estranged cousins. Their grandmother Lucy left Nessa, Flynn, and April her home nestled in the woods near Blossom, Texas, as well as a hope chest to be unlocked after they complete a special task. Together, they must hand-stitch a cherished quilt Lucy left unfinished. It meant everything to her. And now, to three people struggling with their own patchwork pasts… To Nessa, the house has always been an escape from her strict parents—a home away from home. Flynn has followed a profligate path into adulthood, never guessing it would lead him here. And the town of Blossom only stirs up a lifetime of disappointments for April. Lost and with nowhere to go, her last chance is helping fulfill Nanny Lucy’s final wish. Thread by healing thread, Nessa, Flynn, and April bond over the quilt and all it represents. As they discover the family they’ve been looking for in one another, they share more than memories. They share the hope of new beginnings.

The Aviatrix by Violet Marsh

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Aviatrix Author: Violet Marsh Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya, Josh Bloomberg Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release date: June 15, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Daring aviators take the skies by storm in this historical romance filled with unconventional women—and the men strong enough to love them. Saint Louis, 1923. The golden age of flight has just begun, and pilot Mattie McAdams refuses to cede the skies to cocky flyboys. She longs to perform daring stunts in her family’s flying circus, but the men in her life stand in her way—including the show’s star performer, Leo Ward. They can wring their hands all they want; Mattie won’t stay grounded for long. In the Great War, Leo Ward watched his best friend and Mattie’s twin brother, Alfred, perish in the skies over German territory. Since then, he’s vowed to protect the McAdams family, taking on the most perilous stunts himself. But the skies are too big for any one man. Mattie joins a female-dominated flying circus, kicking off a tantalizing aerial dance as the two pilots make efforts to one-up each other in the skies across America. As planes and passions soar, can Mattie and Leo look beyond their egos to see the great heights they might reach together?

Waiting to Begin by Amanda Prowse

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting to Begin Author: Amanda Prowse Narrator: Amanda Prowse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the bestselling author of The Girl in the Corner comes a story that asks: what would you risk for a shot at happiness? 1984. Bessie is a confident sixteen-year-old girl with the world at her feet, dreaming of what life will bring and what she’ll bring to this life. Then everything comes crashing down. Her bright and trusting smile is lost, banished by shame—and a secret she’ll carry with her for the rest of her life. 2021. The last thirty-seven years have not been easy for Bess. At fifty-three she is visibly weary, and her marriage to Mario is in tatters. Watching her son in newlywed bliss—the hope, the trust, the joy—Bess knows it is time to face her own demons, and try to save her relationship. But she’ll have to throw off the burden of shame if she is to honour that sixteen-year-old girl whose dreams lie frozen in time. Can Bess face her past, finally come clean to Mario, and claim the love she has longed to fully experience all these years?

My Kind of Perfect by Tracy Brogan

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596417 to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Kind of Perfect Series: #3 of A Trillium Bay Novel Author: Tracy Brogan Narrator: Amy Mcfadden Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 8, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Tracy Brogan comes a sweet, funny Trillium Bay romance about moving on, creating your best self, and discovering the true meaning of love. After her scandalous May-December romance comes to an end, baby of the family Lilly Callaghan returns home to Trillium Bay braced for the torrent of “I told you sos” from her sisters and the rest of the tiny island community. Floundering both personally and professionally, she’s at an emotional crossroads but determined to figure out her next best steps. When a surprise job offer from her house-flipping sister reacquaints Lilly with handsome, free-spirited Wenniway Island transplant Matt Eastman, Lilly wonders if she’s ready for a new romance. Then she meets Hollywood heartthrob Jayden Pierce, who is filming a movie on the island, and she’s certain of it—but with whom? She’s caught the attention of both men, and both men have caught hers. So what’s a girl to do? Earnest Matt shares her love of the close-knit island community, while surprisingly down-to-earth Jayden encourages her to live life outside her comfort zone. As the flirtatious triangle sets the town talking, Lilly must choose: Does she want to plant forever roots in Trillium Bay with Matt? Or follow a man who makes love stories for a living? Two very different men. Two very different futures. But deep down, Lilly knows that only one holds the promise of her kind of perfect.

Like Wind Against Rock: A Novel by Nancy Kim

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Like Wind Against Rock: A Novel Author: Nancy Kim Narrator: Keong Sim, Jackie Chung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A novel of explosive family secrets, regret, and all the little decisions that shape our lives and make us who we are. At the age of thirty-nine, Alice Chang suddenly finds herself living in the last place she expected: her mother’s house. But in the face of divorce, eviction, and the recent death of her father, she doesn’t have a choice. Watching as her mother thrives in a new job and meets younger men at the local gym, Alice struggles, reflecting on her parents’ marriage, her relationship with each of them, as she adjusts to being single again for the first time in twenty years. Then she finds her father’s old journal…and uncovers a shocking family secret that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about love, regret, family, and her own path forward. As Alice comes to terms with the man her father really was, she must finally decide who she wants to be and what it will take to get there.

These Tangled Vines: A Novel by Julianne MacLean

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596416 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Tangled Vines: A Novel Author: Julianne MacLean Narrator: Carlotta Brentan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve in the Road comes a sweeping and captivating tale of one woman’s journey to the lush vineyards of Tuscany—and into the mysteries of a tragic family secret. If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret—even from the father who raised her. She is the only person who knows about her late mother’s affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends to keep it that way…until a lawyer calls with shocking news: her biological father has died and left her an incredible inheritance—along with two half siblings. Fiona travels to Italy, where the family is shocked to learn of her existence and desperate to contest her share of the will. While the mystery of her mother’s affair is slowly unraveled, Fiona must navigate through tricky family relationships and tense sibling rivalries. Fiona both fears and embraces her new destiny as she searches for the truth about the fateful summer her mother spent in Italy and the father she never knew. Spilling over with the sumptuous flavors and romance of Tuscany, These Tangled Vines takes readers on a breathtaking journey of love, secrets, sacrifice, courage—and most importantly, the true meaning of family.

The Checklist by Addie Woolridge

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/596419 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Checklist Author: Addie Woolridge Narrator: Adenrele Ojo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: In an energetic debut novel about personal and professional chaos, author Addie Woolridge introduces a multicultural cast whose exploits are redefining the modern rom-com. Killing it at work? Check. Gorgeous boyfriend? Check. Ambitions derailed by an insecure boss? Sigh—check. Things were going a little too well for Dylan Delacroix. After upstaging her boss on a big account, she gets dispatched to the last place she wants to be: her hometown, Seattle. There, she must use her superstar corporate-consulting skills to curb the worst impulses of an impossibly eccentric tech CEO—if she doesn’t, she’s fired. The fun doesn’t stop there: Dylan must also negotiate a ceasefire in the endless war between her bohemian parents and the straitlaced neighbors. Adding to the chaos is a wilting relationship with her boyfriend and a blossoming attraction to the neighbors’ smoking-hot son. Suddenly Dylan has a million checklists, each a mile long. As personal and professional pressures mount, she finds it harder and harder to stay on track. Having always relied on her ability to manage the world around her, Dylan’s going to need a new plan. She may be down, but she’s definitely not out.

[German] - Der Himmel ist hier weiter als anderswo (ungekürzt) by Valerie Pauling

Tue, 25 May 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/597308 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Himmel ist hier weiter als anderswo (ungekürzt) Author: Valerie Pauling Narrator: Luise Georgi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: May 25, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Unter dem weiten Himmel des Alten Landes Seit dem Tod ihres Mannes ist die Geigerin Felicitas allein für die gemeinsamen vier Kinder verantwortlich. Als sie ihren Job verliert, folgt der nächste Schlag, denn ihre Wohnung wird ihnen gekündigt. Da setzt sie alles auf eine Karte: Sie investiert ihre letzten Rücklagen in einen leerstehenden Gasthof und zieht mit ihren Kindern ins Alte Land. Empfangen wird die Familie von einer neugierigen Dorfgemeinschaft und einer Schwalbenkolonie im Garten. Mit Hilfe ihres neuen Nachbarn füllt Fee den Gasthof wieder mit Leben. Doch ein Unfall und unvorhergesehene Kosten bedrohen das fragile Gleichgewicht. Erst als sie sich auf ihre eigene Stärke besinnt, geschieht etwas, womit sie nicht gerechnet hatte: Sie beginnt, zwischen den Flüssen und dem schier unendlichen Horizont des Alten Landes, langsam zu heilen … »[…]hat gute Chancen der Altes-Land-Roman des Sommers zu werden.« »Pauling schreibt flüssig und elegant.« Anpning Richter, Stader Tageblatt, 14.06.2021

[German] - Der Blumenladen der guten Wünsche (ungekürzt) by Lena Hofmeister

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:20:41 +0000

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/593370 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [German] - Der Blumenladen der guten Wünsche (ungekürzt) Author: Lena Hofmeister Narrator: Anke Stoppa Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 1, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Ein Sommer voller Liebe und Freundschaft Der Duft von Rosen und Lavendel, das üppige Grün der Efeutute und darüber das vertraute Aroma von Großmutters Lieblingstee. Der Blumenladen war Charlotte früher ein zweites Zuhause und ihr geheimer Zufluchtsort. Jetzt ist sie nach Sommerbach heimgekehrt, um das Geschäft zu übernehmen und den alten Zauber in den Blumenladen zurückzuführen. Der kauzige Gärtner Knut und die unzuverlässige Verkäuferin Sheela machen es Charlotte leider mehr als schwer. Aber als sie das alte Buch ihrer Großmutter findet und beginnt, Sträuße mit Botschaften in der Sprache der Blumen zu verkaufen, wendet sich das Blatt. Wer die Sprache der Blumen versteht, hat auch den Blick für die kleinen Dinge, die wirklich zählen 'Eine leicht und locker zu lesende Geschichte' – Mareike Liedmann (ekz-Bibliotheksservice, KW 11/2021)